The Silver Crystal

[Ara Av-Toa]

Mary stared at the monster, petrified. It was the biggest one she'd ever seen. She didn't know what to do. In a rush of panic she called the orbital HQ. The chief appeared on-screen and asked: "Hey Mary. You're shaking like mad. What's up?" "Giant... huge... MONSTER!" she gasped. "What? A monster bigger than ever? Call me a fool, but I have no clue. In fact, about some things you know more than I do!"

[Razuel]

Raz was petrified as he stared up at the large monster, not thinking to move, but he could still hear his communicator if someone tried to speak with him.

[Rayleonarde]

Ray found himself pinned in the ship's hold, and called out. "Anyone alive? Pilot? Dragling?"

[Angder]

Angder yelps as he hears Ray, "Quiet!" Angder says, as loudly as he dares. "Its still out there! If it hears us, we are dead!"

[Razuel]

Raz didn't move, still petrified, but he was breathing in a stuttered pattern.

[Ara Av-Toa]

The giant monster heard Ray's calling, but all it wanted was the silver crystal. He wanted to grab it, but Mary grabbed it first and tried to keep it away from the giant.

[Angder]

Angder crawls in rays direction, moving towards the door to the hold. The pain from his right leg. confirmed his leg was badly injured, possibly broken. When he reaches the doorway to the hold, Angder leans against the doorway trying to peer inside (thankfully the door had fallen out completely, rather than holding, and blocking the doorway). "Ray?" He whispers. "Ray? are you in there?"

[Razuel]

Raz heard a piece of metal shift and creak and he let out a squeak, he then, without thinking, started to run, trying to find the garbage chute so he could climb inside.

[Ara Av-Toa]

Mary made a desperate attempt to keep the precious crystal in hands. The big monster focused fully on it as Mary tried to make an escape with the Inspector II.

[Razuel]

Raz managed to find the chute... but it wasn't on the HQ building... it was on the Inspector 2, and he was in a ventilation shaft, not a garbage chute.

As the Inspector II started up, the ventilation did too, and Raz was sucked through the shaft and as he flew through the shaft he screamed, he then saw the pair of blades that forced the air through and he quickly approached them, that is until he was shot down through a vent grate and right into the cockpit of the Inspector II, right behind Mary.


Multiple times before, Raz had been told never to go into shafts or chutes as he could get himself hurt one day, but he never listened as he found the tight spaces to be cozy. A few times before he had gotten hurt, but not badly, such as when he fell down a 1 story vent and broke a forearm. It took a few days for them to get Raz out, but he made a full recovery... but he forgot the whole thing the next day and tried to do it again... they blocked the vents the 2nd time it happened.

[Rayleonarde]

Ray groaned quietly, and looked around the wrecked hold. "Yeah...I passed out for a second."

[Angder]

Angder stumbles over to ray. "Sounds like its moving away... here... I will give you a hand." Painfully, but carefully, Angder starts to remove some of the rubble pinning Ray.

[Ara Av-Toa]

Raz managed to find the chute... but it wasn't on the HQ building... it was on the Inspector 2, and he was in a ventilation shaft, not a garbage chute.

As the Inspector II started up, the ventilation did too, and Raz was sucked through the shaft and as he flew through the shaft he screamed, he then saw the pair of blades that forced the air through and he quickly approached them, that is until he was shot down through a vent grate and right into the cockpit of the Inspector II, right behind Mary.


Multiple times before, Raz had been told never to go into shafts or chutes as he could get himself hurt one day, but he never listened as he found the tight spaces to be cozy. A few times before he had gotten hurt, but not badly, such as when he fell down a 1 story vent and broke a forearm. It took a few days for them to get Raz out, but he made a full recovery... but he forgot the whole thing the next day and tried to do it again... they blocked the vents the 2nd time it happened.

(Raz? The Inspector II is a small hover vehicle and does NOT have a cockpit. It's not even big enough to feature a ventilation system at all! You could've at max jumped in the small cargo holder.)


The big monster followed the swift thing with its eyes. Mary made some sharp confusing turns hoping to shake the monster off, and at least lured it away from the HQ.

[Razuel]

(Oh... sorry about that... um... lemme try and fox my mistake...))


Raz believed he was in a shafts,  but was just in a cargo hold and in the instance of hearing the stomping and getting tossed around, he wanted to escape the small hold, and thud he started banging at the walls around him, and scratching the walls, making enough noise for Mary to hear him if she was listening.

[Ara Av-Toa]

Mary looked over her shoulder at the monster, then noticed Raz sitting in the cargo bay. It didn't shield him from view as the bay had no roof and only low walls. She gasped: "RAZ? What in the universe are you doing there?"