*Actionette* "Kidnappings"

**Actionette** "Kidnappings"
Who: Efof and Callum
Where: London, on a bus
When: As the Hymenoptera attacks
Efof and Callum had been lucky to commandeer an abandoned London bus
as they tried to escape the carnage. Callum sat at the wheel,
driving the bus dangerously around demolished London buildings,
trying to avoid Hymenoptera warrior bugs.
Efof screamed as Callum skidded around a corner to avoid a large
beetle, and then splattered a startled Hymenoptera who was crossing
the road. "Havn't you ever driven a bus before?!" Efof shouted.
"Well actually… no, I'm doing a pretty good job don't you reckon?"
Callum swerved to avoid a burning car on the street and nearly ran
over a group of running nuns.
Efof pointed into the distance. "Oh look, isn't that that Big John
thingy…."
"What?"
"That famous London landmark, Big Burt…"
"BIG BEN you fool!" said Callum. "But now's not the time to be
sightseeing, we need to escape!"
"Well I was only mentioning it because its being climbed by a large
Hymenoptera beetle, and your heading straight towards it!"
"Oh crap!"
Callum tried to steer away from Big Ben, but the bus stopped in its
tracks. Callum looked around confused, pressing the accelerator
experimentally. "We're not moving…"
Efof looked out of the window. The large eye of a Hymenoptera beetle
stared back of him.
"Erm… Callum… we're in trouble."
The Beetle had picked up the London bus into the air and started to
shake it like a toy. Inside, Callum and Efof were thrown around like
rag dolls. Efof slid down the bus and almost fell out of the exit at
the rear, luckily he grabbed hold of the end of the bus with one of
his four arms to stop him from falling to his death. He managed to
get a sturdy grip with three of his arms and looked down to see the
giant monster underneath him screeching. If he fell he would land
straight in the beast's mouth.
The Hymenoptera shook the buss again and two of his arms were shaken
loose. Efof dangled precariously. "Callum, help me!" He yelled.
Callum was above him in the bus, trying to reach him, but he had no
hope. He grabbed a long metal pipe and lowered it down to him. "Here
Efof grab this!"
"Lower, lower, I can't reach it! Lower…. Ow!"
The pipe stabbed Efof in the eye. "You twat!" Efof said as the pain
made him let go and he fell away from the bus…. Falling towards the
monster.
Efof fell through the air and landed on something hard. He closed
his eyes tightly, expecting his life to end in a crunch of the
beetle's great jaw. But instead, it never happened. He opened his
eyes to see the face of Jay Chrysler staring at him through a thick
wall of glass. He looked around and realised he was travelling over
London sat on the cockpit of a Space Eagle.
Jay opened up the cockpit window and Efof climbed in. "Thanks Jay I
thought I was a gonner!"
"Do I know you?" Asked Jay. Then realisation appeared on his
face. "No… I DO know you… your name is…. The word `Wanker' comes to
mind."
"Oh cheers!" Said Efof. "Its Efof, Efof Yuwan'Kar."
"Okay no need to be rude, I just saved your life!" said Jay.
Efof looked out of the cockpit window back at the monster. "We have
to go back, Callum's on that Bus!"
Jay turned the Space Eagle around, Dean was following in another
Space Eagle close behind and turned too. "No chance, look!"
The large insect got bored of the toy bus and threw it away, the bus
flew for miles across London's landcape.
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Who: Callum
Where: On the bus
Callum gripped the steering wheel of the bus, not being able to do
anything as it was lobbed across the city.
"Damnit! Why don't they supply parachutes on London busses?" He
said.
Just before the bus crashed into St Paul's cathedral, he disappeared
in a green glow.
Callum opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a massive green
hall, the walls were almost too far away to be seen properly. He
looked down at the floor, it was soft, almost like standing on lots
of flesh. Veins of glowing energy pulsed around the floor.
"Oh my God, I've been transported to a Hymenoptera ship!" He said.
Dotted around the floor were several transparent boils that he could
look down through as if they were windows. He looked through to see
the destroyed city of London below him moving away very fast.
A glow of energy caught his attention; at first he thought he was
being transported away again, but as he looked up he saw that a
group of others had been teleported to the same room. Everyone
looked as confused and startled as he did. One cheeky cockney
chappie approached him and asked if he knew what was going on.
Callum shrugged then said calmly. "Well with the Hymenoptera, who
knows? They'll probably toy with us first, then either dissolve our
bodies in insect acid… or eat our brains while we're still alive."
People started to scream.
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Who: Jay, Efof and Dean (in the other Space Eagle)
Where: Flying around London
Dean's Space Eagle pulled up alongside Jay's and Efof waved out of
the window to the other craft.
"So this timeline has worked out pretty well for you then? Your on a
squadron of Space Eagles, it must be cool being a fighter pilot…
defending the planet, generally being a hero…"
Jay sighed. "Well no, we barely ever get to fly these. In fact I'm
not even a `fighter' pilot, I'm a Space Corp driving instructor.
Life is pretty dull really. I keep thinking, what if life was
better, what if…"
"What if you were navigation officer on a starship you mean?"
"Yes exactly! Then life would really be worth living!"
Efof grinned.
Dean's voice came over the communications. "Look at that mother ship
in front, my scanners show that its beaming people up to it and
kidnapping them."
They tailed the huge ship as it flew at high speeds away from London
and towards Birmingham, then Liverpool.
"Shall we stop it?" asked Dean over the radio.
"What do you think they're doing to the people?" asked Jay, turning
to Efof.
"Well knowing the Hymenoptera, they'll either dissolve their bodies
in insect acid… or eat their brains while they're still alive, then
turn their decaying proteins into bio-matter ships."
"Well at least it gets rid of all the bloody brummies and scousers!"
Dean laughed over the radio. "True, but I feel like shooting
something today."
Jay grinned and engaged his Space Eagle's weapons array.
<to be continued!>