Out of the Cage
Kenros and the mercenary are captured by Doxen and his band of Ditto thugs. If they don't escape in time, they're in big trouble!
Chapter 3: Slowly…
"Uhhh….what just happened? Where am I…?"
I looked left and right, realizing my hands tied behind my back. …Am I hanging upside-down?
"What the hell?! Damnit, they caught me! How could I let a Splixson sneak up on me like that?!"
"You tell me." said the mercenary.
He wasn't having any good fortune either. The Splixson's tied his hands and feet to the wall as though he were trying to make a snow angel...with metal. I get the feeling we're flying somewhere above the Earth's atmosphere, hopefully not flying to an execution zone.
"Wake up Loboan." said Doxen.
I ignored him, pretending to still vaguely notice him.
"I said wake up!!"
"OWW!!" Did you just slap me?!
"Welcome to my spaceship Loboan. I hope you don't mind our 'methods' of saying hello to intruders."
One of his cronies began to laugh, but it sounded very guttural; even deeper than my voice.
"A simple 'what's up?' would've been fine."
"Yeah, sorry we had to tie you up by the way, but it was a lot easier to drag you up here. You ever wash those stinky wolf feet of yours? We could barely handle the stench when we dragged you on board!! I mean, do you ever take the time to sniff those babies?"
"Oh, man! PU! And how 'bout that stinky wolf breath of his?! You got any gum" asked his crony.
Doxen and his crony started to laugh at me.
"Say I got bad hygiene again. I dare you; I double dare you."
"Well...we haven't talked about his fleas yet..." said Doxen.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!!"
I tried biting off Doxen's face, but it was impossible with me tied to that pipe upside-down.
"Okay, okay, we've had our fun. Let's just wait two more hours. That's when the REAL fun begins!"
"What happens in two hours?" asked the mercenary.
"Why does that matter? You're gonna die either way." said his crony.
The mercenary glanced at Doxen's crony and muttered, "I know you."
"What?"
"You're that orange Ripjaws I found swimming in that pool, eating all those people."
"Piscciss Volann, merc."
The Piscciss Volann ran up to the mercenary and held a knife up to his neck.
"You're the one that killed my family!"
"That's right!"
"Hey, stop!" shouted Doxen, running up toward the mercenary before he slit his throat.
"It's like you said, Sproksin, they're gonna die anyway. You can wait two hours."
Sproksin growled gutturally at the merc, staring him dead in the eye, revealing his sharp set of teeth.
"You die first," he said, tapping his knife on the merc's nose.
"And then you." he said, pointing at me.
Doxen and Sproksin walked out the room we were tied in and the metal sliding door shut behind them, immediately locking itself. ...We are not in a good position right now.
"What's with you and fish-boy?"
"I went fishing and caught very, very big fish..."
"Only, they weren't fish, right?"
"I'm pretty sure fish can't talk..."
"Hey, you got a name? I don't want to run around shouting merc all the time."
He sighed heavily and muttered, "Leslie."
I laughed out loud and shouted, "You're name's Leslie?! That's a girl name!"
"Shut up! My father's name was Leslie and he served in Iraq! Just...call me LJ."
"Okay, Leslie Junior!"
"Fine, you think you're so smart, then how do we get outta this torture chamber in less than two hours?"
"...Let me think that through first."
One hour later...
"GOT IT!!"
"It took you one hour to think of a plan!!"
"At least I got one. You see those keys hanging up there?"
"Yeah..."
"I'm gonna swing myself up there and grab 'em with my mouth."
"How long is that gonna take?"
"Umm..."
Half an hour later...
"HURRY IT UP!!"
I swung myself as hard as I could and knocked the keys down with my tongue. I swung myself back and got the keys with my mouth.
"Yes!! Now just--"
"I know what I'm doing!" I said, in a muffled way.
Okay, just twist my arms in front of me, put the key into the handcuffs, twist my head, and there. Problem solved! Better bite off the ropes so I can get down.
"Nice! Now unlock me!"
"Uh, no."
"What?! You're just going to leave me hanging up here?!"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"You asshole!!"
I laughed. "I'm gonna come back! Besides I doubt Doxen is stupid enough to keep both the keys that unlock us in here."
"Well can you at least scratch my nose before you go? OWW!!"
I grabbed a wrench and threw it at his face. "See ya."
20 minutes left before LJ gets executed. Now I just need to get to the control booth in this part of the ship.
It shouldn't be too hard to creep past all these Splixson's...except maybe that one by the door. I slowly walked over to a Splixson standing guard near a set of explosives.
"Psst!"
"Hey, who's there?"
The Splixson turned around and saw nothing when I quickly hid inside a trash container. As he looked inside, I yanked him in, covered his mouth, and snapped his neck.
"That's one down."
Two Splixson's were looking straight ahead with flashlights, shining them back and forth.
"So, how do you think they're gonna do that mercenary?"
"Depends on who does it. If it's Doxen, he's just gonna walk in and shoot him in the face."
"What if it's Sproskin?"
The other one chuckled.
"Let's just say it's gonna be bloody."
I punched one of them in the back of the head, knocking him down.
"What the--"
I snapped the other ones neck. Before the other one got up, I jumped on the Splixson's chest, crushing his ribs in the process.
"How am I gonna get that guy from that door without anyone knowing?"
I decided to look inside the crate of explosives to see if I can use something as a distraction. Hmm...someone left some fiber wire in this crate. I took it and hopped on top of the control booth, crawling right above the guarding Splixson. When he was about to walk away, I garroted him until he stopped thrashing and kicking, dragging his body on top of the booth.
"Amazing how nobody has spotted me yet." I muttered to myself.
I opened up the door and found another set of keys on the control panel.
"Got 'em! Now I just need to free LJ."
"Did you get the keys?"
"No, I just walked around to stretch my legs."
"Just shut up and unlock me." demanded LJ.
I walked over to him and unlocked his hand and leg cuffs, freeing him from the wall.
"Thanks."
"You're not gonna give me crap about my breath, are you?" I asked.
"Better than Sproksin's fish breath!"
"Good. Now we just need to get out of here before those Splixson's find us."
Now that we've escaped from our prison encapturemnt, we can find a way to blow this ship up.
"Did you kill anyone before you got these keys?"
"Yeah."
"Did you remember to hide the bodies, y'know so they don't, uh, set off the alarms?!"
"...Maybe."
The alarms began to ring. Someone must've spotted the two bodies I left out.
"That is NOT a good sign."