One Sentence Story: The Escapr from the Unity

[History Guy]

It was then that a vibration in the ship tossed the whole lot, Miriam, the angel, and Pigtree Olliphant-Jones, into a nearby escape pod.

[spartak]

Staggering to her feet Mirium hit the release for the pod, staring out of the window they watched the U.S.S.Unity explode around them as their pod headed for the surface of their new home.

[History Guy]

Meanwhile, CEO Morgan was in another escape pod, finishing off his dinner by picking his teeth with a gold toothpick, as he watched some can-can girls dance about on the make-shift stage.

[Lonestar]

Lal too stared at the can-can girls, thinking they didn't really need more doctors anyway.

[Kassiopeia]

Morgan offered a drink to Lal, saying "Pravin, my dear friend, if you are here with me, well then who is controlling the seventh escape pod?"

[History Guy]

Lal responded, taking a seat and a glass of 40 year old champagne, "Oh, that'll be me mum."

[Kassiopeia]

"Now that is strange", Morgan said, sipping the champaigne, "this bubbly has lost some of it's taste."

[History Guy]

"Yeah, that was me mum, alright, she booted me into your pod, saying 'Oh you go with the Morganites down to Chiron, they are so much more fun then UN people, and you may meet a nice can-can girl or something', you see, I wish she'd stop treating me like I was 18, I have gone through nuclear holocausts and all..." whined Lal.

[Kassiopeia]

"My mom was a bit of a nuisance, too, at least to father, until he paid her to be quiet of the state of affairs and not tell my step-mom", Morgan said.

[Lonestar]

Meanwhile, Zakharov was busily making a distilery out of two potatos, some Bubble gum, and 29 old AAA batteries; "I'll have more vodka yet", he mused.

[History Guy]

Whereas any other human being would have looked upon the Provost's 'vodka experimentations' as unethical, poor litle Federov, the ugly midget hunchback lackey to Zakharov, was tugging at Prokhor's pant's leg and shouting up at him, "Man, you are such a genius!!!"

[Kassiopeia]

"Shut up, and get me that screwdriver, a class III laser welder and shoe so that I can finish this thing", Zakharov commanded, already dreaming of getting piss drunk after planetfall.

[History Guy]

"Ok, sure, boss, yeah yeah," said Federov, walking glumly over to a table to find these objects, in the process spying out the rotund observation porthole Chiron itself, "The Planet, boss, the Planet!!!"

[Lonestar]

Zakharov felt his anger build; "It was there when you looked out the window 5 mins ago, you idiot!"

[History Guy]

"Well geeeze boss, gag me with a little wooden spoon, but I thought I was being helpful," whined Federov, taking a large (and very old) shoe out of a box marked 'RADIOACTIVE' that was stuffed conveniently under a table.