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Ploabot had been summoned to meet the King himself for a special meeting. Now he realized he had gone too far. He knew what the King wanted. There were other requests to drop the charges against the Aungtalli for sabotaging his audience, but he had stood firm on moving forward with the investigation. At one point Ploabot decided to even reluctantly give into the pressure, and agree to cancel the investigation, but then the police officer Eistia went public with his story of Aungtalli murder associated with the Ministry of Science. The Ministry of Science had been what he tried to get reopened in the first place. The Eistia murder story became directly linked with the Aungtalli Bishop, who Ploabot had been investigating. The Eistia murderer arrest story wasn’t helping the Bishop at all. That gave Ploabot new courage to stand his ground in light of the other scandal. Now however, he responded to the summons to be confronted by the King himself about it. He had already changed his mind as he entered the immaculate castle. He looked around with awe while deciding to just give up on the whole investigation thing.
Ploabot felt relieved to find the King to be friendly, and seemingly in a good mood. “Ploabot good friend, welcome. Come in. Sit down.
I’ve a favor to ask you to come round.
There is so much disorder in the streets
where Aungtalli anger and distrust meets.
Surely you would act for peace if you can
by dropping your charges against our ban
on the Ministry of Science now gone.
Isn’t it time now to just get along?”
Ploabot felt he couldn’t agree more. The lawsuit fueled anarchy in the streets. The protests were just getting out of hand, and becoming uncivilized. Ploabot started to give the King his response.
Then suddenly a flash of light engulfed the room, and two beings appeared. One looked like a very professionally dressed Beataphoriah still covered in hair, and the other had unmistakably been the old head of the Ministry of Science himself, Ploabot’s best friend Hanson, now displaying a normal looking Uranian hairdo.
The primitive-looking Uranian spoke. “Allow me to introduce on this day.
You know Hanson. I’m Beataphoriah.
It’s been many ages since I last walked
on Urania. King it’s time we talked.
First now about what this one has told me
that you closed down the Science Ministry.”
Ploabot and the King were in shock over the interruption. The Hanson hologram noticed Ploabot in the room and while waving said “Hi guy.” Ploabot then realized the new leverage that had just now fallen into his political lap, and the answer he had been about to give the King suddenly changed. Ploabot also realized that the answer he had been going to give the King now didn’t even need to be given.