Out in the middle of the Nine-World Space Highway, the three Rank 7 Late Pirate Admirals—Hu Bao, Lie Feng, and Yin Sha—were still floating in a daze, rubbing their freshly shaved, shiny bald scalps with trembling hands.
Before they could even think about flying back to Pirate Queen Hong Ye’s flagship, a booming dragon roar echoed from the direction of World #2, followed by the loud, cheerful BEEP-BEEP-BEEP of five hundred heavy space-trucks backing up!
“Out of the way! Municipal Highway Towing & Sanitation Crew coming through!”
Down the emergency center lane of the space highway flew a massive, thousand-foot-long golden Flood Dragon!
It was Ao Ming, the ancient dragon who used to live at the bottom of Dry-Well Village’s well. Today, Ao Ming was wearing a giant reflective orange traffic-marshal vest over his golden scales, and pinned proudly to his left horn was his shiny gold badge that read: [DIRECTOR OF PLANETARY WEATHER & HIGHWAY CLEARANCE].
Right behind Ao Ming chugged a fleet of 500 Heavy Skeleton Tow-Tugboats from World #8 (Scrap-Heap Star)!
Each tow-tugboat was painted bright municipal yellow with flashing amber hazard lights on the roof and a massive winch spooling thousands of feet of unbreakable Silver-Back Moon-Spider Cable off the back.
