So we're mostly trapped, here at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, on account of the teleportals being down. Sure they're environmentally friendly but how do they work, anyway?

We could always rig up sleds on the giant Japanese huskies and make for McMurdo (do they have portals there?) or just take a boat or a plane to wherever, but what's the matter with our portal? Because I keep seeing that orange checkered blimp just over the horizon. Or may there's more than one, just like back at the school. That can't be a coincidence. Is that how you make portals? Are those the portal generators or whatever? Or is that what the problem is about? Some kind of jammer?

The giant Japanese huskies are great at bounding, but how do we get up into the sky?

I couldn't turn down the opportunity to go on the school trip to Amundsen–Scott station. As everybody knows, teleportal is the most environmentally friendly way to visit Antarctica.

The dome is a little chilly for sleeping, but there's no "night" and we're allowed to stay up for as long as we want. And there's plenty to do in the sunlight, like rigging the giant Japanese huskies up on the sleds to pull us around, bounding over the snow drifts. Or saddling up one of the giant Japanese huskies and going out for a ride across the wastes. Or just wrestling around with one of the giant Japanese huskies and a chew rope. They're very protective and would never hurt you, even though they're twice your size.

But again I swear it's the same orange checkered blimps I see, just over the horizon. Have they been spying on us the whole time?

Toby opened a tunnel to the surface and I squeezed up through it and boy was it nice to get some fresh air! Snow's still falling but through a break in the clouds I saw a blimp, or something, circling campus. Orange with black warning stripes. Anybody else been topside?

If you go up to the reservoir there's some rocks you can go out on and see how UFOs aren't really "ships" but just bulges coming out of dimensional space. They look like floating objects not connected to anything but they are actually extra-dimensional extrusions.