Through The Looking Hole

Starring*: Alota, Keto, Steev and White Wolf
Showing At: T'kha'bath Prison Complex
Broadcast Time: The time after the stuff with the things that happened
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-- Snip --
The Eniram then caught a furball, a deranged flubber butt and some
guy that I'm not going to make sarcastic comments about because I
don't know him.......yet. The Eniram fell on the floor, everyone got
up and White Wolf took the harpoon the Eniram was holding.
-- End Snip --
"I have just about HAD it with falling through saliva-encrusted
tubes!" growled Keto.
"Ah, shut up flubber butt."
"What the hell is it with you and my butt?"
"Will you two BE QUIET?" hissed White Wolf, glancing up and down
the corridor, checking that no more Eniram were nearby. They all
froze as, very faintly, they heard approaching marching footsteps.
"Quickly, this w..." began the hamster, turning to head the other
direction.
They all froze once again as a second set of footstep echoes, this
time coming from the other direction, sounded.
"Okay, forget the sparkles, ANY chewing gum will do!" said Steev,
quickly rifling through his pockets.
"We haven't got time, we're going to have to go through one lot of
them!" said Alota, looking around to see if the Eniram they had
landed on had miraculously been carrying four harpoons.
"Oh, great, and what's the plan then?" asked Keto, "'Excuse me,
we're surrounded, so if you lot would just kindly not shoot us then
we can all go about our business'?"
"I don't see you coming up with a better plan!" retorted Alota.
Keto opened his mouth, then closed it again.
"Hah," said Alota, and continued to search the Eniram.
"I've got it! Quick, into one of the cells!" said Keto.
The others turned to stare at him.
"WHAT?"
"Okay, if I were head of a giant underwater city in the middle of a
war, in charge of a huge prison complex filled with probably hundreds
of cells, would I have time to tell my inferiors exactly WHICH CELL
four prisoners were in?"
"He's right," nodded White Wolf, as the marching footsteps grew
closer, "Quickly, in here..."
Slapping the hole against the wall next to one cell, the four of
them dived through it and pulled it off the wall behind them. Just
in time - two patrols of Eniram, all armed with harpoons, walked
around the corners of the corridor. Both stopped when they saw the
unconscious body of their colleague next to a locked cell containing
four prisoners.
"What did you do?" demanded one Eniram, stepping up to the cell
bars as the others lifted the unconscious one upright.
"Nothing, he just collapsed," said Keto innocently.
"Then where'd his harpoon go?" asked the Eniram. Keto opened and
closed his mouth for a second.
"It...uh...it...he...ah..."
"He decided to...throw...it...away..." said Alota quickly, her
voice gradually trailing off as she realised that possibly this
wasn't the falsehood of the century. The Eniram stared at her.
"Threw it away?" it said eventually.
"....yes."
"Threw away his only means of defence?"
"Yes."
"Threw away something that we are trained, year after year, never
to let out of our sight?"
"Yes?"
"Damn fool," growled the Eniram, turning and cuffing the
unconscious Eniram round the head. The prisoners breathed a sigh of
relief, White Wolf, still hiding the harpoon behind his back.
"We'd best report this," advised one Eniram, "Maybe it's a new
Aeron biological weapon of some kind."
The others looked a little uneasy at this diagnosis, but the
interrogatory one nodded.
"Agreed. Let's go."
The patrols headed off, taking the body with them. In a few
moments, after one more use of the hole, the Dwarfers were back in
the lap of liberty.
"Ms Viagra, remind me not to nominate you for Call My Bluff,"
murmured Keto.
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OOC: Okay, I know this does little to nothing to advance the plot,
but I can't think of a way to lead it on directly. So I thought I'd
post this anyway. :)
Steev, good to have you back! :)
*You can tell I'm feeling weird, non?