Three Is a Crowd

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The three of them heard the bike approaching and watched as the small display of Cass’s tablet tried to resolve the high speed of the bikes and scan the targets. It wasn’t until they had barricaded the door and set in with the sharpened sticks that Jamie had in reserve in the house that the little tablet picked up three human life signs. Jade peeked out of the Window.
“Who’s there? We’re armed!” She said, ducking back down to avoid any retaliation. Whoever these guys were, they’d found a way to circumvent the electromagnetic field in the same way as Artie and Kenneth had. How else did you explain the bikes?
“Jade?” Cass’s voice floated in through the barricades and the three inside collapsed with sighs of relief. They moved the hastily constructed barricades and exited the building.
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As Evelina, Jade and Jamie left from the front door Jaxx thought to Franky, “Hey Master can I like talk to Eve babe. I totally need to explain you being in my melon and stuff.” Franky smirked as he thought, “Oceans to Murgatroyd, even, I wouldn’t dream of tormenting that poor girl even.” Franky then released Jaxx’s body back to Jaxx and watched as Jaxx greeted everyone and hugged Evelina. As everyone was talking about their situation Jaxx took Evelina aside to explain his situation with Franky inside his mind. Evelina asked, “So how long will he be in your mind?” Jaxx nervously rubbed the back of his head as he replied, “Like till we get back to the dwarf and he can totally get a new body and stuff.” Evelina sighed as she replied, “Oh poo. It kinda kills the mood for us to be alone.” Jaxx nervously smiled as he replied, “Naah its cool Eve babe Master Franky dude is totally cool and he like already read my mind and stuff.” Evelina blushed as she looked at Jaxx and replied, “So he knows…….” Jaxx braced for a good smack to the face, but Evelina knew Jaxx didn’t do this on purpose so she put her hand on his cheek and caressed it as she replied, “I guess we will have to postpone our honeymoon again.” Jaxx looked at the caring Evelina and replied, “You’re the best Eve babe. I will totally make it up to you and stuff.” Evelina smiled at Jaxx as she replied, “I know you will.”
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It wasn’t long before everyone was caught up and the tablet was safely back in Cass’s hands. Some of the tension visibly left her body as she held the device, Jade noticed that it seemed to put her at ease a little to have it close by. Eve and Jaxx were caught up with each other, paying little attention to the discussion progressing on the porch.
“But we can’t take the bikes, there are too many of us now.” Cass pointed out, waving an arm at the gathering.
“We’ll never travel that distance and not be killed.” Jade said, looking out at the jungle, there were over 150km of Jungle between them and where Cass had determined Plisken was. They were well outside the flux zone here. Jade looked over to Eve and frowned slightly, she excused herself and walked over tapping Eve on the shoulder. “Eve, I know you want to make sure Jaxx is ok, but you guys should come here this too.” Jade said, smiling. Returning to the group, she could hear Fraxx* muttering
“Sorry Eve babe. I distracted you.” And looking rather sheepish.
“We can’t walk it. We can’t.” Cass was getting agitated again.
“Well we can’t all ride on the bikes either. And I'm not letting us split up again.” Jay said, looking sadly at the new toys he would have to abandon. Fraxx frowned, and he looked up nervously, hesitantly interrupting the discussion.
“Like. Ms Jones. Mr Chrysler… I… I have an idea…” Both of them turned to look at him with incredulity on their faces. A sharp look from Jade cut off their protests before they spoke. “Maybe… Maybe we could like. Make a sled. And pull it with the bikes?” He said, hoping that he hadn’t made them angry.
“That’s actually not a bad idea…” Jamie said, thinking and looking back to the house. “I can rig up the bath tub so the passengers are protected.” He said, already moving towards the house.
“And Cass and Eve can ride pillion again.” Jay added, perhaps a bit too quickly.
“Great. Lets get to it.” Cass said, sitting down and tapping on the pad furiously.
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After digging around for materials in his house Jamie came across two barrels that he had split in half and used to hold grain in. However since Efof had been gone so long they were empty. After a few seconds Jamie came up with the idea to make two side cars for each hover bike. Using leather and fur blankets Jamie made some seats to make the side cars more comfortable. After gathering up some more parts Jamie and the others were able to attach the half barrels on each side of the hover bikes giving it the appearance of a fine automobile decorated like a an art car for a parade. Jaxx tried to count everyone around and then asked Jamie, “Ummm Jamie dude why the extra seats?” Jamie smiled as he replied, “Well it will help balance out the weight and we still have to get Plisken and Artemis.” Jaxx thought for a second before realized and replied, “Whoa dude you’re totally smart and stuff.” Evelina patted Jaxx on the head as she replied, “You’re so sweet.” Jaxx smiled nervously as he replied, “So like should I let Franky drive again?” This of course led to the explanation to Jade and Jamie about how Franky needed a new body and hitched a ride in Jaxx’s mind till they could get him a new on the Blue Dwarf. Though Jamie and Jade were not too thrilled about Jaxx being possessed by a psychic creature, Jay and Cass acknowledged he did help them out and was very knowledgeable in many areas.

After adding supplies to counter balance to the empty side car Jay mounted up on his hover bike with Cass as pillion and Jade in the side car. Jaxx looked at Evelina for a response only to see she sat on the bike and examined the controls before she replied, “I’ll drive so Jaxx you’re riding pillion and Jamie will be in the side car.” Jamie grabbed a few weapons before he got into the side car while Jaxx nervously sat behind Evelina and tried to find a place to hold onto. Evelina giggled as she said, “Jaxx You need to hold onto my waist if you don’t want to fall off.” Jaxx was nervous but did as he was told since he was already in trouble for dying last time and making Evelina cry. As Jaxx held onto Evelina he was both nervous and excited as he could feel the softness of Evelina’s skin and the smell of her natural scent. After a small system check Evelina had a pretty good idea how to operate the hover bike since she had some experience operating some ships and vehicles. Granted she was no way near Jay’s level in skill she still was able to do well on her own. After That Cass gave Jay directions to find Plisken based on the intel of her datapad. After that Jay and Evelina headed out with the others through the forest to avoid being spotted.

While on route the Dwarfers managed to attract the attention of a few Haruk triceratops mounted scouting parties along the way. However with the efforts of the combine skills of the Dwarfers they managed to trip of the dinosaurs without killing any of them. Of course that didn’t mean the Haruk were all too happy with having a broken bone or two. After several hours of riding the Dwarfers arrived on the outskirts of a small Haruk settlement. Cass found a combination of Haruk, Ssalan, unknown machines and human signatures on her datapad as she explained to Jay what she was seeing she asked, “So Jay how do you want to do this?” Everyone else waited for Jay to come up with a plan as they waited patiently.

TAG – (Since we have no idea what Plisken is involved in how should we approach the Haruk base?)