Nesstown Zoo Saga Book 2, The Great Global Event. by Ewston Snooz (Evelyn Murray and the two NGs.)
The Missing Episodes of
the continuing saga of Nesstown Zoo
episode 11 - Comet Cometh
loosely based on the Jack Dagger novels by Evelyn Murray and adapted for radio internet
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the story so far...

What's next at Nesstown Zoo     Dagger First Then Froxmap sequential comic novels covered the early days of the Nesstown Zoo Saga and so were never used as screen adapted versions. Now most of the saga has been up in its html version we've much cut down and adapted the early days too. In book one Nesstown Zoo was formally founded and started to grow with some odd animal characters, notably the Proletarian Penguin Peoples Party, dreaded 4P. Jack Dagger and his crew reached an approaching comet which threatens the Earth, now we have to work out what to do with it. Arch criminal Fitzroy Fielth has launched his pre-used, incorrectely assembled rocket to claim the venus goldfields as part of a fraud. Mad euro-president Dimples, who proclaimed the meteor would go away, is dead and a new type of election is planned to combat the effects of a series of bad presidents.

now read on...


   "Mars Base welcomes careful cometfinders."
   Dagger suddenly realised an old mate and colleague was here too. "Henry Nelson, my goodness, how long has it been?"
   "Well Jack, you've brought trouble with you for sure."
   "Rather a lot of it I'm afraid. It's twenty miles long and four miles wide."
   "Jack I'm officially deputising you, now you can join my fighter wing to attack it. We have adapted the standard fighter with push noses, we can add one to your craft too."

*****

   Suddenly Count Fitzroy Fielth, would-be Venus goldfields owner, was plagued with problems. A persistant warning light came on. "I wish I could read Russian, I've no idea what that sign means." Now another light flashed as if it needed a human response. "What shall I do?"
   There was a vibration as the take-off booster rockets automatically jettisoned. "Wh-what's that?"
   A loud preeping attracted attention to another control panel, "Ah, the first stage is running out, it must need the second stage starting... I thought that fired by itself, I hope I haven't got the wiring wrong."
   After what seemed endless seconds of doubt, he hit the enter button which he hoped were default settings. Two more lights needed response, already committed to defaults he hit the enter button for each.
   Fielth was just about to return to the Russian instruction manual to see if the pictures explained things when something alarming happened.
   There was hissing noise next to his console, a whir accompanied by whisps of white fumes. Had his time come, would the fire kill him quickly?
   A panel opened to reveal a steaming cup of weak tea. The high technology cup was too flimsy and he spilt the high tech tea all over the high tech panel. He'd have preferred coffee anyway. "Now what to do about stage two?"

*****

   Rumours of the meteor, or comet, or asteroid, depending on which TV channel you watched, were now rife. Nobody had yet admitted to its existence, in the USA because they'd been shamefully beaten to it, in the UK originally because the late, mad president Dimples had ordered them not to go. Now though it was because they wanted the glory of saving the world for themselves, providing they could, of course. As yet there was nobody to countermand the mad late president, so UK space agency looked on track for a budget boost. Of course the internet community had not invented the story themselves so automatically all thought it was a conspiracy.
   Henry Nelson led the squadron towards the space-dung bundle, Jack Dagger was on his wing. "Do we know how much it weighs?"
   "Must be a squillion tons at least."
   "That'll take some stopping."
   "We don't actually need to stop it, we can either break it up into tiny, less damaging pieces or deflect right away from Earth."
   "Apparently there's chaos on the home planet."
   "Nothing compared to what a squillion tons of shit will do."

*****

   Spy penguin 'Peeker' Purdy brought news to the brothers.
   "Latest thing is a meteor, what's a meteor Prefect Perseus?"
   "I think it's like when those humans add meat stock into the gravy."
   "Gravy, yuk! Can you imagine gravy on fish?"
   "Let's hope it comes nowhere near us then."
   "No gravy, no gravy!" Shouted excitable young Percy. "No gravy on penguins!"
   "It goes on food idiot Percy. Keep our fish clean," shouted Peckunia.
   "Fish, fish, fish!" Shouted the rest in response.

*****

   Orlando seemed to be off his food. "Here boy, what's up?" New head keeper asked.
   Orlando sniffed at the rehydrated dehydrated scrambled ant.
   "You want a change, is that it?"
   The young aardvark sniffed around the field looking for ants nests, but he'd already had them all.
   "We'll have to see if we can grow more ants here, let's check online."
   It was the first time Orlando had been inside the zoo office. There were these glowing pictures. Keeper typed and suddenly there was picture of ants. His heart leaped and he started salivating.
   "So I was right, wasn't I?"

*****

   Queues at Petrol stations were getting ridiculous. Frozen food shelves were empty. Sales of anything which might protect homes and people went sky high. Headless chickens would have done as well as some people in the panic zones.
   In Washington the question was "How do we control this?"
   In London the question was "What would happen if we told Europe the meteor is still moving Earthbound and what it's made of?"
   In Europe, after a succession of duff leaders elected as political compromises, the question was "Who's going to take on the top job?"

*****

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