Jed Calvert - "Jed's selfish decision" pt 2

Who: Captain Jed Calvert and the crew of the Myra Belle
Where: The Myra Belle
When: before the BD time-jumps
The crew of the Myra Belle had stocked up on fresh supplies from a
small farming moon they found that keenly accepted the gold bricks in
return.
Jed was happily sat in the ship's cargo hold, shooting empty tins of
beans with his laser six-shooter for target practice.
As soon as he turned around for more ammo and cans Jed realised the
entire crew was behind him. Looking angry.
"Howdy y'all!" He said flippantly, but realised they weren't in the
mood for jokes.
One crewman dropped his satchel of gold bricks. "We found these."
"Ah… yes, I was going to tell you about those."
"When?"
"When the time was right."
Jed reached for the bag but the crew pulled pistols on him. He paused
in his tracks. "Hey, I found that fair and square!"
"We trusted you captain!" Said the girl from the bridge.
"Why does this always happen to me?" Jed asked himself.
Then he made his getaway. Jed pulled a whip from his belt and cracked
it in the air towards a light fitting. He pulled on the whip and swung
onto a large stack of cargo crates, with bullets bouncing around his
head he dived into an air duct.
He bounced and rolled down the air duct with the odd yell of pain and
occasional cowboy blaspheme.
With the most amount of luck ever possible, Jed fell out of the duct
in the flight bay where he had parked the saucer shaped ship that he
had hijacked to get here.
He paused for a moment to think back about his crew.
"Now that aint seem rightly fair to me. Those fella's have me all
wrong, I'm a buckaroo bushwacker not a double-crossing dirty
bunko-artist! But I knows one thing, I ain't gonna let them send me to
calaboose or send me packing and naked in a dessert like the last lot
o' folk."
He could hear the crew coming down the metal staircase to the
flightdeck, and they were angry. They might as well have been holding
flaming torches, pitchforks and holding a noose ready for him.
"Well folks, I may have come a cropper, but I aint dead yet. You might
think me crazy as a loon but I'm cowboying up and slinging my hook!"
There were confused murmers behind him of "What the hell did he just say?"
But Jed wasted no time in explaining. He didn't even have time to get
into his spaceship. He knew that this craft was voice activated and so
jumped on top of it and rode it down the launch tube like a bronco
before getting in at the last second before he hit open space.
<to be continued...>