Pool Area and Trophy Display

[who me]

"now" said pim as she climbed into the hatch, "my bag please, Thank you. there are a few things that one should always take with one when one is going antique hunting or exploring a space ship.
bare squeezed through the hatch with out comment, and then shook himself once inside.
"first is a flash light some times antique stores can be dark." Pim pulled out her 4D cell pink diving light and turned it on. "That is better." she said shining the light around the small air lock. "Oh look the inner door." pim pulled the handle. "I would guess we go this way." She said sliding out the door and looking first right then left and then up at the ceiling.
"what do you expect to find up there?" asked Bare.
"Aliens. Riddly Scott Aliens."
"any there?"
"Nope"

[who me]

pim took a sticker out of her bag and slapped it on the inside hull of the ship and then rubbed it a bit.
we have to keep things in proper order don't we.

[Boikat]

Tipper'G was carrying a box of an assortment of odds and ends that had struck her fancy, mostly trinkets she had found in a chest in one of the cargo holds, when she happened to glance out a port along the side of the corridor down which she was walking. The box of trinkets hit the floor.

Turning around, she ran back down the corridor towards the cargo holds. Turning a corner, she saw the motley crew of malcontents further down. They were helping Qray move the Sky Bike out of the hold, and into the corridor.

"We have company!" she yelled.

The malcontents looked up with varying degrees of puzzlement.

Tipper slid to a stop. "That 'school bus junk-yard war ship' is here!"

Boikat dropped his box of mummified melons, then wondered why he had been carrying them around. "It's here? Now?"

"How dangerous can it be?" asked Q.

"It almost took out a Klingon Bird of Prey with an empty beer keg." Boikat reminded the rogue.

Bee-oh Pee-you said, "Perhaps if I search for them and kill them..?"

"Fine. Go play." said Boikat. The robot dutifully clanked off down the corridor.

Boikat shook his head. "Well, while he's off getting himself disassembled, we need to put as much distance between us and that war ship as possible."

"Nope." said Qray.

"Nope?" asked Boikat and Tipper at the same time.

"Nope, as in, 'I want to keep this Star Destroyer'." he said.

"What happens if they have full beer kegs this time around?" asked Tipper.

"Then we have a smeggin' party!" said Merle.

"Interesting tactic." observed Boikat.

"It just could work." said Qray.

"I'm getting a headache" said WildCard.

"I'll join you." said Veneno.

There was a loud noise that sounded like a garbage can full of empty beer bottles exploding.

"What was that?" asked Nomad.

"It sounded like a garbage can full of empty..." started Qray.

"Beer bottles exploding.. Yes, we know" said WildCard.

The sound of voices could be heard from down the corridor.

"Oops. I think I broke it." said a deep voice. "Yous think I can put it back together..?"

"I don't think so, Bare. You flattened it's head." said a young woman's voice.

"Sorry." said the deep voice.

Qray perked up. "I know that voice!"

[who me]

"you know" said pim, "you did not have to brake it."
"it attacked me" said bare.
"you are a 2,60 Meter Ice bear I don't think a little robot like could really hurt you all that much. we could have asked it directions."
"might have been armed, what about the salvage rules?" bare started pulling the robot apart.
"robots don't count." said pim peering down the corridor.
"we had better go this way Bare said pointing in the opposed direction that the robot came form there might be more of them."
"you might be right..."
" have you ever herd of a Bee-oh Pee-you robot before?" said bare as he pulled a bunch of wired out of the robot and smelled the inside.
"No" said pim.
Pim and Bare walked down the dark corridor leaving the recked robot behind. Bare happily dragging bits and peaces along behind him, that he slowly pulled apart.
pim got some some papers and a home made note book out of her bag, looking threw them she flipped threw the Enterprise blue prints, and Miranda class heavy cruiser. having organized the book alphabetically star wars came right after star trek and with a flip of a tab the Blueprints for Imperator-class Star Destroyer came into view.
"found them she whispered."
Bare dropped the last piece of robot and nodded his head.
"we are even gong the right way."
Bare nodded his head again.
"we what to go to the bridge and see if we can turn the power on again right?"
Bare nodded his head.
"did you hear some thing?
"just you said Bare."
"as long as we don't run in to any ALIEN's.
pim started singing we are off to see the wizard the wonder full wizard of oz.

[Qray]

Qray perked up. "I know that voice!"

"You do?" WildCard asked as she looked down the corridor in the direction the pyrotechnics had come from and slipped a hand inside her dark green cloak to finger her deck of magically crafted playing cards.

"Or not," Q shrugged. "But what I am certain of is...it was a voice."

WildCard counted to ten to restrain the urge to punch the man. "Are you sure?"

"Oh yeah," the rogue responded absently as he began leafing through the owners manual to the speeder bike. "Words and everything. Hey, this thing is a reworked prototype. Nice! It's reconfigurable. That explains the extra bit on the lower fuselage."

"Wonko, do you mind?" WildCard tapped her foot on the deck plates. "Robots exploding, mysterious voices, care to join in?"

"Yeah, yeah, the rogue muttered still leafing through the manual. "Just let me know if I need to put on my shootin' boots or my flyin' boots."

[Merle]

"Flyin' boots!" Shouted Merle, who'd been rummaging around the cargo hold himself. Muttering a spell under his breath, and gesturing, two largish crates scooted their way into the open. "Yeehaa!"

"Whatcha got there, Merle," drawled Nommy, feigning interest.

"Heh. Fun! What I got here is F-U-N!" He began prying open the crates, and once opened, he muttered another spell. Parts came zooming out of the crates.

Nommy whistled. Boikat looked envious. Even Q looked impressed. "Dibs the Kittyhawk," shouted Merle. "Zero for me, then," shouted Boikat.

"Wait," said Merle. "Lemme fix the ammo." He muttered a spell. "There, armed with squid. We can dogfight now." Merle muttered another spell, and 5 gallon cans of aviation fuel appeared and started filling the tanks of the the P-40 Kittyhawk. The nose was painted with the familiar shark's mouth. The wings sported the multi rayed star of the Chinese air force of the mid 20th century, and the fuselage was painted with a leaping tiger with an Imperial Japanese flag in its mouth. The Zero was adorned with the red sun of the the Japanese Imerial Air Force. Merle and Boikat went to the cargo hatches, which conveniently held flight jackets, helmets and goggles that they quickly donned.

"I get winner," shouted Q. "Me next," added Nommy.

"I didn't know you guys could fly ancient aircraft," commented Wildcard. "What am I saying? Is insanity catching here?" She shook her head. "Honestly, we have a hostile landed outside, we've probably been boarded, and all you guys can do is go out and play at being World War 2 fighter pilots?"

"Um, yeah. That's pretty much right," said Merle. "In a nutshell," added Boikat. "What's your point," asked Nommy.

Wildcard clucked her tongue, Veneno sighed in exasperation, and Tipper simply looked perplexed.

Merle and boikat had already climbed into their fighters, and the engines were starting to crank. The radial Mitsubishi of the Zero caught first, and th hold was filled with it's whine. Then the P-40s Allison caught, roaring to life. Both little airships starting taxying out into the open. Before long, Boikat and Merle were in the clouds, looking for each other.

[who me]

"Ohhh look!" said pim pointing "a vending machine! and they have can's of mineral water. " rummaging about in her bag she pulled out a bunch of keys and opened the vending machine, and started to take the cans and put them in to her bag. "oh Suntory Natural Mineral Water. I love that stuff,ohh look tea In the brown can to. the empire relay had some nice perks."

"what about those?" Bare said pointing to some green bottles at the end.
"Icky." said pim "Donat tastes bitter, and its french."
"what do you know the best water is form the north pole."
"Is there any north pole water?"
"yup right there."
"Ill be." pim said putting the can's in to her bag as well. "you are right. boy they really did have a great selection of water. I wonder what the cafeteria has to offer, i mean the vending machines are quite impressive all by them selves."

A bit down the hall was a lift, "perhaps we can take this to the bridge?" pim pushed the button but nothing happened, so she pushed it again. I can hear it humming she said putting her ear to the door, just barely.
must be broken.
waking up the stares pim hummed the black Gard song form the wizard of oz.

[Boikat]

Before long, Boikat and Merle were in the clouds, looking for each other.

Merle cast an eagle eye around, scanning the nearly cloudless sky for his advisary. Odd. How could a white aircraft with red meat-balls disappear so fast? His radio crackled and a hint of music filtered through. Merle reached over to tune it in, and then his head-phones were filled with the "Top Gun Anthem".

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Merle said, "Awe nuts!", then looked up.



"Hi ya sport!" radioed Boikat over the music.

[Merle]

Merle rolled the little fighter on its back, and dove away from the Zero. "The P-40 will outdive the Zero 2 to 1," Chenault had claimed. Merle meant to find out. Boikat dove in pursuit, but the barrell rolling Kittyhawk was pulling away. Merle could see puffs from the Zero's wings, and knew Boikat was firing. But he was already out of range.

Again, Chenault's voice sounded in Merle's head: "The Zero is armed with those little cannon. Shorter range than the six fifties on a Kittyhawk."

Boikat had broken off the pursuit, and climbed back into the cloud cover. "Damnit!" Merle cursed. He'd lost his altitude, and was a sitting duck for the Zero now. He'd need to head for the clouds himself, but had a long way to climb.

And then there was an earsplitting "Yeehaaa!" in Merle's headset. Boikat was making a head on run. "Gotcha!" crowed Merle, and opened fire, long before the Zero's cannon were in range. .50 cal. Squid were splashing all over the nose of Boikat's Zero, but he kept on coming. "Boy's mental," thought Merle. "Pull up," yelled Merle. He didn't. He just kept on coming. "Pull up!" Nope, not budging. At the last second, Merle dove his fighter under the Zero, just avoiding a head on midair collision.

"Ha! Knew you'd duck," shouted Boikat. Once Merle's nerves calmed down, he saw that his canopy was splattered with squid from the Zero's cannon. "Damnit again," cursed Merle. That cat's nerve was stronger than his, Merle knew it. "Okay, BK, you win," he acknowledged.

[Boikat]

Meanwhile, as the "fly-boys" were goofing off, Qray said, "Did anyone feel that?"

"Feel what?" asked Veneno.

Everyone felt a small shudder through their feet.

"That." said Q.

Then there was a sound. A low rumbling sound that was more felt than heard.

Then there was a slight lurch.

"The ship's moving." said WildCard.

Q looked puzzled. "Hmm. Didn't I claim this ship as mine?"

"Officially? No. But you did say you wanted to keep it." said nomad. "Is that the same thing as claiming it as yours?"

"I think so." said Q.

"Then why is the ship moving? Did you tell it to move?" asked TipperG.

Q shot a glance at the dark elf. "No. You're not trying to pull some Drow Witch stuff, are you?"

Tipper looked peeved. "No. But I can put you back on the ceiling again...."

"Children..." said WildCard.

The ship lurched.

"Okay, that does it!" said Q. You and you," he said, pointing at nomad and Tipper, "Stay here and panic, the rest, come with me..." said the rogue as he headed towards an elevator.

"Where are we going?" asked WildCard.

"Obviously, to the bridge."

As the trio left, nomad and Tipper looked at each other. "Panic?" asked Tipper.

"Yes. panic." Nomad raise his arms up and began to flail them, and also began to walk in a small circle, deadpanning, "Oh horror! oh panic! Horror, horror!"

"What purpose does that serve?" asked Tipper.

Nomad stopped. "None what so ever." then resumed, "Horror! Oh the horror!"

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Meanwhile, on the bridge.

"Hey! This thing has a built in DVD player!" said Bare.

"Quit poking buttons, Bare. You might..."

There was a series of beeps and whistles, and a automated voice announced, "ADG activated, target acquired, firing MASER cannon 6.."

There was a sound reminiscent of a high tech toilet being flushed, then, "Target destroyed."

"What target?" said pim.

"Displaying target." An image formed on a screen showing the black and yellow ship under a cloud of smoke. The smoke was coming from a large hole in the side.

"No more shooting! Bad ship!" said pim.

"ADG disengaged." said the voice.

"Did I do that?" asked Bare.

Pim shook her head, "Well, we can always paint this one black and yellow. Ship voice thing, do you do more than blow things up?"

"I am the ship AI. I can do anything." said the voice.

"So, this ship is voice controlled?" asked pim.

"Yes."

"Ship voice thing, take this ship into orbit."

"Affirmative".

There was a shudder as the three main engines fired, and the monstrous bulk of the Star Destroyer rose from the riverbed, listing slightly due to some sediment that was still covering the right side.

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Merle called over to Boikat who was doing lazy victory rolls, "Hey, hot-shot. Notice anything strange?"

Boikat righted the Zero and looked around. "Yeah. The Star Destroyer is moving. There's smoke coming out of the black and yellow battleship, and I think we are both about to run out of fuel."

"That doesn't concern you?" asked Merle.

"Well, I guess Q fired the ol' girl up and is taking her for a spin, they also figured out how to use the weapons, and executed a -preemptive strike against the black and yellow warship, and if we land before we run out of fuel, we should be okay...."

"..and catch up to the Star Destroyer in the Black Pearl III." said Merle. "No worries..."

Then the Star Destroyer went into full acceleration, and disappeared within seconds. The shock wave rocked the two tiny aircraft.

"Ummm..." said Boikat.

"Exactly what I was thinking." said Merle, as the two banked towards where Boikat had parked the Black Pearl III.

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"Ship voice thing, watch out. You almost ran into those two little flying things." said pim.

"Apologies."

There was a "ding" as the red light above the elevator door came on. "Now what?" asked pim.

"I did order pizza and beer..." said Bare.

The door slid open.

"Pizza and beer?" asked the rogue, as he, Wildcard and Veneno rushed out of the open elevator doors, weapons drawn.....

[who me]

"AHHHHH" screamed pim.
that is not a valid order the star destroyer computer replied.
Bare "enemy on the bridge force fields up."
zwoop a sparkly force field barrier popped into place.
"oh my" said pim " when it rains it pores. computer."
"yes."
"is the hull integrity intact?"
"negative multiple cargo doors and hatches are open."
"can you close them?"
"closing main cargo hold"
"closing secondary hatches."
"unable to close manual hatches section D F and service hatch 4"
pim "activate ships force fields!"
"force fields activated, warning power low" said the ships computer.
"how is the power?" pim said giving bare a dirty look.
"low...this ship has been sitting in the desert for who knows how long." bare replied rummaging about in all the lockers.

"what are we going to do with them" said bare pointing at the people behind the force field.
"I don't know." said pim rubbing her fore head, "we have a very old star-destroyer that is using its last power to brake orbit, the hull is not intact, so we are using the ships force fields to keep the atmosphere in place.
we are low on power and when that runs out..." pim grabbed her throat and made gasping sounds.
"do not press buttons at random again.
pim glared at bare who sunk his head.
"not to mention you destroyed our ship didn't you?!"
"BOOPPP! you destroyed our ship!" BOOP BOOP BOOP!
"now I only have one set of clothing to wear. you think I what to go threw the universe looking like princess Leia?
bare walkd up to the force filed and looked at the people on the other side. "they have gun's."
"I'll add that to the list."
"computer."
"yes"
are there any other ships on board.
"there are ships on bored"
"show me a registry."
"on screen."
pim scrolled through the list.
muttering to herself, Tie, Tie bomber, we need a transport millitary ships are so useless.
hear is a G-wing to small
landing craft has no range...
take care of the aliens bare and keep a eye on the power.
the star-destroyer started shaking.
there is some good news, we have a intact Imperial Shuttle. that is going to be our new ship!

[who me]

Bare lumbered up to the force field again, "they look like pirates to me bare said, Now that I think about it that little black ship had a skull and crossbones on it."

" oh so they are form Edward England, John Taylor, Sam Bellamy or John Martel ship. "
pim keyed the intercom. "there is no point fighting for this ship, it is flying into orbit, low on power and the atmosphere is about to depart."

the shaking stopped.
the computer "we have reached orbit"
"oh my, said pom looking at the ships diagnostics, there are leaks every where. the force filed will not hold long, bare help me seal bulk heads so that we don't loose the atmosphere.
bare handed pom a laser pistol.
"what is that ?"
"its a lazier pistol."
"where did you get it?"
"in the locker over there."
"I don't like gun's, why don't you use it? "
"paw is to big"
"I have sealed most of the bulk heads that lead to the command section of the ship."
"the pirates have left." bare said.
"where did they go?" pom asked working on sealing off more bulkheads.
"I don't know, but they left a sticky note on the force field, can't read it though."
"why not?"
"the written part is not facing us."
pim picked up the lazier pistol. "hey Bare look." pim pulled the trigger several times. nothing happened. "no power."
Bare was working at another station."good news, I have sealed off the main Hanger. the secondary hangers are open to space, the doors are leaking nothing we can do." at the commanders station something caught pims eye.
how to fly a star destroyer in 10 easy lessons. book one lesson 1 chapter one.

"congratulations on having purchased a imperial class star destroyer, constructed by Kuat Drive Yards and hold a distinguished place in the Imperial Navy, symbolizing the Empire's military might...