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Episode Ten — Point Blank
Granitea, Dirty Dusty Cave
Bert and Ross hit the floor.
They raised their Blammos and fired.
The Graniteans paused, then resumed their advance.
Ross twirled the dials on his weapon and fired again.
The cadet’s Blammo produced a pencil thin red beam which punched a neat hole through the rock jumble, producing a thin rivulet of molten slag. The alien howled. It merged into the cave wall and disappeared. The men jumped up.
“Direct hit!” Bert offered a high five. “Now we know their weakness.” Bert quickly re-calibrated his Blammo.
“Yes, but at that power level, we probably only have six shots each.”
“Yippee Ki Yay, Mineral Sucker!”
Ross smirked. He scanned the area for life signs and found none. Aris and Simon weren’t within range. “There’s an anomalous energy source two hundred meters forward. No heartbeat, but we need to check this out.”
“Yeah, but what if this cave system is endless?”
“True. I’ll set my GPS unit to drop pins every six seconds, like bread crumbs we can retrace.”
“Okay, that’s the Hansel and Gretel story.”
