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Everyone poke around, you announce as you give the door to the lab a glare that would make Mina proud! Except for Pepper–you need something real quick!
“Roger!” Raj replies, “Hey old dude–you think there might be a <span class="mu-s">LASER GUN</span> around here somewhere?”
Chuck grunts in response as the redhead scurries over to your side with a mixture of confusion and excitement on her face! “So this is it, huh, sandcrab? The final showdown!”
Yep, you smirk, but you’ve got one more thing to take care of before that… the girl cocks her head to the side, her curious eyes ballooning to comical size as you hold your hand out to her!
“E-erm…” She stammers, “I… I mean I guess I ca-”
Quit wasting time you goof, you need your <span class="mu-s">EARPIECE</span> back! Let’s go! Snapping your fingers doesn’t really do much to dispel the sour look on Pepper’s face, but it <span class="mu-i">does</span> get her to hand over the goods a little quicker! Popping it back into the small of your ear, you give the redhead’s hair a grateful tousle! Thanks, Pep!
“Hmph… you’re lucky you’ve been so heroic all night…” She grumbles as she struggles to suppress the grin forming on her face. “... and <span class="mu-i">I’M</span> pretty lucky I ran into you, huh?”
Knowing her, you counter, she shouldn’t say ‘<span class="mu-i">lucky</span>’ very loud… now go make sure Raj and Chuck don’t blow each other up–you’ve got one more thing you wanna ask the Hausers…
“Woof… wouldn’t want to be <span class="mu-i">them</span> right now…” Pepper remarks with a hint of sympathy in her tone. “Even though most of this is on Rivka and their pops, it’s gonna be hell for ‘em once they get back to the mainland…”
Yea, you sigh, but they won’t be facing it alone–not if you have anything to say about it, at least.
“Guess it’s a good thing I ignored Mina and collected all that evidence, huh, slick?” Smirks Pepper as she taps the side of her <span class="mu-s">DIGITAL CAMERA!</span> “Looks like honest journalism wins agai-”
<span class="mu-i">Honest</span> is pushing it, you groan as you nudge her butt with your foot earning an uncharacteristically girly yelp in response! Now get snoopin’--you’re not going into a fight unprepared!
“Aye aye!” She salutes and winks before running off to do what she does best! Watching her skip off, you utter a curt greeting into the <span class="mu-s">EARPIECE–</span> Mina? Darren? You guys read?
“<span class="mu-i">Diesel</span>.” Purrs a familiar and warmer-than-usual voice, “Tell me it’s over.”
It ain’t, you sigh, but you can see the end from here…
>CONTD.
