The Warubozu Usagi

11:58 pm

At the Ulishia gateway

To avoid last minute rushing and to keep the Black Flea out of missing another gatewy slot, Syvil has parked the ship at the gateway 2 hours ahead. Syvil has made the crew sit down and continue with its review of the plan to sneak into Jageda Industries.

S: Warui, what are you doing? Get back here.

WU: (looking through Doogé's cargo box labeled “cool stuff for you”) Shoko, do we have any of these remote micro explosives?

SM: No. How many are there?

WU: A couple dozen, I think. (pulling out some odd-looking glasses) What are these for, Shoko?

SM: They're multi-spectral augmented vision glasses. They can tell you if a person is a Hafu or Synther or Roboton, but it can't tell the difference between Synthers and Robotons. You can spot wireless signals, too. What else...

S: Warui, we need to buy a used microship.

WU: Why?

S: The Black Flea is too big to successfully cloak. We can cloak a microship and park it close-in

WU: Why can't we just rent one?

S: Hello? Do you want to be tracked?

WU: (sheepishly)...oh.

RP: Can we keep it? It'd be so much easier to use a microship to get around planets than to constantly fly the Black Flea.

WU: Ooh, I like that idea. Let's buy a new one, then.

S: (frustrated) No. We can save the money and make the necessary upgrades.

WU: (heavy sigh) Yeah, okay.

RP: Yeah! We getting a microship!

WU: (back to Doogé's cargo box, pulls out golf ball-looking objects) Shoko! Are these one of those anti-gravity remote probes?

SM: (glances over) Nope. Those are auto-targeting golf balls. Illegal as hell. You hit them and they automatically find their programmed target.

WU: (pulls out a baseball-sized object) Is this an anti-gravity remote probe?

SM: (glances back again) Nope. Those are programmable explosive baseballs.

WU: Geez. What does Doogé do for fun?

(The ship's phone buzzes. Doogé is calling the Black Flea)

S: He has ears on the ship, Warui.

WU: Hey Doogie, what up?

(Syvil makes a point to walk over to Wu-chan to whack him on the arm)

Doogé: It's Doogé. Glad to hear from you. What's your status?

WU: We're a couple of hours away from making our last hop to Earth. We, uh, had a slight delay. We took a trip to Zed and it delayed us a day.

Doogé: Ooh! Great planet. Did you compensate the vertical thrusters for Zed's G?

WU: Ha! Nope.

Doogé: Oh. Well, you're truly lucky! Those are real zombies down there, you know? I truly picked the right crew for the job!

S: Wait, what? Did you say there are real zombies?

Doogé: I did. We tried to use them for some experiments but, well, the virus and all. Too dangerous.

SM: Is it airborne?

Doogé: Indeed. You all wore your EVA suits, I hope, otherwise I'll have to cancel our contract.

S: Oh damn.

WU: Hey Dogo, is this stuff in the box for us to keep or are you loaning them to us?

Doogé: It's still Doogé. Cool stuff, right? They're yours to keep.

S: How did you get all this stuff? Half of it doesn't exist, at least not officially.

Doogé: I know, right? It's Back to the Future stuff, don't you think?

RP: Ooh. Who's Marty McFly? Oh I know, Cap, you're McFly!

WU: Wait, are there floaty skateboards in here somewhere?

Doogé: What? No. Did you not get my reference? Well anyway, I believe in you, Black Flea. Call you later!

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— The Warubozu Usagi