Groggy and a little dizzy, the Count wondered where his troops were. Herbert must have captured them and taken them away, Count Lizard thought to himself. "I will return Herbert…" Count Lizard said, low and threatening, "I will return!"
Meanwhile, Herbert was heading down the dirt road towards his destination, Princess Frogette's humble abode. His degrading thoughts, which shall not be described here yet again, were foremost on his mind, when he ran into a rather hard, inanimate object in the middle of the road. And then, low and behold, when Herbert looked up, he found a barricade, actually, more like a string of barricades, barricading the route.
As if my day could get any worse… Herbert thought. And… of course, it did. But before I, the author, tell you what made Herb's day significantly worse, let's get a little background on the situation at hand.
While Herbert was busy battling it out with Count Lizard (you can't really call it a "battle" but… for practicality…), in a dark, dank, cold cave, far away, underground, an ant stood watching a blinking screen. His mission impossible outfit suited him slightly better than Count Lizard's, due to his impressive muscle size and evil glare (obviously, he didn't want to be there). Then, a siren sounded. A tall, angry, ant strode up behind him, decked out in flowing red, and black speckled, with a white ruff cloak, and a crown.
"He's here?" The ant stared at the screen for a while.
"He's here, sir– I mean, your majestic royal highness…" the mission impossible ant's face started to pale and he seemed to shrink in his clothes (this is a scary thought considering he was practically ten times larger than any ant or lizard in the area… and scarier).
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed the Mission Impossible ant. He sunk to the ground, screaming. He was… stung.
Now, Herbert, who was commencing to look up at the thing behind the barricade, was where we left off. So, Herbert looked slowly up into the face of an ant. Not a very large ant, but a pretty puny ant, in a red with black dots and a ruff cloak, and a crown.
"Who are you?" Herbert said. In his head Herbert was screaming to himself, What is wrong with the universe!
"I… am your worst nightmare," said the ant. "I… am Prince ANTony!"