Or - A tale of Two Princes, A Princess, A Frog, A Toad, One or Two Medium Sized Dragons and a Terrible Truth...
Chapter 3 - Earth Beyond Earth
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Earth Two had little to do, if at all, with Earth One. In fact, it was an abandoned twilight world somewhere in the dark nebula known to the natives of Earth One as the "Coal Sack" and to the natives of Earth Two as "The Great Big Pile of Nothing". If Earth Two had natives, that is.

In fact, the only native life-forms Earth Two had were a few birds, one or two great, green, spotted whale-like creatures and, for some reason, ducks.

The ducks of Earth Two were in fact highly intelligent, conspiring to unite with their bretheren in a different world they have heared of and to take them to the haven of all duck-like life forms, the legendary planet known as Quackaditz. However, since ducks are built the way they are, they could have never built a spaceship on their own. And so, they schemed in silence until the golden oppurtunity came. A small, pagoda-shaped ship has landed on the surface, and out stepped a rather humanoid life form, Obviously on a reasearch mission. And so it happens that an intrepid group of ducks waited until he was gone, then they have leapt inside, took off and set course to Earth One, where they have made the horrible mistake of landing in China. Some Chinese chefs still feel a debt of honor to these ducks, as without them, the famous Peking Duck dish would have never been created.

Meanwhile, the other ducks who remained on Earth Two have all gathered under the rulership of the humanoid, whom they named "The Prophet from the Stars".

One of the oddest effects of living on a world where time was, in fact, out for lunch, was that after a while, you got used to it. Since everything that haven't happened yet has already happened, and things that haven't hapened in the past HAVE happened as the matter of fact, nothing was impossible. And so, after a while, The mind gets used to the fact that nothing is impossible, and once it has left the atmosphere it wouldn't allow the body or the rules of physics to act as if there are some things which can't be done.

As mentioned before, all the Inhabitants of Been-There-Done-That-Prime were lawyers. Yet a single man dared to change career - because he didn't particularily enjoy suing everyone and being sued by everyone, especially in the "Great Courtroom War"*. Thus, he has decided that he has built a starship and has gone off to explore the cosmos backwards in what would have been called "Time" out there.
He did so, and unfortunately had the misfortune of having his ship stolen by ducks. His so-called powers diminished since he has landed, But he could still see as his mind told him to, and used his future sight to lead the remaining ducks into an age of prosperity. He has earned himself the name of one of the wisest people in the galaxy, and many consulted him, until the authorities captured him, many years later, for the blame of "cheating against life And tampering with temporal forces", tossed him into a stone-age planet and told him to evolve into a more responsible life form.

Of course, at the time of Prince Yorik Blablahad, he was still leading the ducks of Earth Two. And two average to medium-sized dragons carrying a rather-stunned prince were ripping through laundry creases in space in order to get there at full speed, causing the sudden appearance of a small inanimate object on a small insignificant planet that took some small insignificant person to another planet and started another tale that would be written upon the pages of history. However, as it is of utterly no consequence to our current story, we shall not delve further into just WHAT happened there.

* "The Complete (Abridged) History (Or what might have been) of Been-There-Done-That-Prime" tells that the event that stirred the Great Courtroom War was a chain reaction - A man blamed another man for digging out his garden, And that other man blamed another one, and another one... The practical upshot of which was, that the entire planet was found guilty as charged, but refused to go to jail and sued the authorities... The only stop to the chain reaction was found that someone suggested that the man that started it all dug out his own garden in the middle of the night in order to overthrow the government.
Since no one thought of that, the man admitted it was him, even though it wasn't, and thus was the case sealed.

Curiously enough, no one knows who dug out the garden to this present day

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