RE: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Assault on shuttle bay 612

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 "I gotta get out there"
"Jay you cant fly at the moment"
"Then I've finally got something in common with Kayn!" 
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Jay limped down the hall, holding his wound. He was obviously in pain.
"Hey, buddy, you should be in the Medi-bay right now, not in a bloody fighter cockpit!"
Jay ignored Zodar and kept going down the hallway towards the flight deck determined to get out there.
"JAY! THIS IS INSANE! YOU'RE IN BAD SHAPE!" Zodar shouted down the hall at Jay who had started trying to run.
As Chris followed Jay, Cubie ran out of primary power and had to shut down. She couldn't help now.
The two reached the Flight Deck and Jay immediately suited up to get in a cockpit.
"Jay, you don't have to do this. Be sensible. You have people who really care about you here, don't risk losing that."
"Life is one big risk, Chris. I have to do this."
"If you won't listen to me, I know someone else." Jay started up the thrusters, "HOLLY! GET ME ALOTA!"
"Ok, dude."
"Hello, this is Alota. What do you want?"
"ALOTA, LISTEN TO ME!"
"Whoa, calm down, you're shouting into the mic..."
Zodar cut her off mid-sentence, "SHUT UP! ALOTA, IF YOU WANNA GET MARRIED, TALK TO YOUR CRAZY IDIOT OF A BOYFRIEND!"
"Why, what's the problem?"
"HE'S ON THE FLIGHT DECK RIGHT NOW, TAKING OFF IN THE PHOENIX!"
"HE'S WHAT?! HOLLY, PATCH ME THROUGH TO THE PHOENIX, NOW!"
Inside the closed cockpit of the shuttle, the radio crackled to life...
"Jay, what do you think you're doing?!"
Jay toggled the switches on the instrument panel and the newly armed shuttle lifted off the ground.
"It'll be ok, baby. I'll be back before you know it. You won't even know I was gone."
"Jay, you know you aren't in the state to fly at the moment!"
"Just trust me."
And with that, Jay left the Flight Deck behind, gliding off to join the squadron.
 
Zodar stood on the Flight Deck cursing to himself.
"I should have stopped him when I had the chance." He said to himself.
A member of the Flight Deck Crew ran up to Zodar and shoved a helmet into his hands.
"'Bout time you showed up. There's a war out there sonny. Now get into that cockpit before I personally kick your ass."
"But I..."
"Is it so hard?" Said the man as he forcefully pushed Zodar up a ladder into a cockpit. "You're a pilot, it's what you do."
"BUT I'M N..." The man sealed the cockpit shut, not hearing the rest of Zodar's sentence, or rather, hearing a very muffled, untranslatable version of it.
Zodar put on the helmet and looked at the controls.
"I think I remember how to fly this thing from the Academy." Zodar said as he flicked a switch and turned the thrusters on.
"Yep, it's all coming back to me now..." He said as he left the hangar.
 
Jay was flying out to meet the squadron as Zodar flew along side his shuttle.
"Hi." Zodar said looking out his side window at Jay with a huge grin on his face.
"How come you're out here?"
"I didn't want to face that evil guy in the hangar again..."
 
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