Part 11: Sam and Emma Defenders of Earth

Be sure to read parts 1-10 first.

"Emma, it's Sam, I see you on my radar."

Emma looked at the radar square in the corner of her helmet display. It was filled with red dots and one green dot. When Sam spoke again the dot pulsed brighter.

"I climbed in a window on the tower." Sam said.

"Your on the other side of the guards?" Emma asked.

"Yep. I have my gummyball gun, but I can't sneak up on them.

Emma had an idea. "I'll yell at them and when they turn this way, you blast 'em."

"OK" Sam agreed.

Emma counted down, "On three. One, two, Three!"

Emma jumped around the corner and yelled. She could feel her chest plate vibrating and her voice boomed inside the vestibule. The guards were startled and turned to see. As they lifted crossbows, maces and swords, a blizzard of gummyballs blew down the stairs. Some had time to struggle, others were caught where they stood. Their protective armor turned to a prison.

Emma could hear Sam laughing on the radio as he peaked around the corner and waved her up the stairs. The stone stairwell circled around the inside of the tower ten stories. They were nearly at the top when Sam stopped and backed into Emma. A hail of crossbow bolts clattered against the wall ahead of them.

Sam yelled, "Holy crap he's big!"

Emma could feel the stairs tremble as something came toward them. Sam sent video from his helmet to the corner of Emma's faceplate. When he jumped around the corner again she could see a huge man filling the stairwell. Sam plastered the giant and the stirwell with gummyballs. Soon there was a wall of hardened foam with the giant stuck inside. Emma came up next to Sam and admired his handiwork.

"Wow!" She said as she clapped Sam on the back.

Sam showed her triple zeros on his gun. "That took all my ammo."

Emma soon realized they had a problem; how to get farther up the stairs. Sam had already tried to climb the outside and only made it three floors. Above the giant was a hole in the new wall.

"If we could make that hole bigger we could climb over." Sam suggested.

Emma made a step with her hands and Sam climbed to her shoulders. Standing on her shoulders he began knocking chunks of the material out. He then crawled up onto the giants head and helped Emma up over the wall. They could hear the guards downstairs freeing each other as they hopped down on the other side.

Sam and Emma now stood before the tower door.

Stay tuned for more.