Puppet Soldiers
Chapter 4
"I have 5 living puppets to be exact." Jake said as he took the puppet off his shoulder and placed it in front of Allen and the Gorgonites. "This here is the leader. His name is Blade for obvious reasons." Blade was almost 2 feet tall, much taller than the Gorgonites, and he had a skull-like white face with white hair that brushed against his shoulders. Where his eyes were supposed to be, he had black holes with "bullet eyes", two spikes in his eye sockets that come out whenever he is surprised or shocked. His mouth shaped to more of a Cheshire cat grin, making him look spookier. He wore a black trench coat with a matching fedora, but what really scared Allen and the Gorgonites was the fact that his right "hand" had a knife in replace of a hand while the same was true for his left but instead it had a hook.
Archer walked up to Blade and said "Greetings! I am Archer, emissary of the Gorgonites." Blade just hissed at him. "Can't Blade speak?" Allen asked. "No, but you can normally tell be their body language what they want to tell you." Jake answered. There was a whimper coming from the floor and when everyone looked down, they saw a jester puppet with two lines on his face, splitting it into three even parts. Right now, it had a sad face on. It was looking at the Gorgonites until it turned to Jake and started pointing at the alien action figures.
"I think he's scared of you guys." Allen told Archer and the others. "Hey! Don't be scared of us! We're just scary monsters that might attack you in your sleep!" Insaniac laughed until he got hit in the back of the head with a club. Freakenstein's club to be exact. "Hey! What was that for!?" Insaniac yelled, sounding hurt. "Idiot." Was all Freakenstein said before everyone turned their attention back to the jester puppet. Now the puppet had a "shocked" face on and was still looking at Jake and pointing at the Gorgonites. Leave it to Insaniac to scare the poor puppet. Blade hissed and stared at the crazy blue Gorgonite. He didn't sound too happy by Insaciac's words. "Blade, don't attack them. He didn't mean to say that." Jake added before Blade could advance on the Gorgonite.
Insaniac, being Insaniac, was about to say something back but Slamfist put his actual hand on Insaniac's mouth, preventing him from saying anything more. Though everyone could still here muffled laughter coming from behind Slamfist's hand. "Nice thinking" Allen whispered to Slamfist. Slamfist nodded but quickly turned his head to see Jake trying to calm down the scared puppet. "Sorry about Insaniac" Allen said, sweat-dropping. "Don't worry about it." Jake assured, "By the way, this here is Jester and he's the emotion and the joker of the group." Jester, like everyone knew, wore a jester's outfit with red as the main body fabric's color and a darker color for the sleeves and the pants. He also wore a belt around the middle of his body. On his head, there was a dark blue jester's hat with bells on the ends. And lastly, he had golden boots that stood out from the rest of his dark colored outfit. "I'll be right back. I need to find the other puppets." Jake announced before leaving.
There was then an awkward silence between everyone. Jester still kept a close eye on the Gorgonites and Blade was staring at Insaniac, wondering if he should still attack because of what the Gorgonite said to Jester. "So how about this weather, huh." Allen quickly said to break the silence. Everyone just stared at Allen. "I was trying to break the awkward silence." Allen muttered. Everyone sweat-dropped, until they heard running footsteps. "Here are the little buggars," Jake said panting, "they decided they wanted to play hide and seek. Luckily I know where they like to hide."
Allen and the Gorgonites got a closer look at the 3 new puppets. One was a large, burly puppet that wore a red sweatshirt with black slacks and fingerless gloves on his large hands. His head though was tiny and he appeared to have an angry face on. The next looked like a military soldier with pitch black eyes and a drill on is head that he would drill every now and then if he was bored. The last was a cowboy with a mischievous smile that showed his teeth. One of his teeth seemed to be gold while the others were white. He wore everything a cowboy would wear, from the hat down to the boots with spurs on the ends. He even wore a red bandana that moves on its own and covers his mouth and he would have an evil chuckle whenever he gets to shoot things. The only difference between him and a real cowboy was the fact that he had 6 arms and 6 guns to go with those arms. "This is Pinhead." Jake said as he pointed to the big puppet. The puppet held out his hand to Allen, who got the fact that the puppet wanted a hand shake, shook the puppet's hand. "This is Tunneler." Jake gestured to the military puppet. The puppet simply turned his drill on for a second as his way of greeting Allen and the Gorgonites. "And lastly, this is Six-Shooter." Jake looked at the cowboy puppet. The puppet tipped his hat as the normal way for cowboys to greet others.
'Nice to meet you all." Allen greeted the puppets, "I'm Allen and these are the Gorgonites and they won't hurt you." Allen said the last part while staring at Insaniac, who was still struggling to get Slamfist's hand away from his mouth. Pinhead, Tunneler, and Six-Shooter just tilted their heads, not really understanding what he meant by that. "It's a long story." Jake explained to the confused puppets. They nodded, fine with what Jake said.
Suddenly, there was a large crash from one of the windows in the front hall. Everyone ran to where there was glass all over and Allen picked up an old TV remote on the ground and noticed some words on the back of it. The words were written on paper and that paper was taped to the remote. "Surrender the Gorgonites or all will die." The words said. "Allen then looked up from the remote and looked to the Gorgonites. "Looks like we got company."