Re: Bell awakens

Previously...
The pimpbot turned to walk away. Dirk pulled a fire extinguisher
from the wall with the ax that was hanging next to it. "Cracker
this." The pimpbot turned to reply. When he did, Dirk let loose a
shot of CO2 from the extinguisher right into the robot's optics.
Dirk dropped the extinguisher and went to work with the ax, breaking
open thebody of the bot like a pinata. With the bot down he called
for Holly on the nearest screen. "Holly."
"Yes?"
"Tell the scutters that I need them on deck 9."
"Will do."
"Oh, and could you tell me where to get another cup of coffee?"
The scutters arrived and were more than pleased to help him clean up
the pimpbot(Seems as though he had been hitting on a few of their
women, scutters,... whatever they had designated as the female
equivalent of themselves). As they place the remains into the
dumpster, Dirk stood there drinking his coffee with a smile on his
face. He couldn't help thinking, "That felt goooooooood. I haven't
had a chance to vent like that since I got on this ship. This trying
to be a good guy can really build up a lot of pressure. I needed
that. Damn, that felt good!" The sound of the compactor crunching
the meatal of the bot was music to his ears. Then there was the
wooshing sound of it being scattered into space. Maybe it was the
stress that caused his headache. Well, there was no stress now, just
a big smile on his face.
Dirk walked back to the science lab singing, "Who's the baddest man
on the Blue Dwarf? Dirk Bell! Damn right!"
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Zodar had successfully repaired the launcher after a little problem
with the safety systems. All was sweet. He'd done something for the
crew and was proud of it.
Zodar had stuck around for the launching of the missile cause it was
bound to be an event to remember. The atmosphere was quite slow after
the launch, so Zodar started off towards his room.
On the way, he felt a little tug at his "day-glo purple" jumpsuit
leg. Chris passed it off as a breeze (As you would in space) and
continued walking down the corridor.
It came again, but this time, whatever it was pulled Chris's leg out
from under him mid-step. Chris fell hard to the floor, flat on his
face.
Zodar twisted around and sat against the wall. After checking the
gash on his eyebrow like it was a major wound, he looked around. His
vision was blurry, but as it cleared up, he saw an object rushing
towards him, a scutter, and it ran into him, poking him straight in
the eyes.
"One hit after another..." Zodar thought, and rubbed his eyes.
It turned out that the scutter had urgent news about the faulty
service bot, or Pimpbot, that had supposedly been destroyed before.
"But I wasn't one of the people who destroyed it, why are you telling
me this? I hardly even know about it in the first place..."
The scutter explained that it hadn't been destroyed, but it had...
"You aren't making any sense..." Zodar said impatiently.
'Scutter 9' as it was called, told Chris that it hadn't been
destroyed the first time around, but a Mr Dirk Bell found it and went
to it with an axe or something and really made a mess of it.
Zodar was growing weary.
"Why are you telling me this 9?"
"Because I know where the missing cog is" was the reply from the
scutter.
Zodar instantly paid attention.
"Yes, where is it? I'd really like to know."
Suddenly, the scutter flew off around a corner.
"Wha.." Zodar couldn't be bothered moving and just gave up on any
investigation.
There was a metallic scraping sound from around the corner. Zodar
crawled to see what it was, only to see the scutter with a huge cog
in it's ...um... mouth.
"Where did you get this?! Who stole it?!"
The scutter appeared to be whispering into Zodar's ear...
"It was the Pimpbot! Well, that's a relief. I had a feeling that it
wouldn't be anyone on the ship! Number 9, I think you've earnt
yourself a can of WD40!"
Zodar walked off to get patched up with a bandaid or something. his
eye hurt like nothing else, like a sheet of metal had been shoved
into his head.
"Hmm... I wonder if Dirk knows what he's done? He's a hero! I'll find
him when I'm done in the medibay. Oh yeah, and I have to tell Smegg.
I'm just so happy it's all sorted out!"
:,)