Re: Friction Burns

Johnny grabbed the drink Efof had poured for Seymour and gulped it
down.
"Ahh, not Scotch, but it'll do."
Not many people noticed Johnny as their attention was focused on the
mind-controlling bug.
"Jay - doesn't your ship have the required firepower to blast that
bug?"
Then everybody stared at Johnny.
"Err..." he muttered, then he felt something crawling up his leg,
then his back.
He threw himself onto his back, hoping to crush the bug, but by the
time Johnny hit the floor, it was too late.
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--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "Onion" <theonion770@h...>
wrote:
> While the Hymenoptera fleet approaches…
> Blue Dwarf
> Inside Hymenoptera territory
> Drive Room
>
> Efof, being in control of the Blue Dwarf should have been driving
> them away from the enclosing fleet of massive Hymenoptera vessels,
> but he looked at his watch and walked out of the Drive Room.
>
> "Hey, where are you going?!" Asked Ashley the Sensor Operator.
>
> "Its time to open Parrotts!"
>
> "Hey, but.. you've got to prioritise!" The dumb blonde said getting
> into a frenzy and pointed at the massive dark spikey ships through
> the window.
>
> "I know, there might be a queue forming outside!" Efof said
> worryingly.
>
> ***Promenade***
>
> Efof walked up to parrotts where shattered glass lie all over the
> walkway, his feet crunched on the glass as he walked around the
> normal-sized Phoenix, he even climbed through the window absent-
> mindedly as the nose-end of the Phoenix was blocking the door. He
> walked behind the bar and started instinctively cleaning glasses
and
> rubbing the bar down.
> Then suddenly he looked up and noticed the Phoenix wedged into the
> pub. "Woah!" he realised.
>
> Jay, Phil, Alotta, Canazza, Tara, Johnny and Seymour started
> climbing out of the ship's access hatch.
> Jay stared at Efof who usually had a confused look on his face, but
> in this instance he looked as if everything was normal. Efof
> polished a glass and rested it on the Phoenix's robot arm.
> "Can I get you anything?" he asked.
> "Urrrm… we're fine at the moment Efof, thank you!" Piped up Seymour
> with an annoyed and arrogant tone.
> "Actually I could use a beer…" said Phil.
> "Phil! This is no time for a beer!" Scolded Seymour. Then he
> paused. "Actually a little drop of dry chardonnay wouldn't go amiss
> though…"
>
> Efof poured him a Stella in a wine glass and beamed proudly.
> "Erm… actually I think I'll pass. But you got it half right at
least
> this time…" Seymour said.
> "Anyway, we're looking for that small hymenoptera mind controlling
> insect, we think it is trying to get back to one of the ships in
the
> fleet, it might even try controlling someone elses mind. Have you
> seen anything or anyone acting suspicious?"
>
> Efof looked around the bar. A man in the far corner was walking
> continuously into the wall as if he was being controlled by an
> exterior force.
> "Nope nothing suspicious at all!" Efof said. "…Oh apart from this
> rather large beetle trying to crawl up my back…. I…ahhhhh!!!"
> Efof tried to shake it off his jacket and fell over.
>
> Everyone rushed to the bar to see if the alien has gotten to him.
> Efof stood up.
> "Its controlling him, quick KILL HIM!" Seymour shouted. Then
> realised people were staring at him. "Alright, maybe that was a tad
> rash…"
>
> "It tried," said Efof. "But didn't stay for long… maybe I'm just
> such a complex individual!" he said proudly and continued to wipe
> the exact same place on the bar he's been wiping for the past 10
> minutes.
>
> "Its there!" Alotta shouted and pointed to the floor. Seymour
> screamed and jumped into Phil's arms.
>
> The small brain-controlling bug scuttled across the bar towards……
>
> <Tag! And remember someone needs to find a way of stalling that
> fleet so that we can find a power source to wormhole back>