"Jed Calvert's Introduction"

Hello everyone!
Heres a post about a new character I've been developing, let me know
if you like him!
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Who: Someone different...
Where: Somewhere different...
Jed Calvert sat on a lonely dessert planet. The dry sand blew into his
face and caught in his matted dark blonde hair. His face was cracked
from the heat and beating sun of the dry and desolate planet which had
been his home for the past few weeks.
He looked out in all directions and all he could see was sand and
rock, and a few scratty looking plants. He pulled a root out of the
ground and bit into it, then immediately spat it out with a "pitoowee"
sound.
There was no food anywhere on this dusty hellhole. He stood up and
yelled at the orange sky, he yelled at the faraway red canyons.
Another thing that was irritating him right now apart from the hunger
was that he was naked, and the hot sun was beating down on his burning
scorched skin.
Yes, things had gone THAT badly. Bad enough for him to be dumped by
his own crew, naked, left for dead. The act of taking his clothes had
been to embarass and humilliate him, although Jed didnt get embarassed
or humilliated often. He would gladly stroll around naked on this
planetoid, or even on planets where there were people and would still
retain his cocky grin and self-assured swagger.
Something caught Jed's eye in the far distance. Maybe it was something
to eat, or at least something he could cover himself with before he
got sunburned anymore. He ran over to it, each bounding stride he got
closer to it he let his expectations get higher. It wasn't food, but
it was definately something he could wear.
Jed Calvert was a confident man. He was a strong willed and surefooted
man. And none of that changed right now even as he sat on a rock in a
dessert wearing a pink frilly lace nighty. Jed was comfortable about
his sexuality, he was confident about his appearance and was pretty
sure that nobody else was on this planet to see him, but there's just
something about sitting on a rock wearing a pink frilly lace nighty
that really really makes a man think.
He thought back to four days ago.
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Who: Captain Jed Calvert
Where: On his ship "JMC Fools Gold"
When: Four days earlier
"Captain?!" Came the angry voice of his XO, as he banged on Captain
Calvert's door. The first officer burst the door open and rolled his
eyes at Captain Calvert, who was riding his robotic bucking bronco.
"Howdy partner!" shouted Calvert, managing to cling on to the bucking
machine with great skill.
The XO folded his arms and looked sternly at him.
Calvert noticed the man's angry expression, then noticed that the
entire rest of the crew were behind him, looking ust as cross.
"Now listen friend, you lot look likes you be on the prod but I 'aint
looking for no trouble."
The XO opened and closed his mouth, trying to catch up on what the
Captain just said, then ignored it. "Captain, we want you off this
ship." he walked towards him, banging a metal pole in his hand.
Captain Calvert was a bold man, and he stood his ground. "Now hold on
fellers... partners... think about what you be suggesting there! What
is this all about?"
"We've had enough. We;ve known about your smuggling deals for a long
time and stayed quiet. But this is taking it too far!"
"Its only a few gallons of moonshine i be a smuggling... there aint
nothing wrong with that darnit!"
"There is this time. We've just come from Earth, and the cargo bay is
full of 'moonshine' when we could have used it to save a hundred more
lives!!" the XO said angrily.
"Ah.. well you see partners I was thinking of the enjoyment to the
THOUSAND lives it'd help entertain! C'mon, we could have a good ho
down, get a bit soaked..."
But the crew weren't having any of it. He fought them and took down a
few, but they overpowered him, tied him up, stripped him and left him
on the dry dessert planet.
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Who: Jed Calvert
Where: Dessert planet
When: back to normal time
"So this is it. Yeaaap this is it. Just me, unheeled and unshucked,
and the rocks."
He decided to walk deliriously toards the large red rocky hills in the
distance. Just as he staggered as far as he thought he could, he
thought he saw something in the distance. In the middle of the flat
empty dessert, he saw a metal shiny transport pad.
"Praise be, I'm saved!" he said to encourage himself. "C'mon Jed,
don't give up the gun now i know you're not a quitter!"
He staggered to the metal object. It was square and flat on the floor,
about 3 metres across. He gingerly stood on it and looked for some
kind of control panel. He jabbed at a bluish button and the thing
seemed to vibrate. Then, the mat had a slightly different effect that
he expected. Instead of it "beaming" him somewhere different, it
suddenly shot up from the ground like a super fast lift, carrying him
screaming at high speed into the sky.
Within seconds he could see the destination, a space station in orbit
of the planet. The lift practically threw him into the station and
lanched him into a crowded bar.
It took Jed a few seconds to realise what had just happened, and had
to think fast to adapt to this new environment he had landed in. He
picked himself up and looked around with slitty eyes. It was a dirty
saloon, with various rugged people all sat around drinking, playing
poker, and now... looking at him.
"Evenin' all." he said neutrally.
There was an eruption of laughter as everyone looked at the dress he
was wearing. Not lest a Mexican looking man stood close to him wearing
a cowboy hat who tried to lift up his skirt in amusement.
Jed slapped his hand away and fixed his gaze right into the mans eyes.
"What's wrong feller? Never seen a man in a dress?" Then he hit him so
hard across the face that he flew back over a table, disrupting
someone's game of poker. The men got up, saw Jed's manic gaze and
thought better of it. They sat down again, allowing Jed to walk slowly
and casually to the bar. On the way he picked up the Mexican's cowboy
hat and casually placed it on his head.
At the bar Jed took a cigar from bewildered looking man and clasped it
in his teeth. he faced the barman.
"Look sir, I don't want iny trouble in my bar." said the spacestation
barman.
"Don't worry, I 'aint here to be causing a ruckus. I just want to find
a job to get me some new togs and a way out of this here hellhole of a
starsystem." said Jed.
The barman pointed to a group of rough looking cowboys in the corner
of the room. "Those men will sort you out with a job."
Jed nodded in thanks and approached the men.
<To be continued...>
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