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Chapter 11 - Romantic River Underrun

The Ubix Valley is not exactly what you could call perfect. It's certainly had it's faults. It's main one being the illegal transport of foreigners. It had remained a huge problem what with thousands of foreigners coming and living at Ubix and to be perfectly honest, nobody knew how it was done. They do now.

Underneath Ubix, lay a network of tunnels, harvesting all things that go bump in the night. It also, has the service that transports all the immigrants:

RRU

A G, an A and a Y had long ago been added to the end of the sign. RRU stood for two things: Romantic River Underrun and Route for Rebel Underlings. It's main task was to transport all foreigners and it didn't exactly have an insurance for itself. If you die on this trip, you die. No money back. It's a dog eat dog world out there.

Naturally, that's exactly where Rayman would have to go next.

A mouse scurried along the ground. It stopped suddenly. Sensing something bad was about to happen. It shouldn't of stopped. A ton of soil fell on top of it. Followed by a Fairy, a fairy-look-alike, a Teensie, an annoying bug, a giant squirrel, a big toad, an imp then a limbless fella'. "Now where?" groaned the limbless fella'.

"I think it's this way," replied Kaelinth.

"Think. Think." grumbled Rayman under his breath. They trudged along. Ankle deep in sewage. It was so dark, you could barely see the dark and they were all having difficulty seeing.

Then there was a whizzing in the air, sounding rather like an arrow. Instinctively, Rayman, clumped to the ground, getting covered in muck. Drealy screamed. "RAYMAN! Where are you?" Rayman tried to look up but found himself unable to, sinking into the mud. A blinding light flung through the air, scorching his retinas. Then he was jerked, and a searing pain went through him. Everything went black. Even blacker than before. And that was black. Black.

"Rayman? Rayman? Are you okay?" Rayman opened his eyes. And saw seven staring faces. All of them looked worried as if they knew something bad that he didn't. "You're awake."

"Course I am, and twice as cool!"

"I'd half it actually." said Chippy unhappily. Rayman looked down and gasped. He had lost his hand. It was gone. Rayman just stared, in utter disbelief. Then he heard a familiar voice. One with a very strong German accent...

"Vell, to get ze arm back, ve need to get the arm. But in ze meantime, I say it's 'armless. Hee, hee, hee. Ho, ho, ho."

"We need to get my hand!"

"Don't vowwy, I shall give you a hand. Hee, hee, hee. Ho, ho, ho." Rayman frowned menacingly. The doctor (otherwise known as Otto) jumped. "Ok, I stop. It was just a bit of 'armless fun... WAHH... That was 'armful. Anyhow, to get your arm back ve need to flush out ze sewers."

"And how are we supposed to do that?"

"Vell, being the leader of RRU (gay), I have complete and utter control of the sewers. However, ve do need to evacuate in about 10 seconds. Otherwise, ve shall all drown."

"I'm sorry did I here 10 seconds?"

"Yes," said Otto, harmfully (-hee hee-) slowly, "It's 5 seconds now... 4... 3... 2... 1... NOW!" Nothing happened.

"Err, wise guy. Nothings happening," said Ly.

"Something must be blocking the pump. By ze extra time it is taking, I'd guess it vould be a similar size and shape to Rayman's vemaining hand." Ly rolled her eyes. "It is Rayman's -" She was cut off. By water.

Jerking through water is not the most comfortable experiences... as they all found. Polokus knows what was speeding through with them. Rushing water burst by. Rayman couldn't breathe. And he was running out of breath. How long could it last? Forever, it felt. Then it was over. Quick as a flash and Rayman felt himself slumped on a sharp wooden surface.

Looking up, he saw, he was on some sort of gondola. His main notice was pain but he also noticed a Teensie sitting next to him. And it wasn't Minimus. "Welcome to Romantic River Underrun.............. You're not the cops are you?"

"No," insisted Rayman.

"Sure?"

"Positive."

"Very well, welcome to Route for Rebel Underlings. I shall now transport you to the Heart of the World and breed and multiply happily!"

"What are you on about?"

"I don't think I have to go into the details of breeding, do I?" Then Rayman was saved by a laugh. "I'm sure Rayman is fully aware of such matters!" It was Ly. Then Kaelinth butted in.

"To the Heart of the World, Bob!"

"Aye, aye Kaelinth!" And the gondola shot forward. It was fast. Very fast. Extremely fast. Too fast. Way too fast. Etcetera. "I think I'm gonna be sick groaned Globox," he was. Over Murfy. Suddenly, it stopped and the eight of them went tumbling forward. Rayman felt like his insides were on a rollercoaster and he was on one going in the opposite direction. Blearily, he looked up. "You've got your arm back!" exclaimed Drealy.

"So I have..." smiled Rayman, before slumping to the ground.

"Hope you enjoyed your Romantic River Underrun. I hope you do it again some time --"

"Never," they all said in unison. Then the gondola swirled into the darkness. And Rayman felt like he was going up. He was. It was an elevator. Slowly, colours flew through the air and it was extremely funky. Then Rayman knew where he was. A place where he had visited every single time the world was in danger. It was the Heart of the World. Aka, Disco of the Teensies.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Oooh, hope you liked it. Funky new update system, don't you think? Anyhow, hopefully next update will be quicker. No idea what the next chapter will be called. Have an idea what's gonna happen though. Ciao!