“I’ll scrub! I’ll scrub the tiles! Don’t turn me into a snowman with a carrot nose!”
Standing waist-deep in the warm strawberry kiddie pool with a yellow rubber ducky still balanced on his helmet, Vanguard General Bing-Sha took one look at Chief Overseer Xuan Bing. Who was nodding frantically from the poolside to warn him that Empress Luo Qingxue’s snowmen couldn’t even lick soup—and grabbed the neon-pink floral swim trunks and long-handled scrub brush with both hands!
Within thirty seconds, the feared Vanguard General of Sector 6 had stripped off his heavy black frost-armor, pulled on the neon-pink pineapple-patterned swim trunks over his long johns. Was scrubbing the turquoise mosaic tiles around the shallow end of the lagoon at triple Rank 8 speed!
Meanwhile, over by the bottom of Chute #7, Grandpa Fu lowered the giant golden fishing net containing the 800 shrunk Stealth Ice-Frigates onto the wide white-sand beach deck of the waterpark dome.
Out of the hatches of the eight hundred frigates stumbled eighty thousand conscripted prison sailors and lower-rank officers.
Having just ridden a five-mile spiraling rainbow water slide through thirty-six loop-de-loops after getting hit by a single watermelon seed, every single sailor was dizzy, soaking wet, and shivering in their boots. Not from the cold, since the waterpark dome was a balmy eighty-two degrees, but from sheer terror!


