Chapter 6-Attack



"C'mon, Kazooie. Don't get lost again," Grath yelled. "Huh? What? Oh, yeah, wait up,

Grath," Kazooie hollered. He ran to catch up. Emerald Dragon was just ahead of Grath,

and she smiled at Kazooie's reaction. Grath hurried to get next to her. "Hey, Emerald,

we're lookin' for a informant. Know any?" Emerald looked surprised. Then she turned

suspicious. "Why?" "Well, we need info on a guy named Kroys. As far as we know, he's

the big boss, and Devan's just one of his cronies," Grath explained. Emerald brightened.

"Yeah, I do," she smiled. Grath looked at her in surprise. "An old friend," Emerald offered.

"I was on my way to visit her, in fact, when I heard that fight." Grath nodded. "Name?"

"Wild Angel. Heard of her?" Grath shook his head. "No, I'm afraid not. Wait a mi-

KAZOOIE!" Grath spun and stalked over to the big bird, who was trying to pick a fight

with a bunch of turts. "Kaz, we don't want trouble. GET A MOVE ON!" Kazooie saluted,

and marched over to Emerald. "Lead on, oh, great leader," he muttered. Grath glared at

him, then turned to Emerald and gestured for her to move on.



The band of evil turts marched past the sign for a shop and halted. "Here's the plan.

Kroys wants the bird and the rabbits brought to him. Then we go for that Claw thingy.

Kroys hates disloyalty. After we take him out, we round up those other rabbits, and

whoever they've got info from. We bring them all to command ship, and we leave them

to Kroys's tender mercies." The leader, a big grimy yellow lizard grinned evilly. Then he

marched his troop down a side alley. They never even noticed the caped figure leaning

casually against a wall, hat pulled down concealingly. They marched around the corner

and out of sight.



"Claw, did you hear that? We gotta warn Copper and the others!" Claw snorted. "I'm

pretty sure Copper and Shinyso can take care of themselves, Ducky," he smiled.

"Besides which, Kazooie's pretty trigger-happy, and I have no fear for Grath, KRSplat

and Blacksheep. No, I'm the one Kroys really wants, cause without me, Copper can't go

anywhere. I know where Kroys is stationed, so I'm the most dangerous. We had better

worry about our own skins. Back to the ship," and he turned and moved back. "Wait,

Claw! We haven't found our informant yet!" Claw snorted. "Whaddaya think those turtles

were?" Ducky suddenly laughed. "OK, if you say so," she smiled. Claw looked at her. "I

say so," he grumbled.



Emerald led Grath and Kazooie inside a small, well-kept shop. "Wild?" A black rabbit

(there seems to be alot of those around here) stood. "Emerald! Where have you been?

Who are your friends?" "I'm Grath and this is Kazooie," Grath swiftly said. "We need info

on a guy called Kroys." Wild Angel nodded. "I can help you," she said cautiously. "Have a

seat." She sat down in the worn leather seat behind the table, and sighed. "As far as I

know, Kroys is a human wizard. He's out to rule the galaxy, but he's smarter than some

others. Instead of building his empire out of nothing, he gathered people like Devan and

built from there. He captured alot of innocents, rabbits especially, and put them to work

in his prison camps and mines. He has a double objective there, because he gets

revenge and it keeps Devan going. I know his latest target is some rabbit named

'Coppertop' and another creature-I'm not clear on this-named Claw." Grath looked

puzzled. "Revenge?" "Don't ask me. I can only get so far with drunkies and low-life,

y'know," she smiled. "I'd like to come with you to your ship. I've made alot of enemies

out there, and I might be in danger if I stay." Grath blinked. "How did you-" "Know about

the ship? I'm a telepath." Grath was stunned. Of course. No wonder she hadn't asked

questions. He stood up. "Well, come on," he smiled. "Let's go find the others."



"Revenge? I wonder what for," Ducky mused once Grath had told them all he'd found

out. Claw shrugged. "Well, I got some more news for you all," he grumbled. "Kroys has

given orders for our capture, so we'd better leave. His troops are hot on our tail."

Copper whirled, shocked. "WHAT? C'mon, Claw, to the cockpit. Lets go!" Claw dashed

after her, and about half an hour later Assassin left Tubelectric to shake the persuing

turtles.