Jett Starr - Hero of Space

[Guest]

Introduction:

Jett Starr is a racier version of the 1930s sci-fi serials such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

It is the 1950s but in this alternative reality, mankind have already started to venture out into outer space where they quickly found that the Solar System was full of nefarious aliens who would like nothing better than to take over the Earth for their own dubious pleasures.

So to protect Earth from such threats, Rocket Force was created. Daring heroes in their rocket ships would go out and face whatever endangered their precious planet. Most daring of them all were Captain Jett Starr and his brave team.

The characters:

Jett Starr – Captain of the Rocket Ship. He liked nothing better than to kick alien butt and save the Earth. Sexual preference: Being an all-round tough guy, he normally prefers to kick alien butt. Though he likes women if there is nothing else to do. This is being played by me!

The crew - Jet needs a small crew to help in in his adventures (e.g. scientist-type, an engineer, etc...).

Aliens – various. They are to be made up as the story progresses.


The Story:

Chapter III

Earth scientists have detected radio signals being transmitted from the surface of Mars. Jett Starr and his team had been dispatched to investigate it.

They were now approaching the Red Planet when their radio bursts into life……


(OOC: That’s it so far. This thread is meant to be played with your tongue firmly in your cheek. If anyone’s interested, just get in contact and tell me who or what they want to play and we’ll get started.)

 

[Destiny_Brent]

Inci

I'll play Inci if this is still open

Inci Ismael – Jett’s sexy Turkish female sidekick and Miss Rocket Force 1951. Sexual preference: Has a healthy appetite for anything male.

 

[Guest]

OOC: Brilliant! A response! (Thanks Destiny). However, since there has been a lack of response, I have decided to get rid of the other established characters and allow people to make up their own. If you want to change the Inci character, you can.

Now, is there anybody else interested?

 

[poohlive]

yes, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.
Right here.
I'll be Garret, the fun loving technical engineer. This guy knows everything about everything on this ship. If it's technology, he's already figured it out.
Sexual preference: he is a geeky nerd, you figure it out.

 

[Scruffy]

I'll be Dr. McZoot. The wacky scientist.
Very wacky individual. Brainy to a fault.
Sexual Preference: Who Knows?

 

[KarmicKoala]

Count me in ...

I'll play Kathin LaBeck. Tactical officer and local pyromaniac.

Can't wait to get started. Looks like we need more ladies ... ::grins::

 

[Guest]

Jett

(OOC: Thanks guys! That's the crew sorted out. Anybody else who wants to play can be aliens, etc... Now on with the thread.)

IC:

"Jumpin' Jets! That's the radio signal!" exclaims Jett as he frantically examines the large radio sitting next to him.

He sees his crew nodding in agreement and remarking on Jett's deductive reasoning.

"Right, chaps! We are going down to investigate!" and with that, Jett draws back on his joystick and aims the nose of the rocket ship down towards the source of the signal.

The crew are in the middle of nodding their heads yet again when there is an almight bang and suddenly, all the lights go out.

"Jumpin' Jets! We have been hit!" shouts Jett as he starts frantically pushing buttons, pulling levers and waggling the joystick.

"It's no use, chaps! We are going down! Prepare for crash landing!" and with that the ship goes down.

Will Jett and his crew survive? Stayed tuned...

 

[Destiny_Brent]

Inci Ismael

She stood behind the captain, in her skin tight body suit, watching his move.

"Right captain."

She nodded as he pulled it into a nose dive she braced herself, but stood standing glamerous as always. At a hard jerk of teh ship, she sort of bumped into the captain, she gripped harder on the chair watching the screen, nodding at his suggestion of investigating, he was always right on the nose, such a bright and talented, handsome captain. The youngest in history, and an all around success story.

Her thick voice let out an affirmative as she took her seat beside him bracing herself down.

"Yes sir, shields at 60%, we'd better hit quick or we'll burn up. You'd better see how Garett's doing, we need more power to the forward shields, sir."

 

[Scruffy]

Dr. Hoot McZoot

"Galloping Gargantuans of Galaxar!! We're going down!"

Must scramble to help MOnkey-Helper to control experiments before we crash. Just then the turbulence kicks into full gear, knocking me over into my chem lab.

"Zounds! I hope nothing too infortuitive occurs. MOnkey-Helper! check to make sure the bio-restructuring pod is un contaminated"

"Ooh! Ooh! AHH!"

"Good MOnkey-Helper!"

Now I hope we'll land intact!

 

[WEAPON X]

Rick Rocket

Rick Rocket

Weapons specialist

A brash,sometimes vulger ladies man. Rick is the "loose cannon" of the group, he usually shoots first and asks questions later. Which will often cause conflict between he and Jett.


Popping out from the back of the ship with his pistol pulled out,

SWEET STARBLAZERS!!! Whered you learn to drive Jett???
(I not so involuntarily lurch forward into the back of Inci poking her backside with my pistol)

Sorry bout that Doll face, Turbulence! DOC!!! WILL YOU GET YOUR BLASTED MONKEY OUT OF MY FACE?!?!?!

 

[Destiny_Brent]

I stood up as we tumbled towards into the ground the entire ship shaking as it flew along leaving a deep trench behind it. I suddenly felt a sharp poke against my backside.

"Flying Flapjacks Rick! Get you're pistol out of my ass! And stop callin' me dollface!"

I growled before turning around, I don't know why I tell him that, like he's ever listened before.

I look to the doctor who must have climbed in here during the crash,

"What the hell are you doing in here!?"

As the whole ship shook, skidding to it's halt I checked the systems, everything seemed in order. The doc had been able to set up the bio-restruction,

"Good work McZoot! I'll have to remember that one..."

My eyes scanned the controls, we were damaged but not half as bad as we should be...

"We're not great, but since we should be worse off than a lobster in a kettle, I'd say we did damn fine."

 

[Scruffy]

McZoot

"Your raging testosterone is attracting MOnkey-Helper Rick. He's been programmed to seek it out. Can't be helped." I say with a chuckle.

"So what transpired Inci? Were we hit by a meteor? Trans-Mutated Zebra People of Reglebar VI? Jett run into another Satellite?

 

[poohlive]

"Nothing like that," Garret said, rising from the control panel. He had wires in each hand, splicing them together rampantly.
"It was fire from the surface, someone wanted us down here," he twisted two wires together, pushing a button on the console.
It showed a small blue burst of fire from the surface right before entering the planet's atmosphere.
"I'm sorry I couldn't do much, I was two flights below checking on our new warp system. It's been acting up lately," he sighed, "No need to worry about that anymore, we lost it at about 10,000 feet. The ship's running on backup power, and that'll only last for a few hours."
Garret got out of the control panel, looking for his tool set. Ahh, there it was. Pushing his glasses back where they belong, he ducked under another control panel, repairing it.
"I can get navigation online, and tactical. I am not sure about the radio, but I'll try. We don't have much time."
A flash came out of the control panel as the lights came on again. Garret stood up, smiling, before going to the next panel.

 

[KarmicKoala]

Kathin LaBeck

"You'd better get my panel up and running. You chaps know how much Rocket Force frowns on officer down times." Kathin looked to Inci a slight grin upon his face. "Of course, I don't have many of those. But without my panel I'm essentially worthless."

The panel before him flashed to life. "Garrett, You're a genius and and miracle-worker. And now that we're down here, I'll analyze those logs to figure out what it was that brought us down here."

 

[Guest]

Jett

Jett grins proudly as he watches his crew go to work in repairing the ship. He knows that whatever the damage, Garret and the Doc would get the ship running.

Leaving Kathin to look at the sensor logs, that leaves him and the other to go out and investigate.

"Inci, Rick, you are with me. The others, stay here and repair the ship." he orders.

He sees Inci (with Rick almost pressing into her backside) follow up behind.

"Jett!" It is Garret. "Wouldn't it be a good idea to take the robot?"

"Good idea! Thanks, Garret!" says Jett as he walks over to a large looking cupboard which looks remarkably intact and pulls open the doors.

Inside, currently de-activated, stands the ship's robot. Created to be able to explore the most hostile of alien environments. It also serves as an invaluable weapon and has saved the crew's lives on countless occasions.

Made out of metals which looks like brass but is infinitely stronger, it is humaniod in shape apart from its head which consists of a transparent dome containing a series of levers and relays.

"Activate!" Jett barks.

Immediately, the robot comes to life. The levers within the dome light up and start moving in series.

"Activated, Captain!" The robot's voice is high-pitched and crackley. A large plat on its chest lights up every time it speaks.

"Robot. Check the environment outside this ship. Is it safe for us to go outside?"

"Checking...." The robot makes a series of clicks and whirrs. Then: "Atmosphere is thinner than Earth's but breathable. No other lifeforms detected."

Jett nods. "Good! Okay, chaps. Let's go. We have a planet to explore!"

Each of them don on their jackets and pick up their weapons. For Jett and Inci, they are standard issued ray guns. For Rick, it is a great big bazooka.

"Kathin! Call us if you have anything!"

"Aye, Jett!"

They, with the robot behind them, then dive into the airlock.

Moments later, they are standing on the Martian landscape. It reminds Jett of the Grand Canyon except that the sky is a deep red.

"Bleak" Rick is not impressed.

"This way!" Jetts says.

*******************

They have been walking about fifteen minutes and it is starting to get dark when the robot suddenly stops and starts waving its arms in the air.

"Danger! Danger!"

"Jumpin' Jets! What is it?" Jett asks.

"Alien lifeforms approaching! Danger!"

Jett looks in the direction the robot is pointing to but cannot see anything. But Inci can.

"Look, Captain! Over there!" she shouts.

Jett sees it, 100-foot tall, striding over the brow of a hill.

"Sweet Starblazers! It's a Tripod!" shouts Rick.

So they do come from Mars!

"Captain! Jett! It's heading for the ship!" exclaims Inci.


What will happen to the rest of the crew? Stayed tuned...

 

[poohlive]

Splicing two red wires, Garret twisted them together. A flashing came over the screen. He pressed a couple of buttons on the consol, trying to adjust the image. Outside the landscape was rocky and bare. He sighed, no sign of anything.
He was sure there would be foliage or footprints or something. All there was were rocks, and boulders, and rocky boulders. Garret took off his glasses, cleaning them real quick. On the screan he saw something move. That was odd, quickly he put his glasses back on.
No... no nothing. Just the landscape as he had seen it before.
He turned off the screen, in order to save power. Just in case though, he put up a perimeter defense. If anything moved out there, they would know exactly what it was, and where.
He went back to the radio consol. It was in shambles, just about everything was broken. If it was anything else they could just get new parts, but the radio didn't have any extras.
He glanced around the room, in each console there were parts. If he got enough, and substituted some things, he was positive he could make something that resembled a radio.
He began jumping through console's, taking a part from here, and a doo dad from there. He paused, looking up on screen. A picture of the ship with sensors all around was displayed. Nothing showed any movement.
He went back to his work.

 

[Scruffy]

McZoot

"Criminy. This sure has been an exciting day, eh MOnkey-Helper?"

"Ahhh!AHH!"

"It certainly has. Well, while Garret is working on getting us operational I might as well get some lab work done." I mutter as I climb back down to my lab.

"Where to begin?...Hmmmm...Oooh! I should check on my various experiments." I grab a clipboard and begin to walk past all the odd specimens I've collected.

"FD-14: Sporeturtles....check. TX-17: Hypno gas......Safely contained

****45 minutes later******

"FK-88....all four Sloovian Sharkapes are accounted for Which brings us to good ol' XJ-12....XJ-12. Uh-oh. Oh no."

I race to the communications panel.

"Garret, dear boy. Kathin, we might have a slight problem."

"What would that be, Doctor" came Garret's reply

"Well without being too alarmist, it would seem that in all the confusion one of my, er, more volatile subjects happened to escape."

That was putting it mildly. Either way, I don't see it being too much of a problem. I mean, how much trouble can a Shape changing Alien get up to?

 

[KarmicKoala]

Kathin LaBeck

OOC for Jett: It's KATHIN not Kathlin hehe Just wanted to get that straight 'fore others jumpin' in thought I was a lady.
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Kathin scanned the logs. He noticed an energy surge from the planet in one of the logs. "Aha! That must be where it all started," LaBeck thought to himself.

As the flaxxen haired man mulled over the logs he noticed another important bit. There was a message attached to the blue pulse that was seen slightly before the ship lost control.

"Welcome to Planet Vaxmar. Our Friendly Landing Automation Bot (FLAB) will be there -- Oops. Looks like it already impacted with you."

Were the radio systems up, a follow-up message would have been recieved. "We're sorry about the inconvenience. Our FLAB must have malfunctioned. Really we meant you no harm. We were going to have a big shin-dig in the main city and your ship looked like it would have been a fun addition," an audible sigh is heard. "We'll be sending our technical assistants, and members from the Bereau of Tourism and Trade to help you repair your ship in a most-decidedly hospitable show of good will."

"Jett? Looks like the planet locals were trying to send FLAB to help us land. But it impacted with us. I think it was all a big mistake," LaBeck said into the Robot's remote radio control panel, which was housed inside the Robot's storage cabinet.

 

[Guest]

Jett

(OOC: Sorry for getting the name wrong, Kathin (that damn 'L' gets everywhere)).

Jett, Inci and Rick watch as the Tripod rumbles past, ignoring them as it continues on towards the Rocket Ship.

"Sufferin' Satellites! We have to try and stop it!" he shouts as he races up the slope.

On top, he finds that he can see both the Tripod (which is already miles away) and their ship. Worst still, he spots two more Tripods approaching the ship from different directions.

Fishing out his communicator, Jett flips the lid open and shouts into it!

"Chaps! There are three Tripods approaching the ship! Chaps???" Jumpin'g Jets! He can only hear static.

Jett suddenly hears a droning sound and looks up in time to see the three Tripods firing their Heat Rays on the ship in unison.

Next to him, Inci leaps into his arms, holding her firm body against his as she screams.

They can only watch as the ship slowly melts under the concentrated fire of the Tripods until there is only a huge puddle left.

Now we are in a pickle!


What has happened to the rest of Jett's crew? Stayed tuned...

 

[WEAPON X]

Rick

DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!

"Only one thing to do now gang! We have to make sure the others get out alive. By any means possible."

With that Rick loads up the bazooka and fired a warning shot across the tripods nose.

"Ok, Jett, Inci, get your Jet Packs ready. We will have to run very quickly."

The Tripods quickly avert there attention to the three of us.and then begin to charge.

"Lucky for us they have short attention spans aye Jett?"

All three of us begin to run twords a large cravass with the three tripods luming over us. Just as the lead Tripod begins to raise it's foot to crush us we narrowly dive into the large hole in the ground.

peering into the hole the Tripod's look bewildered.

Lying in a heap at the bottom of the cravass, we all slowly begin to rise.

"Rick, that best be your blaster" Inci says.

"Ummm.....Sure is....feel free to polish it for me while your down here!"

Inci slaps Rick in the face.

"Allright chaps, enough of that. We need to find a way out of here. before they get to us" Jett says with a serious look of concern.

 

[poohlive]

Garret just took out a set of converters when the screen blared to life. He glanced up suddenly, watching as a huge robot thing trampled passed the defense grid. The converters dropped to the floor as Garret ran over to the nearest control panel.
The screen switched to a camera outside of the hull. It was a huge robot, with three legs, and it was shooting the ship.
"Way to go Kathin," he remarked coldly, "They are rolling out the welcome mat."
He took out what was left of the radio and ran. There was only one chance now, the land rover out the back way. If he blew the hatch, everything would be all right. It would seat seven, he didn't know how many people had survived the crash, he hoped it wasn't more than six.
Inside of the cargo bay he let out a shipwide message, "If you want to save your asses, you best get on over to the cargo bay in less than two minutes. I'm launching the land rover, with or without you."
Getting into the driver's seat he checked system's. It had been undamaged, a small blessing. Setting aside what little he had of the radio, he turned on the rover. It roared to life in the little cargo bay. He floored the thing, watching fire come out of the back. It was a personal hobby of his to tweak this thing whenever he got the chance.
He checked his watch, one minute left. Somewhere in the ship he could hear metal crashing on metal. The entire hull began to shake softly. She wouldn't hold up much longer.

 

[Scruffy]

McZoot

"Oh Shoot. The alien can wait!" I scream as I race through the lower decks on my way to the cargo bay.

"MOnkey-Helper! We must make our way to Garret with haste!" I yell to my trusted companion. He nods an acknowledgement and ducks into the Ship's ventilation system. I grab my Porto-Lab-6000 and race towards the bay where I see Garret in the land rover.

"Garret! Make way!" I yell as I hop into the Rover. I strap my seat belt on and look patiently and the Ventilation duct overhead.

"C'mon, MOnkey, C'mon."

 

[Destiny_Brent]

Inci

Inci nodded as the captain ordered her and Rick to follow. Terrific, the hormone driven pig would be coming. She rolled her eyes shoving him back as she stepped to follow, stopping at the suggestion. She brushed her hair back, looking on indignantly as Rick was making eyes at her while the Robot spoke of the earths environment.

Not soon enough they were heading out into the atmosphere, she stepped out like she owned the planet looking around. So far nothing, a few disgusting Bega Roots, some other odd little beasties wich scurried away quickly. Especially as trigger happy Rick shot at a couple.

"Stop wasting the plasma shots."

She chastised as she followed Jett who was inspecting some unsubstantial rocks. Men. At least they were good for something. She half smirked as she followed. Before they knew it the robot was holloring something about an alien creature. Jett and Rick looked around confused but my eyes immediately went on the monolith before us, A tripod.

"Captain! Jett! Over there!"

I hollared, his eyes went over to the figure and I watched as he stumbled back at the realization,

"They do come from Mars."

Leave it to Jett to state the obvious,

"They're heading to the ship Jett!"

Before we could do a thing, running uselessly behind them, they were all firing on the vessel. I felt a bug on my foot and leaped screaming into Ricks arms. Oh terrific.

"A visleg beetle!"

My eyes widened the little clawed beast began to crawl towards me. With a quick stomp Rick crushed the small beast. I sighed relieved, then, realizing where I was pushed myself out of his arms.

"What?" He whined, I shook my head looking him over,

"Don't read anything into that, a moment of indecision I assure you!"

I looked at him in disgusted seriousness. But ended up getting distracted as we ended up running, diving into a hole and then in a bumbling mess. I felt a hardness in the small of my back,

"That'd better be your blaster Rick."

I hissed, at the smart-alek remark I turned and slapped him 3 times in one quick motion. Sharp and stinging, first one side then the other, than the first again.

"Watch your step mister."

I straightened my uniform slightly tossing my hair as I turned to see Jett pulling himself up,

"Blubberin' Blasters what the hell happened!"

I looked up at the 20' high walls of the cavern,

"Now what?"

 

[WEAPON X]

Rick

"Any Ideas" Inci said,

"Well, We have to rid ourselves of those lothesom Tripods first" Jett remarked."But we can't use Rick's bazooka, the place might cave in on the lot of us. Otherwise we could just fly out of here with our jet packs."


"Allright kiddies, I gotta plan." Rick said matter of factly."Now, Inci Im going to have to have you carry me out of here, because this Jet pack isn't going to be here much longer"

"Lucky me" Inci said with great sarcasym.

Rick removes his jet pack and pulls out his knife.

"Now what Im going to do is remove the guidence controlls from the pack so it will be a big projectile to shot up through the Tripod above."

"Then what?" Jett says

"we run like hell and hope we can blast the other two tripods before they can get us" Rick say's while stripping cords.

"ok, this should be good to go now."

Rick kisses Inci on the lips

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!!!"

"for luck" Rick says with a wink "like you didn't enjoy it"

before Inci can reply Rick presses the red button and let's the Jet Pack rip. It rockets through the single glowing red eye of the Triopod looking through the hole, and busts through the back of it's head.

The giant robot sputtered around smoking and sparking up untill it finally fell to the ground with a large earth shaking crash.

"Now's our chance team" Jett shouts out

Rick holds on to Inci very tightly

"you heard the man!" Let's fly Rick say's

with great dissapointment Inci let's Rick hold on to her as the rocket into the sky into safety.

 

[KarmicKoala]

Kathin LaBeck

Before Garrett could say another word, he was out the door and on his way to the Land Rover. That was 2 seats down.

Soon McZoot and Monkey helper emerged from one of the ventilation shafts in the bay. He and Monkey-Helper fell the short distance to the ground. McZoot and Monkey-Helper strapped themselves in.

"Now wait just a beguiling blasted minute. Monkey-helper, You're on his lap. What if somebody else shows --" Kathin said.

The ship lurched and rocked some more as the hull gave way under the Tripods' blaster fire.

Monkey-Helper screeched in protest.

"Right, Hit it Garrett!"