Re: Friction Burns

While the Hymenoptera fleet approaches…
Blue Dwarf
Inside Hymenoptera territory
Drive Room
Efof, being in control of the Blue Dwarf should have been driving
them away from the enclosing fleet of massive Hymenoptera vessels,
but he looked at his watch and walked out of the Drive Room.
"Hey, where are you going?!" Asked Ashley the Sensor Operator.
"Its time to open Parrotts!"
"Hey, but.. you've got to prioritise!" The dumb blonde said getting
into a frenzy and pointed at the massive dark spikey ships through
the window.
"I know, there might be a queue forming outside!" Efof said
worryingly.
***Promenade***
Efof walked up to parrotts where shattered glass lie all over the
walkway, his feet crunched on the glass as he walked around the
normal-sized Phoenix, he even climbed through the window absent-
mindedly as the nose-end of the Phoenix was blocking the door. He
walked behind the bar and started instinctively cleaning glasses and
rubbing the bar down.
Then suddenly he looked up and noticed the Phoenix wedged into the
pub. "Woah!" he realised.
Jay, Phil, Alotta, Canazza, Tara, Johnny and Seymour started
climbing out of the ship's access hatch.
Jay stared at Efof who usually had a confused look on his face, but
in this instance he looked as if everything was normal. Efof
polished a glass and rested it on the Phoenix's robot arm.
"Can I get you anything?" he asked.
"Urrrm… we're fine at the moment Efof, thank you!" Piped up Seymour
with an annoyed and arrogant tone.
"Actually I could use a beer…" said Phil.
"Phil! This is no time for a beer!" Scolded Seymour. Then he
paused. "Actually a little drop of dry chardonnay wouldn't go amiss
though…"
Efof poured him a Stella in a wine glass and beamed proudly.
"Erm… actually I think I'll pass. But you got it half right at least
this time…" Seymour said.
"Anyway, we're looking for that small hymenoptera mind controlling
insect, we think it is trying to get back to one of the ships in the
fleet, it might even try controlling someone elses mind. Have you
seen anything or anyone acting suspicious?"
Efof looked around the bar. A man in the far corner was walking
continuously into the wall as if he was being controlled by an
exterior force.
"Nope nothing suspicious at all!" Efof said. "…Oh apart from this
rather large beetle trying to crawl up my back…. I…ahhhhh!!!"
Efof tried to shake it off his jacket and fell over.
Everyone rushed to the bar to see if the alien has gotten to him.
Efof stood up.
"Its controlling him, quick KILL HIM!" Seymour shouted. Then
realised people were staring at him. "Alright, maybe that was a tad
rash…"
"It tried," said Efof. "But didn't stay for long… maybe I'm just
such a complex individual!" he said proudly and continued to wipe
the exact same place on the bar he's been wiping for the past 10
minutes.
"Its there!" Alotta shouted and pointed to the floor. Seymour
screamed and jumped into Phil's arms.
The small brain-controlling bug scuttled across the bar towards……
<Tag! And remember someone needs to find a way of stalling that
fleet so that we can find a power source to wormhole back>