**Action** - "The Zograth want Micky"

Who: Micky, Dean, Phil, Mini-Phil, Efof, Harris and Captain Chrysler (outside)
Where: Quarantine
When: After being brought back from Fourth Base
"Owowowowowowowoowowowowoww!" Cried out everyone in Quarantine simultaneously as
their testicles were fried by separate medical robots. Captain Chrysler watched
through the plexi-glass and chuckled.
Behind him, Jay heard soft padded footsteps, and smelled a feint smell of
bananas. He turned to see a monkey with his brain exposed staring straight at
him. Jay quickly pulled out a laser pistol and wasted the monkey, but was caught
by surprise when a second one materialised out of thin air and grabbed his arm.
Jay wrestled the ape off him and shot him straight in the exposed brain,
splashing fragments of squelchy pink brain onto the wall.
"Caapapapapapappatatatatatatataiaiiaiaiaiainiiininini!" Harris squealed from
inside Quarantine. Captain Chrysler rolled his eyes and waved for the robot
electrocuting to stop. Harris sighed. "Captain, I have something really
important to tell you."
"This better be good." Jay's voice boomed through the tannoy.
Harris nodded. "We found out that the monkeys are not just appearing at random."
Jay leaned closer to his microphone. "Oh? Go on."
"They're coming after Micky." He pointed to Micky, who's face was a blur as his
was jumping up and down so much from the electric shocks.
"Is this true Micky?" Jay asked, and signalled the medical droid to stop.
Micky sighed with relief. "Ooh me bollocks!" He said.
"Is this true Micky?!" Jay repeated.
"Yes sir." Micky said. "In the fifteen years that I've been away from the Blue
Dwarf, they have been trying to kill me. They're called the Zograth, and they
keep pulling me into their weird dimension."
"What's their dimension like?"
"Horrible. It smells like bananas!" Micky joked. "They kept dragging me in front
of their Emperor, a giant gorilla. But these two time-travellers pull me back."
"Why are they trying to kill you?" Jay asked.
"Well.... I.... ummm.... it's because I tried to kill their Emperor."
"What?!" Said Jay, slapping his forehead. "So it's your own bloody fault they're
trying to kill you?"
"Well.... maybe." Said Micky. "But I didn't really want to kill the Emperor. It
was this man called Potential, he told me to do it!"
"Who?" Said Jay.
"I don't really know who he is." Said Micky. "He's a time traveller and he seems
to mess about with the timeline. He said that if I killed the Emperor of the
Zograth, it would make the universe better in some way."
Jay shook his head. "Well it hasn't made the universe better for me. We've got
monkeys appearing at random all over this ship looking for you!"
"Yeah sorry." Said Micky. "Well... thing is. I DID kill the Emperor. But he just
keeps coming back."
Jay rubbed his forehead. He decided for a moment, and then ordered a Security
guard to open the Quarantine door.
"Are you letting us out?" Chris Harris said.
"Yes, you're all free to go." Said Jay, and watched them all exit the small room
with funny walks. "Except you Micky." Jay said, and ordered Harris to handcuff
him. Harris gave a quizzical expression but obliged, cuffing Micky behind his
back.
"What are you doing with me?" Micky said.
"I'm not sure yet. If I keep you here you'll attract more of those monkeys."
"Where then?"
"I'm not sure yet." Jay said. "Put him in the Mining Deck, somewhere far away
from the rest of us. And keep a team of Security Guards with him, the monkeys
will be coming for him."
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Where: Fourth Base, in a large room between the Zero-G fun hole, and the Flesh
pits
When: Same time
Who: The Zograth Emperor
Monkeys had been materialising occasionally inside Fourth base, but never so
many at a time as this. The Emperor materialised, with a cohort of almost 50
other monkeys. The Emperor himself was a tall Gorilla, with dark leathery skin
and a bright read cloak.
"Is he near?" The Emperor said with a deep growl.
A monkey next to him used an advanced and deeply complicated sensor equipment to
scan for Micky, his nose.
"No master. He's on the JMC Blue Dwarf!"
The Emperor growled. "Fetch me as many prostitutes as you can. We'll use them as
hostages until the Captain of the Blue Dwarf hands Micky over to me!"
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Who: Rosette, Rufus and a Security team
Where: Fourth Base
When: Just after
Rosette looked at the psi-scanner which Rufus was holding, showing lots of
monkeys on Fourth Base. She quickly phoned Jay.
"Captain, we've got lots more Zograth over here. They seem to be taking people
prisoner. They might be using them as hostages."
A group of monkeys swung down from fairy lights from above, and flattened the
entire security team, then grabbed Rufus.
"Rosette, what's going on?" Jay asked through the phone.
"Hold on Captain... someone here wants to talk to you." Rosette passed the phone
to the giant gorilla standing in front of her. He took the mobile into his
massive hand and put it to his ear.
"This is the Zograth Emperor!" He boomed. "I want you to send the Human known as
'Micky' on a shuttle to Fourth Base in 30 minutes. If you don't do this, I'll
kill one erotic dancer every minute until you do."
"You're bluffing!" Jay said.
"I'm not." Said the Gorilla. "And Captain..."
"Yes?"
"The erotic dancers are very attractive. It would be such a waste."
Jay gulped.
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Who: Jay, Harris, Dean, Phil, Pancake
Where: Blue Dwarf
When: A minute later
Jay turned to Harris. "Go and fetch Micky." He said.
Harris blinked. "Surely you aren't going to hand him over to them are you?"
Harris questioned.
"I don't know yet." Said Jay. "What do the rest of you think?"
"I don't want any erotic dancers to be killed" Said Pancake. "That means threes
slightly less attractive girls in the universe, and slightly more ugly girls. If
anything, I want the balance tipped the other way!"
"I second that!" Said Dean, chomping on a toastie.
"I dont want the death of anyone on my conscience, either Micky's or some
dancer." Said Jay.
"Not just any dancer." Reminded Pancake. "An EROTIC dancer."
Jay sighed. "Go and bring Micky here. We have 25 minutes left to decide."
<OOC – Hi everyone, this is an experimental tag that I'm leaving here. The
storyline from this point on has not been decided, and it will depends on what
we do next. Your character might believe that we should hand over Micky, or your
character might believe that we should not hand him over, or you might believe
we should attempt to kill the Emperor before he kills anyone. There is
potentially some difficult writing ahead of us but I want someone to continue it
on in their next post. Many times when a decision like this needs to be made a
lot of people remain quiet and wait for someone else to post, but what I ask
today is that you should just go for it! Don't be embarrassed that you might
cock up the story, because like I said, its not been decided. There isn't really
a right or wrong answer here, so we'll go with whatever you post! >