Lucas Versus the Evil Emperor Zurg

"Papa, Papa! Do you want to stop Zurg?"

"Why yes Lucas! You and I need to stop the Evil Emperor Zurg before he destroys the universe!"

"Stop Zurg Papa. Stop Zurg!"

This is a normal routine about five minutes after I get home from work every day. My son, Lucas, is obsessed with Buzz Lightyear and stopping his evil nemisis, the evil Emperor Zurg. Now this normally is never the same. Some days we play with his action figures where we find different toys that transform into projectiles that Buzz throws at Zurg to knock him off of whatever surface that we decide to mount him on. Other days he wants me to fire up my xbox and play the Toy Story game that includes a mission where Buzz Lightyear fights against Zurg and his minions. But that's not all. Other times he wants to watch videos of Buzz stopping Zurg on my computer, usually at youtube.

"Papa, Lucas wants to watch Buzz stop Zurg on your computer," he says sometimes.

"OK, just a few times."

"Oh boy," he says with excitement as he jumps up and down and does a little dance filled with excitement."

"That one papa," he says as he points at a screenshot of the video and so I click on it and we watch.

I love this kid. One of the things we love to do together is go on excursions where we pretend to go out on a mission in outer space. Normally, its to save Buzz from something absolutely terrible. For example, on one lazy cold Saturday morning, I was in no mood for making breakfast. My daughter, Gracie, was still asleep and I wanted pancakes. Lucas was starting to get feisty and all of a sudden I came up with  master plan.

"Hey Lucas, we need to get in the car and get pancakes before the Evil Emperor Zurg steals them from Burger King!"

"No Papa, please stop Zurg!" he exclaimed.

"Get your coat and lets hurry," I commanded.

He ran to his room laughing with glee. We were going to go out and stop Zurg from ruining breakfast. Off to the car we went. Lucas quickly ran to his door and struggled to get his door open. I grabbed it and got him in. Strapped his little two year old body into his car seat and hopped into the drivers seat.

"Fast Papa, Fast!"

"Ok Lucas, I'll go as fast as I can."

"Fast Papa! We need to stop Zurg!"

In a matter of minutes we made it to our destination and we awaited for the voice to blurt out of the speaker at the drive through. "Do you still have pancakes?" I asked.

"Yes we do sir," the polite woman's voice over the intercom answered.

"Great, I'll take two pancake breakfasts with sausage," I quickly answered back.

After I ordered, I looked back and said, "we saved breakfast."

Lucas swiftly held his hands up and yelled "Yaaaaaaaa Papa and Lucas stopped Zurg!"

While on the drive home I looked back into the rear view mirror and Lucas still had this look of excitement on his face. He then said to me, "We got Buzz cakes and Zurg meat Papa. Yummy!"

I love this kid and where he got his imagination from is a mystery to me. But what I do know is that until next time, he and I need to prepare for out next coming mission to save the universe from Zurg and his evil robots whom we had stopped that morning from ruining breakfast.