**Actionette** "eBay Magic"

**actionette posted with authorisation from Onion!**
Who: Boris, Rosette, some random NPC's, and a little of a couple of
other people.
Where: BD
When: Following from previous post by myself.
Rosette stood by the console for a minute, until Holly came back.
"Sorry, I can't get hold of him. -" he began, but Rosette had left
already, she had no time to listen to Holly's explanations. She ran
back to Boris' room, and snuck back into the bed without waking him.
Outside, the Giant Blue vessel drifted slowly through the gap in the
nebula that surrounded the Neuveau Terran sector. Small patrol ships
scanned the giant vessel as it approached, and left it to its path.
Small ships that were passing between planets had to move out of the
way for the giant craft, which seemingly didn't care for anything in
the area. Boris got up, and snuck out before Rose could wake up this
time, and sat in the Captains chair, a computer in front of him.
He navigated to Firefox, and loaded eBay.uni, the universal version of
eBay. Since the neauveau Terran sector had been created, the entire
workforce of eBay relocated to this sector, and set up their own
planet. It was small, but it had enough power and money to do almost
anything. Boris set up a new auction, setting the item to be sold as
'The JMC Blue Dwarf'. As soon as he started, the price had rocketed
from $£0.99 up to a staggering $£1,000,000,000,000. Boris smiled
happily, and waited. There were 3 more days until the auction ended.
3 more days which the remaining crew had left to save the Blue Dwarf.
Eventually, Rosette woke up, and got dressed. She wondered where
Boris had gone, and slowly walked to the Drive Room. Keeping up
appearances, she put her arms over the back of the captains chair,
onto Boris' shoulders, and watched his computer screen as he hit
Refresh every so often. "You're selling it on eBay?" she asked,
confused. "Surely you'd be able to get more if you sold it to someone
that hates this ship..." she suggested, her hair was a mess, and she
looked about as unprofessional and very much not badass today.
Nonetheless, everyone else in the Drive room treated her as the 2nd in
command of this place. She tossed around an idea in her head that
maybe she'd be able to set up a mutiny...
"With that kind of money... I could do whatever I wanted..." she said
to herself, but shook off the idea straight away, blaming her time
with the bad guys. Boris laughed quietly. "There's a group of
Ffionians winning so far." he said, pushing the computer away. Every
second, Rosettes mind went over a different way to kill him. Rosette
stood up straight, and left the Drive room. She wanted to see her
friends, to sort something out, and warn them of what was happening.
She headed straight to the science decks, no grunts following her, she
did a ew loops sections of the ship to be sure she wasn't being followed.
The Turbolift opened on the science decks, there were scorch marks on
the walls, and broken glass everywhere. Slowly, she walked up to
Rufus' lab, which would normally have a locked door. This was no
different to normal, as the door was indeed locked. She knocked
carefully a few times, and waited. And waited... And waited.
Eventually, the door opened, but Rufus was sat facing the door with a
rifle of some kind, and Efof was with him, holding two such guns, one
above the other. Rosette stood there in silence for a second, before
stepping in.
"Uhh.. you can put the guns down guys..." she said, but they didn't.
Rufus looked disappointed, and that made Rosette feel unhappy. She
sank to the floor, and looked up at them both. "You think i'm on
their side, don't you?" she asked, Rufus didn't say anything, but
Efof, being his usual self didn't stop to think of what he was saying.
"Yeah! Andy told us you captured him for them!" he said, not letting
his weapons down. Rosette undid the buckle on her knives, and let
them fall to the floor.
"please, Rufus... I did it to give you a chance to escape..." she
said, standing in front of them. Rufus put his gun down, and Efof
followed suit.
Rosette sighed, and flung herself at Rufus, hugging him tightly. "I
missed you.." she said, a tear rolling down her cheek. She let go of
him, and stood up. "If you still don't believe me, you can search me
if you want." she said, smiling and winking at Rufus. He blushed, and
cleared his throat. "I think we have something more important to do
here..." he said, trying to clear his mind.
"Awww, you're no fun." she said jokingly, following him to the nearby
table, which had been completely cleared, to make room for a 3d
hologram map of the ship. As soon as it appeared, Rosette shook off
the feeling of amazement, and turned serious.
"Boris sleeps in this room." she said, pointing to the room she'd been
in for alot of last night. "He's put the ship up on eBay, and
apparently some Ffionians have got the highest bid right now..." she
said, looking over the map.
"eBay?" Rufus asked, "are we in the neauveau terran sector then?" he
asked, having not had the chance to check any of the external sensor
equipment. "Yeah, we're coming up to planet eBay soon." she said,
looking towards the door. "I can't be certain that i wasn't followed,
but i did everything i could to lose anyone that was following me..."
she said, walking towards the door. "I'm going to try and kill Boris
some time soon, the moment i get a clear shot that i can blame on
someone else." she said, pressing the open button. "I have to go, I
don't want to stay away too long... they might get suspicious." she
said, turning to face Rufus again. She walked back to him, and put an
arm around him. "stay safe, ok?" she said, before kissing his cheek,
and leaving with her knives.
She stood looking into the room, at Rufus as she pushed the button to
close and lock the room, before running back to her apartment. She
needed a new shirt, and a shower to remove the disgusting feeling
she'd had on her since the night.
"Boris, I swear I am going to kill you." she said to herself as she
got into the shower. Meanwhile, Boris was savouring a glass of wine
that he'd swiped from Seymour's most expensive storage section.
"Soon, I'll be rid of these, and I'll have enough money to buy my own
planet." he said, laughing evilly. None of the hired grunts knew he'd
be selling them as part of the deal, slaves to go with the ship.
<tag people, we really need to do something about this! Fight back
against them, get captured to be able to talk to Rosette about the
plan, or just to be safe. People on the planet, hold tight! we'll
come to get you as soon as we can!>