Seymour - "Mining Missile"

Who: Seymour, Brittany, Efof and
Where: York city caverns
When: Lava eruption and holographic zombie invasion
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"Now don't tek this th' wrong way" the voice came back "But none of you've been bitten or owt 'ave you?"
"Ah..." Seymour sighed, looking over towards Brittany who was drooling and trying to chew one of the gentlemen at arms
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"Now look here my good chap, we're all totally compos mentis, and frankly I resent the fact you think we're anything otherwise!"
There was a pause and then the sound of metal bolts unlocking. The door was pulled open with such force that Brittany actually fell at the feet of the man who was opening it.
"Oi mate, she doesn't look compost mental or whatever it woz you said! She looks like a friggin' zombie!"
"No no, she's fine." Seymour said, hitching her up onto his arm. "She's just had a few too many to drink during the coronation. She'll be fine if you get us some coffee."
The man looked suspicious and paused for a while. Behind them they could hear more screams as people were either burned by lava or bitten by the hard-light zombies.
"I say, are you going to let us in or not? We don't want to stand out here all day." Said Seymour.
The man eventually stood aside and let them in. He shut the door just before a wave of molten lava splashed against it. The thick metal door would hold the magma back for a few minutes, buying them extra time.
As Seymour, Efof and Brittany had been going from cavern to cavern, they all started to look the same and this one was no different, except for possibly a few tapestries and paintings on the wall. One of the guards explained that this cavern was part of the York museum, the only one that so far hadn't flooded with lava.
In the centre of the room was one of the mining missiles that had been sent by Captain Castillo to mine the natural resources out of the planet for the JMC. Some of the inhabitants of the room were pulling wires and circuit boards out.
"By jove what are you doing?" Seymour asked. "If you accidentally get that contraption started again it could dig down into the core and fill this entire room with lava!"
The engineer working on it was called Carl. He shook his head. "We're trying to use it so that it can escape. It can dig through the rock up to the surface, and then it's got a rocket that can get us as far away from this planet as possible." Carl then stroked the machine and ran his hand over the JMC logo. "I worked on the prototype of this machine, I neva' thought anyone would use it to destroy mi own 'ome."
Seymour nodded. "The JMC have gone power crazy. They're putting profit above the lives of Humans. It was bad enough with Eckerslike wanting to ally with those dratted Hymenoptera... now that he's gone the new board of directors are just as bad. They sent a woman called Castillo to be Captain of the Blue Dwarf. She's the one who did this."
Carl gritted his teeth. "Just get me in a room with this Castillo woman, I want to kick 'er 'ed in..."
Seymour quickly changed the subject in case Carl got violent. "So do you really think it will fly?"
"Yeah, it's almost ready. It just needs a pilot."
Efof stepped up. "Oh really, I can fly anything. Just give me a flight stick and I'll take you wherever you want to go... oh here's one."
"Efof that's the exhaust." Said Seymour.
"Oh."
They crammed as many people into the mining missile as they could, including the infected Brittany who they'd taped her mouth shut so she couldn't bite anyone.
Carl the engineer engaged the engines just as the door to their section of the cavern was broken down by zombies. Two zombies got about a foot through the door before they were knocked over by a tidal wave of lava that surged into the space.
There was no time for Carl, he engaged the engines and shut the door from the outside seconds before the lava engulfed him and melted his bones on the spot.
The lava surrounded the mining missile, now crammed with people. Efof moved the missile upwards, using the forward mining drill to cut through the rock and up towards the surface of New Buckinghamshire. When it reached the surface, the rockets engaged, taking the long thin object out of the hole it had bore to the surface and up through the planet's atmosphere.
Behind them, lava spewed out of the hole like a fountain, and covered the surface of the planet. It destroyed the spaceport, and any other structures on the planet's dry crust.
Efof flew the missile haphazardly towards the Blue Dwarf which was still in orbit, although things weren't quite as clear as Efof would have liked.
"There's two Blue Dwarfs!" He said.
"By jove you're right!" Said Seymour.
"Which one do I try and land on? One's hurtling towards the planet, and the other is starting to open fire on us!"
This was true, the Blue Dwarf from the alternate dimension containing Justin and Davie was hurtling at top speed towards the planet of New Buckinghamshire, and their own Blue Dwarf had turned its turrets towards them and started firing a volley of lasers towards them. Seymour imagined Captain Castillo in the Drive Room ordering someone to open fire on them as insubordinates.
He pointed to their Blue Dwarf. "That's ours, but I hope someone can stop Castillo from firing on us!"
"She's really starting to get on my nerves." Said Efof. "Do you think we should probably do something about her?" This was an understated sentence, and was what everyone had been thinking since they first met the evil Captain, unfortunately no-one had done anything about it... yet.
Seymour grabbed the ship-to-ship radio and pressed it to his mouth. "This is Seymour Niples, please don't shoot us! We've got survivors from the planet. If you can hear this please help us, Captain Castillo and the rest of the JMC wants to kill us. If you believe in the Blue Dwarf you have to help us get rid of her. We don't need the her, and we don't need the JMC."
He paused as he realised what he'd just said. It sounded like they were declaring war on the entire JMC.
"Niples out."
<OOC – Someone please get rid of Captain Castillo, even if you have to capture or kill her!>