Este é o de Alan Dean Foster "Com amigos como estes"(da coleção de antologias de mesmo nome):
“You have done us a very large favor, gentlebeings, and we are oh, so grateful! How many years we labored to find the answer to the Shield,
how many years, only to discover that it could only be applied, or
retracted, from an outside source. Now that it is down, we will not
make the error of allowing it to be put up again. Once again,
gentlebeings, we are in your debt. Our agreement still holds. If you
will return to your ship we will… commence preparations to follow in
ours.” The native smiled, and it was at once a lovely and terrible
thing to see. (Among the known creatures of the universe, only the
Terran human bares its fangs to express friendship.)
[mais tarde]
In the middle of the planet’s second ocean, great, impossible masses
of thick columnar crystals began to leap upward from the waters.
Translucent at first, the chalcedony towers began to pulse with deep
inner fires: blue, purple, gold, carmine, and finally a strange, yet
familiar silver-gray. The ionosphere, tickled, began to surround the
flashing needles with auroras, clothing them in blankets of
coruscating radiance. Following, the planet began to move after the
Tpin. On board the cruiser it was very quiet.
“I see,” whispered Rappan idly, “that they are bringing their moon
along also.”
“You get accustomed to something like that,” breathed an engineer. “A
moon, I mean.”