Chatter! Chatter!

In the sky, Angelina’s gang could hear the numerous expletives being directed at them from the unwashed mouths belonging to the dozens of Tomb Riders below. “They are pretty noisy down there.”

“Okay everyone, let’s go down and meet them.” Angelina stood atop her Grace of Pinnacles, looking fearless, moreover, she aimed her artefacts downward. “Remember the plan.”

“We do.” Rooster also stood atop his Grace of Pinnacles. Cockroach was the only one still sitting down.

“I’m ready!” Cockroach took out his Motors Cube from his storage chip; holding it firmly. “This better works.”

“Ready!” Angelina’s gang started dashing downwards with the artefacts. The Tomb Riders who were blocking their pyramid entrance saw them approaching and began rousing their Soul Insignias.

“They’re coming! Don’t let them get past us!” Those Tomb Riders who were in possession of Soul Insignias which could shot out projectiles started firing arcane powers at Angelina’s gang.

Seeing the incoming attacks, Angelina relied on her companion to take care of them. “Rooster!”

“Leave them to me!” Rooster went in front of the gang, took out his Emerald Soul Insignia then activated its magical properties. A large expanding transparent fortress spread across the sky. The sturdiness of its sub-surfaces was strong enough to keep them protected from the Tomb Riders onslaught for a short period of time.

After receiving a barrage of hits the magical defensive fortress started crumbling quickly. “It didn’t even last for ten seconds!”

“We already predicted this Cockroach. Now it is your turn!” Angelina and Rooster nodded their heads at Cockroach. This was their signal for whatever devious methods they had planned.

As they were nearing the ground, Cockroach threw forward his Motors Cube. The contents of his motor came out and wrapped itself around him. The artefact Rooster was riding on burrowed into the ground, creating a large enough gap for Cockroach’s motor to get through.

“What happened?”

Because of the massive dust cloud that was created when Angelina’s gang crashed landed, the surrounding Tomb Riders didn’t notice Cockroach slipping underneath the ground along with the four artefacts.

“Don’t ease up now!” Angelina wanted to prevent the Tomb Riders from noticing the deep hole that was beside them. She used the last drops of her desert Soul Insignia to form a sand storm around her and Rooster.

“Those bastards think they can hide forever! Destroy that f**king sand cloud!” The Tomb Riders were annoyed by Angelina’s persistent defiance. They pooled their efforts once again to obliterate the sand storm.

“They’re breaking through!” Said Rooster worryingly.

“It doesn’t matter if they defeat us! All that’s important is that Cockroach gets to the pyramid safely with the artefacts!” saying this, Angelina glance behind her at the hole in the ground. She used some of the dirt derived from the sand storm to cover it over.

“Here they come!”

The vicious Tomb Riders started rushing into the eye of the sand storm. They were like a hoard of buffalos creating a stampede. “There they are! Eliminate them and take the artefacts!”

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“RAAAH! DIE BITCH!” The Tomb Riders started their onslaught.

“It won’t be that easy!” Angelina teamed up with Rooster to keep the Tomb Riders at bay for as long as possible before they realized what was going on. She took out her dark blade along with her last remaining Soul Insignia and commenced her counterattack.

There was a large scale battle taking place with the dissipating sand storm. On the outside, Unruly Ban had a bad feeling. Something was telling him that the mysterious slut was up to her devious tricks again so he called out to some of the Tomb Riders who were rushing into the sand storm.

“Do any of you have eyes on the artefacts? Ignore that slutty witch and grab hold of the artefacts!”

“Huh!” After hearing Unruly Ban’s outburst the Tomb Riders started searching their eyes around for the Grace of Pinnacles. “Where are they?”

“This isn’t good.” Angelina noticed the Tomb Riders stopped attacking her and were looking all-around the sand storm for the artefacts. “I hope Cockroach has already made it through.”

“Huh! Huh!” Heads were spinning left-right, up-down and still no signs of the Grace of Pinnacles. ”Anybody have eyes on the artefacts?”

“No! We don’t see them anywhere!”

“Are they not above us?”

“No! Not in the air either! They must have hidden them somewhere without our knowledge!”

“Where could they have hidden them? They were just in our sights a while ago!”

“Hmm?” After hearing the myriad of reports from the Tomb Riders, Unruly Ban directed his gave beyond the oasis then looked behind him at pyramid-13’s entrance.

“Where did that mysterious slut hide the artefacts? If it were me where would I hide it…? Huh?” After a moment of thinking, Unruly Ban set his eyes on the ground below him and noticed some slight variation in the sand movements. He came out of his Press Roller, bent over and placed his ear on the ground.

Another member of the Unruly Gang saw their leader pressing his ear against the sandy ground and asked: “Unruly Ban what are you doing sir?”

“Shut up!” Unruly Ban silenced his minions then heightened his awareness to listen to the underground activities.

Boru! Boru!

“What’s that strange sound?”

15-metres underneath the desert, the artefacts were drilling the earth asunder, forming a suitable pathway for Cockroach to advance through. He was heading in the direction of pyramid-13. He couldn’t see underground so he was entirely relying on the map’s functionality to lead him straight to pyramid-13. He experienced some losses in the map signal from time to time. This was slowing down his advance to pyramid-13.

“I’m almost there. Just a bit further.” Cockroach was sweating like crazy and was also short of breath. “I hope those idiots on the surface didn’t notice that I am missing.”

Boru! Boru! Boru!

“There it is again.” Unruly Ban’s keen earing picked up on the rumbling noising that was emanating from underground. “The vibrations are getting further away. Huh?” Unruly Ban turned his head to look at pyramid-13’s entrance and was now certain of what was at play.

“You sneaky little bastard. Think you could outsmart me?” Unruly Ban ran back into his Press Roller then began following the underground vibrations that were leading him closer towards pyramid-13’s entrance. “You stupid sons of a bitches! The artefacts are underground and are moving very fast toward the pyramid’s entrance!”

“What?” The Tomb Riders turned around after hearing Unruly Ban’s disgustingly loud voice.

“What did he say?”

“I think I heard something about the artefacts being underground.”

“Underground?” The other Tomb Riders started realising what was going on. “Come on everyone! Let’s chase after him!” Most of the Tomb Riders abandoned the fight against Rooster and Angelina. They were rushing their motors to the entrance of pyramid-13.

“We’ve been found out!” Angelina dispelled the sand storm. “Rooster let’s delay them as much as we can!”

“Right! I hope that sneaky Cockroach is still alive down there!” Rooster chased behind the Tomb Riders along with Angelina. They were attacking the Tomb Riders at the rear, eliminating some of them.

Screeeech!

Unruly Ban parked his motor ahead of the underground vibration then used the large crimson arms to punch through the earth.

“Ahh! What’s going on up there?” Cockroach heard terrible noises banging on the earth before him. He glanced at his map and saw that the path ahead of him was being caved in by a single Tomb Rider. “Dammit! They’ve found out already!” Cockroach started moving the artefacts upward.

Unruly Ban pounded a huge hole into the ground. “Hahhaha! Let’s see you crawl pass this shit head! Haa!” Unruly Ban dipped the large arm underground again and raked up a lot of dirt.

Right after Unruly Ban lift his crimson arms out of the earth, 4 large Grace of Pinnacles burst upward.