***Action*** "retaliation pt1"

***Action*** "Retaliation pt1"
After all the terror and destruction caused (i.e. the completely
repairable damage to McDonalds) the clown army retreated back to
their ships and disappeared into many little wormholes, back to the
Death-Jar. But they didn't go empty handed, many people from our BD
and the Alternate BD were captured, and they'd raided 12 televisions
and a George Foreman grilling machine from the Argos on the
Promenade.
To discuss retaliation, the Blue Dwarf of this timeline called a
meeting for the two vessels.
***The Other Blue Dwarf***
Meeting Room
Captain Tara of the Alternate Timeline Blue Dwarf greeted all senior
officers as they entered the meeting room.
Seymour Niples walked in first, "Staff only please" grunted the
alternate Tara, who was a bit butch and pointed out of the door.
"I beg your pardon!" Exclaimed Seymour. "I'll have you know I am a
very important Ambassador to the British Royal family, it should be
your privilege for me to be here not the other way around!"
Tara sighed impatiently. "Okay then, but sit on the stool in the
corner and keep quiet."
"This is an outrage!" Cried Seymour. Alotta from our BD came in
behind him laughing.
"Ah, Alotta- you're commanding your Blue Dwarf then?" Said Alternate
Tara.
"Filling in for captain Whitewolf yes." Alotta said. "I was hoping
we could discuss the kidnapping of some of our crewmembers by the
clowns, including my husband…"
"Yes, some of our crew were taken too" Said Alternate Tara, pointing
around the meeting table which had a few missing people.
Our Blue Dwarfians sat around the table and filled in the empty
spaces.
All other crewmembers from the Blue Dwarf came including Canazza,
Dean, Efof, Phil, Kara and keats who got the good seats, everyone
else sat round the back of the room.
Seymour Butts strolled in with his cap on backwards scratching an
imaginary set of decks. "OUT!" Yelled Alternate Tara.
The meeting began. Alternate Captain Tara pressed a button and a
large TV screen descended from the ceiling. Out Blue Dwarf crew were
amazed that even despite these were rebels, they actually had
technology that worked! Our meeting room dropdown screen hadn't
lasted 2 weeks out of space-dock before Captain Cannon lost the
remote.
Alternate Tara pointed at the screen. "The main fleet of the Evil
Empire is located here. We believe that our kidnapped Crewmembers
from both ships have been taken back to the `Death-Jar', the central
weapon of the Empire."
"Can we destroy it?" Asked the alternate Harris, as trigger happy as
ours was.
Tara continued. "We propose a 2 pronged attack. Firstly we need to
rescue our crewmembers, so we will take our Blue Dwarf because it is
the most heavily armed, and use our wormhole drive to jump near to
the Death-Jar so that an escort vehicle can take a team and board
the Jar. We will be going straight into a heavily guarded area
though, so the escort ship needs heavy protection from Escort
fighters, we expect heavy resistance from the small clown commando
attack fighters that boarded us, and other clown fighters probably
shaped like `comedy' body parts. Unfortunately we lost a lot of good
pilots a few weeks ago…"
Alotta took the hint. "You can use some of ours. Efof, Dean, Rio,
and Keats you are all now re-assigned to this Blue Dwarf to help
with the fighter escort."
Rio looked up "Wahay! I finally get to fly one of those mean looking
fighters you have!"
"We're moving?" Said Efof. "…good job really, my quarters are really
starting to smell- havn't you humans heard of a flush toilet?!"
"eerm… theres no toilet IN your quarters Efof, its shared for your
corridor…"
"oh…oh dear…"
Everyone inched away from the Ffionian and Tara continued.
The escort ship will carry a group of people from your Dwarf-"
Alternate Tara pointed at Alotta who felt very proud to sound like
she `owned' the Blue Dwarf.
"-as our officers will be busy manning weapons platforms for our
ship, or providing fighter escort."
Alotta agreed and started assigning people. "I'll lead the team
myself, just to make sure we don't leave Jay behind- the spot where
he sleeps on the couch is getting cold! Dean, you can fly the
escort, Eve, Jack, Phil, Tara, Kyla and Keith get kitted up with
weapons from the armoury, we'll be launching from the Alternate Blue
Dwarf as soon as it jumps close to the Death-Jar."
Seymour sat alone in the corner was desperately trying to get
noticed by putting his hand in the air.
"So what should our Blue Dwarf be doing while the attack goes on?"
Alotta asked.
"Good Question." Said Alternate Tara. "We'll need you for later on
for the second prong of the attack, if you will help us destroy the
Death-Jar then we can equip you with a wormhole drive just like ours
so that you can jump to anywhere you want to go. Then when we have
rescued our crewmembers, we will be able to jump out again, and then
we can both jump back into the empires fleet together to confuse
them. Then you can launch fighters and bombers as well as us and we
can even the odds and hopefully destroy the Death-Jar."
"Really? You can equip us with the wormhole drive?!" Alotta
said. "We'll be the envy of the fleet when we get back to our
timeline! And I'll be praised as being the commanding officer that
brought it with us!"
A quiet grumble of `I could have done that when I was captain' came
from the back corner of the room.
Alotta ignored him and turned to Joseph Severn and Dave Canazza who
looked asleep. Joseph nudged him "You two help the alternate BD
technicians install the wormhole drive and make sure you test it by
making a small wormhole and chucking Mini-Phil through or something
before we need to use it properly."
"Aye aye Captain!" He said with an evil glint in his eye.
Alotta was still giving out orders, and quite enjoying it. "And
anyone who hasn't been trained how to fly, make sure you learn while
the Alternate BD is running the first mission because we'll need
every Starbug and Blue Midget when we both go in for the attack."
"Okay, lets get to it!"
***Attack part 1***
All of the pilots and boarding party were shuttled over to the
Alternate Blue Dwarf and given temporary quarters for a couple of
days, although it want long before they were about to jump- straight
into the middle of an Empire fleet.
The pilots were given a crash course in how to fly the Alternate
attack-fighters and were sat in them ready to launch. Loud speakers
echoed around the ship the time until the wormhole jump.
The boarding party got kitted out and sat in the Raven, Dean's new
toy. He sat proudly at its controls.
Then suddenly it was time. The alternate BD fired up its engines and
created a wormhole straight in front of its forward ramscoop,
quickly entering and disappearing through…..
……and entering hundreds of light years away. The Space here was lit
by dark green nebula, and looked ominous. Another reason why it
looked ominous was the massive Death-Jar surrounded by other large
but nowhere near as massive clown carriers.
The Alternate Blue Dwarf launched its fighters immediately, a
mixture of pilots from their BD and ours and out came Dean's Raven,
headed straight towards the death jar, but would take about 10
minutes to get there.
The fighters lined up in formation to give cover.
A bit slower off the mark, the clowns realised what was going on and
started scrambling fighters, an array of bizarre looking space ships
in odd clown colours started heading towards the Raven…..
<OOC-Bwahaha, I've not written an Action in ages, so I thought I
would to get back my throne of BD power, and it feels goood!
Hopefully everyone has something they can be writing about from this>