When the dragon's neck exploded it sent out a shock wave which Rudy and Clyde were able to avoid Clyde by taking cover on a hunch and Rudy by teleporting away for a moment. Milo wasn't so lucky as he was thrown off his feet and against the hard concrete wall of the grocery store.
"Ow" he mutters as he falls back on the ground "is it over? Or are we all about to be eaten?" he ask loudly his ears bleeding from the explosion as a small marble falls out of his shirt pocket and rolls across the ground stopping at Rudy's feet.
"Why was he carrying a marble in his shirt pocket?" Rudy mutters as he reaches to pick it up and nearly drops it in shock when he feels a surge of dimensional energy supercharge his ability to be omnipresent causing after images of himself to appear around him.
Focusing hard he stops and collects his presence into one body and walks over to Milo kneeling beside him as he holds the marble up "Where did you get this?" Rudy ask shaking Milo by the shoulder, "answer me!"
"What!?! I can't hear you! The explosion must have damaged my inner ear!" Milo says loudly "I think I'm deaf from the explosion!" He points at his bleeding ears to prove his point.
Growling in frustration Rudy grabs Milo hauling him to his feet "Hey man don't be so rough!" Milo says loudly shoving Rudy away.
"Tell...Me...Where... You...Got ...This!" Rudy shouts speaking slowly as he waves the energy marble in his face.
"That? I picked it up at work!" Milo shouts "is it important?!" he adds. Rudy looks over at Clyde who looks confused as he scrunched eyebrows thinking "I have a hunch he's not telling the whole story," Clyde says to Rudy.
"Good enough for me," Rudy says as he grabs Milo and teleporting him away, leaving Clyde behind.