Ch 4 -Introductions
Kryten attempted to ignore the man before him. "I'm Kryten"
Lister walked towards Paul and offered his hand, "I'm Lister, Dave Lister"
Rimmer followed suit "Second Technician, Acting Officer, Arnold J Rimmer, BSS, SSS"
Kryten leaned forwards to Paul and said "He's dead" Paul raised an eyebrow. "He's a hologram, made of light. However he's made of Hard light so he's able to touch things" Paul nodded not quite understanding. "And the creature over there preening himself" Kryten said carrying on "is known simply as 'The Cat' due to the fact he is descended from cats." Rich walked out from around the corner. "Hiya Buds" The Cat said simply.
"Smuffy?" he said timidly. Tim on the other hand took 3 steps forwards and shook his head, waving his gun around dangerously.
"A Cat? NO PETS!" he said "Shitzu-Tonka regulations clearly state no pets on any Shitzu-Tonka vessel marooned in space or otherwise!" Tim aimed his gun at the Cat "Rules are rules and though this fella looks human I'm afraid we're going to have to put him to sleep."
"Whoa!" Said Lister stepping in front of the Cat, this was going to be a long stay...it was already too long for Lister's liking. In the meantime Paul had pushed past Tim knocking him to the floor and stepping on his gun arm. Paul looked down at Tim. "What did I tell you about shutting your mouth Pencildick? Look, the sooner we help these guys, the sooner they can get out of our hair...the sooner we can get back to playing Mr. Potato!" Paul added with a smirk
"Yeah Mr. Potato!" said Rich now standing beside Paul. Paul and Rich still hadn't forgiven Tim for killing and attempting to feed them their pets.
Tim's eyes widened. "No not Mr. Potato! Anything but Mr. Potato." Lister looked at Kryten and raised his eyebrow. "Err thanks man..." He said to Paul, these three were starting to scare him. They were violent and unpredictable. Not a good combination. Paul lifted his foot and released Tim's arm and turned to the Dwarfers saying "I'm Paul," Paul pointed to himself. "Tweezerdick here is Tim," Paul said pointing to Tim on the ground "and this is Rich" he said pointing to the third man. "Dermo, Fergo and" Paul then smirked before pointing to Rich and said "Fido!" In response both Tim and Paul began to bark and laugh as if it was a hilarious joke. "One man, Two men and their dog 'Woof Woof!'"
The Dwarfers raised their eyebrows and looked at each other seriously regretting their decision to come here. These guys were obviously space crazy.