Startling discoveries

Who:- Jay
Where:- Phoenix
 
“That’s the last of them” Jay said into
the comm. as Dean blasted a hymenoptera fighter to dust.
“How many have we lost?”
“Seven” Dean replied, the worst part of the job
was the casualty count afterwards.
“Oh…we’ve also lost contact with Keats…”
“I can’t reach Amber either…” Jay
said
“Shes ok, I’ve just arranged for her to be towed
in”
“Right, lets get a search party in order for Keats”
FLASH!
“FOR SMEGS SAKE MCJOHN!!”
 
With that, as quickly as it had begun, the battle was over
and the pilots returned to the Blue Dwarf.
 
A few minutes later, Jay was examining the Phoenix for damage.
 “Smeg…tore a fuel line…” he muttered as he
noticed a few drips of fuel dripping onto the hangar bay floor.
“Dean can you take care of stuff up here? I gotta go
the cargo bay and get replacement parts, need anything?”
“Yeah…I busted a wiper…”
“got it…”
 
The lift doors opened to the cargo bay, Jay whistling
happily as he pushed the trolley into the bay, the lights were out, probably
damaged in the battle so he grabbed a flashlight from the wall and waved it
around the immense cargo hold looking for the vital parts he needed to fix his
ship, in other words everything he saw that would look cool.
The trolley was overloaded before Jay had even found the
fuel pipe, stacked with various machine parts for his incessant need to upgrade
and customise in every way possible, and as he turned into one of the aisles of
the bay, the trolley toppled with a crash, scattering machine parts across the
bay floor. “GODDAMIT!!” he said out loud “Could this day get
any worse?!”
CRUNCH!
“Evidently it CAN!!” OWWWW!” he moaned as
he stubbed his toe on a fallen exhaust housing.
He bent to pick up the windscreen wiper he’s found for
the Raven. “That’s weird…its wet…”
Grabbing the flashlight he shone it on the wiper he held in
the other hand, it, and his fingers now, were soaked in dark red liquid, he sniffed
it.
“Blood?....”
He shone the flashlight around, finding a large patch of
blood on the cargo bay floor, “What the?....oh smeg…”
He found the body of a woman, slumped on the floor, not
moving.
His heart racing he bent down and lay his hand on her neck,
checking for a pulse.
 
None.
 
Jay felt himself start to sweat, and placing his hand on the
womans shoulder rolled her over to see her face.
“F#’#K…Holly, call Phil…”
 
Half an hour later an eight year old Phil Febuggure had joined
Jay with a team of security officers.
“She been murdered” he said, “Its tewwible….can
I have a lolly?”
Jay was shocked, beyond belief, a murderer on the Blue Dwarf,
still loose.
“I hope your detective skills haven’t been
affected by being turned into an 8 year old Phil…you gotta find this guy
before they kill again”
“Alwight alwight poo-poo head, I’ll see what I
can do…”
Jay sat back, and tried to figure outhow he was going tell
Dean that his girlfriend,  Jasmine Starbolt, was dead.
 
 
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