FCF - The Carnivorous Plant

Back to Earth

This chapter is the first translation from Czech to English. You are welcome to rewrite it, if you make it better, I will send you 10 000 Gift Points.

Please note that I'm trying to write simplest way possible. The story is moved forwards mostly just by using various events.

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Sammy and Jerry are awakening from hibernation and enter into the cockpit. They look devastated as if they haven’t slept for weeks.
John the android sits in the control panel and mechanically announces:
"We slowed down to the speed of light, I launched the second phase of the braking sequence. The expected landing time is in 20 hours."
Sammy shakes his head.
"We gonna be here for another 20 bloody hours? Last time the braking lasted only two!"
"Yes, but remember, before you turned on the shields, the plants managed to destroy four brake motors." Jerry says with the greatest of ease.
Sammy is holding his nose and he watches in disgust that a special dried stain is in the cockpit.
“Nobody has cleaned the cake you threw up here."
"Really?"
They both look at John, but it actually doesn’t bother them at all. They are happy that they have done this unexpectedly demanding mission successfully.
They flew to Zebra just to watch the half dead wildlife. But no one knew that there is no life due to the intelligent carnivorous plants.
Sammy doesn’t want to be bored and loads cartoon from the archive about the adventures of duck city and dogs who are trying to rob the richest of them.
This childish fun means nothing to Jerry, so he tries to entertain himself by conversation.
"Do you think you´re going to be like that forever?" Jerry asks.
"Like what?"
"Childish. Now you are watching a movie for kids, you know?" He tries to emphasize his impression and cracks his fingers in front of him, as if he wanted to wake Sammy up.
"It’s going to be alright."
Jerry wonders how to change the subject.
"How did you actually convince Rone’s girl to go with you for a drink? When I see you now, I cannot believe it even for a minute." He looks at him with a grin.
"You know Jerry," he turns away from the animated display: "It's because you’re a cunt." Sammy laughs.
Jerry's insulted, but he doesn’t want to look sensitive in front of his colleague.
"Oh, but you aren't going to get out of this so easily. Tell me, how do you get her?"
Sammy watches him thoughtfully for a while and tries to choose the right words.
"Eeeeeeh I had a theory – when we meet the next time, she will think that somehow we know each other and it will break the ice. So we just exchanged a few words and then I disappeared."
"And what happened then, Mr. Scientist?" Jerry asks and has to use big effort not to crack up with laughter.
Sammy slaps on the control panel and pauses the animated film and walks to the minibar.
"The ceremony was terribly boring so on another opportunity I invited her to the bar. I tried to give the impression that she will help me to kill the boredom." Sammy suddenly seems to realize something.
He goes back with a glass of wine. There are no longer any sign of his childish tastes.
"If you saw how nicely she was shaking her perfectly busty body." He laughs.
Jerry feels a little awkward. Rone got quite mad, so his colleague had to be really good that night.
"So you scored?"
"No." Sammy answers disappointingly.
"What, why?" Jerry asks, his voice shows a little concern by which Jerry is surprised.
Sammy feels that something’s wrong.
"Hang on, we've already talked about it."
Jerry is silent and goes to the bathroom.
Sammy realizes that now at the moment he didn’t behave so childishly.
Jerry comes back pleased by Sammy’s return to the people, but suddenly he can see that he is watching the animated series again.
Sammy nods conspiratorially at him.
"I understand what you're trying to do, but right now I don’t give a f***, so give me a break."
The remaining 19 hours of the braking sequence, there’s not much interesting happening. Sammy, however, thinks that he should have a word with Rone.

Jerry and Sammy walk into instructor Murphy’s office. In addition to him there are also two doctors and Rone. They are all in a good mood. They sit sprawled out on the comfortable sofas and they are obviously thrilled to have found another planet with intelligent life.
Rone, however, quietly dissembles. The agents were supposed to die on this mission and not come up with a new discovery and yet happily return!
"Here you are, agents," Rone turns to the incoming people and looks like he was the happiest man in the room. "Our research team is in awe of all the results that you brought back from Zebra."
"Exactly," instructor Murphy says "nobody would expect new cadets to handle the unexpected situation."
"And your improvisation was perfect! Anyway sorry for the android, who was assigned to you without all of the critical updates. We had no idea that the technicians would send you an empty machine with only basic firmware."
Jerry and Sammy started to listen more carefully at that moment. Rone excuses them to their faces and yet he laughs!
"Why are you lying, Rone? You f***ed it up!"
Jerry explodes in front of everyone.
Sammy recalls a recent conversation with Susan and the problem at the bar. It is obvious that in this situation Rone has no choice but to clean it under the carpet somehow, on the other hand, Sammy got now a perfect opportunity to ‘correct’ his face and to redress his reputation in front of Susan.
To look like a milksop in front of such a nice girl probably really sucks, Sammy thinks. Especially if she wanted to be with me as Jerry said!
Sammy comes to Rone and enjoys that his competitor’s face looks somewhat uncertain.
"Come on guys don’t overdo it!" Rone is trying to save the situation. "I suppose you have faulty information, what's wrong with you?"
Without much emotion Sammy takes him by the throat and pulls him off the couch. Rone doesn’t fight back, because the room is full of authorities and Sammy’s error will certainly have its consequences.
"Let him go, cadet! That's an order!" Murphy yells at him.
Sammy gives him a look and smiles.
"Sorry coach, it's personal. He took over my girlfriend."
And he smacks his fist into his face and one after another in the stomach. Sammy runs like a sewing machine and after a while he stops.
"That's for Susan, asshole."
"Nice one, that’s how I like you!" Jerry encourages him.
Both doctors are together with Murphy in shock and don’t know what to say. While Rone is collecting himself from the ground, Murphy says:
"Next time solve your personal things in your free time." There's a hint of glee.
The analysts of the Group for Supervision are a pain in the ass for all agents.

Sammy is standing at the bus stop where a module of public transport is just landing. Beautiful Susan gets off the module and from a distance she smiles at Sammy.
"Today, you look especially great." He praises her skirt, which is ripped on the left leg.
Susan does a little pirouette in front of him with a smile.
"Thanks. I hope that you won’t take the advantage of it." Susan says, her eyes reflecting the promise.
"Rone just got what he deserved."
"You know that he couldn’t defend himself in front of others."
"Yes he could, but he is just a douchebag." Sammy replies.
Susan presses to him and her wet lips begin to fondle Sammy´s neck.
Everything ended up much better than his expectations.