**Action** "Maxomegopolis"

**Action**
By WW + Onion
The Planet of Plebe
Tony Bourbon walked alone through the dark streets of Maxomegopolis city. He had been with friends down at the local pub for a while now. Tomorrow was the Plebe weekend so he didn't need to be  up out of bed too early. Tony stumbled through the streets, slightly intoxicated by his consumption of his planet's local beer. Alright, it wouldn't be too far beyond the truth to say that he was "pissed as a fart".
As Tony walked home, his route  brought him past the Maxomegopolis  National  Bank, a big secure building where most of the planet's money and gold were stored. Kept safe for the fat cats  who owned major corporations and thought it best to pay themselves the most amount of money just for sitting around in a posh leather chair in the penthouse suite of a tall office skyscraper and watching their workers work their fingers to the bone and the money pour on in.
"Bastards!" The drunken Tony shouted at the bank, and to all the fat cats who would never hear him anyway.
But the shout was not unheard by everyone, as there was someone in the bank tonight. This individual was no security guard, as all the bank's security personnel were  a pile of smoking ashes on the floor. It was safe to say that they were quite dead, although Tony Bourbon was oblivious to this fact. He continued his stumble home when a loud crashing sound made him glance back at the bank. One of the walls on the sturdy bank building exploded outwards in an impressive display of green flames. Tony watched in shock as the rubble spilled out onto the road behind him. An alarm which he hadn't heard before was now suddenly much loader as the wall  that was muffling it was breached, and this  alarm was soon accompanied by an array of multiple  police-car sirens coming in the distance.
Out of the hole in the wall stepped a lone figure dressed in tight black lycra, the figure was a woman. But, more importantly, she was human. You see, Tony Bourbon, and every other Plebian on the planet Plebe, were a race of slightly genetically modified humans that went wrong during production. They were a little slower than normal humans, physically and mentally. They tend to plod along the streets and wonder where their homes and jobs are. Another Plebian trait is that they only have four toes on each foot, which makes them fall over a lot because they can't get their proper balance. These people were given what they thought was a special prize for entering a  lottery contest to live on the beautiful planet of Plebe on the edge of known space, which was actually just a way for the Genetics company which created them to get rid of them and cover up  their mistake.  All the Plebians eventually made a decent home for themselves after finding a few handy books like "How to make a city from scratch" and "Civilization for beginners".
Tony recognised this woman was human even though he couldn't see her toes, because of the look she had on her face. It was a look that stated she knew what she was doing, and was damned proud of it too, which was a facial expression that Plebians never wore.
The woman was looking very smug because she was holding the planet's largest diamond in her hand. It certainly looked very expensive to Tony, and he guessed that she must have just stolen it. But how did she just destroy the wall like that?  Tony, figured it must have taken a pretty powerful weapon. She examined the stolen goody in her grubby paws for a few moments before she noticed Tony gawking at her in the usual Plebian fashion. Her face turned to one of manic anger and murder, as she slipped the diamond in her pocket and jumped towards him.
It was a jump like no other Tony had ever seen, surely more than a Plebian was capable of. She flew over his head and landed next to him with  surprising accuracy. She put her fingers to her lips and knocked him to the floor just by blowing on him. The startled Plebian skidded down a dead end alley and crashed into a pile of rubbish, his slow Plebian mind couldn't comprehend what was going on.
The woman strode into the alley and held out her hand,   with her palm extended towards him. Then something really weird happened.   Her hand started glowing with a green flame.
Suddenly a group of policemen ran into the alley with guns pointing at her. "Freeze…erm…missy." said one of them in the slow Plebian drawl. She spun quickly and the green flame in her hand suddenly shot out and struck the policemen who spoke,  and  the men behind him also had no idea what had happened as another fireball quickly reduced them to a pile of ashes. One man who only caught the edge of the flame from her hand ran around screaming as the flames eventually consumed him. It was probably the fastest the Plebian had ever ran in his life.
Another police car arrived on the scene and the woman wasted no time, she ran at the car and picked it up by the front as if it weighed nothing at all and threw it into a second vehicle as it was just  rounding the corner.
 As Tony Bourbon watched, the flames seemed to come straight out of her hand to incinerate the second vehicle, and she used her super-human and certainly super-Plebian strength to rip off the roof of the second police car and pull out the occupants and toss them aside as if they were merely paper cutouts instead of police officers.
A police riot van pulled up behind the others, and the Plebians in riot gear inside the van took one look at the burning wreckage of the first police care and the woman tossing aside their fellow officers from the second police car, and they quickly abandoned the van and ran off down the street as fast as they could.
The  woman in black waltzed up to the riot van and crushed the metal on it's front end as she grabbed it with one hand, lifted it above her head and quickly threw it into the sky where it disappeared out of sight into the stars.
 As the rest of the Plebians fled the scene,  the woman checked  to make sure the diamond was in her pocket, crouched  down and  leaped up into the sky where Tony Bourbon saw her fly like a bird through the city's massive skyscrapers.
As Tony Bourbon was an office junior at Maxomegopolis' biggest newspaper "The Daily Plebe" ,  the story was all over the newspapers the next day.  Stating that there was a new Super Villan in Maxomegopolis. 
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Not too many light years away ... 
The Blue Dwarf flew peacefully through the star system where the planet Plebe rotates backwards.
Out of apparently no-where a Police riot van which has been slightly melted by the speed it was propelled out of the planet's atmosphere flew through the solar system. It passed the planet closest to Plebe, one which had a very unusual magnetic disturbance pattern. Streaks of charged electricity thunderbolted across the small gaseous planetoid. The small plant gave out rings of radiation, rings which lasted as far as the planet Plebe before the radiation dissipated.
But enough of the spatial anomaly talk, the main concern to anyone is the Ford transit van which at this moment in time was hurtling towards the J.M.C Blue Dwarf.
And to everyone onboard, everything seemed to be normal, until the hurtling Ford transit van merrily tried ignoring the fact the Dwarf was in it's path, with the usual results - a thundering crash as it slammed through the Dwarf's metal bulkhead and continued through a few decks, encountered a lift shaft, followed it down, and careened off the wall damaging some of computer core and entered the adjoining engineering while barging it's way into the main reactor like some sort of wild party crasher, and heavily damaging the reactors protective casing and loosening several duct taped in place drive plates, resulting in a radiation leak.
 
The engineer named Smithers, who just witnessed the van go by him and crash into the reactor, took off his hat and threw it to the floor in disgust while yelling, "Smeg it all!!! I just got done fixing that, I quit!!!"
 
And then he stormed out the door.
 
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Just then, In the drive room...
 
Holly suddenly appeared on the main viewscreen and said "I 'ave acid indigestion, all crewmembers please follow emergency gargling procedures..." as a horribly offkey morning bird song warbled from the Public address system.
 
Reports of a radiation leak came to the Captain's office, where action-Captain Allie Fletcher started to panic. This had never happened to her before, the ship was in serious danger, people would die if the radiation wasn't stopped.
 
Holly, who had been affected by the damage faded in and out of static while singing Barry Manalow's greatist hits backwards. Alie turned to him, who was now changing colour. "How long will the radiation becomes lethal to humans?"
 
"tuobA ytnewT setuniM" The deranged computer said backwards.
 
"Not good. And how long before the radiation gets back down to normal levels?"
 
"tA tsaeL eerhT skeeW"
"Three weeks? We can't last three weeks on a radiated ship, what do we do?"
Holly fuzzed and faded into a small computer blip. The lights went off and the room was plunged into darkness, a few seconds later the red emergency lights came on, dimly illuminating the room.
 
Allie put her head in her hands.
 
A hand reached over her computer and pressed the internal communications button, the one used to make anouncements over the tannoy to the entire ship. It was the Captain, and he was wearing a silk dressing robe.
 
"This is Captain Seymour Niples, the ship has been hit by an unknown object and we will need to evacuate for a few weeks. Could everyone please make their way to the landing bays in an orderly fashion. Thank you."
 
"Evacuate? Where to?" Asked Allie. Seymour spun the computer screen around to face him, it had shut down along with Holly
Seymour strode over to the window, pulling his robe around him like a royal cloak. He pointed to a planet in the distance, it was blue and green with whitey-purple clouds. "That is where we will stay until the radiation clears. None of the Starbugs will have enough fuel to get to the next star system."
 
 
<Sorry this was a bit late coming out, I have been very very busy lately, and I know I should have been spending a lot more time organising things on the BD. But I have a few weeks without any coursework to be handed in now so I'll put as much time as I can into making sure evrything is going alright. I hope everyone likes this storyline, I'll do another action when everyone gets to the planet.>