There has to be an After for Us ~ (shadam / klance)

Chapter 20 - Puppeteer

"So now it's destroying the maze?" yelled Pidge as she ran, her and Hunk were making random turns to get away, but the Medusotaur just kept smashing through walls in order to come after them and thanks to Hunk it now had the power to turn them to stone so they couldn't even turn to face it and fight. "What was the point of the maze?"

"I don't know," said Bored, popping up near Pidge and floating beside her as she ran. "I didn't make it, remember?"

"But you said you were testing us! Is getting through the maze the test?"

"If it were then she's winning," said Bored, nodding back to the Medusotaur that had just busted through another wall.

"What about beating the Medusotaur, would that be a pass?"

"Would it?" asked Bored, looking at Hunk. Hunk felt put on the spot.

"I really wish everyone would stop looking at me for ideas!" yelled Hunk, side-sliding and taking a tight corner.

"If I were you," continued Bored. "I'd figure out a way to pass soon. The furry in the basement is getting close to going poof."

"Lance!" gasped Pidge at the same time that Hunk gasped, "Keith!"

"Interesting," said Bored, "Maybe they're both furries..." Then she popped out of existence like she hadn't just delivered the news that one of their friends was about to experience soul-death.

And to make matters worse, they'd just hit a dead end.

"Back track!" yelled Pidge, but the sound of the Medusotaur approaching made them freeze. "We can't keep running like this. You need to think of an advantage for us."

"How?" asked Hunk, he would first need someone to explain how he had done all of this so far before he knew how to fix it.

"However, you already did all of this to start."

"The ideas weren't mine," confessed Hunk. "You kept coming up with them, I'm just imagining them."

"I didn't come up with mazes and bouncy castles and taco trucks."

"But you came up with the idea of a test and a soft landing and a location..."

Pidge smacked her forehead. "So really this whole time we've been playing improv with audience participation."

"Yeah, now give me some good prompts so we can beat this thing and get to our furry friend before it's too late!"

The Medusotaur roaded, it was literally around the corner from them now.

"Alright," said Pidge, setting her face. "First we need a way to block our vision so we won't turn to stone.

With that theirs paladin helmets dropped onto their heads. The visor slide into place. It was dark for a second, but then the helmet projected a highly pixilated image of what was in front of Hunk. And just in time for a pixilated Medusotaur to come barreling around the corner.

"We can't fight her here. We need the higher ground!" yelled Pidge, as she ducked a Medusotaur attack. The thing swung its giant bull arm out and when it didn't connect with Pidge, it smashed into the wall, crumbling part of it but knocking some stone blocks lose. Instead of going crashing to the ground, they floated up, and made a makeshift staircase, one block per step.

"Nice, Hunk!" cheered Pidge and they both scrambled up the blocks until they were thirty feet up in the air. They turned to see the Medusotaur trying to climb up, but falling back off as its bull feet weren't agile enough to balance on such a tiny step. "That won't hold it off for long. What we need next is a clear objective. Some way to pass the test."