Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capellan" data-source="post: 2418870" data-attributes="member: 6294">"Total Escape" - Part 12Gustav, who apparently finds nothing untoward about half-naked men approaching him in the middle of the night, nods his head."Ja.  I am Doctor Gustav."H'Ro raises the rock in his hand, ready to bring it crashing down -- and we cut to a rubber ball as it bounces off the wall and into Fury's hand.  The Captain prepares to throw it again.tink tink tinkFury pauses and cocks his head to one side.tink tink tinkHe turns and presses his ear to the wall.tink tink tink"Who's there?" he whispers hoarsely, directly into the wall.tink tink tink"Archie?  Is that you?  One tink for yes, two for no."tink"Is everyone else okay?  Can you get me out of here?"tink.  tink.Fury frowns."Was that one tink twice or two tinks once?  Wait!" he holds up a hand, even though there is no way for Archie to see it. "Don't answer that.  Just answer this: can you get me out of here?"tink"Then do it." Fury backs away from the wall, confident that any rescue from Archie is going to involve pyrotechnics of some kind.Sure enough, a fountain of sparks suddenly jets out of the wall -- and we cut back to a shower of sparks as H'Ro slams his stone down on the padlock of the Doctor's cage.  The metal buckles and tears away from the powerful blow, and the cage door swings open."I am H'Ro." The Venusian taps his chest, "Friend of S'Ondra.  We go find her now."And as the audience howls at all the cheap theatrics this episode employs, the camera switches again.Clinging to the wall with the builder-bot's feet, Archie uses his laser cutter to complete an oval incision in the building's side.  For a moment the panel sits in place, then it pops out as Fury shoves it free.  It lands on the ground with a lack of impact that screams 'painted polystyrene'."Good work, Archie." The Captain nods to the robot. "And the Princess, I see.  Or is this her copy?""Hurry up and get out of there so I can put the panel back." S'Ondra's stern reply leaves little doubt as to her identity.  Fury complies, then dusts off his hands as he stands outside."So what's the plan?"We must recover the Targ sedative from the store room." Archie explains, "Then we can drug all the guards in the same manner as they drug the prisoners.  This will leave them unable to resist us and we can seize control of the camp with help from the Princess's friend.""You made a friend, Princess?" Fury gives a fake smile, "What's his name?""That's hardly important right now, Captain." S'Ondra tosses her hair.The threesome make their way across the camp, ducking from shadow to shadow, and then pause at the door of the large iron shed.  Archie issues instructions."There may be guards inside.  Princess S'Ondra and Captain Fury, you need to overpower them before they can raise the alarm.  I will then open the drug storage room so that we can retrieve the Targ sedative.""Couldn't we just cut our way in from outside, like we did to rescue the Captain?" It's possible S'Ondra puts a little extra emphasis on the word 'rescue'."Unfortunately not, Princess." Archie demurs, "That wall of this building is in view of two watch towers.  The risk of detection is too high.""Let's do it." Fury is anxious for action.The spacefarers burst into the shed.  A Targ guard standing near the door goes down to a spinning heel kick from S'Ondra.  Fury races onward, leaping up the stairs toward a second guard standing on the gantryway who - in a piece of remarkable narrative fortune - is facing away from the door.The Captain rushes up the stairs and along the gantry, nearly clothes-lining the surprised guard right over the railing.  The Targ hangs on however and manages to stumble to the side as S'Ondra also comes flying up to tackle him.  This sudden movement makes the Princess's lunge go wide, and she flips right over the railing.  Only a desperate grab of her hand prevents her from falling into the giant vat of brown goo below: her grasping fingers snatch onto the top railing, leaving her dangling by one hand over the twenty foot drop.Fury takes another swing at the Targ, but the guard is on his toes now, and dodges aside of the blow.  Shouldering the Captain aside, the Targ slams the butt of his disruptor down on S'Ondra's fingers.  The Princess lets go reflexively, but her bruised fingers catch again - this time on the very gantry itself."Princess!" Captain Fury drops to his knees and grabs at S'Ondra's arm, trying to pull her up to safety.  The Targ guard takes the opportunity to slam his disruptor over Fury's back, the jagged alien weapon tearing the Captain's shirt to shreds.Using the help provided by Captain Fury, S'Ondra hauls herself upward and grabs the Targ's ankle with her hand.  A savage yank later, and the guard staggers backward as his foot is pulled out from under him.  Arms flailing, he hits the railing on the other side of the gantry and backflips over it, plunging down with a choked off cry of alarm into the seething brown goo.Fury grans the guard's disruptor, which fell safely onto the gantry floor, and the two spacefarers rush back down the stairs to meet Archie at the door to the drug storage room.  The robot quickly has the door unlocked.  The three adventurers are just about to enter the room when -"Leibchen?  Is zat you?""Father?" the Princess turns to find Gustav peering into the shed.  Quickly, she rushes over and embraces him in a fierce hug. "How did you get free?""Your tall Venusian friends wiz all ze muscles came to help me." Gustav points into the darkness outside, "He is keeping vatch for us.""Quickly!" Fury interrupts the reunion, and not incidentally the praise of H'Ro. "We need to get this drug out of here!"All three humanoid crew members snatch up a box of the grey space sedative, under the directions of Archie, and then the four of them head out and begin to make their way back across the camp toward the guard barracks, sneaking as best they can with the heavy boxes in their arms.They have made it only halfway back, however, when the blinding beam of a searchlight shines down from one of the Targ watch towers, illuminating S'Ondra in its baleful glare.</blockquote>

Verification