He thought for a moment, “Well I’m stumped now, ideas anyone?”
Tongs spoke up, “What about putting some gas down the air intakes? It should choke them out.”
“Good idea,” remarked Grimly, “but I don’t suppose the air intakes will be easy to find, not like in ‘Escape from Athena’.”
“We’ve only got smoke grenades,” warned Bip. “They also may have contingencies for such an attack.”
“Contingencies, contingencies, I wish we had contingencies,” grimbled Grimly. “Alright, three groups of two, scout for the air vent/s. I’ll stay here to see if any pointy eared folk stick their heads out of the door. Keep comms on so I can call you back if needed. Go.”
Bip teamed up with Bop, Ugz with Bugz and Battam with Tongs. They split up in a triangular pattern. Bip and Bop went to the North.
“What we looking for Bip?” asked Bop.
“Maybe something like a metal tube sticking out of the ground, although it might be disguised.”
“What as, a rabbit?”
“No, maybe a rock.”
“Brighton Rock?”
“A nasty brutish little film that.”
“I was making a joke, I meant the hard sugar confectionary.”
“So was I, I was pretending you meant the film with Sir Richard Attenborough in it.”
“He wasn’t a Sir at the time though was he?”
“It doesn’t matter, he became one subsequently so the correct form of social etiquette is to call him Sir.”
“How come you’re up on your etiquette and social interactions?”
“I was trained to be a house goblin in the fantasy dimension before I joined the marines. I’ve served on Lords and Ladies, Counts and Countesses.”
“Barons and Baronesses?”
“Yes.”
“Viscounts and Viscountesses?”
“Yes.”
“Ducks and Duckesses?”
“Yes, yes. I mean no. Surely you mean Dukes and Duchesses?”
“Do I? I get muddled up with my terms of nobility. I was trained to be a boxer.”
“Was it any good?”
“They made me bite people and live in a kennel.”
“Did they think you were a boxer dog?”
“I suppose so. Their pay was terrible but you could sleep all day unless you had to bite someone.”
Just then they came upon an unusual looking tree.
“This suspiciously looks like a camouflaged vent to me,” thought Bip.
“It just looks like an unusual looking tree to me.”
“Well let’s see if it is. If it is then it will have some form of protection, a force field, an electric field.”
Bop touched the unusual looking tree and was hurled to the ground by an electric shock.
“Well, now we know we’ve found an air vent. Thank you Bop.”
“N..n..no problem,” said Bop, his hair standing on end.
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The Goblin Adventures
FantasyWe meet Ugbash, Pan Head, Wibble, Wobble, Chop and Idunno from The Crying Pennant in a short serialised story where they go hunting for squink. Then we meet Bip, Bop, Battam, Ugz, Bugz and Tongs the Goblin Space Marines who along with Sergeant Griml...
