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TINY DAGGERS THROUGH MY SHRUNKEN HEART

Now each word spoken by the robot as it booms out over the intercom is a tiny dagger through my shrunken heart. It crushes my scaly green ass to hear Fribby sounding so scared like that. There’s something about the pleading sounds of a terrified machine that makes you feel mighty low-hearted.

So I decide right then and there I’m going to the Fitness Suite, come what may. Even if it is a treacherous trap, I don’t care. I will deal with this psycho ATHENOS II there, and I’ll save Fribby.

And at that moment the chainsaw buzzing noise blasts over the intercom. Buuuuuuzzzzzzz!

Then the sound of the robot squealing in fear. “Nooooo!”

I am just setting my mini Telo-Device so that it’ll send me to the Fitness Suite, when my powerstaff buzzes again:

I’m on Level B!

I’m hiding in the Dungeon Room.

Come meet me here but be careful.

ATHENOS II has eyes everywhere.

She’s going to kill you.