21. Arrested

"This is the police! Yer have been surrounded! Drop yer weapons and release yer 'ostage at once!" a mechanized voice boomed, briefly interrupting the frantic screams of a woman.

Ah-moe looked up to see about a dozen eyes staring at him. They had belonged to people dressed in strange black apparel exposing only their eyes, and they were hidding behind doorways and upturned furniture, pointing short black shafts at him. He had been busy trying to show an innocent civillian how pretty the laser beam would look in her eye that he hadn't notice that everyone else was gone and oddly dressed people had taken their place.

"我比你大声er!" Ah-mo bellowed at the police officer holding the loud hailer, while trying to snatch the civillian from the stunned Ah-moe to try out his reflex hammer.

"Release yer hostage at once! Yer have 5 seconds to comply!" the officer repeated, not understand what Ah-mo's roar meant.

" 笨Ah-mo! 没有hor! 我-比-较-大-声-er!!" Ah-moe screamed, ending with a high pitch shriek, raising both fists in protest, releasing the hostage who was swiftly brought to safety by hidden police officers. Ah-moe was too busy to care.

"我--比--较--大--声--er!!!"

"我---比---较---大---!!!!"

Empowered by their fading Pluto magic, their screams by now had escalated to such a high pitch and volume that glass was visibly shaking. In fact, the entire building was trembling slightly.

"Men! It's ultrasound weaponry! Take 'em down now!!" the officer shouted over the din, hands covering his ears, trying to block out the highly irritating noise.

Stun grenades explode... Green smoke fills the room... Glass shatters... Vision blurs... Silence...

As the smoke cleared, the unconcious figures of police men could be seen in the darkness, sprawled around two snoring people...

The stun grenades the police had launched landed at the feet of the Hoos just as Ah-moe and Ah-mo hit their highest notes of "HUMPH!!!". The resonance had instantly shattered all the glass articles in the room, fluorescent tubes and windows and all, sending shards all over, and knocking the police out.