**Action** "Earth pt 1"

--snip--
TINK! The missile launched from the weapons bay on the Space Eagle II had slightly less effect than hoped, in fact it had no effect.
"Captain, the missions a bust, missiles still gonna hit, but I might have bought us some time, i'll take the bots a while to cross the desert""Ok Lt., head back to the ship"
--end snip--
 
 
**Action**
"Earth pt 1"
 
The formidable Plebian missile started to glow as it entered the Earths atmosphere. Outer atmospheric gasses brushed past the long weapon, and its powerful thrusters burned the air, making it accelerate faster to the Human home-planet.
 
Anyone watching the missile from the ground might have first thought it was a harmless meteorite, but more skeptical people would assume it was a weapon of mass destruction. Something dropping out of the sky, a missile that would cause global killing, it could kill the human race in a single powerful blast. And those who weren't immediately vapourised by the initial blast or knocked out by the shockwave that would take only minutes to go around the entire world would not survive the years of nuclear winter where the sun would also be blocked out by dust from the explosion.
 
The crew of the Blue Dwarf held their breath as they watched the monitors showing the missile hitting their mother planet. It was an emotional ordeal as most had family living there, or were sad to see the birthplace of their ancesters destroyed by a race of stupid people wanting revenge. Amongst the stunned crew watching the windows and monitors was the one alien -Efof.
"What's going on?" he said cheerfully.
He got a few stern looks from the pained crew before quieting down.
 
The missile hit the Earth, it hit the sahara dessert. Everyone was expecting it to explode on impact, half the crew of the Blue Dwarf closed their eyes or looked away, but the missile didn't explode. There was no shockwave, there was no fireball, or any sign of people being vapourised.
 
Captain Niples watched in the drive room. "Turn to an Earth TV channel." he ordered. Efof obliged. A special news bulletin came on the screen.
"A missile has just hit the Earth," the news reporter said in shock. "Luckily the missile did not detonate, if it did, we may all be dead. We are sending a news helicopter to the scene of the impact- stay with this channel for more news..."
 
That was when Seymour recieved a message from Phil wanting him to come to the flight deck.
 

"Why?" said Niples (his plebian arm was trying to change the TV channel to RED HOT LOVING 300, hence the slight delay)
 
"Please sir, I need to show you something..."
 
EP , using a surge of adernal took control...
 
"Look, you simple mided moron, just get you fat bum up here or else..."
 
"Else what?" came Niples shocked reply
 
"Just do it lardy bum..."
 
Thinking it was rather rude, Niples went dow there anyway. His mischevious Plebian arm tipped Efof's hot coffee onto his lap as he walked past.
"Oh, terribly sorry Efof old boy. I urm...I must have knocked it. Really sorry."
He remembered that he must go to the medibay and get the arm sorted out, it was getting very irritating.
 
Had Captain Niples stayed in the drive room he would have seen the rest of the news report on the TV. The first pictures live from the scene showed the steaming missile embedded deep into a sand dune in the dessert. With an eery cluck, a panel slid back on the missile.
 
The adventurous camera man walked closer for a better look. After a dramatic silence the camraman got closer still.
Suddenly when no-one was expecting it, a giant spider leaped out of the missile, followed by another and another. The cameraman dropped the camera as the mecchanical 6-legged robots skuttled out of the missile, each one about 2 metres wide and a metre tall. These Plebian constructed beasts spread out, heading to most populated areas of Earth. None of them had any trace of the Plebian "DNA converter" ray. In its place was a long range laser and a powerful pair of sharp steel jaws.
 
The millions of machines that swarmed out of ther transport had one goal -to completely wipe out the human race.
 
  
================================David "Onion" BallCaptain Seymor Niples, J.M.C Blue Dwarf================================Alota was ordeing something from a vending machine. She kept asking for A Bannna Milkshake, but it kept giving her raw liver.. (Chris Allan, BlueDwarf.co.uk)====================================