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REXRO GOES FULL PSYCHO, PLUS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I ENCOUNTER A MYSTERIOUS WORMHOLE

Rexro points his powerstaff at me.

His tail is twitching around over his head in a murderous Threat Display.

“First I’m gonna eat your heart!” he roars. “Then you’re gonna die! And I’m going to enjoy watching you watch me eat your heart right before you die!”

Twelk and all his buddies come flying up from behind and drop to the ground and they circle around me like assassins, closing in. They’re all snorting and hooting with laughter.

“We’ll get him for you, sir!” shouts Twelk.

So as I stand here under Rexro’s horn-wilting glare, I can feel panic grip my big stupid over-large heart.

And without really thinking it through I tilt my scaly head back and shout:

“What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?”

Then, as if summoned by my cry for help, a small mirrored triangle appears in the air several feet in front of me.

Now even though I’ve never seen one before, I know in my bones that what I’m looking at is a rip in the space-time continuum.

And I know that this mirrored triangle hovering here in the air is an honest-to-goodness wormhole.

But I don’t have time to think about this because at that moment an insanely long red tongue comes zooming out of the mirrored triangle and then wraps around my neck and cinches itself tight like a noose.

My eyeballs bulge.

The sudden sensation of having this long insidious tongue wrapped tight around my neck is grotesque in the extreme.

Then the tongue yanks back and I’m whipped off my webbed feet and I go flying headfirst through the wormhole. And at the time I can’t make sense of what’s happening but I do notice when I shoot through the wormhole that I hear the same noise you hear when you come flying down out of the sky at top speed and then dive into the ocean.

Splash.