Pancake and Pancake pt 3 - "Catching the armless Jay"

Who: Justin Pancake, and one of the infinate amounts of Jay Chrylser's
Where: Blue Dwarf 388
When: After Justin's alternate (JP) dropped him off
<snip>
"It is a tracking device." Said JP. "It will show you where thisship's
Jay Chrysler is."
"Oh…. Um… thanks." Said Justin. "Do you want me to go and talk to him?"
"I want you to go and capture him." Said JP.
"What?! Again?"
"What do you mean `Again'? Said JP. You failed on your last mission,
so this time you cannot fail."
Justin moved his shoulders up and down. "I'm not sure I want to. Can I
say no? I don't think I'm very good at this business of kidnapping
people. Especially starship Captains."
JP gave him a steely glare and shook his head. "If you don't do this.
I will kill you."
"Oh." Said Justin.
Justin got into the turbolift and then after a deep breath said. "Jay
Chrysler, I'm coming to get you!"
</end snip>
Justin was very easily led. Which is why he had let a version of
himself from a parallel universe persuade him that working for the
Hymenoptera was a good idea.
He'd found himself back on Blue Dwarf 388 – the one where the crew
didn't have any arms or legs. His mission was to capture the Captain
Jay Chrysler on this ship and bring him back to "The General". Whoever
that was.
Justin has snook up on the Captain of this ship whilst he was in his
office. It had been easy really. Justin leaped out of the shadows of
Jay Chryler's office and grabbed the man by the torso (if he was
mostly ONLY torso, what else would he grab him with?) The man didn't
have any arms or legs to fight back with, so Justin assumed it was
going to be easy.
"Put me down you bastard!" Jay screamed, and wiggled his body.
Justin just laughed. Being a villain wasn't actually so bad, and it
was quite fun.
"What are you going to do, hit me?" Justin mocked.
The short man scowled and spat in his face.
"Now, now, just calm down!" Said Justin. "Don't struggle, it's
pointless... you're armless!" He laughed again.
"I'll not calm down until you tell me where you're taking me!" Said
the tiny Jay.
"Oh... you're just going for a trip to see someone called the
'General'. I think he works for Evil Jay or something."
Jay gasped. "You're working for the Hymenoptera?"
Justin shrugged. "Yeah, I guess so. It wasn't a career goal or
anything, it just... turned out like that."
Jay struggled some more, until Justin managed to put him into a sack.
Then heaved him up onto his shoulder.
"I've got him! I've got him!" Justin said telepathically to JP, who
was waiting for him.
But when JP telepathically called back to him, the plan had changed.
"Sorry Justin... but there's new orders. Emperor Chrysler only wants
the Jay Chrysler from the PRIME universe."
"What?!"
"He has discovered that all the other alternates are no use to him."
"But I've got him in a sack and everything!"
"Kill him. We will take him as an offering to the General anyway."
"What?! I can't kill him!"
"Why? He's useless. And he has no arms, he can't hurt you."
"He might bite me." Justin said.
He set the sack down and let the armless Jay Chrysler wiggle about
inside.
"Mr Chrysler?" Justin said, and the sack stopped moving.
"What now?"
"Sorry but the plan's changed. I'm going to have to kill you instead.
I don't want to but... I guess I'll have to."
Justin pulled the sack off and Jays face was red with anger. "I'll
give you the count of three to get out of here." said Jay.
"What? You can't do anything. Just keep quiet and let me kill you
already."
"One..."
"Maybe I'll just use this letter-opener here...."
"Two..."
"Ooh... no... this toy katana here looks really nice, I'll use that."
"THREE!" Jay shouted and a ball of glowing blue psychic energy came
out of his forehead and knocked Justin back.
"Woah! I didn't know you could do that!"
"How do you think we live without arms or legs you moron!" Said the
captain. "We can control things with our brains." And he picked up a
spoon to demonstrate. The spoon levitated in the air, then flung
itself into Justin's eye.
"Owww!" Justin tried to pull it out, and as he did so, a box of
Starbug requisition forms bashed him in the forehead. Then a stapler
crashed into his cheek, leaving a mark.
"Okay, okay, I'll go!" Justin said and ran away.
He ran to the flightdeck where JP's Starbug was waiting for him. He
boarded, and saw JP's look of disappointment.
"Where is the dead Chrysler?" Said JP.
"I'm really sorry. He was just too tough-"
"He had NO ARMS!"
"Yeah... well..."
"The Genera won't be very pleased." JP admitted.
"Well about that... could we maybe.... not go to see him?"
"Too late. He is calling for us" JP pointed to a video screen which
showed a shadowed figure. It was the first Justin had seen of him, but
the picture wasn't clear. The figure was mostly in darkness but Justin
could see the hints of green scales and insect-like protrusions coming
out of his body. The only thing that Justin could make out was a
cowboy hat on top of his head. The "General" barked some orders in a
gruff voice to Justin and JP, and JP nodded. "Yes sir. Of course sir."
"Is that him? He looks scary!" Said Justin.
"I HEARD THAT!" Said the General. Then disappeared from the screen.
They flew away from Blue Dwarf 388, and Justin looked behind. He saw a
fat Hymenoptera ship heading towards it. It was red and spotty like an
evil ladybird. The ladybird crashed into the Blue Dwarf's hull and
exploded, taking the entire ship with it.
Justin gasped. "We blew the ship up?!"
"It's useless to us now. All of the ships are apart from BD Prime. The
Hymenoptera are dispatching Coccinella Transports filled with
explosives to crash into them and destroy them."
Justin watched the fat Coccinella ships fly from the Thorax and crash
into several other Blue Dwarf's.
JP turned their Starbug towards the Thorax, or more precisely to a
smaller ship underneath that was just decloaking.....
<To be continued>