Grab What Ya Got!
THIS IS PART 2 OF 2 PARTS, IF YOU HAVE NOT READ PART 1 GO DOWN 1 BLOG POST BELOW.
From the first part:
"Oh the people sir, we MUST stop!"
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'Why am I beating a bot on the head with my fists?
It hurts my fists and he doesn't feel anything, bots are too hard headed. Need to talk to the manufacturer about a modification so I can beat them on the head and not hurt my fists.
Why am I beating a bot on the head?
why am I doing that.....?
it is so cold....so cold...cold...'
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"NO, NO, NO, GO, GO, GO!!! YOU STUPID THING! GO, GO, GO!!!"
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"Ok, Boats, Easy Street Prime wants you in the bubble as soon as we are in the street and Al as taken over from Karla ok?"
"Copy that."
"Gunny, you are going to have to take over somewhat and work with Steve in place of Boats. You'll have to get the gatlings on the ventral side and the bay door unbuttoned while we retract the nacells."
"Gatlings! What are we going to do with the gatlings?!" Bryce's voice roared into the coms.
"Well, Bryce....I just don't know yet.... we are supposed to get some kind of video feed soonest, and I will feed it to all of you, about what is going down in the City; but ....from what Easy Street Prime said,.....there are some kind of "animals" in the streets and they are killing people right and left."
"Animals?" somebody said.
"Right, that is what I said, some kind of animals. I know, I know, there haven't been any ....what do you call 'em....what...oh ...predators inside, or even outside of, the City in....what....millenia? ...Of course there are always the rumors about strange stuff down below the City itself. Anyway, we are going in hard and hot and when the people on the gatlings see anything that looks like it shouldn't be there, it gets dead real quick."
"What about citizens, are they going to be mixed up in this?"
The question hung in the air....
"Yes, and some of them will die along with the animals, but it can't be helped.
But, beyond killing the animals, our specific task is to extract an Educator and we may have to make dead animals, and maybe some people to do that.
You can just program the gatlings so much. Their programming is intended to deal with small craft and individuals. Supression fire. But the animals are apparently in with the people. Some people are going to die and that is about it. Whatever is going on has apparently gotten way beyond the capabilities of the Gendarmes. A lot of people are already dead and, a lot of Gendarmes are already dead trying to deal with this.
Our job is to get the Educator out and that may take using the gatlings."
"But, with the nacells inboard my steering ain't gonna be that great Tanner. The vectoral forces won't resol...." Al interjected.
"I know, I know, you just have to do your best. That' why Boats is going outside in the bubble. Both of you are going to steer the boat, he will be able to see raffle on the city walls and override you to avoid it, if we get knocked down, well,.. There is hundreds of years of cables, banners, verandahs, signs, flags, all sorts of buildup that was never taken care of like it should have been, we're going to hit some of it, and some of is going to fall and some people will be hurt or killed; but that is happening right now anyway."
"How do we extract the Educator?" Bryce asked.
"One decimal five mikes Captain".
"I don't know Bryce, a winch cable, don't know, someone may have to go down for him, don't know, we'll work on that when we are in the street. ....
Tanner wished he could wipe his face...."Ok, Karla what do you have in store for us?"
"The only way to get down there, as Al and I have discussed, is to pull an Immellmann vector off at 017 degrees minus 72 degrees at 7.93 kilometers from inflection; then slide out of the Immelman, and then drop like a rock."
"Ya know Karla, you hove a very dry sense of humour!"
"Well. thank you!" she replied perkily. "Hey! Anybody know what time it is?"
"IT'S SHOW TIME!" the crew roared back in unison.
"What's that name painted on her nose?!" Tanner shouted.
"The Firemen!" the crew replied with another roar.
"Gentlemen, and Ladies....." Karla exhaled throatily into the com...."GRAB WHAT YA GOT!!! .....'cause....it....really IS.. ......
SHOW TIME!!"
Hey! They call us the FIREMEN!, THAT's our name!
Making our rounds all over town, puttin' out old flames.
Everybody'd like to have this boat we got.
Cause we can cool 'em down when they're smokin' hot!
We're the FIREMEN!, THAT's our name!
Making our rounds all over town, puttin' out old flames.
Everybody'd like to have this boat we got.
Cause we can cool 'em down when they're smokin' hot!
We're the FIREMEN!, THAT's our name!
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The "Firemen" lyrics are an homage to the "Firemen" lyrics of Mack Vickery/Wayne Kemp for George Strait(c) 2003.