Is the Hamster becoming suicidal?!?!?
Lt. Cmdr White Wolf
Just after Kayn landed the Valkyrie on the Blue Dwarf
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The huge hamster straightened up, and spoke with a somewhat winded
voice "That certainly went better than the last time I saved him from
getting killed in the steam tunnels! Awch! My head hurts from just
the memory of him bashing my skull in last time, which left me
comatose for a while before I died.. Oh, that reminds me..."
Turning to Kayn, the overgrown hamster continued "Kayn, your expert
flying skills are going to be needed in the drive room, you need to
report there immediately. Don't ask me how I know - Just go and save
Commander Niples hide you'll know what I mean soon! Meanwhile, I've
got a mission of my own I've got to attend to... Oh, and could you to
keep an eye out for me? I might need some more of your handywork."
And with that the six foot one hamster dashed out of the Valkyrie,
leaving Kayn a little bewildered.
Once outside, the huge hamster ran over to his small ship, and
stopped knelt down and kissed the Blue Dwarf's deck, and patting it
for luck. And opened the hatch and ran for his small ships cockpit,
while bring out vidman with Holly 2, and spoke to it "Holly2 link up
with BD's sensors, I need you to be ready to do some serious scanning
of an asteroid and quickly plot a impact trajectory in a few minutes."
Holly 2 flashed an uncertain look, "Sure, White Wolf, Is this going
to be serious?"
"Deadly serious." Said the huge hamster as he ran.
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Minutes after Commander Niples left the blue dwarf
The huge hamster arrived in the small ship's cockpit, and quickly
prepped for take off. He queued up his comm. Link, and informed who
was listening that he was taking off. And quickly gunned his engines
and shot out the Blue Dwarf.
Alota sounded confused and gave a reply over the comm.
link. "Wha?? ...White Wolf? ... What the frells going on? Where are
you going? Are you going after the Captain? Wasn't Commander Niples
going after the Captain?"
"I'm not going after the Captain or Commander Niples. I've got
something I have to do that I need to handle myself. Wish me luck,
because this going to get very dangerous, Allota! I'm moving into
position now, Lt. Commander White Wolf out."
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Moments just before Cannon blew up the asteroid.
White Wolf made the final maneuvers to swing his little ship into
position, and he spoke to Holly 2 "Have you got your link up with the
Blue dwarf's sensors?"
"Yes, what am I looking for?" replied Holly2
"In a few seconds, that asteroid is gonna blow, and I want you to run
a sensor sweep for a large chunk that's going to break off and fall
towards the planet below. What you looking for is a large fault line
in the rock. I want you to plot the firing solution for the missile
from the Blue Dwarf, and I need to know if the missiles trajectory is
going to hit it well enough for the missile to destroy the asteroid
chunk rather than splitting into 2 fairly big chunks. Because if it
doesn't happen to be in the right position I think we're going to
need to ram it ourselves, so it rotates enough so that the missile
does blow it up properly."
"That sounds tricky!"
"Oh, believe me, It is... And that's our Mission. We're the last
chance before some people are killed down there on the planet by a
catastrophic asteroid impact."
Holly2 spoke up, "The Blue Dwarf is moving close to the asteroid!"
"Good, that must be Kayn rescuing the Commander. Let's hope he
doesn't hit anything! Otherwise the Blue Dwarf won't be there to fire
the missile!"
The huge hamster sat there waiting nervously while pulling out clumps
of his fur for several moments, and then the asteroid blew up. The
blue dwarf rolled and slowly came away from the asteroid.
Holly 2 announced "It's clear!"
"Good job, Kayn! You got Niples!" yelled the overgrown hamster, "Ok
Holly2 get ready..."
The hamster mentally counted out to thirty, and called to Holly
2 "Ok, Start now!"
"Scanning..." said holly2 breathlessly with sweat building up on his
brow.
The six foot one Hamster, moved closer to Holly 2 and said "And?"
"Too early to tell! The Blue Dwarf isn't in a good firing position
yet."
"Come On... I know you can do it Kayn!"
"Their in position!"
The huge hamster watched the asteroid as it loomed closer to the
planet, and yelled with exasperation "Why aren't they firing? I hope
Smegg fixed that launcher!"
"Their firing!"
"Is the chunks fault line going to be in the proper position for the
missile to destroy it?"
"Checking..."
The seconds ticked off.
"NO!" concluded holly 2.
"Ok, plot in our ramming trajectory and direct the auto pilot to
carry it out!"
"It's going to be close, I've plotted a course that will make us
glance of the chunk, but I can't guarantee that'll we'll be clear
enough that we won't get destroyed by the missile blast!
"That doesn't matter, just do it Holly 2!'
"It's done. It's been nice working with you White Wolf."
And the little ship shot forward. Heading towards the asteroid at
full speed.
The huge hamster cued up his comm. Link to the Blue dwarf, "Allota
this White Wolf, The missiles going to miss a major fault line in the
asteroid chunk the Blue dwarf is firing at, which will break it into
two chunks that will still be large enough to create major
catastrophe on the planet. I'm going to ram it to rotate it into
position! White Wolf Out."
Clicking off his comm. Link he spoke to Holly 2, "Don't worry, Holly
2, I've strengthened the superstructure for the impact. We should
survive anything short of a direct hit by the missile." Reassured the
over grown hamster.
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Alota gasped and hurriedly relayed the news to everyone in the drive
room crew.
Everyone held their breath as they watched the little ship shoot
forward on a collision course with the two objects.
Moments later, the little ship rammed into asteroid chunk and glanced
off. And within seconds, the missile impacts the chunks fault line
and exploded. And a large cloud of debris, enveloped the area.
Allie glanced at the sensor station, and quickly noted the blast
seems to have reduced the chunk into thousands of small suitcase
sized pieces. But she hasn't located White Wolf's small ship among
the debris yetÂ…
OOC - I hope everybody enjoyed my post! Sorry, but I have to keep you
in suspense about what happened to White Wolf for a bit longer...
because I want to give people a crack at posting their characters
reactions/participation/help/yelling & screaming/or whatever they
feel like... I *hate* to leaving anyone out from such a major plot
piece like this!