Chapter 72 - Sea Monster

Dageer calmly shot the paralyzed mon calamarians, finishing them off one by one. Some of the weaker ones had already lost consciousness, and even the stronger of them, an older mon calamari, was having problems moving his body.

Dageer didn't show any mercy, even if his opponents were defenseless at the moment. He would not shoot a surrounded enemy, or one who couldn't fight in any way, but that wasn't the case for those mon calamarians. Dageer was sure they would try to kill him as soon as they recovered. Eliminating all threats was in his nature as a soldier, and also on his genetic code.

But he didn't have the time to kill all of them. A hand penetrated the water and grabbed the older mon calamari, pulling him out. After that, the owner of the hand jumped in the water, and punched Dageer.

Maybe because of their skin, the mon calamarians didn't face as much resistance from the water as clones did. The punch wasn't enough to throw Dageer away, but still got him dizzy, and he expelled some air, creating bubbles on the water.

Dageer grabbed the treadmill and started pulling himself down blindly. At the same time he launched another electric grenade, hoping to entangle the mon calamari. It just slowed him down for a little.

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Hiigi was angry. First, he lost many good men. Then one clone slipped by his hands and jumped in the water. Hiigi faced that as a provocation, and such as that he sent his right hand, Tart, to kill him. Never would he have thought that one clone would be able to take on thirteen mon calamarians, even if it was through 'different' means.

Of course, he couldn't let Tart die, so he pulled him out of the water before he was killed. After doing that, a red mist took over his head, and all he could think of was of killing the clone.

When the clone used his weapon to throw another of the detonators that exploded on electrical spirals, he was forced to stop. That was enough for him to clear his head, and think that maybe the clone was leading him into a trap. But what trap could it be? He had already disarmed their bombs, and scouted the tunnel.

No. The clone was just desperate. And Hiigi liked the feeling of invoking such terror on one of the clones who killed his father.

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Dageer's plan only went as far as that. He was now alone in the underwater tunnel, and a good number of mon calamarians would go after him for sure.

At least he had taken some pressure out off his brothers. As he followed the tunnel, Dageer started designing his new plan. If someone came after him he would fight, no other choice. But if they decided that he wasn't a threat, and let him be, he would show them how wrong they were.

The grid at the end of the tunnel was open, as he suspected, and the thermal detonators they left there were gone. Carefully, he swam across the grid, entering the ocean. It was night, and because of that he had trouble seeing more than a few meters ahead.

No mon calamari attacked him, and he decided to put his second plan in motion. He went back in the tunnel, but before he made the first turn, the lights on the treadmill projected shadows in the walls. Too many shadows for Dageer to take care.

Once more he turned and got out, looking for somewhere to ambush them. But this was an ocean, how could he ambush someone? It was only when he turned back and saw the rock wall where the tunnel ended that he saw the many caves in it.

Thinking it was better than nothing, he swam to one of them, not the closest, as that would be the first they would search, but one close enough so he could get them when they came out.

He couldn't see them, and there was no sound, so the only thing he could do was wait. He didn't have to wait for long, though. Figures appeared in the entrance of the cave, and Dageer made the shot. Instantly, a small amount of blue laser fire, and a huge amount of red ones intertwined in the cave.

Red lasers flew inside the cave, almost getting Dageer, who tried his best to take out his enemies before they could take him out.

One of those red lasers flew all the way to the end of the cave and hit the wall. The wall moved, and two huge eyes appeared on it. After that came a curved beak, which opened and let out a horrifying screech.

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