**Actionette** "Blurred Memories"

<perverse sickening snip>
"That's it babe, why dont we go somewhere a little more private?"
"I dont think so" Said the dancer in a gruff scottish acent as she
knee'd him in the balls. "Come on!" CK shouted to Efof as he picked
up the uzi, "Lets get Amber and get outr of here!"
The alien and the belly dancer ran inside towrds the unknown to find
Amber...
"God this bra is killing me!"
<end snip>
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Who: Efof, CK
Where: The Mob Warehouse
When: Morning
Efof and CK ran around the maze-like warehouse. "Where are we going,
we're lost!" whittled Efof in panic. "I'm lost with a human male who
thinks he's a belly dancer! We had a word for people like you back
on Ffion…"
"Shh! Someone's coming!" Said CK, Efof ducked into a corridor and CK
posed in the corridor.
"Hi sexy!" CK feigned in a woman's voice as the thug came closer.
"Fwooor!" Said the man, and then as he came close he saw CK's real
face. "Urgh!" He gagged, but Efof had already leaped out from behind
him- "Judo – CHOP!"
The thug laughed. "Call that a punch eh?" Efof ducked a potentially
damaging fist swipe, then punched the man in the face with one
fist…. Then another… then another, then another.
The thug fell backwards.
"Okay okay, so I can't punch very hard, but at least I get three
more in!"
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Who: Amber and Keats
Where: Secluded room
When: Same time
<snip>
"Do it Johnny boy... No use keeping a cold blooded killer like me
alive. If you don't do it, I'll be lynched back on the Blue Dwarf
anyway." She slurred half conscious, and tasted blood in her mouth
from a wound on her lips.
<end snip>
"Hold it right there!" Said Kotchanski bravely.
Keats turned around to see him and Efof. He scowled in frustration.
Efof pointed at CK to show who had challenged him.
"Erm… she's with us" Said CK, holding a gun that he had acquired
from a guard.
"Well kinda… " Said Efof. "But its okay, if you're busy we can go…"
Efof turned around, but CK spun him back again.
"Don't make this harder than it has to be!" Said Keats. He turned to
Amber. "Do you know these?"
Amber sighed. "Yes, I guess so."
"Even the cross-dressing belly dancer?"
Amber rolled her eyes and nodded.
Keats walked closer to the new entrants, he looked closely at Callum.
"Do I know you two?" Keats asked.
"Funny question!" Quipped Efof.
"What does he mean?" Keats asked Callum, gun raised at his head.
Callum started to sweat.
"Nothing… well he means you should, but you shouldn't, not in this
timeline anyway."
Keats raised an eyebrow. "You do look very familiar… both of you.
But YOU…" He looked at Callum. "…a word comes to mind when I look at
you….. smeeee….. smeee heeeeee…."
Efof giggled. Keats turned to him. "Now there's something different
about you too, take off your jacket!"
Efof took off his thick coat to reveal his four arms. "Yes I knew
there was something…. What IS going on here? I remember things…..
only brief details" said Keats. "Take off your hat too…. NO DON'T!"
he said suddenly remembering something else.
Keats seemed to be looking very confused.
"Okay its time we left…." Said CK, waving his gun at Keats, who
obviously could have shot any of them. But this time decided to let
them go. He could always track down Amber later.
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Who: Efof, CK and Amber
Where: ASDA
When: Later
"Next time you two `heroes' fancy rescuing me, make sure you ask me
first!" Amber shouted at them, for not the first time since they had
rescued her. She skulked around the frozen foods section as CK found
some clothes in the clothes aisles and shedded the belly dancing
gear. "Can't beat George!" Said CK.
"Who?" asked Efof.
"Never mind."
"Is she still pissed off at being rescued?" asked Efof, pointing
towards Amber.
"Yeah, its as if she wanted to die!"
"Hmmm… well she did set up this entire scenario- blew up the Dwarf
and everything! It's a good job me and her got sucked through to
this reality, or we'd not be here at all!" Said Efof. "I'd still be
thousands of light years away frozen in stasis!"
Callum thought for a few moments.
"Whats up?" asked Efof.
"Well I was just thinking about the Hymenoptera…. In this timeline
the Dwarf was never there to discover them first…. And I've not
heard anything about them since we've been here. You don't think….
They're out there…. But nobody is prepared for them?"
"Oh no! They might just attack suddenly out of the blue…. Like they
did to my planet!"
"How long did it take them to destroy your entire civilization?"
"About….. 30 minutes."
"Shit!"
"I know"
"No I mean… look at this, Ham and Cheese Crispy Pancakes aren't on
offer anymore!" said Callum.
Efof rolled his eyes.
"So I've been thinking about this timeline….. Amber destroyed the
dwarf, creating a cutoff parallel timeline like in Donnie Darko…?"
"No, I think its more like Back to the Future 2, where Biff gives
the sports almanac to his past self and changes the timeline of
the `real' universe."
"Oh so time is more like in the film `time machine' with Samantha
Mumba?"
"Erm…. No I don't think it's quite that precise…. Nobody really
knows, it confuses the hell out of me!"
"…or maybe there are many completely unrelated timelines running
parallel, like in the last Startrek next generation episode…."
"Erm….. maybe." Said Callum. "But why did Keats recognize us today?"
"Yeah that doesn't make sense, because if the Blue Dwarf blowing up
completely split this timeline apart from the other… then we would
never have met him, he may have seen you, but definitely would never
have met me!"
"Is there a chance this could be like groundhog day?"
"Hmmm… it doesn't seem right, maybe more like that Groundhog day
styled Startrek episode where after each temporal causality loop
some of them start to sense they have done things before…"
"But who's to say time is looping?"
Efof sighed. "Okay, maybe its more like a Voyager episode where 2
realities split slightly from the one, they sort of were aware of
their existence…"
"Man, you watch too much TV!" Said CK.
"It might pay off at this moment!" Efof said proudly. "Do you want
to hear my hypothesis?"
"That's a big word for you isn't it? Anyway, do I have to?"
"Yeah yeah okay, I just think we should try and find more Blue
Dwarfers, and see if they remember our timeline…. We might be onto
something."
They got to the checkout and saw a familiar face sat at the till.
"Do you want help packing your bags?" Asked Seymour Niples.
Efof laughed. "Hahar! Seymour packing my bags! Of course I do!"
Seymour recognized them. "Oh its you two jokers. Still raving about
some kind of time travel…. Or cross dimensional portals or something…
*cough cough* CRACKHEADS! *cough cough!*"
"Yes, Seymour you have to think hard, do you remember anything about
life on the Blue Dwarf?" Asked Callum. Following Efof's lead.
"Of course not, I told you!" Said Seymour. "Plus if I did have
delusions like that I'd be locked up! Like that nutter."
Seymour pointed to a picture on his side of the till. "They have to
keep a picture of this woman around to warn people about her, she's
a local nutter. You might like her."
Efof looked at the photo. "That's Tara!"
Ck looked too. "Maybe she remembers, which is why she was labeled
insane! Seymour probably only doesn't because he's so uptight."
"Hey! I'm right here!" Said Seymour.
"I think we need to pay her a visit!" Said Efof.