Chapter 4: Mondula Attacks

One week later,

Octus used the story that Lance gave him when questioned about Lance's whereabouts as it was partially true since Lance's father was alive and probably knew by now that his son was on the same planet.

The robot, in father mode, walked to Ilana's room to find her gone

"Ilana?" he asked before scanning the house in his head.

He went to where his systems were saying that she was. He opened the door to Lance's old room and found the girl with the Sherman High Yearbook on the bed gazing at a page while hugging a pillow.

"You love him don't you?" Octus asked the princess.

"Had you asked me that two weeks ago, I probably would have said no" Ilana admitted. "but lately…I've felt so empty without him"

"Tell him" Octus said sticking to Elephanty's logic

"Octus. Even if I could, it wouldn't work out. I'm a princess. He's a corporal. Society forbids it. Besides…what would he want with a spoiled princess?"

Octus opened his mouth to retort, but he jerked back

"Octus?"

"Something has entered the Earth's atmosphere" Octus said

Suddenly there was an explosion. Ilana ran downstairs and turned on the television and watched the chaos from downtown.

"It can't be!" she gasped as she recognized the attacker

"I thought he was killed" Octus said in a does-not-compute tone

PRINCESS OF GALALUNA!" Mondula shouted on the screen as he used an energy beam to reveal a familiar figure causing Ilana to gasp in shock "If you want to see your father alive again, reveal yourself!"

"ILANA! NO!" Octus shouted as she ran to the door

"Father is in trouble!" she argued as she activated Corus and took off with Octus right behind her

It was five minutes before she got there.

"FATHER!" she shouted in her armor

"Ilana?" the King groaned.

"So, you finally showed yourself" Mondula said with an evil chuckle

"You…you TRAITOR!" she shouted before shooting her own ray at him.

However, Mondula dodged, but Octus managed to get the King to safety just as Solomon and the G3 crowd appeared.

The G3 soldiers started firing at Mondula as Solomon took the King onto the ship where another Galalunian was waiting

"Edward?" The king asked the man in the wheelchair.

"Yes Your Majesty. I shall explain shortly" Edward said as the air ship rose

Mondula then shot a powerful beam at Ilana. She knew that only a soldier's manus armor would be able to withstand the attack, so she braced herself by shutting her eyes.

TBC