-Seven-
Eli
"Let 'em have it!"
As slugs clashed, I ran through the clouds of dust to Lily and Junjie. But when I was almost there, I tripped on a pipe and my ankle bent the wrong way. I screamed in agony as I grabbed my leg. "Help! I think I sprained my ankle!"
"Hang on, Eli. I got your back!" Trixie yelled. She fired Doc. Using his SkinSplint Move, he shed a layer of glowing, green scales and wrapped it around my ankle. Suddenly, all of the pain was suppressed. It was enough to run to the cage and unlock it. I helped Lily and Junjie out of the cage. I put Junjie's arm over Lily's shoulder. He stumbled on his broken leg.
"We have to get out of here, or else someone else is going to get hurt."
"Someone is. Your sister!"
An Armashelt Slug was speeding towards us. Everything seemed to go in slow-motion.
Use your Slug-Fu training, idiot!
I closed my eyes and concentrated. I felt the slug getting closer, then it stopped in mid-air. I opened my eyes and shot it back at Ember. The recoil knocked him into a pile of junk. Then the SkinSplint wore off. I fell to the ground.
As Trixie helped me to my feet, Pronto said, "Do we have all of the slugs?" Kord looked at his hand.
"Let's see… Tazerling, Hoverbug, Frightgeist, Rammstone, Hydra, Arachnet, Armashelt… wait… I'm missing Fandango and Frostcrawler!" Lily started to panic.
"You mean Petty and Glacier aren't here?!"
"They're right here."
The two missing slugs were squeaking and trying to escape the grasp of a gloved blue hand. "Straggus! Let my slugs go!"
"Who's gonna make me? Two of your teammates are hurt and you don't have your blaster!"
"Sis," I said. "Use my blaster until we can find yours." She put her hand on my shoulder.
"Thanks, Eli. Alright, Straggus, I challenge you to a duel. I win, I get my slugs back. You win, you get me and all of my slugs." Junjie gasped.
"Lily, that's crazy!"
The blue man smiled evilly. "Sounds good to me."
"One condition," Lily said firmly. "Leave my friends out of this. They aren't involved."
"Whatever. You just lost your slugs!"