James Bond rolled off the floor to a squatting position, the .22 Beretta flash in his crab-like hands. The pink man scrambled up the ladder as the Beretta spat. Bond missed, but sprayed several of the passengers. Bond stared open-mouthed at his bad shooting and stared at Honey.
Honey's beautiful mouth twisted. "I know how a black widow fixes her meals, how a potato bug fries hash browns, how an ousprey knows it's one o'clock, but I don't know you!" She and Ruby turned away from the man named Bond who was a complete stranger. Ruby giggled.
Bond picked his way through the collapsed detritus of bodies, savoring the brisking air as he shot up the ladder; he attempted to reload but dropped the magazine. He was on the upper deck and finally shoved the magazine home. Someone screamed in English, "Look out for the old guy! He's got a gun!" This was repeated in various languages, including southern New York. "Yo, why I do declair that mook has a firearm, Beauregard!"
HMS Pinafore loomed into view. The pink man had vanished to the control room where locked a swift heading towards the anchored lightcruiser on the Kowloon docks by a white cruise ship. The Royal Hausfrau To Bond there was something poignant and ephemeral about the navy ship. It was emblazoned with the colours whilst little children played on the deck with their sand shovels ("Careful, dear, don't get sand on the bosun's dockers, he shouldn't like that.")
The man ran and leaped to the anchor, a pinkish blur shooting up and over, vanishing from Bond's view.
A woman in pince-nez asked Bond daintily, "What are you going to do now?"
Bond gritted his teeth, the white stubble on his chin glinting in the sunlight.
I"m going to take him alive, of course!" With that, he made for the anchor, but he was not a blur, unless molasses can be called a blur.
Off on the second Star Ferry, Pierce Brosnan whispered to Sir Roger. "I think I'll have another of those Snickers."
"Snickering so soon, Pierce?" Moore replied affably.
As Bond finally reached the ship's bow, the watch yelled, "Address the colours, Commander!"
Bond's slack mouth slackened a little more, "What the bleep!? I'm not in the navy, you bleep F***!"
Saddened, the young watch said softly, "Oh. I was told to expect a Commander Bond would be coming this way soon."
S*** so! Bond thought grimily. They know I'm coming! Who or what!
A couple of sailors screamed as they saw Bond's face. "Good lord! That's going to make nightmares for me, Billy!"
"Yes, that's a real 'pusfeller."
Bond's thick lips sucked on a lemon.
