Hellwood

Still scowling in a skutter-stylee, Elwood sat near the rustling tree.
He couldn't quite remember how he'd escaped from bazookoid-related
death ((OOC: that's what happens when you don't post quick enough!)),
but it probably involved some kind of Matrix-esq jumping backwards
out of harm's way before MacDonalds was totally destroyed...
On the other claw, he'd probably just ducked...
As the bay depressurised, he watched enviously as Jay's newest
Starbug flew out of the Blue Dwarf. He knew that he wouldn't be able
to go on any missions in his present state, mostly due to the 3 inch
step that led up to the boarding ramp.
But still, now that the power was back on and the other skutters were
around to clean things up (Elwood knew he was kidding himself there),
the skutter started towards the AR suite, overtaking the BPT on the
way.
The journey was uneventful - no space monsters, no power-cuts, no
screwdriver weilding crewmembers...
Elwood entered the suite via the skut-tunnel, and seeing no-one
around, drove to the educational program library, which hadn't seen
action since MP had come in several weeks ago to use the "How to pick
up women using basic hypnosis" program.
The skutter browsed down the dusty shelf until he found the training
manuals for spaceflight. Typically, the SpaceEagle disk had several
scratches and a coffee-ring on it, and the Blue Midget disk was
missing and overdue by 3 months.
That left the dog-eared Starbug disk, but that was better than
nothing...
Placing the disk into the AR console, Elwood opened an access panel
and pulled out a wire, plugging it into a small hole in the back of
his base.
Starting the program, the skutter began to learn how to fly...