Fight!!

Unending BE - episode 30061

"...you were about to say 'BUT NO THANKS', I hope, weren't you?" Mr. Black interrupted with a booming voice. An instant later the armored door was opened and in he came, escorted by two massive guards with small heads, who looked surprisingly like Goombas but without the reptilian features. "Seize them!" the old man concluded.
The two looked at each other in embarrassment, then decided that Boss was talking about the two Siamese twins. Mr. Black gave them an exhasperated look, but then thought better about it and turned towards Jim, who was fumbling with his armour trying to get the Tesla gun out of the sheath. The two goons grabbed Sharon and Sandra by the arms (all four of them) and waited, not knowing what else to do. "Well, well, what do we have here." Mr. Black said, turning his attention to the girls. "Oh, don't move, mr. Jim, or I'll kill Sandra. And condemn your girlfriend to live the rest of her life as an half-corpse. That'd be rather yucky."
Jim in the meanwhile managed to get the Tesla gun out, then froze as the two guards grinned menacingly. Mr. Black was gently caressing the girls'middle breast and mumbling something about possible prices.
Ready?
Yeah.
NOW! The girls, held firmly by the two guards, simultaneously kicked Mr. Black where it really hurts. He kneeled on the floor moaning in pain, and Jim knew exactly what to do -- he fired two lightning bolts on the two guards, knocking them down. Of course, the girls got a good portion of the shocks as well. Jim watched the three (four?) figures fall on the ground unconscious as a low beep informed him that his suit's battery was too low to fire again.
Just then, Mr. Black's moans of pain turned into a sinister laugh as he turned around, still on his knees, and spoke with a much darker voice. "You will now die, young man!"
Mr. Black's body began to vibrate as he let a small vial fall on the ground. Jim could read the label from his binocuglasses. It said: E1M8 Sample 42. Tested. Jim let go of his gun and backpack and looked in horror as Mr. Black's clothes began to rip! Jim was already half-expecting The Incredible Hulk to come forth and smash him on a wall, but reality was different. The figure under the already ruined suit kept changing and changing. Jim was too dumbfounded to do something in the meanwhile, and got back to his senses only when Mr. Black rose on his feet, leaving the suit behind his back like the old shell of a scorpion.
At the beast's sight, Jim understood immediately what the E1M8 label meant. An 8-feet tall minotaur, complete with reddish skin and claws and horns and cloven hooves and taurine legs and muscles was standing before him. The palms of the monster's hands were slowly secerning a greenish goo. Jim watched a drop of the stuff fall on the floor like it was in slow=motion, and heard the unmistakable fizzle it made. Acid! "Now whatcha going to do, oh knight in shining armour?" the minotaur asked.
Jim thought fast. The last time he saw one of those things, it was from the other side of a computer screen. And he had a chaingun and UAC rocket launcher. The minotaur moved a step, its hoof making the whole floor resonate, and raised an arm to throw the green glowing goo directly at Jim.
What to do?

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Conrad Volkov (anyone knows the e-mail of a good shrink?)

Sat Jul 3 13:40:11 1999