Fishing trip
Posted byPosted: Jun 25, 2004, 2:55pm
"PHUUUUWWWAAAA!!" Breathed Chrysler as he broke the surface of the water, he
looked around, treading water. Ocean, ocean and more ocean, was all Jay
could see apart from a speck of an island in the distance.
"PHIL?!" he shouted "NIPLES?!"
No reply
"Cerebrum?" he whispered, at least this way he could say he DID call out for
him, but Cerebrum must 'not have heard'.
Beneath him was the rapidly sinking carcass of the crashed starbug, he'd
ordered everyone to eject, then crash landed the starbug in the ocean, where
it would cause the least damage, and he'd only just managed to get away from
it without being pulled under by the suction it was putting out.
He began to swim for the island.
He was alerted by a sudden splashing sound, and a high-pitched cry of
"AIIIIEEEEEE!!!!" he whirled around in the water, to see what looked like a
human being tossed around by the tentacles of a giant squid.
"Dont.." SPLOOSH! the figure was dunked beneath the waves, then pulled back
out again rapidly by the flailing tentalces "JUST!...." SPLOOSH! "FLOAT!"
SPLOOSH! "THERE!" SPLOOSH! "HELP ME!!" SPLOOSH!"
It had become apparent that this was actually Patrick Cerebrum.
"WHY DONT YOU JUST GO SOFT LIGHT?!" Jay asked
"Don't you think if I could do that I'd have done so by now?!"
Jay shrugged "smeg knows, for all I know you enjoy pain..hold on..." he
sighed, pulling his combat knife from his boot, he placed it between his
teethe and swam over to where Cerebrum was being tossed around, the squid
raised an investigative tentacle towards Jay, who reacted by jabbing his
knife, hard into the mandible, before pulling it back out and diving beneath
the surface, coming face to face with the creature.
The squid began secreting vast clouds of thick black ink, blinding the
pilot, unable to see Jay blindly stabbed in the dark. The squid violently
flailed its tentacles around, letting go of Cerebrum who landed in the water
with a loud splash. The ink was beginning to disperse, and although the
water was still murky, Jay could just make out the shape of the squid.
Without judgement he tossed the knife blade first, which moved surprisingly
quickly through the water, and embedded itself in the squids eye. It's
tentacles stopped flapping, and it began to sink into the depths.
Jay and Cerebrum both swam for the surface, Jay panting for breath as he
broke through.
"Next.....time...." he puffed "You're....fish..food...why couldn't
you....switch to soft light?!"
"Well..." said Cerebrum "I'd have dropped my sandwich" he stuffed the last
piece of chicken and mayo on white bread into his chubby face and licked his
fingers clean, Jay stifled his desire to throttle the psychiatrist and
decided to take charge. "I was heading for that island" he said "I figure
Phil, Seymour and the others would probably have done the same"
"If they're not dead"
"Well aint you just Mr. glass-is-half-full?!"
"Well..." said Cerebrum "Im a realist, and thought youd enjoy the fact that
you probably killed everybody on the shuttle"
"ME?!" Jay spluttered "How did I kill everyone?!"
"By getting in the cockpit...."
"I'm gonna kill...." Jay was interuptted as a circle of helicopters
descended over the water around them, out of the hatches leant dozens of
gun-toting gelfs. "..you.." Jay finished.
"Relax!" said Cerebrum "They're G.E.L.F.s, genetic lifeforms, they won't
harm the same species as who created them!"
The air was filled with the sound of several gun's cocking at once.
"You were saying?!"
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