CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
Stranger fired three Stingbees at the lock on Abe’s door, neatly snapping it in two. Then he whirled around to face the Sligs.
The Steef immediately began opening up on his enemies, firing the deadly Stingbees into the two BigBros that were still alive after the blast. In mere seconds, the two Sligs were down, bodies still twitching from the dangerous bee attacks.
Alarms began blaring in the ceiling, and Stranger growled under his breath. Apparently taking out the security cameras hadn’t been enough; the ever-paranoid Glukkons must have installed some other kinds of sensors to stop prison breakouts.
Abe came running out of his cell, immediately opting to grab one of the big DonnerPacker rifles. The sight of the skinny Mudokon holding a massive industrialist weapon – no matter how much he didn’t like guns – brought a smile to Stranger’s face.
“We need to…get to the throne room,” Stranger said. “Then we can…deal with Fragg.”
Abe nodded. “Yeah, let’s get moving. I have a score to settle with him.”
Stranger led the way up through the hallways, Stingees locked and loaded in his huge crossbow. Occasionally he ran into one or two Slig guards, but before they could react he had either pumped a few bees through their head or Abe had totally blown them away with the DonnerPacker.
The two naturalist heroes continued ascending through the levels of the palace, Abe adding kill after kill to the barrel of his gun with his fingernails. Stranger noted that, while they were taking out a decent amount of Sligs, no one had come charging down in any force even after they had sounded off the alarms.
Abe pointed up a ramp. “The throne room’s up there.” He pointed at the ceiling. “It should be right above us now.”
Stranger grinned, and placed a set of Seeker Boombats in his weapon. “Let’s…get creative.”
The Mudokon stepped aside, allowing the Steef to point his crossbow at the ceiling and release the powerful explosive animals, blowing a hole through the throne room floor. Two Sligs – bits and pieces of them, at least – fell in through the large opening, but there were no screams and cries from the room above them.
Stranger and Abe leapt up at the same time, grabbing the hot edges of the hole and pulling themselves up –
Into a throne room full of BigBros.
They were surrounded.
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