 Why do Starre, Bob, and Quezy work together, despite having goals that are at odds with one another?
COSMIC YO-YO By ROSS ROCKLYNNE "Want an asteroid in your backyard? Interplanetary Hauling Company. [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Summer 1945. Not in his wildest imaginings had he thought they would actually find what they were looking for. Queazy, my boy, can you imagine it? Not only that, we're rich! Queazy discharged their tremendous inertia into the motive-tubes in such a manner that the big, powerful ship was moving at the same rate as the asteroid below—47.05 miles per second. "She checks down to the last dimension," Bob chortled, working with slide-rule and logarithm tables. "Now all we have to do is find out if she's made of tungsten, iron, quartz crystals, and cinnabar! "Better take it easy," he advised, "until I land the ship and we use the atomic whirl spectroscope to determine the composition of the asteroid." While Queazy—so called because his full name was Quentin Zuyler—dropped the ship straight down to the smooth surface of the asteroid, and clamped it tight with magnetic grapples, Bob flung open the lazarette, brought out two space-suits. Moments later, they were outside the ship, with star-powdered infinity spread to all sides. In the ship, the ethergram from Andrew S. Burnside, of Philadelphia, one of the richest men in the world, still lay on the deck-plates. The ethergram read: Received your advertising literature a week ago. Must be in my back yard before 11:30 A.M. my time, for important wedding June 2, else order is void. And if The Interplanetary Hauling & Moving Co., hadn't been about to go on the rocks (chiefly due to the activities of Saylor & Saylor, a rival firm) neither Bob nor Queazy would have thought of sending an answering ethergram to Burnside stating that they would fill the order. And yet, if by some chance there was such a rigidly specified asteroid, their financial worries would be over.
 The Saylor brothers are in the way for both parties, and it makes more sense to work together to take them down.
 Starre is hopeful that they can eventually help her out of her own predicament.  The Saylor brothers are in the way for both parties, and it makes more sense to work together to take them down.  Bob and Quezy don't care what happens to her after. They just want to get through the situation.  They simply don't have any other choice.