Crazy Bear and Ragged Staff - Spugs - Scenario 4 - Into the Valley of the Spugs

Historical Outcome

Processor sighed and looked out the window over the hospital grounds.  You had to hand it to the Government they knew how to look after you, Lucia had been detailed to look into yet another hold up on his new prosthetic legs.

The door pratically flew off its hinges and Prosser whirled his wheel chair round in a smooth motion, sending a cup of coffee flying onto the hard linoleum.

"Prosser, Prosser, we kicked their ass real good for you man"

"By the collective will of the common sentient you nearly gave me a heart attack JB"

"Sorry Prosser but you are l;ooking at a Grade A Local Hero, least that's what Helga said."

"Glad to hear you've made a female friend JB, Helga, no can't place her, one of Guerney's horde?  Maybe, name rings a bell."

JB leaned casually back against the door post, "Nope, Sgt Helga of Special Unit One."  As Prosser's face froze JB continued, "Yep a Space Vixen."  he bounded onto the bed and pulled out a hand slate.  "Let me tell you all about it, with pictures!"

"Well I'm not going anywhere so lead on MacJB."

"Wha?"

"Tell me what in the Committe for Civil Disturbances happened JB."

Well its like this, dude, um D-Sup Prosser.  See me and Unwin was hanging about helping set the bar back to rights after that little fight when who staggers in but Old Jack with that Wife of his in tow, shit she aint allowed in the bar but seeing how's it was in pieces Mac lets her stand right quiet like, till she starts being useful lifting heavy stuff and the like.  Anyhows turns out Old Jack has been travelling for days, living off the land to get to us.  Them damn Spugs had broken into his outpost and he walks in after a days hunting and then like has to walk back out again, fast, cause they is firing those wicked sharp shards at him.  So him and the wife head up into Heaven's Mountains and what do you think they found there?"  No Prosser not his illegal hooch still, hell man that's hidden just next to his shack, Old Jack aint going to walk that far, every, day. For the Good of All, Posser forget I said that.  Still don't matter much anyhows as you'll see.  So he gets himself an approved alcholic beverage and tells us how up in the mountains in a valley he's found like some sort of base camp.

About this time d'Armand has raised Special Unit One and they have landed that cute space ship thingie of theirs, with killer fins man, and what's more some Elite Militia.  No Proccessor I'm serious its like true the Militia's got its own Special Forces too.  Well you'll see, laugh it up now, you'll see us Militia we is hard core.  So this Commander Jackson, Melody Jackson she takes charge an' all and we have this great pincer plan worked out.  Them gals will sweep into the center and rescue the hostages, yes Prosser those blue hearted devils had taken a whole hassle of folks, whilst the UNIT guys, thems the Elite Militia I was telling you about cut in from the North and Yoko and Sita and Shona, thems all Space Vixens, cut in from the South with Old Jack, cept not too close cause I don't think they trusted his wife either.  Well everyone was prepped and ready to go.  No we wasn't in the ship.  No we wasn't with them UNIT guys. Ah no we wasn't with, Yoko's her name anyhow not Loco, look Prosser what's.  Oh, well see we wasn't exact;y meant to be there, but its a good job we was Mr Prosser sir I can tell you.  Anyhow we was on the extreme East Flank, behind some rocks and when we comes round the last rock this is what we see.

That's a Boss Spug there.  Well we spotted him but some other Spug spotted us cause next thing I know Unwin's grabbed me and hauled me down as shard's erupt all over the place.  Turns out they got sentries left, right and Eternal Reconstruction Committee Center.  So I poke the vidcap out, real quiet and gentle like and has a look see though its view finder when I remember its got a zoom.  So I start scanning it about and look what I saw.

 

Now this is Grade A Intel and we got to let the lasses and them UNIT guys know.  So me and Unw, sorry Pros Unwin and I we get prepped to do the old one, two, three and rush out, taking the sentry Spug out and then nailing the ones on the rock.  Afore we could do it though, the two Spugs whip round like blue streaks and let fly into some bushes.  Now I wasn't actually there Pros old boy but that Shona showed me a picture of what happened and I've got a copy.  Old Jack blew it big time, he snuck up real quiet like and aimed the shot, squeezed gentle and misses by a country mile.  Well them Spugs didn't miss and Old Jack, sorry Prosser but he's brewed his last batch.  We had to scarper quick like so his body, well we had to leave it, but he was dead of that I'm sure.  No if he didn't die from the shards and Shona said he did then when his wife, you just ain't gonna believe this Mr Prosser sir, she ate his head and then she ups and leave.

  Those Spugs though they took a long time to deal with as Old Jack had drawn attention to the three Vixens and they had to go to ground behind a rock.  Not like we couldn 't see them trying to get a shot in but those were two mean old Spugs and they had the range.

Suddenly that finned ship comes down like the Wrath of the Auditers screaming in to land in a an impossibly short space and out pops the other Vixens.  "Surrender or Die, " shouts the Commander her blonde hair framing her face whilst Helga covers the Spugs.  Well thinks I its game over and they can see that they are surrounded and beaten but no, that skiving Brain Bug raises his arms then guns the Commander down.  Everything goes very still for a long, long time.  Marie-Clare, shye's the pilot, she runs to see if the Commander's okay whilst Helga singlehandedly lays down covering fire, blasting that mean old Brain Spug backwards, but he won't go down and his cohorts, Helga taught me that word, they are shooting the place up like Shards was surplus to production quotas.

Lets just recap here, okay, cause its all pretty confused.  So Melody Jackson she's Hors du Combat, yes Helga taught me that too Mr Prosser, anyways they is all pinned down by the Antilope, that's the ship's name.  The other Space Vixens is playing hide with two Spugs and we has to keep low or end up Old Man Jacked.  So, like, who can save the day?

A single shot rings out from over half a kilometer and the Spug that has me and Unwin, oh, and I pinned like we was one of Mrs Kellerman's butterflies, he pitches forward.  Now I can't claim the credit for what happens next cause I was in command and had to concentrate waiting for the break, well I sees we has it and says to Unwin, just you and me, one, two.  But that boys trigger happy and he's gone charging out.  The first Spug starts to turn and then he's spinning a neat little hole in his skull, but Unwin he don't stop and high five or nothing he just keeps on running and fires once to the left and once to the right.  The second Spug topples over and the Big Brain he's on the ground and trying to crawl off but Hannah she soon puts a stop to that.

In the meanwhile Yoko and UNIT have put the big kybosh on the Spugs on the rocks and its all looking peachy.  Now I didn't  take the next one neither it was one of the Vixens.  And I ain't proud but I'm glad I wasn't at that end of the fight cause this thing comes running like its late for something real important, which it is.

 

All we can hear is firing, grenades and screaming.  Marie-Clare has dragged Melody back into the Antilope, Helga and some of the UNIT guys are trying to buy us some time.  Everyone figures the special Spug gizmos out at bout the same time and the hostages are free.  Well they hussle that Brain Bug into the Antilope.  Now there's some problem or other so Unwin and I we cover them as they get that damn think started and whoosh its away and climbing.

 

The UNIT guys are hussling everyone off, with a little help from the remaining Space Vixens, whilst we cover everyone cause you can see people looking at us like we was elected to serve or something.  All those hot shots they respect us Prosser on account of we done the right thing at the right time in the right way.  Mac he must be so proud of us, he always told us we could be something and he was right, he's before the Eternal Committee now and this has got to count in his favour, s'okay, thanks Prosser man, I'm okay just remembering him and what with your legs not working and all, this aint the great adventure people is getting hurt and dying.  If I had my way I'd get one of those air burst nukes and wipe every Spug out.  I'd hunt'em down and stomp them.  I'd get a giant magnifying glass, a solar mirror and I burn the unregistered insects where they stand.  Right so where was I?  Yes we is rescuing the hostages.

 

Now as the evacuation is like proceeding.  Them UNIT guys is fighting and dying.  Shooting, lobing grenades, screaming, hell one of them was even hitting the thing with his rifle but to no avail.  Still those three fellas bought us time, bought it in blood.  Its got some cannon things on it that just wipe out huge areas, one minute there's a guy there next its just a mess of blood and guts, person's cut to shreds.  Well he hits it with his rifle like I said and then scarpers backwards, kneels down and pings away the bullets just bouncing off when Shona gets that big ray gun thing of hers on it and bathes it up and down.  Well its roaring and she's screaming, he's screaming.  Sita's real quiet like but she's painting the damn thing up and down.  And it starts slowing, not a scratch on it but those ray guns must have cooked it inside cause it just stops moving.

Well we all high tail it out of the valley and into the shelter of the forest.  Not amoment too soon cause this, well you know how we had them real cheesy old pre-unification films last winter, I swear it was like one of them flying saucers.  Anyway its hovering over the valley and sweeping back and forth, but I don't think it saw us cause it just stops and then zips off as me and Unwin watches.

Anyhow that's how it happened.  Where's Unwin?  Well he's hanging about outside annoying the nurses, says he don't like hospitals they freak him out, Lucia's running him some coffee.  Hey Lucia, that one mine?  Great, um good coffee here man.