Pancake meets the Hymenoptera

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Robin Hood's men disarmed Rancidbottom and dragged him towards their camp. They
looked back at Justin. "You better come with us then." They said. "Robin Hood
wants to see you."
Justin agreed. The sticky green Hymenoptera device in his pocket was now
flashing like crazy. Justin wondered why.
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Who: Justin Pancake
Where: Robin Hood's lair
When: After Baby Alota and Brittany left
The man in front of Justin didn't look like the green man in tights that he imagined. He looked .... angrier.
"String him up!" Said Robin Hood.
"Wait. But... I'm Sir Justin of Pancake."
"All the more reason to string you up!" Said Robin Hood.
Two of Robin's "merry men" or "thugs" approached Justin. They clobbered him around the head and he lost consciousness.
When he awoke it was a few hours later. He felt nauseous, and quickly discovered why. He was upside down. He felt a pain in his feet and realised that he was tied by his feet to a rop and was dangling from a tree.
"Help! Help!" He said. And then couldn't control himself, he vomited. Liquidy chunks fell the few metres to the ground. "I hope that lands on one of you!" He shouted in anger.
A nearby noise made him be quiet for a moment, it sounded like insects clicking and chirping at each other. There was also a smell, the smell of rotting flesh.
The rope spun enough for Justin to see where the smell was coming from, tied on a nearby tree was a dead body, with a hold in his chest cavity where blood had been pouring out, but was now dry from being tied up for a reasonably long period of time. Internal organs were hanging out and trailing towards the ground.
"This is worrying." Justin said.
But what was most worrying were the creatures crawling around on the dangling body. They were large black spiders. Justin craned his neck to look up towards his legs, from his pocket he could see the green glow of the Hymenoptera communications device. It was flashing so fast now that it was almost a constant glow.
"Hymenoptera?" He quizzed himself. Then he laughed. "Hymenoptera!!!" He shouted. "But why are there Hymenoptera in 12th Century Earth?"
He remembered back to his conversation with the small ant, where he had wondered if the Hymenoptera had evolved from smaller insects, and maybe even evolved from Earth.
"These must be early Hymenoptera!" He assumed, although even he saw too much coincidence. Then he remembered the Hymenoptera that had killed many people mysteriously on the Blue Dwarf a few months ago. "Maybe..." He thought aloud. "Maybe we brought you with us." He wondered. "Or maybe.... one of our crew is Hymenoptera!" He thought about this and wished. "Oh that sounds like so much fun! To be the most powerful alien race in the galaxy. That would be... awesome."
He whistled to the Hymenoptera. "Oi, you. Come over here. If you help me. I'll help you. You have a couple of hundred years to go, but soon you'll be the most powerful alien race in the entire galaxy. I promise you!"
The small Hymenoptera climbed their rope up to the tree branch, and them moved across to the branch that Justin's rope was tied to. Then the started to climb down towards him.
"I'm ready!" he said. "I'm ready to join you!"
<to be continued>

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