*ACTION* Rallying the troops

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"Hi Jay" Cassandra smiled, blowing him a kiss
The drive room was silent for a moment before someone with the gift for the
blindingly obvious shouted what everyone else was thinking:
"Smegging hell! It's Queen Brittany!"
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"€œBut"€ Jay said "You're dead?"
"€œWell!" replied Cass "€œI'm back!"
Jay frowned as he eyed the late Queen with suspicion "€œAren'€™t you Mr
Butler?"€ he said to Brittany’s companion.
Butler nodded.
"Cass Jones" friend? How did you hook up with the Queen?"€
"€œThat's not important!"€ Cass said "€œWhat can I do to help?"
"Talk to the space corp, they'€™ve ordered us to stand down and make no move
against the Hymenoptera, they'€™re refusing to go to war, personally, I think
Eckerslike of the JMC has waved a large wad of cash in their faces to convince
them to take this attack sitting down, could you try to convince them to let us
launch a counter attack against the Hymenoptera homeworld?"€
"€œWhy not launch an attack anyway?"€
"€œBelieve me I want to" Jay said "But one seriously damaged ship, we
need support."€
"€œI'll see what I can do"€ and with that, '€œBrittany'€ walked into the
captains office.
****Meanwhile****
"€œHELP!"€ came a voice from across Parrots bar.
"€œHold on!"€ Jayne shouted back "€œI'€™m coming! €˜Nessa, give me a hand
here!"€
Vanessa Chrysler, ran across from where she had been helping an injured patron
of Parrots and helped Jayne to move a large piece of debris that was pinning the
bartender, Jay Byrd to the ground.
"€œOh my god" Jayne said, as they moved the debris to one side, and saw
Jay’s condition. He was bleeding heavily, and the falling debris had severed
the lower half of his right leg.
Vanessa, used to seeing worse things immediately crouched at his side and began
doing what she could.
"Jayne!" she said "€œHe’s lost a lot of blood, I need some help here, go
and get someone from the medi-bay up here".€ She paused as she realised that
most of the medical staff would have their hands full "€œ..failing that, anyone
with a first-aid qualification".€
Jayne nodded and ran towards the door of the bar, but was thrown off her feet as
the deck rumbled. A loud creaking noise could be heard from above. Jayne looked
up to where the noise was coming from and yelled out "€™NESS! LOOK OUT!"
It was too late, the ceiling directly above Vanessa and Byrd caved in, raining
down chunks of reinforced steel on top of them.
Jayne ran over, and began tossing smaller chunks of metal aside and trying to
level the larger parts out of the way but as the dust settled, she caught sight
of both Vanessa and Jay’s bloodied bodies lifeless and crushed beneath the
rubble.
Jayne cried out angrily, then sat back, sobbing.
****Back in the drive room****
'Brittany' stepped out Jays office and shook her head. She hadn't been able to
convince the Space Corp to agree to a counter strike.
"dammit" Jay said "Then I guess we're alone..."
"you think the crew will follow you, going against orders on a personal
vendetta?"
"I don't know." Jay replied candidly "but when we're flight capable I'm going in
alone if I have to...if anyone does join me, I'll make sure the Corp thinks they
were acting under my orders..."
"queen Brittany..." Jay said "do you think you could...'rally the troops' as it
were?"
<tag Andy! And SMandy too!
Or anyone who can add to this really!>
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