Water Parks and Mutiny.

Katrina opened the door to the quarters she shared with Jay. "Hi,
come in" she said to the visitor "He'll be glad you made it"
"Rather more glad than I, I imagine!" snapped Doctor Keto back, and
shoved his jacket into Katrina's arms, brushing her aside as he
entered, and made his way into the lounge.
"Good" said Jay, looking up from an armchair, "You're here"
"What's this about Chrysler?" Keto replied, taking a seat when
gestured to by Jay, and taking a drink handed to him by Katrina.
Scattered around the rest of the room were several other crew
members. In his message inviting these particular members of the
crew he had described them as "important", which was really the only
reason Keto had agreed to show up. He looked around, to see Chris
Harris, Phil FeBuggure – his recent disappearance still unexplained
(CHRIS!!), Callum Kochanski, Mk. 10, Dante Wendigo Seymour Niples –
who was muttering something about the lack of a coaster, and a doily
to put under it, and the fact that his wine was bought at
Sainsbury's for half price, along with a few other department heads
and senior crew.
"Thanks for coming everyone" Jay said, pouring himself a drink as he
did so. "I called you here becau…."
"'Ang on.." said Phil, "You didn't call me here….I was already here
ready to watch the football and have a few beers like we do every
Tuesday!"
"Yes…I know but…"
"So you weren't going to invite me to this!?!"
"Phil..wait…"
"Why not? I embarrass you? Is that it?"
"Don't be so…"
"Not good enough to be invited round when you're `work friends' are
here!"
"YOU'RE a work friend!!"
"I thought I was your best mate! And you don't even invite me round
for a party…"
Jay by this point had his head in his hands. "Phil…"
"Well, I know when I'm not wanted…"
"Phil"
"I'll be off!"
"Phil.."
"And don't come crawling back to me when.."
"PHIL!!!!"
Phil stopped for a moment, he had got up from his seat, collected
his coat and was stood by the door ready to leave. He bit his bottom
lip and gave Jay a cold stare. Eventually he
spoke, "…..yeeeeeaaaaas?" he said, venom prevalent in his voice.
"I didn't invite you because I knew you were already coming….."
"…Oh…"
"Sit down.."
"….ok….."
"Have a beer…"
"….right…."
"And let me tell everyone what this is about"
"…..sure….." Phil attempted to re-take his seat only to find it now
filled with the underside of Mk.10's chassis. "'Scuse me…" he
said "You're in my seat…"
"But you got up…" said Mk.10.
"You don't have any legs! Why do you need a seat?"
"Are you being racist?"
"No..no..I just….." Phil gave up and resigned himself to sitting on
the floor.
"RIGHT!" Jay said again, "Now that we've all quite finished being
insane, I called you people here because you're perhaps considered
the most prominent people aboard this ship, and I recently
discovered some news that will affect all of us."
"What?" said Phil "Is it good news? Are they opening a water park on
the promenade?"
Everyone stared at Phil intently.
"Are they?" he said, less convincingly this time.
Jay continued.
"Due to Calvert's actions since becoming captain of the ship, the
JMC have decided to recall the Blue Dwarf, and re-crew it."
"And us?" Mutted Keto.
"It isn't clear" Mk.10 offered "But it seems to suggest that we'll
all be let go."
"Preposterous!" spluttered Seymour, spraying red wine across Jay's
carpet, and giving Katrina a look of contempt when she tried to
sponge it off, as though she had no business being concerned with a
carpet that wasn't made from the finest wool.
"I'm the Royal Ambassador to her majesty the queen!" he continued
"Royal ambassador without a ship to "ambass" from" Dante pointed
out. "Don't sound a very useful job…can't see any reason why
Britanny would keep you on!"
"That's HER MAJESTY to you!"
"This affects each and every one of you." Jay said again "Can any of
you imagine the Space Corp giving us new assignments after we all
blindly followed a madman? Chris, do you really want to end up as a
security guard at Tescos? Callum, I'm sure you don't want to end up
fixing vending machines and Keto, I KNOW you won't be happy being in
charge of the first aid kit at Lidl."
"If we let Jed, carry on down this road it will only lead to bad
things for the rest of us."
"This is ridiculous!" said Keto "If we were being recalled we'd have
heard about it."
"Would we?" Jay said "Think about it. He hasn't told us, because he
has no intention of turning himself in. He's gonna go on the run
from the Corp. Which will lead to docking embargo's on us, which
will mean no way to stock up on supplies, which will lead to him
turning to Piracy to survive. Personally, I can't live with that on
my conscience"
"What do you propose we do about it?" Callum asked "If the JMC have
made up their mind, we're not gonna be able to change it"
Jay was quiet for a second. "I suggest…." He took a sip from his
beer "That we mutiny."
"WHAT?!" said everyone in unison.
"You heard me. We mutiny, we turn Jed in. We walk out of this with
our jobs, our lives and our morals."
Everyone was silent.
"I don't need an answer now. Go away, think about it. Let me know in
48 hours. Once I have some of you on board, I'll try to recruit some
more people to our cause. One way or another, I'm turning Jed in"
"So.." said Phil "no water park?"
<tag people, what's it gonna be?>