Pancake's problems persist.

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"You don't know what to do with me do you?" Pancake said, and started to grin.It was a patronising grin which made Jay hate him even more. "You can't arrestme. You can't even kill me, or Eckerslike will know. If you have a problem withwhat I've been doing there's only one person to blame, and that's Eckerslike.Take it up with him. I'm just the man who's doing what he says."Jay tightened his grip on the laser pistol's trigger.
 
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"You think I give f lying smeg what Eckerslike will do?" Jay said "He may own the JMC, but I work for the Space Corp, not him. He can throw me off the Blue Dwarf if he likes, hell, he can even end the contract that makes the Space Corp provide officers to crew his ships if he likes, there'll be no shortage of Space Corp ships for me, or anyone else if we help stop Eckerslike from forming an alliance with the bugs."
"But you don't know that for sure do you" Justin mocked. "Besides, you're not the killer type."
"I can make an exception for bug sympathisers..." Jay said flatly, the gun still firmly pointed at Justins head.
"What will you do? Make it look like an accident? Suicide maybe? You'll have to be pretty inventive in getting away with the murder of one of your own crew members."
Jay stared firmly at Justin, his thumb pulling back the hammer on the gun. Cocking it, making Justin swallow hard.  He'd done well putting on a brave face up until now, but it was looking less and less like Jay was bluffing every second.
"Pancake" Jay replied flatly "I have enough evidence, thanks to Rosette and Rufus that Eckerslike is planning an alliance with the Hymenoptera, that, is treason. It's enough to have Eckerslike, and anyone who helped him spend the rest of their years mining for McNuggets on McPlanet 5."
McDonalds had, a few years back, bought an entire star sytem to "McForm" in order to alter it's geology to naturally grow their products. Ok, so the McAlps, from where McNuggets were mined was actually on McPlanet 6, McPlanet 5 being where fries were harvested from the rain forests, and McFlurry's coated formed giant icecream caps at the north and south poles, but the principle was the same.
"Face it Pancake, you're screwed." Jay said
"You still won't kill me" Justin said. "I know that much about you. So you might as well step aside, and let me take my place as a captain in the JMC/ Hymenoptera alliance."
"The Space Corp will never let that happen, Justin. And you know it."
"More fool them. The Hymenoptera are what we need, some day you'll realise that. Now are you going to let me go, or stand there pretending you're going to kill me all day?"
"Who said anything about killing you?" Jay said, as he pulled the trigger on his gun, a pair of tazer darts shot out of the barrel and connected with each of Justins ears, sending thousands of volts of electricity into his head and making him convulse on the floor.
Jay still, holding the trigger, sending more and more electricity along the wire into Justins earlobes walked over and bent down, fishing a voice recorder from his pocket he showed Justin.
"You just owned up to everything on tape Pancake. You'll be escorted to Deck 13, where you'll be locked up, and before you know it you'll be facing a Space Corp court martial, charged with treason, along with Eckerslike. Thank you for saving me a job...."
 
<tag Justin, get outta that one!>