roared and tossed its massive head, snapping the chain from the wall. It spouted fire at the leaping dodging cyclops, accidentally scorching its own tail. Alex finally acted, tossing a flash bomb at the Secretary’s feet. While he was temporarily blinded, she grabbed a melon sized crystal ball from a nearby alcove and hurled it as well. Squinting through the smoke and reacting too late, his long slender arms closed on nothing and he watched helplessly as his precious crystal shattered against the floor.Alex dashed away, backhandedly flinging her spinning bolas. Finding their mark, the counter swinging weights nicely wrapped the Secretary’s wrists in twine.“Guards!” he shouted, entangled and furious.