The same thing we do every night. Try to save the Earth!

"Severn, you got that fighter ready yet?" Jack almost screamed over
his nano's, frantically hitting the mouse button, firing the lasers on
his main turret, occasionally hitting the right hand button, which
launched a delayed action missile.
A few seconds later, and Severn replied to him. "it's away!" and sent
him a frequency, which Jack instantly tapped into, setting the laser
turret to automatic, hoping the IFF worked. (identify Friend or Foe).
The small fighter whizzed out of the launch bay at breakneck speeds,
it's small size and large engines made it very manoeverable, as well
as the lack of pilot making it able to pull some tremendous G forces.
The computer screen in front of Jack flickered a little as it came
into focus, showing a first person view from the tiny fighter, shaped
like a space eagle, but less than a tenth of the size. The small
lasers blasted away at the side of a space corps fighter, doing
minimal damage, but putting the pilot off enough for one of our
fighters to tear it to pieces. Jack slowly eased on the joystick in
front of him, arcing the small fighter around towards the launch bay
of one of the capital ships that were surrounding the Blue Dwarf. Too
many of them to take on in one go...
Jack called up Engineering, and screamed over the microphone "get
emergency power to engines NOW! no time to explain!" then he hit the
boost button, sending the small fighter into the Destroyer ahead of
them, being small and fast, hoping no one would notice it, and shoot
it down.
Jack then called up phil, hoping to get him to see reason.
"Hey bro, we are going to need a shipwide call to hold on rather
tight... i have a plan to get us away from here" he said, then saw his
target on the screen in front of him.
"What is it?" phil replied, a smile beginning to appear on his face at
the prospect of an escape.
"Just watch that space corps destroyer in front of us." Jack said, as
the small piece of metal, with no real weapons to speek of, slammed at
maximum speed into a weapons cache aboard the destroyer.
"Bulls eye" Jack said calmly, still in the open channel to Phil.
The Destroyer exploded, without much of a warning, the surrounding
space corps ships moved to get away from the explosion, leaving a way
for the 'Dwarf to get through, smashing through the wreckage of the
destroyer.
"JACK WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Phil yelled, as he
heard the scrape of metal on metal, the sound of the Blue Dwarf going
through a wrecked ship rather quickly.
"The Ship will be fine, but it won't if we stay here any longer" Jack
said, sitting back in his chair. The Fighters outside at the time
were easily fast enough to catch up with the Dwarf, but the remaining
Space Corps capital ships stayed behind, unable to get through the now
spread out wreckage as quickly as they'd hoped.
"Ok, Phil, i have an idea to save Earth..." Jack said, hoping it would
make phil a little more at ease when it came to damage to the
ramscoops at that little ramming excercise. Arriving at Phil's office
a few minutes later, Jack sat in front of him, and smiled.
"We need to steal a hymenoptera ship, a big one..." he began, watching
the look on Phil's face change from one of intrigue, to one of utter
disbelief "and ram it into Evil Jay's bug mothership. We'll be able
to save the world."

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