Pancake gets shot at

Who: Justin, Callum and Lester
Where: Blue Dwarf 388
When: Just after Justin killed Kryten
Callum looked at Lester, and Lester looked back. Then he took out his
radio and signalled their Blue Dwarf. "Requesting Security, we've got
a crewmember who keeps trying to kill us – WAIT!" Callum shouted
because Justin has turned and ran.
Justin ran as fast as he could down away from Lester and Callum.
Callum fired the bazukoid twice, sending explosions off near his head.
But Justin had too much experience of running away from things, and he
soon disappeared from their view.
Justin ran as fast as he could down the corridors of Blue Dwarf #388,
and pushed over several of the crew who didn't have any arms or legs.
Surprisingly instead of falling over, their torsos wobbled back up to
an upright position, like a weeble would.
Tears filled his eyes as he ran. He really didn't like the way things
were turning out, what with his own crew trying to shoot at him and
all. He hadn't been on the Blue Dwarf for long, admittedly, but he'd
started to gain a few friends... well... more like annoy people until
he ground them down enough for them to mildly tolerate him. He had
started to like it, life on the Blue Dwarf was a bit of a doss.
Normally he could get away without doing much work, and get paid a low
but reasonable salary.
Alarm sirens rang out, and the lights flickered between normal and
red. He assumed this must mean that Callum and Lester had warned the
local crewmembers about him, from their point of view a potential
murderer on the loose. But from his point of view he was totally innocent.
He ran into a room, it seemed to be a large science room for testing
out new mining implements. He turned and stopped.
Twenty security officers had bazukoids pointed at him. Some of them
were the local crewmembers who had no hands, and seemed to hold their
guns in their mouths. But the rest were security from his own ship,
presumably called by Callum and Lester to capture him. Security Chief
Chris Harris stepped forward and pointed.
"Fire!" He called.
Justin's life passed before his eyes. It was rubbish.
He flinched and heard the sound of twenty bazukoids firing all at
once, reloading and then firing again. He felt each shot pass straight
past his body.
Then he looked up. Past his body?
He turned around to see a horde of insects behind him, coming out of a
hold in the wall. Through the wall he caught a glimpse into the
landingbay where several craft shaped like Scorpions had landed.
Justin ducked and let the security do their shooting. And when it was
over he crawled over to them.
"Good shooting guys. And thanks for covering me back there."
Callum stepped forward through the line of troops. "Harris, arrest him!"
"Oh bloody hell" said Justin and tried to run again, but he was
snagged by the scruff of the neck by Harris.
"He tried to kill us. Twice!" Said Kotchanski.
"I didn't. I swear it was an accident!" Said Justin.
They shouted at each other for half a minute more before Security
Chief Harris split them up. "Whatever happened we can sort later. But
right now we need all the men we can. The Hymenoptera are kidnapping
all the Jay Chryslers and taking them back to their heavily armoured
ship. We have to duty to protect them."
"We do?" Said Justin.
"Yes. Here take this."
He put a bazukoid in Justin's hands, and Callum protested. "What! He
might try to kill us!"
Justin grinned. "Thanks Harris!" He pointed the shooting end at Callum
who moved it away. "Hey!"
"Sorry." Justin apologised. He pointed it at the ground where it
accidentally went off at Callums feet.
"Hey! You almost took my foot off!" Shouted Callum in shock. He turned
to Harris. "Did you see that? He almost took my foot off! He wants to
kill us!"
Harris shook his head. "You can't kill someone in the foot." He said
matter of factly. "Now you kids play nice." He patted them both on the
shoulder and left with the troops.
"You better not point that thing at me again!" Callum said. "I'm
keeping my eye on you". He then walked backwards and found Lester.
"Why does he have a gun?!" Asked Lester.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this now." Justin said, and swung the
gun around. It fired without him even having to press anything and hit....
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