*Action* - "Calling back the teams" pt1

Who: Jack, Eric Lustbader, Trisees, John
Smith, Matt Lister, and Alicia Bevair.
Where: New Japan
When: A week after arriving<snip>
"This is Boushuku. Surrender one hundred billion Nu-Yen, or be shrunk
forever!"
"was that aimed at us?" Alicia asked, as John checked the audio
equipment.
"no, that was transmitted to every planet in the new-terran sector..."
he said, "and i think it went further..."
"We have to stop him!" Jack said, knowing that with everything in the
sector shrunk, anyone would be able to destroy earth, even easier than
the Hymenoptera had first time round.
<end snip>
Saving the galaxy was pretty tough when you're only 20cm tall. And this
is exactly why Jack's crew gave up pretty soon and parked their
shrunken Starbug in a sushi bar and had spent the entire week eating
raw fish, drinking sake and singing badly in karaoke bars.
Living life like `Borrowers', Jack and crew had made small weapons and
climbing instruments with small objects and stationary. Jack tied a
paperclip to a long piece of string and used it to lasso a high ledge
where he pulled his tiny self up to a Karaoke microphone, and performed
a really bad rendition of the Finnish song `Don't Say a Word' by Sonata
Arctica.
Despite being only 20cm tall, his voice was still loud enough to make the rest of his team cover their ears.
In a moment of sober clarity, Trisees put down his sake and said "How the hell will this help us save the universe?"
Then a drunken Matt Lister came up from behind him, hugged him, and fell over.----------------------------------------------------
Who: Captain Calvert
Where: Blue Dwarf
When: Same time
Calvert paced up and down in the Drive Room. He stared insanely at the
girl at the communications computer. She was feeling very uncomfortable
by his heavy stomping.
"Any news on the away teams?"
"Not really sir, most of them are heading back now with their
ingredients, but the team on New Japan still hasn't checked in. I… I
think they're getting pissed and singing karaoke." She cringed, not
knowing how Captain Calvert would respond to hearing that his crew were
dosing about.
Calvert fumed and held his grubby hand out to the crewman. "Give me the communicator." He ordered.
He then began to yell a long string of extremely offensive and
extremely loud profanities through the device until someone picked it
up at the other end.
"Hullo" said Matt Lister.
"Lister you gorram piece o'prairie crap, git yo' ass back to the
mission on hand, get me them thar ingredients and drag your scrawny ass
teammates back here before I send a second team to hunt you down and
replace you!"
There was silence.
Then there was the sound of Lister passing the communicator over to Jack and saying "I think it's for you."
"Yes sir, right away sir!" said Jack.------------------------------------------
Who: Jack, Eric Lustbader, Trisees, John
Smith, Matt Lister and Alicia Bevair.
Where: New Japan
When: Just after talking to Captain Calvert
Jack's talk with the Captain had an immediate sobering effect. He was
on a mission, and because they had been rendered useless and tiny, he
had forgotten that.
"Do we have the ingredient we came for?" He asked Matt Lister.
"What was it?"
Jack checked his list. "The …erm… crushed root of a irritated rubber bonsai tree."
"No problem" said John Smith. "I collected a rubber bonsai tree and put it in the Starbug yesterday."
"Brilliant! Hangon… it says `irritated Bonsai tree' here, how did you irritate it?"
"Well I talked to it."
"Brilliant!"
Jack slapped his hands together. "Job well done, lets get back to the Dwarf!"------------------------
Who: Captain Calvert
Where: Blue Dwarf
When: Same time
Calvert paced again. He fingered his gun and the communications officer almost passed out from nervousness.
Jed spat his chewing tobacco into a nearby pot and spoke.
"Where is Dr Keto?"
"He's heading back in Amber's shuttle now Captain." Said the officer.
"Good, tell him to go straight to the medibay when he's back and start
working on the cure to the chicken disease, we've got that pompous
Ambassador in the brig to cure, as well as the entire of that there New
France to cure. An' I fancy gettin' paid today!"
"Aye Captain."
"Oh and get him to think about how we're going to distribute the cure.
I can't be assed to hang around here while he goes and gives each
Frenchman an injection. It's bad for your image if folk see you helpin'
the French."
The officer nodded and contacted Keto.----------------------------------------------------------
Who: Jack, Eric Lustbader, Trisees, John
Smith, Matt Lister and Alicia Bevair.
Where: New JapanWhen: Same time
As the team flew out of New Tokyo, (in their tiny toy-like starbug)
something large caught Jack's eye. In fact it didn't need to catch his
eye because it stood 800 metres tall in front of him.
"What's that?" Asked John Smith.
"Boushuku" said Jack. "Remember the guy that threatened the galaxy last
week? He's found some kind of super mech suit." Jack looked closer.
"No…. he's not in a mech suit, he's just enlarged himself using the
same technology that shrunk us earlier!"
The man stood as tall as the skyscrapers in the futuristic city. He
picked up cars and spaceships and threw them over the horizon. Then the
stomped around and trashed a few more buildings with the smite of his
hand. He was wearing heavy armour that made him look like a dangerous
robot, or more of a ninja wearing tinfoil.
"Obviously nobody's paying any attention to his demands so he's having a bit of a paddy." Said Alicia.
"We have to stop him." Said Jack, piloting towards it.
"What?! What can we do, we're like flies to him!" said Eric.
They buzzed around the large man's head, and he didn't even seem to notice.
The giant stomped around the city, then aimed his weapon at the largest skyscraper. It glowed, then shrunk.
The away team saw the building shrink. "He's got one of those weapons
on him, it must be able to make things shrink as well as make things
bigger." Said Jack. "I'm flying us closer…"
They flew towards the giant's gun, and Jack started to unleash a
barrage of firepower that bounced off the large Japanese man's skin.
The large tough skin soaked up most of the firepower and barely
effected it. Finally Jack got lucky by hitting a soft spot, and the
giant let the large gun drop to the floor, crushing several cars and
bikes.
Luckily as it fell, the gun fired up towards the Starbug, increasing it's size to normal proportions.
Jack flexed his arms. "Ah, that feels much better! Now to dispatch of the bad guy!" He said boldly.
At that moment an idea struck him. He called Matt Lister to come over
and take the controls. "Matt, fly us close to the ground. I'm going to
jump out."
"You're going to what?!"
"You heard."
Matt did so and Jack jumped to the floor, rolling on his shoulder. He
ran over to the large fallen gun and prodded one of it's massive
buttons, then stood in front of it.
Jack was enveloped in a white light, grew him to large proportions.
The team in the starbug gasped as jack became as large as the skyscrapers in the city.
Jack looked around. "Everything looks so small!" His voice boomed
across the skyline. "And I feel so BIIIIIIG" he said. Then checking
something, he looked down the front of his trousers. "Oh yeah baby!"
But he didn't have time to gloat. As a skyscraper was smashed across his back.
Jack fell down to one knee and let the shards of building fall to the floor.
He got up and turned around to see Boushuku, armoured in his tinfoil suit, now standing exactly the same height as him.
Jack grinned at Boushuku,  "not so big now, eh?" he asked, the
translators he'd been given earlier changed it into perfect
Japanese.  Boushuku looked at him, and lunged, pushing jack to the
floor, squashing several more vehicles, and a small hospital.
A small scuffle ensued, Jack gave him a mean left hook, but was
countered by a flailing leg as Boushuku fell over.  The fight
raged on for almost an hour, with no one appearing to even be breaking
a sweat.
"You're pretty strong..." Boushuku said, admitting that he seemed to be equally matched.
Jack looked behind Boushuku, and noticed a large skyscraper, with a
nasty looking point on the top.  "I'm just getting warmed up." He
said, as he lunged at boushuku, almost bear hugging him as they both
staggered towards the skyscraper, and fell backwards.
The point of the skyscraper pierced easily through Boushuku's armour,
meaning Jacks leather jacket had no chance.  They both fell down
onto the skyscraper, it piercing both of them through the chest.
Jack smiled, "Looks like I win." He said, ignoring the wound for now, even though it was going to kill him.
"You ruined my plans..." was all Boushuku could come up with, before he
fell unconscious from blood loss.  Jack managed to reach out and
kick the size ray, shrinking them both to normal size, landing rather
heavily on the ground in front of the skyscraper.  Looking up to
the sky, Jack used his nano's to patch into the Starbugs communications.
"When you get back... Tell Melissa.... I love her..." He said, before painfully coughing up blood, then silence.
<  OOC – This has been a JP between me and SMandy, I'm really
sorry to see Jack die, I'm hoping SMandy will come back in the very
near future when he has more time on his hands and a fresh idea for a
new character to entertain us with! >
< OOC2 – heres a pic that reminds me of this post
http://www.3dtotal.com/home2/gallery/images/big/2148.jpg - but it
doesn't look quite Japanese enough! >