THE SPACE PIRATES;
PART TWO;

By; john e. sterling.

GUESS WHAT KIDS? MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

NOW THAT IS A LOT OF Ms, anyway it’s time once again to join our favourite spaceshites, the famous space gits themselves.

AS YOU KNOW BY NOW, THE DARING SPACE GITS STOLE THE AMAZING SHAPE SHIFTING PLATINUM SPACESHIP, ’THE TARA CANDY’, THEN PROMPTLY CRASHED IT AFTER A BRIEF CHASE, AND ARE NOW OF COURSE TRAPPED ON THE USELESS PLANET MARROON BALLOON.

JOIN US NOW AS FIRST MATE GREGSON SEARCHES FOR THE ELUSIVE ENGINE ROOM OF SAID SHIP.

THE DARING ENGINEER KNOWN AS FIRSTY HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED BY THE INSPIRED CAPTAIN STERLING TO FIND THE ENGINE ROOM, ”SORT THE BASTARD THING OUT” AND IN TURN GET THEM AND THE WONDERFUL SPACE SHIP THEY CURRENTLY OWN, THE SHAPE SHIFTING, PLATINUM GROOVE MOBILE KNOWN AS THE TARA CANDY, OFF THIS POXY PURPLE ORB.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD REPEATING YOURSELF ON THIS INTRO AND JUST GET ON WITH IT,

AND SO OFF HE GOES, SEARCHING THE ALIEN SHIP WITH THOSE WORDS RATTLING AROUND HIS HEAD,
‘SORT THE BASTARD THING OUT’

THIS WEEKS EPISODE; AYE AYE SKIPPER.

Engineers are canny creatures, since the first engine was built by somebody, there have been guys appearing out of nowhere wringing their oily hands and shaking their heads at your ’engine’, and knowing how to fix stuff you couldn’t even imagine could be wrong with your combustion device

Anyway, they’re canny.

Which is why we now find Firsty staring at a door completely convinced that behind this door was the ships’ engine room.

Firsty stood there, he was not a huge man by any means, but as the Captain had mentioned times when they were sparring or ended up in a drunken brawl with each other, ‘You Firsty, have hidden strength.’

He took off his flying dogs combat jacket, engine rooms are generally hot places, revealing his space Navy striped shirt, he scratched his short wirey beard, picked up his tool bag and moved towards the glowing door.

He stopped in his tracks though.
Strange symbols appeared all around the door accompanied by alien whispers.
He had seen some things in his travels around space, but this was unique, a shiver ran through his beard.

Firsty looked left and right at the corridors, which he had been wandering for hours.
They all looked the same, metallic, smooth, with no distinguishing features to speak of, and lit by an unseen light source, “weird, where does that light come from?” He thought to himself.

He started towards the strange door again, confident somehow that the door had recognized him as an engineer. His instincts appeared to be correct as the door slid up and disappeared.

With a tight grip on his toolbag Firsty strode into the room. The door reappeared behind him and slid shut.

Gregson the engineer stood in a glowing cube of a room.
There was one thing in the room and that was a shiny black box stuck right in the centre.
“Quite cool for an engine room.” thought Firsty.
The box was about three feet tall and five all around. Thirsty gazed at the shiny pitch box. It had of course, just like the rest of the ship, no markings, no seams, but this particular object did have Firsty’s attention.

He felt something, a vibration, a throbbing of energy.
As he stood transfixed, a lid appeared all around the top of the box and began to lift clear of the stationery object. The lid spun away from the base and floated towards the luminous ceiling
Firsty’s face and beard and cool stripey top were suddenly bathed in a bright blue light.

Firsty dropped his tool bag.

WHAT HAS FIRSTY DISCOVERED,?

DO WE CARE?,

NO WE DON’T,

EVEN MORE REASON TO TUNE IN NEXT
WEEK FOLKS, SEE YOU THEN FOR THE EPISODE ENTITLED, “WHERE IS YOUR JACKET FIRSTY?”

By; john e. sterling.