Jupiter \"miming\" corporation. B\'doom TISH!

<Snip>
"You seem to have mastered the art of stating the obvious." Jay quipped, but he
was right. There was nothing they could do.
"We'll have to hope we can escape from their holding cells."
<End snip>
"PREPARE TO BE BOARDED!" came a voice over the ships speakers. Well, I say a
voice over the speakers, what it actually was a video of a white faced man,
miming the words on a screen. Still, somehow the crew managed to understand it,
although that may have been something to do with the fact that as the mimes sent
this message, several thousand of them began boarding the ship. Didn't take a
genius.
"We don't have a hope in smeg of fighting them off in our condition!"
Wildflower, still stood alongside Jay exclaimed.
"Good." Jay remarked "It's been a while since we found ourselves up against
impossible odds with little hope for survival…I love these moments, don't you?!"
"NO!" Wildflower snapped back.
"Is that why you dumped me?"
"No! I dumped you because YOU cheated on me with Alota, remember?"
"….oh…." Jay said "..yes…that's right isn't it……erm..sorry?!"
"Is that really important right now?"
"Not really, but I like to clear the air…makes for a better working
environment…"
"How can you be so calm when the ships about to be taken by an army of mimes?"
Jay didn't answer, but he was smiling, which infuriated Wildflower. Jay had
always been one of those people who had to have something going on all the time,
and the more insanely dangerous, or hopeless the situation was the more he
enjoyed it. He began to run off, toward the approaching mime-army. "Jay"
Wildflower called after him, dispensing with the formalities as an ex-girlfriend
was entitled to do, "Where are you going? Jay? JAY?!" she threw her arms up in
the air and ran after him.
She finally caught up to him. "What are you doing?"
"Having a little fun before they take us prisoner…we don't wanna make it TOO
easy for them.."
"But you're unarmed!"
"No I'm not…"
He made a motion with his arms, as though he were holding an invisible weapon,
and pretended to pull it's trigger, the first wave of mimes fell to the ground,
clutching various body parts as though they had been shot. Jay then tossed an
invisible grenade overarm into the mime's docking tunnel, causing several mimes
to throw themselves in all directions. For authenticity, one even tore his own
arm off. This cleared a path for Jay to the nearest communication panel on the
wall.
Getting a moments respite, having `slaughtered' the attacking mimes, Jay opened
a comm. line to the Drive Room.
"Dean" he ordered "Seal the drive room, engineering and any areas of the ship
that the mimes haven't yet penetrated."
"What..why?"
"Why do you think, you gonad?!" Jay snapped. He should have known better than to
entrust Dean to command the ship. That required brain power, and Dean wasn't
exactly known for that. Dean was only ever known to concentrate on anything when
in a "press the correct button not to die horribly" kind of situation, and even
then, it only took something particularly shiny to distract him again.
"mimes are boarding the ship and taking the crew prisoner, many of us won't be
able to fight them off, but if you can seal key areas, from them it'll give you,
and anyone within those areas time to get out of here, and mount a rescue
mission for the rest of us!"
He hung up the comm. line as another wave of mimes entered the promenade. Jay
held up his hands in surrender.
"Wait a minute…" Wildflower asked "Why can't you just use your invisible gun on
them again?"
"Invisible gun Jenny?" Jay scoffed "What are you on?"
"Ok, well, mimed gun then!"
"Ran out of bullets…"
"Oh for the love of smeg…." Jenny said, rolling her eyes, she was beginning to
become quite thankful that she and Jay's relationship had ended….
<tag. Some of you need to be taken hostage, some of you can be safely sealed in
somewhere on the ship ready to mount a counter-offensive! – perhaps with help
from Phil's resistance movement in this universe I'll leave that up to you…>
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "chanced_freedom" <andyjones85@...>
wrote:
>
> <snip>
> His fingers, however, were held as though they were holding an invisible
syringe, which he mimed injecting into the necks of the three patients, all of
whom passed out unconcious.
> "give it an hour" Jay said, turning to face Wildflower and handing back her
medkit. "they should be right as rain!"
> </snip>
>
> "How did you know that would happen?" Wildflower asked. "You didn't do
anything?"
>
> Jay laughed. "How does anything work? With a Mime, its all in the mind." He
turned to once again survey the destruction.
>
> "We need to get back to drydock to repair this..." Jay muttered, and turned
back to the three unconcious mimes.
>
> "Uhh.. Jay... We have a problem." Seymour said from a short distance away.
>
> "What? did this wreckage tear your suit?" Jay asked, knowing Seymour all too
well.
>
> "What? No. There's a copy of me walking around. He turned them into mimes
with some kind of gun." Seymour replied.
>
> "The Infidel?" He asked, remembering his conversation with Phil. "We'll have
them scan the ship when we get back to Earth." Jay said, knowing that they
didn't currently have the staff to do it themselves.
>
> There was a pause.
>
> "Help me get Rosette to the security offices... We need to lock her up." He
said, "The others will have to wait for a while."
>
> On the way down, Jay and Wildflower stopped for a breather. Having very few
security officers available, and the remaining ones busy searching for survivors
in the Promenade wreckage. Jay leant against the wall, breathing heavily.
"Wow.. No matter how light someone is, really takes it out of you long
distance."
>
> He reached to a communications console on the wall nearby. "Drive Room. We
need to get back to Earth. Get the Wormhole drive spun up." He ordered,
leaving them to it.
>
>
> ------------------------
>
>
> "Come on. The captain wants the drive spun up. We're going to Earth,
apparently." One of the engineers said, flicking a few switches. He heard no
response.
>
> "What are you waiting for? Get it started!" He said, turning to face the
other engineers that worked on the drive. He saw nothing but a mime that looked
vaguely familiar.
>
> "Whats going on?" He asked, before turning into a mime himself.
>
>
> "Thankyou gentlemen. Your cooperation is appreciated." Seymour The Infidel
said, pulling out a small disk of some kind. He slotted it into the Wormhole
drive computer, and pushed a few buttons.
>
>
> "Lets see how you like it in my time."
>
> ------------------------
>
> The Wormhole drive spun up as it usually would. The light in space bent
around its edges, sucking it through to the other end. Slowly but surely, the
Big Blue slid through, emerging on the other end in a timely fashion. More
timely than most would believe...
>
>
> Nearby, several combat vessels, looking vaguely Space Corps', surrounded the
ship.
>
> "Blue Dwarf. This is Overlord Yu'Wan'Kar of the United Mime Alliance.
Surrender and we will not have to destroy you."
>
> Jay sat in the drive room, and only one word came to mind.
>
> "Smeg."
>
> "Against that many ships, there's no way we'd survive." One of the ensigns
muttered from the tactical console.
>
> "You seem to have mastered the art of stating the obvious." Jay quipped, but
he was right. There was nothing they could do.
>
> "We'll have to hope we can escape from their holding cells."
>
>
> <<OOC: We'll be taken to holding Cells on a remote planet for Prisoners of
War. You have control over what this place looks like, and what kind of
security it has. But remember, its a HIGH security prison. It won't be easy to
get out. Andy, if you want to elaborate on this bit, go ahead>>
>