Intergalactic Planetary!

Prompt:
Write a story using six of the following words: blast, teleport, squad, lupine, waterfall, autumn, ship, velvet, beam, amulet.

I had a lot of fun with this. There’s a lot to be said for these sorts of space adventure stories. The equation is something like this:

gruff spacefaring roughneck + adorable sidekick x villainous robots/aliens/pirates/space zombies = win!

670 words of two-fisted space adventure!