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'No no no no no - I just couldn't!' 'What's so funny? Go on, you've got to tell me!' 'Maybe when I know you better - oh! argh! ha ha ha! It hurts!' 'Well, what's your name?' she asked. 'The Journalist,' replied The Journalist. 'That's not a name, that's a job description,' objected Lucy. The Journalist shrugged. 'On Blerontin news-hacks aren't allowed individual names - it's an ancient law something to do with avoiding the cult of the personality or something.' 'I can't call you The Journalist!' 'Just call me "The",' he said, and opened the luminous blue doors of the Engine Room. A quick look inside drew his attention immediately to the small cabinet in the corner. The Journalist strode straight across to it, opened the doors, glanced at the two buttons, and without hesitation pressed the one marked: 'Press To Arm'.. Immediately a flap opened and a large black steel egg with fins rose up out of the top of the cabinet. At the same time a voice boomed out 'You have just activated the SD-96 Full Force Mega-Scuttler - 'A Bomb To Be Proud Of' - created especially for you by the Mega-Scuttler Corporation of Dormillion. This will be a fairly big explosion so please stand well back - about 22,000 miles. Countdown to detonation commencing at once. One thousand... nine hundred and ninety-nine... nine hundred and ninety-eight... nine hundred and ninety-seven.' Lucy couldn't believe what she'd just witnessed. She looked at the two buttons again through her translator-specs. 'What, for crying out loud, did you press the button that says: "Press To Arm" for?' she exclaimed, The Joumalist was hopping round the Engine Room kicking himself. 'I didn't know it was a Dormillion bomb!' 'What difference does it make? A bomb's a bomb!' 'I can't explain!' 'I need to know!' insisted Lucy. 'No you don't!' He was perfectly right Lucy, herself; wondered why she was pressing this point. She grabbed hold of The Journalist's shoulders and shook him. 'Look, you stupid berk! You've just done something really stupid and I have a right to know why!'