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Narcisi

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A headset with a microphone was attached to the inside of it; Zach removed this and put it on his head. The voice became clear.
“ZACHARY TELMAR! WHAT THE HECK HAVE YOU GOTTEN ME INTO!?” the voice screamed at him in a rage.
“Sam?” Zach answered questioningly. “Sam, is that you?”
“WHO THE HECK ELSE WOULD BE CALLING YOU WHILE YOU’RE 7,000 FEET UNDER THE OCEAN!?!?”
Zach paused. “Good point,” he admitted. “Anyway, what is it that has you so riled? And could you hurry? I’m a bit…” he glanced over at Sandy, who was still sitting at the picnic table. She was munching on her sandwich, and at the same time watching him curiously. “…busy,” he finished.
“I’ll tell you what has me riled! What has me riled is that because of you’re stupid little undersea adventure, I am now in a helicopter above the Atlantic Ocean, escaping from my destroyed mansion!” The tirade was momentarily disrupted as Sam took a breath. Soon, however, it resumed. “And do you know WHY my mansion was destroyed!? Do you!? Just guess. Go on, guess. No, nevermind. Don’t guess. I’ll TELL you WHY! It’s because the entire SWAT team in all of Pennsylvania somehow figured out that I was helping you, and went absolutely wacko! So now my mansion is in ruins, the cops are all over the place looking for both of us, and…and…and now I have to go to my other mansion in Great Britain!”
“Wait, what’s so bad about that last part? Britain is pretty much the coolest place on earth.”
This quieted Sam for a moment. “Well, O.K., point taken. I was just running out of things to accuse you of. Anyway, mind letting me continue ranting?”
“Oh, no, please go right ahead.”
“Right, then. Thank you. No, you know what, DON’T thank you! Why should I be thanking you!? Do you know WHY this has all happened!? Do you!? ANSWER ME!”

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Narcisi

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And then Zach realized where this was leading. He glanced nervously over at Sandy, who had put down her sandwich and seemed to be listening intently. “Ah, I don’t know if that’s such a good–”

“Of COURSE it’s a good idea! Let me tell you why this has all happened. This has all happened because YOU got a call from some stupid client, asking you to kill some stupid fictitious SPONGE thing 7,000 feet under the sea!*

*Uh, Sam…Sam, shut up…”

“And you know what the worst part is!? You come to me and take my submarine! My beloved submarine! To and probably eventually destroy in your stupid little adventure! You have absolutely no regard for other people’s things, you know that!?”

“Sam, shut up!”

“I mean, first you take my submarine, and then you get my mansion destroyed, not to mention thousands of cops looking for me, not to MENTION, soon you’ll be depriving that SPONGEBOB guy of his freaking LIFE! Now seriously, has it ever occurred to you that he might have WANTED his life!? NO regard for others, I say. NO REGARD!”

“SAAAAAM!” Zach’s outburst seemed to quiet Sam for a moment. Zach took advantage of this silence. “Sam…” he ground out. “I’m going to have to call you back.”

“Hey, now wait just a min–”

Zach terminated the connection, cutting Sam off mid-sentence. He turned to see Sandy crouched in a fighting stance. So you’ve come to kill my friend, eh?” she asked, her voice dripping with malice. “Well, I can*t allow that.” She sprang forward, her claws extending.

'If I get slashed by those, I’m sunk!' Zach thought. He dove out of the way, avoiding Sandy’s attack by mere inches. He recovered with a roll, in the same motion snatching one of his pistols from its holster. He dropped to one knee and pointed his weapon steadily at his opponent.

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Narcisi

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“Stop right there,” he bellowed. Unfortunately, Sandy was in no mood to comply with Zach’s demands. She sprang forward and with an agile maneuver neatly swatted the pistol from Zach’s hand. Stunned, he groped for his second gun, but to no avail. He looked up to see Sandy holding his belt, his pistol and knife still attached. On the ground behind her lied his harpoon gun, which had somehow found its way from his back.

'Incredible,' he thought. 'She not only managed to take away one of my weapons, but to completely disarm me!'

He rose and put up his fists. “Bring it on,” he challenged.
She brought it. Before Zach knew what was happening, he was landing hard on his back, Sandy midair above him and descending fast. His foot met Sandy’s stomach, making her tumble back, stunned. She recovered amazingly quickly, and again they fought.

'If I could just get to my weapons,' Zach thought, directing a longing glance at the pile of guns a few yards away. Unfortunately, Sandy always managed to keep him a fair distance away from it, preventing him from gaining the upper hand. He made a strike at Sandy, only to have it blocked. Sandy retaliated with a strong uppercut. It clouted Zach directly in the jaw, sending him reeling. He stumbled and recovered, but not before his opponent reached a position where she could land yet another blow. This one hit him in his gut, sending a wave of nausea washing over him. He took a few unsteady steps backwards before Sandy head butted him in the chest. The bash was powerful enough to take him off his feet momentarily. When he landed, something hard painfully jutted into his back. He weakly pulled it out from underneath him to see what it was. One of his guns!

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Narcisi

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It must have been the one Sandy knocked to the side in the beginning. An idea began to form in Zach’s mind. He slowly got to his feet, hiding the weapon from Sandy’s sight. He pretended to be completely exhausted, lurching unsteadily away from his adversary. She smiled, confident that she had him beat.

'No hurry,' she thought, nonchalantly closing in for the final blow. She was about five feet away when Zach struck. From behind him he pulled the loaded pistol. In a split second, he had it raised up and pointed directly at Sandy. There was no hesitation this time. No warnings, no threats, no chance of survival. One shot and it was over.

Zach walked over to the rest of his weapons, placing them back in their respective positions. He also retrieved his helmet and placed it back on his head. Then the adrenaline began to wear off, and every joint began ached. There was a dull pain in his back where he had landed on his gun, and his jaw hurt terribly. He was not in a good mood. The sound of squeaking metal suddenly resounded in the dome. Zach turned to see that someone else had entered through the floodroom. It appeared to be a large starfish with a purple and green swimsuit on. A large fishbowl covered its head, filled with water. Zach figured it was the only way it avoided suffocating in the dome, considering it was full of air. Zach had never seen an indignant starfish, but what he saw before him seemed close enough.

“What have you done to Sandy!?” it cried in a rather garbled voice.

Instead of answering, Zach retrieved one of his pistols from its holster.

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Narcisi

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“Hey, what are you – bluarrghh!!!” The exclamation was cut short as the hilt of Zach’s pistol collided with the fishbowl, hopelessly shattering it. The starfish fell to the ground, stunned and gasping for breath.

With no more than a second glance, Zach stepped over him and exited the air dome. Soon, he stood at the center of the road he had found earlier. He looked both ways, debating which way he should go. He was so absorbed in making his decision that at first he didn’t hear the faint whirr of a propeller. By the time he noticed it, the boat-car was nearly upon him. He barely had time to jump out of the way before it careened past him at an insane speed. It swerved in a criss-cross pattern down the road until it eventually faded from sight. There was one thing that had caught Zach’s attention, aside from the fact that he had nearly been killed. In that split-second where time seems to slow, he had very distinctly seen at the wheel of the vehicle a bright yellow sponge.

“Well I guess that decides it then,” he murmured to himself, and began walking.

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