Chapter 3: Rebel Ransom
Nigel Planter along with Hoss Delgado had arrived back to their Cuban haven bringing Dean Toadblat along with them as a prisoner. Toadblat was quite tied up at the moment and Planter had to carry the large sum of special magical weapons all the way back to the base.
"So what are you two going to do with me?" asked Toadblat as he was placed in a room along with the other rebel leaders such as Irwin and Commando Cod.
"Blah, blah, blah, blah" said Commando Cod as he pointed his fins to Toadblat.
"I couldn't understand him, what did he say?" asked Toadblat.
"He said he was going to torture you and place you on broadcast network Mindy's Empire" replied Irwin, "geeze, understand him already yo."
"But isn't that considered a form of torture and propaganda?" asked Toadblat.
"He's said too much, place a sock in his mouth and shut him up" replied Irwin to Hoss.
"You got it chief" said Hoss as he took out a sock and did as he was told.
"Yo, Commie pals" said Irwin to the group of Cuban Communists who were also in the room, "get some television equipment yo, we're going to broadcast our capture of Dean Toadblat live to Mindy's Imperial forces."
"Right away my amigo" said the head Cuban Communist as he and his group went out.
Grim's POV:
Ah, finally I got back to narrating this story. The group of wizards that Hoss had fired upon, well I had some fun reaping them all. Anyway, to the local Cuban Communists, as my days as the Grim Reaper, I had to travel to many Communist countries. Communist China especially was an over kill estimate of so many souls I could reap. It was sure fun to have someone as brutal like Mao Zedong (who killed more people than that German tyrant who we all dread and hate) or his later successors around.
As for Cuba, I had to reap innocent souls as they made their way to Florida. Many of the simply drowned which was not just unfortunate for them, but unfortunate for me. You see, there were plenty of sharks in the sea who wanted to take my bones and I had to use my scythe constantly to reap some of those sharks just to show them whose boss around these parts. Back to the Cuban Communists, they were quite good at promoting propaganda during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, I always laughed whenever I saw a far left pro-Castro professor denying how brutal old Castro was to his people. Quite sad I might add, but any who, I would soon reap that professor once he/she passed away of natural causes and show them the truth.
Anyway, back to the story, too much of a rant.
End of Grim's POV.
The group of Cuban Communists finally came back into the room with various television equipment and began to set things up, along with placing Dean Toadblat in position along with the rebel leaders against Mindy's empire. While that was going on, Mindy along with General Skarr had arrived for a summit between the two empires. The summit was suppose to be the point where Mandy was forced to sign a pact out of mutual agreement between her and Mindy. Mindy was quite gleeful knowing that she would be getting her way with this for the first time in her life.
"Is everything ready General Skarr?" asked Mindy as she sat down on her seat along with the document that would surely be the pact between the two empires. She was wearing a military uniform similar to that of Joseph Stalin.
"Absolutely Madame Empress" replied Skarr as he gave a proud salute to her.
"Great" said Mindy, "signal Mandy to come in."
"Will do" said General Skarr as he left the scene.
A short while later, General Skarr escorted Mandy into the scene. Mandy was wearing a dark military uniform quite similar to Mindy's, but under Mandy's own style of fashion. She then sat down on her seat.
"Okay, let's get this over with" sighed Mandy as she signaled Skarr to hand over a pen.
"Here you go" said General Skarr who was quite pleased to see the look on her face.
"Now Mandy, before you sign this pact with my Empire" said Mindy, "you are going to have do whatever my terms state in the document. Along with even giving whatever land I would want to take and all that other sort of stuff."
"So you brought me here to sign a disarmament pact?" asked Mandy as she tighten the hold of the pen she was holding in anger.
"Look, Mandy" replied Mindy, "this is under modest terms. You would still be the Empress of your vast empire, I will just have more land than you and you will just have less of an arsenal to throw at me."
"So it is a disarmament treaty as well as a pact?!" cried Mandy as she pounded her fist on the table, "You were trying to trick me into making me disarm so that you can also have the upper hand against the rebel forces weren't you?!"
"Why Mandy, I don't know what you are talking about" said Mindy as she had her fingers crossed behind her back.
"You're nothing more than a liar and you have always been since we first me" said Mandy as she violently threw the pen onto the ground and then began to getting into a fist fight with Mindy.
"So what did we miss?" asked Nergal as he and his son were coming into the scene fashionably late.
"Looks like you two came just in time to watch the cat fight unfold" replied General Skarr as he began to laugh at Mandy's pain as Mindy gave her a good punch.
Suddenly General Skarr's communicator began to rang.
"Yes, yes, what is it?" asked General Skarr as he was on his communicator to one of the intelligence officers on the other line, "You mean they did what? Okay, put them on screen. Too bad this is going to stop the cat fight in progress."
Suddenly a computer screen popped up showing what looked like to be Dean Toadblat whose face was covered by some sort of bag and tied up. The room was quite dark and there were shadowy figures surrounding Toadblat. The two empresses who were fight stopped. Many had a bloody nose thanks to Mindy, while Mindy was completely bruised up as the television screen began to become clearer, Hoss Delgado and Nigel Planter appeared as the darkness began to fade along with Commando Cod and Irwin.
"Wow, looks like we caught you people at a bad time" said Hoss then a Cuban Communist in the background nudged Hoss's shoulder, "oh, right the ransom and the threat."
"We have Dean Toadblat under our clutches" said Nigel, "and we have stolen some advance magical weapons from Toadblat's stash and we know that Toadblat was on your side Mindy."
"Mindy, is this true that you once had advance magical weapons in your arsenal?" asked Mandy as they dusted themselves off from their little cat fight.
"Uh, now that you mention it" replied Mindy as sweat began to appear on her forehead.
"Alright Mandy" said Irwin as it was his turn to come on the screen, "this time you are going to finally surrender to me. I for one have been waiting for this moment since you rejected me all of these years."
"That was your whole purpose of rebelling against my reign, nothing about trying to promote freedom and all that baloney?" asked Mandy as she was quite red in the face.
"Uh, yea yo" replied Irwin.
"Alright Skarr, turn that off or I'll poke your other eye out" said Mandy as she made a direct threat to Mindy's main general.
"As you say so" said General Skarr in a scared frightful voice and quickly turned it off, then she turns to Mindy, "alright, I'll sign your pact, but you better leave the whole disarmament sections out of the pact."
"Alright, alright" said Mindy as she got the document and used the pen to cross out those sections and signed it, "here, sign it."
"Those rebel forces along with the Cuban Communist government are soon going to meet Grim" said Mandy as she signed her signature onto the document.
As the two Empresses' generals and advisors left the scene, the scene fades with both Mandy and Mindy giving each other some sort of a smirk to each other which was quite creepy even for the two tyrants.