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  1. <Hang on!> Tobias shouted. <One just went into the blood vessel!>
  2.  
  3. "What? No way!" Jake exclaimed.
  4.  
  5. "We need to be closer!" I yelled.
  6.  
  7. Cassie powered her tail and flippers. The rest of us held on, fingers and talons anxiously gripping.
  8.  
  9. The Helmacrons were gathered around a long slice in Marco's stomach. The slice had closed, the way a cut automatically does. But I could half-see the skin oozing a red liquid.
  10.  
  11. Blood.
  12.  
  13. What was happening to Marco? Was he experiencing intense pain? Lying in bed, at home or in a hospital, groaning, expecting a gruesome death?
  14.  
  15. Whatever, he had to be lonely. And scared. And extremely angry.
  16.  
  17. "Marco must have the worst case of heartburn in history," Jake said. A joke. But Jake sounded worried, too.
  18.  
  19. (...)
  20.  
  21. "Neep! Neep! Neep!" <We will be victorious!> one of them shouted. <And when we rule the universe, we will not spare your lives! Not even so you may scrape our boots!>
  22.  
  23. The Helmacron stepped forward. He pulled apart the slice in Marco's stomach. Began to wiggle in through the flaps of skin. Then -
  24.  
  25. SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  26.  
  27. With an awful sucking sound, he disappeared.
  28.  
  29. (...)
  30.  
  31. <To victory!> SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  32.  
  33. Another Helmacron disappeared through the stomach lining.
  34.  
  35. <To glory!>
  36.  
  37. SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  38.  
  39. Another, gone.
  40.  
  41. <To still the beating organ!>
  42.  
  43. SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  44.  
  45. Another.
  46.  
  47. Now there were only five left. Four had already entered Marco's bloodstream as calmly as I would step onto an escalator at the mall.
  48.  
  49. (...)
  50.  
  51. Two more Helmacrons wiggled through the cut. Only two were left in the stomach now.
  52.  
  53. <To the cowardly heart of the swollen alien!>
  54.  
  55. SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  56.  
  57. That sound. I was going to hear it in my nightmares.
  58.  
  59. "Will it hurt Marco to have them in his bloodstream?" Jake asked suddenly.
  60.  
  61. <They should suffocate quickly,> Cassie said. <And then they should be broken down and washed out like any waste.>
  62.  
  63. SLLLLLUUUSSSH!
  64.  
  65. The last of the Helmacrons disappeared through the cut.
  66.  
  67. <Another possibility occurs to me> Ax said.
  68.  
  69. "What possibility?" Jake demanded.
  70.  
  71. <Perhaps our basic assumption is incorrect.>
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