Escape from Buckingham

King Seymour Niples, Katrina Swete, Cubie + Steev,
Buckingham Palace
---romantic snip---
Still struggling to get the world to stop spinning, Katrina didn't like this
sudden attention. She could feel another course of her breakfast wanting to
expel itself violently from her body, but she managed to keep it down.
Trying to look as serious as anyone could that had just thrown up half a
dozen times and was being carried by a hologram known for mood swings,
Katrina looked Seymour straight in the eye and said, "Seymour, darling,
yes."
Seymour beamed with joy.
"And you're all invited to the wedding!" she exclaimed groggily, throwing
her
arms out. "All except those spiders, of course."
He went to kiss her, but remembering her recent wave of vomiting, thought
better of it and went to kiss her hand. The first one he went for was
covered
in vomit, so he changed his mind and went for the other. That one was
covered
in blood. What a predicament for a gentleman.
Katrina noticed his dilemma and smiled weakly. "You'll owe me a kiss, cutie.
Once I take a nice hot shower, you can kiss me all you want." She added in
her best Barry White voice, "Then we'll make sweet, sweet love, I promise."
"If this Kodak moment is over, we should be skedadling to a hospital now,
don't you think?" Cubie suggested.
---end romantic snip---
Seymour blushed after what Katrina had said quite loudly in front of their
friends. Like a proper gentleman, he believed that they shouldn't talk about
personal things like their love life in front of others. He was well chuffed
that she wanted to marry him though. It would have been nice to do it in the
Royal palace, but unfortunately they seemed to be destroying it at the
moment.
The group ran into the adjourning bedroom and down a corridor, the spiders
followed down the narrow passageway. Seymour ran behind, him and Cubie had
their arms around Katrina who still couldn't run she was weak from blood
loss. Seymour let go of her to shoot the robots behind, giving them a few
extra seconds. Their energy weapons were blazing, burning the walls and
setting fire to the paintings which lined the corridor. Katrina put her full
weight on Cubie just as one of the energy pulses hit Cubie in the back and
almost collapsed through her holographic form.
The king turned around to see straight through Cubie, the hologram was
fading.
"That...that blast damaged my power cell ...it's running out, I just can't
carry her anymore."
Katrina stood up, shaking off her dazed expression and wiping back her dirty
hair. "Its ....okay...I can...walk myself..." then collapsed onto her
fiancee.
Seymour picked Katrina up and gave his gun to Cubie. "If you just carry the
gun do you think your power cll can last a few more minutes? This corridor
should lead to the servents entrance, we'll be outside soon."
"I hope so," Said Cubie.
After turning a corridor they entered the kitchen, it was a huge room with a
big old fashioned coal fireplace, mainly for show. Servents probably used
the industrial sized microwave on the other side of the room. There were
boxes of what must have been the queen's favourite food, Pop-tarts and fish
fingers all over the place. Out of sheer curiosity, Steev opened the drinks
fridge.
"I always wondered what drinks are fit for queens." The engineer said as he
opened the gold-plated door.
"VK Apple and Coca-Cola!!!!"
"We don't have time for that!" Seymour shouted, but grabbed some Coke for
Katrina to keep her energy up. He pointed to the open door to outside. "The
Space Eagle's parked in the courtyard, between the flowerbeds. Its our best
bet out of here." Steev nodded and turned to run outside when a huge robot
claw came from the doorway. In fact it was a spider, but it had been
attached to more spiders, they had fused together to morph into a much
larger machine.
The wall collapsed and the roof was torn off as the machine stood up to its
full height, it was a huge.....lobster.
"A lobster?" Said Seymour
"A lobster?" Said Steev
"a....l..o..b..s..t..e..r.." Said Katrina weakly.
"Why would the Plebians program the robots to join into a lobster?" Asked
Cubie.
"Why not?" Said Steev.
"Good point."
"I'll cover you!" shouted Cubie who started firing bazukoid shells into the
lobsters belly to attract its attention. Steev and Seymour carried Katrina
out of the palace. Seymour looked back at Cubie who was all alone in the
rubble shooting upwards, she looked like a doll in a dolls house as just
about all of the walls in that room had fallen in.
Cubie dropped the gun as she became soft-light and then faded out as her
power cell gave in and burned out.
"Take Katrina to the Space Eagle, I'm going back for Cubie." Seymour
commanded, he was no longer Captain but Steev did as he was told.
Seymour ran back to the palace and found Cubies pager-sized controller. He
looked up and was smaked against a far wall by a huge lobster-leg. Seymour
had eaten lobster hundreds of times, but none had fought back like this one.
It was enough to put one off sea food for life.
A giant claw swooped over his head, he ducked and it smashed the chimney
breast in the kitchen. Seymour made a break for it and ran across the
courtyard with his head down. The Lobster was too clumsy to turn quickly and
Seymour soon got to the Space Eagle.
Steev was pouring the Coke down Katrina's throat to try and make her better,
Seymour plugged Cubie into the SE's cigarette lighter and she flickered back
into life.
"Okay what do we do now?" Seymour said as he sat in the pilots seat and
gripped the steering wheel.
"Use the Eagle's missiles to blow that thing to little smeging pieces!"
Suggested Steev.
"I can't fire on the Royal Palace!" Said Seymour, startled by the
suggestion.
"Why not? It's got a big frelling Lobster in it!"
"But Buckingham palace is a landmark of British pride and patriotism, it
stands for honour, for things which are right, something that is, has been
and will forever be the same...."
"Blow the flipping thing up already!" Shouted Steev.
<What shall we do guys and gals?>
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