*Action* - \"Halkon conclusion\"

Where: Halkon
The irradiated and much destroyed surface of Halkon vibrated as metal
pockets in the ground opened up, revealing an arsenal of hundred of
cone shaped rockets, painted in an assortment of cutesy pastel colours.
The deadly rockets fired upwards into the Halkon sky, aimed at the two
twinkling stars that were the Ffionian ships in orbit.
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Who: Seymour, Barf, and the digitized voices of Mk9 and Dent
Where: The strange bunny-shaped ship
When: A while after last post
In the last few minutes, Barf and Seymour had been racking their
brains for inventive and clever ways to send a message to the Blue
Dwarf. But to be honest, they were both useless, leaving only the
logical AI brains of Dent and Mk9 to work it out. It all came down to
needing more power.
"Look, it's perfectly simple." explained Dent to the non-technical
minds of Seymour and Barf. "Boost the power and we will increase the
speed and strength of the signal to the Blue Dwarf – now keep stoking
that fire!"
Seymour blinked in surprise and pointed at himself. "I'm sorry, are
you talking to me? Do I look like a skivvy?"
Barf sagged his shoulders and picked up the shovel. The 'fire' that
Dent was referring to was a lettuce fuelled plasma fire at the back of
the craft that powered the ship. As he shovelled more lettuce into the
fire, he whistled a song.
"Stop whistling that slave song!" Shouted Seymour. "And don't even
think about forming a union!"
Barf wiped his dirty brow. "Is this even doing anything? Surely
lettuce is a rubbish thing to power a spaceship, it's not even burning
properly!"
A sound of computerised excitement came from the speakers. "It's
sent!" Said Dent. "Our sos to the Captain has gone."
"Oh you didn't send it directly to Captain Jed did you?" Asked
Seymour. "The Blue Dwarf is operating on a skeleton crew, and Captain
Jed will only answer messages prefaced with the subject 'PORN' or
'Nude pictures of Anna Kornikova'."
"Bah, that email spam scam ended ages ago." Said Barf.
"Email scam? No, he gets people to send them to him!"
Dent butted in. "I don't want to alarm anyone but we're nearing the
Ffionian ships and they appear to have a weapons lock on us."
"Oh they must think we're Halkons!"
"Hmm... funny that. As we're in a Halkon ship!!" Said Seymour
sarcastically.
"But we're a cute bunny, how can they shoot that?"
"They just bombed a planet full of cute bunnies!" argued Seymour.
"True." Said Barf.
Just as they entered weapons range with Dent using full bandwidth to
scream over and over "Don't shoot us, Don't shoot us!" something
appeared between them and the much larger Ffionian ship. A flash of
light, and then space seemed to collapse in on itself.
A wormhole opened, and the massive Blue Dwarf appeared from within a
hole of swirling null space. It dwarfed both the two Ffionian ships
and made the small bunny ship look like a sea monkey in Seymour's footspa.
A torpedo which would have torn the bunny ship to pieces smashed
harmlessly against the side of the Blue Dwarf.
The irritatingly excited voice of Captain Jed Calvert filled the
airwaves. "Yehaw, y'all ladies and gentlemen not playing nice?"
A fleet of small escape pods left the Ffionian ships, heading for the
Blue Dwarf. All the Blue Dwarf crew who had managed to escape the
clutches of the Ffionians had seen their chance and headed home to the
'Dwarf as quickly as possible.
It soon became apparent that several hundred missiles were flying from
the planet straight towards the Ffionian ships. The decision was
quickly made by Captain Jed to "Get the hell outta here", and the
wormhole drive was kicked into working again.
With a flash of electric, and a swirl of space, the massive dirty
starship was sucked into a galactic plughole to a safer area of space.
Well..... safer wasn't exactly true.
The Blue Dwarf was ejected out of the wormhole at great speed into an
area of space where the view was mainly dominated by a green gas
giant. The Blue Dwarf clipped the front-end of a sleek sporty
spaceship passing by at the time.
In the Drive Room, an angry face appeared at the communication
computer. "Oi wanker, you just cut me up and scratched my ship! Now I
need to take this back to the garage to get a huge dent hammered out.
What's your insurance details?"
Captain Jed frantically threw a few pieces of paper around and looked
underneath them. "Erm... insurance ya say?... well pardner funny story..."
"What? No insurance?" said the man angrily. "You're going to pay for
this damage one way or another!"
<Tag. Not the best of posts I will admit, because I'm tired and will
be away for the weekend. What happens next? No plans, so this can go
any direction!>

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