Pancake plus three in prison

Who: Justin, Jayne, Efof, Micky
Where: Justins prison cell
When: After Justins post
Efof pointed over to the corner.
Justin looked pleased to see at least two familiar faces.
'Hi guys!' He said. 'Who's that?' Pointing at Micky.
'Hold on...' Micky stepped in without introducing himself, 'Are you drunk?'
Justin went slightly red, 'well, maybe just a litt...'
He was cut off. 'Got any left?' Micky seemed more anxious than ever. 'She left
my bag behind on the wreckage after she crashed us here.'
He flicked his thumb in the direction of an offended looking Jayne.
'I saved your life you ungrateful slug!' Jayne yelled at him.
'Hey!' Came a call from one of the other cells, obviously an offended mollopod.
'Oh, shut up! You wouldn't be here if you didn't deserve it!' Jayne took a step
towards Justin. 'This is Micky, the new villiage idiot on Blue Dwarf.'
Micky looked hurt. 'That's not nice!'
'Whats that in your boot?' Efof asked pointing down at Mickys scuffed, untied
black boots. 'Looks like someone dropped a bottle into it. Might be a message!'
'It's not a message, Efof,' Jayne chimed in, 'he's an alcoholic. Thats whatever
he managed to get his hands on before he left the ship.'
'What's your problem Jayne?!' Micky seemed to snap, after taking a quick gulp of
the concoction in the bottle of course. 'Nothing I can do is right! I came to
try and stop you hunting down that monster on the ship and you about near killed
me! Then I came to find you and I ended up stranded in a stupidly long
pointless corridor for hours! And when I finally get out, theres a call for me
to go to war, only to find you piloting the ship like you have trotters instead
of hands!' He marched across the cell looking angry and pointed right into
Jaynes face. 'Now, I'm stuck in this stinking prison with you, some dumb alien
and a guy I've never met before, but I'm sure is a pompous, stuck up prat cause
he seems to know you.'
Justin looked on in shock. Jayne turned slowly an angry shade of pissed-off
red.
Micky was glad she had been relieved of her weapons.
'You think I'm dumb?' Asked Efof.
Micky started to feel bad straight away.
'No, I don't thi...'
'Wow!' Efof looked extatic. 'I was sure you wouldn't like me! Boy am I glad to
know you don't think I'm just plain thick!'
'Err...' Micky didn't know what to say. He looked over at Jayne, who avoided his
gaze.
'Jayne.' He took a step toward her and touched her arm. She pulled away without
looking up at him. 'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap'
'Look,' she spun round to look him in the eyes. 'You'll only hear this once,
okay? I like you, I'm sorry I shot you, I'm sorry Efof couldn't fix the stupid
Starbug in time and why the hell don't you get Holly to find us a way out of
here?' She pointed down to Mickys robotic arm, courtesy of Jaynes marksmanship.
Micky held up Holly's screen in front of her face. 'Dead. He only has a limited
power supply off the ship. Ther rest of it still works,' he flexed his fingers,
'but Holly is gone for now. It's just us I'm afraid.'
Micky sat down as the others started talking among themselves. He overheard
Justin mention a guard had slipped something sticky in his hand. He stopped
listening at this point and went down to trying to get his new limb to do what
he wanted.
'Holly says you're voice recognition. Is that right?' He said to his arm. He
felt stupid. What kind of moron talks to his arm. 'This is ridiculous.'
'Why is it ridiculous?' Came the toasters voice.
'Oh no.' Micky was almost sure he didn't imagine that. 'Is that the toaster?'
'Well, part of me.'
'Why didn't you ever talk to me before?!' Micky wasn't pleased about having that
irritating voice attached to him.
'Well, you didn't talk to me!' It was definately the toaster.
'I shouldn't have to! You're wired into my nervous system, you should do what I
want all the time, without being asked!'
'It's still nice to receive a little manners every now and then.'
'Fine! Please just work with me here!....'
------ Half an hour later ------
Justin had finished explaining the story to Efof and Jayne in detail, and Micky
seemed to be getting the hang of his new arm...
'Toothbrush...' A toothbrush pops out of his forefinger with the paste ready to
do the nasty job of cleaning Mickys teeth.
'Away...' Almost releived it tucks itself away in his hand.
Micky turns to the others now watching him with a huge grin on his face. 'See?!
Now I've spent some time with it, maybe I can get it to do what I want for
once!'
He looked at his arm and said 'Fresh Tea' with a grin, hoping for a warm,
delightful beverage.
Instead his forearm extended so fast that when it hit the wall Micky was thrown
to the other side of the cell. In all the dust kicked up from the impact,
nothing was visible. The gang could only hear Micky shouting 'I said fresh tea!
What the hell was that you stupid toaster!'
As the dust settled, the group could hear voices of approaching Mollopods,
rushing as fast as their fat bodies could drag themselves.
Jayne looked over at Micky with a look of disgust. In her eyes he just made the
whole situation worse by causing trouble.
Then she saw the daylight seeping through the cloud of dust.
'Guys!' She pointed at the hole in the outer wall of the prison. 'The moron did
it!'
-----
'Hey!' One of the Mollopod guards shouted as the last blue limb of Efof left the
hole in the wall. His head peeked back in just as they started to deactivate
the force field prison bars.
'I didn't have time to finish my game, feel free to take over!' He pointed
behind the guards at the wall before ducking away out of sight.
The two guards looked round simultaniously to see a red nose on the wall. A
rapid bleeping came from it before a large bang. The Mollopods suddly had a
loud, painful ringing in their ears. Luckily they were nowhere near their bodies
at the time.
Micky, Efof and Justin were thrown into the air along with Jayne as she hit the
detonator.
As they staggered to their feet again, Micky looked smug.
'So you managed to get something right!' Jayne offered forward. 'Well done.'
'Was that sarcastic?!' Micky challenged Jayne as he followed her away from the
prison.
Justin turned to Efof looking concerned.
'Do they always fight like this?'
'Yeh,' Efof explained. 'I'm fairly sure it's cause she fancies him.'
None of the crew noticed the Spider-like escape pod from the Hymenoptera ship
swoop down behind them next to the burning prison.
The door slid open and a rather pissed-off looking bug stepped out.
<Tag! Sorry It's been so long. Had troubles with the missus. Back now for a
bit, I hope!>