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What Lies Beneath
by
~Miriah~of~the~Wind~
Chapter 26: The Revealing of Akt
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Cam tried to run as fast as an Irken gasping for oxygen with twenty pounds of metal weighing them down. She calmed down and found the Irken Skeleton and something told Cam that it hadn't been there since Invader Zim first arrived on the planet. She used this as a marker and found her way to the broken glass. She stepped to the right of a sleeping Loch Ness Monster and looked around. This was familiar....the slope! It had the tossed out bicycle. Mali ran up the granite rock slope and tossed herself off as though she was a flounder and yanked her helmet off. After five minutes of breathing deeply in and out she took off the diving suite and the boots. She got up to look for her partner.
"Mali you bitch! You're gonna...Mali!" There were lines in the dirt that, as Cam followed them, led all the way to the docks that led to the distillery. Putting two and two together and realizing that Mali was too physically strong for someone to try and fighter her Cam now knew what happened. Someone had snuck up on Mali and knocked her out before she could put up a struggle and while Cam was underwater thus killing two birds with one stone. Suddenly a scream came out followed by a large crash. Tak! Cam followed the screams inside the library but it was too late. Tak was gone....and so was the Triskel and the two Crystals.
"They took her..." Cam turned to find the old lady looking around the ram sacked room.
"Ipswich took her. Said the Triskel was his....He took her to the distillery. If you need any help there's a revolver in my room." The Lady seemed to be more frightened of the welfare of Tak then of the fact that she was in the presence of an alien warrior. Cam ran up stairs, grabbed the revolver, and headed toward the docks and eventually towards the distillery. Cam snuck back to the water wheel and entered through the back way. After passing the two doors into the distillery she heard the door lock behind her. The maid.
"Oh, shit. She's starting this again. Ok. Let's keep cool." There was only way out through the distillery's front door. With that Cam went forward and heard heavy breathing. She turned and found the maid smacked her hard against her head with the butt of a .48 revolver and with that Cam was knocked out unconscious. When she recovered she found that she was in the basement with the electric chair.
"That Irken's a walking talking hang over. Vengeance will be mine!" Cam looked around quickly, there was no telling when that traitor would come back and finish her off, when she saw a motor.
"There's not much power in it." she checked using a machine from her backpack, "But it's enough to pull the bars away from the window and set me free." Cam looked around and found a leather strap that hung on the wall. She tied one end to the engine and one to the bars of the window. Cam was almost as tall as a sub-tallest but even so she had to jump up to escape through the window. As she jumped out her heard a small click. Out came the maid with the revolver pointed at Cam's chest. Yet the maid-she was a he. It had a deep voice like that of a male.
"You should've stay on your planet and not mess with the best."
"And you have yet to mess with the rest." Cam responded. She grabbed her own rifle and shot the traitor. The human image suddenly flickered and faded as he fell to the floor. It was Akt, brother of Tak.
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