The Kat's out of the bag....

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Justin stepped forward, his body trembling from the throes of orgasm. “I... I... I...”
“Spit it out Pancake!” Jay said.
“Men... with bombs....” Justin said, and then made funny orgasm faces and held his crotch. Jay had no choice but to slap him out of it.
“Don't slap him, he likes it!” Phil said.
Justin recoiled, then took a deep breath. “They've sent a hundred suicide bombers over to the Blue Dwarf.” Justin said.
“What?” Jay turned to the Cleric. “Is this true?”
The cleric nodded. “Your followers will die to protect you.”
“Oh bloody hell. Send us over too!”
The Archiver cleric waved a hand and all the Blue Dwarf crew members disappeared from the floating Cathedral and back onto the Blue Dwarf, on corridor B237#9 / EE945 intersection where a hundred rampaging Malodorian suicide bombers were running towards the STCP enforcers.
<end snip>

The STCP enforcers were just like Jay and Phil. Ordinary people who had been recruited, probably against their will, to police the space time continuum for them. Jay didn’t know what gave the STCP the right to decide what was the ‘correct’ course of history, only that they did.
They’d taken great exception to Jay, and by extension Phil, deserting. These men *should* be dead, but instead they were very much alive and back in the universe out of the STCP’s control.

They didn’t like this at all. And had sent a squad to arrest them, and bring them in.

Jay knew, that if they succeeded, then neither he, Phil, nor likely any of their companions would see daylight ever again. They’d be locked up, and the key thrown away.

However, Jay also knew, that he couldn’t let the enforcers die. Chances are, he and Phil could convince them to desert too, given the chance. They’d know full well what life with the STCP was like. They’d all have lives they’d want to get back to.

This put Jay in a difficult position, as right now, several dozen Maldorians were on their way to kill the STCP in the name of their gods. Who just happened to by Jay, Phil, Cass and Justin.

Jay hated when this happened. The Crusades happened in his name, and he was still bitter about it.

He couldn’t exactly let the Maldorians die either, happy though they were to do so, but it just wasn’t right.

The group materialised between both groups, causing both to stop dead in their tracks, the Maldorians dropping to their knees and praying to their ‘gods’.

An enforcer was the first to speak. “It’s them!”
“Kill them!” another, female Enforcer said raising her weapon.
“….I know that voice…” Jay mused.
“Easy Kay…” said the first Enforcer again, holding back his comrade. “We won’t survive five minutes with the Maldorians if you murder their gods.”
“But!” Kay protested “We’ve hunted them for years…..”
“And our orders are to bring them in alive….”
“Like that was ever gonna happen….”
“Listen….” Jay snapped suddenly. “Fight over who gets to do what to me later, just let me save your asses from those guys first huh?” he pointed with one thumb over his shoulder at the Maldorians. “Davie…” Jay said “Take their weapons…”
“NOT A CHANCE, CHRYSLER!” squeaked Kay.
“Fine….then I’ll just step aside and let the Maldorians do what they came here for…I’d rather not go down that route, we’ve only just managed to get this place clean….”
“You’re bluffing….” Kay said again.
“Wanna bet?” Jay said “Think it’s beyond the ‘big bad traitor’?”
“Kay…” said the group leader “Do as he says, we have no idea what he’s capable of…you want to see your son again don’t you?”
“I know him…” Kay said “He wouldn’t go through with it…”
“You thought you knew him before…would you have guessed he’d do half the things the STCP want him for?”
Kay relented, and tossed her gun to Davie.
Jay nodded to Phil, who as the ‘chief god’ ordered the Maldorians to stand down.
Most complied, but one at the back had gotten a little too excited and pulled his detonator by accident and blew up 23 of his comrades and a vending machine, to the extent that it was now raining Rolos.
The Maldorians shimmered out of existence as the Archivers teleported them back to St. Febuggures Cathedralship.

“Right…” Jay said “Now that that’s over with, we can have a civilis……”
HE didn’t get to finish his sentence, as Kay, hurled herself at him, knocking him to the floor and began punching him hard, her nano-suit adding several pounds more force than her punches would normally carry, and Jay, without his own nanosuit struggled to fight her off as she screamed “ITS BECAUSE OF YOU!!! IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!!”
Cass, seeing this was incensed, and threw herself onto Kay, who, managed to knock her aside with a single punch. That, however, gave jay the distraction he needed and he threw Kay off his body, and to the floor where Davie aimed a gun at her head.
“White Wolf, Solvay…” Jay shouted down the corridor “Get their wrist-coms and masks off them…without the wrist computers they can’t jump outta here…” The hamster and the engineer complied, and removed the masks and equipment off the five agents who hadn’t jumped Jay. Jay recognised one or two of the agents. The squad leader was Hoshi Takanawa, he’d gone through training with him, but the one that interested him the most was “Kay”.
“If I didn’t know better.” He said looking down at the woman by his feet. “You’ve made this personal..”
“Bite me….” She replied, her loathing for the former Captain clear.
Jay nodded to Davie who took her wrist-com, and then her mask, revealing her face to Jay who fell silent, his eyes wide in shock.

He walked away backwards slowly before collapsing to the floor, his hand over his mouth.

Cass looked down at the woman that had shaken Jay so badly.

“Holy smeg…..Katrina?”

<tag / TBC – that’s right “Kay” is Jay’s long-dead wife….more to be revealed shortly, but don’t let that stop you from posting.>