Re: *Action* \"Elevator capers\"

sorry forgot to say, this was JP between me and Chris
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "Onion" <theonion770@h...>
wrote:
>
> Who: Seymour Niples and a crowd of people
> Where: Mini-Phil's funeral
>
> Seymour looked at the probe casing that the Midget's body laid in.
> He never liked the little smegger, but felt sorry for anything
that
> was ripped into pieces horribly.
>
> Seymour was wearing a black designer shirt with urban styled
jeans.
> This was a funeral, but there was no reason he still couldn't try
> and look trendy. Plus he'd known MP had always chased attractive
> girls, and had hoped that some had attended the funeral.
> Unfortunately not.
>
> The casing was lowered into a probe launcher. And Seymour did the
> honours of targeting it with a small joystick and pressing
> the `Launch' button. The coffin shot out into space, everyone
> watched it go with sorrowful looks. Seymour watched it fly into
the
> sun and put both hands in the air. "Yess, what a shot! How cool is
> that?!"
> Nobody else was that pleased.
>
> Seymour quickly changed the subject. "Anyhow… As the search for
the
> unknown killer aboard continues, I myself am going to start an
> expedition to kill this thing once and for all. For – of course,
if
> anybody can do it on this ship- I can!"
>
> People muttered some expletives at him but he continued. "So
anyone
> who wants to join me follow me to the Armoury, we start now!"
>
> Chris Harris followed Seymour out of the door.
> "Only you?" Seymour said surprised. "I thought more people would
> want to avenge the death of poor mini-Phil!"
>
> "Whoever said that I came along to avenge the death of mini-Phil?"
> said Chris, "I just want this thing dead, for some er………reasons".
> He nervously fumbled around in his pocket, unintentionally finding
> the ring case, that had, up until ten hours ago, contained the
> beautiful diamond engagement ring, that now sat proudly, on the
> fourth finger of the hand belonging to Kanako FeBuggre.
> He shifted nervously where he stood, "Of course it's a tragedy the
> killing of the poor guy….if you could call him that, but hell,
life
> goes on" he continued, abruptly changing the subject, a faint
smile
> appearing on his face.
>
> "Right, lets get on with this shall we?" said Seymour, an eyebrow
> slightly raised at what Chris had just said.
>
> "Yeah" said Chris, happy with the change of subject, "To the
> armoury?"
>
> "Indeed, lets go" said Seymour, setting off at a fast walk down
the
> corridor.
>
> On the way to the Armoury, Seymour noticed a shifty look about
> Chris, he seemed anxious, knowing Chris, he would normally have
> spent the whole journey talking , asking questions and such the
> like, but obviously, not today.
>
> "Are you alright?" asked Seymour when they were 2/3 of their way
to
> the armoury.
> "Fine, why?" Chris snapped
> "Erm….Your just a little different to how you usually are, you
seem
> anxious?"
> "Well…you would be too if you were getting marri…." Chris stopped
> mid-sentence, realising what he had just said, though,
> unfortunately, for his sake, far too late in the sentence.
> "Your getting married???" said Seymour, bemused, "Who to?"
> "Wouldn't you like to know…?" said Chris, continually taunting him
> until they reached the armoury, becoming serious again.
>
> -----Armoury-----
> who: Seymour, Chris and Eric Lustbader
> "2 laser rifles and 40 energy rounds each please." Seymour asked
the
> armoury officer.
>
> "Authorisation please." Eric asked. Sitting with his feet up on
his
> desk as if he didn't really care.
> "What?"
> "All weapons need authorisation to be taken out of here when
issuing
> to civilians such as yourself." He pointed to Seymour.
> "But I'm a Royal Ambassador!"
> "Yes… a civilian!"
> Seymour sighed and removed something from his pocket. It was a
stamp.
> He stamped the paper.
>
> "What's this?" Asked Eric.
> "It's the royal seal, I got it from the Queen. It approves
anything
> on behalf of her."
> He stamped the paper a few times, then stamped Eric's hand holding
> the paper, then on his forehead.
>
> Seymour and Chris grabbed the rifles and left the armoury.
>
> "So Dude…. Who are you marrying?" Said Seymour, trying to be all
hip
> and matey with Chris.
>
> "Quiet!" Said Chris.
> "I was only asking! Anyway, you can't boss me around I'm a Roya-"
> "Sorry but I think there's something above us… in the pipes."
> They were both quiet.
> "You're right….. this way!" Charged Seymour, again thinking he was
> some kind of military hero.
>
> They followed the sounds to a lift door.
> "Its in the lift shaft!"
> Seymour prized the door open and looked down. A gust of air blew
> through his hair as a lift car passed at high speed extremely
close
> to his nose.
>
> "This may not be such a good idea!" said Chris, the voice of
reason.
> "Nonsense!" Said Seymour. "I'm not scared, plus this will be a
cool
> tale to tell of how we tracked down the beast on a moving lift!"
>
> They both saw something move in the dimly lit shaft. It grabbed
onto
> a car moving down, hiding in the shadows all the time so they
> couldn't get a clear look at it.
> A lift descended right underneath them and stopped at the floor
> below, Seymour jumped straight onto its roof. "Yeehaw!" He said
> enthusiastically.
> Chris sighed and jumped too.
>
> The elevator shafts were like mazes around the ship, there were so
> many, going up, down, widthways and lengthways. Some shafts were
> wide enough for only a single car, some double, but some- like
this
> one were quadruple so that four cars could go up and down the same
> shaft.
>
> The killer was on the elevator across from them going at the same
> speed. Seymour fired a few shots.
> "Its there, I can see its shadow. Look how the shadow changes with
> each laser pulse…" Seymour shot the opposite car a few more times.
> "Wait Seymour… the cables!" Said Chris.
>
> The cables on the opposite car snapped, and it started to
> plunge. "Oh dear." Said Seymour, realising there may be someone
> inside. The backup brakes stopped its plummet however, but the car
> they were on continued down, making them pass by the stationery
lift
> at high speeds.
> "Was it there? Did you see it?" asked Chris.
>
> "We need to get back up."
> They jumped onto another car that was on its way back up. As they
> passed the stationery car, they felt a thud on their car.
> "Its jumped to this one!"
>
> Their car slowed down and stopped at a floor to deposit
passengers.
> There was a few moments of darkness as the only light that
> illuminated them was when they passed a floor.
> Both of them tried to breathe quietly to hear their nemesis.
>
> Suddenly the lift moved again, accelerating to high speed,
sideways
> this time through a side shaft. Light flashed past every other
> second, making it hard to see anything. Something moved onto the
top
> with them, Seymour could only see a shape in one flicker of light,
> it knocked him off the back edge of the lift, where he barely held
> on with his hands to the fast moving car.
>
> Chris Harris raised his gun and fired around himself, hoping to
hit
> something. He could see vague shapes in the darkness, but it kept
> moving around on top of the elevator with him. He side-stepped
left,
> catching his foot under some metal piping on the top of the
> elevator. "Dammit!" he said, continuing to fire in hop he'd hit
> something..
>
> The lift stopped again and started to move downwards. Seymour
> scrambled back up to the top.
> Chris fired again, this time hitting a wire, holding the elevator
> up. It started to snap.
> "Oh crap" he said.
> The sturdy rope broke with suck tensile force that it whipped out,
> lashing Chris' left arm, tearing the arm right off, it fell down
the
> lift shaft.
>
> He fell to the ground desperately trying to cover the wound, which
> was bleeding everywhere. The elevator fell for a few moments
before
> the safety brakes enabled, stopping them from falling to their
doom.
>
> Seymour crawled up to him, "Are you alright Dude?"
> "No my bloody arm's off!" Chris cursed. "I'm bleeding to death!"
> "Self self self!" Said Seymour. "You should have killed it?"
> "Well I missed. Anjd I couldn't be more sorry!" Chris winced again
> in agony. "Now please help, I'm loosing a lot of blood."
>
> "That's the least of your worries." Said Seymour feeling a jolt in
> the lift. "The creature's chewing through the safety brakes. We
need
> to get off this car now or we'll fall…. A long way."
> "I can't I'm snagged, look…my foot."
> "Oh… ahh…erm…." Said Seymour, knowing they were moments from
death.
> He saw a lift coming up past them that he could jump to.
>
> Chris saw that there was nothing he could do. "Listen, I want you
to
> save yourself."
> "That's a good idea thanks!" Said Seymour, getting ready to jump.
> Chris pulled him closer and said with tears in his eyes. "Tell
> Kanako I love her, more than anything."
> "Yeah yeah sure." Said Seymour before he jumped to the next
elevator.
>
> It was just in time. Chris Harris plummeted downwards as the
brakes
> failed. Seymour watched as a fireball engulfed the lift shaft
below
> him.
>
> <OOC- Another one bites the dust unfortunately. As was said
before,
> we can't discover the creature yet. And how will Kanako react to
her
> fiances death?>