Chapter 20
Kila was getting exhausted, and yet more still came. She had lost count of how many she had killed. She had numerous injuries and was in tremendous pain, but she keep going, desperate to survive. One of the BBS managed to land a hard blow on her, and she collapsed, unable to get back up again...
Abe and Omi had just made their way into the arena when they saw Kila fall.
"No!" Omi cried, "Father!"
"Right." Abe said as he chanted as possessed the BBS that knocked her down and used him to start shooting at the others in the arena while Omi made his way to Kila.
Please still be alive, please! Omi thought as he fought his way to her. He adventraly reached her, and was horrified at the injuries she had obtained. She looked up at him weakly.
"Omi.., I knew you would come." she said weakly, tears in her eyes.
"I couldn't just leave you here" he said as he embraced her gently.
"Better get going, I can't them them off much longer." Abe said through the BBS.
Recent events didn't get past Larhik who had noticed Abe.
"Stop him!" he said his slig guard. The slig nodded and ran off.
"Dammit! There's too many of them, get moving!" the BBS said.
Omi looked for an opening but there wasn't any. "Can't there's no pathway through them all!"
"#$%*@#!"
The other sligs and BBS were starting to shot at the BBS Abe had possessed. Abe adventrally lost that BBS and Abe had to start chanting to get a fresh one. Things are happening too fast! Abe thought frantically.
Suddenly the skylight above the arena shattered and Dragadon flew in in her shrunken form, becoming her full size as she descended.
"Never fear! The calvary is here!" Dragadon roared as she landed on top of some sligs effectively squashing them. She then started ripping into the remaining Sligs, which were now running away terrified.
"Alright!" Omi cheered happily.
"Yes!" Abe cried, then he felt something pointed at the back of his head. "Oh ****!"
Omi noticed the slig behind Abe, "No." he said.
"Now you all put yer hands up, or I blow his brains out." the slig threatened.
"Now who has the upper hand!?" They heard Larhik laugh.
"No, it won't happen this way." Kila said as she aimed a gun in Abe's direction. "Abe duck!"
Abe did so, just as Kila squeezed the trigger, blow out the SLIG's brains.
"You bitch!" Larhik cried.
"Hmmm I suddenly have a hankering for Glukkon." Dragadon grinned.
"Oh no." Larhik said, backing away but he tripped and fell helplessly onto his back.
Dragadon lunged at him, jaws agape.
"HEL..." was all he could get out before she bit his head off.
"Father are you alright?" Omi said as he up to him, Kila in his arms.
"I'm fine." Abe said. Suddenly an alarm went off and all the lights turned red. They could hear small explosions going off, somewhere in the factory.
"What the f*** is happening?" Omi said.
"I have set the boiler to blow." Steinix said as he joined them in the arena, "We have less then 5 mins to get out of here."
"Hey blowing the place was supposed to be my job!" Abe said.
Steinix just shrugged as he said, "Sorry. But I figure you would be too busy to do it yourself. Anyway lets get out of here."
"I'll take point," Dragadon said as she shrunk herself, "Get on Vykker, you'll need to show me the way."
"Its Steinix," Steinix said as he hesitantly climbed on and the group run off in the race to get out before the place blew.
Chapter 21
The group raced down the corridors, Steinix showing them the way on Dragadon's back. Dragadon cut threw any sligs that got in the way. They came across some mud slaves too, and Abe quickly told them to follow. Omi was hard pressed to keep up, Kila's weight was slowing him down, but she was too badly hurt to stand on her own, let alone run.
Suddenly a large chunk of ceiling crashed in the middle of the group, separating Omi and Kila from the rest.
"Omi! Are you two alright?" Abe called over the debris.
"Yes it didn't hit us!" Omi called back, "Go ahead, I'll find us another way out!"
"But..." Abe started but Dragadon stopped him.
"He's right, even with my help we wouldn't clear the path and still make it out in time." Dragadon said sadly.
Reluctantly Abe nodded and they continued on.
Omi backtracked a bit and took another corridor. As he ran he asked Kila, "Do you know another way out?"
"Yes," Kila said weakly, "Nearby is a garage, take the next right."
"Ok." Omi made the next right. They continued this, sometimes having to backtrack to take a different path due to debris blocking the way. Eventually they made it to the garage.
"Over there, the big doors. Drat there closed." Kila groaned.
"Lets open them then." Omi side as he ran over and pressed the 'open' button. Nothing happened. He pressed it again."Come on , come on. Open!" he said getting desperate.
Finally the doors started to open, but before they had opened enough for them to go through they stopped.
"No! Come on!" Omi said, pressing it again. But the doors refused to budge any further....
Meanwhile the others had managed to make it out. Abe was pacing, starting to panic.
"Where are they? The place will blow any second!" Abe said.
"They must have come upon more trouble!" Steinix said also getting worried.
"Wait.." Dragadon said as she squinted, "Those large doors I could have sworn I saw them open slightly."
"It might be them!" Abe said as he started to run toward the doors.
"No Abe I'll go." Dragadon said as she became her full size and run toward the doors.
Omi and Kila clutched each other tightly, the doors wouldn't open any more and there was no time find a new way out.
"This is the end, isn't it?" Kila said sadly.
"It...looks that way." Omi replied tears streaking down his face.
"At least we are together." she said as she buried her face into his shoulder.
"Yes at least that."
Omi suddenly looked up and cocked his head.
"What is it?" Kila asked.
They suddenly both heard a roar of fury and the doors suddenly went flying off their hinges. Omi had barely managed to get him and Kila to cover.
"Well now they certainly don't make doors like they used too." they heard Dragadon chuckle.
"Dragadon!" Omi cried with relief, and he raced up to her with Kila still in his arms.
"Oh there you are, get on quickly!" Dragadon said as she knelt down and Omi, with some effort, climbed on with Kila. "Hang on, we're blowing this joint!"
Abe was again pacing, he couldn't see exactly what was going on, but he could tell that Dragadon had literally busted the doors down and had knelt down for a moment. Now she was running back toward them the factory just blowing up behind her. Abe stopped pacing and waited impatiently as Dragadon screeched with a halt in front of him. To his great relief he saw Omi and Kila on her back.
"Did somebody order a pair of lovebirds?" Dragadon grinned.
Everybody laughed, then Abe said, "Let's go home."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
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