Is the hamster losing his sanity from being forgotten?!?
Where: In a makeshift treehouse somewhere on this bloody planet
that's filled with nasty beasts.
When: Well, sometime before sunset. (Whadda ya expect from a marooned
hamster without a watch?)
Who: Your Missing Acting-Captain, of course, Who were you
expecting... Chen?!?
The Six foot one inch hamster stopped pedaling his make shift bicycle
come power generator that was hooked up to a large group of hodge
podge looking lead acid batteries, and tapped at the crude morse code
device once again.
He then waited a few minutes for a response from his makeshift
speaker. But unfortunately, there was nothing but silence.
"I wonder if I wore down the charge on the batteries too much to
transmit any more." said the huge hamster outloud to himself, as he
walked over to a crude table and hooked up the cable from the
batteries to his very dirty looking vidman unit sitting on a crude
wooden table. He tried activating the vidman.
Sam's face appeared on the screen just long enough for her to say "Hi
Sweetie.. Uh oh." and the screen went blank again.
The overgrown hamster muttered to himself, "Blast, I did run 'em
down. Seems like I'll have to try charging them up some more
tommorrow, It's getting too hot to continue right now."
A hoarse howl came from the jungle below the treehouse.
White Wolf quickly picked up a nearby makeshift crossbow and walked
over to a treehouse window, took aim at the movement in the jungle
below and fired a shot in it's direction. A mere second later, a
sharp howl of pain came up from the jungle floor below.
"Just keep coming back, vlidamir! And you'll be joining the rest of
your clan up here real soon!", Hollered the huge hamster as he
reached up an shook his necklace to which was attached several sets
of Ravenger* teeth and one small Ravengers' skull.
The overgrown hamster continued watching carefully as the large
gorilla/cave bear shape slowly limped slinking off into the darker
parts of the jungle.
Eventually after he was satified the thing was gone, he shook his
head and muttered distractedly "When I finally get back to the Blue
Dwarf and off this stupid mudball, I'll be sorely tempted to leave
behind a few nasty goodbye gifts for all you mangey clans."
The huge hamster fanned himself, and continued "I think I need a
shower, it's getting too hot."
The huge hamster got down on all fours and scampered out of the
treehouse, and accross a rope bridge to another smaller treehouse
which contained lots of makeshift barrels. The overgrown hamster
stopped and pushed a large snake out of one of the barrels while
commenting, "I'm sorry Betsy, But that's more than enough fermented
tubers for you. I don't want a repeat of you becoming intoxicated and
barfing in my nest. It was bad enough that I had to spend a week
trying to scrub the smell out of the place. Though, I'll admit, it
did certainly put the Clans off from coming around begging for food,
But I don't happen to like it any more than they do."
The snake that he refered to as 'Betsy' simply hissed at him coldly
and got in the way as the huge hamster replaced the cover back on the
barrel.
"Oh, go bother Reginald!" complained the Overgrown Hamster as he
continued scampering onto yet another rope bridge which led to a very
small wooden shack with a water catch basin and tilt bucket with
chain above it. The Huge Hamster stepped beneath the tilt bucket and
pulled the chain, causing water to gush out and splash over him.
The Overgrown Hamster murmured "Ahh... what I'd give for air
conditioning."
Another large snake flipped out of the tilt bucket and plopped on the
floor next to the Overgrown Hamsters feet causing him to startle
slightly.
"Reginald! How many times have I told you to stop doing that!"
The large snake named 'Reginald' just ignored him and slowly
slithered up the side of the small wooden shack and on up, toward the
water catch basin.
The Huge Hamster looked up at the distant flash in the sky that
indicated where the Blue Dwarf was in orbit and simply sighed, and
commented towards the distant flash "When are you guys going to
notice I'm down here and come an rescue me. What do I need to do,
build a giant communication array and take remote control of the
Dwarf and pull you hinney's down here?"
The Overgrown Hamster blinked as he suddenly got an idea and
exclaimed loudly, "I'll need to find the other Starbug!"
He bolted accross the rope bridges back to the main treehouse,
startling several birds. He stopped and opened a makeshift foot
locker beneath the table and grabbed out his very tattered JMC vest,
put it on, and then slipped the vidman from the table into a vest
pocket. While heading for the ladder down, he grabbed up his
makeshift crossbow and a leather sack filled with crossbow quarrels.
He swung down the ladder at near breakneck speed, as he muttered to
no one in particular, "It's gotta be near the Tawannabe's temple and
if I can salvage the right parts, Blue Dwarf here I come..."