...Three's a crowd

Who: Efof, Jayne and Micky
Where: Mollopod Planet
When: After Efof was discovered
<snip>
A Blue hand was trying to get the buckled door un-jammed. Micky
reached down with his powered arm and made light work of it, tearing
it cleanly from
the hinges.
He had never seen the strange, exhausted looking creature before, but
Jayne knew what it was.
"Efof?"
</snip>
"Hey guys!" Efof leaped out of the locker and shook Micky's hand
furiously. "Thanks for getting me out of there. It was a bit boring."
"Erm... why were you in a locker Efof. Shouldn't you have been flying
your own Starbug?"
"Yes. Well. I was going to, obviously. But I was just checking this
Starbug over for security and safety checks, and a thought just hit
me. I wondered what it looked like in a locker when the door's
closed. Do you ever get those urges where you just want to ... no
NEED to know what something looks like from a different angle?"
"erm... no."
"Oh well. Must be me."
"Was it good?"
"Erm... no. Not that exciting really. It's just a locker."
Micky and Jayne's eyes rolled slowly towards each others, then back
to Efof.
"So what's the plan guys?" Efof said excidedly.
------30 minutes later----------
Efof, Micky and Jayne had been visited once again by Mayor Delvroso,
who materialised suddenly with his bodyguards. He took them to a
clifftop where they looked down onto a camp of soldiers.
"These are the Human invaders." Delvroso said, pointing with his
stubby little arms.
"The Amnesty International Army." Jayne said, looking through a pair
of binoculars they'd picked up from the Starbug.
"How well armed are they?" Micky asked.
"I can see about twenty men... and two hover tanks. They're all
clones of famous people who once did a lot of charity or campaign
work. Their leader looks like Bob Geldof."
The Mollopod leader nodded. "And look at those ritualistic 'red
noses' that they wear, does that help them focus during battle?"
"Erm."
"They even have them on their tanks!" Delvroso pointed.
Efof shrugged. "There's not so many of them. Lets just go and have a
chat and tell them to politely... smeg off."
Delvroso turned to Efof and spoke with great worry in his
voice. "It's not just these, there are camps just like these all over
this planet, and several more. They want to kill us for crimes
against Humanity. Although no single Mollopod has tasted Human flesh
since the Alliance between our people began last year. Apart from I
had a small man-sandwich last month, but you can't expect me to just
quit cold turkey."
Efof rubbed his shoulder sympathetically. "That's fine. Don't worry."
-------------10 minutes later-----------------
Efof strolled into the Amnesty International camp with a big grin on
his face, much to the surprise of Bob Geldoff #118.
"Hi Bob." He said, and did a little wave.
"What are you doing here? Guards, arrest him!" Shouted Bob Geldoff
#118.
Efof put his hands up. "Wait. You can't arrest me. I work for the JMC
and you don't want them suing your asses."
Geldoff cringed and reluctantly agreed. "He's right. Stand down men."
He then chomped on a "make-poverty-history" branded cigar.
"I just thought we could have a bit of a chat..." Said Efof, walking
around the tanks. "Ooh these are ace. Where did you get them?"
"Hammerhead Ion Cannons. Bought them off the Space Corps." Said Bob.
"Oh really. With money raised for charity?"
Bob's eyes narrowed. "What's your point? We're helping to save lives
aren't we?"
Efof shrugged, then pointed to the big plastic red nose on the front
of the tank." Oh cool, are they doing those again? I remember we used
to have one on the front of a Space Eagle..." as he spoke he turned
his back to Bob and quickly swapped the red nose for one inside his
jacket.
"Look Mr blue alien dude, I think this is just a distraction. Now can
you please get out of my camp, we've got a battle to plan!" Said Bob,
and shooed Efof out of the camp.
Efof trudged back to Mickey and Jayne, where Jayne was holding a
remote control with a big red button on it.
"Did you put it on both tanks?" She asked him.
"Nah. Only one, he was too suspicious."
Jayne grinned, her finger twitched over the big red button.
<Tag, what happens next?>

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