When it rains, it pours..

What started as a few light drops of rain, soon became a heavy shower. The sound of the large, heavy raindrops sploshing into the swamp and spattering off the leaves drowning out the noise of conversation and wildlife alike.
The wind began howling loudly, swirling around the dwarfers. White wolf suddenly finding it necessary to remove a newspaper flying newspaper from his face. He glanced at it for second and smiled as he got an eyeful of the Roo tabloid’s ‘page 3’. A topless hamster named “Nicole” that no doubt would have set David Balls heart racing.
“What’s with the weather?” Jacky asked. “This storms come out of nowhere!”
Artemis glanced at his scanner. “Environmental defence system!” he said loudly to be heard above the brewing storm “remarkable they’ve set this up inside!”
A loud clap of thunder came from overhead. Katrina froze, and trembled. “I thought you said they’d have minimal defences!” she snapped in White Wolfs direction.
“I never said they’d have none!”
“Kat? What’s wrong?” Cass asked
“nu…nothing…” Katrina replied
Another clap of thunder. Katrina dashed across the clearing and stood behind Jaxx, quivering.
“Kat?”
“Alright!” she snapped “I’m scared of thunder OK?!”
“Really?” Cass said softly “You? A big tough ex-space corp engineer, ex-STCP enforcer scared of thunder?”
“Theres no weather in space!” snapped Chrysler. “It’s the perfect place to work! Anyway, it’s not like nobody else has irrational fears! Even Jay does, he’s scared of rabbits!”
“….” Was pretty much all anyone could say to that.
“The storms getting worse!” Artemis said “This is wonderful!”
“Can we get movin’?” Alex said “It’s gettin’ wet…”
“This is just the start of it!” Artemis said “The weather will get more severe and more bizarre the closer we get to the outpost entrance. How wonderfully clever.”
“Well then lets move!” Plisken said striding forward to lead the group.
Another clap of thunder made Katrina wince again.
“Jay’s scared of rabbits?” Cass asked….
<tag – it was never gonna be that easy, now you gotta fight through extremes of weather in confined spaces! Apologies if this sucks, I wrote quite a long post but had to scrap half of it when Lockes post came in!>