The Dolaroo Republic of Cephalorhynchus vs The Kingdom of Kangaphins

<snip>
Justin struggled, and looked back to see that Rosette and Jay had also been
captured.
"Where are we going?" Justin shouted.
"Eh-eh-eh-eh The boss wants to talk to you-eh-eh-eh-eh!"
"Finally!" Said Justin. "Lets get to the bottom of why you guys are here!"
<end snip>
Who: Justin Pancake and the away team
Where: Somewhere on the Red Dwarf
When: As they were being captured
Just was dragged first and couldn't see behind him, but assumed everyone else in
the away team was being treated the same way. The Dolaroos bounced down the
corridor dragging him on a rope, he was jerked along by every jump they took.
The blue urinal cakes fell to the floor and Justin felt the burning affect of
the radiation leaking through his suit.
"Wait, we can't go much further, we'll die of radiation poisoning." Justin
shouted to his captor, who turned round.
"The-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh General did say to keep the-eh-eh-eh-ehm alive." One Dolaroo
said to another.
"Use the anti-cadmium spray." the other ordered, and the first took out a
handheld pump action bottle and sprayed their radiation suits.
"This will protect you against radia-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-tion." Said the Dolaroo from
its bottle shaped nose. "It'll also make you sexually appealing to the Cadmallox
creature of Reebochov Minor. But there's not one of those for light years near
here."
"Great thanks!" Said Justin sarcastically. He was continued to be pulled down
the corridor until they reached a big open area with a launch tunnel. This was
one of the Red Dwarf's other flight decks, and was larger than the one they'd
used to enter.
Several large ships filled the hangar area, ships that weren't any design Justin
had ever seen. If he'd spent more time reading 'Top Spacecraft' magazine and
less time reading 'Razzle', he'd have known they were ships belonging to the
Dolaroo Republic of Cephalorhynchus 9. A race of GELFs locked in a bitter
rivalry with the Kingdom of Kangaphins. Dolaroos and Kangaphins have hated each
other since their creation by a bored Australian scientist with an interest in
marine mammals.
Dolaroos had a Dolphin's head and a kangaroos body, and a Kangaphin had the head
and front paws of a kangaroo, but a tail like a dolphin. This made it easier for
a Kangaphin to wear Australian hats with corks around the rim, but they lived in
water so it was very hard for them to cook a barbie.
Justin and the team were pushed past the parked spacecraft, and paraded past an
entire army of Dolaroos, until they met the man in charge. He was slightly
larger than the others, and had black and white markings across his body like a
killer whale. He was just finishing off a rousing speech to his troops.
"...and we shall use this floating re-eh-eh-eh-ed bucket of death to destroy our
enemy the Kangaphins! We shall poison their waters and pollute their homes!"
Everyone cheered.
"General Sousa, we have captured these Humans!" Announced the Dolaroo who was
holding the other end of Justin's rope.
The Dolaroos with the face of a killer whale turned and looked at the Humans.
"Is any of you an Engineer?" He commanded, looking at everyone in turn.
Everyone was quiet, until he turned a pistol towards Rosette. "I'll just start
killing you one by one the-eh-eh-eh-eh-en shall I?"
Justin quickly put up his hand. "Yes sir, I'm an engineer sir. Don't kill her."
He shared an uncomfortable look with Rosette as he stepped forward. "We have a
job for you." Said General Sousa.
He was pulled off to the side, and as the guards were distracted Rosette leaped
towards the closest guard, elbowed him in the bottlenose and then kicked him in
the marsupial pouch. As he dropped his gun Rosette grabbed it and aimed it at
their leader, General Sousa.
A second later she found that over a hundred Dolaroos were pointing their
weapons at her.
Apart from one.
General Sousa was pointing his weapon at the head of the SpaceCorps Inspector.
"Miss LaChance....." Said the Inspector. "Think very carefully about your next
course of action. I'm going to write all this up in the report about you. Your
future career depends very much on what you do next."
<Tag – what will Rosette do?!>

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