Road Trip: Day 7

[XemaSab]

Yesterday was a tragic day for the gang. While trying to outrun the DEA, Oeditpus Rex was shot by persons unknown. We were forced to abandon the Hummer limo and continue our journey in a school bus. The day ended with a search for dry ice leading to an underground missile silo hidden out in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska.

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The silo seemed bottomless. We wound down and down through blast doors, across scaffolds, and past old control rooms that looked like some unholy mating of Star Trek and Soviet Russia. Jefferson, our wizened tour guide, took us to the center of the earth, it seemed.

Finally we reached the bottom of the facility.

"Where's the dry ice?" said Robeson, who was panting heavily.

"Yeah," said JVS, "When are we going to get to it, and more importantly, how are we going to get it back up all those stairs?"

"Dry ice?" said Jefferson.

[Robeson]

1. Panting? It seems I'm always panting.....

...someone hand me a glass of that dry ice....

[cleofus1]

2. you're panting

becouse you have been carrying two blind albino children who have no legs and can no longer fend for themselves...you are a selfless bastard...

[EstimatedProphet]

3. The phone rang. Jefferson answered it.

"Who? he asked. "Oh yeah. Here." He hended the phone to JVS.

EstimatedProphet was on the other end. "There is dry ice in a cabinet behind the door to the left. Tell Jefferson this: Podjayusta, sukhoi led. Spasebo tovarich! Jefferson is actually an old Soviet mole. He's been down in this bunker so long, he doesn't know the cold war is over."

"Thanks," JVS said.

"Now, there's a hydraulic elevator down the other end of the hallway, past the cabinet I told you about. You can-watch your head, there's a low pipe," JVS ducked and missed hitting the pipe, "You can get all the dry ice up to the surface with the elevator."

"Thanks again," JVS said.

"It's my job,"EstimatedProphet said, and hung up.

JVS turned to Jefferson and rattled off some Russian. Understanding dawned on Jefferson's face "Ah! Ochen' khorosho, tobarich puteshestvenik! He opened a door on the left side of the room, and led the crew down the hallway to a cabinet coated with frost. Opening it, the crew saw multiple blocks of dry ice. They lifted out several, griping about the stinging cold that was giving their hands frostbite, and hurried on past the cabinet to the elevator.

[XemaSab]

4. They loaded the dry ice onto the elevator and returned to the surface

Jefferson gave them the present of a very large bottle of Soviet vodka, and they all did shots in the fading daylight.

"Spacebo!" "Dobroi veche!" they yelled as the bus rattled off towards civilization. Within an hour Oeditpus was frozen solid.