White Wolf's Cliffhanger, next act.

Who - Lt. Commander White Wolf.
Where – On his little ship drifting in the blown up asteroids debris.
When – Several moments after the missile has blown up.
Amid the smoking consoles, and flickering lights, the huge hamster
was in free fall. And he drifted into and out of consciousness. He
was flinching as he had flashbacks from his past experiences...
A scene from the Blue Dwarfs medical bay wound it's way into his
partial consciousness, a doctors voice was harsh "This hamster is
dying, you'll have to get yourself another one."
The scene switched to Owen's Bar, Tara was laughing with him about
really good joke that Alota had told them.
Now the scene switched again, It was the man he only knew as `The
Engineer', the man who helped him acclimate to being a hamster – he
was lecturing White Wolf "You must always strive to do your best. And
that's the most anyone can do. Never give up!"
A grayness started to fill White Wolf's partial consciousness for a
moment and then the voice of Major Harris screamed "You talk to me of
TRUST?" the word "Trust" and echoed and slowly faded away.
The grayness gradually shifted to blackness, And the scene jumped
sharply into focus – One of White Wolf's security guard friends at
the Alpha Beta Far base was kneeling over `The Engineer', he turned
and looked sadly towards White Wolf "I'm sorry White Wolf, but I
think he's dead. We'll need his note, It's now evidence…"
"Noooooo!!!" White Wolf yelling while dropping the note and falling
to his knees and crying for the very first time in his adult
life "Why would anyone do such a thing?!?"
His friend bent and picked up the note examining it, and carefully
asked "Look, there's a name on back lower corner of the engineers'
note. It's `Darken', do you know who this is?"
The scene in White Wolf's partial consciousness abruptly shifted
again, this time he was in a lab, strapped down into some confining
device. The Evil Phil hovered into view, and said to someone out of
sight, "Ahh, He's awake now." And turning to face White Wolf the Evil
Phil continued, "This is very good, because we were beginning to get
worried you wouldn't make it our next torture session."
A six foot three inch hamster with pitch black scraggily fur, and a
opaque white sightless left eye moved into view, and spoke to White
Wolf "Tsk, tsk, you naughty little rodent! I really hate it when my
foes die before I can really mess up their lives! And you disgusting
little pipsqueak have done enough to foul up my grand scheme of
ultimate evil as it is! I intend to make you more miserable than any
other of my foes! You cost me my left eye. Oh, I shall make you pay
dearly for that! As you can see, I've hired the expert in 'Hamster
Torture', and I plan on you and him getting to know each other really
well. I expect that through his unusual skills you will vicariously
experience every death known to mankind with his special hamster
holosimulator. I especially like the one where you get put into a
microwave and get cooked until you explode. Now that's truly painful,
isn't it?"
The Evil Phil nodded grinning with malevolence.
"Of course, That ain't all the torture I plan on having him do to you
White Wolf. No, that is merely the beginning! For you see, with
Phil's help, I plan on having you relive the death of your
mentor, `the engineer' again, and again. And then, you'll experience
the deaths each and every one of your friends who ever found out
about me. You know I've personally killed them all! Don't you
think that is so delicious?"
White Wolf slowly came back to full consciousness while
screaming "DAMN YOU DARKEN!!!!!"
The huge hamster opened his eyes, and looked around with a touch of
fear, while whispering faintly "Darken?" then seeing he was still on
board his little ship, he relaxed and weakly waved the drifting blood
from in front of his snout. He then quickly vomited.
He murmured weakly, "I hate free fall! It always makes me motion
sick."
He noticed his vidman was drifting above him. He slowly reached up
and grabbed it, then reactivated Holly2.
Holly2's face looked astonished, and then he quickly put on a party
cap and blew a noisemaker while paper confetti fell in his
background, and he crowed "We're alive! We're Alive, Woo hoo!"
"Nice to see you too Holly 2." Replied the hamster.
Holly 2 took off his party hat, and looked a bit more somber, "Hey, I
know I'm not programmed for giving a medical diagnosis, but even I
can tell you don't look so good."
"Oh, I've certainly had better days, but as usual, I'm probably going
to live to regret it. So what's the ship's status, Holly 2?"
"Well, do you want to hear the good news, the bad news, or the really
bad news?"
"You mean there's actually good news?"
"Yes, the ship isn't venting atmosphere from its numerous hull
breaches anymore. But the bad news is, thats because there isn't any
more atmosphere left except in this cabinet and you only have about
an hour of oxygen left to breathe. But the good news is, you won't
have to worry about dying of oxygen starvation."
"You mean you detect there's rescue mission for us already underway?"
"As much as I'd like to lie about it, No. That brings us to the
really bad news. We're falling towards the planet because the ships
fail safe systems ejected the main power source along with about 90
percent of the ships contents when the engine went critical which
later exploded and thus helping demolish the asteroid chunk a bit
more. Now we're operating on battery power which gives us about 1%
thrust capability, and that isn't enough for us to stop from burning
up in the planets atmosphere in about 30 minutes."
"Do you still have the comm. Link with the BD?"
"Nope, we lost all ship board communications when most of the
consoles did the star trek thing and exploded. And that's the first
time I've seen that happen in real life, and it was a lot less
entertaining."
The overgrown hamster muttered "We've got to get the Blue Dwarf's
attention somehow! Their are only chance at rescue."
He weakly glanced around, and noticed his away team headset was
drifting near his vomit. He started to reach for it and missed,
wincing in pain and nearly started to pass out from the effort.
"Careful, in your current condition, any exertion could be life
threatening!" Warned Holly 2.
"I've... got... to... try" Said White Wolf while slowly reaching up
and successfully grabbing the headset. He looked at it, and saw the
microphone was busted. He sighed, and feeling rather defeated, he
slowly slid back into unconsciousness.
"It was a good effort." Holly 2 tried reassuring the huge hamster,
and noticing the hamster wasn't replying he said, "White Wolf? ...
White Wolf? Can you hear me?" he paused and then said "Perhaps, I
could sing us a funeral dirge."
While White Wolf was unconsciousness, he had another flashback of
being in Evil Phils lab with Darken who was remarking to the Evil
Phil "Can you believe this pathetic thing is *still* trying to
warning his friends while he's got a gag in his mouth? What are you
going to do, little rodent? Tap out morse code and hope those twits
can understand?!? As if!" maniacal laughter from both of them
followed.
The huge hamster snapped back to consciousness as Holly 2 just
started in on his second funeral dirge, and suddenly blurted "Morse
code... THAT'S IT!"
Holly 2 stopped singing and asked "What? Is there something wrong
with my song?"
"No, I've just got an idea of how to get the Blue Dwarfs attention,
from one of my mortal enemies of all things."
Holly 2's face scrunched up in distaste, "Now that's a nasty twist of
fate! Someone who's trying to do you in actually winds up being your
savior..."
"And it would enrage Darken if it actually works! Well anyways, even
though this headsets microphone is busted, I can still depress the
comm. Link button on and off to send out a rudimentary SOS in morse
code. Alota should be able to hear it clicking on and off back on the
Blue Dwarf." Then overgrown hamster started pushing the headsets
comm. Link button repeatedly.
Several minutes of silent clicking passed, and then Holly 2 spoke
up, "You know, after sharing this near death experience with you, I
think if we get rescued by the Blue Dwarf, I think I should do
something to differentiate myself from the Blue Dwarf's main
computer."
While repeatedly clicking out the SOS, the hamster inquired "What are
you going to do? Change your name from Holly2? Change you're looks?
Emulate a different personality?"
"I think I'll do them all. I think I'll try life as the other side of
the coin, I think I'll try being a woman for a while, and perhaps
even be your virtual girlfriend."
"YOUR GOING TO WHAT?!?" Exclaimed White Wolf as he whirled head
around suddenly toward the vidman in amazement and quickly fainted
from the exertion.
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OOC - Ok Alotta! you and others need to take over from here.
Umm, that is, make sure WW and his ship comes back more
or less intact! :)