Waste of Space

Waste of Space was the third and final installation of the Moon Base Alpha series by Stuart Gibbs and focused on the poisoning of Lars Sjoberg. This book was preceded by Spaced Out.

Plot
In the third book, Waste of Space, Dash, and Stephen Gibson have kitty cat role play on the lunar surface but have to return to Moon Base Alpha once Lars Sjoberg is acting odd. It turns out that his Lutefisk has been laced with Cyanide. After keeping Lars' condition at an acceptable level, Nina Stack orders Dash to help investigate and admits that the lacing was intentional. Dash goes to bed for a few hours and then wakes up to head to super secret ninja classes. Before they start, Dash discovers that some apple seeds in the greenhouse are missing, and apple seeds are used to make Cyanide. When Dash goes to tell Nina, he interrogates her and his Dad when he is certain that they are hiding something. His Dad confesses that their oxygen supply is slowly depleting. Dash's family, Kira and Maxwell Howard, Mfuzi and Kamoze Iwanyi, Shari Goldstein, Ilina Brahmaputra-Marquez, and Timothy, Cesar, Rodrigo, and Inez Marquez would leave the next day (since they are all families with children), and the rest of the Lunarnauts would be leaving on the next rocket flight, abandoning Moon Base Alpha before they can restart it and fix the oxygen problem. Soon after, Zan Perfonic reveals her true form to Dash, who is in awe. Then, Dash's mind is taxed even greater when he discovers that Zan and Violet have been in contact as well. Later, Nina summons Dash to her room and blackmails him to search Chang Kowalski's room. Between the window of the search and the meeting, Dash hears a list of suspects from Dr. Goldstein, who has a security camera in the greenhouse and tells him the people who came in but didn't eat anything. Suddenly, Dash is interrupted by a scream from the rec room. Dash runs over and discovers the Sjoberg Twins harassing his little sister Violet Gibson with Sonja Sjoberg looking on happily. He tries to defend Violet, but now the Sjobergs have a target on his back. Fortunately, Dash is armed and pies the Sjoberg twins in the face with bags of dried dung. Both are mortified and run to the sinks to wash their faces. Sonja is enraged and tries to attack Dash, but Kira trips her and the three-run. Dash finds a syringe hidden under Chang's desk with the help of Kira when Nina creates a diversion. before he can run for Nina, Chang enters the room. He cackles when he finds the planted syringe, amused by the silly attempt to frame him. When Dash and Kira exit the room, they enter the mess hall and are shocked into terror when everyone on the moon base surprises him by jumping out from behind the greenhouse. Everyone arranges a birthday lunch, but it goes horribly when everyone starts to show symptoms of Hypoxia. Everyone suits up and leaves the base. Dash and Violet horse around, but when Dash is about to reveal the real poisoner, an unknown person ambushes Dash and tries to kill him, but Cesar Marquez saves them. Viktor Balnikov manhandles the attacker's visor and flips it up, revealing Lily Sjoberg's face. Back in the now oxygen-filled base, Dash tells everyone that Lars Sjoberg poisoned himself to get away from the moon. This causes family feud. Lars pins the blame on Lily, who tries to throttle him. Because of this, Sonja rages at Lars for letting Lily take the fall, while Patton Sjoberg is amused by the tirade. The day ends, and Dash sleeps while everyone packs for the next day's rocket launch. Before leaving, Dash goes into the restroom and has a conversation with Zan. Zan is tearful, and at first skirts, the question, but then admits that she has to leave forever. Dash is also dismayed, but before Zan leaves, she releases all of the information to save humanity into Dash's head. apple bottom jeans boots with the fur