READ- 'Do a Barrel-roll... OF DEATH!'

Who: Dysart
Where: In transit to Blue Dwarf/ Insect collision
When: 30 minutes after previous post
"Opening channel to... JMC station alpha" Dysart mumbled outloud while
he flicked through the Starbug's interface. True to his word, the
joints in Dysart's arms seemed far more lithe than usual. Still that
was saying that a tortoise was faster than a turtle by virtue of
having legs.
In the weeks alone and bored (and unable to clean a damn thing) he
killed time by learning how to fly a standard craft using the
holoboothes. The only catch was that he'd never actually had physical
experience in doing so.
"This is station Alpha, go ahead Recovery-1." The operator horsed back
through the speakers.
"I've got the mining vessal, designation '17' in sight. I'm just one
click off the port bow, orders?" The AI's 'eyes' scanned the vessal
which currently resembled a rhinorus beetle that had rammed up the
back of a giant blue dildo.
"Scan the insectazoid vessal, we installed advanced scanners onboard
your ship so relay the information back ASAP."
"Sure... uh... it's displaying 'Z.O.M.G, hymen-opera craft.' What the
hell is a hymen opera?!"
"Oh my God... not again. Hey-! Ensign, get to SC high command
immedately and update them of the situation. Dysart- are you still
there?!"
"Yes...? Is this Hymen-thing something I should know about?"
"Uhhh... if you don't know about it son then you're better off not
knowing. Now double time it and get Lt. Yuwan'Kar extracted
immediately. Station Alpha out!"
Dysart's head jerked back as a noisy crunch barked from the other end
of the radio. He wasn't a fan of horror movies but even he could see
the writing on the wall, his survivability factor just dropped by
half. "I know this is bad idea but..." Efof was down there. Although
cognitively he didn't care much for the guy but even if he didn't he
didn't have a choice.
The JMC was pulling his strings whether he liked it or not.
Dysart reigned the vessel into a steady decent for the Blue Dwarf's
pock-marked docking bay.
The funny thing about machines is that they can fail at any time.
Never more was this more obvious to Dysart than when he touched the
throttle with the intent to slow down when his hand spasmed and
instead shoved it forward.
Had he a bladder he'd have pissed himself by now.
The Starbug's engines roared to life like a lion that had just been
clubed with a wheeljack and spurred him forward like the twat that was
now running from said lion. While his stable hand wrenched the craft
off to starboard it would've never stopped the momentium he'd built
up. Within six seconds his cockpit brought him to within three metres
of an closed blast door.
A massive explosion rattled in his mechanical mind while his sensors
gave off enough beams of sezure-inducing power to make any japanese
robot feel inadaqute.
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<snip>
Efof wondered in his simple little mind what the exterior of this
Blue Dwarf now looked like, with this monster ripping through floors
and pushing bulkheads out of alignment. It probably had severe bulges
that the monster had pushed out.
It's mandibles clicked and the giant insect prepared to crash down
into them.....
<end snip>
Efof's shoulder's seized up while Amber seized him by said elbows and
lanked him back. Rosette, already out of the insect's kill zone opened
up on the beast- flakes of chitinous armour blasted off with every
shot but it'd never take it down in time.
The Hymenoptrea heaved down in front of them with a cittering sigh,
causing the metal underneath them to tremor at the sudden increase of
weight.
While dragging a half kicking Efof away, Amber's ears perked up at the
sound of a engine rev up and blast in the flight deck that they'd just
passed.
Her widening eyes flicked back to Rosette. "Rose, hit the deck!!" She
yelled at her compatriot. The blue haired mercenary spared her a
bewildered glace before she simply turned tail and ran from the bug
that was quickly getting it's smeg together. Amber let out a growl of
frustation as she grabbed Efof by the back of the head and dove down
to the floor.
Not a second too soon either.
With an ear-piercing rush of sound the doors of the flight deck were
torn open like a sheet of tin and the ship-beetle crushed by
barrelrolling Starbug broad-siding parralell to the corridor at full
speed.
The hymenopteran let out a death screech but was swiftly drowned out
by the sound of the starbug's still-screaming engines which only help
splatter the remains of the creatures across the walls and floor.
Multiple localised explosions cracked at the back of the Starbug as
the shattered engines and generator blew with a hearty pop.
Amber's eyes fluttered open as she noticed an remarkably wet feeling
up along her back. Her left hand gingerly lifted up and brushed her
shoulder blades.
"Ewww..." She blanched at the bug guts pasted all over her exposed
clothing. With a grunt she bunched the back of Efof's shirt and
dragged him to his feet.
She looked over to Rosette, fortunatly she was only dased and hadn't
been hit with shrapnel as she thought.
Amber cast her gaze at the carnage behind her. Whatever happened to
that starbug that sent it out of control... well... if it hadn't then
there was a serious chance that thing would've caught up with them
eventually.
The Starbug was nestled in the remains of the Hymenopteran, although
it would never fly again it still recognisable for what it once was.
At first she thought it was just shock, she rubbed her eyes and looked
again.
"No... that's... that's not possible."
From the crushed craft's shattered cockpit a flickering figure goofily
stumbled towards them.
A holographic projector desperatly laboured to display an unstable
picture of a man dressed in a Blue Dwarf sports tracksuit over the
struggling metallic skeleton.
Amber shoved Efof behind her while she snapped up her pistol and aimed
shakily at the approaching robot's head- which was no easy task thanks
to it's small size.
"Identify yourself!" She called out to the machine.
"... ... Recovery-1..." The robot mumbled before collapsing.
<Tagging anyone in the corridor>
OOC: Que the 'A-team' theme song
Oh yeah READ = 'R'osette, 'E'fof, 'A'mber, 'D'ysart- just so you know.