Shawnacy rose from the gunk with her battle staff clutched in her fist.

     Every algren skull she saw, she cracked with her battle staff. 

    She flew so fast, and in so many different directions, no one could get a bead on her. 

     Those who tried, though, got taken out by either Trevor or Niki, who were also back out of the muck and in the air.

     "What in the hell were you guys doing in Domitika?" Niki called out to Trevor.

     "That bitch Mother Naturia pitched us in!" 

     "How did you get your anti-gravs back?" 

     "They're from Domitika. I dreamed them up!" 

​     "They're coming off the second we get through this!"

     Nearly a dozen algren took aim at Shawnacy. She'd make for such a bragging prize for anone who brought her down.

     Niki dropped a couple grenade marbles to give the algren something to think about. 

     Shawnacy waved a sensor on her battle staff so that it, once again, shrank to the size of a flashlight, then reholstered it. 

     She dove into the muck where two algren soldiers went down.

     When she emerged again, she had a rifle in each hand.

     Both Azure and algren used anti-gravs, so combatting soldiers filled the air around the portal.  

     Shawnacy flew amongst them, and she fired at every algren soldier she saw. Her eyes blazed with the fury of madness as she fired the rifles she held. 

     A cannon on one of the warships went to fire on Shawnacy. 

     But, no, Brock wasn't about to let that happen. 

     He rose from the muck, then, 

     BRAAACK!

     He let the algren warship have it with an azure blast so strong it shredded the cannon and caused the warship itself to have to land. 

​     Adam Forwarder held Galatea out of the muck his own body was submerged in. 

     As he rose to his feet, he clutched her tight to his chest. 

     Algren soldiers came at him from four different directions to snatch at the infant. 

     Trevor landed on one of them, dropping the algren soldier to his knees in the muck. 

     Another algren soldier made a face like someone, an invisible Gramps say, smashed him in the jaw with a rifle butt. 

     He, too, dropped to his knees in the muck. Then, 

     ZAP! ZAP! 

     Niki took out the other two soldiers with laser fire. 

     They dropped unconsious into the muck. 

​     SPLASH! SPLASH!

                                                         CONTINUE