Earth Pirates Attack! (253)

Campbell pulled hard on the wheel and sent the craft spiraling towards the small moon just outside the asteroid belt.
“Are you fucking insane!?” marsh yelled over the intercom while trying to line up the rouge ship that was gaining on them.
“If you hit one of these, we’re-“
“I know all of this!” Interrupted Campbell.”
“But I’d rather crash than let these Space Pirates have my ship! We’re going to land on that moon and fight them on the ground!”
“Yeah, well- we don’t need the space…” Marsh said, his volume drifting off as he took a shot and missed.
“We don’t need what?” Campbell asked.
“We don’t need the ‘Space’! I know they’re pirates and I know that we’re in space, but you don’t have to call them Space Pirates! It’s implied seeing as we’re in space, and they’re in space, and neither of us is in a boat!”
Campbell shifted in his seat, and pulled the wheel hard in the opposite direction. This sent the members of the crew drifting all about the cabin.
“I told you people to tie yourselves down!” He yelled as he threw the ship into overdrive, and went zooming towards the dark side of the moon.
“Okay, smart ass, since you want to be mister linguist-“ Campbell shouted into the intercom,
“What do you call those!?”
Marsh took a second to focus on the dark shape that was fast closing in on the ship from the moon. He shook his head, furrowed his brow, then noticed that he really was seeing this- the white shape of a skull attached to the sails of a ship- a pirate ship!
“Earth pirates!?” Yelled marsh, and started to fire at them.
“Things just got space crazy.” Campbell whispered, and took a sip of rum.