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The following short story takes place aboard the Giant Killer Death Space Robot, a incorrectly named formerly derelict peice of alien technology that runs on creative energy, nick-named Pinky Purple by the stowaway Gemma, it travels through space piloted by the most creative people a mining colony planet could spare, teenage art students.

todays broadcast… oooh they picked up a teacher! 

lovely Beff, with her green eyes, chestnut brown hair and librarian-chick glasses has joined captain Rozi and the crew.She has the required amount of creative energy to help make the spaceship run and saves the day in this cheesy short story!!

Sirens blared throughout the ship waking Beff from a comfortably erotic dream, she hurried to the engineering deck where the others were gathering…

Cait was arguing with Muffin Man “we can’t put a diamond in there, it’s too hard, it’ll chew up the titanium nitride housing, we’re doomed unless we can get a crystal for the tractor beam, it doesn’t have to be big but it has to be a natural stone..”

Muffin Man was sweating, rarely did a back-up system fail but this one had and the results could be deadly, whatever crystal had been in the lens was now shattered and none of the replacements seemed to fit.

Beff, lifted up her shirt and took the emerald out of the silver clasp on the end of the chain, she had up until then planned to give it to her daughter as her mother had done so for her but there was no time for sentimentality, they needed the emerald now or the tractor beam would fail and the anti-matter would blow them into neutrons.

Beff handed Rozi the stone, still warm from it’s formerly cozy place between her breasts. The stone, once locked in the titanium assembly could not be removed in one piece but it would save their lives. It did.

"How did you know that an emerald would work?" asked Gemma, who obviously had found a role model worthy of her worship due to the look of wonderment and gratification on her face. Beff realized that while Gemma was slightly younger then the rest of crew save Kassy, she was also bright enough to understand solid science.

“Read up on Mohr values“, Beff said, “the scale of soft to hardness of elements, an emerald is around 7.5, diamonds are the maximum of 10 and titanium nitride is around 9. An emerald is one of few stones that fit the parameters of the assembly, and it’s unfortunate that we don’t have a lot of spares around!” Kassy, eager to be first in line for a Beff fan club, said “emeralds are actually rarer than diamonds I read“.

Kassy looked at Beff for validation. Nodding, Beff said, “yes, they are, and that one came all the way from Earth, my great great grandmother was given that one by her artist boyfriend when she was a young woman, I have one his sketches of her in my cabin if you like to see it”. 

Later, after the excitement had died down, Kassy looked at the sketch of the beautiful woman, elegantly nude she lay reclined with a blissfull smile that told of a love that would inspire generations to come, the emerald was the same color as the eyes of the lady in the sketch….Kassy looked on the back of sketch and found a short poem…

Emeralds are beautiful 

like sitting in the forest by a waterfall 

with sparkling light and a verdant hue

they lay serene like a mossy pool

a splended green that brings forth sighs 

but not quite as precious as your eyes…

~Beff – Pencil sketch and digital paint by Darren Daz Cox~

Since this story page is visited a dozen times a day and the one below is sadly neglected *sob* I’ll put it here, it’s a really cool story too!

The Thrilling Origin of Rozi The Space Hero!

Born in space a few months before reaching the planet where she’d spend the next 19 years of her life, young Rozi became a space hero before she could even talk.

An uncharted group of meteorites hit a colonists spaceship that was on it’s way to a new planet rich with minerals and room to breathe.

For hours the crew and passengers worked feverishly to patch holes and adjust oxygen levels and when the excitement had died down a baby girl was found sitting on the last dangerous hole from the meteorites, her swaddled butt had prevented the air from being sucked out of the cabin to the relief of everyone.

How she had escaped from her crib and found the hole to sit on was a mystery, but she looked very pleased with herself!

Giddy from their brush with death, the crew of the colonists ship gave baby Rozi the highest honor it could bestow, that was the official title of “Space Hero“.

On land the title was a curiosity and sometimes a conversation piece, not too amazing considering the multiplicity of achievements the human race provided for people to oooh and ahhh about, but in space it carried weight, in a potential life and death situation you wanted a hero nearby, or just to know there was one on board and because of this, ’space heros’ were given free passage and preferencial treatment on all honest spaceships.

Perhaps it was just wishful thinking but whenever a captain announced the presence of an official space hero on board to his passengers there was always a sigh of relief…

Rozi grew up and adapted to being a ground-hog in the colony, her space legs remembered only in her dreams, and she eventually joined the newly built university as an art student.

Her beauty, intelligence and general fearlessness made her a natural leader and she was elected as the student government representative for the art department.

She took the duty seriously and when the news that the Giant Killer Space Robot, a poorly named peice of space-junk, a derelict and aparantly, alien, vessel that had fallen into the planets orbit, was to be opened to the public for tours, she lobbied for and ultimately organized a trip to it for her fellow art students.

What happened when they arrived on the gleaming alien ship would astound all that heard of it.

Amazingly, for the first time since it was discovered, its lights powered up and engines hummed with metallic power.

Creative energy was the key, the military and scientists had a little of course, but not the burning intensity of art students and that is how Rozi and her friends were asked to find out what they could about the spaceship and eventually commissioned to pilot it into the unknown!!!

Cast includes Rozi, the space hero(Captain).

Gemma the guinea pig trainer (Rozi’s baby sister, a stowaway that saves the day every other episode).

Kassy, Gemma’s friend, along for the ride but charming in her own right.

Daz the phony space pirate(formerly bitter, dying, asshole of an old man who neglected his artistic side until a black hole transmuted his dna back to that of a young man and he had the chance to live again, as an artist in a spaceship full of hot art chicks (hey it’s my story, I’ll write whatever I want!!) after the crew of the GKSR found his diabled craft floating in space).

Muffin Man (Second in command, solid, dependable, constantly embarrased by the girls..), and many more!!

This story is printed in Go B Zine summer 2008 issue!

by author and artist Darren Daz Cox

This universe voted (their) Lemmy Kilmister as the King of the Human federation because when they looked at all the alien races and their acheivements the only thing that set us as a race apart was the fact that we rock, and no one has rocked and loved as hard as the mighty Lemmy from Motörhead! (except The Ramones but their spaceship was lost in a Black Hole and we may never hear from them again )

"This one is for Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone, wherever they may be." – Lemmy’s words before Motörhead play the song ‘R.A.M.O.N.E.S.’.

Beff is also featured in artwork here http://99daz.com/quantum-intent-and-inspiration/