Part 64: Execution

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They must have decided that I won’t tell them anything. The unseen voice told me they’d scheduled a public execution. There would be Video of the event to the world. I had been taken to an outside arena. Cameras were evident. I had been suspended by chains attached to my arms. I was inside a metal cage soaked with gasoline. No originality. This method of torture/execution has been overplayed.

A trail of gasoline led out of the cage. They set it afire, the burning fire approached the cage.

Maverick appeared out of nowhere holding two canisters, one in each foot. He dropped them, one after the other. One exploded into fire extinguishing foam, the other into smoke. The cage that I was in was completely obscured and couldn’t be seen by anyone from five feet away.

The smoke doesn’t interfere with Maverick. He swooped toward a headless horse robot that had just entered the execution arena. The owl retrieved a couple of diamond sabers, then he and Bubba began to slice and dice.

The headless horse robot was also armed, very heavily. It sliced open the cage as if it had been made of wet pasta, then extracted me. it’s headless neck split open…and I climbed inside into an armored life support suit…a doc box. Medical intervention immediately began. I began to feel a LOT better. The centaur was a full body, heavily armed and armored prosthetic that Gretchen had grown from spare parts.

Then we, the owl , the pussycat and the centaur, proceed to kill everything that in sight.

After everyone has had a good time Gretchen said “ I’ve activated the self destruct on the truck’s reactor. I thought you might like to know”

“Um...yeah. I think that’s pertinent information.” I said “what say we leave?

So we did.

To Be Continued
The Next Episode is
Part 65: Breaking News
The Previous episode was
Part 63: Torture
the first episode was
Part 1 : Winter Storm

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