Crashed And Unarmed In A Hostile Jungle...Still, You've Got To Laugh

Who: Tara, Amber, Rufus, Vanessa, Tree, Keto, Wildflower, Trisees,
Cerebrum, Hazel...oh, and Jay "You Mean You're Not Meant To *Aim* For
The Ground?" Chrysler
Where: Crashed Bug
When: After it crashed!
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> The cockpit was ablaze.
> Jay blacked out.
The back of the Starbug was in chaos...and smoke, and several
flames.
"Grab the fire extinguishers!" called Coffey, following her own
advice and quickly being joined by Wildflower and Tara. Vanessa
struggled towards the cockpit, hauling a fire extinguisher with her,
trying to get to her brother. The Tree, panicking at the sight of
flames, had shut itself in the closet.
Keto, opting for the instinctively correct idea of making for the
door, was somewhat annoyed to collide with Cerebrum and Trisees as
all three of them went for the handle at the same time.
"Get out of my way!"
"Let me at the door, fools!"
"Clear the exit, now!"
All three of them, paying less attention to the actual door than to
who was to be responsible for saving their lives, were taken
completely by surprise when one flailing arm hit the release
mechanism and they all toppled out through the hatchway.
From several metres beneath the level of the door, there were some
thumps, and a few muffled groans.
"Yet another smooth Chrysler landing. Get off me, Cerebrum,"
growled one voice.
Back inside, the worst of the flames were out. Wildflower's
extinguisher, empty, was tossed to one side as Vanessa reappeared,
dragging the unconscious Jay behind her.
"The cockpit's ruined," said Vanessa, shaking her head, "There's no
way anybody could fly this thing away from here now."
"Then we'd best get outside and see where we are," said Coffey,
nodding towards the open hatchway. As Tara went off to retrieve the
kids from their hiding place, and as Wildflower let the trembling
Tree out of it's closet, Vanessa and Coffey manoeuvred Jay out of the
hatchway. Grudgingly, the three men below caught him (although Keto
did 'accidentally' bang Jay's head on the Starbug landing
leg...twice).
A few minutes later, all were out of the Starbug. Beginning to
come back to the land of the living, Jay groaned as he tried to sit
up.
"What happened?"
"You added a corollary to your Chrysler manoeuvre," muttered
Keto, "Note to all pilots attempting this oh-so-smooth move - make
every opportunity to do so when above extremely thick jungle a few
miles from an alien installation, it's great fun!"
Wearily, Jay opened one bleary eye, to see that the Starbug had
indeed crashed in the middle of something that would make the Amazon
rainforest resemble a mere bush by comparison.
"Oh great," he groaned, letting his eyes close again.
"And on that momentous note," said Keto sourly, "I say we head for
the facility. And perhaps there we'll find some way to contact the
Blue Dwarf and ask for their help in getting out of this Chrysler-
created mess, hmm?"
Any immediate responses were somewhat overridden, however, by an
ear-piercing shriek that rang out through the undergrowth, followed
by several loud, animalistic growls that sounded not as far away as
they might have been wished to be.
"That didn't sound good," said Wildflower unnecessarily.
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OOC: Handing it over to anyone who's been told why it's not good. ;)