And just then—Alice and Pashka Gera-skin voluntarily agreed not to fly into space, but to go to Arкаша Sapozhkov’s dacha in Kratovo, like the most ordinary darlings of their moms and dads… To their joy, no one thought how suspicious it all was: Arкаша, a special artist who dreams of drawing micro-pictures, wants to do it from life—which would mean shrinking fifty times! And, as it already happened a million times, trouble never ended well for those unfortunate space micro-aliens who had happened to show up, dreaming of taking over the Earth. The boys defeated the pirate-lilliputians, the earthlings were saved—only the poor little kitten is a shame…