*Action* How many more times....

<snip>
A screen nearby clicked itself on.
"Christopher John Zodar. You live near Engineering. Well, I say live –
you haven't in a while. Welcome back, mate." Holly said emphatically.
"Holly, right?" Zodar asked for confirmation, to which the head on
screen nodded as best it could. Zodar's memory was slowly starting to
come back, and a familiar face had jogged it.
"Not so great to be back; at least not at the moment. Can you give me
directions? I can't remember much."
"No problem." Replied Holly, and the remaining screens on the
promenade changed to display arrows pointing in the direction of
Engineering.
<snip>
"Sorry if I've been a bit out of sorts lately" Jay said to Katrina in the
corridor outside engineering as she was about to start her morning shift.
"I guess it's having Captaincy thrust on me, then having all these alternate
Blue Dwarves show up..and then..well..you know.."
"I know." Katrina replied "I understand, I wouldn't want to be in your
shoes. Just don't go leaving me for Alota ok?"
"Not gonna happen" Jay said, reassuringly, "She's my past. I've moved on,
sure, these last few day's haven't been easy but, I love you. That's all
that matters."
"Thanks." Salter said with a smile. "I gotta go to work, with Callum off the
ship fixing P.E.N.I.S.es and K.N.O.B.'s, we're busier in engineering than
usual, I lo...." Katrina stopped mid sentence, looking over Jay's shoulder
at the approaching, slime coated, man. Jay turned to see what she was
looking at.
"What the hell happened to you crewman?" Jay said, formally "Wait a
minute..Chris? Chris Zodar?"
Zodar looked at Jay, then to Katrina, then back to Jay with bewilderment in
his eyes.
"....I know you!" he said after a moment "You're that pilot,
right?...Kayn....Kayn Bestrom??"
"I oughta send you to the brig for that..." Jay said, insulted "If it wasn't
so damn good to see you."
"Er...ok.." said Zodar in response, not really sure what to make of it.
"You really don't recognise me do you?" Jay asked, genuinely hurt.
"I don't...really remember much.."
"Then you're not going to engineering, you're going to the medi-bay."
Zodar visibly flinched, he didn't know why, but something about the medi-bay
scared him.
"Don't worry" Katrina said in response to this "Doctor Keto's not aboard"
Zodar relaxed, still not knowing why he reacted so, but nodded his
acknowledgment that he was better off seeking medical help.
"Ok..." he said and began to walk off in the wrong direction before pausing,
and turning around to face the couple "erm..how do I get there?"
"Come on" Jay said "I'm on my way to the drive room, it's on my way I'll
take you there."
"Bing bong" came Holly's voice suddenly "Message for Captain Chrysler"
Holly's face was replaced with that of Dean, in the drive room. "Jay. We got
a problem.."
"What?"
"Something's coming through the rift?"
"More Blue Dwarves? So? Usual procedure..."
"No sir, not Blue Dwarves. I don't recognise it..."
Jay could feel the panic trying to set in.
"We've just been hailed by Captain Chrysler...that it, Alota from
BD#17...she says it's the Thorax....."
"Dean, I want every away team recalled immediatley, contact as many of the
Blue Dwarf captains as you can, try to get them on-side...and launch every
ship we can spare to attack the Thorax...."
**Moments Later**
A wing of Space Eagles hurtled toward the recently emerged Thorax, most of
them were from Blue Dwarf Prime as Jay had been quickest to react but there
was a handful from BD#17 and several other ships whom Dean had managed to
make contact with. They flew past an unrecognised ship which bore the
moniker "Green Leprechaun" and scanned as having a Gelf and a midget as the
only lifeforms aboard, before forming up and opening fire on the Thorax.
The thorax in turn responded by opening it's forward hangar bay and spewing
out a torrent of Hymenoptera ships to intercept which made short work of the
attacking squadron.
A few Blue Dwarve's near to the emergence point must have seen this as they
too opened fire with whatever weaponry they carried, but this didn't so much
as make the Thorax slow down, whose missile batteries sent countless salvos
of missles into the offending ships.
"DAMMIT JAY!" Alota said over the comm between their respected ships "I TOLD
YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!"
"Jay!" said Mk.10 from the tactical console "We're getting messages from
over a dozen Blue Dwarve's..."
"Put one through"
"This is an S.O.S from the JMC Blue Dwarf - designation #5647, or, as that
Justin bloke called us "The Dwarf with the best porn", we have been boarded,
the hymenoptera have taken our captain...we've suffered heavy losses...."
"Another one, Ten" Jay said to the robot.
"Hello! Someone please help! This is Captain Seymour Niples of the JMC Blue
Dwarf, designation #23, I really think we should be Blue Dwarf #1 what with
us having far less chavs and far more expensive wine than the rest of you
folk, and nicer suits, oh, and we have pretty little doilies on all of our
coffee tables..."
"Get to the point Seymour" Jay snapped. He was in no mood for Niples.
"We've been boarded by the insectoids! They've taken our Chief of
Navigation!"
"They all say the same sir" Mk.10 said "They've all been boarded and have
had a crew member taken hostage....every ships' version of...well..you"
"Me?"
"aye sir..they seem to be targetting your counterparts."
"Then he IS aboard the Thorax..."
"Would seem so...but why is he capturing them and not just killing them?"
"I don't know, but whatever the reason, we have to stop him"
"CHRYSLER TO ALL BD PRIME UNITS, Your first priority is to keep yourselves
alive, second, find a way to stop...EVIL JAY.."
<tag to anyone - the Hymenoptera are boarding every Blue Dwarf that they can
and killing anyone who stands in their way from capturing that ship's
version of Jay - for reasons to be revealed later. How are ya gonna handle
'em guys? Do what you need to, but don't destroy the Thorax...yet....>