Andy & Rosette - "Enter Insanity"
Consider this a well returned shot. No service ace for you i'm afraid.
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Rosette's head snapped to her side as the face of something that could
only be described as a cross between a Viking, a geisha girl and a mop
appeared on screen and began to cackle maniacally.
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As soon as the head had appeared, Rosette turned to Andy. "That was
you, wasn't it?" she asked, not really needing the answer. In the
distance, a hologramatic man in a brown robe wandered down the path
past them, heading towards the tractor beam control centre.
"That was you as well, wasn't it?" she asked again. The holo-Andy
grinned, and could hardly stop himself from laughing. As they got
towards the launch bay, Rosette began to lose grip on the floor, and
took off.
"Uhh... Whats going on?" she asked, grabbing hold of a well placed
handlebar. She pushed herself down, and glided slowly to the floor,
which she touched, and bounced back up. Everyone in the Pink Dwarf
would now be floating, and preparing to fall back to the ground...
Which didn't happen.
In the distance, Rosette could see the real form of Andy floating
slowly towards the only Starbug... which was pink.. that was still on
the ground. As he got closer to it, he touched the floor, and began
walking normally.
"Andy!" she called from above. "Get me down from here!" she added,
trying to grab hold of anything she could use to get back to the
floor. As she too got closer to the starbug, the gravity kicked back
in, and she fell. She screamed as she saw the metal floor get closer
and closer, very quickly. Landing on her back, she lay there,
wheezing for a minute or two, before Andy decided to come out and help
her in.
"Are you ok?" he asked as she lay down on the floor inside the 'Bug.
She turned to face him, and growled. She was winded too much to
manage anything more than that.
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"GET ME THE SPACE CORPS!" Admiral patterson yelled, a floating ensign
flailed his arms out enough to touch the buttons on a control pad, and
the picture of Chapman appeared on the screen in front of them.
He laughed.
"Hahaha, I had no idea you were so inept to lose your gravity!" he
bawled. Patterson crossed his arms in a very camp way.
"I'll have you know that someone has sabbotaged out ship." he said,
losing his usual flair. Chapman stopped laughing for a second.
"Hal.. you couldn't have..." he said, turning on the screen to face
one of his subordinates. "CHANGE HEADING! get us to that ship!" he
yelled. Patterson smiled weakly. "You need to get the Blue Dwarf
back to Earth. We will sort out this problem, and get back on our
way." he finished, ending the transmission. He tried to swim through
the air, but ended up looking like a little girl that had never had
lessons, just splashing around for fun. He ended up floating further
away from his chair, getting angrier and angrier.
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"So... " Rosette began, having recovered by now. "You did all of
this?" she asked. Andy turned around in the pilots chair. "yep! I
unlocked the Blue Dwarf too. We'll be back on our way in no time." he
said, cracking his knuckles painfully, and turning back to the controls.
"Now. We have another slight problem..." he said, pointing out of the
window, towards the exit of the Pink Dwarf. The view outside was like
a merry-go round. Colours span faster than a rainbow coloured
fairground ride.
The Pink Dwarf itself was spinning through space uncontrollably.
Backflips and barrel rolls were only the start of the stunts it was
about to perform. Unfortunately, this made it very hard for the duo
to exit the ship without its head or tail spinning around to smash
into them.
"Strap yourself in." Andy said, but in the noise outside, Rosette
turned to him with a frightened look on her face.
"Did you say 'strap in', or 'strap on'?" she asked, as a giant
strap-on hologram appeared in the middle of the launch bay.
"Yes." Andy said, before lifting off slowly. They powered their way
out of the ship, heading back towards the Big Blue.
"LOOK OUT!" Rosette yelled, as the aforementioned tail of the Pink
Dwarf spun towards them....
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