“How far down would you say it is?” I said. “Several miles,” said Nicknacks. “The Mother World is similar in size to Earth, though that is about the only similarity between the two worlds.” “How are we supposed to get to the center of the Mother World?” said Blizzard. “If the Mother World is as big as Earth, it will take us forever to get down to the Core, and that’s assuming the Pokacu don’t catch us before then. And we really don’t have a whole lot of time to waste.” “That isn’t exactly true,” said Nicknacks. “In order to destroy the Core, we don’t actually need to go down to the center of the planet ourselves.” “Then what are we supposed to do?” I said. “Are we going to drop a nuke on the planet or something?” “Of course not,” said Nicknacks. “We don’t have a nuke with us, so that

