Disclaimer:Do I own RD stuff? YES! Do I own RD? NO!
Well here's the next chapter, kinda short but gets the point across, sorry for overall crapness again though.
Major plot points coming soon though so stay tuned.
(goes back to mouthing along to AC/DC - Have almost lost voice because of throat infection, and Sian knows my singing voice isn't great anyway).
Fear
"Where's Yuka?" Rimmer asked in a panic Cat passed him quickly as sat at his station and began to fire up the thrusters.
"Dead." Brina replied as she brushed past and dumped her stuff on Kryten's chair before sitting next to Cat.
Cat and Rimmer exchanged a weird look, but had no time to elaborate as small mine went off under them.
"Damage report?" Rimmer asked squeakily.
"One of our thrusters are out but I can still get us in the air." Cat answered as he pulled up on the controls and started to manoeuvre.
"Watch out, there's 3 battle cruisers right on our tail." Rimmer said nervously as he scanned the monitors.
"You have increased weapon capability, take us round and I'll fire at the main ship." Brina suggested, gaining only a slight nod as he twisted Starbug round expertly.
"FIRE!" Brina shouted as she pressed the button – Just like Lister used to.
"Direct hit." Cat said after a moment as he manoeuvred Starbug away from the fire of the other vessels.
"its weapons are disabled but the other two are still in pursuit."
"If I open a comm. I can transmit an Armageddon virus to lock out their systems; they can beam to the third ship till others arrive for them." Brina explained quickly as she stood up and moved over to Kryten's station.
"We had to deal with the Armageddon virus too." Rimmer thought allowed as Brina carried out her plan.
"Right there bud… Was kinda fun though apart from the imminent death thing." Cat replied as he steered Starbug towards an asteroid belt to hide in.
"FUN? How did you work that out?" Rimmer scoffed as he checked for colliding rocks.
"Think about it, we got to wear cool outfits, ride horses, you weren't a complete cowardice looser, we saved Kryten… He saved us all…" Cat trailed off.
"Ironic seeing as we all hated each others guts." Rimmer sighed sadly.
"Correction, we all hated YOUR guts!"
"Virus transferred. I fail to see the point of this conversation. Forget about them, It is the most logical thing to do." Brina said calmly as she began to check the weapons and supplies.
"Oh yeah and what would you know about logicality – You helped a hologram escape against all your training, you just fed from your own people, watched your friend has been killed in front of you, and all you can say is FORGET them?" Rimmer hissed as he stood up and left the cockpit.
Cat bit his lip and followed him.
"This is ridiculous, none of them should be dead!" Rimmer sighed as he sat on the metal steps and held his head in his hand to avoid looking at Yuka's bodys.
"You didn't even know the other banders, or like Lister or Kryten so why would you care?" Cat asked grumpily as he sat next to him.
"Well neither did you!" Rimmer replied bitterly, gaining only a shrug from Cat.
"You don't know what it's like to be a hologram – I'm dead, and if I wasn't here as light and wires I'd be forgotten too!" Rimmer said quietly. "It's not like I did anything big with my life, or death for that matter…"
"People don't fear death, they fear being forgotten after death." Cat said knowledgably after a few seconds.
Rimmer raised an eyebrow. "How'd you come up with that?
"I read it in a fortune cookie."
"I should have known… You know we've been out of danger for at least 5 minutes and you haven't even looked in a mirror!" Rimmer said in a shock realisation.
"…Maybe later." Cat said as he fingered his scar delicately.