Chapter 15: Confessions, part 3
The Rabbai shined a flashlight down the tunnel. The Rangers had been walking, hunched over for an hour. Cedric felt knots form in his back. "Hey guys," Cedric said, spinning his eyeballs, "I'm gonna get Skulliosis from saving Skullomania."
Everybody laughed. "You have the best jokes, Cedric" Froggy said between snorts. The humor offered only a small relief, though. After another seemingly-endless hour of hunching, the tunnel opened up into a large room. It had to be at least 30 kilosheckles in size and over 100 stories high. Everyone's jaw dropped. The walls were perfectly flat and covered in stainless steel.
Rabbai Abraham surveyed his surroundings. "I don't see an a door anywhere."
"Don't you know where you're going?" Cedric asked.
"Truthfully," Rabai Abraham confessed, "None of us have ever been this far. We always gave up after 20 minutes in the tunnel and went back."
Cedric spun his eyes around again. "Nigga if I was a Jew and you were at my Synagogue, I'd be like 'God-bye Rab-eye' "
Everybody laughed again. Swordfighter stepped backward while laughing and stepped on a pressure plate. Thousands of trap doors in the floor and walls open. Springboards, giant pinball bumpers, loops, floating platforms, monsters and spike balls emerge from every trap door.
A robotic hedgehog with flying rocket shoes bolts across the floor, navigating the loops. It passes by the Kiwi Rangers and grabs Rabbai Abraham. Speeding back across the loops, springboards, and platforms, it makes its way to the top of the arena, too small to see from ground level.
A robotic bee buzzes near the Rangers and shoots spikes. "Aww hell nah, nigga!" Cedric screams, "I'm allergic to bees!"
"It's not just bees!" shouts Swordfighter. "Wheeled snail robots, 3 o'clock!"
"Slow moving caterpillar robots!" Shouts Froggy.
Colored lights and moving laser beams activate. Swordfighter steps forward to try and get to a moving platform above him. A laser beam sweeps across the floor, singing the hairs if his moustache. Swordfighter jumps back.
"Do you hear that?" Memegrey says, turning her head towards the tunnel behind them. A faint whirring sound comes from the tunnel. It remains constant and gets louder.
A brown hedgehog comes spinning out of the tunnel. It unrolls and looks at the the Kiwi Rangers. "You must go back!"
"We can't" says Memegrey, "The Rabbai is up there."
The hedgehog rolls its eyes and runs off. It completes the various loops, springboards, and bumpers, until it was out of sight. A moment later, the brown blur returns with the Rabbai.
"I cannot disarm the security system. We must go back!" the hedgehog says.
"No," says Froggy. "Our friend has C. Diff and we need the cure!"
The hedgehog gasps for a moment. "C. Diff. Your friend didn't- look out! Get back in the tunnel!" A swarm of slow moving robotic caterpillars were surrounding the Kiwi Rangers. They did as the hedgehog ordered. The hedgehog entered behind them. An aura of energy appeared around him. "My shield can guard you from some of the slow-moving, mildly annoying caterpillars, but you must hurry."
After an hour of slowly treking through the long, shallow tunnel, the hedgehog stopped for a minute. "I dont think they are followimg us anymore. Could you guys hurry up?"
Cedric got annoyed. "Nigga we're bigger than you. These tunnels made for hedgehogs or something?"
"Yes, they were."
After another half hour of back breaking crouching, they reached the temple opening.
The hedgehog stopped for a moment. "Before I open this door, you have to promise me you will not speak of anything you saw."
The rabbi began "OK we won't-"
"Promise!" The hedgehog demanded.
Everyone made a faggy pose. "We the Kiwi Rangers and Ranger Rabbai Abraham promise not to talk about what we saw."
"Good" the Hedgehog says.
He presses an unmarked stone in the wall. The large bolder rolls out of the way, opening the entrance back to the temple. Everyone steps out. Firefly rolls back to greet everyone.
"Did you guys get the remedy? Hey why is there a hedgehog with you?"
"Oh no! I forgot to transform back!" the hedgehog said to himself. "Chaostism control." he shouts, and returns to human form.
Firefly is astonished "
@The Last Stand! How can you turn into a hedgehog?"
@The Last Stand stress sighs for a moment, and drops a bombshell.
"All Muslims can turn into hedgehogs."