1 pilot down..and that's before takeoff!

<SNIP>"Am I glad to see you guys" Kara hopped on board, she couldn't believe her luck."I don't know are you""Shut up Dean"Dean went and sat in the back by himself sulking, Jasmine felt bad after a while and joined him, she hugged him all the way back to the Dwarf, in which they were lucky that the landing bay doors had been blasted open.<END SNIP>
"Dont get comfy guys" Jay shouted as he leapt from the sleigh and ran across the shuttlebay, "In case you hadnt noticed theres a pretty big fleet of Robo-claus' out there that wanna Blow-ho-ho our heads off" he clambered into the cokpit of the Phoenix and started the engines, "McGellan! Thomas! Scramble!" he shouted over the speaker system.
"Great." said Dean, pulling away from Jasmine. "Now I have to leave my women, and go and fight an evil fleet of monsters with one arm broken."
"Yes," said Kara, following, "It sounds like something out of either a movie or a badly contrived internet sim.""It does." said Dean, disappearing into one of the ships standard issue bugs, before climbing out and into one that had been fitted with more in the way of weaponry then a potato masher.
"Dean, you aint the only who has to leave yer woman behind while you be all hero-like and looke like a stud..." Jay paused "Wait...the last bit only applies to me...you ok to fly with a busted arm?"
"Well, it's funny you should mention the broken arm..." said Dean, "the pain's not just in the arm anymore, it's reached my back and is kinda spreading up my spine."
 "I'm taking that as a no then." said Jay,
"In fact, I'm feeling rather faint.""Wuss..." Jay said "I flew with a broken arm and a week later was dating Alota....ok you head for the drive room, Kara you an me will meet amber and Rio out there, EFOF get your four armed ass out here! Dean you copy that?" asked Jay after a decent sized pause. "Dean?....Hellooo?...Dean? Answer you smegger!" Silence reigned. "Someone get someone to check Dean out, we got alien ass  to fry!"
 
Jay, Kara and Efof rocketed out of the shuttlebay, within seconds blowing at least 12 santa sleighs apart between the three of them. Jasmine ran up the boarding path to the the starbug Dean was in...
 
"Ok." said Jay, swinging around a burning sleigh, "Efof, grab that one on Kara's rear, wait, what? One of those sleighs is attacking the other ones! Guys, get a closer look!" Jay swung around again, vaporising a sleigh, to have alook at the sleighs occupants. Meanwhile Amber whooped with satisfaction as one of the Santa sleighs went burning down in flames. She saw the inter sleigh link flash. "Hey Rio you expecting a call?"
"Unless it's shoesunlimited.com - I'm expecting a delievery sometime soon."
"Well, we'll soon find out." said Amber, "Just as soon as I can work out how to activate the comm link..." She pressed a few buttons and launced a missile by mistake then found the one for the comms. "Hey Santa baby. Whats up? Got an itchy trigger finger?" The real Santa had been sent to the back of the sleigh during the fight.
 "Not exactly." said a rather worried sounding Santa, "It's just that, well, how can I put this? We've accidently got a hole." "How big is the hole?" asked Rio, now also a little worried about the hole. Suddenly, Santa ripped off his beard. "SURPRISE!" said Jay, "Had you going for a minute there." he laughed,
"You bastard." muttered Rio, trying to stop a heart attack from occuring.
Amber looked through the sights on the sleigh and lined up another of the evil robot sleighs. She fired and the craft went down in flames "Wheeee!!! Score four for the BLue Dwarf!" She yelled.
"Nah, hang on." said Jay, screwing his face up real hard. "Mental Arithmetic to hard for you there Jay?" said Rio, scornfully. "17 ships so far, alright guys! We're getting there." He paused, "I don't suppose one of you could give me a hand? I've got a real son-of-a-smegger on my tail..."
Amber had lined up the 'son-of-a-smegger' before Jay had even finished the sentance. Whilst Rio was talking to Jay she had taken the flight controlls and flown around The other BD craft. She pressed the big red button that is standard to all sci-fi craft. A load of silly string came out of a cannon and covered the enemys windscreen.
"Neat trick guys." said Jay, impressed, "But did you only have green silly string? Blue would have complemented the dwarf rather well..."
"Jay?" It's Phil." came the voice over the communication console, "Dean's been rushed to the medibay. He's unconcious and not giving off any lifesigns...."
 
Joint Post - Chris/Dean, Andy/Jay, Becca/Amber