At the end of 'The Parallel', Sarah and her friends were plunging towards the earth from the burning spaceship with no hope of rescue. We continue now in the main MvA universe.
Chapter One: We Have Contact
"No! No!" groaned Dr Cockroach, "Link, the antenna needs to point the other way!"
Link was perched on top of the large monitor used for displaying alien anomalies, he was holding a pile of junk that had been welded together and had a long pole in his hand. The fish ape looked down at the mad scientist who was rubbing his temple in frustration.
"You think this is easy?" Link called down, "Why don't you try and do this yourself?"
"You're the one who wanted a super satellite TV service!" Doc shot back, "You want unlimited channels, then you should work for it!"
Link muttered under his breath as he repositioned the TV antenna. He had been feeling lonely and bored since Butterflyosaurus had left to look after Escargantua on a remote island in the Bermuda Triangle, the giant bug and the giant snail had started flirting with each other, it was not nice on Links ears as he was the only who could understand what they were saying. This then started to unsettle the others as well and so they decided to relocate them to a secluded spot. With his buddy now gone, Link had only the TV to take his mind off things, and having unlimited channels would make him the owner of the greatest home entertainment system on earth.
"Are you sure this is going to work? You've made mistakes before!" Link called down.
"Not this time!" Doc reassured his amphibious friend, "I went through every detail of this invention, twice. I attached several super chargers to the satellite to give it extra boost!"
Link scrambled over the large device, trying to adjust it so the metal poles were pointing in the right direction. After a few hours, the doors to the common room opened and Susan stepped in with a blubbering B.O.B on her shoulder. Dr Cockroach rolled his eyes at the sight of the weeping blob.
"I take it Jell-O left him for good then?" he asked. B.O.B remained silent as he sniffed, Susan decided to speak for him.
"Well, 'Jell-O' wouldn't deny lying next to the whipped cream in the fridge," she said, trying to humour them, "B.O.B lost his temper and ate the fridge with Jell-O inside!"
"And she tasted so good!" the blob wailed. Link covered his face with his free hand, trying not to burst out laughing. Doc, getting quite bored of B.O.B's idiocy, tried to cheer him up, the less spoken about that stupid Jell-O the better.
"Don't worry, my gelatinous friend, we shall soon have all the entertainment programmes under our control…sorry, I mean at our viewing pleasure!" Dr C. said, almost going mad again.
"What do you mean, doctor?" asked Susan.
"Well my dear, by my genius, I have managed to create the most powerful satellite on the planet. It will be able to detect every single TV station in the world, and we don't have to even pay the bill!" the scientist laughed manically.
"Well," said Susan, sitting in her chair, "That would be one way to pass the time, there hasn't been much monster, alien or natural emergencies lately! The last decent one was the Halloween invasion last year, since then things have been getting a bit dull around here!"
"Exactly!" said Doc. He broke into another manic cackle, only stopping when Link threw a spanner at his head.
"Hey Doc? Is this thing the right way up now?" Link asked.
"Yes, that should do it! Now let the wonder of unlimited channel surfing begin!" the bug scientist declared.
"Wow, this is gonna be great!" said B.O.B.
"See? He's over Jell-O already!" said Doc.
"Who's Jell-O? Sounds yummy!" said the blob.
The monsters all gathered in front of the monitor as Dr Cockroach pressed a button on his advanced remote control. The monitor crackled and sparked to life, the room lights then started to flicker and then the monitor started to buzz louder and louder. A few seconds later there was a loud blast of static electricity, lightning bolts shot out of the screen and bounced off the metal walls, the entire room was lit up like a Christmas tree. Susan grabbed her friends and hid under the table to avoid getting frazzled by the lightning bolts. The monitor started to buzz even louder, the monsters all braced for a massive explosion because they knew that all of Dr Cockroach's inventions ended in a gigantic explosion.
The room then went silent and the lights turned back on, the monsters all peered from under the table, the monitor was still intact, if not smoking a little. They all got up and looked at the large screen, it was showing them an image of their own common room.
"Well done, doc," Link nudged Doc in the ribs, "You turned our alien detection monitor into a mirror, real helpful!"
"It should have worked," sighed Dr Cockroach, looking at his remote.
"Guys? If that is a reflection of our living room then why aren't we in it?" Susan pointed out.
The monsters all turned to look at the screen again, indeed there was no sign of Susan in the reflection, but there was something else wrong with the image. The screen didn't look like a picture of their room, it looked almost as if there was a room on the other side.
"Hey! You've created 3D TV!" B.O.B. cheered.
"I don't think that's what it is, B.O.B." said Susan.
"Hold on," said Link. "Maybe there's a loose connection, I'll go and have a look! Maybe all it needs is a good smack!"
Link jumped up to the monitor to get a closer look, as he reached the edge of the screen, the image of a weird looking snake appeared, its scales were the same colour as his. It stood exactly where Link was standing, he leaned forward and so did the snake, he raised his arm and so did the snake.
"Well Doc, I don't know what you did but…" the fish ape stopped as he saw the snake had mimed every word that he had said.