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Fifteen seconds. Thats how long it took the unwilling crew of Air Grumpkin to evacuate the sleeping quarters and run the hell outside after their captain, Taint Bigsby, had kicked in the door with a lit stick of dynamite and shouted "CLEANING DAAAAAY!"

Once outside, the crew dove for cover behind all the ships cargo and machinery before a loud whooshing sound followed them through the door, preceding a torrent of water carrying a cackling Bigsby.

"Did you guys even SEE that!?" Taint asked as he struggled to stand up in the slippery mud puddle formed from the bare dirt surrounding the lesser craters. He got up to his knees before slipping again and flipping over on his back. "HAHA! SHIT! Help me up here!". Dynamite in Taint's hand was bad enough, but then they had to figure out how to make it magical.

"WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" shouted Topaz, the crew's only female member and most often the easiest to get worked up when Taint goofs off.

"Cleaning day, woman! It was on the bulletin board! Hell, I even did you a favor by doing it for you!" Taint replied, kicking himself off of a rock and sliding across the mud closer to where she was standing.

"WHAT? DID YOU PUT IT UP WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP?" she shouted again.

Taint took a brief break in trying to look up her robes to look her in the eye. "YES." Topaz simply stomped back to the plane. "Hey, HEY! Help me up!" Taint yelled at her, before Myen helped him up instead.

"Taint, did you even think about waking us up first?" Myen asked. He was a young man of about 17, usually pretty relaxed and the first to regain his bearings after one of Taint's stunts.

"Yeah, actually. I touched off the fuse and thought 'Huh, bet those dudes might want to know about this'. I had to get you up quick so I just kicked the door in". Taint looked over at Valk, still in the duck-and-cover position he's decided to hold for at least ten minutes when Taint plays with his dynamite. His logic is that when Taint lights one stick theres a 50% chance he'll think it was light on the powder and decide to test a few more sticks out of the bundle.

"At least you moved everything outside first, a lot of stuff here is pretty delicate. Shit, did you even cover up the controls? I can't imagine a tarp doing any good against that." Myen said, looking at the plane.

"Yeah I- uh, yeah. Don't worry about it. What?" Taint rubbed some mud off his jacket sleeves. "Well anyways lets get this Joe on the Toad, all this crap? It's gotta be in Grault by like yesterday or something. I dunno. It probably doesn't matter. Jagger's up there waiting on us."

Myen began by loading crates through the cargo door as Taint kicked Valk in the ass, yelling at him to get up and help. Topaz didnt come out of the sleeping quarters until an hour after takeoff and fell down twice due to the water still soaking the plane's floor.

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- zvalkyr <- 7:13:51 pm, sunday, october 15th, 2006 pdt
- Alpha Communicator <- 7:28:21 pm, saturday, october 28th, 2006 pdt