Promoted Pancake causes a problem in the P.E.N.I.S
Who: Lester Seventeen-Dot-Phelps and Justin Pancake
Where: Blue Dwarf, Corridor Nivelo 5, at the back of some adult
entertainment shop
When: A week after the promotions
Technician 1st Class Lester Seventeen-Dot-Phelps studied the
blueprints in front of him with much scrutiny. He had been assigned to
repairing the Plasma Enticing Nuclear Induction System which for some
reason had it's main control panel at the back of an Adult
Entertainment shop which was a bit too risqué for the Promenade.
Lester decided that this was a very stupid place to put the main
control panel for the Plasma Enticing Nuclear Induction System, or
just a really annoying place to put an Adult Entertainment shop. He
wondered which had been here first and decided it was probably the shop.
"What you doing buddy?" A voice asked. He turned around to see the
much annoying face of Justin Pancake.
"I'm fixing this."
"What. Show me."
"I'm fixing it, don't worry about it."
But Justin was insistent. "Please show me. I'm an engineer now, what
if I need to fix it in the future? I need you to show me!"
Lester sagged his shoulders in frustration. He didn't want the have to
explain the whole thing, it would take too long. "Have you read the
manual for the Plasma Enticing Nuclear Induction System?" he asked.
Justin's face was blank. "I was supposed to read it?"
"Yes, when you became an engineer!"
"Oh. No. You mean I have to do work and stuff?"
Lester groaned.
"Whats it called again?"
"The Plasma Enticing Nuclear Induction System."
"Oh. You mean P.E.N.I.S?"
Lester groaned again, and nodded. Justin laughed at the acronym.
"Thats just silly, how am I supposed to take that seriously?"
"Because..." started Lester. "If you don't take it seriously, and you
align it incorrectly, it might create a feedback in the Plasma
Enticer, which feeds Nuclear energy into the Drive Plates and we all
die. Horribly."
Justin shrugged. "It'll never happen. What's this?" He pointed to a
glowing object about the size of his hand.
"That is the kinetically neutralised octagonal battery." Lester said.
"Don't touch it."
But it was too late, Justin had removed the object from it's housing
and started throwing it up in the air. "Kinetically Neutralised
Octagonal Battery? This just gets better and better!"
Lester snatched it off him. "Don't touch it! You're a useless Engineer!"
Lester placed it back into the slot where it came from, then backed
away quickly. Sparks flew from the Kinetically Neutralised Octagonal
Battery and the whole thing glowed unhealthily.
Justin's eyes widened. "You did that, not me."
"I did not!"
"Is it going to blow up?"
"I'm not sure." Said Lester.
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