Nickels and Nails

[Zapp]

Buffalo was dug out from one of the larger obsidian shards that passed for asteroids in the Badlands, and as such quite a few of the hallways were little more than cave-like tunnels with shoddy doors every few yards. The lights were flickering, bordering on swinging to the red strobes that would signify a switch to emergency power. Nickels and Nails struck out for the dock-control room, as somebody had to have opened the door. Had to.

Nickels slowly turned the knob to the room and gave it a small push, nudging it open with his handgun and ducking to allow Nails room. Nails came in strong, handgun in both hands, sweeping the room searching for targets. Nothing.

Relaxing some, they walked in, looking at the control panels. There was a beeping red light that was quite noticeable, and underneath it a small two-line screen.

"Hey Josh, check this out," Nickels said, looking over another console. "Looks like all their ships launched about thirty minutes ago towards... Buffalo? What?"

"What do you mean? This is Buffalo... right?"

"Yeah, that's what this is showing."

"That makes no kind of sense..." Nails said, thinking for a minute.

"Errr.... Nails.... I think it makes sense now." Nickels turned, eyes a tad wide.

"What?"

"They're moving to another asteroid because the Navy found this one."

"WHAT?!"

"We got an inbound Liberty Navy Cruiser group. The Badlands are slowing them down, ETA 5 minutes."

"Oh s***, we need to get out of here. Get the coordinates for the new 'Buffalo', we'll head there too."

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