42

As an auto-piloted freighter is attempting to make a routine transport run, it is attacked by Valkyran raiders (...the primary ones are named Brun, Sig, and Hilda...). The Valkyrans are an Amazonian race that has been around far longer than the Galactic Alliance. In attempting to battle the Valkyrans, Team Lightyear is stymied by the Valkyran ships' ability to phase out in a dimensional warp, thus rendering the ship unreachable. Planning for more raids by the Valkyrans, the LGMs whip up a system that can detect ships that are phased out via some sort of artificial intelligence kind've thing (Commander Nebula tries to explain it, and the LGMs offer little help in clearing things up; since Nebula obviously doesn't understand it himself...). When using the phase detector thingie, Star Cruiser 42 is struck by a fairly massive energy jolt. This causes the experimental detector to unexpectedly grant the operating systems of 42 to become sentient (...and female, to XR's delight...). XR is the only one to actually know about this, since 42 doesn't really trust the organic beings. Thinking that it's just some bug in the system, Buzz turns 42 off and has it towed back to Star Command for an overhaul. While the LGMs are in mid-examination of 42, XR sneaks (...sort've...) on board 42 and runs off with her. Covering for XR by claiming that Buzz told XR to take 42 out for a test-run (...he didn't lie, he told a "cover story"...because Buzz would NEVER lie; though he might tell a "cover story" once in a while...), the rest of Team Lightyear set out in Star Cruiser 5.5 (the Star Cruiser that Buzz was first trained aboard...many, MANY years ago...) to look for him. Eventually, they manage to reach 42 and XR, but only just in time to see them nabbed by the Valkyran raiders. In order to get their team-mate and their ship back, Buzz and Mira dress in Valkyran garb (...originally, it was to be Booster and Mira, but Buzz looked better in drag...) and sneak in. After rescuing XR and 42 and returning to Star Command, the LGMs whip up a body for 42's sentience to occupy. XR thinks that this now gives him and 42 the opportunity to be a couple, but 42 decides that (since she's so new to the world) it'd be better if she were to get used to this whole "sentience" thing first. XR mopes about this for a short while, but soon gets over it.

Buzz Lightyear, Booster Sinclair Munchapper, Mira Nova, Emperor Zurg, XR, Commander Nebula, 42, Autopilot AP-06, Guard, Brun, Sig, Hilda