"Pocket?" called Hollow

"What?"

"Have you not gone shopping yet?"

"What do I look like your mother? Beside I always do the shopping, why don't you send Peace for once?"

Peace sat in a corner of the lounge, sharpening one of his many swords. "I'll go shopping if you can fight of a colony of spiders and devoted soldiers."

"I can! I just don't want to hurt any of my bunnies"

"Well that didn't stop Evanz from experimenting on his wife"

"I still believed that he cheated on Dorothy"

Hollow closed the fridge and retrieved his tea from the counter before entering the lounge. At the centre of the lounge was Fluke who was working on a delicate motherboard. Pocket was carefully dye-ing her rabbits into different colours.

Hollow sat down to drink his tea. "How's the robot coming Fluke?"

"It's not finished yet"

"Can't you-"

"It's not finished yet", he waggled his screwdriver at Hollow, "and if the rumours are true then we need this robot to be perfect".

"Yeah but you been working on it for about 6 months now, he would finish his robot before we even get the chance to try our robot out!"

"Well that's not my problem, if you gave me enough money to employ someone to help me build The Flukasaur, then it might be finished by now."

"Are you still calling it that? Anyway we are already cutting into our food budget, we can't afford anyone".

"If you stop 'snorting' that tea at every available hour then we might be able to afford food and an employee."

"Nobody touches the tea. Besides I already asked for a bigger budget and they refused us."

"They probably thought that you were blowing it all on tea and bitches"

Pocket quickly looked up, "Bitches?"

"He sneaks out at night" answered Peace, "didn't you know about this?"

"Oh. I meant uh, finches, yeah. I thought he kept a pet finch, for a second."

Peace only raised an eyebrow at her in response as she went back to working with her rabbits.

Silence fell, until Fluke raised his voice. "If you turned your bitches into customers, then we might actually be able to afford the food and the robot with a HDTV on the side".

Peace began to backchat him, saying that Hollow was as appealing as a cocaine snorting walrus.

In midst of the argument, Hollow sighed, "I would be treated better at FSI!"

Evanz began to sip the beer as he looked over the communications array, the jungle inside the volcano almost concealed the meeting going on. The town representative fighting with Rage about the price of FSI's fish spider repellent, "It keeps all the nasty things away".

At the top of the hollow mountain was Rage's office, the black and red checked base complete with glass walls that can't be broken at 5G force. I know that he watches the meeting from his little box, using the big screen to talk to the representatives. Safety first, I guess.

I looked down at my warm beer then face the employee in the Tiki bar, "Can't I have a cold beer?"

"I can't, the heat from the volcano stressed the fridge out. You gonna have to have a warm beer until we can get a mechanic to fix it."

"Are you saying that I can't have a warm beer because of a little heat?"

The tiki bartender nodded, leaning on the side as his legs became weak from fear.

"Get it fixed and make sure it doesn't happen again!" Evanz threw the warm beer bottle at the man's face as he cried out in terror.

"That must have been, refreshing", I turned around to see Rage laughing at his terrible pun. I only rolled my eyes in response.

"What do you need Rage?"

"I was wondering about the robot, how's it going?"

"We are just installing those last minute cup holders you emailed me about and loading in the ammo. Then it should be ready."

Rage laughed violently. "Then we just need one last thing", he picked up the walkie talkie from his waist before pressing it to his mouth, "When you're ready, Poland".