Niples "Reurn of the madman-dun dun duhh"

Who: Jay, Dean, White Wolf, Seymour, Phil and the ex-Captain Will. D.
Cannon.
When: After the Starbug came back with Cannon
Where: Drive room.
Everything seemed to have got accelerated in time instead. The Ulysees crew
rapidly aged to thier deaths in mere seconds, and since I'm a hologram I
wasn't affected as quickly. And in order to escape the effects of the field,
I activated my automatic distress beacon
and vented myself from the nearest airlock towards Tattooed Ian.
Luckily, my hardlight system was able to withstand the heat of re-entry,
though the landing impact did put me mostly out of commission."
“PREPOSTEROUS!!!” Seymour outbursted in a rather dramatic Shakespearian
style.
“2 Years ago you blew up a piks’e Gelf asteroid base, killing hundreds of
men, women and children, and you were so adamant to do this that you
willingly killed yourself and tried to kill me in the process!! You can’t
expect me to believe you got over that kind of homicidal mania after just a
bit of councelling!!!”
“Now now Seymour,” Cannon put a hand on Niples’ shoulder and he shrugged
away. “You’re not going to hold that against you old buddy are you?” Cannon
said jovefully.
“You tried to KILL me!!” Seymour shot back, and suddenly as the words hit
Cannon, Seymour swore he could see something in the hologram’s eyes. A fire
flickered for a second, a twinge of bitterness, anger and the selfish
willingness to give everything to get his own way. Seymour was reminded of
how Cannon never liked to be challenged or argued with, and after seeing the
man plunging over the edge of madness, can he really recover from that?
The fire in Cannons eyes faded away and he grinned. A self gratifying grin
that made everyone in the room almost grin too. Cannon playfully punched his
old XO, “I see you made a great Captain in my absence. You’ve actually got
rid of that oil mark and 2 year old vomit stain in Landingbay 2. Very
impressive Captain!”
“Actually,” Whitewolf piped up. “I’m the Captain of the Blue Dwarf now.
Seymour is the Ambassador to the British Queen”.
Niples continued to scowl at Cannon.
“Ooh very posh, but I thought you were ankering for the Captains job, you
always seemed to be eager to take over from me…”
“And what is that supposed to mean?!!” Seymour shouted back.
“The way you second guessed me all the time, tried to worm your snotty
little nose into higher command business…” Cannon said sarcastically.
“Well I never…” Seymour got on his pompous high-horse and crossed his arms.
“While you were alive I thought I was being jolly honourable and polite by
not saying this, but now that you are alive I don’t suppose it matters
anymore….you were a terrible Captain!”
Cannon huffed and puffed, matching Seymour in pomposity.
“At least I kept my Captains job, not gave it in for a namby-pamby cushy job
with the Queen!”
Seymour leaped for him, fists blazing, Whitewolf and Dean held the
Ambassador back.
Cannon didn’t even flinch.
“I think it better if you were to leave sir” Whitewolf said to Cannon,
holding Seymour back. Jay and Phil lead Cannon out of the drive room.
“NO, No, you cant let that megalomaniac roam freely on this ship, he’s up to
something, he’s jolly well up to something I tell you!!!!” His voice trailed
off as WW dragged him into the Captains office.
Sounding more than a little shocked, the gargantuan hamster started
speaking. “What is going on Seymour? I’ve never seen you get like this!”
Seymour breathed deeply.
“I…don’t…know, I just don’t know. That mad, he just….irritates me. You
should have seen him, you should have seen into his eyes the time he first
was told his wife and daughter had died. He didn’t tell us at the time, but
when that hallucinogenic virus infected the crew you should have seen him,
he first tried to attack me with a shotgun, accusing me of being a piksey!”
“The virus that made hallucinations real? Yes I remember.” Whitewolf
shuffled some papers on his desk.
“Then I could tell there was something wrong, his hallucinations were the
worst of all, from his mind he created a huge monster, the sum of all his
rage and anger….”
“The one that vaporised Dr. Ventrite?”
“Ho yes, what a funny little chap…always smelt a little odd though…anyway
yes I only ever saw rage equalling that monster once later, in his eyes on
the asteroid just before he was going to detonate the warhead. It was manic,
he wanted those gelfs dead so much he was willing to die for it. He’s a
crazy man, and today, I saw a glimpse of that hatred still in his eyes. Its
still there…”
“But he seemed fine” The furry captain said. “He seemed to have accepted the
fact he’s dead, and bears no grudge towards anyone. Plus, all those
gelfs….the Piks’e’s…. they’re all dead anyway.”
“But he’s still bitter, I saw it. Maybe this time the bitterness has grown,
its consumed him, and I don’t think he can get stop it. Revenge didn’t.”
Whitewolf sighed.
<OOC-Sorry, I couldnt think of any good cliffhanger speaches, just imagine
dramatic music coming on and everyone looking shocked>
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David "Onion" Ball
WWW.BlueDwarf.co.uk
My Online CV: www.hud.ac.uk/mmvr/ball
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