**Action** “The corporation strikes back”

The JMC Frank Sidebottom was more frightening than it's name suggested.
It was bigger than the Blue Dwarf, and had many additional spines jutting out from the hull. These were sensor nodes, but looked like giant spider legs coiled ready to pounce. It was rumoured that this ship used Hymenoptera technology, back from when the JMC allied with the Hymenoptera before the creatures were wiped from existence.
To add to the ship's fear-factor, it made a dramatic entrance. A wormhole opened close to a nearby asteroid, the gravimetric forces in space tearing it to pieces. The wormhole drive was once technology that only the Blue Dwarf possessed, having stolen it from a parallel universe, but since then, the technology was shared and now it was common on all new JMC vessels.
The JMC Frank Sidebottom slowed once it had closed in on its target, and waited. The two great glass domes on it's hull looked like giant eyes, making it look like the evil brother to the round-headed comedy character it was named after.
The JMC had been alerted to the Blue Dwarf's position by Kara McGellen, who was still refusing to accept Amber as Captain. The JMC Frank Sidebottom had been dispatched to restore the JMC regime onboard the Blue Dwarf.
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Who: Captain Amber Febuggure, Justin Pancake and other Drive Room staff
Where: Drive Room, Blue Dwarf
When: Same time
"SMEG! Captain there's a JMC ship coming right for us!" Justin shouted, almost falling off his chair. "They've stopped just outside turret range."
Amber stood bolt upright, looking at the ship out of the window. "Are we in any fit state to fight?"
Justin shook his head. "No way, we're only half way through the upgrades I've got planned. So far the only thing I've managed to do is increase the range of the turrets." He looked at the schematics of the new JMC ship. "It's much more heavily armed than we are."
"Get us out of here, now!" Amber barked. She didn't like running away, but it seemed like the best option to stay alive.
Justin nodded, and warmed up the wormhole drive engines. "Opening wormho- oh."
"What's wrong?" Amber peered at his screen.
"Wormhole drive is shutting down, there's some interference..." Justin's fingers flew across the keyboard, then he looked at the radar screens showing a dot coming towards them. "They've launched a Starbug, it's emitting an energy frequency that's disrupting our wormhole drive."
Amber took an angry breath. The problem with fighting the JMC was that they knew all the ways to beat their ship. They bloody invented it. "How do we fight an enemy that knows our ship better than we do?" Amber said rhetorically.
Outside, the Starbug stopped dead in space at a safe distance away.
"They might know how to disrupt the wormhole drive, but they don't know about my improvements to the turrets!" Justin said. "They've sat just within range."
Amber grinned. "Shoot them down!"
Justin pressed a button and the turret on the top of the Blue Dwarf's hull turned, and fired a lethal blast which caught the Starbug right in the midsection. It exploded.
Again Amber gave the order for them to escape.
"Warming up wormhole dri- oh." Said Justin, as he noticed four more blips coming from the other JMC ship. This time they remained outside of their turret range, and surrounded them at every corner.
"We can't reach them with turrets." Justin said.
"Launch Space Eagles and Blue Midgets" Amber said.
That was when the voice of Captain Castillo came over the radio. "Zis is a message for ze JMC Blue Dwarf... it appears your ship 'az 'ad a mutiny. Zere is no escape. Surrender now and we vill replace your Captain for one of our own."
Justin looked up at Amber and pushed a microphone towards her. "Do you want to respond?"
<Tag Amber, what do you want to say to Castillo?>
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Who: Efof
Where: In a Space Eagle
When: 20 minutes later
Efof looked to his left and right, and saw several other Space Eagles launch with him. He was close enough to see Davie sat in the cockpit of the closest. "Split up." He said to the team. "Davie, you're with me." Their fighters turned together towards one of the Starbugs that was hovering near the back of the Blue Dwarf. He was just about to get a target lock when a blast hit him from behind.
"What the smeg was that?!" He cried out, just seeing a lilac coloured fighter craft disappear.
Davie's voice came over the radio "I've heard of them before, it's a top secret JMC craft called a 'Mauve Midget'. They use Hymenoptera cloaking technology, you can't see them until they attack.
Efof rolled his eyes. "Ooh, this'll be exciting!" He said, firing wildly into space, hoping he'll hit one.
<Tag Davie and anyone else who wants to get into Space Eagles or Blue Midgets, and join the space battle. Destroy all the Mauve Midgets and the Starbugs that are preventing us from using the wormhole drive, and then maybe turn your attention on the JMC Frank Sidebottom, but beware it'll be tough! >