Garrett took out his huge rifle again and all three stepped onto the teleporter. This time, Garrett was prepared for the dragon. He quickly scanned the room and saw it flying low on the opposite side.
"Hold your fire."
Garrett went prone and set the dragon in his sights. He aimed ahead and above it and fired. The shot streaked quickly across the room, but missed a few inches above it. The shot struck the rock wall of the cave instead and showered the dragon with pieces of rock. Apparently confused about the angle of the attack, it landed. This time Garrett heard the strange sound of the photon propelled projectile from Jackie's rifle and saw the round instantly streak across the room and into the dragon's side. The explosion from the 12mm round was not nearly as great as that from Garrett's larger bore rifle, but the different shell design and higher speed managed to pierce the dragon's thick hide. It didn't go deep enough for anything more than a flesh wound, though.
Garrett looked over at Jackie as she fired a second round. It was much more impressive than a normal rifle, with a long green ball of fire streaking out of the barrel behind the round. This round also hit the dragon, but now the dragon turned and started walking towards the three. Garrett looked back into his rifle sight and aimed for a head shot. He pulled the trigger and the round flew right on target. However, to his dismay its hitting the dragon was obscured by a shower of red sparks and the round deflected off and into the ceiling. Jackie's round also glanced off the dragon's head.
However, as Garrett got up to get out of the way of the inevitable fire breath, Eleanor aimed her shotgun. A bar on either side folded out and Eleanor took aim. She fired and five green photons streaked out and into the dragon. It didn't glance off like the projectiles did, but it didn't seem to do much damage either.
"Watch out, that thing breathes fire!"
Garrett started pushing Eleanor out of the way of the dragon. Once she got the idea and ran from a huge ball of fire, Garrett ran up close to the dragon. He had an idea on how to get rid of it quickly. He switched to his grenade launcher and checked its clip. It was loaded with the shot grenades instead of the large ones, but he didn't feel like switching the clip. He aimed at one of the dragon's huge knees and fired. The result was impressive visually. Fourteen tiny explosions tore into the knee, leaving it burned looking. Garrett fired a second round into the knee and once again many small explosions hit it. After a third round it was too much and that leg buckled.
Garrett quickly ejected the partially spent clip and ran to the dragon's head. He tossed the clip at the ground next to the head and then started backing away. He turned and saw Eleanor firing into the dragon's neck with her shotgun.
"Shoot that clip next to its head!"
Eleanor changed her aim and shot at the clip. The first shot struck, and the several individual small explosive balls in the shot shells exploded as one. Garrett and Eleanor were a bit too close to it, and they were knocked on their backs by the explosion.
As soon as the dust and rock stopped raining down, Garrett was able to see that the dragon's head had been mostly destroyed by the explosion. With no more threat from the dragon, Garrett, Eleanor, and Jackie got back in a group. Eleanor tapped Garrett's now empty grenade launcher.
"I must concede that your weapons are strong, but they have one inherent flaw."
"What is that?"
"They can be easily deflected."
"I see, but you saw what these things could do. And if I hit in the right place I don't think I would have to worry about deflection."
Garrett walked over to the teleporter.
"I thought you were coming into the cave?"
"I am going to, but first do you know how to move one of these?"
"Why do you want to move this?"
"So no one has to fight a dragon whenever they want to come down here."
"Oh, where do you want it moved to?"
"Right through that door is good."
Eleanor moved the teleporter quickly into the small room between the dragon area and the rest of the cave system. Once that was done they all started into the cave. Now Jackie was using her submachine gun and Garrett had his grenade launcher. The first group of sharks teleported in and Eleanor immediately hit all of the nearby ones in one shot from her shotgun. Jackie but a short burst into a nearby one's head, knocking it down. Garrett had loaded more of the shot shells into his grenade launcher and now aimed at another nearby shark. With one shot its front half was a bloody pulp and it fell to the ground to be soon gone.
Eleanor turned her gun and aimed again. This time the bars on the sides turned forward more. Eleanor fired and instead of all five rounds firing at once the shots went off like a machine gun, alternating between each barrel. Each of these shots ripped into a nearby shark and brought it down after a burst. Garrett shot the last nearby shark and then looked down across the room to see another several sharks teleporting in.
"Get your rifles out."
Garrett took out his sniper rifle and quickly had one of the creatures in his crosshairs. He fired the shot and its head was vaporized. He heard Jackie fire and saw another beast's chest get torn open. It too fell. Garrett fired another shot and got another kill. Eleanor began firing with her rifle and connected several shots to a fourth enemy, killing that one after seven or eight shots. With that, nothing else appeared. The door at the far end of the room, like before, was locked. However, the one on the side of the room was unlocked, so Garrett switched to his grenade launcher and headed through that door.
After pushing through several sharks and a few more of the flowers in this room rapidly, Garrett hit the switch at the dead end and headed back into the main room. However, Eleanor shouted to him from back in the dead end.