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''Out of this World'' focuses on the adventures of the shy, geeky Mark Antonioni and the optimistic, adventurous Anne Macintyre — two 13-year old exchange students in a global project to act as representatives on Planet Zed, an enormous city world populated by aliens and robots of all kinds and the capital planet of the Federation-like Galactic Alliance of Systems and Planets (GASP). The two attend Andromeda Junior High with their new friend Calculus, a sarcastic but loyal R2-D2-like robot, and live with an interspecies alien couple made of Gaitha, a well-ordered GASP office worker with a face like an anteater, and Zemir, a slovenly but friendly mechanic with four arms and four eyes.

The series ran for four seasons with 70 episodes, of which most are divided into two shorts.

! The Main Duo
!! Mark Antonioni
The protagonist, Mark is an ordinary 13-year-old boy who loves science-fiction stories set in space. He became part of the Earth exchange project so he could fulfill his dreams of galactic adventure. Although he is very shy, he is also polite and sensible, often making him the voice of reconciliation between his friends.

!! Anne Macintyre
Mark's fellow American representative, Anne is a normal 13-year-old girl who joined the international exchange project to go to Planet Zed so that she could meet all kinds of new people. Optimistic, adventurous, and impulsive, she is always trying to find what's best in the people she meets and make everyone happy.

! Their Friends
!! Calculus (CX-35)
Mark and Anne's best friend who shares their apartment's floor, Calculus is a short grey tin-can-robot on wheels with no arms and numerous gadgets inside his compartment-like body. He is extremely egotistical with a sarcastic, cold, and cynical attitude. Nevertheless, he is very loyal to his Earthling friends.

!! Kerba Qualar
One of Mark and Anne's friends, Kerba is an orange alien from the ocean planet Daquarri 8 resembling an octopus mixed with an anglerfish with tentacles, a beak, fins, and a lure. An oddball who speaks in third person, he is neurotic and socially inept, making him an outcast shunned by everyone but Mark and Anne.

!! Voona Thinth
A friend of Mark and Anne, Voona is a purple alien from the tidally locked planet Thurisia 6 resembling a human except with tentacles on her head instead of hair. She is mischievous and sassy with a love for messing with others (especially Kerba, Calculus, and Mark) and a tough yet easygoing attitude.

!! Integer (IT-93)
Calculus' crush as well as a friend of Mark and Anne, Integer is a yellow humanoid robot with two large antennae on her head and eyes that resemble spectacles. Gentle and soft-spoken, she is infatuated with books and obsesses over every boy she meets, real or fictional, except for Calculus, to his chagrin.

! The Hosts
!! Gaitha Miyoonith
An employee in the GASP Building's offices who hosts Mark and Anne, Gaitha is a pink alien with a long anteater-like snout from the lush tropical planet Nhimmus 5. She is cultured and cleanly, with a preference for anything prim and proper. Although fussy and a workaholic, she is also independent, caring, and intelligent.

!! Zemir Esilion
A mechanic who runs a small repair shop as well as Gaitha's husband, Zemir is a hefty brown alien with four arms and four eyes from the desert planet Lantrus 2. Unlike his wife, he is lowbrow and slovenly, enjoying boisterous fun and preferring to kick back and relax. Still, he is smart, friendly, and competent.

! Other Characters
!! Mark's Family
Consist of his parents and four older siblings (two brothers, two sisters). They run a small Italian family restaurant and are quite cheerful.

!! Anne's Family
Consist of her parents and one little Kindergarten-age sister. Anne's parents are successful businesspeople and are surprisingly serious.

!! Other Earth Exchange Students
Boy and girl pairing from across the globe. All the same age or older than Mark and Anne. Each have a different school and alien host family.

[[folder:Setting]]

Planet Zed is an alien world located thousands of light-years away from Earth in another galaxy. Its surface consists of an unbelievably vast metropolis divided into numerous districts with skyscrapers, parks, restaurants, shops, and so much more to do and see. Thousands of flying vehicles (called speeders) zoom through the urban canopy while pedestrians crowd the streets below them. Advanced technologies and travel between hemispheres are a part of everyday life for the average Zeddian. Most of the populace comfortably lives in towering apartments.

However, Planet Zed was not always like this. When it was selected by the founders of GASP (a highly advanced, benevolent, and idealistic race) for its secure and neutral location on the star charts, it was a barren Earth-sized world with no atmosphere, tectonic activity, or any other form of nature. Years of advanced terraforming have made it inhabitable, giving it seasons, weather, climate, and a breathable atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Planet Zed orbits a star similar to our Sun and has eight moons, which serve various purposes for the city like prisons and landfills.

Planet Zed is populated by five trillion aliens of all sorts of species and three trillion robots of all kinds of designs. It is the capital world of the Galactic Alliance of Systems and Planets, or GASP. GASP is an extremely vast and powerful organization comparable to the United Nations, the Federation from Star Trek, or the Republic from Star Wars. The head of GASP is always the president of Planet Zed as well, serving a single ten-year term and elected by the populace and GASP senators. Everyone speaks English because GASP's universal language actually is English.

Most of GASP Space is divided by systems, which are in turn divided by planets that are named based on their star and their position from it (for example, Earth is known in GASP records as Galilei III located at the border of GASP Space). Planet Zed lies in the center as the sole world of the Zed system. New worlds are typically added by letting them join or by colonization if uninhabited, seen throughout their several thousand year history. Countless planets make up GASP and are represented, while spaceships travel between worlds like planes, trains, or ships.

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# In the hour-long premiere, Mark and Anne arrive on Planet Zed and spend their first weekend learning to get along with each other, getting to know their surroundings with host couple of Gaitha and Zemir, and having chance encounters with Calculus, the robot who lives next door. Then on their first day at Andromeda Junior High School, they try to befriend the apathetic Calculus, find somewhere to fit in amongst the numerous aliens and robots, and incur the wrath of foul-tempered slug-like bully, Glorgo, and his unhinged reptilian sidekick, Karak.

# Mark and Anne's class go on a field trip to Hologram World, a tacky ripoff of an amusement park located on one of Planet Zed's moons, and the two Earthlings are surprised to learn they're the only ones having fun on their first space adventure. / Gaitha and Zemir take the bored Mark, Anne, and Calculus on grocery shopping at the Planet Zed Ultramart. The group divides the long shopping list, deciding to regather in one hour. As they search for items, Mark and Anne discover that even ordinary chores can be madcap adventures on Planet Zed.

# Mark introduces his friends to his family's Italian-American recipes, but since he doesn't have any of his crucial Earth ingredients, everyone decides to try changing up the recipes for their own tastes, which horrifies Mark because of how strictly his family follows the recipes. / Calculus' parents - his cranky, spindly "father", Modem, and his smothering, spherical "mother", Trigonometric - don't like his organic friends. They make him spend time with Integer at the Robots' Emporium instead, so Calculus turns to his organic friends to help deal with his crush.

# On a field trip to the Intergalactic Zoo, Mark, Anne, and their friends split off from the group to go on their own. However, a shapeshifting chimp-like Doppelguise escapes its exhibit, impersonates the gang, and gets them in trouble when it starts freeing animals. / Mark, Anne, and Calculus buy some jetpacks at a hobby shop for the heck of it one day, but they quickly find out that they are absolutely terrible with them. That doesn't discourage a youth jetpacking club from inviting them to join and help them compete in a street jetpacking race.

# Kerba needs somebody to babysit his hundreds of plankton-like baby siblings, which Anne volunteers to, using her experience with babysitting her little sister. Mark and Calculus join her, and the trio have a hard time caring for the alien babies. / To study Planet Zed's presidents, Mark, Anne, and Calculus visit the Hologram President Museum, which has sentient holograms of all of Planet Zed's presidents to talk to. The hologram presidents are tired of having to answer questions for visitors though, so they decide to run wild when inspired by Anne.

# Mark, Anne, Gaitha, and Zemir go to see a Borkball game (Planet Zed's most popular sport; like baseball mixed with rugby but weirder) on the other side of Planet Zed, so they'll have to rely on the chaotic public transportation network, which gets everyone madly separated. / The most popular girl in school - the bossy and ridiculously tall Marzeen - forcefully invites everyone to her birthday, which is taking place on board a party bus speeder. Mark, Anne, and their friends come, but Zemir comes uninvited so he can enjoy the parties like when he was young.

# Gaitha decides to try growing food at home. The plant she buys is a Zuduku Creeper, which produces delicious beans but grows uncontrollably, overwhelming the building . Now Gaitha, Zemir, Mark, Anne, and Calculus have to stop the growth reach the center of the growth to stop it. / Wanting to cash in on the interest surrounding the new Earthling arrivals before it dies down, the greedy, little green owner of Channel Z Television, Billionaire Boltho, decides to make a reality show about Mark and Anne, albeit with a very loose usage of "reality".

# Mark's common cold spreads to Gaitha and Zemir, making him realize he could catch or introduce a deadly disease. While he and Anne quarantine Gaitha and Zemir (whose alien bodies make the cold affect them oddly), Calculus gets some GASP Universal Medicine to reassure Mark. / Anne decides to try out for the extreme and fast-paced sport of Podball Racing (in which racers race in giant hyper-accelerating force orbs) to find something she can say she is better than someone at when she becomes unhappy with how she can never outdo anybody in any skill.

# Calculus becomes even unhappier about his diminutive size when he falls into a matter-compaction storage (a box-like device that shrinks objects put inside it) in an accident and can't be restored to normal when the storage breaks down, so Mark and Anne look for a solution. / When all the teachers leave for vacation, Gaitha and Zemir become volunteer teachers. Due to excess volunteers, the boisterous yeti-like Principal Harthen makes them dual teachers instead, but Gaitha's disciplined and efficient conflicts with Zemir's easygoing and popular style.

# Kerba and Voona switch their lure-light and tentacles for Mark and Anne's hair respectively via bio-augmentation, so Mark and Anne can use the lure and tentacles and the aliens can try out hair for their own interests. However, each of their adventures gets them in trouble. / Calculus decides to try impress Integer by giving himself arms and legs to replace his wheels for an athletics contest when he believes that she likes guys with limbs. Meanwhile, Anne uses the thrown-away wheels to create Planet Zed's first ever roller skates, fascinating her classmates.

# During a field trip to the GASP Robotics facility, an accident with the yearly upgrade delivery system (the robot equivalent of having a birthday) and the robot creation system creates a younger Calculus dubbed Calculator, who proves to be more popular than the original. / Mark gains psychic powers when he accidentally ingests a psionics ring from a cereal box. The hall monitor force chief, the no-nonsense tread-footed robot Hydraulics, then uses his clairvoyance to catch troublemakers, but Mark has a crisis when he gets Anne falsely accused.

# Mark, Anne, and their friends discover that the space hero Crash Roder, his love interest Dalma Arding, his robot buddy Gadget, and his archenemy, Lord Mongo, have long since retired and split up, so the gang decide to reunite the gang again for the upcoming Crash Con. / Glorgo gets split into two Glorgos because of an accident in school due to his species' natural ability to split when under extreme duress. Anne is surprised that one is always angry at everything and one is always extremely sad, so she tries to help the Glorgos out with Karak.

# Gaitha gets Mark and Anne to bring some papers for her to the GASP Building. As the duo go there, they start to wander what could be so important and begin to believe they are delivering a critical message to the president that will bring peace in an intergalactic war. / At the first regathering of Earth exchange students, Mark and Anne present their new friends (including each other) to their families. However, Anne's parents disapprove of her company and consider ending her exchange, so Mark and the gang have to do something to change their minds.

# Mark and Anne travel beyond Planet Zed for the first time when Gaitha brings them and Zemir to Nhimmus 5. There, the duo go on an alien safari with Gaitha and her parents, who tell the duo about how Gaitha grew up to become the fussy workaholic who moved to Planet Zed and met Zemir. / Mark and Anne meet Horace, a simpleminded adolescent cow who was abducted by aliens and turned into a sentient humanoid being in illegal experiments. Excited to finally meet other Earthlings, Horace act more like a true Earthling by imitating everything that Mark and Anne do.

# After being told that Calculus' negativity is extremely hurtful towards his classmates, Modem and Trigonometric use a special restraining bolt to curb their son's attitude, but Calculus' new inability to express any negative emotions at all proves to be more harmful. / Anne drags her friends on a huge search when she learns that her hero Amelia Earhart (who inspired her sense of adventure) never disappeared, but is actually an alien currently living on Planet Zed. However, she becomes deeply disappointed to learn that Earhart has lost her interest in flying.

# Mark, Anne, and Calculus visit the huge cityship Aquila City when it makes an emergency landing on Planet Zed when Silicon Leeches damage it. Onboard, Calculus gets his gadgets stolen by orphans and his quest after them leads the trio into the cityship's impoverished lower sectors. / Kerba’s baby siblings are captured by con artists, the multilingual dome-headed robot, Circuit, and the gibbering gasbag-like alien, Ordo, to be falsely sold as exotic pets. The horrified Kerba brings Mark, Anne, and their friends into Planet Zed's pet trade world to get them back.

# When Mark, Anne, and their friends find that their schedules are piling up, they rely on a self-acceleration remote so they can do more things in less time. However, their abuse causes their speed to increase until it reaches uncontrollable levels, with some being much quicker than others.

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Calculus' crush as well as a friend of Mark and Anne, Integer is a yellow humanoid robot with two large antennae on her head and eyes that resemble spectacles. Gentle and soft-spoken, she is infatuated with books and obsesses over fictional characters. She also has a crush on Mark, preferring to ignore Calculus.

# Mark, Anne, Gaitha, and Zemir go to see a Borkball game (Planet Zed's most popular sport; like baseball mixed with rugby but weirder) on the other side of Planet Zed, so they'll have to rely on the chaotic public transportation network, which gets everyone madly separated. / The most popular girl in school - the bossy and ridiculously tall Marzeen - forcefully invites everyone to her birthday, which is taking place on board a party bus speeder. Mark, Anne, and their friends come, but Zemir and his lazy, trunked, insect-eyed pal Pranter come uninvited.

# Gaitha decides to try growing food at home. The plant she buys is a Zuduku Creeper, which produces delicious beans but grows uncontrollably, overwhelming the building . Now Gaitha, Zemir, Mark, Anne, and Calculus have to stop the growth reach the center of the growth to stop it. / Wanting to cash in on the interest surrounding the new Earthling arrivals before it dies down, the greedy little green owner of Channel Z Television, Billionaire Boltho, decides to make a reality show about Mark and Anne, albeit with a very loose usage of "reality".

# During a field trip to the GASP Robotics facility, an accident with the yearly upgrade delivery system (the robot equivalent of having a birthday) and the robot creation system creates a younger Calculus dubbed Calculator, who proves to be more popular than the original. / Mark gains psychic powers when he accidentally ingests a psionics ring from a cereal box. The hall monitor force chief, the no-nonsense tread-footed robot Hydraulic, then uses his clairvoyance to catch troublemakers, but Mark has a crisis when he gets Anne falsely accused.

# Mark, Anne, and Calculus visit the huge cityship Aquila City when it makes an emergency landing on Planet Zed when Silicon Leeches damage it. Onboard, Calculus gets his gadgets stolen by orphans and his quest after them leads the trio into the cityship's impoverished lower sectors.

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Mark and Anne's best friend who shares their apartment's floor, Calculus is a short grey tin can robot on wheels with no arms and numerous gadgets inside his compartment-like body. He is extremely egotistical with a sarcastic, cold, and cynical attitude. Nevertheless, he is very loyal to his Earthling friends.

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! Earthlings

Consist of Mark, his parents, and four older siblings (two brothers, two sisters). They run a small Italian family restaurant. Although not very prosperous, they are cheerful.

Consist of Anne, her parents, and one little Kindergarten-age sister. Anne's parents are successful businesspeople and surprisingly serious compared to their children.

!! Other Representatives
The other Earth exchange students. Each boy-girl pair is assigned to a different school and alien host. They are from across the globe and have a monthly gathering.

# Mark, Anne, Gaitha, and Zemir go to see a Borkball game (Planet Zed's most popular sport; like baseball mixed with rugby but weirder) on the other side of Planet Zed, so they'll have to rely on the chaotic public transportation network, which gets everyone madly separated. /
# Gaitha decides to try growing food at home. The plant she buys is a Zuduku Creeper, which produces delicious beans but grows uncontrollably, overwhelming the building . Now Gaitha, Zemir, Mark, Anne, and Calculus have to stop the growth reach the center of the growth to stop it. /
# Mark's common cold spreads to Gaitha and Zemir, making him realize he could catch or introduce a deadly disease. While he and Anne quarantine Gaitha and Zemir (whose alien bodies make the cold affect them oddly), Calculus gets some GASP Universal Medicine to reassure Mark. /
# Calculus becomes even unhappier about his diminutive size when he falls into a matter-compaction storage (a box-like device that shrinks objects put inside it) in an accident and can't be restored to normal when the storage breaks down, so Mark and Anne look for a solution. /
# Kerba and Voona switch their lure-light and tentacles for Mark and Anne's hair respectively via bio-augmentation, so Mark and Anne can use the lure and tentacles and the aliens can try out hair for their own interests. However, each of their adventures gets them in trouble. /
# Gaitha and Zemir decide to turn their home into an inn-like business for extra cash and their first tenant is Zemir's irresponsible, long-trunked, insect-eyed high school buddy Pranter, who continues to live irresponsibly, so Gaitha and Zemir try to help him find a job. /
# Mark, Anne, and their friends discover that the space hero Crash Roders, his love interest Dalma Arding, his robot buddy Gadget, and his archenemy, Lord Mongo, have long since retired and split up, so the gang decide to reunite the gang again for the upcoming Crash Con. /
# Gaitha gets Mark and Anne to bring some papers for her to the GASP Building. As the duo go there, they start to wander what could be so important and begin to believe they are delivering a critical message to the president that will bring peace in an intergalactic war. /

Most of GASP Space is divided by systems, which are in turn divided by planets that are named based on their star and their position from it (for example, Earth is known in GASP records as Galilei III located at the border of GASP Space). Planet Zed lies in the center as the sole world of the Zed system. New worlds are typically added by letting them join or by colonization if uninhabited, seen throughout their over two thousand year history. Countless planets make up GASP and are represented, while spaceships travel between worlds like planes, trains, or ships.

# Reluctant to try alien cuisine and out of Earth snacks, Mark takes out the ingredients he packed with him to rely on his cooking skills and his family's pizza proves to be a hit with his friends. But when he runs out of ingredients, they'll have to convince him to change tastes. / Calculus' parents - his cranky, spindly "father", Modem, and his smothering, spherical "mother", Trigonometric - don't like his organic friends. They make him spend time with Integer at the Robots' Emporium instead, so Calculus turns to his organic friends to help deal with his crush.

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One of Mark and Anne's friends, Kerba is an orange alien from the ocean planet Daquarri 8 resembling an octopus mixed with an anglerfish with tentacles, a beak, fins, and a lure. An oddball who speaks in third person, he is neurotic and socially inept, making him an outcast disliked by everyone but Mark and Anne.

A friend of Mark and Anne often seen with Kerba, Voona is a purple alien from the tidally locked planet Thurisia 6 resembling a human except with tentacles on her head instead of hair. She is mischievous and sassy with a love for messing with others (especially the boys) and a tough yet easygoing attitude.

Planet Zed is an alien world located thousands of light-years away from Earth. Its surface consists of an unbelievably vast metropolis with skyscrapers, parks, restaurants, shops, and so much more to do and see. Thousands of flying vehicles (called speeders) zoom through the urban canopy while pedestrians crowd the streets below them. Advanced technologies and travel between hemispheres are a part of everyday life while spaceships fly to and from other worlds carrying cargo and passengers on an hourly basis. It is a magnificent-to-see world bustling with energy.

However, Planet Zed was not always like this. When it was selected for its secure and neutral location on the star charts, it was a barren Earth-sized world with no atmosphere, tectonic activity, or any other form of nature. Years of advanced terraforming have made it inhabitable, giving it seasons, weather, climate, and a breathable atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Planet Zed orbits a star similar to our Sun and has eight moons, which serve various purposes for the city like prisons and landfills.

Planet Zed is populated by five trillion aliens of all sorts of species and three trillion robots of all kinds of designs. It is the capital world of GASP, the Galactic Alliance of Systems and Planets. GASP is an extremely vast and powerful organization comparable to the United Nations, the Federation from ''Star Trek'', or the Republic from ''Star Wars''. The head of GASP is always the president of Planet Zed as well, serving 1 ten-year term. Everyone uses English because GASP's universal language is actually English.

GASP Space is divided into systems, which are in turn divided by their planets, which are numbered based on their distance from the star they are named after (for example, Earth is known in GASP records as Galilei III of the Galilei System at the border of GASP Space). Planet Zed lies in the center as the sole world of the Zed system. New worlds are added by letting sentient species join or by colonizing of uninhabited worlds, as seen in their over two thousand year long history. Planet Zed itself is located in the very center of GASP Space. Countless worlds and species make up GASP and spaceships travel between planets like planes, trains, or ships.

[[folder:Main Characters]]

! Mark Antonioni
The first of the two protagonists, Mark is a huge science-fiction geek from Minnesota who has always dreamed of visiting another world — a trait he gained from his passion for reading. His love of books is also his comfort zone for Mark is terribly shy around other people. While this makes him terribly awkward, he is quite mature and sensible for his age with a strong stickling for politeness. He is also a terrific chef at Italian cuisine, gaining a knack for innovation.

! Anne Macintyre
The second of the two protagonists, Anne is an adventurous young lady from Washington who loves meeting new people. Her love of adventure and optimistic attitude make her much bolder than Mark, but they also make her more stubborn. Despite her frequently impulsive behavior, Anne always wants to get to know a person, see what's great in them, and make them happy. She is also very fond of animals and gets along very well with small children.

! Calculus (CX-35)
Mark and Anne's classmate and best friend on Planet Zed, Calculus is a sarcastic and cynical robot whose oversized ego make him loathed by most of his classmates. Despite this, Calculus is very smart (he takes way too much pride in his robot style of logic-based thinking) and acts as the duo’s guide to Planet Zed's robots and everyday life. He is also deeply loyal to his human friends for being his first real friends, though even they're targets of his snark.

Calculus is small and grey with a boxy R2-D2-like body on three wheels. His body holds a compartment containing hundreds of random gadgets.

! Gaitha Miyoonith
Mark and Anne's legal guardian on Planet Zed, Gaitha is a cleanly alien who likes everything in her life to be prim and proper. This office worker in the GASP Building enjoys cultured things, so she's an expert on Planet Zed’s culture and the history of GASP. On the other hand, she's a workaholic and extremely fussy too. Still, Gaitha is caring, intelligent, and perfectly independent. While she isn't above joining with Mark and Anne, she still maintains her standards.

Gaitha has pink skin, an anteater-like snout, and short hair. Her species is from Nhimmus 5, a teeming planet of jungles, swamps, and mountains.

! Zemir Esilion
Gaitha's husband and Mark and Anne's other legal guardian, Zemir is a hefty alien who rejects refinement to enjoy the party life and have as much fun as possible. Working as a vehicle mechanic in his own business, he is an expert on alien species and Planet Zed's advanced technology. Despite being extremely slovenly, Zemir is happily married and extremely friendly towards most people. He really likes to tag with Mark and Anne when he gets the opportunity.

Zemir has brown skin, four arms, and four eyes. His species is from Lantrus 2, a rocky desert planet where water is virtually non-existent.

[[folder:Secondary Characters]]

! Kerba Qualar
One of Mark and Anne's friends, Kerba is an extremely neurotic alien with numerous oddball mannerisms. Chief among them are speaking in third-person and shooting ink from his nostrils at whatever frightens him (and he's a fairly jumpy guy), so most of his classmates find him really annoying. However, he is quite kind and generous towards those he considers friends, although they do not necessarily feel the same about him (such as Voona and Calculus).

Kerba has moist orange skin, tentacles for limbs, a lure-light on his head, and a beak. His species is from Daquarri 8, a vast ocean planet.

! Voona Thinth
One of Mark and Anne's friends, Voona is an easygoing alien with a love for playing pranks and making mischief. With a fondness of all things freaky and a sassy attitude, Voona likes to get on others’ nerves, especially teachers, hall monitors, popular kids, and bullies. She takes a sisterly attitude towards her female friends, Anne and Integer, but with Mark, Calculus, and Kerba, she enjoys messing with them because they're total dorks according to her.

Voona has purple skin and tentacles in place of hair on her head. Her species is from Thurisia 6, a non-rotating planet of varied environments.

! Integer (IL-93)
Calculus' school crush, Integer is a geeky robot who manages to be even more painfully shy than Mark. A very gentle and studious girl, Integer is a fangirl of comic books and video games, but is also very accident-prone. Integer actually dislikes Calculus (although not intensely; she merely thinks he's pretty annoying), but she does have a bit of a crush on Mark because she finds his similar dorkiness to be cute and is really good friends with Anne and Voona.

Integer is yellow with a feminine humanoid design and two large antenna on the top of her head. Her eyes are designed to look like spectacles.

! Glorgo Hurlaginous
The school bully, Glorgo is a bad-tempered alien who lashes out at anyone who offends or annoys him — which is unfortunate because he offends and annoys very easily. He dislikes almost every student in the school (and they all fear him in turn), especially Calculus and Kerba, who he regularly picks on. His tough, edgy attitude really just covers up his many insecurities and frustrations because deep down, he feels the universe doesn't understand him.

Glorgo has a gelatinous but tough green body and resembles a big, blobby slug with arms. His species is from Morgon 1, a hostile volcanic planet.

! Mr. Modem (M-27)
Mark and Anne's teacher, Mr. Modem is an extremely pessimistic robot who is perpetually miserable about everything. He especially despises his job and vents his frustrations with apathy, bitterness, and resentment towards everyone. He particularly loathes his students, taking any opportunity to not have to deal with them. However, he is also a very competent teacher and is actually just unhappy about the downward spiral in his life deep down.

Mr. Modem is tall and silver with a single red eye and pincer-shaped hands. His lean body is balanced on top of a single leg ending in a wheel.

! Principal Tholarus Harthen
The head of Andromeda Junior High, Principal Harthen is a boisterous alien with a stickling for rugged discipline. Proud of his school, Principal Harthen brings years of experience in rough-and-tough jobs like wilderness survival and animal wrangling as a formidable fellow and strongly believes in toughening up today's youth. He is often unaware of his own strength and can cause a lot of mayhem in combination with his exuberant personality.

Principal Harthen is a white-furred giant with huge tusks. His species is from Dulgoth 9, a high gravity ice planet where only the strong thrive.

! Pranter Wartuya
Andromeda Junior High's bus driver and janitor, Pranter is a none-too-bright alien who also happens to be Zemir's best friend since high school. Although constantly down on his luck and extremely irresponsible, Pranter is a friendly fellow who gets along really well with the students and likes hanging out with his pal Zemir when not on the job. Since he is essentially just one of the kids, most of the other adults look down on him for his immaturity and laziness.

Pranter has blue skin a trunk, insect antenna, and goggled compound eyes. His species is from Tarduba 7, a lush planet pelted by unique rays.

! Coach Jexxas Felfew
Andromeda Junior High’s gym teacher, Coach Felfew is feisty alien whose tough and energetic attitude make her an excellent if overly enthusiastic sports coach. She is capable of taking on opponents many times her size and lives an intensely athletic lifestyle. Felfew’s extremely fast-paced and hyperactive nature means she also tends to be very childish and has a tendency to overreact, meaning that only the most foolish try to get on her bad side.

Coach Felfew is small and yellow with six arms and no mouth or nose. Her species is from Cholak 4, a verdant dangerous planet with fast orbit.

! Kilowatt (KW-35)
Calculus' "father" and Gaitha and Zemir's apartment neighbor, Kilowatt is a highly conservative robot who is generally suspicious of non-robotic beings. This prude and irritable businessman complains about nearly everything and thinks that people (especially youth) are disrespectful and lazy these days. Despite his staidness, he loves his family very much and always puts their needs above all else, so he tolerates Calculus' friendship with Mark and Anne.

Kilowatt is short, gray, and vaguely humanoid with a boxy body and a mushroom-shaped head. His limbs are able to extend to long distances.

! Trigonometric (T-82)
Calculus' "mother" and Kilowatt's wife, Trigonometric is a gossipy robot who works as a housewife. Although much less conservative and cynical than her husband, she is extremely loving to Calculus (perhaps to the point of smothering) and has a very good relationship with Kilowatt. She is also quite ditzy and a bit overprotective of her son at times, but she lets Calculus hang out with Mark and Anne because she really wants her son to have friends.

Trigonometric is pink with a spherical body that always hovers. It is ringed by a dozen gadget-loaded arms and topped with a camera-like head.

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! Schoolmates (by popularity)
!! Marzen
The most popular girl at school; she is rich, bossy, and proud. She is an extremely slender blue-skinned alien from a low-gravity planet with a very long neck, a long beak, and stalk eyes.

!! Binary
An extremely chatty and gossipy follower of Marzen who constantly compliments her and spreads rumours. She is a hovering white robot with one eye, rocket jets, and six arms.

!! Castal
An extremely brainless and sweet-hearted follower of Marzen. She is a pink-skinned alien who resembles a human except with an elaborate head crest, small horns, and feather-like hair.

!! Hydraulics
The head of the hall monitor force; known for being serious, by-the-books,and a hunk amongst the fembots. He is a black humanoid robot with one eye and treads for feet.

!! Randor
A cocky jock whose lack of eyes and brains are compensated by his superb senses. He is a hulking orange alien with no eyes, a nose like that of a star-nosed mole, and bat-like ears.

!! Tharso[[note]]Glorgo follows behind Tharso in popularity[[/note]]
The oft-ignored student president who somehow keeps a cool head head in just about every situation. He is a blue-skinned human-like alien with antenna, three eyes, and pointy ears.

!! Decibel
The school's events announcer, able to imitate and record any sounds he hears. He is a brown humanoid robot with a set of buttons on his chest and a loudspeaker-like head.

!! Yordak [[note]]Voona and Anne are behind Yordak in popularity[[/note]]
An easygoing slacker who spends most of his time practicing alien instruments and staring at the sky. He is a yellow-skinned alien with five stalk eyes and a crocodilian snout.

!! Ordo
A mysterious fellow originally from a gas giant planet who only speaks in gibbering noises. He is an orange alien resembling a floating gasbag-like sphere covered in eyes and tentacles.

!! Circuit[[note]]Integer and Mark are behind Ordo and Circuit in popularity[[/note]]
Ordo’s best friend and translator who speaks over a million languages. He is a stout green humanoid robot with a head sealed inside in a retractable helmet-like dome of glass.

!! Tezza
A gloomy Goth whose life as part of a hive has made her jaded about free will. She is a blue-skinned alien resembling a humanoid mix of a mantis and a tarantula hawk wasp.

!! Zeeda
A Goth who delights in causing delinquency and constantly gets into trouble with the hall monitors. She is a stout purple-skinned alien with six eyes, a thick tail, and a short beak.

!! Snebbin
A plucky and scrappy scavenger and dumpster diver from a poor family. She is a small brown-furred alien resembling a humanoid aye-aye with a number of cat-like facial features.

!! Karak
A nutty conspiracy theorist and master spy who spends too much time on computers. He is a green-scaled alien resembling a reptilian with a crocodilian tail and chameleon-like eyes.

!! Biltar[[note]]Kerba and Calculus follow behind Biltar in popularity[[/note]]
An extremely gullible and dim-witted student often used as an unwitting servant by others. He is a green-skinned alien with a hammerhead, short antenna, and a tubular mouth.

! Important Figures
!! President Valta
The incumbent president of Planet Zed and simultaneous head of GASP. Reasonable but extremely busy. She is a green-skinned alien resembling a tall, slender Gray Alien.

!! Mr. Sprocket
The owner of GASP Robotics, which builds the Zeddian robot populace. Kind-hearted if eccentric. He is a fat grey robot with tank treads and a mechanical mustache.

!! Billionaire Boltho
The richest person on Planet Zed and owner of Channel Z Television Network. Greedy, selfish, and egotistical. He is a dumpy green alien with three eyes — two being on antennae.

! Earthings
!! Mark's Family
Consist of Mark, his parents, and four older siblings (two brothers, two sisters). They run a small Italian family restaurant. Although not very prosperous, they are cheerful.

!! Anne's Family
Consist of Anne, her parents, and one little Kindergarten-age sister. Anne's parents are successful businesspeople and surprisingly serious compared to their children.

!! Other Representatives
The other Earth exchange students. Each boy-girl pair is assigned to a different school and alien host. They are from across the globe and have a monthly gathering.

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[[folder:Setting]]

Planet Zed is an alien world located thousands of light-years away from Earth. Its surface consists of an unbelievably vast metropolis with skyscrapers, parks, restaurants, shops, and so much more to do and see. Thousands of flying vehicles (called speeders) zoom through the urban canopy while pedestrians crowd the streets below them. Advanced technologies and travel between hemispheres are a part of everyday life while spaceships fly to and from other worlds carrying cargo and passengers on an hourly basis. It is a magnificent-to-see world bustling with energy.

However, Planet Zed was not always like this. When it was selected for its secure and neutral location on the star charts, it was a barren Earth-sized world with no atmosphere, tectonic activity, or any other form of nature. Years of advanced terraforming have made it inhabitable, giving it seasons, weather, climate, and a breathable atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Planet Zed orbits a star similar to our Sun and has eight moons, which serve various purposes for the city like prisons and landfills.

Planet Zed is populated by five trillion aliens of all sorts of species and three trillion robots of all kinds of designs. It is the capital world of GASP, the Galactic Alliance of Systems and Planets. GASP is an extremely vast and powerful organization comparable to the United Nations, the Federation from ''Star Trek'', or the Republic from ''Star Wars''. The head of GASP is always the president of Planet Zed as well, serving 1 ten-year term. Everyone uses English because GASP's universal language is actually English.

GASP Space is divided into systems, which are in turn divided by their planets, which are numbered based on their distance from the star they are named after (for example, Earth is known in GASP records as Galilei III of the Galilei System at the border of GASP Space). Planet Zed lies in the center as the sole world of the Zed system. New worlds are added by letting sentient species join or by colonizing of uninhabited worlds, as seen in their over two thousand year long history. Planet Zed itself is located in the very center of GASP Space. Countless worlds and species make up GASP and spaceships travel between planets like planes, trains, or ships.

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# Mark and Anne arrive on Planet Zed, move in with Gaitha and Zemir, and begin attending Andromeda Junior High. The two look for a place in school amongst the bevy of aliens and robots, trying to befriend Calculus, who strongly dislikes them, and gaining the ire of Glorgo, who is determined to make them miserable. However, Mark and Anne will also need to learn how to get along with each other too.
# Mr. Modem's class takes their first field trip to a tacky ripoff of a hologram theme park on one of Planet Zed's moons, and Mark and Anne are the only ones excited to go. / Gaitha and Zemir bring Mark and Anne grocery shopping at Planet Zed Ultramart, where Mark and Anne find out that even grocery shopping can be a madcap adventure for Earthlings on Planet Zed.
# Out of snacks and afraid to try alien food, Mark turns to his cooking skills and attracts attention with his family's pizza, but when he runs out of his classic ingredients, Mark is reluctant to change his tastes. / Kilowatt and Trigonometric disapprove of Calculus' friendship with Mark and Anne, so when Calculus brings them on a trip to the Robots' Emporium, they invite Integer.
# Kerba comes to school with his mother's egg cluster as his mother is busy (and his dad is like a male anglerfish), so Mark, Anne, and Calculus help him tend to them 24/7. / At a trip to the Intergalactic Zoo, Anne and Voona become friends and stray from the group. But, they get in trouble for freeing animals when a chimp-like Doppelguise (from Doppel 2) escapes and impersonates them.
# Mr. Modem quits his job, so Gaitha and Zemir become Mark and Anne's dual teachers (Principal Harthen's idea). However, Gaitha and Zemir's opposite teaching styles create a feud between each other. / Mark and Anne buy jetpacks at a hobby store and decide to join a jetpacking club, where Mark turns out to be a natural, but Anne has a difficult time learning to use one.
# Mark, Anne, Calculus, Gaitha, and Zemir want to go to a blorkoball game (baseball mixed with rugby but weirder) on the other side of Planet Zed, but get separated by the insane transport network. / The most popular girl in school, Marzen, invites everyone to her birthday on board a party speeder (a Planet Zed party bus), but Zemir comes along with Mark and Anne to enjoy the party.
# Calculus becomes even more unhappy about his diminutive size when he falls into a matter-compaction storage (a box-like device that shrinks objects put inside it) and can't be restored to normal. / Kerba and Voona switch their lure-light and tentacles for Mark and Anne's hair respectively via bio-augmentation, so Mark and Anne can use them and the aliens can try out hair.
# Gaitha decides to try growing food at home. The plant she buys is a Zuku Choke Creeper (from Zuku 8), which produces delicious beans, but grows at monstrously uncontrollable rates, overwhelming the building. / Anne decides to try out for Podball Racing (like ''Star Wars'' podracing, except with giant hamster balls) to find something she can say she is truly great at.
# Mark, Anne, and Calculus visit the Hologram President Museum to study Planet Zed's presidents. However, the sapient holograms dislike being constantly asked questions and are inspired by Anne to run wild. / Mark's case of the common cold begins to affect everybody at school. Due to their alien bodies, it doesn't make them sick, but affects their minds and bodies in weird ways.
# An accident during school splits Glorgo into three versions of himself -- one who's angry at everything, one who likes to be edgy for the sake of it, and one who's extremely unhappy and insecure. / Calculus replaces his wheels with legs to impress Integer, believing she likes guys with humanoid legs. Meanwhile, Anne uses the wheels to make Planet Zed's first roller skates.
# Gaitha and Zemir bring Mark, Anne, and their friends to see the appearance of a pod of nomadic Star Leviathans in the Zed System. However, the creatures' alien singing causes the humans to trance out for some reason. / Mark gains psychic powers when he drinks Clairvoya-Cola and is hired by the hall monitor force led by Hydraulics to help them catch rulebreakers.
# Calculus gets hooked on Robot Combat Federation (the Planet Zed version of pro wrestling) and when wrestling gets taught in gym, Calculus takes it way too seriously. / Mark, Anne, and Calculus discover that somebody's been doing surveillance on a secret project they've been doing and trace it to the enigmatic Karak, who claims to be the leader of a secret society.
# Gaitha gets Mark and Anne to bring some papers to the GASP Building and they take the job with way too much enthusiasm, believing they are delivering a critical message to the president. / The Earth exchange students hold their first gathering and can only bring one friend. Now Mark and Anne have the difficult choice of picking from Calculus, Kerba, Voona, and Integer.

# Mark and Anne travel beyond Planet Zed for the first time when Gaitha brings them to her birthworld Nhimmus 5. There, the duo go on an alien safari while Gaitha stays with her ever-worrying parents. / Mr. Modem has an anger restraining chip implanted when he snaps at his students. Now he is unable to express any negative emotions and might go haywire by holding it in.
# Gaitha and Zemir decide to turn their home into an inn-like business for extra cash and their first tenant is Pranter, who just got booted out his home for his laziness, but continues to live irresponsibly. / Calculus gets all his gadgets stolen by Snebbin and he brings Mark and Anne on a quest to Planet Zed's poor districts get them back, giving them an eye-opener in the process.
# Principal Harthen feels he's no longer the rugged outdoorsman he used to be due to school, so he brings Mark, Anne, and their friends with him to his birthworld of Dulgoth 9 to engage in manly wilderness survival. / Mark, Anne, and their friends need a stuntman in their plans for a show and pick Kerba because he has no bones (cartilage instead), but they'll need to make him less panicky.
# Calculus tricks GASP Robotics owner Mr. Sprocket to make a duplicate called Calculator to do his chores. Kilowatt and Trigonometric catch on and display more love for Calculator. / Mark, Anne, and Integer go to Crash Con to meet retired space hero Rodar Crash, who is now hoverchair-bound and fed up with celebrity, so the trio try to bring back his passion.
# The greedy little green owner of Channel Z Network, Billionaire Boltho, is in need of a new hit show, so he decides to cash in on the interest in the Earth exchange students by making Mark and Anne TV stars. / Mark gets an alien parasite that replaces his tongue and causes him to blurt out things on his mind, which is especially problematic as he is entrusted with secrets by others.
# Frustrated by Coach Felfew's hyper-exhausting fitness tests, Mark, Anne, and Calculus try to slow her down with a slow-motion pointer to make their lives easier, but her slowness begins to increase with each usage. / Zemir finds a 2-D conversion unit, which allows any vehicle to become 2-D by activating it when needed, and uses it on his speeder to impress younger vehicle enthusiasts.
# Anne befriends the flower-like prince of Exupery 6 when his tyrannical father comes to meet the president. The prince admires Anne's carefree personality as he is afraid of becoming a dictator like his father. / Planet Zed's moonfill becomes so overfilled that garbage starts to rain on on the city world and people are asked to come up with a better disposal strategy.
# After getting into a geeky argument with Decibel, Integer's antennae pick up strange infrasound that demonically possess her. Her friends suspect supernatural forces and try to catch the culprit on camera. / Mark and Anne introduce Halloween to their friends and decide to throw the scariest party ever. However, an escaped Biomechanoid (from Giger 9) may make things too frightening.
# Glorgo realizes that he has a crush on Voona for her tough attitude and turns to Anne to learn be more presentable to girls. However, even Anne may find teaching him emotional control to be challenging. / Mark and Anne meet Horace, a cow who was abducted by aliens and turned into a sentient being. Excited to meet other Earthlings, Horace tries to learn about being one by imitating them.
# Anne, Voona, and Integer raid Castal's sleepover to get their Truth-or-Dare-in-a-Box back for theirs. Meanwhile Mark, Calculus, and Kerba play a video game against Castal's bratty brother. / Principal Harthen, his wife Eliceth, kids Kermel and Athea, and pet Hothead Iceborer move into the school when their home gets too hot, bringing all their boisterousness with them.
# Kerba’s several hundred baby siblings are captured by an unscrupulous pet shop owner to be falsely sold as pets, so he, Mark, Anne, and Calculus had into Planet Zed's pet trade world to get them back. / The huge spaceship-city Aquila City makes an emergency landing on Planet Zed when Silicon Leeches damage it, giving Mark, Anne, and Calculus an opportunity to visit a cityship.
# Trigonometric gets a pet to guard their home from a serial robber. However, their pet is actually the burglar, who uses his innocuous appearance to pretend to be an animal. / Mark, Anne, and Calculus are "conscripted" into the school Blorkoball team to play in a tournament against a visiting school of hive-minded insect-like aliens with a caste system.
# Mr. Modem accidentally downloads his A.I. into an AT-ST-like walker and finds that his newfound form makes him feel good, young, and in control of his life. / Coach Felfew starts to fall for Pranter, so Mark, Anne, Gaitha, Zemir, and Calculus decide to help the two have a successful first date, but Pranter is extremely reluctant because he is afraid Felfew will dislike his immaturity.
# Mark and Anne learn that Amelia Earhart is actually an alien and is alive on Planet Zed, now working as a flying saucer pilot in an airshow, so Anne becomes persistent about getting the chance to meet her hero. / Kerba and Calculus get stuck in Glorgo's gelatinous body and now all three (primarily Glorgo and Calculus though) have to put up with each other until they get unstuck.
# Mark stars on Billionaire Boltho's newest TV show Galactic Chef Junior, where he will have to pit his cooking skills against some of the greatest junior chefs on Planet Zed, all far less shy than he is. /

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