“Um! Just a moment, Mr. Sir!” Before the shadow could grab the two
again, Bowyetta picked up the Repairman and ran away to hide. “We must
be getting away first!” The shadow tried to look for them again, but
still seemed to have trouble turning around…

Once the two were out
of sight, Bowyetta produced some sort of phone from her hair and
pressed several buttons on it. “Hello? Is being Bonkakira?” she
whispered this time. She didn’t want to risk getting caught. “No no,
Bowyetta cannot be talking very loudly right now. …Well, um… Is being a
giant metal blob with six arms out to kill us… …You are knowing? …You
are wanting Bowyetta to be doing of what?! …Well… If is being what she
must doing… Thanking of you muchly.” She hung up. “Um, Mr. Sir?
Bonkakira says we are supposed to be attacking her arms… But… Is one way
we must be getting up there.”

Bowyetta stepped out as slowly and
carefully as she could and made her way over to the shadow. Just the
thought of doing this made her sick, but… If it was the only way…

Bowyetta
carefully put her hand on the shadow’s body and quickly sank into it.
After a moment, she reappeared on top of her head, motioning for Mr. Sir
to join her. Something about this felt… Wrong to her…

“Ah, okay,” the Repairman nodded, still upside-down. “How do we–oh.”

He was still in the vice when Bowyetta snuck off to however she was supposed to do this. He sighed, and began struggling again. The siren light seemed to stretch and bend a little, and then it snapped and shattered.

Finally, the Repairman was free. As he dug into his hammerspace for a new bulb, he saw that Bowyetta was on top of the monster’s head. How did she…?

Oh.

He quickly screwed on a red bulb that was identical to the last one, and as he dashed for the shadow’s body, he pulled a formless diving suit from behind his back and hastily donned it. As it made a loud zzzzzzip! noise, he entered the liquid metal and swam to the top.

He surfaced right next to Bowyetta, and it was clear he was also uncomfortable with that, though less so.

“…Now what?”