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Plot twist!

John kicked the trap door we previously couldn't open from the inside...but this time it randomly opened, so he climbed right into it without telling anyone else at all that he was going.

He immediately got bonked on the head and knocked out. When he wakes up, Sally is there as well as some of the bad guys.

The bad guy leader is among them and explains that the humanoids are actually pretty stupid, like the equivalent of cows or sheep, but are under constant mind control from the true baddies of the planet who remain hidden at all times.

The previously-bad-turned-good guys are super smart and actually did listen to radio broadcasts from Earth to learn the language....and they also invented brain shields which protect from the evil remote mind control dudes.

Once John has been briefed on the situation (and apologized for wiping out "ninety-nine point nine percent" of the population), they set a plan in motion to get the cheddite projector and use it for the opposite side now.

But the mind control dudes have caught on and taken over Chucks brain and force him to try to kill John once he's back on the plane. Just knocks him out though, but chuck makes off with the cheddite projector and gives it to the (new, actual) baddies.

As they make their evil getaway from the planet (with mind controlled Chuck in tow), John, Jerry, Sally, and the ruler of the good guy brain shield people sit in the airplane and contemplate their next move.

Also people almost died because Sally took off her brain shield to comb her hair.

And that marks 50% through the book.