"Let's get outta here!" Jazz shouted over the music, jolting Guzzi from his thoughts and propelling Schmeep Gar into motion.
They exited the room, and the lights went out in one direction. Guzzi stopped. The lights in the other direction flashed once. Twice.
"This way!" he pointed up the lit corridor.
"Why?!" Jazz had her blaster out and was pointing it into the darkness.
"'Cause it's Sapphire! She's showing us the way!"
They ran up the corridor, past a number of unlit openings and sounds of movement, until they came to an intersection.
All the paths were dark.
"What..." Jazz was interrupted by a load explosion down the corridor on their right. Then the lights came on in that direction and they were off again.
Every now and then one or the other of them would shoot at glistening entrails moving across the floor towards them, but somehow they stayed moving.
Then the wall collapsed in the corridor ahead, and entrails began oozing out from the newly opened gap.
"Back!" Jazz shouted.
They turned to retreat, only to see the floor oozing in the darkness. Suddenly all the lights were on and the entrails were closing in from both directions.
Guzzi ripped the grenade from his belt and prepared to throw it in the direction they had come from, when suddenly the lights dropped. He turned around - the walls flashed, the light increased. He threw in the direction of the flashing walls.
Five. He pulled his plasma pistol from his belt and opened fire at the tentacles coming from the other direction.
Four. Jazz dropped to one knee, creating a space for Schmeep Gar, and kept shooting.
Three. The Gar's arm grew red. Guzzi felt a tentacle encircle his ankles.
Two. The unleashed energy of Schmeep's arm pounded into the corridor they faced and bits of oozing entrails filled the corridor. Guzzi was yanked by his feet from behind and somehow stopped firing but held onto the pistol.
One.
Wump.
Smoke and carnage rained down, filling the available space and making breathing difficult.
Suddenly all was still.
"Is this the end?" asked Guzzi. "It feels like the end."
"We're not there yet! Come on!" Jazz grabbed him, helping him up. There was light ahead, the regulated flashing of Sapphire's signal: the grenade had blown through the wall and opened up an exit.
making their way through the rubble, the air was cleaner, crisper. They were near the surface.
"Hurry up! Schmeep, call the ship! Get us outta here!"
When they broke through to the surface the ship's boat could be seen flying fast from the horizon.
Guzzi grabbed Jazz. "What about Sapphire? What about my sister?"
Jazz looked into Guzzi's eyes, and time seemed to stop.
"How the schez would I know? I love you Guzzi, I do. But we have to go!"
The ship's boat came in and they climbed aboard. It was like a cheap ento: the planet blows up as the heroes make a daring getaway.
Is this the end? thought Guzzi. Tell me it's not the end!
Here ends the first book of Guzzi.
Read the series:
- Guzzi (G1): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/guzzi-a-sf-story-part-1-of-many
- The Garship (G2): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/the-garship-part-2-of-guzzi-a-sf-story-of-many-parts
- The Entombed (G3): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/the-entombed-part-3-of-guzzi-a-sf-story-of-many-parts
- The craziest story (G4): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/the-craziest-story-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g4
- Maple (G5): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/maple-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g5
- Jazz (G6): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/jazz-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g6
- The Heraphore (G7): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/the-heraphore-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g7
- Of diamonds and sapphires (G8): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/of-diamonds-and-sapphires-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g8
- Maroiders (G9): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/maroiders-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g9
- Jailbreak! (G10): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g10
- Dying. It's too easy (G11): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/dying-it-s-too-easy-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g11
- Into the void (G12): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/into-the-void-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g12
- Jahgen (G13): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/jahgen-a-guzzi-sf-snapshot-adventure-g13
- The BooYar (G14): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/the-booyar-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g14
- Into the tomb (of the entombed) (G15): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/into-the-tomb-of-the-entombed-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g15
- Time to go hunting (G16): https://steemit.com/life/@drwom/a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g16
- Something new (G17): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/something-new-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g17
- Waking the dead (G18): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/waking-the-dead-g18-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- When death calls (G19): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/when-death-calls-g19-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- Dr Plinfinorfyck (G20): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/dr-plinfinorfyck-g20-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- (Not quite) Full turtle (G21): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/not-quiet-full-turtle-g21-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- The planet awakens (G22): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/the-planet-awakens-g22-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- Within the tomb (G23): https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/within-the-tomb-g23-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- Danger (G24): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/danger
- The Squdalien wakes (G25): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/the-squdalien-wakes-a-guzzi-sf-adventure-g25
- De-evolution (G26): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/de-evolution-g26-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
- At one with the universe (G27): https://steemit.com/story/@drwom/at-one-with-the-universe-g27-a-guzzi-sf-adventure
The Guzzi series is an example of "Snapshot Fiction", a genre of serialised fiction designed for Steemit - check it out at: https://steemit.com/writing/@drwom/snapshot-fiction-a-genre-made-for-steemit
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