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Rimmer’s Incident:

I think that under the right circumstances Rimmer would go absolutely feral if he believed something was enough of a threat to Lister, this is roughly based on the “Get in the Water” sound from Epic the musical with the concept that when someone with a great deal of power is pushed far enough they can cause untold destruction.

Trigger Warning: Blood, Gore, fairly extreme violence.

Something has hurt Lister, they’re on the ship of whatever alien-ish thing they’re facing off against and it’s seriously hurt Lister, maybe mortally, he could die. Kryten is trying to administer emergency first aid and Lister is playing it like there’s nothing wrong but he’s pale and the nauseating puddle of blood collecting around him makes Rimmer want to wretch.

The thing is laughing. The thing is smegging laughing.

It may take Lister away from him, his friend, his brother, his…he doesn’t want to think about those feelings but they’re there, his only real connection to the living, in short, his everything. That thing may take his everything and it’s laughing, suddenly his vision whites out, his mind clouds with such an unimaginable rage his that sensory processing unit fritzes, and he’s laughing too, high, and tinny, and utterly crazed, the laugh he saved for moments of great hilarity, the thing stops laughing.

When he comes back to himself his face is wet and he’s clutching a stunned, shaking Lister whose clutching him back, the area around them is decimated and he’s covered head to toe in green, vicious, blood.

From Lister’s point of view the sight was as horrifying as it was precise and almost graceful if it hadn’t been for the ear piercing scream, the savage charge of the group of combatants and the spaces where Rimmer eyes should have been going jet black, for the first time he witnessed the true potential power of a hologram, Rimmer must have tapped into the electrical system because power leads flung themselves off the walls creating a rain of molten sparks, pieces of shrapnel flying as whole panels of the ship corridor bent and warped itself sending a thick, bitter smog into the air. He watched as Rimmer tore through creatures almost thrice his size with primal efficiency, twisting heads clean off and using spare bits of shrapnel to gut others like hapless fishes, he saw Rimmer squeeze the life of one of them with his bare hands ensuring the light left their eyes before he released its throat, their blood stained deep into his ruined clothes as he left what appeared to be the youngest of the soldiers alive, trembling staring up at Rimmer’s blank, soulless gaze.

“I have a message for your people” he speaks stilted and unnaturally, the electricity making him fizz and crackle, but it’s more determined than he’s ever seen him.

The trembling thing nods.

“In human culture we protect our friends and loved ones by any means necessary”

The soldier nods again.

“Let this…” he gestures to his carnage “serve as an example of why you are not to cross that line, ever” he fixes his stony eyes on the thing.

“Go!”

It scarpers off limping.

Rimmer then makes an equally unnatural 180 degree turn and walks toward him falling to his knees and hanging on to him like a limpet muttering “I could have lost you, I could have lost you” over and over until a sob breaks out of his chest and his protestations became agonised wailing as if a lifetime of anger, grief and self loathing could be let out in a sound, he can only cling on to Rimmer and allow this to pass on its own, it must take more than an hour for the vacant look to vacate Rimmer’s eyes and for him to start saying words again. No more creatures come, he surveys the remains of the ones Rimmer had dealt with, that was probably a good thing.

After what seemed like eons finally, finally Rimmer actually stares back at him, completely alert.

“Hey you”

Rimmer rubs his head slightly taking in his bloodied hands “What happened here?”.

“You did”

Rimmer thinks for a moment “Oh” he says quietly “That’s right”.

“Why?” He asked softly.

“They hurt you”.

Lister squeezed him tighter, Rimmer had done this for him, he cared about him that much. Just then Kryten appears.

“Sirs, I’ve scoured the ship for resources we might need and already put them in vacuum storage, now let me help you back to the ship’s medibay, and Mr Rimmer I believe a shower is in order”.

“Thanks Kryten” he said as the mechinoid assisted him to his unsteady feet and back to the Dwarf, Rimmer was already following behind them with this look on his face that said he was worried, it was cute, maybe his stay in the medibay wouldn’t be so bad after all.

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