Some say that's progress

OOC: Sorry folks, gotta get things moving or we'll be here another
month yet
Who: Everyone
Where: In a broken/stuck lift a bit below the reactor that we need to
blow up
When: My watch says 11:46pm
Jay and Amber began rallying everybody. They seem like the kind of
people suited to rallying, after all; barking orders and such. Anyway,
before long, most of the 'Dwarfers were inching up the cables holding
up the elevator, en route to the reactor core. That would be the
reactor core on the Halkon moon which is the source of the massive
energy field protecting a vast tract of Halkon space. It's been a
while, so i figured you could use the refresher course.
Seymour was not enjoying the experience. It was dark, he was getting
muck from the cable all over his suit, and Mk.9 was strapped to his back.
"Can't you move any faster?" complained Mk.9 in his most pompous voice.
"Can't you get any lighter?" hissed Seymour back, sounding very much
like Keto on a bad day...or any day for that matter.
"Maby it'll make the job easier if you imagined that there was a
beautiful banquet with chilled wine and all sorts of french appetisers
waiting for you at the top." suggested Mk.9
"You make pretty snide remarks for someone in a papoose. This whole
experience brings back horrible memories. Back when I was a child, I
had this horrible PE teacher, who made me climb a rope over and over.
He reduced me to tears almost each time."
Mk.9's head turned a bit.
"What'd you do?" he asked
"Well, I had my parents send every attourney they could muster to take
him to court. I would have won if he hadn't testified that I
continually called him a peasant."
"...Did you?"
"Well, yeah, but it's the principle!"
"Hold up Seymour, we're here" said Mk.9
They and the rest of the crew slowly clambered onto the ledge and into
the reactor core room.
Chris began handing out high explosives to everyone, and the crew set
about planting them all over the place.
"Oh yeah, this'll show 'em." said Fferna happily.
"Easy there kitten, lets just do what we have to do." said Efof, under
the watchful and suspicious eye of Jay.
She playfully punched him (Efof, not Jay) in the arm. Which arm in
particular, I forget.
Mk.9 and Seymour headed over to the control panel with their explosives.
"Put them all around the base of the console. That should destroy any
wires that would otherwise send off an auto-alert system."
"Um, Mk.9, I may not be a tactical genius, but there's a button here
labled
'Auto-Destruct-and-teleport-everyone-in-the-core-room-to-safety'. Now,
it that odd, or is it just me?" said Seymour, and in one breath no less.
"Probably a trap, leave it alone." said Mk.9
Chris called everyone over to another elevator (this time, functional)
and the crew piled in.
The trip to the exit was pretty uneventfull, untill they stepped
outside to be greeted by several Halkon away teams.
---Meanwhile---
The Halkon commander of the moon base was sitting in front of a wide
array of video monitors.
"So, we have no way of getting down there to deactivate the explosives?"
"No, sir" said another, smaller blob of a creature.
"...Why the hell didn't they use the
'Auto-Destruct-and-teleport-everyone-in-the-core-room-to-safety'
button? That would have been the smart thing to do."
"Pfft, they're just plain old stupid I guess."
<tag. Sorry again, but noone likes a stagnant storyline.>