Pancake panics prematurely

Who: Justin Pancake and Captain Jay Chrysler
Where: Blue Dwarf
When: As Jay confronts Justin
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Jay still, holding the trigger, sending more and more electricity along the wire into Justin's 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...."
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Justin slapped himself across the face. How could he be so careless? Not only had he got himself into trouble, but he'd also given Jay enough evidence to remove Eckerslike from his position of Managing Director of the JMC. Justin looked over in the distance, where Potential faded into reality and shook his head in disappointment at the man, then disappeared again.
"But... my future...." Justin said. "I've seen it."
"The future's changing all the time." Jay said.
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Justin looked at Jay, and Jay stared back at Justin.
"Uh... Look out behind you" Justin said, pointing vaguely at something behind the Captain
"If you think I'm falling for that old ruse..." Jay started
He was interrupted by the sound of several high calibre energy weapons powering up behind him
"Both of you, down on the floor!" a voice boomed "Now!"
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"What's the meaning of this?" The Captain demanded, but the armed gunmen came closer.
"We mean it!" They shouted. "GET DOWN, on the floor, NOW!"
Justin and the Captain kneeled onto the floor, and both of them had their faces roughly pushed into the floor by the thugs. Jay and Justin shared a look as the gang paced around them. Pancake wasn't sure what to say. He knew Jay wasn't going to ask him for help to get out of this, and Justin didn't have a plan himself. He looked back at the place in the room where Potential had shown himself earlier, and expected some help. But the mysterious time-traveller wasn't there any more.
As Justin felt his face being pressed into the floor by the gang, he noticed something just by his nose. It was the vial of liquid that he'd stolen from Rufus, the one which he had to take to Eckerslike's contact, Porky Roebuck. He sneaked the vial into his pocket and promised to finish off his mission to deliver it, if he got out of this alive.
An explosion and flash of light made all of the thugs jump, they immediately fired towards the far side of the room, and started shooting at an incoming Blue Dwarf security team. After an exchange of gunfire, an explosion caught them all. Even Justin and the Captain were caught up in the one and were thrown across the room.
Justin fell almost on top of Jay. They were both charred from the blast, and Justin could see that Jay's clothes were tattered, but couldn't tell if he was seriously injured. Justin managed to stagger to his feet, with a ringing still in his ears. Jay lay on the floor motionless. "Captain!" He called out, and shook him, wishing he'd remembered the basic training at the Space Corps academy where they covered CPR. "Captain, I didn't want you do die! I never wanted to kill you!" He said, and quickly checked the man's pulse. "I didn't want to kill anyone... I just want the power of the Hymenoptera to help us dominate the galaxy."
He felt a pulse and sighed with relief. Captain Chrysler stirred, and Justin realised he didn't know what to say to him when he woke up.
Then he saw something which caught his eye. A feeling of relief came over him and he grinned. It was the recording device.
"Result!" Pancake exclaimed and picked up the device, then immediately started to run. He wasn't sure where he would run to, but just knew that if Jay was going to do any of the things he just said, he'd need that recording device. Without it, Eckerslike's plan would come true, and Justin would become Captain, just like he wanted.
He escaped the thugs, and the Blue Dwarf security and stopped for a breather around the corner.
"So the plan's still on?" Said a familiar voice.
Justin turned to see Potential. "What?"
"I assume you have the vial?"
Justin felt the vial in his pocket. He grinned. "It looks like it is!" He said. "I'll just deliver this to Mr Roebu-"
"There something more important to do." Potential said.
"What?"
Potential pointed to Jay's recording device in his other hand. "If the truth gets out about Eckerslike, things won't happen the way you want to."
Justin thought about this for a moment. "Who cares if the word gets out? Eckerslike is extremely powerful, he owns the entire of the JMC. He has a lot of influence in the Space Corps, and is probably best mates with half of the Admirals. If people find out about his plans for an alliance with the Hymenoptera then so what?"
"Its too soon. People aren't ready to be friends with an alien race this deadly." Potential said. "A lot of them have had relatives and friends killed by the Hymenoptera."
Pancake nodded in understanding. "Ah yes, that's why Jay hates them so much I guess."
"Exactly." Said Potential. "Give them time and they'll come round, but for now they can't see the Hymenoptera as anything but an enemy."
Justin sighed. "But they're so cool." He said.
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Who: Captain Chrysler and Chris Harris
Where: Back in the room where Justin left him
When: Same time
Harris helped Jay to his feet. "Captain are you okay?"
"Fine, just some scratches. I got Pancake to confess Eckerslike's plan to dominate the galaxy with the Hymenoptera."
Harris rubbed his hands together. "Good, we'll have enough to take him down."
Jay shook his head. "Justin ran off with the recording device. Without it we can't prove anything." Then he stopped and thought of a plan. "Holly! Can you wirelessly backup Pancake's recording device onto your local hard-drive? Holly?"
Harris shook his head. "Holly's been down ever since these thugs showed up all over the ship. They've taken over the Security computers too. We're locked out."
"Damn." Said Jay. "In that case, I want you to find that recording device."
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