Niples "The potential licking of fire"

<<I don't know if this got through to the group so I'm resending it>>
 
Unused Engineer's room 3214
On the Blue Dwarf
 
Sparks flew, metal was bent, hammered and drilled into shape, the shape forming into a basic wide, flat cylinder shape. Seymour Niples removed the welding visor covering his face and wiped his oily hands on his greasy overalls. The outline skeletal shape of his and Katrina's robot was ready, all it now needed was something to protect the delicate electrical insides.
 
Seymour turned the engineering room upside down, and when he couldn't find anything he went to the Engineering control centre, and various other rooms where junk collects around the ship. All he could find was a piece of thin plywood that Smegg spared him. The plywood was a good specimin, but wasn't exactly the most robust material to make a robot of manic destruction out of.
Plus he might get splinters.
 
In the end he settled for the thin wood and bent it around the circular shape of his robot, stapleing it into place. He now just hoped he could find a piece of material to cover it with that would be absolutely flame retardent, as he heard some of the robots may use flame-throwers.
 
That was when Katrina walked into the room. He smiled as she wafted the dust and smoke of construction out of her face. And she smirked at seeing him dressed in overalls like the costume to a bad Danish porn movie.
 
"I've got the material to cover it with." Katrina said exitedly, as if they were dressing a child ready for his big break in the school play.
Niples looked at the drapes she was holding. It was a very furry red material, almost pink, with black spots or blotches.
"Where did you ge that?!" Niples asked in shock or seeing the gawdy material.
 
"In a crate in the cargo bay labelled 'J.Johnson's clothes', and because Johson left with his 'friend', I didn't see any harm in taking his clothes." replied Katrina.
 
"I know Johnson was a bit, well...you know... But I can't imaging him wearing THIS!" Said Seymour, taking a closer look. He found the label on the material that told him what it was made from.
The words 'FLAME RESISTANT' could be clearly seen on the tag. "This will do fine" said Niples, smiling at Katrina. They then together began stretching the furry red and black material over their robot's frame.
For the finishing touch, Katrina added two raised eye-lumps and painted small circular pieces of plastic to make Blue Peter style googly eyes.
 
The robot was completed. Due to Niples' amazingly advanced electronic and engineering skills, the robot had the best weapon available. A spiky thing. When questioned if the spiky thing was going to be enough, he said calmly: "Believe in the spiky thing, and in true Robot Wars tradition... We're hoping to do some damage!"
 
Somewhere in the cover of the apparently flame resistent robot, a smaller tag next to the word "FLAME RESISTANT" fell off, revealing the words "DEFINATELY NOT".
 
The robot was going into battle anyway.
The name of the Robot was "NEMESIS"
 
Unbeknown to Niples, another robot in the past had had this very same name, and had exactly the same problem.....
 
<<Katrina, do you want to continue? Niples has seemed to notice you a bit more now, but like most males- he doesn't know whan he's into a good thing>>
==================================Lt. David "Onion" BallAssistant Helm officer/ Pilot  USS Endeavour-ACommander Seymour Niples  JMC Blue DwarfWWW.Home.JMCBlueDwarf.com==================================