Time was frozen again. The megatung's eyes were as wide as Vail. The tongue was sickening to look at; drool was dangling off the tongue at odd angles. Holes the size of dinner plates were opening all over the surface of the tongue. Those that were already open had spit bombs the size of watermelons wither in mid - flight or lodged in the holes. Ally the Dai - foong beast was in mid - spin; even the spinning wind around her created a shroud of dust and dissolving spit bombs. "The only way to kill a megatung was to freeze its tongue and cut off its head. I'm just improvising," Vail said to Kelsey. Kelsey giggled. "Care to do the honors?" Vail said to Kelsey, handing her Splinter. Kelsey smiled, took Splinter, and analyzed it a while. She kept muttering about how cool the blade felt, how it felt so light, and so on. Vail cleared his throat, and Kelsey snapped out of her what - a - cool - sword daze. She walked up to the egomaniac lizard. She said, "This is for the torment you gave great great aunt Sally. She's very paranoid." She swung and missed. She walked closer, her head almost touching the expanded eyeballs. She shuddered, and cut off the menace's head. The rest of the lizard's body turned into little red pieces of dust. Vail turned off the freeze coin. Ally had stopped spinning when she saw that her opponent had been defeated. The decapitated head kept on saying, "Bloody murder! Bloody murder!" as it slowly turned into the same red dust that its former body turned into. Soon all that was left of the annoying being's presence were the glasses, the red dust, and the flat rubber houses that had been crushed flat. Vail used the wind coin to blow the pieces of dust out of the town. A jelly mantia took the opportunity to give Vail a hug. It did and Vail jumped very high. He jumped about 20 ft. to be precise. Kelsey gave a tour of Rubberblu town. The main highlights of the tour were the pet shop and the vast weapon storage house. Afterwards, Vail used the construct coin to rebuild the houses that were flattened during the megatung's carnage. Kelsey showed Vail where he was going to sleep, which turned out to be the pet shop. The only benefits for sleeping in the pet store were that Vail was far away from jelly mantias, and that he could make an empty badsquish tank quite comfortable. It was late at night so Vail went to his tank and Kelsey back to her own hut. Vail discovered his jelly mantia nightmare curse was over. He slept without dreaming of jelly mantias attacking him when he was defenseless. Instead, he dreamt of something completely different. In his dream he saw a puffsnatch. It was different from normal puffsnatch in color. It wasn't the Golden puffsnatch he was searching for either. Its fur was silver at the top and blue at the bottom. The wings were purple. The image of the puffsnatch was flickering like it was behind Venetian blinds, visible to slightly visible to not visible at all. Even though the puffsnatch image was flickering, his surroundings were not. The puffsnatch was in a volcano, hovering about 6 feet above the boiling molten rock. The puffsnatch disappeared completely, and in its place was a large robot with a large sword. The robot took the sword out of the sheath on his back; a dark green light and a light blue light radiated from the sword. The robot said, "The beam gem will destroy the burglars. The gream are going for the storage room." He pointed the sword at the lava and a beam the color of his sword hit the lava. Vail woke up still in the badsquish tank. Splinter was glowing green and giving off lots of heat. Shadows were moving all around him, removing various animals from the cages and tanks. Through the gloom of the shop, Vail could see two black eyes staring at him. It caught sight of Splinter, and all the moving shadows left. Vail realized that he was the only living thing in the store. He bolted out the door and, taking the advice of the robot in the dream, headed toward the weapons storage house. He opened the door and found a sleeping Kelsey, and a very dizzy Ally. Creatures that looked like a mix between a scorpion and a poison arrow frog were hopping toward a gem on the other side of the building. Vail attacked the nearest thing with Splinter. The time it took Vail to blink was the time it took the gream to block the blow. It reached into a pouch around its waist with its scorpion claw. It opened its claw and a missile made entirely out of dust came shooting out. The missile sent Vail crashing into the bathroom. Vail stood up in the small bathroom and in the process, broke the large light bulb. A small, green, glowing gemstone appeared where the light bulb used to be. Vail took the gem and the "dream robot's" words came back to him. He had a feeling he needed to put the small jewel on Splinter. He did, and a green flash of light emitted from his wooden sword. When the light faded, he found a red button on Splinter. He pressed it and the blade became a laser beam. Equipped with his "new" weapon, he ran towards the gream. When he caught up they all stared at him. The leader had his prize in his ugly black claw: the red beam gem. He put it on his tail blade, and the entire tail turned into laser. Vail gripped his sword tightly. The gream leader spoke to Vail, "My name is Mall, but you can call me Mall the terrifying. This town is ours for the taking, including this wonderful building, full of all sorts of goodies. You shall die quite painfully for being here." Vail replied calmly, "I insist you go first. Ladies first you know." Enraged, Mall charged toward Vail. Even though Vail appeared calm, he was anything but calm when the large frog with a laser tail was running toward him; each squishy step brought fear into him. Vail had no room for fear though. The fate of Kelsey, Ally, and the entire population of Rubberblu town were depending on him and his saber of light.
