The Ghoul Kid!!

Chapter One ~ A Blakk Goon and His Issues

The sounds of firing blasters echoed throughout the cavern as an intense battle took place in a rundown town. The Shane Gang were pinned down in an alley, using the sharp corners for cover as a team of Dr Blakk's goons advanced on them.

"Is it just me," Eli Shane commented as he shot a Rammstone. "Or do we get pinned down a lot?"

Kord Zane, the blue Cave Troll next to him, shot a Hop Rock and ducked behind cover just in time to avoid a Hop Jack that whistled past his head, causing a small explosion next to them. "Yeah," he answered. "But we always manage to make it out alive."

"Only to get pinned down again," Trixie Sting said as she shot a Tormato slug. "I hate to say it, but I don't think we're getting out of this one."

"Well, you three can retreat," Pronto Geronimole proclaimed. "But Pronto will fight until his last slug!"

But he most likely would've retreated with the rest of his friends, but was saved from having to do so when a Thugglet slug shot out from behind them. From the Blakk Goon's perspective, it would've looked like a small flash of light that blinded them for a second. When they looked again, no one was there.

"Think they're hiding?" one of the Blakk Goons asked.

"They can't," said another. "This alley doesn't go anywhere. It's a complete dead end."

"Isn't that a little stupid to build an alley that doesn't go anywhere?" asked the first one.

"I don't care!" replied the second Blakk Goon. "Go and see if they're still there!"

"Fine!" the first Blakk Goon snapped, raising his blaster and slowly advancing on the Shane Gang's location. "If it doesn't go anywhere," he muttered to himself. "Then why am I checking to see if they're still there. Where else would they be."

Apparently not where they were supposed to. When the Blakk Goon made it, the Shane Gang were no longer there, and neither was the Thugglet...