Airship Z-97

This segment covers the amazing misadventures of a lightning bug named Lieutenant LarvaBurg.

All characters and scenarios © Shane P. Nielsen. Any similarities
between this tale and real life are completely unintended.





One fateful day in the Sploot Kingdom, during one of the most awesome aerial wars in history, a fleet of airships were being sent out by royal decree of King Azlamb, towards the northern plains of the land to fend off an attack by fearsome dragons. The largest and most famous of these voyaging sky vessels, Airship Z-97 was running its course perfectly, but good o’l Lieutenant LarvaBurg from the Dwimble Kingdom, who was aiding the Splootonians, and his bumbling but faithful crew had no idea that their very own ship was about to become the victim of a hilariously hideous hijacking. Z-97 had almost reached its destination, when a garbled warning signal was received. Lieutenant LarvaBurg had no idea who had sent it, and couldn’t make out the words of the message, but heard something about weapon smugglers, who would possess magical mythril and lethal magic wands, and hijackers being spotted all over the area.
The lieutenant immediately dismissed the claims, due to the fact that the man making them described the alleged hijackers and smugglers as “grinning beedy eyed almond shaped piles of jello with arms and legs”. The claims sounded absurd and unfathomable, not to mention the moronic media worrying about how it could offend grinning beedy eyed almond shaped piles of jello with arms and legs who WEREN’t smugglers, if the lieutenant were to only focus his efforts towards catching them. It was then that our hero Larry LarvaBurg spotted a Grezlarian built BE9c 84444 biplane heading towards his ship. The biplane was unlike any other, in that it could zip through the sky and reapear in different areas, as if mastering the art of teleportation, or even some form of magic. After making the decision to fire eight drums of Snorfish Snarjda ammunition towards the rather menacing looking dark black battle crazed biplane, he made a fourth pass, firing straight towards the center of the death defying dirigible, declared victory, and soon he witnessed immense, intense, seemingly congratulatory conflagration on the enemy ship’s surface, and it began to blow up in smoke, meeting its most dismal but visually delightful demise.
But although the crew cheered and laughed with glee, the battle was far from over, far far from over indeed. After making a big mistake by flying underneath the falling biplane, the entire enemy crew began using parachutes, and landed directly on top of Lieutenant LarvaBurg’s aircraft. They made their way inside the ship with their excellent skill and craftiness, and to the crew and the Lieutenant’s surprise, they looked exactly like the airship hijackers that were described in the garbled warning signal, even though his radar didn’t detect them.
The enemy airship didn’t even belong to the Jello Soldier crew, it was actually a Splootonian ship that they had hijacked! Now that it was all but demolished by our brave war hero Lieutenant LarvaBurg, the Jello Soldiers were quite angry. They decided they had only one choice, hijack LarvaBurg’s airship and defeat his faithful crew in hand-to-hand combat. The rather humerous looking jello soldiers were bad to the bone, as clever as cartalidge, and began practicing their martial arts on Lieutenant LarvaBurg and his crew.
Sadly, soon they were all beaten, and mercilessly tied up in the cargo hold. LarvaBurg and his noble courageous crew, who were scared to death and pathetically unable to defend themselves, soon realized that the warning signal was correct, and that they should have payed closer attention to it. LarvaBurg wasn’t the brightest bug of the bunch, and he had no idea what he was going to do to escape, he had never even heard of Spoofini, the great magician, and had no clue how to free himself from the ropes. Who could possibly save him but himself?