The Beetles' boss? If we dealt with their boss, could we finally end this tiresome war?
"Let me see!" Boss Slick was very interested. He wanted to look through Rambo's eyes to see what was happening inside the Webway, and find out how Rambo had contacted him while he was at it.
But Rambo's Waaagh! Field denied him access.
"You little bastard! If you're still asking me for a password at a time like this, just you wait! If I don't knock every tooth out of your mouth when I get out, my name ain't Slick!" Boss Slick was furious.
"Huh? Sir, what're you talking about? I didn't ask for a password!" Rambo said, bewildered.
"Then open up access to your Waaagh! Field! Hurry up, I'll look for myself." Boss Slick tried again and was denied once more, making him even angrier.
If he hadn't been concerned that barging recklessly into Rambo's consciousness would scramble his memories and turn him into an idiot, Boss Slick would already have done it.
"Sir! You've got it wrong. I'm not talking to you through a Waaagh! Field link." Rambo sent Boss Slick an image as he spoke. "She helped me..."
The image showed a bloated, enormous insect with a grotesque insect head. Its head was small, but its mouthparts were huge, seemingly designed for rapid feeding.
The body beneath its head was bloated and utterly enormous, resembling a gigantic, transparent caterpillar. Viscous fluid and organs lay beneath its transparent skin.
At the very rear of its swollen body, eggs emerged one after another. Small, nimble beetles licked and tended to them, carrying them off to somewhere clean and safe.
"This is the Beetles' queen," Rambo explained. Then he shouted, **"Stay back! Come any closer and I'll set off the bombs! Everything here'll get