Gazoo glanced around, his eyes landing on Fred's family garage. It stood spacious and relatively empty. "That space there, is it always this vacant?" he asked, gesturing toward the garage.
Fred shook his head, a slightly worried look crossing his face. "No, Gazoo. My parents aren't home yet. Mom will be back within an hour, Dad probably in two. When they're home, there won't be any room for... well, flying saucers."
Gazoo nodded, a thoughtful expression on his face. "I see. That presents a bit of a problem. But don't worry," he added, seeing the boys' alarmed expressions, "I've got a solution."
He strode over to the garage, his tiny feet making barely a whisper on the grass. As he reached the entrance, he turned back to Fred and Barney. "Stand back, boys. This might be a bit... surprising."
With a quick flick of his wrist, Gazoo gestured at the concrete floor of the garage. To the boys' astonishment, the solid surface shimmered and wavered, seeming to dissolve into nothingness. Where there once had been smooth unbroken floor, a hidden space yawned open, deep and shadowy.
"Whoa..." Fred breathed out, his eyes wide with wonder. Even Barney, ever the thoughtful observer, seemed taken aback by the spectacle.
Gazoo turned back to them, an unmistakable glint of pride in his eyes. "Not to toot my own horn, but I am rather good, aren't I?"
"But... how?" Barney stuttered, his mind racing to comprehend what he'd just seen.
"Magic, dear boy," Gazoo responded, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Now, shall we stash my ship before Dum-- I mean, Fred's parents arrive?"
Still speechless, Fred and Barney could only nod as Gazoo floated his tiny ship into the newly created space, their afternoon taking another step away from mundane to magnificent. The diminutive green alien flicked his other wrist and the concrete floor shimmered back into existence as if it had never been breached. "I'll expand that later so I can have some room to work down there, easy as pi is equal to negative square root of negative one times the natural logarithm of negative one."
