The Shanghaiing Of Shakespeare - Part 3

Who: Coffey and ShakespeareWhen: The continuing adventures of the lost mediteam
  Trisees sighed and sat down on a small tree stump, whilst Coffey lay on the grass beside him, both worn out with the walking they'd been doing the past two hours.
"This is going well," said Coffey with more than a little irony in her voice.
"My sister always said, if you can't say anything helpful, then shut up and be quiet," replied Trisees.
"You have a sister?" asked Coffey.
"Yes, I do," Trisees answered, more than a little annoyed.
"That's weird," said Coffey, closing her eyes and sighing.
"What's weird?" Trisees said indignantly after a few moments silence.
"Well, the idea that you have a family. I can't imagine you as being anything other than an only child. I can't even imagine you having parents," said Coffey truthfully.
"What you think I just spawned from nothing?" asked Trisees, angrily.
"That's one way to put it," muttered Coffey.
"As it happens, I have two sisters. And only one parent. My mother and my two elder brothers died when I was a young boy in a shuttle crash," stated Trisees, his anger still bubbling. "But of course, none of the crew know this because it's too much effort to be kind and socialise with Trisees. Trisees is the scary scientist that kills people, Trisees is the angry man that makes little boys and girls cry and wet their beds! Don’t think I don’t know what the crew says about me!" he shouted, throwing his arms about and screaming like a maniac.
He stopped shouting and seethed, glaring at Coffey.
"And you're the worst!" he declared, pointing and accusing finger. "You orchestrated the whole thing! What with you and that stupid bard so helplessly in love with each other, what the hell were you thinking?!"
Coffey didn’t reply. She just scowled.
"It's not as if YOU'VE been helpful in warming yourself to everyone else!" she finally said.
"Yes I have!"
"When?!"Trisees said nothing, his mind working overtime.
"Ah!" he finally said, ignoring Coffey's foot tapping. "What about the time I made those balloons to get us out of the water logged planet!"
"You were ordered too, and bribed the crew with money you didn’t have!"
Trisees smiled.
"Ah yes, those were the days." He said grinning.
Coffey sighed angrily.
"You know…" she began.
A loud overhead rumbling interrupted there conversation, and slowly both of them upturned their heads.
Hanging above them, a dark shade of orange and dirty rusted brown, was a ship almost identical to the green starbug that they had just crashed a few hours earlier.
"What is that?" asked Coffey.
"I got a bad feeling about this," replied Trisees.
*

There was a quiet engine humming as Lawrence Trisees and Hazel Coffey sat at the observation table in the middle of the dirtied orange and brown Starbug they were now residing in.
"I don’t like this," whispered Trisees.
"That's not surprising. You don't like anything," Coffey replied.
"Very funny," said Trisees. "But I like this less than I usually dislike things."
"What's not to like? We've been picked up by a strange looking starbug with two random people sitting at the helm," replied Coffey.
Trisees looked at her, a little stunned.
"Please explain to me how Shakespeare ever put up with you," he said.
Coffey's reply was cut off as two people walked into the middle room and took up the two seats opposite them.
The first person was a man with slicked back black hair, a set of serious looking reading glasses on as well as a small scar along his left cheek. His eyes seemed a little deep set into his face, and he had a serious expression on his face.
The second person looked like a 16 year old girl. She had long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail, with blue eyes and a mouth full of chewing gum. She was wearing a pink-cropped top, proudly displaying her cleavage, and a black mini skirt with knee high black boots.
"Like, this is soooo weird!" said the girl, looking at the older man.
"Agreed. It is rather strange that we'd run into them. I wasn't expecting it for another day."
"Yeah, I mean, like, you're never wrong, so why so like soon?"
"Because there was an error."
"I thought you were like the amazing incredible scientist guy?"
"Yes. But sometimes things can go wrong."
"Sorry to butt into this quite frankly astounding and wonderful conversation, but the two of us would pretty much like to know what's going on?" Trisees butted in.
"We picked you up from this alternate world," said the man.
"Yeah, we like rescued you from this like non place," backed up the girl.
"Who are you?" asked Coffey.
The man spoke first.
"My name is Harold Coffey, chief scientist and dimensional technology specialist of the SMC Mauve Dwarf."
"And I'm like Loretta Trisees, sexiest crewmember and the ships grief counsellor," said the girl. "I'm also like Saturn's youngest world champion cheerleader by three months."
"Oh my god," said Trisees looking at Coffey. "We've slipped into hell's seventh circle and there's no getting out."

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