OOC: I was busy in the last few days, and going to be until 23 June. I'll try to find some time to post here occasionaly, though.
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RG listened to Gore, while eyeing the Mudokon (Doe). "The workers have already been alarmed by the Boss' announcement. I doubt there's anyone in the building who is not aware of the situation."
RG took a step backwards to have a better look on the Office. It was rather torn up - a table was lying at the wall in pieces, while other parts of furniture were used as baricade at the door. He looked at the Mudokon again. "I understand the baricade - though I don't agree with it, since most doors are strong enough to withstand any physical penetration. What happened to that table over there, for example?"
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Rick watched the small Scrab running to its owner, then being patted by a BigBro Slig. "A pet Scrab... I haven't seen anything like that before..." he thought, then turned to #7. "Say, aren't you going to hunt the others down?"
"Yeah, right away... No, wait, I have an idea." said #7 Slig. He turned around to face the workshop and shouted. "Hey Pablo! Come over here! You'll be safer in the Cafeteria."
"Who's Pablo?" asked Rick, looking for the one #7 Slig called for.
"A new Slig, he's in the workshop." said #7 Slig. "Good thing you cleaned the place up and found those cartridges and stuff. We needed them."
"I see. There was a lot of useful stuff in there. We could fix RG's face in a second."
"Now that you mention it, I'll try to contact him. We could use some more help with the job." said #7 Slig. He activated his SCU and spoke. "#7 Slig calling RG-49, come in, over."
After some static noise, RG's voice came from the Slig Communication Unit. "What do you want, Slig organic? I'm rather busy at the moment. Over."
"I suppose you're aware of our current situation. We could use your help. Where are you now? Over." said #7 Slig.
"I'm currently in the entrance hall of the Executive Office, accompanied by two Sligs and three Mudokons. The Mudokon organics baricaded themselves in the Office. I'm interrogating them now. Over."
#7 Slig wondered about this 'interrogation' thing, but he remained on topic. "Could you lead them to the Cafeteria? Everyone's in there. Over."
"I'll see what I can do. Over." said RG.
#7 Slig deactivated the SCU, then turned to the Sligs. "OK. We'll stay here and wait until everyone's here. Then we'll split into two groups and sweep the whole building."
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Arnie was surprised to see a Scrab in the Cafeteria, but not as surprised as Otto was. The latter hid behind the counter as soon as he saw the creature trotting inside. After a few seconds, Rick ran to them.
"What's going on?..." asked Arnie, looking at Rick.
"It's safe, nothing to worry about!" said Rick, trying to calm the Glukkons down. "The Scrab belongs to that Mudokon, I guess it's her pet or something."
"P-pet?" asked Otto, peeking from behind the counter. "A Scrab, being a pet? That could work with Fleeches, I saw a lot of them in my M.E. times, but they were flushed when they got too large."
"There are more strange things than this, Otto. Why don't you some out from safety?" asked Arnie sarcastically.
"Yeah sure, but it came a bit sudden, you know, a Scrab running loose." said Otto, coming out from behind the counter.
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