Hello everyone! hope you enjoy this excerpt from Chapter 24 of Intergalactic Mind Games:
Hearing more soldiers’ footsteps approaching, Goat stands, frozen in fear, then quickly backtracks and ducks into a storage room, narrowly escaping them.
Goat opens the door a crack to see several soldiers walking past the south hall and continuing up the corridor, wondering about his and Dibdyb’s whereabouts. He suddenly breaks down and cries; the life he once knew is no more. He is now a fugitive in a world he once held power.
Suddenly, Goat hears a voice. “You backstabbing sniffling swine.” It was Dibdyb. He was hiding in the same storage room as Goat.
“Dibdyb? What are you doing here?” Goat asks, surprised.
“I escaped my room through the ventilation system,” Dibdyb explains, walking toward Goat. “As I crawled through the ceiling ducts, I heard the soldiers talking. I heard them say you admitted everything to Reion and Voh about the space pod and our working arrangement.”
“I can explain,” Goat says nervously as he notices Dibdyb holding a flash immobilizer. A flash immobilizer looks like a stun gun. Prior to shooting three lasers from its muzzle, a bright light flashes, blinding the enemy before the lasers’ impact and killing the victim almost instantly.
Dibdyb stole the gun, along with an up-down lift remote, from one of the soldiers guarding him before he had escaped.
“Explain?” Dibdyb laughs. “This should be rich. Go ahead, Goat.
Explain to me how you stabbed me in the back?”
“Look at me, Dibdyb,” Goat pleads. “I lost everything, everything! I have nothing left.
You . . . you ruined me!” Goat says, pointing at Dibdyb with both hands still restrained by the control-band cuffs.
“Look in the mirror, Goat,” Dibdyb counters. “Your lust for power and riches ruined you.”
“No, no, no . . .” Goat repeatedly says, trying to distance himself from Dibdyb.
“You ruined your own life. Your greed and selfishness ruined you.” Dibdyb continues to torment Goat, walking slowly toward him.
“See, I know what I am, Goat, but you think you are this all-powerful figure who is above everyone and can do whatever he wants,” Dibdyb says. “You got sloppy, and now you got caught.”
Dibdyb aims the gun at Goat with his finger ready to pull the trigger.
Goat reacts by charging Dibdyb, and the two of them wrestle over the gun for a few seconds until a flash of light brightens the room.