Life or demise

Chapter 4: Would it be demise

The atmosphere had an uncertain amount of heaviness building up as Geddon and Kimberly stood on guard, battle ready. They had no idea what sort of trickery Jobiting had in store for them this time so they were not going to let their guard down as easy as the first time.

"Say hallo to Tesla!"Jobiting said maniacally. 

This introduction made Geddon and Kimberly's muscle even more tense. The anticipation of any scenario that might befall them drove chills down Geddon's spine. But so long as he got out of the maize alive, he'd use any tool available in doing so, even his new found companion, Kimberly. For Geddon's superficiality knows no bounds.

"What is this?" Geddon said looking at whom Jobiting addressed as Tesla.

Tesla was the creature blocking their path. Though he was a skeptical, he seemed harmlessly engaging in his evening tongue bathe. Running his tongue across his Panther black fur coat in an adorable manner and attentiveness, completely disregarding the half naked, armed teenagers Infront of him like they were not even there.

"Awww, it's just a cat. Look at how cute he is" Kimberly said lowering her sword.

Just a cat? Cute? Geddon wasn't buying it. Instead of foolishly dropping his guard like Kim, he started running various scenarios in which he kills Tesla in the most efficient way possible before anything weird could transpire. He grinned out of joy from the options that were available for ending a cat's nine lives. Geddon's sadistic nature was slowly emerging from the dark pit that is his mind, he was practically drooling from the blood lust.

"Fuck it, I'm just gonna bash it in the skull!" Geddon said frantically raising his bat with a chilling look in his eyes as if he was a drug addict high on Math. But just as he was about to take Tesla to kitty heaven, he was interrupted.

"Are you ready kids? Welcome to Level two! And if you thought level one was breath taking, you're gonna find the difficulty of this next level shocking! Now if you may, please direct your attention to little Tesla over there. If you're paying close attention you will notice that Tesla is sporting six high tech futuristic looking 'crux' collars; the first one on his neck, four on his legs and the last one on his tail. The objective is to disarm and dismember the collars! Once they are disabled you'll have the green light to level-3! It's so simple even a five year old could do!"

"Hmm... Disarm... Dismember... Disabled... Tesla.... Listen Kim I have a fast and efficient plan to accomplish this level" Geddon said looking to Tesla while attaining a straight posture.

"Don't tell me... You think we should destroy the collars with your bat"

"Exactly"Geddon said with a grin.

"Are you nuts! You'll kill the cat!" She protested.

"That's a possibility, yes" He replied.

"I will not allow that, it goes against my code as part of the Altruistic Alliance, besides the cat will avoid us if we try to attack it, which in turn will make things more difficult than they should be for us. I thought you were smarter than that"

Geddon leaned to the side against his bat assuming a resting position, then  taking in a deep breath "OK... Got any bright ideas on how to disable the collars?" He asked.

"Yes, we remove the collars by hand, and then smash them" she answered.

"(All that trouble for a cat's life? What a drag) That idea sounds dumber than mine, that thing is obviously booby traped. But since you suggested it, I think you should go first"

"Look I walked out the door first and got doused with pink dye, the least you could do is take the first collar off!" She yelled at Geddon.

"(Listen to her raving on about fairness and her morals on taking an animal's life as equal to her own, if we could just kill it, this would be done and done but I had the luck to be paired up with an Altruistic brat who doesn't seem to get the stakes of this game) OK Kim, I'll take the first collar off, so that we can see what we're dealing with here (Man, I don't like this one bit, but it has to bone)" Geddon said in yield to Kimberly's request.