Now that everyone was within the inner wall, the rest of the walk to the front gates of the lizard fortress was quite short and uneventful. Within the inner wall was yet another field of snow, and it was about a kilometer from the wall to the fortress on all sides. Because it was a circle. And that was its radius. Boy oh boy I love geometry.
Eventually, the gang arrived at the front gate of the fortress and immediately noticed how closed it was. Luckily, a puny wooden door was no match for an Energy Cube’s beam. It sliced right through like butter and revealed the interior of the fortress. It turns out that there were mouse-mechs waiting and guarding the 2 artifacts that the Kearthian pirates put there, but they got destroyed by the energy beam. However, not all the mouse-mechs guarding this fortress were positioned directly in front of the door because that would be extremely stupid. They were all over the place and only about 10 were killed by this initial beam.
As soon as the door was opened, the mouse-mechs that weren’t instantly obliterated by the beam started zapping madly at the invaders. Many of these bullets hit Plagiarize, but luckily, since they were heat-based, Plagiarize was fine due to his fire and heat immunity. This happened in about half a second before Gumpton shoved Hoofa off his back and jumped forwards, shielding everyone from the blasts and taking all the hits.
Mushpuff, Bird, Plagiarize, Snorter, and Qaeron ran away as soon as this all happened. Hoofa fell off of Gumpton and landed in the snow. Klumpkrump, however, kept firing the energy beam and killed the remaining mouse-mechs in the main room. Gumpton made a mistake with his heroic effort to save everyone, as he had jump directly into the beam from the Energy Cube. He instantly vaporized and Klumpkrump dropped the cube in horror.
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“GUMPTON NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” yelled Hoofa as Gumpton was killed. She pointed her barrel gun at Klumpkrump. “You did this!”
“Hey, it was an accident!!” said Klumpkrump.
Hoofa fired the barrel gun at Klumpkrump. A barrel hit the cat at a high velocity and sent her flying backwards. Hoofa walked up to the Energy Cube and started slamming it against the ground in anger. She then threw it into the distance.
“Careful with that!!” said Bird.
Everyone else had run over to Klumpkrump to see if she was good after the Barreling. She had some scratches on her back from landing and was bleeding from where she was hit with the barrel but could still walk and stuff.
As Klumpkrump was getting back up, Hoofa was sitting by the body of Gumpton. Some mouse-mechs then appeared from out of the front gate of the fortress after hearing all the commotion. They saw the Energy Cube on the ground in the distance and made a run for it. Plagiarize blasted them with fire from his Fire Gem. As it turned out, the mouse-mechs were immune to fire, but at least the great blast of it reduced their visibility.
Mushpuff then got up and ran to get the Energy Cube before the pirates could. As he was on his way, more pirates walked out of the gate of the lizard fortress. They started firing at him but Hoofa was able to shoot them with her Barrel Gun, knocking them against the walls and smushing them. Mushpuff grabbed the Energy Cube and beamed the remaining mouse-mechs.