NARRATOR: Aboard the battleplate Popigai, 6 hours later.
MURTAUGH: Commander Foxworthy, relax... You did exactly what I would have done if I'd been up here in command.
MURTAUGH: Okay, no. Technically, that's not true.
I don't have the engineering skill to do what you did. If I'd been up here, and you'd been down there, I'd be the one apologizing.
While running away from a devastated city and a civil war.
Now, has Popi's commissary fulfilled my request?
battleplate (foreground): *printed* AI
battleplate (background): *printed* CHICXULUB
ELF: Yup. One Kowalski-mass barrel of Ovalkwik.
MURTAUGH: Your payment, Sergeant, for one completely uneaten Kowalski.
cryokit: *printed* CRY
SFX: POOOMF
SCHLOCK: This tastes way better than Petey's newest inmate would have. Not as crunchy, though.
MURTAUGH: I'll take your word for it. Thank you for being patient while I arranged delivery of your... bonus.
SCHLOCK: I knew you'd come through.
You're the Captain.
ELF: Speaking of captains, we need to get another ship under your boots, sir.
MURTAUGH: Ship or no ship, he'll call me Captain for as long as I supply him with barrels of Ovalkwik.
SCHLOCK: I like the word "barrels."
cryokit: *printed* CRYOKIT
MURTAUGH: How quickly can we get another ship?
CLOSING: THE END...
You've reached the end of Delegates and Delegation, Schlock Mercenary Book 15 but you have not yet reached the end of Schlock Mercenary. There's still quite a bit of that left.
Big Dumb Objects, Schlock Mercenary Book 16, begins with the very next strip...