Introducing the 'Chrysler launch'!

Who: Captain White Wolf, Jay, Dean, Lodo, Cerebrum and assorted
unannounced away team members...
Where: Starbug #182 or was that #231? (Can never tell with all the
parts needing to be re-used from Dean's landing abuse they take...)
When: Just before launch, obiviously.
As the Starbug hatch opened, and White Wolf, Jay & Dean were starting
up the ramp, when Security officer Lodo Fuldin shoved them aside as
others bounded on by them rushing to make sure they got themselves
some good seats.
The huge hamster sighed and muttered, "Civility is always the first
thing to go!", while following Jay & Dean up the ramp.
"Hey, is Cain getting cloned or something?" Said Dean watching
Cerebrum go skulking up the ramp towardst the starbug, trying to find
some shadows to dart into after being in the extremely well lit
landing bay area.
"Nah... That's just Cerebrum. I think he's been hanging around Cain
too much, just like Tom, Dick & Harry." remarked White Wolf.
"Dean, you go and check over the sensors, While I go through the pre-
flight checks." Ordered Jay, then he turned to White Wolf while
flashing a grin, "Would you like to help out in the cockpit, Captain?
You'll be guaranteed a good seat..."
"Yeah sure, Jay. I'll take the Op's seat behind you. That way I'll
get a first hand look at any other infamous Chrysler manuvers that
happen during this away mission." replies the overgrown hamster
smirking, then darted up the ramp to get out of swatting distance.
"Hey, I don't do that on every mission, unlike someone I know..."
called Jay after the retreating hamster.
"You sure you don't want me piloting instead of manning the co-pilots
seat?" Asks Dean turning to Jay as they near the Starbug's door.
"Captains orders." replies Jay, "Besides, this is supposed to be a 2
way trip Dean, you'll probably get your turn on the way back."
"Well, it's just that, I'm used to how everythings laid out from the
pilot's seat, doing everything from the opposite side could throw me
off, you know..." finished Dean disappearing into the cockpit.
"Is He qualified to fly co-pilot the starbug?" Asked the suddenly
nervous hamster, standing just inside the door.
"As qualified as any other pilot in my department." replied Jay,
deciding at the last moment to leave out the 'whose piloting under
the influence' part of the sentence.
"Oh? Then we should be in good hands." Remarks the Rotund Hamster
starting to turn away, before turning back, "One other thing, did you
get what type of planet it was before Holly locked out you out again?"
"Yeah, the sensors said it was a ice planet with some large artifical
heat sources incidicating there was civilization located there."
Comments Jay.
"Really? Well then I'll make sure somebody brings some ski's & winter
survival gear on board before I join you two up front." Finished
White Wolf.
<Several fun filled minutes later after everyone & everything gets
stuffed tightly into the Starbug like the filling of some weird
flying burrito...>
White Wolf entered the cockpit and sat down behind Jay, and glanced
over at Dean, who was sitting at the comm station, and asked, "Hasn't
the drive room cleared us for take off yet?"
"I'm still trying to figure out how these stupid communication
goggles work so I can ask them!" replied Dean putting a pair of
headphones with the headband over his eyes with one hand and
balancing a hot toastie in the other, "But on the plus side, I found
out how make really hot toasties with this other fancy gizmo."
"That's because thier headphones you gimboid!" replied Jay, reaching
over and flipping the headphones into the right orientation on Dean
heads.
"Oh... I guess that would make a lot of sense then." Said Dean,
punching a switch and professionally intoning, 'Dean calling drive
room, Dean calling drive room.' into the mic which was then
transmitted through the Starbug tonney.
White Wolf reached over and flicked a switch on the panel before Dean
while commenting, "Now your transmitting outside the bug... You
pressed the bug's internal all stations call button."
"Thanks Cap! Care for a toastie that I salvaged from a rampaging mob
in the promenade?" Said Dean, tilting a hot toastie toward the huge
hamster in offering.
The amplitudness hamster glanced at the half bite that was taken out
of the toastie, and replied looking a little green, "Ah... no thanks,
I'm still full from my Potnoodle I had earlier..."
Dean went back into his professional voice again, and spoke into the
mic, 'Dean calling drive room.... Yes, this is Dean in the starbug...
Yes, the one in which Jay is piloting... Are we cleared for take off
yet?'
There was a pause, then Dean intoned, 'Uh huh... okay I got it,
Thanks!'
Dean pulled off the headphones and casually munched on his toastie as
both White Wolf and Jay stared at him in askance.
He suddenly noticed them both staring at him, and blurted "What?" as
he looked down at himself," Did I drip some of the fruit filling on
my shirt?"
"Did we get clearance to take off?!?" Bellowed Jay & White Wolf in
unison at him.
"Oh that..." Said Dean, "Their having some problems getting Holly to
open the door, so we're cleared to take off as soon they can get him
to open the door..."
"I've got that covered." Says Jay, holding up a remote denotator with
a big red button, which he presses, setting off some previously
planted charges that blow the landing bay hatch open.
"One of the Top Ten rules in the Chrysler handbook on flying, file
your flight plan with proper authorities, then plan ahead so you take
off in case they deny your clearance..." Said Jay, while throttling
up the Starbug's engines, then lifting off and shooting through the
hatch at break neck speed as the landing bay's atmosphere suddenly
voided out into space, "Besides, I figure we can use the momentum we
gain from this method to conserve on some of the feul we need to use
to get to the planet!"
A small Starbug wing went >pling< off the side of the landing bay
hatch as they shot out.
"Plus Dean's going to have to pay for another paint job on this
Starbug before it get's back anyhow..." finished Jay.
"Hhhheeeeyyyy!" yelled an offended sounding Dean.
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OOC - Okay, this part one of a mini series of plot setting posts. So
all of you away team volunteers, please feel free to make somw posts
about your characters
reactions/flashbacks/experiences/banter/whatever during this first
part of the trip to the planet, while I go and write up the next key
piece of the series for you all to write too! :)
(Oh, and BTW the way, if it isn't already painfully obivious by now,
PLEASE don't try to advance the plot that much farther - We've got
some fun plans in mind... You'll see!)
- White Wolf