CHAPTER 3: A HOLE IN THE ACE
February 23rd 2025Sunday
Wheels Up + 00:05:44
SIMULATION ENGINE RUNNING
TIMEFLOW INTERRUPTED
You are now: ZIXINUS, ETERNAL FREEDOM, PHANT, WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, RI'ANN SHAPP, LARGE IRRITABLE DOG, COMBAT JANITOR, SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR, TROPICAL BEAUTY, IVAN IVANOV, MAD SCIENTIST, BITCHING BETTY and FUCKER NEWTON.TIMEFLOW INTERRUPTED
You are on a SPACEPLANE. You are at an ALTITUDE of 130 kilometres. You are ASCENDING. You are in FREEFALL. You are APPROACHING the APOAPSIS of your TRAJECTORY.
Much is HAPPENING at ONCE in the PASSENGER CABIN. COMBAT JANITOR is SHOCKED beyond BELIEF at the MYSTERIOUS RECORDING. He is SOBBING and CACKLING at the same TIME.
It was just about ENOUGH for ETERNAL FREEDOM. ETERNAL FREEDOM has LOST his COOL and SLASHES at COMBAT JANITOR.
ETERNAL FREEDOM MISSES, as ZIXINUS has KICKED COMBAT JANITOR making him FLOAT out of RANGE. COMBAT JANITOR suddenly SPRAYS TEAR GAS from his CYBERNETIC LEG the TEAR GAS quickly FILLS UP the CABIN.
EVERYONE begins to COUGH and WHEEZE. Nobody can SEE. There is COMPLETE CHAOS. LARGE IRRITABLE dog becomes IRRITATED and SNAPS. He BITES ZIXINUS. ZIXINUS yells and STABS the DOG in the STOMACH. COMBAT JANITOR has extracted a GUN from SOMEWHERE and is WAVING it AROUND.
MAD SCIENTIST Yells: BICKERING FOOLS!
MAD SCIENTIST COUGHS
MAD SCIENTIST WHEEZES
MAD SCIENTIST Yells: Kill each other later! If any of you wish to survive the next fifteen minutes, you must listen closely!
COMBAT JANITOR Screams: But they're all trying to kill me!
ZIXINUS points to RI'ANN SHAPP
ZIXINUS Yells: No! I want to kill HIM!
ETERNAL FREEDOM COUGHS
ETERNAL FREEDOM WHEEZES
ETERNAL FREEDOM CUTS all DISCUSSION with his AUTHORATIVE VOICE aided by BADASSERY.
ETERNAL FREEDOM Says: Shut the fuck up! Executions are to be postponed until MAD SCIENTIST says what he has to say!
ZIXINUS is ASSAULTED by RI'ANN SHAPP. He is being VICIOUSLY BEATEN by a man of INCREDIBLE RETARD STRENGTH.
SUAVE PLAYBOY MANHANDLES TROPICAL BEAUTY saving her from MOLESTATION. Also SAVING SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR'S HAWKISH EYESIGHT.
BITCHING BETTY Says: Time to apoapsis 95 seconds.
Things CALM DOWN. Slightly. ZIXINUS has LOST his PARANG and is thus REDUCED to HAND to HAND attacks. There is now BLOOD everywhere. It is FLOATING and STAINING the NICELY JANITORIALIZED INTERIOR. The LARGE IRRITABLE DOG is FLOATING HAPLESSLY in the AIR while GUSHING BLOOD.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY and MAD SCIENTIST engage in quick TECH TALK about the LOCATION and SIZE of HOLES while this is HAPPENING.
BITCHING BETTY Says: Time to apoapsis 30 seconds.
MAD SCIENTIST suggests an ORBITAL INSERTION BURN to be PERFORMED to buy more TIME. Rummaging through SUPPLIES reveals no HEAT SHIELD REPAIR KIT, but IVAN IVANOV is able to IMPROVISE a TEMPORARY and possibly FAKE SOLUTION. The IMPROVISTION requires DEFECATION which COMBAT JANITOR performs PROMPTLY.
TROPICAL BEAUTY is HORRIFIED. She utters some CURSES. She also says something about INSANITY. She BEGINS to RIP her HAIR out while TALKING very FAST. SUAVE PLAYBOY gets an IDEA and RETRIEVES his RUINED SPACESUIT hoping it can be PATCHED UP.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY does a DIAGNOSTIC but it REVEALS nothing.
BITCHING BETTY Says: Time to apoapsis 10 seconds.
BUTTBURNED HISTORIAN LAUGHS all of a SUDDEN. He begins to COUGH and WHEEZE due to the TEAR GAS. The TEAR GAS has STILL bot been SCRUBBED out of the AIR.
FUCKER NEWTON GRINS.
What do you do? _
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- PeZook
