'It's a trap!'
Who: Andy, Kara
Where: Space station
When: Half an hour later
"Where're we heading?" Andy called ahead.
"To a ship; we're leaving." Kara responded. Every door way or entrance
she came to, Kara immediately stuck the business end of a
'requestioned' laser rifle down. Had the janitor not been currently
not fighting for his life he would have found the proud woman skipping
(she called it 'strafing') down a hall quite amusing.
"Good to know. I was thinking that we didn't have a plan. Heaven
forbid." The janitor responded while scratching his head.
"Oh I get it. This is revenge right?" The hard-light hologram
responded with a jovial glower.
"Possibly, I forgot how fun it was to complain." He replied with a
slight grin.
Kara rolled her eyes before giving her gun a loud, satisfying crock.
"Well don't worry. I may have been a pilot but I was still I solider;
behind enemy lines training and such."
Andy's ear perked up and threw a glace down at the corridor behind
him. "What is it?" Kara asked, flicking the safety off the gun. "A
noise-...a heavy clanking; what was attacking the station again?" The
recent engineer queried, jabbing a thumb behind him.
"Robots- get behind." Kara quickly and quietly stalked to his flank.
Her eyes where immediately steely and focused.
"You know I could help a lot more if you gave me a gun..." Andy added
wistfully.
"I did." The hologram stated flatly. "Remember? You said you've used a
bazookiod before and 'added how hard could it be?' You shot me in the
face immediately after!!"
"Hey! That was just a misfire!" Andy replied apologetically.
"You shot me four times!!" The woman was understandably annoyed, hard
lights were practically invincible but they could still feel pain.
"Erm... would you believe target practice?" He knew it was a lost
argument.
"Shut up and watch for exits." Kara snapped before moving forward.
~~
"Grand Master Tux?" A yowling voice asked.
"Ah! 'tis Scuffles of the Ensign rank! What joyful have you for me
this day?" A squawking voice returned.
"Erm... yes... just popped, no... That is to say... came- NO! I just
joined... *sigh*. I'm here to say that one of the 'seeded' had arrived
on the ship." The orange tabby stated in an exasperated tone.
"Joys upon joys; dispatch a quartet of men-at-arms to their
placement!! Remember to do him no harm! Ohhhh... this day we shall see
a new mark of-."
"Master Tux?" Scuffles asked once more, giving his massive collar a
scratch.
"Yes?" The penguin squawked, reaching for the bog roll.
"Next time when you want a message delivered to you urgently I'll wait
a bit... you know when you're not... yeah... on the loo."
~~
"Andy, get down!" Kara yelled before shoving the janitor into a
hallway. A half second later a scream of laser fry shot out from the
end of the rifle.
"What's happening?!" Andy replied, ducking down at the wall.
The hologram looked back at him as though he'd grown a second head.
"I'm taking place in a gun shy, only the coordinator decided to even
things up by giving the ducks some level 4 laser guns!"
"Okay! I'm sorry I asked!" Andy muttered apologetically.
"You're still here?! Run, you idiot!!" Kara snapped before charging
forward to meet here opponents in hand-to-hand combat... or is that
hand-to-holo combat?
Andy shoved off the wall and sprinted down dark corridor.
The last thing he remembered seeing was an orange cat with a Frisbee
around its head.
~~
The Janitor slowly and groggily opened his eyelids.
The first thing he noticed was gapping hole of space in front of him.
Fortunately a window separated him from hard vacuum. Interceptors and
bombers buzzed around a slowly disintegrating space station. Next time
he saw Holly he was going to ask for some kind of immunity pills to
paralysis.
Andy's eyes wandered. His arms, legs and mid-waist were firmly secured
onto a cold metal block.
A slow whirring sound assaulted his ears as the slab he was tied down
to slowly turned to a position directly behind.
His vision panned around, catching a sight of a massive battleship's
bridge. However he couldn't really see anyone manning it. In fact it
looked like a zoo was on board and all the occupants had escaped.
Only one from the 'small flightless birds' section was staring
directly at him.
"Greetings... Andrew Roos!" The penguin spoke in human tongue (he'd
better ask for immunity to hallucinogens too). "I bid thee welcome to
the Krylon flagship 'axolotl'!"
<To be continued...>
OOC: HA HA HA!! Precursor to exposition!