General Sousa wants and Engineer pt1

OOC - This post has a special appearance by Arnold J Rimmer! It's taken me quite
some time to write, so please don't dismiss it!
Who: Justin, General Sousa and Amber
Where: Fleeing the hangar bay
When: Just after Seymour crashed
In all the chaos, General Sousa saw many of his men being sucked out of the
hangar door and into space. Next to him he saw the measly engineer, Justin
Pancake grab onto some piping. Justin had felt the vacuum tugging at him and
lifted his feet high into the air.
Nearby, Sousa watched as the slim dark haired human girl he'd later come to know
as Amber grabbed onto Justin's leg, before she too was swept out into space.
Sousa barked some orders to his men "Don't let the Humans escape!" but nobody
could hear him over the howling wind. Seconds later he too felt himself being
sucked towards the door. He saw grabbed onto Amber's foot.
Justin squeezed his eyes shut as he felt the extra weight pulling on his
fingers. He gripped the pipe tightly and looked behind him. Amber was clutching
at his trouser leg, and the Dolaroo leader had clamped tightly onto her.
"I can't hold on..... too heavy...." Justin shouted to Amber. "Kick him off!"
Amber tried to kick with her foot but General Sousa's grip remained firm on her
foot.
Justin then felt something off happening. Amber was grabbing onto his
radiation-proof trousers, and pulling them down.
"Amber, you're pulling...my...trousers.... down!" He shouted. "You might see
parts of me that you never expected to, and I can't promise I washed my bollocks
this morning!"
At the thought of seeing Justin's unwashed jedwards, Amber let go, causing her
and Sousa to fly towards the open hangar door. Luckily it closed just before
they flew out into space, causing them to fall to the floor.
As she stood up, she felt a firm gloved hand grip her on the shoulder. "Come
with me." Said General Sousa. He also grabbed Justin and forced them through a
doorway into a corridor.
Justin looked from Amber to the Dolaroo leader. "Where are we going?"
"Three levels up." Said Sousa. "I need an engineer to fire up this ship's
engines." He said, pushing them into an express lift elevator.
Justin bit his lip. "Why do you need her?" he pointed to Amber.
Sousa punched Amber in her radiation helmet, throwing her against the wall. When
she turned around her radiation suit was cracked. "If you don't do what I want,
I'll kill her." Sousa said plainly.
"Oh thanks for asking Justin!" Amber said, clearly annoyed at the crack in her
visor.
They exited the lift and Sousa pushed them out roughly into the corridor.
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Who: Katerina Bartikovsky, Science Officer
Where: Red Dwarf
When: 11 years ago
Katerina Bartikovsky was the Red Dwarf's Chief Science officer. She was a very
attractive and extremely smart Russian woman who looked quite a lot like Big
Suze from Peep Show. Katerina was performing her usual duties aboard the Red
Dwarf, which this week had involved working on optimising the ship's engines by
76%. She had finished her testing in the Drive Room and presented her results to
Captain Hollister was extremely happy with her, but she was a perfectionist and
she theorised that she could squeeze out another 3% efficiency before the end of
the day.
But that was never going to happen, because this was the day she would die.
As she walked down the corridor towards the Engine control room, she passed some
crewmembers and gave them her usual charming smile, the kind that caused
movement in any heterosexual male's trouser department. But their response
wasn't the usual smile back, it was one of horror.
Katerina quickly realised they weren't looking at her, it was something behind
her. She turned to see a huge fireball coming down the corridor towards her. She
tried to run, but tripped over her high heels. The fireball engulfed her and
baked her beautifully moisturised skin to her body. Her singed corpse dropped to
the ground.
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Who: Justin, Amber and General Sousa
Where: Red Dwarf
When: Present time
Justin stepped over another charred dead body.
"Woah, there's loads of them here." He said. "It must have been horrible the way
they died."
Sousa ignored him. "In here." He said, pushing them into a room.
"But this is the holographic projection control centre" Justin said. "I thought
you needed an engineer? Y'know...like... to make the engines work?"
General Sousa nodded his dolphin shaped head. "Correct!"
Several Dolaroos were already in the room, each with long weapons poking out of
the front pouches sewn into the front of their bulky radiation suits. They
watched him suspiciously.
Sousa pointed to a bank of computers in the room. "I want you to activate the
hologram of Katerina Bartikovsky."
"Who?" Justin said, looking at Amber whose face was blank.
" Katerina Bartikovsky, the Red Dwarf's science officer. She knew this ship's
engines better than anyone. Why would I ask you, when I could talk to the best?"
Justin felt deflated. At least when Sousa first wanted him he felt like he was
worth something, like he had a special skill that made him valuable, now all he
felt like was the lacky IT bod. He groaned.
"If you don't do it, I'll kill your friend." Sousa said, and one of the Dolaroos
took their guns out of their pouch and pointed it at Amber.
"Okay okay!" Justin said and started typing away at the computer. He cycled
through holographic crewman profiles until a small image of Holly appeared in
the corner of the screen.
"Oi! You didn't turn me off like you said you would!" Said Holly. "If you bugger
off and leave me, I won't be able to get a crewmember to turn me off for at
least 3 million years!"
"Shh!" whispered Justin. "I'm being forced to do this psycho's biddings."
"Oh, sorry." Said Holly, and started to face out.
"Wait!" Justin said quietly so that the Dolaroos couldn't hear. "I might need
your help. Can you modify a holographic profile for me?"
"I suppose so." Said Holly. "Who do you want to change?"
"Just pick someone at random. It doesn't matter. But give them big guns!"
"Big what?"
"Don't worry I'll program it myself." Said Justin, then after a few minutes of
modification he turned around to General Sousa. "I'm ready. I'll activate the
hologram now."
The holographic image of Arnold Rimmer appeared in the room. In each arm he held
a fully automatic bazukoid, complete with an ammo belt slung over his shoulders.
He pointed the guns towards General Sousa.
"Take this you goit!" he said, and started firing.
< to be continued! >