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Slugterra Fanfic
Chptr 15: First day of work
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The job description sounded easy enough.
Supervise and protect the delivery of an important machine part to The Citadel without any interruptions.

Any and all necessary force is required.
Be at the co-ordinates 12, 098,05 by 5am tomorrow.
Delete this message once read.

Seemed simple enough, I thought. But it was Blakk that I was dealing with so nothing was ever simple.

Since I had nothing to do, I decided to head over to the co-ordinates and have a quick look.
Changing into some simple clothes I let me hair down and washed my face. I looked in the mirror to see myself looking completely different. Except my bright green eyes that seemed to hold all of Slugterras' good energy in them.
Blah, I hate that sappy stuff.
As I headed for the door Jet lifted her head and wagged her tail eagerly.
I stopped and scratched her behind her ear. "Sorry, girl. You can't come right now. You're a dead give-away. But I'll be back soon and you have your treadmill, okay? Be right back!"
I left out the back door after dialing for a taxi-mecha. Skies, too, would be a dead giveaway.

The taxi picked me up outside the reserve and dropped me off at the requested stop, a 20 minute walk to the pick-up point.
After a brief stroll, I found the area. It was a rusty old shed attached to a big hardware store. Pretty well concealed too.
Around it was a flat dirt area, obviously the result of good business, but the edge stopped at a dense jungle of leaves and mushrooms.
That would be where I would go. I'd keep an eye out for things in the bush and if things went wrong, which was most likely to happen, I could bolt out and deal with it.
I scanned the scene once more, then headed into the city for some lunch.

The Next Day

My alarm went off at 4 so after punching it off I got up and got ready.
Having a quick shower to wake me up, scarfing down a quick piece of toast then arming myself with three throwing knives and my blaster.
I donned on my leather jacket, white shirt and black pants with my boots then grabbed my glasses and headed off to wake up Skies. Jet wasn't coming due to safety concerns.
I mounted up then leapt off Skies perch. We landed with a minute thump, shock absorbers muffling the sound, then sped off like a shadow.

I arrived at the drop point, scanning the area with my heat sensor. Six of Blakks men and no-one else so far.
I eased Skies forward and we slipped out of the bush towards the workers. One of them saw me coming and froze in fear.
The others seeing there colleague stop, all turned around and saw me coming and did the same thing.
Great, looks like no-one told them I was coming.
"What do you think you're doing? Get back to loading up the cargo." Came a sinister growl from inside the shed.
Only one person, I mean thing, growls like that.
El Diablos Nacho.
He stalked outside of the shed, holding his huge blaster that even I would steer clear of.
"Get back to work!" He snarled at the closest man, who simply pointed in my direction.
"Worthless piece of sh-" He muttered as he turned my way, breaking off when he saw me.
He strode up to me and looked up at me, "Good to see that you made it, Kaiya. Doctor Blakk will be pleased." His smile didn't fit his features and I instantly decided, he wasn't normal.
"Good," I replied, "I'll be keeping watch from the bush. If anything gets out of control, I'll step in. That okay with you?"
"Sounds fine to me, but remember, any suspicious business and I'll deal with you myself. Blakk gave me that permission."
I was easily tempted to challenge him but I was wary of that blaster. So instead I just turned Skies toward the forest and nodded.
I could feel his eyes burning into the back of my neck but I fought the urge to speed up. Eventually I entered the foliage and merged with the shadows.
I conducted a sonar scan to check the terrain.

Everything seemed normal, but I wasn't taking any chances.
The guards finished loading up the supplies and headed off in a triangle formation with Nacho in the middle with the delivery.

I kept up at an easy pace, the plants providing little force to move through.
My scans showed the forest thinning out into rocks as a natural archway appeared in a rock face ahead. We passed by easily and Skies made a smooth transition from jungle to rocks.
I caught Nacho glancing my way a couple of times. It was clear he didn't trust me.
More jungle showed up and I steered into it.
I was just about to think this would be a clear run when my scans picked something up. I immediately zoomed in with my glasses.
There, on a rocky outcrop, stood Eli Shane, watching us with his binoculars. Then he stood up said something to his teammates, then disappeared from sight.
"Nacho!" I called, driving Skies to the forest edge. He glanced my way.
"The Shane gang at 2 O'clock! Get Ready!"
His eyes widened and his blank face twisted into hate. He loaded his blaster with a ghoul and aimed it in the direction the Shane was coming from.
True to my word, Eli rounded a big rock, heading full speed towards the cargo, blaster loaded.
As soon as he was in sight, Diablo fired. Eli swerved to avoid the ghoul then returned fire. I tore my eyes from the scene and kept a quick eye out for the rest of his gang.

Risking a glance backwards I saw them coming up from the rear.
After trading shots with Nacho, Eli dropped back with his gang and they fanned out.
All of Blakks men were returning fire, but none hit. The Gangs mecha beasts were impressively maneuverable, I had to give them that.
I watched as Eli dropped back and my glasses zoomed in on him loading an Armourshelt.
I frowned, trying to figure out what he was up too.
Glancing forward I saw another rock archway and my mind clicked.
Eli was going to collapse it!
Doing a rough estimate I could tell we weren't going to make it. Well, they weren't going to make it. Me and Skies could though.
I could tell Nacho knew they weren't going to make it either because he kept yelling at the driver to speed up.
I knew this was where I stepped in. I hit the accelerator then leaped towards the cargo. I didn't have time to look back as Skies bit through the metal cables holding the trailer to the drivers mecha.
Nacho understood what was going on and fired a ghouled Arachnet towards me. Its net attached the trailer to Skies.
I allowed myself a quick glance backwards and saw Eli had fired and broken ranks in an attempt to catch up to me and Nacho.
The slug hit the arch with a huge explosion and the arch started to cave in.
"You'll never make it! Surrender now and we'll let you go!" Eli drew up next to me on Lucky, hadn't he learnt his lesson?
I swung Skies head over, jaws open wide and Eli dropped back out of reach.
It was all I needed for the home stretch. Hitting the accelerator again, I powered Skies forward, past the goons and towards the collapsing structure.
I saw the middle had fallen in first so I aimed for the sides as they were further from collapsing.
We were nearly there, so close!
With Nacho firing behind me, Skies raced through the gap, just before a giant boulder blocked the entrance.
I eased up on the throttle and Skies slowed down to an easy pace. I looked back at Nacho who was watching the rubble.
"Now what?" I asked him.
He turned to me with that creepy smile of his.
"Now we go to Blakk." He hissed.
I nodded then sped Skies up and headed towards the Citadel.

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