Disclaimer and all that in the first chapter.
Rimmer looked at the woman as he sat up, slightly confused, but well aware of the fact that she looked like a dangerous person, that was of course the first thing he had thought about, and he was trying to look for the best way to get away.
"Now, back to my original question," she said as she walked over to where he was "Why are you on this ship, and are you human?" she asked again, sitting on her legs so that she was at eye level with him.
"What happens if I am human?" he asked, afraid it might mean getting shot.
"Nothing really, just for my information, though I gather from that statement that you are," she said with a mock smile as she stood back up.
"Now, why were you on *my* ship?" she asked sitting back in the chair.
"It wasn't that I wanted to invade your privacy, believe me I'm not to blame…..'
"I don't care about that. Just tell me why you were here," she said with disinterest.
"Well, were supposed to be scouting to see what was here……we didn't know there was anyone alive," he told her.
"Well, now you do know, and I want you to take me back with you to your ship," she added as she went over to untie him.
"You do know what a Canary is, correct? and I don't mean the bird." he asked her.
"Yes, I'll probably be one after we get to your ship, but I don't have a whole lot of choice here, this ship is going to blow up in less than an hour," she informed him.
"As into tiny little bits?"
"Micro bits."
"Let's go, come on, no time to waste," he said as he quickly left the room.
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"Well, your mates did a fine job on this thing," the woman said as she tried to piece back the console in the small service ship that was supposed to be taking them to Red Dwarf.
"Did I forget to mention that we were supposed to bring back anything that might be valuable?" he asked.
"Yeah, must of slipped your mind," she replied angrily as she slid under the console to work on it.
"Hand me the box that's under that chair your sitting in," her muffled voice said. He reached under his seat and walked over. He dropped it next to her with a loud thud. She didn't even flinched, just reached out and pulled the box in. He went and sat back down in the chair.
"What's you name anyway?" he asked.
"Why?"
"I would like to know who I'm speaking to, and who it was who just tried to kill me," he said.
"Well, I wasn't actually ever going to kill you, there was nothing in that gun, and my name is Ana," she said.
"oh," was all he said.
"What?"
"I expected something…….meaner," he said.
"Sorry to disspoi……." Was all she got out when the panel started to spark. She yelled out in pain. Rimmer got up and took a hold of her legs and dragged her out from under the console.
"Dammit!" she yelled as she sat up and inspected her arm.
"Okay, I don't know that much about human physiology, but isn't blood supposed to be red?" he asked her, when he saw the cut seeping blue.
"Yes, human blood is red, but I'm not a human," she said standing up and walking to where the first aid kit was.
"Okay……..then what are you?" he asked trying not to sound frightened.
"None of your business," she said.
"You're not a very pleasant person," he said.
"Thank you, I try," she mock smiled as she went back to check on the console.
"We have a problem," she said a moment later.
"And that would be?"
"I can't fix this, and there's no other way off this ship. Unless your friends come back, were going to get blown up," she explained.
"Smeg."
(I'm working on finishing the next part, I'm trying to get it done as soon as possible, and thank you for the reviews. I usually post in the Invisible Man section, and I'm lucky to get 1 review at all. Thanks!)