The cannonball run!

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Keats pressed a few more buttns and opend up a tight beam to the
Phoenix, and turned off comms to the back compartment with Jack in it.
'Jay! Wanna see whos got the faster ship? I wager Jacks hipflask, you
in?'
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"Dean's shuttle say's youre on"
"You cant wager Dean's ship?"
"Why not you wagered Jack's hipflask, besides it keeps him outta the
air!"
"Jay" Alota who was sat next to Jay in the cockpit of the
Phoenix
"You're not doing this, thats an order"
"Not on work time babe.."
"Ok well..."
"Well nothin' I'm racing"
Alota gave Jay the look but when Jay got competetive he really didnt
care.
'Hey! whats keeping you, Jacks getting suspicious'
Keats turned around to see Jack beating his fists on the Plas-steel
seperating him from the hard vacuum of space.
'hehehe... sucker' he clicked his knuckles, and focused on the race
ahead.
"Oh Jack?.." Jay said into the comm, "Forgot to tell you something"
"What?"
"you remember me and Zodar were doing something in the hangar bay
last week?"
"Uh-huh"
Jay pulled a lever on the Phoenix' control panel, the two rear
thrusters whirred and clunked and lifted out to the sides of the
shuttle, two more sliding into place where they had previously been,
giving the Phoenix twice the power.
"It was this..."
Jack bashed the Comms unit to try and get Keats, but hed disabled
voice comms from Jack, so, instead he tried yelling.
After a minute, hed gone bright red from the effort.
'Dumbass...' Mutterd the Gun(TM).
In the other section of 'The Endymion' Keats was preparing to go. Hed
fully charge up all the engines, boosters, and, heavens forbid hed
need them, weapons.
'Your gonna get a whole lotta ass whooping padre!' Keats taunted with
a slight chuckle. A smirk found itself onto Jay's face.
"Keatsy, Keatsy Keatsy.." he mused
"When will you learn?, OK Once around the 3rd moon, into the
asteroid field, over the Dwarf, winners the first one in the
shuttlebay"
He lined up next to Keats craft, Keats had the smaller, more armed
vessel, but Jay's had always been the fastest in the 'Dwarf's fleet
and he was damned if he was gonna lose that title. They looked across
the expansive vacuum at each other, although alomost a half a klick
seperated them, they still found each others eyes.
'You ready Jay'
'On your mark Keats'
'3' Jays grip tightend
'2' Keats whole body warmed up through intense adrenaline
'1' people on The Phoenix strapped themselves in, read out there last
will and testiment, and generally prayed..
'GO!'
Both ships accelerated to Mach 3 almost intantaniously.
The race was on... Keats was the first to reach the moon, but as he
manouvered to circle it, the Endymion's wide turning circle made him
take the turn too widely, letting Jay slip in nicely between Keat's
and the moon, overtaking with ease.
"Gonna have to do better than that boyo!"
Jay taunted into the comm
"Hey no fair! Jack's banging on the glass!"
"Makin' excuses already?!"
'ill show you excuses padre!'
Keats flipped 4 of the 10 switches on the left hand side of the
dashboard. Noxious yellow fumes started to spill out heavily from the
engines and lights faded as he appeared to slow down...
'dammit dammit DAMMIT!'
He gave the ship a swift kick,the lights flicked on, and the yellow
fumes increased in intensity as he was thrown back in his padded
leather seat and the ship grew level with Jays again.
"Well well well, Looks like I might actually have to throttle..." Jay
said into the comm,
"Oh Keats?"
"Yeah?"
"Look forward."
"SMEG!"
Keats yelled as the Endymion quickly pulled up and over an
asteroid as they entered the belt, The Phoenix casually glided around
it and thundered onward deeper into the belt. Jay suddenly slammed on
the reverse thrusters as two enourmous asteroids slammed together
inches from the Phoenix's nose, the smaller Endymion, snekaing
through the gap between them.
"BASTARD!" Jay yelled, slamming his fist on the dashboard.
Keats activated the visual console, and raised two fingers to Jay,
before shutting it off quickly to conserve speed. Looking up, he had
to quickly side roll away from another asteroid.
One hit from them would finish him off... he wasnt nearly as
manouverabvle as the Phoenix was, and at best he was almost as fast
as it.. he had to out think Jay...
'What i lack in speed and grace i make up for in firepower!'
Keats pressed a red switch under the flight wheel, and a small salvo
of Hyper-K missles flew off into a large asteroid ahead, forcing it
to implode impressivly, a few shards of deibres burnt up on the
Deflectors.
"Thanks!"
said Jay, and thundered past Keat's through the now clear
path he had just made for him, Jay did a quick barrel roll just to
make his point clear and headed for the final leg of the race, across
the top section of the Blue Dwarf, through the immesne trench in its
roof and around into the Shuttlebay.
'Dammit Dammit Dammit! Well, if im gonna lose, il lose in style!'
Keats flipped the final 6 switches, and then an orange one that
appeared. A voice rang out.
'System engaged, 15 seconds until system shutdown, performance
increased by 314%'
Keats had lost, he knew it, but he also knew that he could at least
look impressive, he knew that although fast, the phoenix couldnt hit
1.5 c (lightspeed). A countdown appeared on the panel, it went from
15 seconds...
Observers from outside of Keats inertial Field of Reference would of
seen 'The Endymion' Stretch to an infinite length before popping out
of existance before suudenly appearing infront of the hanger. He
managed an emergency stop in the shuttle bay, scaring several flight
crew (well, he did just stop dead from one and a half times the speed
of light). However, the Phoenix emerged victorious. The Endymion
touched down in the shuttlebay, Jay was already sat with his feet up
on a stack of Cargo Crates.
"What took you?" he said
"I hear mankind have started evolving into big
squiggly things in the time it took you to get back here!"
"Yeah
whatever, just take Jack's flask and leave me alone"
"No..you see, I was never in it to win that, I feel it would be un-
sportsman-like to take it" "In other words Alota wont let you have an
endless supply of alcohol"
"Yes....BUT to be honest, I think rubbing your face in it from now
until doomsday will be MUCH MUCH more worthwhile!"
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OOC-This was my first joint post with Mr. Longman, i just resent ii
in a way thats readable. Pace out Padres!