Breaking rocks in the Hot sun....

[Gentle]

Prison guard Cletus McReady approaches the cell of the sleeping figure. Turning down the plasma grid intensity the figure of the snoring pirate becomes visible through the force field. A sadistic grin begins to spread across the guards face. Only 20 minutes earlier a remit had come from an Agent of the LSF to soften up the subject.

Cletus armed his plasma wand and increased the voltage supply to the plasmastatic head. 'Y'all gonna burn pie rat, Says ere you gonna be needin t get a dose of ma medcine on a reglar basis.' The force field comes down and without further warning the prod hist the slumbering pirate.

Blue light explodes in Gentles waking moments and his body arches into a muscle spasming lurch that throws him from his bed and smashes him on the floor.

Aching from the hit Gentle looks into the eyes f his aggressor. 'Hola amigo' creaks from the pirates mouth. Gentle stands. Cletus grins and swipes the Pirate in the face. Gentle is thrown backward into the wall in a spectacular explosion of light that illuminates the entire prison floor. An immense wave of pain floods the pirates mouth and his head smashes on the cell wall causing light and stars to explode in his mind and his mouth to burn like hellfire rockets.

'Your mother tickles me like that gringo' Gentle jibes as his weakened legs force him upright.

'yous a dumb ass lil ho pie rat. Im'a gonna make you suffer like you never sufferd afore' the guard retorts. A sickly hand thrusts the prod into gentles groin.

Gentle screams and as a grin of satisfaction spreads across the face of the guard. Gentles massive hand grabs his windpipe and crushes with inhumane power while the pirate screams in agony.

Several hours later as the cells are opened from lock down. A guards body is found lying decapitated on the floor of cell block D.

No one saw what happened and Gentle doesn't mind that he missed his first meal.

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The Madness of the Pirate King