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Corbin
Corbin appeared next to the Grubkind on the Bridge of the ship. The interior of the ship was, quite odd to say the least. "Looks weird" Corbin said to himself. The Bridge was actually a bridge in both senses of the word. Corbin could see that it ran straight across, no rails though, that seemed dangerous. He looked down and saw intersecting bridges all over the place with workers each waving their stylus's to holographic screens. He looked up to see that this was the topmost bridge. He sighed at how confusing it was to name the inside of this particular ship. The Grubkind turned to a man in white who had a large knife in his buckle. "Get the other two and take them to the prison frigate."
The man disappeared with a white flash. The Grubkind turned to face Corbin, he raised his grubby little hand out with his palm up. "See, what can become of your kind. You Moron's just need the proper molding." Corbin looked around and saw that all of the workers and soldiers in white were human. "Well good for the-" Corbin started to say, as he tripped over his foot. He grabbed at the Grubkind's cloak but there was no physical form behind it. He fell off of the Bridge taking the Grubkind with him.
"Why wouldn't you put any rails?!" he screamed as the world around him seemed to move in slow motion. He looked up and saw the Grubkind looking all sorts of terrified and flailing it's tiny limbs. He turned his head to the left and saw soldiers scurrying around to try and save the Grubkind. He saw them trying to set up a ZGN (Zero Gravity Net) and scoffed as he and the Grubkind whizzed past them. The Grubkind was trying to take something out of his cloak. Corbin looked around and saw they were nearing a bridge that the engines were on. This particular bridge would be in their falling path.Corbin desperately searched around in his pockets for something he could use. His hands grasped at a sticky substance deep inside. A Sticky hand! It was an item that was essentially a sticky piece of rope with a hand on the end. He pulled it out and hurriedly untangled it. The Grubkind found whatever it was looking for as well as it pulled out a silver cylinder with a red button on the top. Corbin threw out his sticky hand with as much force as he could. The rope stretched tightly as the hand went flying through the air towards the closest bridge and it grabbed on to the side. Corbin grabbed the silver cylinder out of the Grubkind's hand as his rope rebounded him back up. He watched the Grubkind fall straight down into the core of the engine. The engine sputtered for a second and then roared back to life. The roar kept getting louder and louder as the engine started to glow a bright blue. Corbin passed the bridge as the sticky hand let go of it. "What? Why'd it let go?" Corbin let out an exasperated scream, "Why don't you guys have any rails?! It's a ptatkin' safety thing!" Corbin started to fall back down, he could see that the bright blue glow was in fact bright blue flames, and they had spread. Corbin braced himself and closed his eyes, readying himself for impact.
Two seconds passed.
Three.
Corbin opened his eyes, bright blue. "Too soon! Too soon!" he shouted as he closed them again.
When he didn't feel an impact or all of his flesh burning off, he opened his eyes. The engine bridge had collapsed at some point. Corbin could see that the engine bridge was approximately the middle level of the tall ship. "What is up with this ship? Who puts engines in the middle of a ship?!" Corbin was getting really tired of this enigma of a craft. Looking below he could see that all the other bridges had caught fire and the men upon them were sending out maydays. But more importantly, a path blocking bridge was approaching fast. "Well, time to see what this thing does" Corbin said as he eyed the silver cylinder. He pushed the button on top, and in a white flash he was standing behind Meela and Flea. "That was cool" he said as he saw flames on the monitors in front of him.
"What's that?"
Meela and Flea turned around.
"Captain!"
"Cap'n!"
"Hey guys, good to see you too. So what's that?"
"It's the ship you were on" Meela answered.
"Why's it so big?"
"Well it took our ship and about twenty other ships with it."
Corbin whistled. "That's a lot of ships"
"Yeah it is. What happened up there?"
Corbin took a deep breath and put his hands behind his back in that same cliche pose that he had done earlier.
"You know what? Nevermind" Meela continued as she backed up and went back to the screens. Corbin unclasped his hands and turned back towards them. "So, I guess we gotta find a new ship".
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