'Winter wonderland'

Who: Andy, Rosette
Where: Planet eBay
When: 2 hours after Actionette
Andy's hands shook as he practically wrestled with the controls on the
Blue Midget. The janitor's only experience with star craft of any kind
didn't end well. As it turns out, Microsoft flight simulator isn't the
best of teachers after all.
Hell, he didn't even have a driver's licence.
Still Andy felt that informing Rosette of this mid re-entry might not
be the best idea.
"Okay, where do you want me to land this flying brick?" The janitor
both asked and stated his confidence in the vehicle he was driving.
Rosette scowled as she waved her hand around and by extension, her
pistol. "I don't know, aren't you the hacker? Pick a vulnerable spot!"
"You mean you dragged me out here without any idea of what we're up
against?!" Whatever bright idea the cleaner had when he decided to
join her, suddenly didn't sound as convincing.
"Eyes on the skies, you idiot!!" The dangerous woman snapped as she
gripped the edges of her seat. Rosette pressed against her forehead
with her index and middle finger. "Just try and put us near an area
where we won't be spotted!" "We're in the middle of re-entry! The Blue
Midget is about as invisible as a red-painted Shaquille O'Neal in the
midst of Smurf Cosplay convention!!"
"Eyes on the skies!!"
Andy grabbed the controls once more with the roll of his eyes. The
janitor off-handily wondered if she was related to Amber in any way.
His eyes brushed over a key with the Blue Midget's feet extended
downwards. The janitor immediately activated the button the second the
red blaze around the cockpit subsided.
Two mechanical, but synchronised, sounds of hydraulics hummed in the
background as the feet go into position. A long skeletal line of
computer terminals, all covered in plasticine domes stretched outwards
in all directions. Andy would be lucky to land this thing even if he
was actually trained in this craft's use. Never the less, Andy did
find a spot on the ground.
A large house-like dome was nestled in the middle of the area. The
cleaner wrested the controls in that general direction as he eased
back on the throttle. Despite the pain in his chest slowly returning
he idly thought that perhaps he wasn't such a bad pilot after all.
Rosette was preparing to stand as the Blue Midget slowly came to a
halt. Just a few metres away from the landing it seemed liked things
where going well. That was until she realised the folly of letting a
man with grievous bodily injuries pilot.
Andy suddenly clutched his chest, letting out a pained groan before
slumping over the control panel.
The last thing that Andy remembered was the fellow stowaway letting
out a pipping scream before the craft lurched forward at top speed
into the ground and the domed-computers below.
~~
Who: Jed
Where: Blue Dwarf bridge
When: Simultaneous
Whatever his pay rate was (Calvert pretty much just sent it towards
his already sizeable bar-tab) he obviously wasn't getting enough for
his troubles. After rounding up the pirate crew and stuffing them into
a closest, which Holly promptly locked, the captain was immediately
beside upon by two simultaneous hailing frequencies.
His first mistake was putting them both on screen at the same time.
The Drive room's visor was bisected by two vertical pictures. One was
an elaborate military vessel, the tell-tale signs where the massive
multi-windowed bridge and the grim face that stared back at him.
Whereas the other seemed to have cracked open a window into another
dimension where everyone was gay- including the Blue Dwarf itself.
"Why hello sailor~!" The captain of the Pink Dwarf stated with an
unambiguously gay tone of voice. If Blue Dwarf was equipped with
photon torpedos he would have immediately launched them at the
offending craft.
"This is Major-General Chapman of the SS Oath-Keeper. Blue Dwarf, your
vessel has been found to be guilty of… -." The Major-General of the
military craft slowly tapered off as though he'd forgotten his own
military jargon. "Oh f*** it; I'm too old for this. Who the hell just
tried to pawn off your mining ship, and where the hell is Hal?!" Jed
almost jumped as the Lifer threw off all notions of civility.
The corner of the Texan's mouth curled into a sneer. "Simmer down,
that pirate has a smokin' hole in the side of his head. You know the
policy about Pirates aboard a JMC craft." Jed nodded to the laser
rifle in his hands. Thought sightly disappointed that he didn't have a
chance to do it himself.
"Oh dear! Well then, I'm afraid that JMC is going to have to put in a
full investigation about this! I wouldn't suppose that you didn't go
all out on the testosterone and kill everyone did you?" Thought still
unwaveringly camp, it seems that no-one could accuse Captain of the
Pink Dwarf for being incompetent.
The Military commander turned to his left as though he could actually
see the Gay captain. "No ones doing anything until we've apprehended
the hacker known as Hal."
Jed gritted his teeth. This was going to take a while.
~~
Who: Chapman
Where: SS Oath-Keeper
When: Seconds later
Suddenly a voice called out to the Major-General. One of the ensigns
had picked up a ship leaving the Blue Dwarf's hangers. "Andy…" Chapman
rolled the Janitor's name over his tongue.
Chapman turned back to the screen. "I apologise Captain… Jed I
believe, but I have an urgent development to attend to upon the
surface of Planet eBay. Lieutenant Piqué, be a good lad and handle
this for me will you?" With that he left the bridge.
The scrawny, ragged Piqué stumbled up to the plate with obvious
nervousness. "I erm… I will carry on for the captain for the rest of
negotiations. What is… erm… what are JMC's desires for this situation,
P-Pink Dwarf?"
The Captain of the Pink Dwarf immediately let out a wolfish grin. "Oh,
I'm here to help sailor!"
~~
Who: Andy, Rosette
Where: Planet eBay, RAM Fields
When: 30 Minutes after crash
Andy Roos found himself awoken by a pair of arms thrashing him up and
down by his jacket wings. Not wise thing to do when you had a chest
injury.
"Andy! Andy!! Are you still alive?!" Rosette was immediately in his
face the second he let out a pained groan.
"Let me die." The cleaner mutter back, the mercenary immediately
dropped him and dragged over a space suit. It was minus 40 degrees out
there and she wasn't moving until they both had protection.
"Can you stand?" Rosette pried. "Yes… I think." Andy looked around the
room in a daze hoping for a familiar first aid kit with those sweet,
sweet pain killers inside. "Good, then you can dress yourself. Put on
his suit and hurry up about it."
However when she turned she saw the suit still on the floor and the
janitor tearing open the wall-mounted medical kit. A plastic pop
sounded and whereupon he scarfed down the 2 cm bottle of painkillers
like M&Ms.
"Andy, put the suit on or else I'll make more holes in you!!" Rosette
threatened, waving her knife at him. Should Andy have been intimidated
by her he sure as hell hid it well as he strolled over and pulled the
suit on.
"Now if you're done with your pill popping, then hurry up and get to
terminal so we can hopefully stop Blue Dwarf from belonging to some
fat nerd. I'm staying here to try and repair the Midget."
Andy nodded as he wiped his mouth for an unknown reason and popped his
helmet on and stepped out into snow storm. It wasn't raging but it
wasn't exactly something you wanted to stay in for a long period of time.
The hissing the suit's life-support and the billowing snow in front
only digged the point home even further of his lack of ability to
sense hot and cold. His suit was the only thing keeping him alive.
"And when you get back, I'M driving!" Rosette snapped before slamming
the door shut behind him.
"… You try driving with a hole in your stomach some time." Andy
muttered before trudging away into the snow fields.
<Not entirely sure what she'd do, but tag Rosette away!>