**Action** "Restorations"

**Action** "Restorations"
The Blue Dwarf was a mess. It drifted in space, the only signs of
movement were various astronaughts and repair pods working on the
outside of the ship, repairing the heavily damaged sections. Mostly
the damage was too great, nobody knew where to start, and they
desperately needed a long stop in a space station (preferably while
the newer engine parts were still in warranty).
The ship had a barely functioning communications system, Callum
managed to broadcast externally until someone told him to turn it
off of the place would be teeming with Hymenoptera again. The only
generators that were working were backups, and even they only worked
half of the time, until they all failed in a chain reaction,
plunging everyone in darkness and cold.
The Engineering decks were rammed with people trying to fix
everything at once, and getting extremely stressed about it. Someone
had hooked up the exercise bikes in the gym up to the main power
grid, for extra pedal power- and all crewmembers had to take
mandatory shifts exercising to create power for life support.
**Conference room**
Who: All department heads and crewmembers who feel they are important
Captain Alota swept the dead mosquito carcass off the conference
table. She had called a meeting of the department heads.
The last person to enter the room was Ambassador Niples. "I'm a
Royal Ambassador, I'm entitled to being in this meeting- I used to
be Captain of this ship you know!" Seymour whinged, as they always
held meetings without him.
"Yes Seymour you were actually invited this time, now sit down
please." Said Alotta.
"I'm an important part of this crew and represent…. Oh you said I
can come in? Jolly good."
The meeting started and Alotta explained the situation.
"So we're sitting ducks, in Hymenoptera territory with no engines or
reliable power-" The lights flickered again, then came back up to
full strength as someone on an exercise bike in the gym was
whipped. "…And the only way that we can get to a space station is to
use the wormhole drive to get out of Hymenoptera space."
Jay butted in at this point. "I thought we were going to
this `Legion' station Phil told us about, the one on his pad?"
Alota shot a glare at Phil. "Well after some looking into this
rumoured `Legion' station, it turns out that Phils futuristic pad is
correct- there is one, but because the pad is from the future, it
hasn't even been built yet!"
There was some "Dur" sounds around the table aimed at Phil, and
various people slapped their foreheads. Efof pointed and laughed out
loud, then retracted as people glared at him.
"And worse…" Alota continued. "The station is 3 million light years
away from here, we need the wormhole drive to get there."
"So, I'm seeing a clear pattern emerging here." Said Jay. "We need
to use the Wormhole Drive."
"Well done! That's my husband, always ahead of the game!" Alota
mocked.
Seymour piped up now. "But our Wormhole drive was disabled, I saw
Jack stick his sword through the control panel. Stupid moron!" Then
realised Jack was sat next to him.
"Actually its worse than that, the control panel can be repaired,
but a very key component of the wormhole was stolen by the pirates!"
Said Severn. "Can we get another?"
"I doubt it, our Wormhole Drive is the only one in the universe!"
Said Seymour. "We got it from that parallel universe remember? The
evil empire of Keto and Cerebrum."
Keto and Cerebrum looked ashamed and apologetic, then looked at each
other thinking that an empire ran by them wouldn't be a bad idea
afterall.
"So why don't we go and find these pirates and kick their dirty
asses!" Jay said. "They emptied all of our alcohol tanks, so I
reckon we go and steal it back, along with the wormhole drive!"
everyone cheered.
Seymour stood up and everyone groaned. "Normally I would object to
something as low as stealing, but those pirate bastards took my
entire wine collection- so I too agree we go and kick their botty's-
I mean asses!" everyone cheered.
Efof stood up next. "Yes lets open up one of those large tins of
something called whoop-ass that I've heard so much about!" everyone
cheered.
Kotchanski (who must have snook into the meeting) stood up
next "Lets get our alcohol back and then get extremely wasted!"
everyone cheered.
Seymour stood up again. "Then we can all have tea and scones in my
Ambassadorial quarters when they're fixed!" nobody cheered.
Jay stood up to a battle monitor, which was broken so he placed a
nobo flipchart in front of it. "So heres the plan, objective 1- we
steal back the wormhole drive." He scribbled the objective neatly on
the board.
"Then objective 2- we steal back our booze." He wrote objective 2 in
much larger letters on the page. "Clear?"
Seymour raised his hand. "If they have the wormhole drive then
surely they can be anywhere in the galaxy, how will we find them?"
"Ahh!" Said Jay. "I sent some of my best pilots out today for
reconnaissance…"
Efof beamed as he heard the words `best pilot', then realised that
this morning he was doing his laundry.
"…and we've found a small pirate supply base in shuttle distance, we
intercepted a communication saying that the pirates will be visiting
the base tomorrow. We just need to send a small ship of able people
who are confident they can stealthily pilot a small Midget up to the
pirates, board them undetected and quickly sneak in and out,
stealing the wormhole drive. The beer will be held in external pods,
so they need detaching and attaching by cable to the back of the
Midget. Because of the extra weight of the beer pods, it might be a
slow getaway, so I recommend disabling the Pirates engines so they
can't follow."
Jay turned to the crowd. "This may be a dangerous mission, do I have
any volounteers?"
People sank into their chairs.