The next morning Jeanie went to work feeling fine again, and Mike tagged along to visit his friends. There was a strange vibration in the air that day, though the weather was lovely, and Mike just knew he was in for some sort of surprise.
Everything was fine in the lab. The rebuilding job was almost completed, and the most time that morning the four spent working on readjusting the controls of the sending device, talking about Mike's MLC mission, its problems, and, solutions.
"Larry's come up with an interesting idea for you," Dr. Cooper told Mike after a while.
"Oh, now what!" Mike teased, sounding disgusted.
"Well, I've been pondering over what you're going to do with the missiles you disarm, and whatever you decide to do with them, you'll need some way to move them without much difficulty or loss of time, to the place you want to leave them. So I've designed a carrier that will enable you to lift them all at once. Here's a drawing I made for you."
Jeanie watched in disbelief as Larry pulled a folded piece of paper from the left rear pocket of his jeans. She couldn't understand how he could feel so comfortable in such tight clothes! He handed the paper to Mike.
"That's a great idea!" Mike cried after studying it a moment. "I'll get to building it as soon as I can....should have it done before next week. Thanks, Larry, I don't know what we'd do without you for a friend!"
For the first time since Mike had met him, Larry blushed, and looked at the floor to try and hide it. He grinned, and they all laughed. "Must be catching!" Cooper chuckled. "And I thought you'd be resting this week!" he told Mike, shaking his head. "Don't worry. You can gather the materials to build and assemble them in space just before you disarm the MLC. Right now we should discuss what you're going to do with those missiles. What do you young people suggest?"
At first the most popular idea was burying them under the ocean, but there were too many dangers with that. They discussed leaving them to float in space, but that was a definite no-no. Radar devices would spot them too quickly and the whole mission had to be kept from the government. They wouldn't know anything was different with the MLCs until they tried to launch them. And there would be too much chance of a collision with satellites, and other space going equipment. The final and best choice seemed to be the idea of burying them on the dark side of the moon. Jeanie had picked up a magazine from a nearby table and was studying a particular section with great interest. When the guys finally noticed she'd been quiet for too long, they looked around for her, and asked what she was doing.