By popular demand, this post is about Slick. This is how the story goes.....

It was about a 100 years ago that the queen of planet Trionedent gave birth to a baby boy and named him a name that nobody in the universe could pronounce except her. Hence, they shortened his name to Slick. It was during this time that the very old and very wise emperor came to visit him. He told them, " There will be a time when this little boy seems prepared to face the responsibility of the throne, it is then that i want to meet him.
You must ask him to visit me at this time for there is a great secret that i wish to reveal to him. " "For" he said, "there are great many things that lie in store for him and he has the capacity to be a great ruler. However, there is one thing that i must make sure of, he must not use his special talent during his quest to find me."
The queen did not believe him and her motherly instincts urged her to find out as to how he could possibly know this. And he said " It is because i have the power to forsee things. I am the very old and very wise emperor!Have you not heard of me?" and the queen replied that she hadn't infact. After many hours of identity verification, it was finally clarified that he was indeed trustworthy. So, the queen promised him to send her son. (For the manwould have pestered her for many hours if she had done otherwise. He had a way with people...).

So it was that the boy grew up to be ........quite .....Ummmm....well he turned out to be a very bad warrior, wasn't much of a lady killer either and.... he was the only one in
the universe who could design a ray gun for any purpose. Nobody knew how, but, he would always find a solution.They say that it's an inborn talent for there was nobody to teach him this skill.

It was around the age of 20 that his mother told him about the very old and very wise emperor's visit on the day he was born. Slick, being a huge fan of the emperor, could not believe his ears and hence, set out in search of him.His travels are legendary and too long to explain. To make a very long story short, Slick travelled through a 100 galaxies, and one huge galaxy which was being formed due to the merging of 5 different galaxies(It was here that he had to cope with several aberrations in the gravitational field and went through a wormhole that led him
back to where his home was after which he decided to take different course), discovered the most startling creatures ever several of which he has been awarded for, went through a black hole and came out as a quarky and (lucky for him!), arbitrarily reached another black hole
through which he came out just a little taller (good for him), got to visit the secret finitely seeming infinite chamber of all lost objects and finally reached the chamber of the emperor which was on a small, green, prosperous meteor called Tin.

The emperor called out to him - "I've been expecting you,......Slick. I have a secret to tell you."
Slick could not believe his eyes. He was finally here. He had made it and now he will know the secret.
He said - "I know. My mother told me the whole story. So what's the secret?"
The emperor said, "Why don't you have some snacks before that. You have come a long way."
Slick replied,"OK."
And so a great many extraordinary snacks were brought and Slick quite happily ate them all up.
The emperor said,"Now, it is time to reveal to you what i have revealed to none yet."
Slick couldn't beleive it. This was it.
The emperor said,"Never let, what people tell you, put fear into your heart."
Slick said, "OK i wont and?"
"And what? That's it."
"That's it????? You made me travel millions of light years to give me this idiotic piece of advice??"
And with a lot more grumbling, Slick left for his home planet. It is said that despite his anger at the whole situation, he still followed the advice and is now one of the greatest rulers the universe has ever seen.
The end.

Dedicated to Amy