Collision Course [+ Additional Levels]

Level Ten - Unhappy Reunion

"Pleasse. Look no further than the very room you're sstanding in," he replied testily.

Ugg shuffled to the door. He slid open the hatch in the door a fraction of an inch. He snapped it shut, and turned to them. They looked at him expectantly.

"Well?" Slick asked.

Ugg shrugged. "Rain's pouring out there. It's just this kid in an orange sweater."

Slick blanched. "Orange?" he whispered.

Coily frowned at him. "Sslick?"

Slick sighed exasperatedly at Ugg. "Oh, you just had to ask, didn't you?"

Ugg arched his eyebrows. "Ask about what? Hang on, about what would happen if another character came into—"

They all jumped as the door banged again.

Coily scowled, and stormed across the room. Ugg hurriedly scrambled out of the way. "I don't care if it'ss jusst a retarded human child. I don't even care if it'ss even that blassted orange ghosst!"

"Coily..." Slick warned.

Coily wrenched open the door. Rain howled through the doorway and immediately splattered at his feet. A figure with dark orange pants and a lighter orange hoodie that was pulled up stood, unfazed by the rain.

"Who are you? What do you want?" Coily snarled.

The orange figure suddenly shot forward.

Several things happened at once. Ugg squealed, the door slammed shut with a loud bang, the lights flickered, and Coily was suddenly choking, the figure's hand at his throat.

The hood concealed the upper half of the figure's face, so Coily couldn't see who it was. Coily watched a smile curl on the figure's face.

"'Retarded human child?' 'Blasted orange ghost'?" The figure shook their head and chuckled. Then the figure lifted their head. His round, dark eyes met Coily's light brown. "I do believe you have me mistaken for someone else."

Coily paled. The figure threw him across the floor. Coily started gasping for air, scrambling to his feet. Before he could fully recover, the figure stormed forward and grasped his throat again.

"You have any idea what you've done!?" The figure slammed Coily up against the wall.

There was a purple flash, and Coily transformed into a snake. His long tail writhed as he tried to free himself, but the figure's grip was firm.

"Q-QBert," the twisting purple snake gasped.

"Ohhh... So, this is what would happen," Ugg murmured with wide eyes.

Slick stepped forward. "QBert! What are you doing!?"

"Nice to see you too, Slick," QBert greeted calmly without turning. He slammed Coily up against the wall again, and Coily flashed back into his other form. He pinned him there. "You know, you're a hard snake to find. You know how many days I've been searching?"

"QBert... s-sstop," Coily gasped, clawing at QBert's grip with his hands.

"Stop? Stop? Is that what you did when he asked you to stop?" QBert growled.

"W-who?"

"Who!? Don't play dumb with me, Coily."

"QBert, I don't know who you're talking about," choked Coily. His face was slowly turning the color of his hair. "Why are you sso angry?"

"Hm, let's see." QBert pretended to think about it. "Coily, you bit a human!" he shouted in his face.

Both Slick and Ugg gasped in shock.