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After less than two minutes, only me and Stari remained.
I expected a bolt of plasma to zip from the mist and catch me between the eyes. My breath rasped in my throat.
So much for trying to save Chax. I doubted I could even save myself.
“Self-destruct has been initiated,” Computer said. “T-Minus three minutes.”
A squad of Changelings stepped from the mist, blasters trained on us.
I thought it was the end.
I thought we were dead for sure.
But they didn’t fire.
Then they came to a stop three yards from us.
And waited.
A silhouette appeared, twice as large as the Changelings.
“Hold your fire,” he said. “We wouldn’t want to hit the star of the show now, would we?”
My insides turned to water and my stomach clenched.
Iron Hoof limped into view.
Stari stiffened. She took aim with her pistol blaster.
She was met by half a dozen Changeling blasters.
“Drop it,” Iron Hoof said. “If you don’t, you both die.”
Stari screwed up her face. She looked about ready to call his bluff and pull the trigger anyway. Then she eased up and lowered it.
“Good decision,” Iron Hoof said.
He grabbed me by the scruff of my shirt and hoisted me up onto my feet.
“You’re both coming with me,” he said. “Control will be very pleased to see you’re still alive. So will the audience. For the time being, at least. They can be very fickle. Maybe Control will let me have a little taste of you both before they make their final plans for you. I imagine it’ll be quite something.”
“Yaaarrrghhh!”
The scream was loud and powerful as Chax stormed from the mist and slammed into Iron Hoof.
I was thrilled to see him, and yet dismayed he might lose his life just to save mine.
The Changeling soldiers shifted target and aimed at Chax. They wouldn’t dare shoot in case they hit their boss.
Chax knocked Iron Hoof off his feet and pulverized him with one blow to the face after another.
“Go!” Chax bellowed at me. “Go! Now!”
There was no way I was leaving him. Not with the enemy surrounding him.
Stari grabbed me and yanked me into the thick mist. I pulled my arm away and moved to help Chax.
“We have to help him fight!” I said.
