The Second day as Captain... Hamster!?!
OOC – Warning! This is long post, but you probably already knew that, because I’m the one that’s writing it, right? J
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Where: In the Captain's quarters.
When: Just night before the JP with Alota!
Who: White Wolf.
The Goliath hamster entered his living quarters, and went over to his Office desk, punching his communications button and ordered, “Drive room, I want you to set course for the next nearest JMC spaceport, I want to drop some of these civilians we picked up on New Ibiza off somewhere before something else happens to the Blue Dwarf.”
“Yes sir, Setting course for the nearest spaceport.” Replied Rio’s voice over the channel.
White Wolf started to reply, “Thanks, Ja.. I mean, Rii, Ahh…” he suddenly didn’t know how to properly respond to Jay in Rio’s body for a second, then he finished, “Um, Crewmen.” And switched off the comm. channel.
Then the huge hamster walked over to his walk in closet, and took off his vest and hung it on a hanger, and heard WD-40 call from his kitchen, “Good Evening, Captain! I’m almost ready to serve my brandied vegetable flambé.”
“Flambé?!?” Mouthed the mammoth hamster, coming out of the walk in closet and calling back, “Look WD, you don’t have to cook me dinner…”
“But I want to, Sir.” Interrupted the mechanoid, walking out of the kitchen with a large flaming serving dish and setting it upon the dinner table, “Just have a seat, while I go get the pitcher of mineral water.”
The leviathan hamster sat down at the table, and placed the napkin on his lap when Wd-40 returned with a glass and pitcher and set it upon the table, and took the serving dish cover and putting out the flames.
“Well, tomorrow I want to make myself some Stir Fry, Okay? You’ve got to stop this pampering me all the time, Your starting to make me feel as if I’m some rich snot kid who can’t do anything for himself. Besides, you’re my friend not my wife…”
“I can’t help the fact my mothering instinct is pre-programmed into me, Sir...” Replied WD-40, while scooping up a serving of the food, and placing on White Wolf’s plate.
“Alright, I’ll buy that, but I’d like it if you wouldn’t do any chores around here unless I ask you, okay?”
Wd-40 nodded reluctantly. And the spacious hamster picked up a fork, and stabbed a bit of the vegetables, and sampled it, “Mmm, this is good. Is it one of your pre-programmed recipes?” Asked the hamster.
“No, it’s one I saw in Seymour’s cook books, while I was packing up his things.” Replied Wd-40, “Thinking it might be a good opportunity to update some of my culinary routines, I committed to memory any other vegetable recipes I saw.”
As White Wolf quirked his whiskers and frowned slightly at WD-40, “I’m not sure I’m going to get used to having some of the those bits of your evil alter ego popping up in your behavior, Wd-40.”
“Oh don’t worry, Sir. My Ethics chip passes diagnostics.”
Again, the huge hamster quirked his whisker and frowned slightly at WD-40, but said nothing, eating in silence for the next ten minutes. Then White Wolf pushed back his empty plate, and started getting up as he spoke to Wd-40, “I’m going to turn in early tonight, and I’m probably going to have a real busy day tomorrow, so I better try an get some extra winks.”
“Would you like a dessert, Sir? I’ve made some banana flavored Italian Ice for you.” Asked WD-40, picking up the plate and cleaning off the dinner table.
“Ah.. Sorry, No. Just put it fridge for tomorrow.” Said the squab hamster striding into his bedroom, and glancing at the rubber mat on the floor where his bed should be and calling back to the Mechanoid, “Um… Wd?”
“Yes sir?”
“Where the frell is my bed?” asked the Huge hamster walking back out of the bedroom, “There’s just some fitness training mat where the bed is supposed to be.”
“The mat is your bed, Sir. All JMC Captain suites come equipped with a state of the art, Free fall bed.” Replied Wd-40 from the Kitchen.
“But, I get motion sick in free fall! Can’t I have a normal bed like everybody else?”
“You can Sir, but every other JMC crewmember has to pay for the privilege of having a free fall bed, because it’s free for the Captains.”
“You’re joking, right? We’re in space, and free fall is the normal state, so you should have to pay for having the gravity turned on in your bed, not the other way around.” Commented the rotund hamster.
“I can’t entirely explain it myself, but I understand it’s a executive perk, Sir.”
“Well, executive perk or not, I want it switched back to a normal bed tomorrow!” The huge hamster sighed while walking into the bathroom and opening the medicine cabinet, “I guess I can try and see if my new prescription anti-motion sickness pills actually work.”
The overgrown hamster toke out a small bottle, and closed the cabinet as he walked across the room and read the label to himself. “Take with a glass of milk to avoid stomach upset.”
“Um WD? Can you get me a warm glass of milk and honey?”
“Why certainly, Sir!” replied Wd-40 happy at an opportunity to do a little more mothering of the Captain.
“Thanks!” said White Wolf as he paused at his office desk to set down the medicine bottle and pick up his mail and toss away all the junk mail he normally receives when he happened to glance down at the his trash can and noticed a stack of magazines that dealt with tuxedoes & men’s wedding accessories with a post it note with what looked like Allie’s handwriting stuck on the top magazine. The huge hamster reached down and pulled out the magazines and quickly read the attached post it note:
----<Snippity roo>-----
Hey cutie pie,I know you're busy being captain (I'm so proud!) but when you have a moment, just look through these and pick out something to wear for the wedding. I've marked the ones I thought would look best on you with pink post-it notes, the ones I thought would look okay with green, and the ones I wasn't really sure with yellow. Get back to me when you've picked out something. Sorry I can't stay and chat but I have a wedding to plan.
xoxo,Allie
-----<end Snippity yah>----
“Here’s your glass of milk Sir, warmed with a touch of honey...” Replied WD-40 as he re-entered the dining with of glass milk, and promptly dropped it as he saw White Wolf standing at the office desk holding the magazines & note.
“I’m so sorry Sir, I simply couldn’t help myself! My Mothering diodes couldn’t stand the overload, at the thought of my losing you to Miss Fletcher!” Wailed Wd-40 covering his face with his hands, “I shall dismantle myself immediately…”
The jumbo hamster dropped the magazines to the desk, and went over and put his paw gently on Wd-40 shoulder, and Said, “You will do nothing of a sort! I’m sure you’ll still have a place in our lives when Allie & I are married, WD. You’ll just have to make a few adjustments, and share some of your ‘mothering’ duties with Allie. Besides, you’ll have her to care for instead of just me!”
“What if she doesn’t want to share? Or doesn’t want me around?” Whined the Mechanoid.
“I’m sure Allie ain’t going to be like that! She’ll probably be really glad to have you around for doing the housecleaning chores.”
“What if she doesn’t like the way I do them?”
“Look, I’ll go talk with her about it. Don’t worry, it’ll all work out, Wd-40. You just go and recharge your batteries or whatever you need to do, and take it easy until then, okay?”
The Service mechanoid reluctantly nodded, and the huge hamster patted WD-40’s shoulder, and said, “Just come and wake me in another three hours then, ole buddy.”
“I’ll go clean up the mess, Sir.”
“Good! You do that!” Said the huge hamster walking back into his bedroom, and stepping into the free fall bed and letting him float casually into the air, and eventually drift off to sleep.
-> Enter Dream Sequence <-
White Wolf realized he was in some sort of courtroom, as a judge was passing sentence. Though this courtroom was like nothing he’d ever been in before – Everyone else present were human sized hamsters!
The judge was a red & tan hamster, with a white wig, “Does the prosecution rest its case?” he said.
“Yes, we do, your honor.” Replies one of the two cream colored hamsters at a nearby table across from him.
“Would the defense like to present its case?” Asked the judge hamster turning towards him.
And two dark brown hamsters that were sitting at the table next to him conferred for a moment, and then one of them stood up and answered, “No, your honor, we do not. We move for an immediate guilty judgment against our client!”
White Wolf felt himself jumping up and objecting, “This is a mockery of justice! Can’t sentence me without a proper trial by jury!”
“Bailiff, Sedate the prisoner.” Ordered the judge hamster.
A uniformed blue-black haired hamster quickly stepped forward with an electro-stunner rod, and shocked White Wolf into a groggy submission. And he could only he the judges next words vaguely as his hearing & vision started to fade out, “For 3,602 Temporal crimes against the people, I sentence this Atemporal, a one Mr.”
Then his hearing faded in for a moment as the judge continued speaking, “to spending an eternity without any advanced technology what so ever, for the good of the people, as set forth in chapter 23897.2345B of the temporal criminal code.”, then his hearing faded out again.
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Moments later, his vision and hearing cleared a little, he found himself near a spaceship window in shackles. He glanced out the window long enough to notice a deep red nebula outside, and several vaguely familiar looking star constellations, when a nearby Red hamster said, “He’s awake again, Put him back under!” Another tan hamster stepped forward and zapped him, and White Wolf heard the Tan hamster ask as his hearing began to fade out again, “How much longer do we have to wait before we can be rid of this guy?”
“We’ll make planet fall in a hour, then we start construction on his permanent prison.” Answered the Red hamster, as White Wolf finally blacked out again.
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This time, as White Wolf came to, He found himself lying shackled to the wall in some cement floored cave, and several workers were busily building something that looked like a modified Electro Magnetic Pulse device. When two hamsters looked up and a tan quickly ran over, struck White Wolf over the head with a heavy club several times, and commented to the other hamster, “He’s waking up more often now that we can’t use our electro stunners with our anti-technology device running!” and White Wolf’s perception quickly faded out once again.
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Again, White Wolf came to, but this time he was shackled to the wall in some sort of small stone flagged cell with a shallow pool of water off to one side in which a small shaft of light reflected off of.
Finally left alone, White Wolf noticed he jaw felt extremely sore along with several bumps on his head. He slowly dragged himself over to the small pool of water to try and survey his injuries from the clubbing, and as he looked down into the water, he was horrified to see Darkens very bloody face staring back up at him in the waters reflection!
-> End Dream Sequence <-
“NOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!” Screamed White Wolf, suddenly waking up from his dream in the free fall bed while shaking & gasping with fear driven flop sweat. The enormous hamster swam out of the free fall bed, and gently touched down on the floor, commenting to himself, “It’s just a dream, It’s just a dream.”
He walked into the Jacuzzi room to take a bath to wash the sweat off him, and midway through the bath, he glanced out the nearby window and spotted a familiar looking deep red nebula in the distance outside, and a awfully similar set of star constellations from his dream.
He quickly grabbed a towel, got out the bath, and dashed over to his desktop PC and brought up it’s AI personality Sam. And asked, “Sam, I need you to run through a time simulation of that nearby star system with the Red Nebula, I want to see if you can locate when the set of star constellations looked like this.” He tapped the touch screen and quickly outlined the pattern he remembered from his dream.
“It’ll take about day to run through the simulation completely, Sweetie.” Replied the beautiful songtress.
“Don’t worry about that, I’ve got plenty of time.” Remarked the prodigious hamster, finishing in a lowered voice as he finished drying himself and went to go get his vest from the closet, “I hope…”
He returned a few moments later, and picked up a staff memo that was left on his chair by Wd-40, to read it:
-------<Sniperoo>---------
J.M.C. BLUE DWARF.
STAFF MEMO.
To: WOLF, White.
From: STARBOLT, Jasmine.
SUBJECT: Staff position vacancies.
Staff Positions open for applications:
Aerobatics & Fitness instructor, I'd like to apply, I'm very fit myself, as my files will show you.
If the request to take the positions is required to be more formal, contact me and it shall be so, otherwise getting back to me with a yay or nay will do.
~Nurse: Jasmine Starbolt~
-------<End Sniperoo>------------
The huge hamster punched the comm. button on his officer desk, and said, “Drive room? This is Captain White Wolf. I’m going to be interviewing Crewwomen Alota Chrysler and Jasmine Starbolt, if you need me for anything this morning. White Wolf, Out.”
<Tag Jasmine.>