“Thank you for coming,” said the governor of Pesadilla province. “Your help means more to the people of planet Polvo in this time of crisis than you will ever know. I only regret that I found it necessary to relocate before your arrival.”
“Found it necessary to run away like the cowardly gatito you are, you mean!” said Guapo, aiming his ultraviolet rifle dead-on at the governor’s face on the video screen. “Die, flapper!”
Guapo squeezed the trigger, and a bolt of purple energy sizzled across the governor’s office and pierced the video screen. Smoke and shards of layered crystal circuitry erupted from the impact point, and the image of the governor’s face flickered off the screen.
But her voice kept talking from the undamaged audio speakers.
“Very sorry I can’t greet you in person,”
