Erik continues the rescue...

Who: Eric, Micky
Where: The long pointless corridor
When: After Erik deletes Hollys Junior book of space (which I now
understand to be titled Junior Encyclopedia Of Space. Live with it)
"That's it just up there." Holly told the skutter. "I hope your
motors are working well, that stuffs going to be heavy."
Erik rolled up to the pile of twisted metal and tapped on it.
<Ten minutes earlier>
Micky was still slumped against the wall, slowly giving up. His life
had been a long line of dissapointments.
"Fuck it." He said, standing up. There was a look of determination
on his face. "I aint sitting here waiting to be found and killed by
that monster."
He made his way uncertainly toward the open air vent and peered
inside. It was empty of course. Before he ventured in, he took the
other grenade out of his pocket.
"Might be needing you."
He slid himself into the vent...
<Back to the now>
Erik started work on moving the debris from the explosion.
"Why didn't I think of that sooner!" Said Holly without warning. He
dissapeared off the monitor nearest to Erik...
<Back to Micky>
... and reappeared on the watch he had added to Mickys holographic
left arm.
"Micky!" It was hard to be heard when the arm he was attached to was
just flopping everywhere. It was a rather useless adittion to your
body when you needed an arm that could pull you along.
"Micky!" Realising it was no use he set off the beeper. Except
Holly, as usual hadn't set it properly.
Micky froze in fear when he heared the inhuman screeching from behind
him. He couldn't even turn around in this small space. How the hell
that spider had caught up with him so quick he didn't know. Except
that wasn't a screech. It was more of a..
"MICKY!"
"Hol?!" Micky brought his artificail wrist up to his eyes. "Holly!
Oh thank God! Did Erik get you sorted then?!"
"Yeah, he's up clearing the corridor for you now. How far have you
got down there?"
"Well, I've been crawling for at least ten minutes. I only have one
arm, so it's been tough, but I reckon I've got at least half a mile.
I'm surprised I haven't found another duct yet."
Erik managed to clear a small enough hole to fit his head through and
saw Mickys feet still sticking out of the vent opening.
"Half a mile my bottom." Holly came back to him. "I can see your
boots still!"
"Okay, fine, but it's hard work with just one arm!" Micky was
shattered. "Can't you hurry me along a proper arm?"
"I'll see what I can do when we're out of this mess."
The skutter got through the gap, wheeled over to Micky and dragged
him out by the ankle.
"I need to find Jayne," Micky told Holly. "Where is she?"
"I'm not entirely sure anymore. She seems to have found a way of
avoiding me. Her uncanny evasive skills mixed with the fact that she
carries the same readouts as the captain, I find her hard to follow."
Micky sighed and sat down in the same spot as before as Erik carried
on working away at getting the corridor open again.
"You've got him well trained. I can't even get him to open up a new
can of tennis balls for the recreation deck." Holly seemed genuinely
jealous.
"I dunno. Just be nice to him."
<Skip another ten minutes of sitting around watching the skutter do
all the wark>
Micky squeezed through the gap the skutter had made and straightened
himself up. Then they both set off toward the elevator.
"Where are you going?" Asked Holly.
"The medi-bay."
<Jump to the medi-bay. These things are great for filtering out
crappy non-essential bits and pieces!>
<Just after Vanessa had locked the door>
Micky went to walk in but the door didn't open.
"Open up for us Holly."
"I can't, it's locked from the inside." He dissapeared off the screen
to see what was happening. "Yep, she's in there with Keto. Private
conversation, let's go."
"Hold on!" Said Micky. "I need to see Vanessa!"
"Just leave it. You don't want to go in there." Holly might have
been un-trustworthy, but he wasn't about to spy on their moment.
Back in his quarters, Micky was trying to think of a way of tracking
Jayne. If only he could find a wayy of tracking that Hymenoptera,
she wouldn't be far from it. She was after all, trying to find it.
"Any idea where the monster is now Holly?"
"No." Holly paused for a second. "Me and 1132 have got a present for
you. It's top of the range too."
rik rolled over to the cupboard on the other side of the room and
took out the gift for Micky.
Mickys eyes lit up with joy when he saw it.
<You'll find out soon enough>