Wonky Space Time Continuum
Ian and Arnie Had One Job (Part 1)
One job. To find life on the planet. Instead, they crash, piss off cowboy skeleton aliens and now, to get home…
Ian adjusted his handheld brass telescope, given to him by a famous space pirate, by the name of M.L. Smookie. Well, that was another time and place. And on a different planet, where he was not quite as fucked, as he was, right now.
Through the telescope, the dry and dusty horizon, was littered with old western style buildings. Either they had landed back in time, on the set of “Gunsmoke”, or once again, the past had tumbled off onto a different planet. Ian wasn't surprised, as it happened often.
Oscillating red and gold, unrelenting waves, of an alien sun, swept over the landscape. A fan from hell, Ian thought, a crooked smile on his unshaven, rough face.
He watched through the telescope, until the thing he needed came into view. The beauty of an XR1477, steel blue, dust spinning, Cadillac of a space hovercraft. The latest model…BINGO! Ian threw a wide, pearly, smile at his partner.
It would get them back, and in style, to their slightly crashed ship, still willing and able, on the other side of this dry, asshole planet. To get…