Justin's gone soft(light)

Justin clanged his spanner against the metal valve, causing a hollow clanking noise that echoed around the engineering deck.

“Be quiet!” He was ordered by an impatient Jay, who seemed in a bad mood for some reason. “There's all sorts of weird creatures that could be living here, we don't want to attract any.”
“Relax!” Said Justin, cocky and confident. “If anything comes near us, I'll just peel open this pipe and spray boiling hot acidic brake fluid in its face. It's deadlier than one of Phil's boxershort hurricanes.”
“Remember we're Human. Y'know, living breathing, vulnerable to toxic gasses, that sort of thing.” Jay said, still irritated.
“Oh yeah. Have I told you lately how great it is to be a Hard light Hologram, it's like I'm almost invincible. Ever since I tweaked Holly's Holographic output, he's got enough power to make my projection 3 times tougher than any Human.”

“Oh, if you're so tough we can just leave you here than shall we?” Jay said, packign his gun away, and starting to walk off.
“No! Wait!” Justin said, panicked. “I'm still scared of the weird beasties.” He looked embarrassed, and started to work on the valve, first uncoupling some protective leading and then tightening some bolts. It wasn't long before he'd finished, and they could feel the ship slowing down, and the clattering of micro-asteroids hitting the exterior hull slowed and stopped.

“I've been hardlight for 87 days now, without a single glitch.” He said, proudly. “No power outages, no reboots... I don't know if you remember but when I was alone... I went through a bad stage where I was... rebooting all the time.”
Phil, and Jay looked disinterested.
“Well, yeah... I just wanted you to know I'm over that now. I'm online, and I plan to stay online for good. As long as nobody else dies and replaces me as ship's hologram of course.” He chuckled.

“Err... I think Alex and that Simulant were going down to the Hologram suite to resurrect that girl that died as a Hologram... what's she called... Jelena?” Said Phil.
“What?” Spat Justin. “Two Holograms... but... but... Holly can't handle two at a time.”
Phil shrugged, “I thought you said you tweaked his output? Surely there's enough juice for two.”
“But... that's MY juice!” Justin said selfishly.
“Stop talking about your juice!” Jay said, having painful flashbacks to a few weeks ago on the Promenade.

Justin ran towards the nearest staircase, leaving them alone. He didn't stop until he was outside the Holographic suite, where he felt his matrix glitch and drop in power by half. He flickered and looked at his hands, which were glitching more times than porn downloaded from bitTorrent and opened with the wrong codec.

He stomped into the room, startling Alex and Garr Bedge, who looked around. Stood between them was Jelena, looking very much alive, and with a silver 'H' on her head.
“Nooo!” Justin shouted, then pointed at her. “She's stealing my holographic juice!”
He tried to push Alex out of the way to get to the computer, but his hand passed straight through.

“What's da problem wid' th' stupid lookin' ooman?” Bedge asked Alex.
“My problem,” Justin said, spinning to face him. “Is that Holly can't handle two hard-light holograms at once, and I like touching things! So turn her off right now!” He demanded.

OOC – So, Justin's pissed off that there's another Hologram. Maybe he's just jealous? How will Alex, Garr and Jelena respond to this?

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