The Xenian HALO Sessions

[The Legion of Shadow-Priests take off in hot pursuit of Hundo, following 'the Gospel'. Hundo, in the meantime, has got himself into something of a pickle..]

Hundo (thinking to himself): How shall I ever escape the 'Curse of Hemley-O-Teth?!
[He makes a left, then a right, down a long cooridor in which he can hear quite palpably the march of the Shadow-Priests, another right, and sprints then quickly up an inclined grade. Up, up, up to back up to the Second Level he runs. The Shadow-Priests are making their turns around the corner. Hundo finds the ascent looping around in concentric squares, up towards the top of the pyramid. At one 90 degree angle of the turn he fails to notice that he has reached the top and the bright, sunny blue sky above the desert sands that surround the Pyramid of Hemley-O-Teth. Hundo has just enough time to think: "My, oh my, that's a mighty way down before he has teetered over the edge and falls with a Legions of Shadow-Priests, falling after him. At the last minute, Hundo is saved by none other than 'Tootsie-Roll', aka H.T. of 'The Adventures of Team Whammo', member of Team Turbo, as well as of the Xenia Social House in good standing. Laura, HT's first mate, acts as the co-pilot of the 'Feigning Pharaoh', who zoons out of nowhere to rescue Hundo from his dreadful fate, even as the Legions of Shadow-Priests fall into a hole, and back to the shadows. Gospel, who had eaten one too many cheeseburgers playing WOW on the Egyptian Mainframe, plugged into a giant vat of Root-Beer and Reese's Pieces, connected to a tube via his belly-button, watches 'Tootsie-Roll's' ship zoom off into the sky again and out of sight. He limps back to find Special-Sauce and call for back-up.

Hundo: "Tootsie-Roll!" Boy, I have to admit, I'm surprised to see you, my man! How's your old ship the Banana Boat 5000 fairing these days?

Tootsie-Roll: Yeah, she kind of took a turn for the worse and started collecting Fruit-Flies, so we had to throw her out. A pity we didn't take her with us. We could have started a composting pile in "Pyramid-X!"

"Ah, no worries," said Hundo. "What are you up to tonight?"

Tootsie-Roll: Yeah, we'll probably watch a couple episodes of 'The Office' on the ship's main computer with 'Gutsy' and friends, then make it an early night, and by "early night" we most definitely mean [But Tootsie-Roll didn't need to finish that last thought.] "Whammo!" said Hundo. "Nice."

Tootsie-Roll (giving Hundo a knowing expression): You know, they don't call me Tootsie-Roll for nothing!"

Hundo: "Sweeet."