**Action** "The battle begins..."

**ACTION POST**
WHERE: The BD campsite
WHO: The crew, a lot of them have their own agendas going on, but the dark
cloud of millions of robots coming towards them made them all turn their
heads and look.
The robots flew together in groups, these groups joined up with other
groups, which in turn became groups of more groups. The whole thing was a
swarm. Each one of these robots had been constructed with a particle DNA
destabiliser and re-sequencer which would turn any human into a slow
dimwitted Plebian. Captain Seymour Niples had already been targetted by one
of these DNA changer beams, and it had made his arm unreactive and slow (and
it had made his wrists oddly hairy).
The first wave of robots flew down onto the group, security officers quickly
picked them off with bazukoids, but the rest of the swarm were coming fast
behind.
A Blue Midget flew just ahead of the swarm. Efof, who was piloting the small
2-legged craft saw the tents of the campsite and landed. The command
officers and security were moving the civillians to cover, and arming some
with weapons for self defence.
Captain Niples jumped out of the Midget as it crouched onto the ground, Efof
remained in the cockpit and turned the ship towards the incoming robots.
Seymour marched himself into the command tent. A security officer quickly
gave him a military style coat to wear, and another one was very quick to
formally hand the Captain a mug of hot drink. The Captain formally took the
drink and sipped it as he sat down at the command desk. "Are the troops in
formation to defend the basecamp?" The Captain asked firmly.
"Yes sir" said a security officer. "The women and children are in a safe
location..."
"...And are surrounded by security forces."
The sentance was finished off by a voice Niples wasn't familliar with. The
man walked into the tent, saluted the Captain and introduced himself.
"Ray Durron sir, piloting department. Surrounding the civillians was my
idea."
Seymour squinted at him, "I thought I knew all of our pilots..."
"I'm new sir." Ray said.
"Well, it was a very good idea." Said Niples. "I would have made it myself
of course, if I had been here." Niples said pompously.
Ray rolled his eyes.
Seymour took a sip from the mug he had been handed. "I wanted tea, not
coffee!"
Just then, the sound of gunfire started. They all turned to head out of the
tent when suddenly the tent collapsed in on them. A robot ripped through the
tent fabric and crashed to the ground in front of Ray and the Captain. It
had obviously been shot down by someone outside.
"Give me a weapon now. We have to protect the crew." Niples ordered. A
security officer threw him a laser rifle. Seymour wanted to grab it with his
Plebian arm, but the arm was too slow and stupid. It was trying to count to
11 on its fingers and play thumb-wars with itself. The rifle clattered to
the ground.
"I think I'm better off with a pistol." Niples said and took a laser pistol
from the table, after he had dropped his on the top of the skyscraper in
Maxomegopolis.
He quickly headed outside. It looked like a scene from Hitchcocks "The
Birds" although these birds were larger and mechanical. They hovvered and
flew about the sky, diving and attacking the crewmen. Officers were firing
up at them, civillians were waving metal pipes and pointed sticks at them,
and the robots were firing beams of DNA mutating light at the crowds.
Seymour hated to think how many of his crew would be converted into stupid
morons.
A man stupidly walked blindly into the back of him. Seymour turned around,
thinking he would see the first of his crew to be turned into a gibbering
idiot. "Oh hello Dr. Keto!" he said.
Efof made the Blue Midget dance whilst firing its machine-guns in the air,
the air so thick with machanical monsters that you couldn't miss hitting
them.
Amongst the crowd, barkeep Owen Numan didn't know what to do. He'd found
that his special power of being able to create super quick cocktails of
nasty chemicals and poisons and shoot it very fast hadn't really been very
useful until now. He was a civillian so didn't own a weapon, and so this was
his only defense against the robots. He decided that as he was a valid part
of the Blue Dwarf crew it was his duty to protect his fellow crewmen. After
all, these were his customers in Parrotts. He shot a deadly Vodka Martini
towards a robot heading towards Katrina Swete, which dropped the robot to
the ground, its hull plating dissolving.
Katrina Swete ducked as another robot swooped past her. She wondered where
her beloved boyfriend was, she guessed he was trying to save the crew. She
often wondered who he was more dedicated to, the crew or her.
She heard a yelp of fear and a hiss. In a crack on a rock she saw her two
PITA's. She tried to get them out but the dog backed away from her. The cat
spat more and eventually ran out of the crevice.
She chased the cat through the battleground, all over people were fighting
the robots, more often than not they were fighting about 5 at a time.
Although there were over a thousand crew on the BD, there were many
thousands more robots. The cat ran between peoples legs, Katrina chased
after it, fearing for its safety.
"Come back PITA! Its not safe!" she called.
"No chance, its fecking crazy around here!" shouted the cat. Only Katrina
could hear it of course, as she had developed that special power on this
planet.
Suddenly the cat felt a spotlight on her. She looked up and saw that one of
the huge metal birds was firing down on her. "What's happening?!!" The cat
screamed, feeling a tingling underneath its fur.
The cat had literally seconds before it would be turned into a Plebian.
<OOC- Who's going to save PITA? I thought I'd get the battle started, sorry
to cut up the sub-plots, I hope you can continue them through all this as
the mayhem is going on. P.S I love Tara and Phil's latest sub-plot,
especially Tara's last E-mail. >
David "Onion" Ball
Captain Seymour Niples, JMC Blue Dwarf
WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
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"WE'VE LOST THRUSTERS!" Jay announced.."I've lost control of the
shuttle....were gonna crash..EVERYBODY TO THE BACK! NOW!...
except you Keto come sit on the dashboard..."
(Andy Longman, Jay Chrysler, JMC Blue Dwarf)
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