*Action* B.D. Call home....

OOC:- First, off sorry for posting this Smandy, but we need to pick things up. Second off, apologies to all for the randomly embolded-cap's locked words...Onion...challenged me to do something...
 
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It is then that he starts to back away form them towards the door at the back of the room, and sees the group of Skutters slowly approaching him, he then turns and runs with a yell as the Skutters pick up speed and chance him out of the room and down several corridors with Wolfgang Sweetlsy's high pitched yelling echoing down and along them.
 
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"Ouch! Son of a bit....." Jay exclaimed as Sweetsly's foot stomped down on his own still-injured foot from his time-travel adventure of a few weeks ago. "Smeg, I'd only just gotten off the bloody crutches, watch where you're going, man!"
"Do not presume to tell me whether or not I should be watching where I am going sir!" replied Wolfgang, without looking up. "I'll have you know I am a fully qualified health and safety officer, who would NEVER be caught unawares!"
"Ok, well, it's just you kinda stomped on my foot...not..well..very safely.."
Jay glanced at the skutters heading toward Sweetsly.
"Having some trouble with the natives?"
"Nothing I can't...OW!" one of the skutters headbutted Sweetsly in the shin "...handle!!"
"Sure looks like it..." Jay replied
"Yes it OW!" another headbutt, from another skutter. "Alright...I admit, I could do with a little...." he turned around, Jay was already halfway up the corridor. He looked back. "Good to see you have things under control!"
"Thats it?!" Sweetsly replied "You're just going to ignore this and carry on?!?" he looked down at a skutter and swung his pen at it "TAKE THAT you menace!"
"That's the plan. You obviously don't need my help!"
"Come back here! I'll report you to the Captain!!"
"Good luck!" smirked Jay as the express-lift doors slid shut, when would the NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK learn....
 
It was a few minutes into Jay's ascension when the lift's internal communications system bleeped.
A tinny-sounding scottish accent came from the small BLUE painted speaker "Engineering to Captain Chrysler...."
Jay sighed "Yes Callum?"
"One of my technicians, Janis Cooper's found something you might want to take a look at....."
"Where?"
"In the gym.."
"The gym?"
"Yeah...well...guess whoever put it there figured no one would go up there..."
"I'll be there in FIVE."
"Ok sir.."
Jay looked down at the folder full of paperwork he was carrying under one arm. "Oh..and Callum?"
"Sir?"
"Do you have anything for a headache?...."
 
**** 10 minutes later, the gym. ****
 
Jay entered the gym with a dark cloud looming over him. He was getting more and more impatient since becoming Captain. He was barely aware of it himself, but it was clear to most people that the stress of the job was getting to him. Jay was a free spirit, never worried about anything but what was right in front of him at any given time. Usually the controls to a Starbug, or the trigger to a standard-issue assault rifle, but never ever, the monotonous tedium of filling out personnel reports, or cargo manifests...
"What is it Kochanski?" he snapped abruptly "I've got a million things to do, this better be important..."
"Why don't you see for yourself sir?"
"Don't call me sir.."
"Sorry Capt..." Jay glared at Callum "Sorry...Jay....take a look at this.."
Callum lead Jay toward the far wall of the gym, a few members of the engineering staff, including Janis and Katrina were inspecting a strange looking device.
"What is it?"
"Well..it seems to be a communications device."
 "Who put it here?"
"Don't know." Callum shrugged "Harris is interviewing some of the gym staff about. He's in there now with Crewman WEST. LIFE just got alot more interesting for these guys, they don't usually see anyone for weeks, working up here as they do..."
"Tell Chris to report to me when he's interviewed them...can you shut this thing off in the mean time?"
Callum shook his head. "'Fraid not" he said "Frankly, we don't even know how it works in the first place.., it's made of all kinds of junk...here.." he handed Jay a clipboard "This is a list of the components we've identified so far, seem familiar"
Jay glanced at the list and his face dropped even more than it already had. "Blue Dwarf's main reactor power conduit..., the main navigation computer..., a satelite dish from the security office...the lift control level from the Captains chair...smeg..."
"my thoughts exactly, this is put together from the items stolen by the Hymenoptera that was roaming the ship.."
"Find a way to shut it off....." Jay said, sternly.
 
<to be continued>