William and the friend Jason bring their bicycles on the attic, shrink themselves, and embark on a journey. They meet Sir Simon because he is getting ready to leave for the tournament, and so they stop at his castle. They spend more time a boy plus a girl with the castle and together. The girl tells them of an omen her grandmother, Calendar, kept repeating before she died. Sir Simon sent Calendar away for the convent as he thought she was crazy and he does not believe the omen. Few accept it but Calendar's granddaughter does. Jason and William believe it too. However the humans living on the spaceship were different to the humans who will be living on earth now. They were so fat them to be struggling to walk. they travelled around in motorised chairs using a computer screen and cup & straw attached, chatting on phones and if they happened to fall out they only laid there until a robot arrived and picked them up. The adults were fat, your children were fat! They just laid around all day meals doing no exercise what so ever and to quote the captain, "Computer, define dancing".