Chapter Four: Waking Sleeping Beauty
Dr Cockroach and Dr Sprocket took to the blackboard and started to scribble down numerous complicated figures that appeared to make no sense. They then took to their chemistry table where they poured different chemicals into separate glasses; they then put them on top of a Bunsen burner until they started to bubble.
"That should do it!" said Dr Cockroach.
"What have you done?" asked Susan, "Have you found a way to wake her up?"
"No, we were just making ourselves a cup of coffee!" said Sprocket, taking the glasses off the burner and handing one to Dr Cockroach who took a sip.
Susan covered her eyes with her hand; she should've known that things were never straight forward. After finishing their coffee, the two scientists took to the blackboard again and scribbled even more equations until, after an hour, they jumped in excitement.
"By the code of Da Vinci!" exclaimed Sprocket. Susan jumped in her seat in surprise; she had been dozing after waiting for the scientists to finish.
"It's so simple!" said Dr Cockroach.
"What is? What's so simple?" Susan asked. But before the scientists could answer, military figures entered the med room, one being the figure of General I.N. Monger. He gazed in surprise at the sight of two new monsters in his secret base.
"What in the private's of Ryan is going on?" he demanded. Susan and Dr Cockroach were speechless, this worlds Monger was a black skinned man. Finally Sprocket stepped in and explained what had happened. Monger was sceptical at first but the evidence of two monsters in his facility was proof enough that a dimensional gate had been created.
"Well, hope you're prepared to explain all this again," said Monger, "Because I got Titana's folks waiting outside and when they see mark 2 over here, they are gonna want answers!"
"Mark 2?" muttered Susan to Dr Cockroach, he struggled to keep back a smirk.
"You can send them in general because I…we believe, that today we will be able to wake Miss Miller up!" Sprocket declared.
With that, the general left the room and a man and a woman who looked almost like Susan's parents entered. When they saw one another they almost yelped in surprise. "S-Sarah?" said Mrs Miller.
"Sunshine?" said Mr Miller, "Is that you?"
"I'm sorry," said Susan, "but I'm not your daughter, me and my friends are from another dimension!"
Sarah's parent's faces turned to disappointment, for a moment they thought they had got their daughter back. Susan felt sorry for them, she could see so much of her own parents in them, it was hard not to call them her own mom and dad. Dr Cockroach stepped forward to explain to them what they were going to do.
"Right now, the only reason your daughter survived the fall was because the alien element inside her shut her body down so the shock didn't damage her brain, right now she's in a state of hibernation! The element however has no way of reactivating her brain waves, so a similar substance needs to be transfused into her system and kick start her body again. With that, she should come out of her coma!" Dr Cockroach explained.
"But where are you going to get another alien substance, doctor?" asked Mr Miller. All eyes then turned to look at Susan, she realised they were talking about the Quantonium element inside her body.
"Oh, boy!" she gulped.
"Don't worry, I have been studying the effects of these alien substances' on humans for some time now and I have created a laser that will be able to pierce your skin like a needle, it's what I used to get the IV drip attached to Sarah!" Sprocket reassured her.
"Think of it as a blood transfusion, but instead of blood we transfuse galactic elements!" said Dr Cockroach.
"I…I'm not sure," said Susan, she was reluctant to have a laser pierce her skin, at her size she hadn't been cut by anything before, and she was use to that.
"Sweetie, please," pleaded Mrs Miller, "She is our daughter, we just want her to be okay, can you do this one thing for us?"
Susan couldn't say no to them, they were so like her parents, she had to do this for them and their daughter. "Okay…I'll do it!" she said.
A short time later Dr Sprocket had managed to get his laser to pierce the skin on Susan's arm, Dr Cockroach then connected a large tube from Susan's arm to a device that looked like a weird, giant vacuum cleaner. "What is that?" Susan asked.
"This, my dear," explained Dr C, "Is a highly modified extraction device that Dr Sprocket and I quickly put together; it has enough power to remove 0.01% of the Quantonium in your body, the element is highly resistant but 0.01% is all we need. It then stores it in this container and then introduces it to Miss Miller's system, the mix of Quantonium and Quantronium should jump start her brain and wake her up!"
Sarah's parents stood back so as to let the scientists continue their experiments without interruption, they held each other close as they saw the giant extraction device light up with the two giant girls connected to it.
"Right…" Susan took a deep breath, "I'm ready, doctor's!"
"Then, in 3…2…1…POWER!" Sprocket cried out in a manic rant.
He threw a lever and the extraction device roared as loud as Butterflyosaurus with wing cramp. Susan winced as she felt the extractor remove the tiniest sliver of Quantonium form her arm. It trailed along the tube and into the container; the extractor was starting to lose power as it belched black smoke. Dr Cockroach quickly pressed a switch and the green substance left the container and flowed down the other tube and entered Sarah's body.
For a few seconds nothing seemed to happen, then Sarah's body began glowing green, Susan and the others leaned forward to get a better look. Dr Cockroach and Sprocket crossed their fingers and bit their lips. Mr and Mrs Miller slowly stepped forward as the glowing green colour faded. With a slight twitch, Sarah groggily opened her eyes and was met with the sight of Dr Cockroach staring at her.
"Eugh!" she cried, she couldn't stand cockroaches. She grabbed the first thing she could find, that being Dr Sprocket, and tried to whack the bug scientist.
"Not again!" Dr Cockroach muttered as he avoided the continuous blows of his metallic accomplice coming down on him.
"Ow! Ow! Ow!" yelled Dr Sprocket as his head continued to hit the surface. Despite the commotion, Mr and Mrs Miller's faces were alight with happiness and joy, their daughter had returned to the waking world.
Susan quickly grabbed her twin's arm, making her drop Sprocket on the floor in a mangled heap. "Calm down," Susan told her, "it's okay; you're back in the facility!"
Sarah looked at the white haired lady, she looked almost like her except different hair, clothes and she looked slightly older. And she was also the same size as she was, had she returned to her normal size again? She looked down at the pile of metallic parts on the floor and realised she had been swatting the cockroach with Dr Sprocket's body, she was still a giant!
"Oh my god! Dr Sprocket, I'm so sorry!" Sarah said.
"Don't worry, my dear," said Sprocket, "my parallel counterpart will set me straight again!"
The cockroach appeared again, making Sarah jump, but the bug walked over to her friend and began picking up the pieces of Sprocket's body and began putting them back together again. He was half bug/half man, she then looked back at Susan.
"Er…how long was I out?" she asked.