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The Away Team

from Diaries of a Space Cadet 2 by An Hobbes

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We were just about to leave when we detected a distress beacon and we aren't the kind to turn our backs on those in need of saving, assemble the away team! Got the location on lock, I say engage and then we're on our way. In no time flat we get to the scene. I hit the com badge to ol'bug eye, tell him to beam down three. It's time we do some investigating and get to the bottom of this situation. We hit the planets surface and I puke, this whole teleportation thing is still not something I'm used to. Toss some dust on my boots to dry them off, need continue on, we got a job to do. Break out the portable scanners, searching for the distress beacon. It's over there just beyond the hills so we set off, phaser in hand just in case. We're almost there when wait!

When you're in trouble call the away team. We overcome danger when you're in need of saving. Find yourself in a situation you can't manage? send a distress signal and remember Don't Panic!

At the top of the hill we stood overlooking a scene of total chaos like a war game gone wrong with two teams of players re-enacting the same moments as each one slays their opponents only to watch them respawn in a matter of seconds. Blue verses red always coming back from the dead. It's like a zombie massacre in a snow globe. A future unraveled to offer no hope. Not trying to be slow pokes we bobbed and weaved to the location of the beacon. There we found a strange console with a flashing circle of red. I found a button labelled reset, here goes nothing I said then I pressed it and what happened next was rather impressive the two teams disappeared into thin air. It was the end of our fears but suddenly they reappeared.

When you're in trouble call the away team. We overcome danger when you're in need of saving. Find yourself in a situation you can't manage? send a distress signal and remember Don't Panic!

Each soldier looked like they'd snapped out of a daze like they mighta been stuck in that loop for days. I know it sounds crazy but they put down their phasers and started treating the opposing team like they were neighbors. Then a couple of guys dressed in blue broke out some tables and chairs from their ship and we barbeque. If you were viewin from afar like Marvin the martian, it'd look like the villagers settling down to celebrate harvest like sometimes you just need a change in the hardware in order to alter the programming like maybe if we step outta todays redundancies we might able to better appreciate our fellow man. Throw a hand in the air if you know what I'm saying go try something new and give your brain a vacation, be patient and always follow your dreams, yo I'm sayin, they're out there waitin!

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from Diaries of a Space Cadet 2, released September 9, 2013
Vocals: An Hobbes
Produced by What's His Face -__-?

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Hobbes works a day job as a super hero in the city of Cubicle Hell. Armed with a degree in Philosophy he spends his day doing absolutely nothing related to his field of study. However, by night (and some evenings) he becomes An Hobbes- emcee extraordinaire, cosmonaut, philosopher and all around nerdy everyman who makes love to your ears with his quick lipped rhymes. ... more

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