***Actionette*** Trying to get away

***Actionette*** "Trying to get away…"
OOC- Right for all the newbies who don't yet know the system, an
*Action* post is a mainly descriptive post about the storyline and
shouldn't follow
one particular character, or should use all characters equally,
they are written (or approved by) a moderator. But because I'm lazy
I'm doing an *Actionette* which is a bit of both!
Oh and this post was a JP brought to you by me and Dean!
RPG-
Deep Space/Inside Hymenoptera Territory
The Blue Dwarf hung in space, perfectly still with engines barely
making a glow.
The 120 strong fleet of massive Hymenoptera Hive-ships got closer to
the blue vessel, spreading around to get it cornered from every
angle. Smaller fighters now got close enough to buzz around the
mining ship, and with everyone onboard the Blue Dwarf seemingly
busy, the insectoid fighters buzzed around quite safe from harm. One
larger hymenoptera vessel had already tried landing, but was
unsuccessful, the few warrior-bugs it had unleashed had been blown
up by some annoying guy with a rather fancy looking gun.
The hymenoptera knew this because they all shared a collective
nervous system, but they also knew that once the capitol ships were
nearer, they could swarm millions of soldier bugs at the ship, or
have thousands of worker ants take the ship apart piece by piece
from the outside, just to get at those juicy brains inside…..
***Inside the Blue Dwarf***
Ambassador Seymour Niples
A corridor
Seymour shook his throbbing head and got up from the floor. Kara
helped him up. "I'm so sorry I didn't see you, I thought you were a
hymenoptera…"
Seymour almost screamed as he saw a hymenoptera on the other sidde
of the corridor chewing on a vodka bottle. Skylar, who had just
thrown the bottle looked curiously at it.
"Oh Dear me!" said Seymour ducking as the Hymenoptera gulped and
exploded in
a slimy green mess. He stood up again and wiped off the one tiny
splatterof green goo from his collar. "Hmm, it looks like a trip to
my ownprofessional dry cleaners is in order…". He looked at Kara and
Skylar who were covered from head to toe.
"Oh never mind, theres a laundrette on the Promenade I hear!... just
make sure you keep your eye on your wallet of course." He said and
walked off.
Going back to his quarters, the Ambassador noticed two things,
firstly his wardrobe had been opened and his 4th favourite suit had
been stolen (he amazingly noticed this from across the room),
secondly he looked through his huge bay window at the end of his
grand Ambassadorial quarters and saw
hundreds of hymenoptera fighters buzzing around the Blue Dwarf like
annoying mosquitoes. Deadly little things if they wanted to attack,
but at the moment they were circling like vultures ready to get to
the good stuff inside.
"Good grief!" Seymour exclaimed as he also saw the massive ships
coming steadily closer. Like giant bugs, he stared into the huge
glowing eyes of
the massive ships. He knew those ships could launch eggs from space
and bombard a planets surface with them, the eggs could then hatch
into gigantic terror beetles that they'd seen step through a city
wall on Citadellia, and climb skyscrapers on New Ibiza.
Seymour got out his mobile phone. "Drive room? Anyone? We need to
use the
wormhole to get back to our space as soon as jelly-well possible!
Is there anyone in the Drive Room? Hello?"
The voice of Ashley the dumb blonde came over the phone. "Sorry
about that, I was making a cup-a-soup."
"A cup-a-soup? Good God woman theres an alien fleet out there, and
your making cup-a-soup… oh hold on, I'll have to put the kettle on,
I need a cuppa… oh it can wait a second- have we got any power for
the wormhole drive yet?"
"Nope." Ashley said.
"Righto! I'll find an engineer after my cuppa!" Seymour said and
rushed off.
Seymour bumbled down the habitation decks, "Hello?" he called.
Steadily getting more desperate as he travelled further and further
into the decks without receiving a reply. It was as he wandered down
a corridor that he thought he might have been down once, no, twice,
maybe three times before that a door opened.
"For Smeg's sake! Belt up!" yelled Dean, "I'm trying to recover after
possibly the most unorthodox operation in the history of medicine
and you
pottering about shouting "HELLO!" really isn't helping the resting
procedure."
"Oh thank god. You're not an engineer, but listen..." Seymour the
proceeded
to explain the current hordes of Hymenoptera surrounding the ship.
"Don't make me laugh!" said Dean, "you mean..." he said, walking
back into his quarters and pointing out the window at the evil
insect ship parked there "..that there's an
evil..insect....ship......parked...." he tailed off, gawping at
it. "Smeg."
"Concisely put. Now come, let us go and see who else we can find to
aid us on this quest!"
"Quest?" Dean raised an eyebrow in question at the
terminology. "Dude,
quests went out at least a couple of millennia ago, but don't let
that stop you. How about, 'our attempt not to die?'"
"I think quest has more of a ring to it."
"Ok, that's true." Dean conceded, "right, well, 'quest' it
is......um, who do we want to help us and what is the precise aim of
the quest? We need more then a vague mission statement of survival
you know."
"An engineer, and to somehow get some power for the wormhole drive."
"Now we're getting someplace. I'll give Canazza a call." said Dean
indicating his comm.
**5 Minutes later**
"Look! I'm sorry about you being covered in my shit, I truly am guy,
but, listen, yeah, I'll pay the laundry bill, just do us the favour,
well, do yourself it, as otherwise you'll be dead! Then meet us in
the gym."
Dean hung up. "Honestly, the guy gets drenched in your own excretia
and you never hear the end of it..."
**VR Room**
Canazza opened the door to the VR room and walked in. The new girl
Sara
Lockheart was just on her way out with her scutter following close
behind.
"Oh sorry" Said Canazza. "We're just shutting down none essential
systems to reserve power for the Wormhole drive, we're running very
low."
"Its okay I've finished." Said Sara, "Can I help?"
"Yeah." Canazza pulled the plugs on the VR machines. "Just follow me
upto
the gym, where we're about to try and create power hamster-style..."
**Gym-20 minutes later***
"Faster faster!!" Seymour called as he watched Canazza, Dean, and
Sara ride as fast as they could on the gym exercise bikes with
dynamos attached. Kara and Skylar, (who they'd conned into helping
too) were running on adapted treadmills. Bob, Saras scutter also
wheeled itself along the treadmill, eager to help.
"Faster?!" Panted Kara. "I'd like to see you trying as well!"
"A Royal Ambassador does not exercise with the commoners!" Seymour
said matter-of-factly, turning back to the power grid
interface. "Come on, you're doing well!"
"Surely…. we've made…. enough power…. by now?" Dean said in gasps.
"Not quite my good man, almost 1 percent though!"
"One frigging percent?!!!!" Kara got off the treadmill, and everyone
else stopped too. "This is getting us nowhere!"
"Yeah look at poor Bob" Said Sara. "He's working his little engine
out!"
"Hangon…" Said Dean. "I have a better idea."
**The Raven - Landing Bay 7**
"Right, Canazza, you ready?"
"Are you sure you know what you're doing Dean?" Seymour asked.
"I was 50% of the team that built this craft..."
"So you know where half the components are." said Skylar, before Kara
finished with "unfortunately not this half."
"Oh very funny. Right, Canazza, catch!"
"SMEG!" the engineer yelled, "it's raining machinery."
It was, Dean was throwing pieces to the well-showered engineer left,
right and centre. He was so good he could ahve fielded for England
in the late 20th century. When the pieces were picked off the
ground, Seymour asked
"So, what exactly are these things?"
"Well, those are the hydrocarbeletic stabilising finrods, and they
had to..."
"You just made that up!" said Canazza.
"Well, yeah, ok, I'll give you that. They actually just, well, they
just, in fact, I have no idea. But I'll put them back after this
anyway. But these
are what we wanted." Dean said brandishing a small metal box. "No,
that's my hipflask." He put it back in his pocket, "these, are what
power the Raven,
these are her starter batteries."
"Hang on." said Kara, "your craft has starter batteries?"
"Well, we had to make a few cuts..." started Dean defensively... an
explosion rocked the ship,
"Argue later children," said Sara, "playtime's over..."
"The hymenoptera have started shooting, they're trying to scare and
confuse us before they start boarding, they're probably trying to
make a jolly nice big hole to get in too!" said Seymour.
Dean jumped into the Raven and started her up. The alternator motors
started whirring and the engines came to life.
"Its working Dean!" shouted Canazza an they all watched the
interface computer that the Raven as plugged into. The bars started
to rise. 5%, 10%...
"Hurry Dean!" Said Kara impatiently.
Dean put his foot down and really revved the engine, more power was
transferred.
"85%, 90%, 95%.... that's it, we can use the wormhole drive!"
Shouted Canazza.
Seymour got out his phone and dialled Efof. "Efof, hit the switch,
get us back to charted Space!"
There was a pause and then a reply. "What?"
"The wormhole drive Efof! Go for it, the Hymenoptera are starting to
attack!"
"But I'm in Parrotts…." Whined the Alien.
"Good God Efof! What have I told you about prioritising jobs!
Besides, the Phoenix is still jammed in there against the bar, how
many people could possibly squeeze in? …no, no Efof don't count,
just get up to the Drive-Room right away!"
***Outside the ship***
A hymenoptera landing ship half the size of a massive hive ship
clamped onto the Blue Dwarf with spider-like tendrils, its wormlike
mouth started munching through the blue outer hull, while its read-
section -like the rear end of a spider, was squirming with millions
of Hymenoptera soldiers together, ready to swarm onto the ship.
Just then, sparks of electricity flew off the mining ship's ramscoop
and a wormhole opened up, sucking the Blue Dwarf through. The alien
landing ship lost its grip and slipped free, but was sucked towards
the dangerous event horizon of the wormhole, where swirling and
unpredictable gravitational eddies pulled it apart, spilling the
shrieking spiders inside- most of them being killed in the wormhole
too.
The Blue Dwarf re-entered charted territory, away from the deadly
alien fleet.
OOC- right we've eliminated one threat, but the madness with the
mind controlling bug continues!!!