Damsels in distress

Who: Seymour, Katrina, Zack, Cubie, and a cast of thousands
Where: Buckingham Palace
When: The Coronation
Zack and Cubie listened as King Niples the First addressed his people.
Judging from the reaction, the people of England had heard better in the
past.
Zack frowned. "I don't understand. That's not the speech I wrote for
him!"
Cubie shot him a sidelong glance. "YOU wrote him an acceptance
speech?"
Zack nodded. "Yeah. He seemed a little unbalanced by the magnitude of
it all, so I thought I'd give a few tips. Crowd-pleaser stuff!"
"Heaven help us," Cubie muttered.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
-----Snip-----
"But-erm- I'm glad for an excuse to be posh all day!"
There were a few coughs from the crowd, and then the odd clapping, which
lead to more odd clapping, then an entire audience of people clapping and
not knowing why.
-----End Snip-----
Zack beamed. "Ah! See? I wrote that! I should do this for a
living!"
Seymour stood there, a slight frown on his face. Then his expression
shifted to one of determination and he began again.
-----Snip-----
Seymour held his had up to cease the applause. "I just realised
something. I am being selfish. I enjoy this attention, and appreciate your
efforts to make me comfortable- I really do, but I don't want it alone, I
want to share it with my fantastic girlfriend Katrina."
All eyes turned to the other end of the red carpet where Katrina stood.
Seymour beckoned her towards him, and the slowly and nervously walked down
the aisle towards him.
-----End Snip-----
Seymour and Katrina exchanged words in a tone of voice too low for even
the closest microphones to pick up. The suddenly Seymour dropped to one
knee and looked up at Katrina as he took her hand. His words carried
clearly amid the stunned silence.
-----Snip-----
"Katrina, will you-.will you marry me and be my queen?"
Katrina's eyes widened. Seymour put the crown on her hand like it was a
ring.
The courtroom gasped, the entire country watching on TV gasped.
Katrina broke the silence, "but-but-you're just wanting me to be your
queen for this -this royal fantasy." She said, near tears.
"No," Seymour hushed her. "I thought about it before this. I know this
won't last forever, but I do want to be with you forever."
If it was possible, the silence was even silenter than before as the
courtroom eagerly expected an answer.
There was a long pause and Katrina was just about to speak when the
roof caved in.
Suddenly a Schoda crashed through the roof of Buckingham Palace. Steev
peeled himself off the plexiglass, rearranged his teeth, then jumped out.
The assembled party stared.
"Oh great" sighed Niples, "The sodding Super Engineer woke up again..."
"Did I interrupt something?" said Steev as a few hundred eyes peered at
him.
With the romance of the moment broken, Seymour thought nothing worse
could happen. But he was proved wrong when a giant metal spider jumped
through the hole in the roof and started gutting one of the choirboys.
The thick oak door burst in, and more robots scuttled through the doors
knocking priceless ornaments over and firing lasers at the congregation.
The royal palace guards started firing back at the giant spiders, but
they were in their dress uniforms and those ridiculous black fluffy things
they wore on their heads kept slipping in front of their faces. People ran
all over the place in panic.
-----End Snip-----
Cubie grabbed Zack and ST-jumped back to the Dwarf. Pointing a finger
an inch from her husband's nose, she simply said "stay put!"
"But-"
Zack was speaking to thin air. Cubie was already gone.
Back in the palace, Cubie reappeared amid the carnage. Two robot
spiders leapt at her, only to fly through her suddenly soft-light image.
She reached into their carapaces and sent a powerful surge through the CPUs,
melting them to slag. The spiders collapsed into twitching masses.
But there were too many spiders for her to fight effectively. Time for
plan B. Scanning the casualties, she spotted Katrina lying under two
mangled bodies. Running over to Katrina's side, she was reaching down to
check the janitor for a pulse when she sat up and shouted.
-----Snip-----
"Seymour!" she yelped, and everything started to go black.
-----End Snip-----
Cubie looked at Katrina's leg. It was a hideous gash, and she was
losing blood by the pint. Cubie ripped a strip of cloth from a nearby
corpse's shirt and fashioned a crude tourniquet, then knotted it on
Katrina's leg and lifted her out from under the other bodies. Just then, a
spider talon grazed her controller, sending a shower of sparks flying.
Cubie tried to open an ST-jump tube, but all that happened was her vision
was obscured by several warning lights that illuminated her HUD like a
Christmas tree. "Oh, smeg!"
Cubie started running, carrying Katrina and trying desperately to keep
ahead of the spider that she heard pursuing her.
<Seymour? Steev? Anyone?>
~Cubie Richards~