Bug People

Who: Starbug Peeps
Where: In the Starbug, which should be self-evident
When: Just as the revolution begins
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-- SNIP --
What was said cannot be repeated here due to age restrictions, but Alota was
sure she could make out the words "bannana" and "sheep" and "superglue".
Whatever it was it made Tara go bright red.
She turned to look at Keto an started laughing.
-- END SNIP --
Keto sat silently for a second, mouth opening and closing as he tried
desperately to come up with a witty and cutting retort to something he hadn't
even heard clearly. Just as the moment was about to pass, the awkward silence
was interrupted as the Starbug's speaker system (which, up until now, had been
playing the space vehicle equivalent of elevator music at a level just below
audible) burst into life...
-- SNIP --
"Plebians, unite together and we will destroy the humans and make them pay, if
you do not join us then you are human sympathisers and you will die. So join us
and make a new Plebe, one you can be proud of, one which has fought back against
the humans."
-- END SNIP --
"My God!" said Keto, leaping to his feet (his mind automatically replacing the
word 'my' with 'thank'), "It sounds like a planet-wide revolution!"
"You're really grateful for that change of subject, aren't you?" observed
Cerebrum levelly. Keto glared at him, then over at Tara and Phil, who were
still laughing. Jay had a rather supercilious smirk on his face, Alota seemed
to be trying to work out precisely what it was Phil had said, Zodar and Eve were
paying hardly any attention to him, seeming more concerned with the fact that a
planet had just declared war on the human race (t'ch, the priorities of some
people!) and Coffey...well, Keto couldn't tell where Coffey was, but he assumed
it was somewhere nearby.
"She thinks she's over there," pointed Cerebrum, helpfully.
"What do you mean, she THINKS she's over there?"
"I can tell where she thinks she is," replied Cerebrum, "Doesn't mean she's
right."
"I think I am," said Coffey's voice from the area in which Cerebrum had
pointed towards.
"I know you THINK you are, but..." began Cerebrum.
Once again, activity inside the Starbug was interrupted. This time, however,
it was not by a transmission - it was by the sound of a veritable hail of
bullets hammering into the hull. Most of the crew instinctively ducked.
"WHATisTHAT?" snapped Jay.
"Why don't you go outside and look?" asked Keto.
"I'm too scared that it might have something to do with bananas, sheep or
superglue," said Jay, speaking as clearly as possible. Keto glared again.
"Well from what I can tell," stated Cerebrum, "The Plebians that were
'paintballing' have decided to join the revolution against the
capitalist...sorry, human...oppressors, turned around, come back here and
started shooting at our Starbug."
There was another thundering hail of bullets, and this time the sound was
concentrated around the airlock.
"Jay...are Starbugs bulletproof?" asked Alota, blinking.
Jay hurried off to the cockpit with a yelp that sounded very much like,
"Notforverylong!"
Keto coughed, reached his hand out, and leaned against the wall.
The sound of the hail of bullets suddenly ceased, and a deafening silence fell
over the inside of the Starbug. Everyone looked around, momentarily puzzled.
"Whathappenedthere?" asked Jay, poking his head back out of the cockpit.
"Half the Plebians outside just shot themselves," replied Cerebrum.
"What?Why?"
"I don't think it was deliberate," said the psychiatrist, "I think it was
because Keto here magnetised the Starbug and the bullets with different poles."
"You mean they tried to shoot the Starbug and ended up shooting themselves?"
asked Phil, "An interesting solution."
There was a dull 'THUMP' from the airlock.
"Okay, so what was THAT?" asked Alota.
"The surviving Plebians deciding that they can't go wrong with a good
old-fashioned battering ram," said Cerebrum.
Jay looked towards Keto.
"As soon as I can magnetise plantlife, Chrysler, you'll be the first to know,"
snapped the doctor, taking his hand away from the Starbug wall.
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OOC: Tag!