Eat my Retros Frenchie!
Who: Peter & Kevn
Where: Joyriding Round the Cargo Decks
When: As the French open fire and give chase
Along the Cargo decks, which spread the length and breadth of the
Blue Dwarf, Peter Marwood and Kevn Fenard were in the middle of a
low speed chase with some French Marines.
"Come on, Come on" called Peter, pressing his foot to the
accelerator, the small yellow forklift truck reaching the giddily
high speed of 9 miles an hour.
"Their gaining on us!" called Kevn from behind him, the French
Marines now riding a forklift of their own.
"Hang on, I've got an Idea! Said Peter, spotting one of the external
docking bays, which were used for easily getting cargo onboard ship.
"Wait here, and keep hidden for Christ sake" Peter told him, heading
in the direction of an Xpress Lift.
"Where the hell are you going?" asked the petrified Kevn, huddling
behind some crates as the French drove past.
"Just wait, give me 15 minutes, and be ready to load the crates onto
a ship." called Peter, leaving Kevn to his cowering.
The Lift hammered up the shaft in the direction of the little used
Hanger Bay 6, for some reason playing "Comfortably Numb" relaxed
Peter a bit. Odd.
He stepped out onto the deck of the Bay, and smirked to himself. As
no one EVER used this hanger, or hanger 5, so the French had left it
unguarded. Idiots.
Along the rear wall of the Hanger were 4 Blue Midget's. Peter walked
up the gantry and descended into the cockpit of one of them. It was
the standard cockpit of the Mk.2 Blue Midget, a silver décor and
seating for 5 personnel. He sat down at the Pilot's console and
initiated the take off.
Within a few minutes, he had achieved silent running outside the
Dwarf and headed down to the underside of the ship. He quickly found
the loading pylon and docked silently.
"Kevn, you there?" he called into the hatch.
"Im here" he called back
"quickly, load the crates on to the ship before the French find us"
hissed Peter
A few minutes of back-breaking labour later, Peter had loaded the
crates onto Blue Midget when the French arrive.
"Stop in ze name of ze law monsieurs" they called out in their
outrageous French accents"
"no thanks" Kevn called back
"eat my retros!" Peter quipped quickly
And with that, Blue Midget disembarked and made its way back up to
Docking Bay 6.
"Phew, that was close" sighed Kevn when they landed.
"We're not out of trouble just yet" said Peter darkly.
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