The Buccaneers Bay

[jammi]

Before he managed to leave, a booming voice rang out across the packing flight deck. "Thomas! Heads up!" Anderson span round in time to duck a hefty spanner that clanged off the bulkhead behind him and clattered to the floor. He opened his mouth to rain down righteous fury on whoever had lobbed said projectile, when he noticed the blowtorch toting King squatting on the massive roof of his baby, laughing at him.

One of the new bomber weapons was hanging by several colossal chains from a maintenance gantry that hung over the equally colossally obese ship. King had been using the blowtorch to hack off the last rivets that were holding the last of his Deliberator class weapons to the hull of his ship. With a tortured screech of protest, the gun's bulk lurched, tearing a number of the wires from the internal engineering that synced the gun to the ship's power systems. Several of the gathered engineers groaned in horror.

Applying the blowtorch to the ragged wound of a hole in the body's hull, he began to neaten the edges. The sparks reflected in his eyes, making him look like the demonic grease-monkey he was currently acting like. Anderson laughed for a moment.

"King! You'd better get down and let the engineers do their job before you cause any more damage!" The blowtorch clicked off, the tinkle of severed metal still evident, despite the din created by saws, drills and torches applying changes to the rest of the Buccaneer's flotilla. King shrugged his shoulders, before sliding down the Waran's body, onto the wing. From there he climbed down the ladder that he'd used to clamber up in the first place.

"You're probably right there, Thomas..." The pyromaniac in him crackled in his eyes for a moment before fading back into the subconscious. "Still, those new shooters... I'm gonna have some fun with them." Anderson just chuckled.

"Yeah, whatever. Let's just get to the Bay." King just shrugged and followed him out, this time without an assault of raining spanners.

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