Jake had been following snatches of the race in between smacking any Cy-bugs who got close. He had noticed "King Candy" suddenly changing into Turbo, his identity as a charlatan revealed.

"Man, talk about being beaten all over with the ugly stick," he mused, turning back temporarily to chopping a Cy-Bug right in half with a well-aimed rising slash from Kaiser Leo before bring down its partner with by slicing through its legs with König Raubtier, followed by a sharp, piercing blow to the back of its, er, head. "Grey is [i][b]not[/b][/i] a good skin tone."

When mutated Turbo showed up, accompanied by the Cy-Bug Queen, Jake felt his jaw almost drop off his face.

"I stand corrected," he said, recovering from his temporary shock. "That thing got hit with every single tree, branch, and twig in the whole Ugly [i][b]Forest[/b][/i]. We're going to have to take this bitch down."

He charged into battle, cutting down the Cy-Bugs in his way as he cleared a path to the Cy-Bug Queen. He dodged under a couple of tentacles that lashed out in his direction, and cleaved a third with his axes, only to see it regrow. He hacked away at two others, only to see the Cy-Bug Queen regenerate her damaged appendages.

"Sonuvabitch! This thing doesn't know the meaning of 'stay dead'!" he swore. He kept cutting away at them as fast as he can, his strong, honed muscles tearing through Cy-Bugs and giant tendrils alike. However, it was when he saw Thomas cutting through the tentacles with a burning sword that seemed to cauterize the thing's injuries.

"Nice going, Tom!" he cried out. "I don't think she'll be bringing those back!

"But I got an idea; it's risky, and probably dumb as hell, which is probably why I thought of it. We can hack at the thing's tentacles all we want, but what we [i]really[/i] need is someone to get onto its back and get some leverage on that sucker! You with me or not?

"If you want to take a shot at it, get on your glider and try and outflank it while the Sarge 'n' me distract it. If you don't, just keep it busy while I get on its back. Either way, if we can crack open this thing's hide by finding a weak spot, we can probably end this fight sooner and contain this mess!"