*Actionette* "Air drag"

*Actionette*
Seymour and Jay
Shuttlebay where the "Chrysler 5000 super duper you cant bend it turbo
nutter bastard glider" was parked.
Seymour looked again at the odd looking contraption. "So where's the team
mad...I err...mean extremely courageous enough to fly in this wonderful
looking beast of a machine?"
"Well erm... nobody seems to have turned up." Jay admitted. "I was hoping
that Alotta would come at least, and if she says not I could always use the
'you'd come if you loved me' line."
Seymour raised an eyebrow. "I'll see if I can find a team." he groaned and
stomped off.
**Medibay**
"And why should I go pon the mission?" Dr Keto asked, his arms folded.
"Well, because...I...I am a good contact of the Queen of England, and I have
it on good authority that she gives very expensive gold medals away to brave
men who rescue crewmembers who are trapped on electrical-dampening planets
in the middle of red nebulas."
Keto frowned and said skeptically. "Oh so that's an official award then is
it?"
"Not made up at all" Seymour lied in a thick self-richous voice.
Behind Keto the pink tree rustled.
"What did he say" Seymour asked, not being able to understand foliage.
"Something about the Queen..." Keto listened as the tree spoke more.
"...Spreads like butter?"
It took a few seconds for the statement to sink in befire Keto's eyes
glowed.
"I'm in. Where's the shuttle?"
**Back in the shuttlebay**
"That's the shuttle?" Keto said, quickly looking around for escape routes,
but the tree- who had come for a walk blocked his path. It rustled more smut
about the queen.
"Does she really? For only 2 pints you say?" Keto rubbed his chin.
Jay was dragging his semi-conscious wife up the gangplank to the
glider-ship.
"Good God Jay, is she alright?" Seymour exclaimed.
"I found her collapsed outside the drive room, give her a few minutes to
come round, she'll be 'rate.
Alotta saw the unsturdy looking shuttle with its wooden frame and wings and
began flapping her arms and trying to speak but couldn't before she feinted
again.
"She'll be okay, she gets like this after a few drinks...."
"Are you sure she's been drinking, what about that bruise..." Seymour was
distracted as something knocked his legs.
"I'm terribly sorry Elwood, you can't come on this mission- this planet has
some electromagnetic field that stops electrical components from working.
Maybe next time old chap- keep working on those all-terrain legs though."
Elwood scowled in a way that only skutters could scowl. In fact it didnt
look like he was scowling at all.
Jay, Keto and Alotta were all aboard so Jay engaged the engines. The ship
shook, but unwanting to hurt Jay's feelings after all the effort he'd put
into building the craft, they all gripped firm hold of something out of his
sight.
The shuttlbay decompressed and the bay doors opened. The starbug with woden
chitty chitty bang bang style wings glided into space towards the planet.
All of a sudden, a locker door opened and Cerebrum bursted out. "Oh dear god
what's going on?" he yelled as he saw the stars.
The shuttle's lights suddenly turned off. They had just entered range of the
dampening field.
Jay deployed the wings. deploy was such a nice word, it just means he pulled
a string making the wooden wings spring out to full width via a series of
rusty springs.
they glided to the ground, gradually getting faster from te free fall, but a
sudden gust of wind blew them along so that they flew along the surface.
"What can you see?" Asked Seymour.
"Trees, trees, more trees... have these people never heard of
urbanisation?.....castle straight ahead!"
"Castle?!" Shouted seymour. He loved to read about castles, honourable
knights and fairy stories when he was little. Ahead was a real castle, not a
ruin, an actual living castle. And they were going to crash into it.
"Careful!"
Jay pulled the wings rudders back, they just made it over the perimeter wall
by only knocking a few bricks and a sentry guard's hat off.
They landed in mud upside down and fell out.
"Jay?" Asked Alotta who had just regained some kind of consciousness.
"Yes honey?"
"Why are there two horses coming straight towards us with men with bug
sticks on them?"
"We're in the middle of a joust!" Seymour said excited. "Its ok, just duck."
One knight struck the other with his long joust stick, and he fell off his
horse to the ground.
The remaining knight turned his horse around and glared down at the BD
crewmembers.
"Identify yourselves strangers!"
"Let me handle this...I'm the Ambassador." Said Seymour proudly. "We come in
peace, we are friends!"
The knight threw an array of swords, maces and spears to the ground.
"You have entered the Castle Fromage Fighting games, you can earn our
friendship by fighting!"
An audience of peasants cheered. Duke Von-Velcro looked on from his
high-staged seating area where his gorgeous younger niece was eying up
Cerebrum.
"Fight?" Asked Keto.
<So what do we do guys?>
David "Onion" Ball
Captain Seymour Niples, JMC Blue Dwarf
WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
--------------------------------------------
Londo: "Stop eating that, you don't even know what it is."
G'Kar: "Its called 'rice'."
Londo: "Yes, and if it were that good do you think they'd be throwing it at
each other?"
(Babylon 5)
---------------------
_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com