An
earth-shattering detonation rocked the chamber as the directed energy beam
scythed through the air; reducing everything in its path to dusty disintegrated
rubble in an instant, before finally impacting on the far wall with an
impressively pyrotechnic eruption. Even the vast collection of iron swords that
hung in grim decoration had been reduced to nothing in a blinding instant;
their steely blades no proof against the Derpo’s arcane technologies.
But
there was no sign of the hollering man ape barbarian.
The
Derpo King wiped the bountiful sweat from his brow with the back of a rubbery
hand; eliciting a squealing noise like nails on a chalk board. He muttered a
bitter curse as he began the reload cycle and the sorcerous weapon once again
began to shudder; choking into life and discharging vast quantities of methane
into the air as its energy crystals overflowed in a slowly creeping miasma.
“I
don’t care if you’re alive or not” he crowed. His high pitched voice echoed
through the dungeon’s now silent halls. He grabbed the ignition leaver with
both hands; preparing to unleash another deadly torrent.
“This
place will be your tomb manling!” he spat the words furiously; his eyes wet
with tears at the thought of his lost knitting enterprise, and in his mind the
loss of his people’s economic security.
It
was in the midst of this rather one sided exchange that he suddenly caught a
glimpse of a strange shimmering shape in the air above him.
“Excelsior!”
cried Bungo from his lofty perch as he initiated a dive-bomb manoeuvre that
closely echoed the attack runs of the great avian predators of Morgax.
Only
mere moments before the blast he had grabbed hold of Shallica’s succubean horns
and taken flight to escape the wanton destruction wrought by the Derpo King’s
fierce weapon. Her entrance into the chamber had gone unnoticed in the
struggle, and Bungo’s daft adversary would soon come to regret the mistake. The
barbarian had mounted her sensuous form in a strange parody of a piggyback ride;
the picture was as amusing as it was deadly, but markedly more lewd than
either.
“What
the hell is wrong with you people?!” The Derpo King screamed; fleeing in terror
as the strange cavalry bore down upon him. His waddling gait and clumsy
flapping feet made escape next to impossible and the lurid pair grew ever
closer. He had only made it three cumbersome strides when he turned in horror
to see Bungo sailing through the air on a direct collision course. The
barbarian had abandoned Shallica in mid-flight and was now soaring towards the
wildly defecating Derpo; his hair billowing in the wind as he made the heady 20
foot drop with ease.
The
world seemed to go into slow motion as Bungo’s bulging elbow drop came to a
thunderous end; connecting directly with the Derpo King’s head. For a single
heartbeat the rubbery flesh seemed to absorb the impact as Bungo’s arm
disappeared right up to his shoulder in the cranium of his unprepared
adversary. There was a momentary delay before the Derpo King’s eyes bulged out
of their sockets to three times their usual size and his head imploded inwards
in a fantastical expulsion of methane that drove his shrivelled body into the
ground; before pinging about the room.
“Don’t
be so hot headed!” quipped Bungo;
standing proudly with his hands on his hips and pulling a few manly poses that
Shallica seemed to appreciate with hungry enthusiasm. In truth she was still
overcome from the excitement of having Bungo suddenly leap on her; and had been
in a daze ever since.
Unfortunately
for the heroic duo, the moment of victory was short lived. The Derpo King’s
shrivelled body flew by one last time before finally coming to rest in the
worst possible place; directly on the Death Ray’s ignition leaver. The was an
ominous clunk as the dooms-day device switched from idle and into overload and
the whole chamber began to collapse as the nebulous energy ball started to
unmake the world around them.
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