*Action* -"Mindless Destruction"

Who: Seymour Niples, Callum Kotchanski, Greg Miller, Mark McJohn,
Elian Sandoval, Python, Dan Harris and John Smith
Where: Engineering control centre
When: After Alota's funeral
Seymour stormed into the Engineering control centre. "Who's in
charge here?" He demanded.
A greased up Callum raised his hand nervously. "Erm… I'm not really
sure."
"Callum me old dude! Good to see you're still alive at least!"
Seymour said happily, shaking his hand in a funny club handshake.
"Erm…. Hello Seymour. Unfortunately I can't say the same about you.'.
Seymour laughed, thinking he was joking. Seymour saw Python and
shook his hand too.
"Anyway, where is the security around here?" Seymour asked, checking
around. "There's something nasty on the loose, I want to make sure
all important locations are secure."
"Don't worry, we have John Smith and Dan Harris patrolling the area.
We feel safe as houses!"
Seymour looked around. He looked through a large glass window that
looked into one of the ship's main engine combustion chambers. The
place where radioactive materials mixed and combusted to provide
energy for the ship. Dan Harris and John Smith were asleep on a
walkway above the reactor.
Seymour sighed. He shouted into the chamber. "Oi you dudes! Stop
slacking and look hard… like me!"
The two woke up and patrolled the walkway.
Mark McJohn looked up from the computer monitor he was working
on. "Guys, there's a problem with pipe 667b, probably a leak. Shall
I go check it out?"
Seymour smelled trouble. "No, it sounds dangerous. It could be the
intruder!"
"Its just a leak Seymour! I'll be back in a minute."
McJohn walked into the reactor chamber, waving slightly to the two
security officers above.
"I don't like this…." Said Seymour.
"Don't worry, we have leaks all the time," reassured Callum. "This
is the Blue Dwarf, the rustiest ship there is!"
Elian Sandoval nodded in agreement. Then checked a scanner on a
nearby wall. "We do have a problem though! The heat sensor is
picking up a large mass coming directly towards the reactor chamber!"
Seymour waved through the window to John Smith and Dan Harris. "Keep
a look out!" He yelled.
They didn't see it until it was too late. The intruder appeared at
one end of the walkway and in one single swipe cut the tethers to
the walkway. The walkway tipped and Dan Harris fell onto the red hot
combustion reactor below. His flesh melted in seconds and his
skeleton burned.
John Smith saw what happened to Harris below and climbed down
safely. He looked at the reactor. "This doesn't look good!" He said.
The only other person in the room was McJohn, who rushed over,
seeing what happened to Harris.
"Oh my god! He's dead!" The reactor glowed an unhealthy
colour. "Smith, get out. I need to contain the reaction before it
blows!" McJohn grabbed a valve and opened it to let off some
pressure. "Its going to blow, get out- get into the other room!"
Just as Smith dived into the safety of the Engineering control
centre, and explosion caught McJohn and threw him back.
Everyone watched as McJohn's lifeless body smacked onto the thick
glass of the room they were in. It slowly dropped to the floor in a
bloody streak.
"He's dead!" Shouted Callum. "And he didn't fix the reactor, it will
explode now for sure!"
They looked into the reactor room which was filling with thick toxic
gasses.
"What do we need to do?" Asked Seymour.
"Someone needs to go in there, and control the reaction…. But it's a
suicide mission."
Seymour looked around the room then selfishly turned to Callum, put
a hand on his shoulder and said: "You know what to do."
Callum's face dropped. "What?! Oh great… thanks!"
Callum skulked over to the door, opened it with a sigh and
disappeared into the toxic gas.
Elian Sandoval closed the door after him. "Rather him than me!" But
as if he was just tempting fate, the computer next to him exploded,
setting fire to his arm and head. He ran around screaming.
"This place is a death trap!" Said Seymour. "Everyone out now, its
not safe!"
"Shouldn't we help Sandoval?" Said John Smith, watching the man on
fire.
"Too late!" Said Seymour, overdramatically. "Everyone out, this
section is about to blow!!!"
John Smith, Seymour Niples, Greg Miller and Python ran out of the
room. Reluctant to leave poor Sandoval but being pushed by Seymour.
Seymour closed the door and locked it.
"What are you doing?!" Said Greg. "Callum might still be able to
save the ship, or get out before the explosion!"
"Doubt it, he's useless." Said Seymour callously.
Alarm bells rang out, and the safety door at the end of the long
corridor they were in started to close.
"Quick! Before the door closes!" Said Seymour, sounding ever-more
melodramatic.
Python made it through the door as it was half closed, John Smith
was next through.
Just as the door was a few seconds from closing, Greg Miller tripped
over. Seymour behind him almost fell over him, instead he stood on
Greg's fallen body and dived for the door himself.
"Royal Ambassador coming through!" Seymour shouted back to the
fallen Engineer.
The door closed behind him, leaving only three of them through the
blast door, and Greg Miller on the other.
The two looked in horror at Seymour. He waved them off. "What?! I'm
too cool and important to die!"
"We still aren't safe from an explosion of this magnitude." Said
Python.
Seymour looked around. "We can get in this ventilation shaft, it
angles down, we can slide down it to an engine room below."
They climbed in as there was a huge explosion, but they slid safely
away from it.
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Who: Melissa Harris
Where: Her quarters
When: As the Engineering Control Centre explodes
Melissa looked out of the window solemnly. She had recently lost her
step-father, Chris and was feeling particularly sad about it. She
had the day off to spend some time to reflect and mourn.
Her quarters were on a high rise flat, that looked out onto the Blue
Dwarf's rear. She had a good view of a few other of the skyscrapers
that had been built on the Blue Dwarf, as well as the Drive Room and
the Engineering Control Centre that jutted out from the hull of the
ship.
As she watched out of the window, she saw the Engineering Control
Centre explode in a large mushroom cloud. It shook the ship so much
that she fell down. When she got back up she saw that a large chunk,
almost a quarter of the ship had been eaten away.
She gasped as she saw a secondary explosion causing debris to fly at
all angles. One piece of debris flew directly towards her window,
where it cut straight through the toughened glass and lodged into
her head. She fell backwards and collapsed in a pool of blood.
A blast door closed to seal the hole in the window. A few minutes
passed and Jack Febuggure entered the quarters.
"Melissa? I was just passing and the explosion….. well I was just
checking if you were alrigh- oh. Oh my god!"
He walked over to where she was laying.
"Oh no, no! What a waste! What a terrible, horrible undignified
unheroic death! You deserved so much more! Poor poor Melissa."
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Who: Seymour, Python and John Smith
Where: Lower engine room
When: After the explosion
The trio dusted themselves off.
"Listen, theres something I need to tell you…." Started
Smith. "Before the …thing attacked us, I got a good glimpse of what
it looked like."
"Go on." Said Python.
"Well it was a…. a….. well its right behind you so have a look for
yourself."
Seymour and Python turned around.
A Hymenoptera warrior crawled around a fuel tank a few metres away.
Luckily it hadn't spotted them yet.
It walked awkwardly on its 6 legs, one seemed to have been damaged
in the explosion.
"It's a Hym.. hymmm…. Hm thingy!" Said Python.
"Hymenoptera!" Said Seymour, crouching out of sight.
The large insect moved a piece of disguarded metal with large black
razor-sharp claws to reveal a nest of 10 red glowing eggs.
"Its got eggs!" Said Seymour. "There'll be more!"
"And look how much damage only one has done so far!" Said John Smith.
<OOC- Tag!! Now we know what it is we can chase it, but don't kill
it yet, I still want the rampaging and destruction to continue>