**ACTION** Nebula Nightmare

"And Dean..."
"Yeah?"
"Pull your landing gear up..."
<END SNIP>
"Jay."
"Uh-huh?"
"Unlike your fancy hot-rod, this standard Starbug."
"So?"
"Non-retractable gear!"
"Yes, but it still should fold back slightly"
"Hmm.. fair enough"
"Blimey" said Jasmine, entering the cockpit, "to think I thought you were intelligent."
"I agree, But I didn't believe it", said Jay over the comm.
"I know." said Jasmine in return, "You want me to do anything useful?"
"Erm.. yes, get someone who's sciencey in here will you?"
"Why not me?"
"Because I need someone sciencey is a good start!" said Dean, smiling.
"Fair enough." said Jasmine, "Eve?" she shouted to the midsection, where Phil and some heavies were playing cards. "Uh-huh?" came the reply, 
"Can you come here a second?"
"Sure, what is it?" said Eve, standing in the door.
"I need someone sciencey on the sciencey-type console."
"Why?"
"So that you can tell us where the big bad bugs are of course."
"Ok, I got you there."
"Alrighty, entering nebula now, BD" said Dean into the comm.
"BUCKLE UP GUYS!" he yelled towards the mid-section.
The Bug entered the nebula,
"Ok, radio's gone!" yelled Dean
"Science Console's out!" yelled Eve
"same at Nav!" yelled Jasmine.
"Ok, controls are sluggish, as I have no power to help me. Everything electrical's gone!"
"LIFE SUPPORT!" yelled Jasmine towards the midsection, "IS IT STILL ON?"
"OxGen. has gone!" came the reply,
"Alright, aiming for the clearing, but all my instruments are out!"
"What the hell is going on?" yelled Tara, storming into the cockpit.
"BRACE!"
The Starbug gouged a 20 metre deep valley into the landscape,
"CASTLE AHEAD!" yelled Jasmine as she flew towards the windscreen.

The Bug screamed onwards, steadily the bug hit a vein of rock and flipped out of the ground, cartwheeling through the air....
 
Meanwhile, in the castle, some peasants were cowering by the door of the keep. Apart from the blacksmith, who was pacing up and down, describing how communism could benfit them, and that they should overthrow their cruel oppressors. However, as he was reaching the critical point in his speech, a flying, cartwheeling green beast flew over the walls and crushed the blacksmith.
 
Dean hoisted the unconscious Jasmine on his shoulders,  "RUN! IT'S GONNA BLOW!!!!" The cockpit crew leapt through flames that were threatening to engulf the area, and joined the midsection in running for the airlock.
"Good thing this isn't electric." said Dean.
Tara whispered to him, "IT IS?"
"How long we got you reckon guys?" said Phil
"Around 5 minutes." said Dean, "then the fire reaches the fuel tanks and we all die. Horribly."
"Ever the optimist eh?" said Jasmine, waking up, but remaining on Dean's shoulders.
"We're doomed." said Tara, simply.
"Wait a second!" yelled Dean, leaping back into the cockpit through the flames.
"DEAN!" yelled Jasmine.
Dean then reappeared, singed, and with some scaffolding from his homemade battering ram under his arm!
"Here we are!"
"What is that?" asked Tara.
"Watch. Phil, Guys, all of you, take hold. Now! CHAARGE!"<BAM!>
"CHAAARGE!"<BAM>
"CHAAARGE!"
<BAM, THUD>
"One down, now the outer door to go."
"3 minutes." said Jasmine.
"CHAARGE!!"
<BAM!>
"AGAIN!"
<BAM!>
"AGAIN! IT'S NOT ENOUGH!"
<BAM!>
<BAM!>
<BAM!, THUD!>
"RUUUUUNNNNNN!!!!!" yelled Dean, as the crew all leapt through the battered airlock.
They all dove for cover, leaping over the peasants, who had gathered around for a look. "Security, they're going to die. Move them!"
The security heavies stayed still.
Phil stepped in as translator.
"They are obstructing our acces to the bug, remove them."
The BD Security Team moved in and had the peasants out of the way just in time. The Bug exploded.
"Dean?" asked Jasmine, "have you ever landed on a planet without blowing up a Starbug? You did on New Ibiza too!"
"It's a nasty habit I have."
"The native's don't look too friendly!" said Tara.
 
She was right, the knights had whipped out swords, and they were encircling the BD Crew.
"Oooh, err.." said Dean.
"May I?" asked Jasmine
"Don't let me stop you." said Phil
"We no like Big Bad Bug's either." she said. "We fight with you! We forced to leave home as they destroy it!"
"Hm... they're buying it!"
Indeed, they had, one of the knights had gone up to collect Duke Von Velcro himself, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly invite our allies in the battle to a feast in the great hall!"
"KickASS!" said Dean, "Nice one Jas!" he said, kissing her.
"Get a room."  said Phil, pushing past to get to the food....
 
Dean "BRACE!" Thomas
<OOC: We arrived guys!>