Lentan relayed the orders of his commander to the units that would be tasked to carry them out.  As he did so, his cell-interceptor chirped, blurting a stream of digital information, and one of his video feeds turned to static.  Lentan paused for a moment, figuring this out.<br/><br/>"...  Aw, damn it to hell, Nermal," he complained even though Nermal wasn't present.  "You took out one of my cameras!"<br/><br/>Moments later, a second chirp of data spewed from the cell-interceptor.  One of the screens bloomed into brightness as it showed a giant slug being shredded in half by an explosion.  Lentan focused on that screen and saw Abe, Samedi, and Nermal toting a really screwed-up-looking Marinus past the steaming remains of the monster.  He flicked Nermal's image in the screen with a finger.<br/><br/>"Try not to miss next time, asshole," Lentan muttered, his nose barely two inches from the screen.  Suddenly, there was some movement from the sundered hulk of the slug.  A woman, her clothing tattered and melted and her skin severely burned by acid, was worming her way out of the slug's upper half, apparently surviving both being swallowed and being blown up by a very narrow margin.  She slid out onto the pavement, flopped around a bit in exhaustion, then lay still for a moment.  Slowly, the woman reached over to a nearby tentacle and slid it into her mouth, beginning to gulp.  Lentan laughed out loud.  "Sweet revenge!" he cried.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, as he flipped away from that camera view to follow the rescue team's progress, someone else was about to get their sweet revenge.  As he watched, a shadowy figure, or perhaps a set of them, slid across one of the screens, heading for the rescue team.  Lentan couldn't tell if it was a macro-fur or some mass congregation of regular furs, but this was--<br/><br/>"Bad!  Oh, bad, bad, bad!  SHIT!"  Lentan scrabbled for something, ANYTHING, he could use to warn them.  But there was nothing.