𝓑𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰!

      A hatch opens in the ceiling of the cave, from which daylight pours in. Through this same hatch, a strong rope descends from top to bottom. A girl with light green skin, red eyes, pointed ears and snow-white hair slowly descended along this rope. She was dressed in yellow gloves, black boots, black shorts, a black shirt with a red heart on the chest and with two buckles on the shorts, to which two laser pistols were attached. She slowly descended head first to the middle of the rope and stopped and began to look around. The cave was empty and consisted of a long corridor with bare stone walls. There was also nothing on the floor. Making sure that this place was safe, she unclenches her fingers and jumps down, doing a somersault. Landing on her feet, she gets up and looks around again. Then she looks up and shouts: — You can go down, there is no one and nothing dangerous here. — Good. — the answer was heard from above. A skeleton slowly descended the rope. He was dressed completely in black. Even a black hood. He also had one laser pistol with him. Finding himself at the lower end of the rope, the girl took him by the waist and helped him gently step onto the ground with his feet. — There you go. — she said. — Thank you, Dom. — You're welcome, Skully. I'm very glad that you decided to go on this adventure with me. — she said. — Well, you know me. I love adventures and dangers myself. So I won't miss the opportunity to have fun. — the skeleton answered and they quietly laughed. — So, where are we going? — Let's think about it now. — Dom raised her right index finger up and felt a gust of wind. — So. If the wind is blowing from the left along this tunnel, then we need to go where the wind is blowing. That is, there. — she points to the right part of the tunnel. — Are you sure? — Skully was a little hesitant. — Don't doubt! — she patted him on the top of his skull. — I have lived through so many dangers alone and have more experience. I know exactly where to go. The main thing is to always stay close and not fall behind. — Okay. Go first, and I'll follow. — The skeleton answered and followed her. While they were walking along a long and straight corridor, a huge axe suddenly appeared on the way, which began to swing from left to right and vice versa, passing through the walls. It almost hacked two thieves to death, as they both managed to stop. Standing in place, they took up fighting stances, looked at the axe, calculated the time precisely and, running up, they bent down and rolled forward in a lump. Then they stood up and suddenly sharp spikes suddenly emerged from under the ground between them, which in theory could have touched and killed them. But fortunately, they did not touch them. However, Skully and Dom, without bending their arms and legs, bulged their eyes and clenched their teeth in fear, not expecting such a trap. — My Grod! — the skeleton said to himself. — And I was not scared. — the girl lied. They slowly and carefully walked past the spikes and found themselves on a safe path. Having sighed with relief, they went on. — And what are we actually looking for here? — Skully asked and Dom began to explain: — I heard that in these caves there is an ancient and extinct civilization hidden with an ancient race that died a long time ago. There should be a city or even a temple and the most important treasure in the form of a golden statuette in the shape of an ancient king who ruled this ancient city. — And we will sell it somewhere on the black market or give it to a museum? — asked the skeleton, and the girl answered: — No. We will keep it for ourselves, and if anything happens, we will give it to your dad for his birthday in two months. — Give it?... Hm... — the skeleton thought as he walked. — Stop! — the girl extended her right hand, stopping the teenager so that he would not fall into the hole. It was an abyss with a destroyed bridge. She looked around and checked that the place was generally safe, but there were no bypasses. — Nothing to do! Let's jump! — Why? I can just fly over. — Skully explained, lightly hugging his aunt around the waist. — You hold on to me too, so you don't fall. Dom laughed slightly. — That's not necessary! Look what I have. — she takes out a long black rope with a hook. — I can fly over in my own way, too. — Skully let her go. Dom saw a stalactite from above, threw a grappling hook, which grabbed a stone tooth on the ceiling and held tightly. Then she ran up and flew over on the rope. Then she pulled the grappling hook back to herself. — Wow! Was that possible too? — Skully asks and flies over the pit on her rocket boots. — I'm just not looking for easy ways. — the girl explained and folded the grappling hook back into her belt. — Let's move on. — she accidentally stepped on the button and a long stick with a sharp spike suddenly rose from the floor, which almost hit Dom's head, stopping with its sharp end in front of her nose. Dom's eyes widened, not expecting this. — Uh... This is a lesson for you, that you need to be so careful that you even need to watch where you step and try not to lose your head. — she slowly goes around the trap and moves on, and the skeleton follows her. Further on the path there was a long corridor with brick walls on the sides. This was suspicious. Dom squinted and briefly noticed tubes sticking out from behind the bricks. These must be dart guns. Stepping back a little, tilting her head left and right, making a sound of bones crunching and running up, she jumps and does a somersault in a forward jump. At this moment, the tubes shoot poisoned needles and try to hit, but fortunately, none of the needles hit the girl. She remained safe and sound. Standing on her feet, she stretched out her arms, as if she were performing in a circus, and Skully, seeing this in the distance, began to applaud her. — Oh. But I myself don’t know how to do this yet. How can I get through this trap? — the skeleton asks himself. — I need to think about it. — Dom answers, scratching his chin and begins to look around. Suddenly, Skully remembers that he can teleport. — Wait! I can do this. — he said, snapped his fingers and disappeared from sight in the form of lightning. Then he appeared just as suddenly next to the girl. — Ta-dam! — he smiled, raising both hands up. — Oh. How you scared me! — she grabbed her chest near her heart. — Warn me next time you teleport and appear next to me. They went on. There was a bright light on the path ahead. At first they thought it was an exit to the street, but in fact it was a passage to an ancient city. Large and half-ruined with rubble, among which were protruding columns and fallen stones from the ceiling of the cave. The girl and the skeleton were shocked by what they saw, that their eyes bulged. It was the first time they saw something like this and they didn’t know what to say. Having recovered from the shock, they went on and entered through the ruins of the main gate. Skully looked around and asked: — These are most likely the ancient ruins of the extinct civilization of Ixtabols? Or even ancient titans? — No. Most likely, this used to be a city of the old generation of the Makulibarumalu race. — Dom suggested. — Now this race has evolved long ago and became known as makanquagri. Unfortunately, they themselves do not remember who and what their ancestors were. — And where could the treasure be? — the skeleton asks and the girl answers: — I think they are in the center of the city in some temple. And it looks a bit like the city hall. — Okay. Let's move on. — said the skeleton and went on with his aunt. Together they found the right building, similar to the city hall, and entered through the main doors. They found themselves in a large hall with a bunch of columns and animal statues. After looking around, they slowly walked down the steps. The end of the steps was broken. Dom jumped down and caught Skully when he jumped after her, then she put him on his feet next to her. — Be careful! Most likely there are traps here too. — she said and walked three steps backwards, looked around, turned and went further forward. Skully also followed her and did not forget to look around. Having walked around a large column, they came out to a high pedestal, on top of which a ray of light fell from the ceiling, and on the pedestal itself stood a golden statue in the form of a star. Skully suddenly felt something and grabbed Dom by the hand. — Stop! — What? What is it? — she looked at him questioningly. — I have a strange feeling that there is someone else here besides the two of us. — the skeleton explained, and by coincidence, the column to the right of them, or rather a piece of it, was knocked out. Skully and Dom covered their eyes with their hands. A huge, spiky bot made of vulcanium came out from behind the column. — That's Lord Wander's a bot! — the skeleton pointed at it. The bot sharply pulled a lava tentacle and tried to grab the teenager. — Watch out! — Dom pushed him away and exposed herself to the grab. The bot caught her and hit her in the face, pushing her to the side and knocking her to the floor. Groaning, she rolled across the floor like a log and tried to get up. The bot stood in front of her, clenched the lava tentacle into a fist and tried to hit Dominator in the legs. However, she spread both legs to the sides in time and the bot missed, hitting the ground. Dom pulled both legs towards herself, hit the bot's lava tentacle with them and rolled back. — Hold on! — Skully yells and takes out his gun, starting to shoot at the bot from behind. The bot, however, turned to be invulnerable. But he turned to the skeleton and approached him. Trying to catch him, the bot swung its tentacle, but Skully managed to jump back and launch his jet boots. Dom, at this time, also takes out her guns and shoots the bot in the back. The bot was distracted by the shots fired at itself from behind and ran at the girl. Dom ran to the left, climbing onto a piece of a column and jumped over at the moment when the bot tried to knock her down. Instead, he only broke the column. In the jump, she fired a couple of times, landed and rolled in a lump on the ground, after which she hid behind a large concrete slab. Skully also continued shooting at the bot, and the bot charged its heart-shaped eye and fired a laser from it, which almost hit the skeleton. The latter barely dodged and also hid. The bot began to look around and look for Dominator. Having found her with the help of a mode that allows you to see everything like an x-ray, he strikes, punching a hole in the slab, but past her. Dom by this time managed to reload her pistols and ducked, lying on the ground. Rolling away from the slab like a log, she gets up and continues shooting. The bot did not care about the bullets and swung, trying to hit her. Dominator dodged, saw the rope, shot at it from below and grabbed the end of the rope stretching upward. Having flown past the bot, she continued to shoot, and the bot tried to grab her. Skully by this time saw a second similar rope and shot at it. A canvas fell from the ceiling onto the bot and he tried to tear it. Skully flew up on his rocket boots, grabbed Dom and landed with her away from the bot. At the same time, they saw a large column next to the bot. — Shoot over there! — the skeleton says and they both start shooting at the bottom of the column. Acid bullets ate through the column from below and it started to tilt, falling on the bot. The bot tore the canvas, but did not have time to dodge and was hit by a column, falling to the ground. Dom even ran to this column and jumped on it to add weight and crush the bot herself. Skully was still standing below and walking around to the left, looking at the bot. Dominator was slowly creeping up above the fallen column, keeping the sights of her pistols on the column itself. The bot itself looked battered from such a collision and seemed to have switched off. Although the skeleton had suspicions that he might be pretending. Dominator was confident in victory, twirled her pistols and put them in her buckles. Only Skully continued to hold his pistol. — Relax, we beat him. — said the aunt. — No, I don't think so. Maybe he's pretending so that we think so. — suspects the skeleton. — Do you remember how you created these new advanced bots that can simulate a shutdown in order to deceive the enemy in case of defeat? — Yes. — What if Lord Wander foresaw this and stole your idea for his bots? His fears turned out to be true. The bot turned on again and stood up abruptly, removing the column from itself, and with it Dom herself, suddenly, not expecting this, jumped up and fell with her back on the column. The bot lifts the column above itself. While Skully shoots at the bot with her pistol, Dom managed to roll off the column like a log and fall down. The bot abruptly waved one of its tentacles. The skeleton did not have time to dodge, flew from the blow and crashed his skull into the board of the frame, hit and fell. — SCULLY!!! — the girl screamed, stretching out her hand. The bot threw the column aside and turned to Dominator, looking at her. Dominator also got to her feet and now they stood in front of each other, like cowboys in the Wild West before an epic shot. Dom takes out his pistols again and loads them, and the bot transforms his tentacles into sharp grinders. — I have an order to kill you. — the bot said. — Not today! — she answers him through clenched teeth and is the first to run to attack the giant, opening fire on him. The bot also ran to attack, ignoring the shots. When they were almost close, the bot swung one grinder, trying to stab the girl, but she managed to duck and roll while running. Rolling on the ground, she turns over and continues to shoot while lying down. The bot runs to the wall, climbs up and jumps off it, landing on the ground, surrounding Dom under itself. The girl manages to put her pistols aside and grabs both grinders, trying to hold them so that he doesn't stab her. However, the bot has definitely stood under her, slightly lifts his round body and prepares to sharply lower it to crush her. — NO!!! — Skully screams, coming to his senses and flies up on jet boots, grabbing the bot by the top of his head. This made the bot distracted and he began to stagger in place, but also held Dom and tried to stab her. The skeleton began to hit the bot on the head with the butt of his pistol. — COME ON, LET HER GO, STUPID IRON!!! — Get off me, without leather freak! — the bot answers emotionlessly and tries to get him, but the skeleton crawled away in time. At one point, the bot made another grinder and tried to stab the skeleton with it, but the latter dodged, grabbed it and lowered it down, cutting through the bot's head. It began to smoke and spark. This weakened the grinders below, after which the Dominator was able to remove them and roll back along the floor, away from the bot. — Error! Error! — the bot repeated to himself. Skully cut a small hole in the bot's head and shot inside. This time, the bot definitely turned off, losing its power source and falling. Skully also fell from the bot's head and lay on the ground, starting to catch his breath. Dom came up to him and helped him up. — You're great! You behaved unexpectedly. — Thank you. — Skully thanked her. — How are you? — Nothing. Just a couple of scratches. — Great! — the skeleton replied. After defeating the bot, they approached the pedestal. Skully flew higher on his rocket boots and carefully examined the figurine. — No! Dad already has one just like this. He doesn't need another one. — he said and slowly descended. — It was a shame we even came down here. — It wasn't a shame, Skully. — she put her hand on his shoulder. — Just think about what we've been through. Such adventures, burdocks and such a battle. Personally, I'm glad we came here. And the fact that we didn't get what we came here for is nothing. The most important thing for us is not relics, but adrenaline, adventure and survival. That's why we live and walk together. — Yes. You're right about that. — the skeleton agreed, smiling. They turned towards the exit and walked there, hugging each other's shoulders. They didn't even notice that the bot was slowly starting to turn on again, having found an emergency power source inside itself. However, when it woke up, Dominator and Skully were no longer there. — Mission failed!