Niples, Emma, Kara, Dean "Urban Redevelopment"
Posted byPosted: Nov 18, 2003, 4:37pm
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Kara sat there trying to think things over. Honestly it would be
nice to
have more company than Dean. She then made a decision and called up
Seymour.
She had been rather difficult with him lately. He deserved a
chance. "I know
this is insane but you can come too. Just you. No one else. Dean can
stay.
You can stay bring anyone else and I'll start doing with the crazy."
Kara
said as she unlocked the door.
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Seymour Niples and Emma Roberts
On a walkway outside Blue Dwarf
Seymour flobbed around.
"Damn that Jay Chrysler!" Seymour said waving his wobbly arms around
after being shot again by a deridgidizer ray, this second time from
above.
"Well you cant go and talk to her like that, let me take you inside
in the hover barrow!" Emma said.
"You heard her, she'll go mental!" Seymour whined as Emma dragged
his limp body into the barrow again.
"She already sounds mental, what's she gonna do?"
"Good point, just make sure we avoid the security cameras
..hangon
"
"What?"
"I just had a deep chill
someones opened one of my best wines,
HURRY!"
They entered the access hatch onto Blue Dwarf and rode the
xpresslift elevator up to the Drive Room.
When they were nearly there Emma took something out of her
pocket. "Here, if you get close to her I nabbed this."
"Whats that?" Seymour swung his head around to see Emma holding a
pistol. "The Deridgidizer gun? You stole it? You cant just go around
stealing weapons from Aliens crewman, if they found out you might
start a war!"
"Hey don't have a cow, I was holding it when I saw you collapse is
all, I forgot I had it. Plus I was going to use it on you when you
recovered again just to get you REALLY annoyed!"
The Lift slowed and Seymour grabbed the gun in his hang, although
his trigger finger was currently bending the wrong way.
From Karas point of view she saw the Drive Room lift doors open and
Seymour stood there. Then he collapsed in a splodgy pile on the
floor.
Dean who was asleep in a swivelly drive room chair woke up with a
start.
Kara saw Emma step out of the lift.
"Hey what are YOU doing here? I said Seymour no-one else!" Kara said
crazily. "Right I'm gonna do it, I'm turning the engines on!!!"
"No don't!" Cried Seymour pulling himself up to stand. "We're a 5
mile long spaceship in a city, there's not exactly much room to
manoeuvre!"
Kara had already brought the engines online, and now typed new
commands in the navigation computer.
The massive ship started to lurch forward. The walkways that had
connected to it snapped off, and the thrusters platforms underneath
the Dwarf groaned with the movement.
Seymour held up the deridgidizer gun.
"I'm terribly sorry Kara, you sound like you've been under a lot of
stress lately but to be honest, you're mad. So I'm doing this for
your own good
no actually I'm doing it for mine and for the people
living in that block of flats we're going to collide with."
He fired the weapon, but didn't realise his arm was bend around and
fired it at Dean behind him.
"Hey, Watch it!" Said Dean. And his limp body slid off the chair
like liquid.
"Terribly sorry" Seymour said. His arms were becoming more stable
now so pointed it properly at Kara and fired.
She dropped to the floor and Emma quickly stepped over her body to
turn the Blue Dwarf engines offline.
But it was too late, they already had 5 miles worth of momentum and
the massive dwarfstar ship shoulder-barged a big block of flats, and
continued to barge past, scraping a nasty chunk of glass, metal and
concrete from its side. The building toppled over slightly, crashing
into another much taller building causing it to wobble.
Debris fell from above and smashed walkways and pocked buildings
below with holes.
The Dwarf slowed, getting caught on all the wires and metal
framework of the building it just scraped. It approached another
building- this one looked like a prison and was built much sturdier,
out of thick metal panels. The Dwarf stopped just as one of the
forward ramscoops touched the building and started to bend outwards
slightly.
"Now you're not going to blame this one on me!" Said Dean.
They tied Kara up and Seymour dragged her in the xpress lift. "Now
you're coming outside and going to apologise to these nice people
before they decide to probably murder us for the mess you've made!"
Kara struggled, her arms now all rubbery she turned them around at
right angles to start untying the knots she was bound with.
"Can I come too?" Said Dean who was flopping around like a rag doll.
Emma threw him in the hover-barrow and pushed him into the lift as
well.
They made their way down to the access hatch to get outside and
opened the door. "Woah!" Said Emma, almost falling out. The gangway
that connected them to the city wasn't there anymore.
"It must have broken off." Seymour said. "Efofs flying around
somewhere, we'll go to the flight deck and get in the Raven."
Kara finished untying the knot on the rope around her and pushed
everyone out of the door.
Emma and Dean fell first, Deans body waving in the wind like a
stuffed dummy thrown off a building in a bad TV Drama. As Seymour
fell he grabbed Karas leg, so she fell out with them.
The low gravity meant they didn't fall very fast, or very
dramatically. In fact it was quite a boring ride and had time for a
chat on the way down. And came up with 3 plans to stop falling, all
of which involved either rope, a jetpack, or a spaceship. Seymour
rang Keats to pick them up but he was didn't answer, then he rang
Efof, who answered but said he was too busy `colouring something in'.
They spent the rest of the time blaming Kara.
The passed the slum housing which was at the bottom of the
city. "Mind your wallets!" Seymour reminded everyone, seeing an
Aeron guarding his porch with a shotgun. In fact it wasn't a
shotgun, it was a double barrelled deridgidizer- which he shot at
Seymour.
"OH DEAR GOD!" Seymour said in annoyance, loosing control of his
body again.
They landed with an uninspiring `plop' in the water beneath the
city. It stretched for miles in all directions.
"Ok now what do we do?" Asked Dean.
"We find a good dry cleaners, you know how hard it is to get
watermarks out of material as fine as this suit?!" Moaned Niples,
realising that his rubbery bones allowed his to tread water pretty
well.
"We have more serious things to worry about though
" Said
Emma. "Theres a big shark fin coming towards us!!!!"
A big head reared up out the water with two huge round eyes and a
large mechanical looking mouth. It was green in colour, but looked
the way metal does under water for a long time.
"That's no shark!" Seymour shouted. "It's an Eniram sub!"
The mechanical mouth opened and swallowed them all.
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