RE: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] The Murderer Revealed

"I CANT DIE!" Seymour murmered "I'm a royal ambassador!" Niples panicked "DO SOMETHING!!!!"
"I dont see you coming up with any ideas!" Jack muttered.
"Look! Will you two shut it!" Phil scolded "I don't wanna die, I'm too young! And the fact you guysa keep making me speak is making me use oxygen I don't wanna use!!!"  That whole sentence used up more of Phil's supply of Oxygen than the amount of Parrott's Jack Daniels supply he'd drink in a night. of course the irony of someone of the ripe old age of 60601 dying too young was lost on everyone. Thay just thought he was 8.
"Look we got three minutes to come up with something!" Jay said "Or you could all just look up!"
The group looked upwards the Inbound Raven was thundering towards them from over the top of the ship.
"DEAN! Thank god!" Amber said, as the craft loomed overhead.
"NO! Not Dean!! Jay!! Christ I ever fly like him I'll hand myself!!" Chrysler pointed out "The Raven's the best ship we have a for a mass deep-space pick-up!"
He positioned the Raven above the stranded group and opened the cargo bay, he then lowered the ship over them, sealed the hatch and re-pressurised the bay, the crew inside removed they're helmets and took a deep breath, Jay had got there just in time, and the air was already getting thin inside the suits.
"How did you know we were out here Jay?!" Wildflower asked
"I always know, I sense danger...."
"Saw it on the monitors didnt ya?!"
"Might have....whats going on anyway guys?!"
"AS I SUSPECTED!!" Niples yelled, barging into the cockpit "Doctor Keto is the murderer!!"
"Really? Wow...who'da thought......"
"Well" said Phil, stepping out of his Power Rangers EV suit. "Not exactly Keto, its the bwain bot!!" he then explained the situation to Jay.
It was at this point the comm bleeped on the control panel.
"OK" said Keto "You will have noticed I am now outside of the ship in an EV suit, just as you all were moments ago..."
"Yeah...so?" Jay asked, flicking on a monitor, showing Keto adrift, ina  thruster suit, one leg clearly twisted badly.
"Well...as you all now know my litttle secret, and you Mr Chrysler have prevented me from eliminating anyone who could have told anyone.....So I bring you an ultimatum"
"Ooh...."said Seymour "How exciting!"
"Let me go free, dont press any charges, let me leave the ship unchallenged and chalk it up to 'one of those things'"
"Yeah...ok" said Keats "And how about at the same time I tell Phil I'm dating Amber......oops..."
"YOU WHAT?!" said Phil, not sounding nearly initmidating enough in his current youthful phase.
"People!! Focus!!" Jay said and turned back to the comm "You've got to be kidding Charlie, why would we do that?!"
"It's really quite simple, If you dont, I escape capture by removing my helmet and commiting instant, painless suicide, killing not only myself, but Xavier Keto as well"
"Anyone see a downside to this?" Jay asked nonchalantly
"We cant let the Doc die!" Phil said "No other space corp doctor will work for what we pay......"
 
 
 
<tag peopel, post away, but lets not bring Keto down just yet...JHXMT over to you matey!>
 

-----Original Message-----From: lucky_coincidence [mailto:phil_crestor@...]Sent: 18 May 2004 23:49To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.comSubject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] The Murderer RevealedWho: The Group & MurdererWhere: Outside Medical Supplies Deck (and Inside it, too)When: Pfft.===================<<SNIP>>The crew all made they're way into the airlock, and the micro-thrusters carried them out to the space next to the hull. Seconds later, the airlock sealed. "What?..." Phil said, concerned "Holly, why did you seal the airlock?!" "I didnt Phil, it was overridden manually..." Came holly's voice back over the suits internal comm."Great...""By the way.." Holly said, returning "I nearly forgot, you've all only got 5 minutes of air left...""WHAT?!" They all shouted "WHAT THE SMEG DO YOU MEAN?!""Easy easy, save your breath!!"The crew looked at each other, and it was at this pont they realised... were one member of the group was missing.......<<END SNIP>>  "Well," said a voice over the suits' communication relays, "You've really made this quite irritating for me."  "Who is this?" snapped Niples, before remembering their shortage of oxygen and trying to conserve his breath.  "Oh smeg," murmured Wildflower.-- Inside The Medical Supply Deck Airlock --  "This is me," replied Keto, stepping out of his suit and heading back into the deck proper, "Charles Keto.  Congratulations, Mr Niples, despite your bumbling and general lack of leadership ability, you actually made the right choice."-- Outside, In Space --  "You WERE the murderer!" gasped Niples, "I don't...well, actually I do believe it.  And I'd like to point out that if you had all listened to me from the start, none of this would have happened!"  "Shut up, Nipples," said Phil.  "No, let him keep talking.  With any luck he'll exhaust his oxygen supply," muttered Wildflower.  "Actually, his oxygen supply won't make that much difference," interrupted Keto's voice over the radio, "Seeing as all of your supplies will be giving out in about four minutes.  Just for your information, the nearest other airlock, window or indeed any port of entry into the ship is at least a twelve minute space-run away.  I almost wish it hadn't come to this, but you forced my hand."  "Why?" asked McJohn, after a long pause during which everybody tried to work this out, "Why did you murder Jasmine?"  "Because she stumbled across me on the medical supply deck," growled the murderer's voice in return, "And she would have told others.  And your little detective game almost ran into the same thing.  So I decided that I couldn't let that happen.  I killed Jasmine, and when you wanted to come down here I drained the suits in the airlock and persuaded you to all head outside.  And now, with the security lock on the outer airlock door destroyed, there's no way it can be opened.  I'd like to apologise for having to do this to you all."  "What stasis booth?" asked Wildflower, "There's no stasis booth on the medical supply deck."  "Oh, that's where you're wrong," replied Keto, "There is.  And I couldn't allow you to find it, could I?  Because then you'd find out where I'd hidden him."  "Hidden who?" blinked Niples.  "Keto, of course!" shouted the voice, "You'd find Xavier Keto all tucked away there in a nice little robot body and questions would be asked!  I couldn't let that happen!"  "A nice little robot body?" echoed Phil.  "Oh SMEG," repeated Wildflower.-- Inside the Medical Supply Deck --  "Yes, a robot body," hissed Keto, wiping the window of the concealed stasis booth that moved into view as he tapped a code into a broken-looking keypad.  Inside, a slightly larger-than-skutter-size robot was plainly visible, with a human brain held within a glass container attached to it, "A robot body concealing the brain of Xavier Keto.  Well, I couldn't very well kill HIM, could I?  Firstly he's my brother, and blood's thicker than water, as they all say.  And secondly...well, I couldn't have fitted into this nice medical jacket in THAT body, could I?"  "Smeg..." repeated Wildflower again, who appeared to have gone almost catatonic.  "He performed the operation once, it was my turn," spat the human form of Charles Keto, "I was tired of being stuck in that robot shell.  When Xavier came down here to collect medical supplies, during some clone attack I believe, he wasn't paying any attention to anything other than his work.  It was easy for me to tranquillize him, and I set about preparing the area for an operation - sterilising the area with alcohol, the usual procedure.  Remarkably easy on a medical supplies deck.  "But then Jasmine came along, looking for some other supplies.  She stumbled across me while I was halfway through the operation and...well, I daresay it didn't look pleasant to her.  Naturally I couldn't let her escape and tell others, so the scalpel came into play again.  "After the switch, I placed Xavier into my robot shell and into stasis.  There was only room for one, so Jasmine had to be disposed of.  The security cameras overlook all external airlock entrances, so that was no good.  I decided to shift the body to a different deck, in the hopes that at least suspiscion would be diverted from any medical staff.  Apparently only Niples was fool enough to suspect us anyway."  "Yes, well," sniffed Niples haughtily, "I'm a cut above the rest of these..."  "Quiet," said the Keto body, softly, "But now you're all going to die out there, so I have to come up with some fabrication as to why I wasn't with you.  I believe this will be quite painful, but I don't really have a choice, do I?"  "A choice as to wha...?" began McJohn, but was interrupted by an inhuman shriek as Keto stuck his foot in the automatic storage door and hit the security override.  It slammed shut, cracking his leg neatly in two.  "A broken...leg, should serve as an am...ample excuse for my not going on a space-walk," he coughed, laughing to himself, "And now, I shall say goodbye.  I believe you to have about two minutes of air remaining.  I suggest you use it to say your prayers, if you are so inclined."-- Outside, In Space --  "What are we going to do?" gibbered Niples, as Keto cut contact, "Phil, can't you get us back through that airlock?"  "Like he said, the controls are broken," replied Phil, "And besides - you think a ship on which I'm security officer can be broken into from outside?  By US?"  "What about another airlock?"  "Twelve minutes' run away," sighed Wildflower, "Or weren't you listening?"  "SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" shrieked Niples.  There was silence.===========================OOC:  Bwahaahaahaa.  >:)  Okay, Onion, you guessed right.  Sort of.  It was Keto, but not the Keto you expected.  Jay/Andy has the next post in this plot, I believe...but feel free to panic and remain unable to get back into the ship for a while if you like.  Just think: for all you know, you're going to die in two minutes or so.  ;)  - Chris (JHXMT)...Protecting the universe from the scum of the Earth...www.BlueDwarf.co.uk-View the Blue Dwarf guide to the galaxy!Your number one resource in all things Blue Dwarf related!