Niples "The old art of Skutter tossing"

Who: Jay, Phil, CK, Mk6, Seymour, Wowbagger, and 1 Hymenoptera
Where: On the Hymenoptera planet
When: after the Raven rescued Harris
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Seymour looked through some digital binoculars. "There's two coming
back this way in the RAID. I don't really care if they're against
the Hymies or not, they still have my car!"
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Seymour ran down the hill to the rest of the team. "Okay guys, the
RAID is headed this way. What we must do is wait until it passes
through the ravine down there, then someone jumps into it, fights
the aliens and regains control of it."
Phil looked over the side of the cliff and saw the RAID
approaching. "Seymour that's a long way to jump… I think it would be
suicide!"
"Exaclt, that's why I'm volunteering our new friend the Hymenoptera
here to do it." Seymour said, arms folded. The Hymenoptera merely
stood still and breathed deeply. It didn't understand anything
Seymour had said until Jay telepathically communicated the words.
The Hymenoptera spider drew itself to full height, almost a metre
above Seymour and looked down on him menacingly. Seymour wiped the
spider drool off his face.
"It would show the good intentions of your race towards us." Said
Seymour. "You said you needed our help, now its time to show how
dedicated you are to our partnership."
The Hymenoptera grunted as Jay explained what Seymour was saying. It
grunted and turned away from Seymour and flung itself off the cliff,
down towards the incoming RAID.
Everyone rushed to the cliff to watch.
"Wow. I didn't think he actually would do it." Said Seymour.
Jay folded his arms. "Does this show you that the Hymenoptera are
serious? Are you happy now?"
"Well… I can't believe it. He just jumped to his death!"
"Not everyone is as selfish as you Seymour, the Hymenoptera work on
a hive-mindset remember. The individuals aren't important as long as
the colony survive."
Seymour made a "tsk" sound.
They all watched as the Hymenoptera landed on the back of the Raid
and fought the two aliens. One turned around almost immediately and
shot the Hymenoptera straight through with a sting. The spider
exploded in a cascade of green goo.
"Typical!" Said Seymour. "They're impossible to kill when you don't
want them around, but when you actually want them to do something
for you they're useless!"
"We'll have to do it the old fashioned way." Said Phil, as Wowbagger
handed him a gun. He shot at the car.
The alien steering saw the pulse coming and instinctively phased
out, allowing the pulse to pass straight through him. Although this
also had a secondary effect that he didn't think about. The moving
car carried on without him as the alien fell through it. He rolled
to the floor bruised.
"Good shot!" Said Seymour.
CK now pulled up his gun and did the same. The other alien fell out
of the car.
But the RAID continued moving.
"Oh crap!" Said MK6. "I forgot about the autopilot!"
Seymour looked at the small scutter at his feet, and considered the
distance to the RAID.
He picked up MK6 and tried to guess his weight.
"Hey what are you doing?!" Asked MK6 in his hands.
"Well… how desperate do you want to get the RAID back?" Seymour
asked him.
Mk6 considered this ad guessed what Seymour wanted to do.
"Hmm… good point. Just make sure you throw me onto the cushion!"
Seymour threw Mk6 towards the speeding RAID below them.
"Pfft, you throw like a girl!" Mocked Jay.
"Oh, I dunno- he's going quite far… said Wowbagger."
"Oh no! too far! He's going to-"
Mk6 landed in front of the RAID's front-left wheel…
<Tag MK6!!!!>