Supplies Party

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“This again?” Jay began "They wouldn’t..."
“You wouldn’t even know it if they had!” Cass interrupted gently “Or do you actually still work for them!? And what is it that keeps you alive after six hundred years!?”
“Bloody hell” Jay sighed “As much as I like you Cass, you don’t half pick your smegging moments!”
“The feeling's mutual” she smiled “But there's a lot we don't know about you Mr. Chrysler, so forgive me if I ask what everyone else should be asking, but are too dumb to do so”
Jay regarded her for a moment with an unreadable half-smile playing across his lips
“Incoming!” Davie bellowed as a rocket propelled grenade streaked overhead, detonating on the far side of the hangar
“Oh, god!" Seymour wailed "My magnolia!”
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“Look” Jay said to Cass “We get out of this mess and I’ll tell you what you want to know, you can even mind-trawl me if you want….”
As he finished his sentence he popped out of cover and let of a hail of fire from the heavy machine gun Davie had passed to him earlier, that was now propped up on the crate, mowing down the first few Maldorian invaders.
“Keep firing!” Jay ordered to everyone “We’ve got them in a bottle neck!”
Cass popped up and let off a few rounds from her rifle, the force nearly blasting her back, the recoil sending the barrel skyward where a shell hit an innocently hanging light fixture which tumbled groundwards, knocking out an unfortunate Maldorian who stood below.
“Nice shootin’ tex” Jay smirked “Smeg…move!”
A grenade bounced onto the deck just a few feet from where he and Cass were taking cover, Jay got to his feet quickly, and grabbed Cass by the hand, tugging her forcefully from her hiding spot and dragging her to a safer spot behind a metal equipment locker which he tipped over, the grenade went off, and blew several crates apart, sending food, wind, medicine and magnolia everywhere.
The Maldorians charged in in force, and spread out. Jay grabbed the assault rifle off his back and started to lay down fire.
“Theres too many of them!” Davie shouted across the room
“I know!” Jay snapped back “But we can’t lose the food!”
Getting a sudden whiff of a foul odour Jay wheeled around and spotted a Maldorian approaching Cass from behind, angrily, Jay popped the bayonet on his rifle and charged the alien, impaling him on the blade, and slamming him into the wall. “Hand’s off her….” He growled menacingly as he retracted the blade and the alien slid slimily down the wall.
“SEYMOUR NO!” Came a yell from White Wolf on the other side of the hangar bay.
Jay, along with everyone else looked over, Seymour was activating the outer door controls!
“What are you doing?!” Jay yelled
“Getting us out of this mess!” Seymour snapped back, “I suggest you all get out of here!”
A claxon sounded, Jay looked around. The hatch leading out into the rest of the ship was across the room, near where Seymour was fiddling.
“Come on” he said, grabbing Cass by the hand again, and sprinting across the room.
The others had already started moving through the hatch, which had begun to seal itself ready for the outer door to open.
Reaching the hatch, he roughly shoved Cass through, before turning back, letting off a couple of shots at the Maldorians and grabbing a small case of canned food before throwing himself through the hatch just as it closed.
A loud hiss followed, indicating that the cargo bay had decompressed, and the Maldorians were blown out into space.

The supplies along with them.

Seymour looked smug.

“And that!” he said “Is why you should all vote for me!”
“What the smeg did you do that for Seymour?!” Jay yelled “We’ve lost damn near everything! Even what little we had BEFORE we found the stash! He slammed down the can’s. This is it! ALL WE HAVE NOW!”
“There were too many of them!” Seymour replied “Davie said so himself!”
“Yes!” Davie replied “but that doesn’t mean we should just THROW IT ALL AWAY!”
“But there were making a terrible smell” Seymour protested, “Better all round to ventilate. Anyway. I managed to save the important stuff!”
“Like what?” Cass snorted derisively.
“Like a bottle of Chateau de Margo, and a tub of Magnolia!....what?"
The group of Dwarfers sighed and walked out of the airlock.
"I guess it's time for that explanation huh?" Jay said meekly to Cass.

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