*ACTION* Windows has performed an illegal operation and must ANNIHIL

The green ship-to-surface craft stood out like a sore thumb against the vast blackness of space. The Mollopod planet was now a mere bluish-green blob off in the distance, overshadowed by the immense hulking blue craft that now loomed into view.
Jayne Chrysler, the pilot of the Starbug glanced back into the mid-section of the shuttle, it was packed to the hilt with crew members.
"Nearly home guys!" she said smiling. "Never thought I'd miss this rust bucket so much..."
She approached the shuttle bay doors, and slowed the 'bug to docking speed.
"Holly, this is Starbug 14. Cadet Jayne Chrysler requesting permission to dock."
Holly didn't respond, the Starbug cruised closer toward the doors.
"Holly...permission to dock?"
Yet no response.
"Erm..Holly?" Jayne said, panicking as the doors loomed ever closer. "THE DOORS?!"
A crack of light broke out from between the launch doors as they opened, widening as the doors moved apart and the landing deck came into view.
"Thank god Hol, I thought we were gonna coll...."
The shuttle-bay doors slammed shut suddenly, and without warning. The Starbug mere metres from them "Holy smeg!" Jayne yelled, and yanked back on the control stick as hard as she could muster. The Starbug pulled upwards, it's landing legs scraping on the now closed doors, snapping off like twigs. Jayne fought with the shuttle as it rocketed along the surface of the hull, pulling away in a wide loop and heading upside-down, away from the hulking blue vessel.
"Holly,...what the smeg?" Jayne squeaked into the comm.
She brought the ship around and came to a standstill.
"Holly. Open the bay doors."
No response.
"Holly. OPEN THE DOORS!"
She leant forward over the shuttle's dash and looked left and right, all along the Blue Dwarf's hull Blue Midgets and Starbugs were being denied access......
 
*****
 
Starbug 1.
 
"Captain.." Amber said from the pilots seat. "We have a problem"
Jay ran a wearisome hand down his face, and dropped his book on the scanner table in the ships midsection. Sighing heavily he entered the cockpit.
"What Amber?" he said, idly.
"somethings wrong..."
"Somethings always wrong. Care to be more specific?"
"Well...holly's refusing to grant access to the ship...well, I say refusing...we can't get a response.."
"So?" Jay said "Your Chief of Navigation, use your emergency override codes."
"I already did. They weren't accepted."
Jay slumped into the co-pilots seat. Back when he was a pilot, or even the CNO he loved it when stuff like this happened. It was exciting. Now it was just a pain in the smegger.
He tapped a code into the console.
"ACCESS DENIED" came the response on the screen.
"Open a comm channel Amber...Blue Dwarf this is Captain Chrysler....Holly, please respond..."
A face appeared on the central monitor in the Bug's cockpit. It was Holly, but...not...holly, he had a deranged look in his eyes.
The floating head looked less sane than usual, but said nothing, he spun wildly in all direction, laughing maniacally.
"Holly, what's the meaning of this?"
"SORRY!! EHEHEHEEHEH!!!" giggled the head "Holly can't take your call at the moment.."
"Holly..."
"but if you'd like to DIE!!!! I'LL GET BACK TO YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!"
"What the?"
"JAY! THE CANNONS!!" yelled Amber.
Through the cockpit glass Jay could see the Blue Dwarf's external defence cannons rotating to face the fleet of starbugs a dull blue glow within their barrels, shining more and more intensly.
"CHRYSLER TO ALL SHIPS, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!"
The small craft dispered in all directions, blue laser cannon fire firing after them.
"What the smeg is going on?" Amber asked, as she banked the starbug to the right, in a tight roll, then dodged another blast of cannon fire.
"Just get us out of range! EVERYONE REGROUP AT THESE COORDINATES..." Jay tapped in a command into the console and transmitted to the fleet, then looked back up just in time to see a Blue Midget, it's engine housing aflame, spiral out of control and into the side of the Blue Dwarf.
Holly was still on screen, laughing like a madman. "Whoops!!" he said "Clumsy me!! EEEHEHEHEHEEHEH!!!!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Jay yelled, reaching out and cutting off the link to Holly. "Amber move!"
Amber nodded and sent the shuttle into full-throttle getting out of the area....
 
*****
 
Later..
 
******
 
"I WANT ANSWERS!" Jay demanded, slamming his fist down on the glass atop the scanner table. "What the smeg is going on, what's up with Holly?"
the most senior crew member from each ship's face appeared in a different window, across several monitors in the mid section of Jay's Starbug.
"A ships AI doesn't just turn on it's crew!" he said to the virtually amassed crowd, and those, such as Amber, who had joined him in the flesh.
"We...we duh...don't know!" Rufus said meekly from somewhere behind Doctor Keto on screen. "We...nuh..need to get ab..aboard and acess the mainframe to ah...ah..analyse!"
"Ok. Then we find a way to get aboard, and fast. Who knows what damage Holly could do..I WANT SUGGESTIONS, I don't care who from, officers, technicians or even civilians. I just wanna get aboard and find out what the smeg is happening!"
 
<tag - people, this is open to everyone, please post your ideas for getting back aboard - but don't get us aboard yet, our characters need to get some discussion going on. We need a plan inside the next week, so get posting! Jay's all ears!!>
 
Everyone, feel free to contact me on MSN or by email to discuss the plot - sirlagerlot@..., i want everyone involved in this -
 
OOC:- David / Dysart, feel free to continue your plans for Dysart aboard ship at for the moment too, you can back post it or have it going on while this is happening, if you need any ideas / help / Joint posts email me!
 
 
 

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