Chapter Three: The Fate of Sarah Miller

Susan and her friends stepped out of the screen and into a room that looked exactly like the one they had just left, this parallel console room however had several cracks and missing panels in it, as if it had suffered severe structural damage. Sprocket turned to his guests, "Welcome to our side of the world!"

"What's happened to this place?" asked Link, "Don't you tidy up?"

"We would, if we weren't at war!" Fang replied.

"War?!" the visitors exclaimed.

"It's been going on for months," explained Sprocket, "Every few days a small invasion force arrives at certain places across the globe!"

"Why? What for?" asked Dr Cockroach.

Sprocket led the way to another chamber, telling the story from the beginning, "About six months ago, an alien called Gallaxus came to earth, he wanted to send his army of clones all over the planet and conquer us. We managed to stop his invasion by destroying his ship and his clones, but he left a fleet of alien ships up in space in case something went wrong. The main computer transferred itself to the core of the 'Spearhead', the robotic fleets flag ship. Every few days they send a few ships to destroy the earth, a form of revenge!"

"Can't you just say sorry?" asked B.O.B. The monsters ignored the blob's comments and continued towards the large central chamber.

"How were you able to survive the destruction of Gallaxus' ship?" asked Susan. This triggered a quiet whimper from Rex, something bad must have happened.

"Well," continued Sprocket, "We did have a fifth member! She was your parallel duplicate, Sarah Miller aka Titana. When we set the ship to self destruct we had no way to get down, and we ended up falling from the ship…"


Is this it?

She thought. Is this how it ends?

The group fell for what felt like hours, all they could see were the clouds rushing past them as they plummeted. Sarah's eye's were beginning to water at the velocity, Sprocket struggled to keep his head on, Fang wrapped himself round the others to keep them together and T.O.M had his hands above his head.

"Woo! Faster, faster!" he cheered. The others could hardly get a word out to tell him to shut up, Dr Sprocket peered over Sarah's shoulder and saw the vastness of the ocean approaching closer and closer towards them.

"Everyone, brace yourselves, we're gonna hit the water!" the tin man called.

The monsters approached the sea like the meteor that had struck Sarah at her graduation, and with a mighty splash, Sarah crashed with her back to the waves. The waves settled and Fang, T.O.M. and Sprocket surfaced, wiping the salt water out of their eyes, they looked round to see one another.

"We're alive? I can't believe it! WE'RE ALIVE!" Fang praised.

"Where's Sarah?" asked T.O.M.

The monsters looked round, their friend hadn't surfaced with them, frantically they swam in circles to look for Sarah. Sprocket altered his body into a mini submarine and dived under the water, several minutes later he surfaced, pointing to the north of them. "She's over that way! She isn't moving!"

They swam over to the floating body of Sarah, she was still and her face was under water. Fang and T.O.M quickly turned her head so her mouth was free from the water and Sprocket used his med scanner to examine her.

"She's alive, but the impact has put her into a coma!" he confirmed. He then used his communicator to radio for help, after a few tense moments he managed to get a hold of Monger and gave the general their co-ordinates.

"Monger's on his way!" Sprocket said. Then Sarah's body started to sink under the waves again, her friends quickly grabbed hold of her and fought to keep her from drowning.

"He'd better hurry up," said Fang, "I don't know if we'll be able to keep her afloat for much longer!"

Fifteen minutes passed and the monsters were losing their strength in keeping the unconscious Sarah from sinking. Until at last a large tanker approached them and using its large cranes, winched Sarah and the others out of the water and back to shore. The monsters struggled to catch their breath as medics examined Sarah's limp body.


They finally arrived at the large central room, it too was covered in cracks and all around the room there were open doors leading to smaller rooms, one led back to the monitor room, another to a kitchen, one a sleeping quarters, another full of military gear, one leading to the long cavernous hallways and the last one appeared to be some sort of medical room. They made their way towards it and the closer they got, the more Susan could see what was inside the room.

There was one large table in the middle and a woman the same size as she was lying on it, she was slightly younger but her face looked exactly like Susan's and she had long wavy hair that was golden coloured. She wore a red version of Susan's outfit and she had a sheet covered over her. Next to her were enlarged hospital monitors, that appeared to be made of scrap, and they were connected to the girl, monitoring her pulse and brain activity. A large IV drip was also being used. Susan gasped at the sight of her alternate self.

"Susan, meet Sarah!" announced Fang.

The monsters jumped up on the table next to the unconscious Sarah, Rex jumped up on a large chair next to them whilst Susan just stood beside the bed, she reached and held Sarah's hand, it was almost as if a family member of hers was on the bed, and in a way it was. "And the last six months she's been in a coma?" Susan said.

"I've tried my best," Sprocket said in frustration, "But all I can do is make her comfortable, all I really know is science in mechanics and that doesn't help a friend in need does it?" the robot scientist slammed his fist into the monitor he had made, he was angry at himself for not being able to his friend. T.O.M slid over to him.

"It's okay, Doc! You've done more for her than anyone else!" T.O.M said.

"But that's not enough! I promised her parents I would make her better, and yet six months later I'm no closer!" Sprocket sighed.

"Don't beat yourself up about it!" said Fang, "Think about it, you now have two brains to help you!"

"Gadzooks! You're right," exclaimed Dr Cockroach, "I'm positive that together we'll be able to awaken the poor child! Susan, will you stay and help us?"

"I'll be glad to help in any way that I can!" said Susan.

"What about us?" Link cut in.

"You five go back to the monitor room, we were keeping an eye out for enemy aliens approaching so go and keep lookout!" Sprocket told them.

With that Fang, Rex, T.O.M., B.O.B. and Link all left and headed back to the monitor room.