New defenses!
Who: Jack & severn, and some random engineers.
Where: top deck.
When: Just as the attacking started.
The Ship lurched unexpectedly, causing Jack to drop the plasma welder
he was holding.
"damn" he said, watching it fall the twenty odd feet to the floor below.
"HeADS UP!" he shouted, watching people dodging it not so expertly.
"jack, how's it going up there?" Severn sai over the nano's, a
crackling sound followed, as Jacks were beginning to wear out.
"not long, what was that shake?" he asked, as holly shouted through
the room "Jack, we're under attack." very calmly.
"Holly, send a message to all defense staff to scramble, i'll be
staying up here, also send a covert message to the guys at deck 27,
see if they can't get a move on with that pipe." he said, turning back
to his work. A large vat of empty paintballs lay beneath him, and
above him now sat a giant paintball cannon, protruding from the ship,
looking very much like it had just been dropped there, and spot welded
into place.
.... Probably because it had.
"It's all good, they said" came holly's voice, projected through the
room, Jack smiled, and hit a button, sucking random ointments from
Keto's stash on deck 27, into his giant vat of paintballs. The system
he'd set up filled each of the paintballs with a different ointment,
and Jack smiled, knowing all too well what Keto was capable of with
his work.
Jack loaded the cannon, and sat up in the turret he'd made, and
adjusted the controls, as the ship rocked again from the attacks.
Jack noted the speed that his defense team had got to work, the enemy
dreadnaughts were already under fire from every gun that pointed at
them, though most were obscured, being on the side of the ship, while
the enemy attacked from the front.
"Drive room, this is Jack FeBuggure, turn the ship to face them
side-on, we need to get the cannons online!" he called, and aimed his
paintball cannon at one of the smaller dreadnaughts, hoping to get a
good show.
The Paintball cannon whirred a bit, as it sucked a paintball from the
vat below, and catapulted it at the enemy ship, flying through space
comparatively slowly, though it still made contact with the dreadnaught.
The ointment spread quickly, covering the main screen on the front of
the ship, and slowly eating into it, like a super powerful acid.
"come on Keto, work your magic!" he said to himself, as he saw the
ship start to drift, the tail end rising, as if it were about to
cartwheel. The main window at the front of the ship shattered, as the
ointment began to spread, and eat away at the metal surrounding it.
Explosive decompression, coupled with the acidic effect of the
ointment spreading meant that the ship slowly began to decompress,
room by room, sucking it's crew out into space as the ship spun past
the Blue Dwarf, towards the nearby planet.
Jack smiled to himself, and patched in a message to Keto, in the medibay.
"Hey, Doc, if you want to check the power of your ointment, look out a
starboard window!" he said, adding a nice evil laugh to the end of it.