Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: kmwilcox@iastate.edu (Kevin M Wilcox) Subject: [Mr B][Storm] Mister Boddy Comes Back Message-ID: Keywords: storm mister boddy Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 19:01:33 GMT "The ship is ready. Dana's there checking on things," Evan told Mister Boddy. He looked at the display, and then at the shimmering portal. "Go join him. I'll be there as soon as Heidi arrives," Boddy answered. "I just hope we don't have to make another perfume run for a while. I want to finish my project." Evan nodded and stepped into the portal. Boddy looked at the clock and whistled impatiently. He heard a door close out in the hallway and sighed happily. "You'd better look at this!" Evan yelled, poking his head out of the portal. Boddy ran through and found himself in shin-deep water. The ship rocked, and he fell to one knee. A board above him broke, and he was drenched completely. "There's a huge storm out there!" Dana yelled. "We'd better get back immediately. The ship's begun to fall apart!" Boddy agreed. He stuck his head through the portal to tell Heidi to stay, but she wasn't there yet. He then tried to help the others secure things on the tossing ship, but there wasn't much he could do on that side. He started locking down a computer console when there was an extremely violent shake and the machine exploded, knocking him into the fall wall. The portal grew bright, then closed. "We were hit by lightning!" Dana yelled from the deck above. "The ship's toast! Let's head back!" He stumbled down the steps and crashed through the floorboards. "We can't! The portal closed when the controls blew!" Evan told him. He turned to Boddy. "He was at it when it went." "I'm fine. I'm just not sure I can get up," the prone man responded. "Let's get out of here." The other two lifted him to his feet and he limped ahead toward the stairs, falling in the hole Dana had made. "Are you ok?" Dana yelled down the hole. Boddy was treading water in the pool that filled the lower hull. "Yes! There's a huge tear in the port side down here! Use the portside lifeboat and pick me up!" he yelled back. Just then, the floor collapsed under Dana and Evan, and they fell into the sea as well. The three managed to swim out into the rolling ocean, and they floated within a few feet of the others and watched the boat sink in front of them. As it came close, Dana and Evan detached the port lifeboat, and everybody struggled into it. "I think Generica's that way," Boddy hypothesized, pointing into the storm. "Are you sure we should try it?" Dana asked, bailing as quickly as he could. "I have to agree with him," Evan countered. "If we can get within sight of Generica, we stand a much greater chance o f rescue." Dana conceded and took the first shift rowing as the other two bailed. "How are we going to get home?" he asked after a while. "Hopefully, Heidi knows what happened," Evan moaned. "She knows how to read the display, but by herself, there's not much she can do. I just hope that she can find my brother. He's about the only one who knows my designs," Boddy answered between yawns. Before long, fatigue claimed him and he fell fast asleep. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "What did I do?" the young man in the disheveled gray shirt and pants gasped. Standing in the doorway of the souvenir kiosk, the large, bearded man in the bright blue suit and blue bowler boomed, "I warned you not to look at Bambi when she's dressing!" The chuckling head and bare shoulders of a young woman poked around the side of the large man. "She was dressing in the control room! There was nothing I could do," the other man blurted. "I don't want to hear excuses! Goodbye, William Boddy!" the big man yelled. With that, he closed the door, and the kiosk faded from view. William brushed himself off and looked around him. He was in a protected area, within view of a town. He picked up a piece of litter near him and tried to read it. The only words he could understand were "Haven's Rest." *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* / K. M. Wilcox/ \Mister Boddy \ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "So, Professor Jenkins!... My old nemesis!... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-* \ We meet again, but this time the advantage is mine! Ha! Ha! Ha!" / *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*