Planet Tetro ~ Page 41

Wade was using more tactic than brute force . His style relied more on taking out as many enemies as possible . With each strike , rather than using superior speed as well . Using wide deliberate strikes that took out at least 10 insect warriors at a time . Jumping from cave wall to wall , dealing countless casualties to the enemies . This style also helped with keeping his stamina optimal and showed off his brilliance in battle that was gained from wisdom .

At one moment during the fight I was even having fun . Everyone was taking out insect warriors with ease and ferocity while we protected Rose in the middle . Or so I thought . It was hard to notice while fighting and being pumped up by adrenaline . Once I thought about it though I could see it clearly . The reality hit me like a ton of bricks . We all had needle sized spears stuck in our bodies . I didn’t even feel a thing until now . They must’ve mastered a way to give us shallow stabs ! We were all being slowly poisoned !

Rose wasn’t fighting and that confused me at first . She even carries a small dagger that I've never seen her use . She started to emit a large blue light and soon it covered all of us . She yelled to the whole team , " Keep fighting , my healing aura will stall the poison for a few minutes . If we can beat them before it runs out we should make it out just fine ! So please , give it your best ! " Everyone kept fighting with all of their might . Although we had to hold back a little because her barrier forced us to stick closer to each other . The last thing I remembered was smashing my drill into the ground on a few insect warriors before I blacked out .

My sight was blurry and I felt swollen all of over . I tried to move but I was tied up again . Not again I thought . We all were definitely defeated . If only we had a permanent vaccine for the poison . It gave our enemies a huge handicap . They were tying up my friends as my vision came in and out . Before I know it I passed out again .

I came to again and saw 2 blurry figures standing before us with the swarm of insect warriors behind them . Who are these small children ? No they in fact looked like royalty adorning green emerald crowns . My vision slowly returned to 100 % . Wait they were insects ! This must be their leaders . They still had a wild look to them but even their clothes were more village like than the other warriors . They were much bigger than the other insects standing at around 4 feet tall .

The male one started to speak "Im sorry about my aggressive children . We raise them that way . We also don’t teach them your language . We traditionally look at you larger species as the barbarians that you are . We teach our children to behave the way you do so that we can stand a chance to live . Our more peaceful relatives were wiped out . The only ones of us that survived , survived solely by getting rid of enemies on sight .

You have my deepest regards and thanks though . We were told by our bigger children that you were the group that killed the giant monster . So we came to stop our smaller children . It seems we were too late to stop everyone and your group is greatly wounded as well . I feel that we have taken more losses than you though . So a simple sorry and a peaceful resolve should suffice ."