"Please tell me I'm funnier than Karl." said Space Baron in a whistful voice.
"What????" said Brian.
"Oh, sorry, I don't know what came over me."
"Probably artistic symbolism." said Brian angrily.
"Yeah, probably." said Space Baron, also angrily, but only because Brian was.
"Should we be standing here while that yonder nuclear power station is going to blow up?" asked Brian.
"What, you mean the Yonder memorial nuclear power station is also going to blow up...Oh god we're all doomed!!!!" screamed Space Baron, instantly in a panic.
"No, it's a figure of speech."
"Oh, you should watch what you say." muttered Space Baron sulkily.
"Sorry. Should we be standing here while that thar nuclear power station is going to blow up?" asked Brian again.
"No, let us run towards it, thus making it look like we have a plan." said Space Baron, suddenly confident.
"Great thinking boss, I'm glad Rob has re-assigned our roles back to the action cliches they were before." said brian stupid-assistantishly.
"Why don't we ever get two lines in a row, just then was an ideal opportunity and Rob didn't take it." said Space Baron, because I made him.
"True, he could have described some action in between the sentences and then I could have said "Look that helicopter full of robot-guards is landing over there between us and the power station. We're doomed! Doomed I tell you!!!!"but now I have to put it in inverted commas".
As the chopper landed Space Baron picked up his pace. Brian, who was barely able to keep up said, "I'm barely able to keep up!". Space baron ignored him, noting the oldness of the joke in this particularly unfunny episode of the Space Baron in a notebook in his pocket.
"Just three more old "Eat Me" jokes like that and I'm going to write to God so that I can become real, and Rob will be sucked into this story," he muttered.
"Do you have a plan Space Baron?" asked Brian between breaths. Space Baron nodded and picked up his pace again. "If you put your pace in your pocket you wouldn't keep dropping it" said Brian petulantly, "you don't see me dropping my pace just to get my name mentioned in the story more often."
By this stage Space Baron and Brian were only 100 metres from the robot guards. "So your not going to tell me your plan then?" said Brian. Space Baron shook his head and kept running, Brian keeping pace with him.
As they neared the guards Brian realised Space Baron's plan. They were going to run through the middle of the guards and hope that none of the bullets hit them, and they didn't.
Stay tuned for the next episode of Space Baron called...
ROB IS DESPONDENT AFTER AN EXCEPTIONALLY UNFUNNY EPISODE OF SPACE BARON.