Captain Fantastic's Fantastic Plan

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Jay, Efof and the others dusted themselves down, mostly unharmed. Looking back
from the doorway of the landing bay, Efof could see Gilbert and Mavis. "Help
us!" They both begged.
Kaleb and Hallie were closest. They ran to help, but the bar was too heavy to
lift quickly. Jay ran to help them, but Efof caught him by the arm and showed
him his psi-scanner. "Jay... I mean Captain. Look, we've only got 15 minutes
before the sun goes supernova."
"We might still have time." Jay said, but wasn't too hopeful.
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Jay, Kaleb and Hallie all worked together to try to lift the heavy girder, while
Gilbert and Mavis pushed it upwards from below. It didn't budge, so Jayne and
Efof ran over to help, the girder lifted slightly, with seven people working to
move it, it raised slightly, but not enough for the Yorkshirians to escape.
"We need something to lever it!" Jayne said, looking around. There was nothing.
Jay scanned the room, thinking fast, the girder, along with tonnes of debris was
blocking Gilbert and Mavis' way into the hangar. That much was evident, but
could they move?
"Guys.." Jay yelled, "Are you able to stand up?"
"'Ang on lad" Gilbert replied "I'll give it a go, like!"
On Jay's side of the rubble a lot of creaking and groaning was heard, along with
a lot of puffing, panting and swearing but eventually Gilbert's voice came
through. "Aye lad, I'm on me feet now, like! Mavis too!"
"Is there another way round to the hanger?"
"No lad, oor way out's blocked from t'other side too!"
"Ideas, people! Quick!" Jay said.
Everyone looked blankly at each other, until Kaleb spoke.
"Y'know…." he began "This would be a lot easier if we could just decompress the
shuttle bay!"
"THAT'S IT!" Jay exclaimed "Gilbert, Mavis…" Do you have any pressure suits on
your side?"
"Aye lad!" Gilbert replied
"Right, get them on…"
Jay then dashed across to the locker on the side of the hangar wall and pulled
out another five pressure suits, he handed one each to his crew and started
pulling one on himself.
"Sorry Efof, you're gonna have to make do with two armholes…" he muttered "but
when your done grab that thruster pack" he nodded to a device on the wall, Efof
nodded and did just that. "Everyone, tether yourselves to Efof.
Everyone obeyed, and Jay tethered himself to Hallie, at the back of the line.
"Hallie..get ready to catch…."
Jay then led the group toward the fallen girder, and wrapped his arm around a
ventilation pipe, gripping it with the crease of his elbow.
"….are you insane?" Hallie asked the captain "This goes against so many health
and safety rules I can't begin to…."
"Trust me…" Jay said, grinning. "I do this thing all the time….it nearly always
works out ok…"
"And when it doesn't?"
"Well…I did crash the Blue Dwarf in an Ocean once….I altered history so that the
galaxy was ruled by evil dictators…, accidentally released Satan...oh and then
theres the time I blew up the Earth……I was in a bad place that day…I think it
was a Tuesday…I hate Tuesdays….."
"Oh..so when you screw up it goes really badly then…."
"In my defence, none of those things were my fault…"
"Well that makes me feel better…what are the odds of this working?"
"I dunno.." Jay replied "I just do things, I don't really think them
through…Jayne, be a dear and shoot the bay-doors release switch would you?"
Before Hallie could protest further. the clone obeyed and shot the release with
her shotgun, which caused the doors emergency release to fire, blasting the
doors out into space, along with everything in the shuttle bay, Jay grimaced as
the force of nature pulled at the four people tethered to him, while the debris
whipped past in a maelstrom of rubble, on a direct course for the doors. Behind
it, Mavis and Gilbert approached, and Hallie and Jay just managed to catch them
both within seconds of them flying out of reach. Jay then let go of the pipe,
and the group flew out into space.
Once clear of the ship, Jay spoke again. "See, easy…now, Efof, use the thruster
pack to take us back to the Dwarf…"
Efof held on to the thruster pack with one had and fired it up with the other.
It rocketed away from him, leaving the crew drifting.
"Um..Efof?" Jay said "What was that?"
"I've got four arms stuffed into a two armed spacesuit! What do you expect?"
"Fair point" Jay said "Well…that's me all out of ideas, how about you guys?"
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