Toasties

Who:- Jay, Evil Phil, Mini Phil, Dean and Beezlebub.
Where:- Outside hangar bay four
When:- just after Mk.10 railgunned the crane.
The group outside of the Hangar bay heard a loud crashing noise and
stopped what they were doing and trainied their guns on the door.
Except for Phil, who currently thinking he was Satan simply looked at
it funny hoping it would spontaneously combust with his demonic
powers.
Nothing happened, so every dropped their guard.
"What the hell are they doing in there?" asked Evil Phil.
"eeeeEEee!!" Said Mini-Phil
"Are scutters even capable of that?" Jay asked, he couldn't
understand the midget, but he could pretty much guess what he was on
about, particulary as his comments were emphasised further but
certain lewd gestures.
"look" he said "My guess is that they have the doors guarded heavily,
we won't be able to get in there without being riddled by machine gun
rounds, we need to think up a way of getting in there"
"PeRhApS!" said Satan/Phil in a scary devil voice "We CoUlD bLaSt
ThEsE mAcHiNeS iNtO sPaCe By OpEnInG aN eXtErNaL pOrTaL"?!
"You mean open the hangar bay doors?" Dean said, "That could work"
"Absolutley not" Jay said, not looking up from his portable navi-comp
in his hands. "For one thing they're robots, being blasted into a
vacumn won't affect them, they'll just flaot around until they come
across something else, and I'm not gonna be responsible for Mk.10
blowing a Schoolbus shuttle full of kids to pieces."
"Fair point"
"That, and I'm picking up human lifesigns in there, up on the
gantry."
"aNd?" asked the fallen angel.
"And I'm not a murderer Phillip"
"LUcIfEr"
"Sorry"
"YoU cAn CaLl mE lOuIe"
".....right..." Jay shook his head and pointed to his navi-
comp "Listen, you're lucky you've got the flight deck boss here, cos'
I've managed to tap into the mainframe of about the only shuttle in
that bay, not wired into the Dwarf's computer systems, where Mk.10
can't access it"
"Why it not connected?" Evil Phil asked.
"It hasn't been used in years, it's owner vanished and left it
behind, we stripped it of weapons and fuel and de-networked it."
"The Valkyrie!" Dean said in realisation.
"Exactly, it's no good for combat, but it's sensor's still work and
will give us a look of whats going on inside without alerting the
buckethead to it. Look, the image is patching through now"
The static on the screen faded and an image of what the Valkyrie
could "see" was shown on the portable computer in Jay's palm.
"You were right" Evil Phil said "They've got every entrance sealed."
"Not every one" Dean said
"He's right.." said Jay smirking..."Follow me"
****a few minutes later****
Everyone grabbed EMP grenades and Plasma rifles from the weapons
locker on the deck below, except Phil, who still believed he had demi-
god powers. This deck was where the Shuttle maintence workshops were,
and into each workshop was an elevator that transported the
spacecraft to and from the shuttlebays above. And it was the only
entrance that Mk.10 hadn't accounted for.
"We're gonna have to climb" Jay whispered "Up there" he pointed to
the starbug sized elevator shaft, "It's only one deck, but if we use
the lift, it make so much noise they'll know were coming."
Everyone nodded, and began to climb. Just before reaching the top,
Jay nodded to everyone else, who, holding on to lift cables with one
arm took out an EMP grenade with the other and hurled it over the rim
of the liftshaft.the waited for the tell-tale crackle of detonation
and hoisted themselves over the edge and dived for cover behind some
missile crates, unseen by the dazed machines.
"Now what?"
"Now, we split up in different directions and...."
"OOOH!!" Dean said excitedly, cutting off Jay midsentence. "MY
TOASTIE MAKER!!"
Dean had found his favourite utensil lying on the hangar bay floor.
It seemed to know he was there too, as it opened it's lid and
presented Dean with a piping hot Cheese, Ham and Pineapple
toastie."Thank you!" Dean said and reached for the food.
"Dean NO!" Jay and Evil Phil whispered
"EEE!" whispered Mini-Phil.
"Burp" went Phil.
It was too late, Dean grabbed the sandwich, and as he did so the
toaster slammed down on his hand, a horrible hissing sound coming of
it as it burned his hand. Dean tried to cry out, but Evil Phil
grabbed his mouth and gagged him with his hand. "sssssh! You'll ge
tus all killed!"
The sandwhich toaster let go. Dean whimpered, then noticed the
toaster was presenting him with the toastie again.
"that's more like it!" he said and reached for it again, the exact
same thing happening, only this time, Phil couldn't muzzle him in
time.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" yelled Dean.
Everyone's cringed as they heard the tell-tale whirring sound of
hundreds of scutter heads turning to face the direction Dean's cry
had come from. "IDIOT!" yelled Evil-Phil.
"KILL THEM!!!" yelled Mk.10
"FALL BACK!" Yelled Jay diving for the lift shaft, followed by
everyone else through showers of gunfire.
Everyone except one person.
The limp, bullet riddled body of Dean Thomas slumped over the edge of
the lift shaft and hit the deckplate with a sickening thud.
Mini and Evil Phil's grabbed him and dragged him over.
"DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" Jay yelled, and began firing off shots from
his handguns back up the lift shaft, being dragged away by Evil-Phil
who also smashed the emergency bulkhead button, sealing off the
elevator shaft.
Jay turned to his friend and dropped to his knees next to him.
"We've got to get him to the medi-bay!"
"Jay." Evil-Phil said "He's dead."
Jay looked down, Dean was still clutching the toastie.
"He went how he would have wanted...in battle, toastie in hand." Phil
said, sobering up enough to not think he was Satan anymore.
Jay got to his feet.
"First, he hurts my girlfriend." he said "Then, trashes my ship and
my flight deck...and now...he's killed one of my best friends. He's
gone too far."
He stormed toward the door.
"Where are you going"
"I'm going to finish this. Tonight."
<Tag Reuben, Dean's snuffed it!>