Out of the Cage

LJ and Kenros must figure out how to get the crystal back and escape the ship while simultaneously attacking a battalion of Splixsons.

Chapter 4: Loboan vs. Splixson

"Why was it so hard to hide two bodies from these guys?!" yelled LJ.

"Just shut up and keep firing!" I shouted, shooting a Splixson twice in the chest.

Both of us were ducking and shooting Splixson's left and right, trying to get into the central platform bay. Doxen might not be there, but I know that his hench guards are gonna ship it back to those Remquists as soon as possible. Another Splixson went down and another appeared. I shot two more in the face, and four more appeared.

...Does anyone see an unfair pattern here?

I growled. "Get on the catwalks!"

LJ and I ran outside the prison quarters and shut the door, locking it.

"That should keep them occupied for a while. Come on, let's get to the bay before more Splixson's show up."

20 minutes later...

"God, why is this walkway so long?! Why can't the door just pop up right in front of us?" complained LJ.

He suddenly clunked into a large metal structure: a cloaked door in the middle of the walkway.

"Oww."

"You found the door!"

"I can see that. Now if I can just find the knob..."

LJ moved his hands over the door, trying ot find some form of obstruction to open it.

"There's no knob."

"Yeah there is, you just can't find it."

LJ started banging on the cloaked door and it got to the point where he was just tryingto break it down.

"Damnit, there's no knob!"

"Yes, there is!" I laughed.

LJ groaned exasperatedly and started rapidly punching and kicking at the door. He even began to shoot at it with his M4.

"WHERE'S THE KNOB?!"

I was out the floor howling with laughter. How stupid must LJ be to not realize you must do "something" to open these kinds of door? But...what is that something we must do?

"We're stuck here!"

"Not unless someone rapidly pops up right behind me and--"

Someone kicked me from behind. Doxen. I can recognize his blue skin and red eyes from here.

"Okay Kenros...I thought you wouldn't be this big of a burden on my side, but apparently, you are." he said, holding up a knife made of plasma.

"All right then. Let's do this!" yelled LJ.

Both of us charged towards Doxen and started kicking and punching at him. But with that plasma knife in his hand, it's very hard to land a blow on him without getting hurt ourselves.

"Come on!! I thought the great Loboan was tougher than this! Or maybe your fleas are biting you too hard for you to fight well."

Something red twinkled in my eye and I violently jumped towards Doxen and punched him 12 times in the face and kicked him in the cheek before he could react. He had a bruise on his head and blood was flowing out his mouth. LJ tried the same method, but he got sliced in the arm and in the head. ...I think.

"HAH!! You missed me--"

Four hair spikes fell off the top of his head.

"You...You cut my hair!!" he yelled.

"I thought that was a porcupine? It's too spiky for me to tell the difference."

Both of us looked at each other, completely pissed off by Doxen and his comments. We yelled out loud and charged into Doxen, busting down the cloaked door and leading us into the platform bay. Inside were several different types of ships, some large enough to scale a small invasion on Earth. After we rolled down a metal ramp, Doxen held a gun out on us. If LJ hadn't lost his M4 and I wasn't out of bullets, we'd do the same.

"You cheated." I muttered gutturally.

"At least I didn't duplicate myself 12 times."

"True..."

"I think you forgot something very important about us Loboans, Doxen."

"What's that?"

I roared loud enough to shatter his gun and send him hurling into a ship. He quickly got up and we started fighting again.

"Go get the ship started!" I yelled to LJ. He ran into a cruiser and began getting the controls started.

Meanwhile, I punched Doxen twice in the stomach and elbowed him to the ground. Before I could stomp his face in, he tripped me and kicked me in the face twice.

I grabbed his hand a third time and muttered, "Gotcha." squeezing real hard.

"OWW!!" He bit my hand!

Doxen found a large metal support bar and whacked me in the head with it.

"You cheater! OW!!"

I roared again, but it wasn't strong enough to shatter the metal. ...But he did bring his guard down, leading me to jump-kick him. I clawed him on the face and stomach so deeply, I'm surprised none of his intestines fell out. Both of us were panting heavily and sweating, wondering which one of us was going to fall down first. I suddenly charged into him and got on top of him, punching the snot of his face. No seriously, snot started flying out his face! I shouldn't have let my guard down though, because that was when he kicked me in the chin and punched me in my wounded eye. He stood up and stepped down on my neck, trying to choke me with his foot. Even though his face was ravaged, I could still see the angry glare in his eyes. He took out another plasma knife and I clutched his hand before it penetrated my eye.

"You're gonna...lose strength...sometime."

Damn, he's right. That is not even two inches from my retinas. A couple more seconds and I'm a dead wolf. Right when he shoved his knife down, I rolled my face sideways (wounding my eye again) and grabbed the knife, throwing it at a rope supporting a large yellow and black striped metal construction bar. It began to swing down at him like...well, a swing. He didn't even have time to react. He simply muttered, "Oh shi--" before the bar swatted him at the wall like a baseball. Thank God it didn't smash into my nose.

I walked onto the ship with LJ and shouted, "FEEL FREE TO HELP AT ANY TIME!!"

"You were doing fine. Hey!"

I ripped off part of his camouflage outfit and wiped my face with it.

"You have any idea how much it cost to find a red and brown camouflage uniform?"

"Shut up and just drive the ship."

"Umm..." LJ stared at the control panel, trying to find some sort of button that would start it.

"So which button--"

"The big green one that says start LJ!"

"...I knew that."

LJ pressed the button and the cruiser automatically started itself and flew outside of the battleship. I took out a detonator and extended the antenna with my teeth.

"You wanna blow it?"

"Blow what?"

"Press it and find out." I said, smiling.

LJ pressed the button and turned around, seeing that the battleship exploded into multiple segments.

"COOL!"

"That's one less Remquist space station to worry about."

Man, this has been a fulfilling night. A fight with a mercenary, escaping a horde of Splixson's, killing one of the Remquists' captains. It's been fun...and yet I feel like I forgot something... Wait a minute!! I did forget something!

"Where's that crystal?!" I yelled.

"That red thing Doxen had? Didn't he take it into the control booth...?"

I angrily gritted my teeth, realizing that I could've snatched the crystal when I was getting the keys. How am I gonna defeat the Remquists now? I need those crystals!

"Son of a--"

In the cold vastness of space, the red crystal was re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. It landed in a jungle somewhere in South America. The only problem though, was that Acknit, another crony of the Remquists, found it before Kenros and LJ turned around to land back on Earth.

How will they ever get it back...?