"Oh my…" was the first thing I heard Susie say. She was gazing at awe at
the floating spherical generator. It was about twenty feet in the air at
about the center of the room. Spiff was already walking toward it, not
seeming excited though, like he'd seen it before.
"Typical generator," he said. "Standard A-6 type. I deal with this design all the time."
"Yeah so how do we destroy it?" I asked impatiently.
"We don't," Spiff replied. My heart fell again.
"What do you MEAN we don't?!" I outburst. "We've treaded half this piece of metal just to look for this!"
"Shhh," he whispered, placing a finger over his lips. "We don't want the zargoxes to hear." Spiff paused for a moment, looking around like there was something listening to us. My angry expression deepened. "This generator is made of mutagen-infected titanium. It's virtually indestructible."
"So what do we do?!"
Spiff tore his eyes on me. "Do you know how to pilot a zargox fighter?"
I eyed him back the same way he did to me. Of course I knew how; I'd flown one during the first time this pestilence had come. "Uh huh," I said, "but what help would that do?"
Spiff picked up a gun out of his suit; it was a silent blaster. "Good," Spiff replied after some time thinking. "You and Susie go back into the hangar." At this Spiff aimed his blaster and shot a hole in the wall silently, appearing to know something was there. Sure enough there was a now broken air vent that had curved along the side of the wall. "I'll meet you back there; I'm taking a tiny shortcut. No time to explain. If you get back to the hangar before I do, don't go anywhere. Besides, there shouldn't be any more enemies there." Spiff climbed up the walls easily due to the thick wires on it, which made like steps to climb up. "See ya later, and try not to pick a fight; our time is valuable." With that Spiff disappeared into the small vent.
Stupendous Man and Tracer had destroyed myriad of zargox ships and about four times as many zargoxes. None more had been coming out the latch since Ferocious Feline, Spiff and Susie had destroyed them all. But now there were beams shooting from the mother ship's underside. The beams were almost as much of a nuisance as the zargox fighter ships still there, because they could not be detained. Now Stupendous Man and Tracer were heading toward the very middle of the city, where LiFutte Street led.
Calvin and Hobbes were making a loop on King Street also. They had terminated fewer enemies because they didn't have as much crime skill and neither had superpowers. The road they'd chosen was gradually beginning to carry the duo toward the city's matrix, and they were about to meet up with two comrades.
The two roads the four heroes were on elapsed after a certain point and the four were reaching it. At last Calvin, Hobbes, Tracer Bullet, and Stupendous Man crossed paths and met.
"Hey!" Calvin yelled as Tracer and Stupendous Man came into view. They turned around toward him from their scanning of the sidewalks bordering the street.
"Hello, Calvin," Stupendous Man greeted promptly. "Did you get all the fighters?"
"There weren't many to destroy, but we got 'em all," Hobbes answered for him. "But heaven knows what would have happened if there were more. I'm beat from just the one's I killed."
"We didn't encounter any real trouble along the way, but I'm still hoping Spiff up there can get rid of these things, this pestilence," Tracer stated. "It is an affront to a Private Eye to fight this king of enemy."
"No time to waste; now that the streets connect, we can handle trouble better, but we need to go," said Stupendous Man. He others silently agreed, and they ran down the connected street together.
The four of them sped down the street until they came upon the worst of luck; hovering over the broad street were three zargox ships. They were no ordinary fighters; their size was of great proportions. They had three mega- giant cannons on their face; two were bordering one in the center that was about ten-foot thick; the others were five-foot thick.
The four heroes decided they would make the first move. Calvin and Tracer outstretched their hand with a pistol in it and shot a bullet at vital wires on the rear exterior of the fighters while Stupendous Man flew in the air towards the same ship the two were firing at and punched it in the side and Hobbes leapt high up and slashed with his metal claws the same wires the two marksmen had shot at. The ship showed no signs of having taken damage but turned around instead. The other two ships turned around as well. All three fired their triple monumental cannons rapidly and accurately at their four targets.
Stupendous Man was struck with the blast from one of the center cannons, disabling him temporarily though the others escaped. Calvin continued his firing at the important wires, but they were unaffected, probably because they could've been made of mutagen like the mother ship's core. Tracer took out an acid bomb from his vest (Hey, a Private Eye's gotta have one!) and heaved it directly at the hull of the ship. The fighter merely shot a blast back in a physical form of response. Tracer managed to dodge it, although barely, and shot more times at the ships. Hobbes' slashing on the ship's powerful armor was futile; his fierce blows and metal claws couldn't penetrate the thick side of the fighter ship.
The four warriors were in bad enough trouble without the other two fighter ships attacking them, but it got even worse when they started. The three super zargox fighter ships (Name was originated as a quick reference) dealt some serious pain to all of the four warriors just with their jumbo- size cannons, but that wasn't their only weapon. After nominal time, the largest zargox fighter, probably the leader, opened a latch on its underside like the mother ship. A torpedo-shaped missile was lowered being held upside-down, and it was released from the ships with rocket boosters shooting from its tail end. The missile sped toward Stupendous Man; the side of it burning along his waist as it made contact with him. It did not explode having not taken enough pressure to, but the speed and power of it as it swiped Stupendous Man's side knocked him into the air and flat unconscious. The others didn't stop to assist him because they were toast if they tried. The three just kept on attacking the squadron of super zargox fighter ships, an act proving useless while they gave them no damage whatsoever.
Susie and I ran through the door we'd walked in from. It was illuminated now; the electricity must have short-circuited temporarily before when we blew up half of the room with the mutagen. It twisted and turned just like before, plus it was the same length as before, but Susie and I ran more frantically and swiftly than before for fear of something unknown to me.
We gradually made our way to the door at the beginning of the hall. Both of us opened its door carefully, expecting zargoxes in the room. There were none alive but a bunch of corpses lay near a spacious hole in the floor; both the former and latter caused by the mutagen explosion. I could hear zargoxes mumbling---either that or it was just the walls or me---so the two of us high-tailed it out of that room into the hall missing two doors, caused by the zargoxes ramming them off of their hinges.
After running through the very first hall we'd passed through, we came to the scarred up hangar. The sound that immediately caught my ear was the sound of zargoxes growling and lasers shooting. I swerved to my right and saw Spiff with his super frappe-ray in one hand and his Hyper-death handheld ray in the other, shooting both at about fifty zargoxes trying to fit through a door the size of a truck. His suit was covered in dirt and dust from crawling in the air vent.
He turned his head around when he heard us coming in though he continued firing his guns. "Get in the zargox fighter ship!" he ordered hastily. "Get in with Susie; I'll meet you in another in a second!"
I stood there puzzled for a minute, then ran with Susie to one of the undamaged zargox fighter ships. I didn't have time to open any exotic door, so I broke through the window of the zargox fighter ship and went to the controls. Susie hopped in with me, and I got the thing on. Soon the craft was hovering a few feet above the ground, and then I was able to move it around. Spiff kept shooting the onslaught of zargoxes and didn't look like any help was necessary from me, so I flew the ship right past him to the latch. It was sealed shut for some reason, so I aimed one of the cannons in the front of it and fired a ray of some sort several times. The latch burst open, giving plenty of room for me to fly out of the ship.
Once out of the mother ship, I remained by its side. What did Spiff want me to do? He had just mentioned getting in the ship, so I assumed he wanted me to fly out. I steered the ship around and began to move toward the ship's rear, guessing some of the booster rockets and vital parts of the ship would be there. While I was piloting, Susie kept peering out the windows lined along all the walls and sides of the ship. Occasionally she would shout, "Look out!" if she saw a zargox fighter ship pass by. In that case I would aim a cannon at the enemy and fire it, destroying the ship even though it was oblivious that I was their enemy.
Suddenly I saw a red fighter ship behind me. It was tailing our stolen ship close and it was of an unusual color, considering zargox fighter ships are covered in a cosmic green color. I turned the ship around to see what it was. Then I sighted, waving at us through the front window, Spiff.
I withdrew the ship's cannon and watched Spiff as he made hand gestures as to follow him. He accelerated and flew past me as I flew behind him. Eventually we reached the end of the ship.
Spiff's ship extended its cannons and fired them into the huge booster rockets on the end of the mother ship. I fired too; believing that was what he wished for me to do as well. Our two cannons blasted multiple times into the booster cones, causing inconceivable and immeasurable damage.
Suddenly a giant ray blasted Spiff's ship. I steered my ship around to see two zargox fighter ships shooting death-ray at Spiff's fighter. I hadn't time enough to destroy them before Spiff's ship exploded.
As a first instinct I aimed my cannon at the fighter ships and annihilated them. Then I piloted the ship directly under the cloud of smoke. As soon as I did I heard an abrupt "Clank!" In moments Spiff had crawled into my cockpit through the hole I'd generated getting in myself.
"Are you okay?" I inquired immediately as he slumped down into a chair.
"Uh uh," he replied shakily, "I think I fractured my arm and my leg is injured." Indeed it was. Blood was soaking from all of limbs, and even his face was bruised badly.
"Fire the cannons!" Spiff abruptly ordered, pointing faintly at a delicate-looking area between two of the largest booster rocket cones. I instantly thrust my paw into the 'fire' button, and a big, thick ray of light protruded from the giant cannon on my ship's hull and blasted into the ship. It burst straight through the side of the ship, going further inside the interior of the ship every microsecond.
Eventually something happened that I had waited for for hours today: The mother ship began exploding on all its sides and gradually its aerial capability died down.
Calvin and Hobbes were unconscious and bled incalculably. Stupendous Man (Who had re-reached consciousness) and Tracer Bullet were unable to muster onto the ships even a scratch. In this case, one could indeed say all hope was lost.
The three super zargox fighter ships turned to Stupendous Man and Tracer and charged up their all together nine macro cannons. As the blast was about to shoot out, suddenly the energy disappeared. The fighter ships stopped levitating and fell down hard to the ground. The piloting zargoxes smashed on their control bars, puzzled and angry, as their fighter ships slowly deactivated. Without any further delay and a streak of happiness, Stupendous Man, Calvin, Hobbes, and Tracer vanquished the zargoxes. They continued down the street and killed all of the zargoxes. They were all defenseless because all of their ships were deactivated due to the defeat of the mother ship.
All seven of us had gathered on that same knoll we'd stood upon hours ago. Instead of watching the mother ship deploy zargox fighter ships and terrorize the city, we were watching the mother ship slowly sink into the horizon as it fell to the ground, exploding all over its sides.
Eventually it met the ground and an ear-splitting earth-shattering conflagration occurred. It must've leveled mountains, 'cause of its immense size, but it was nowhere near urban area when it blew up.
All of my comrades were congratulating me for terminating the mother ship. It was partially Spiff's credit to be deserved, but I decided not to mention it. We came back to the building, worn out and beat up.
Today was certainly no boring, average day for me. A new day brings adventure…
…But for now, rest easy, all us heroes.
Author's Note: How'd you like it? No, this is not the end of this fic. But it won't be continued if you don't leave a review. It's okay even if it's a flame, just review.
"Typical generator," he said. "Standard A-6 type. I deal with this design all the time."
"Yeah so how do we destroy it?" I asked impatiently.
"We don't," Spiff replied. My heart fell again.
"What do you MEAN we don't?!" I outburst. "We've treaded half this piece of metal just to look for this!"
"Shhh," he whispered, placing a finger over his lips. "We don't want the zargoxes to hear." Spiff paused for a moment, looking around like there was something listening to us. My angry expression deepened. "This generator is made of mutagen-infected titanium. It's virtually indestructible."
"So what do we do?!"
Spiff tore his eyes on me. "Do you know how to pilot a zargox fighter?"
I eyed him back the same way he did to me. Of course I knew how; I'd flown one during the first time this pestilence had come. "Uh huh," I said, "but what help would that do?"
Spiff picked up a gun out of his suit; it was a silent blaster. "Good," Spiff replied after some time thinking. "You and Susie go back into the hangar." At this Spiff aimed his blaster and shot a hole in the wall silently, appearing to know something was there. Sure enough there was a now broken air vent that had curved along the side of the wall. "I'll meet you back there; I'm taking a tiny shortcut. No time to explain. If you get back to the hangar before I do, don't go anywhere. Besides, there shouldn't be any more enemies there." Spiff climbed up the walls easily due to the thick wires on it, which made like steps to climb up. "See ya later, and try not to pick a fight; our time is valuable." With that Spiff disappeared into the small vent.
Stupendous Man and Tracer had destroyed myriad of zargox ships and about four times as many zargoxes. None more had been coming out the latch since Ferocious Feline, Spiff and Susie had destroyed them all. But now there were beams shooting from the mother ship's underside. The beams were almost as much of a nuisance as the zargox fighter ships still there, because they could not be detained. Now Stupendous Man and Tracer were heading toward the very middle of the city, where LiFutte Street led.
Calvin and Hobbes were making a loop on King Street also. They had terminated fewer enemies because they didn't have as much crime skill and neither had superpowers. The road they'd chosen was gradually beginning to carry the duo toward the city's matrix, and they were about to meet up with two comrades.
The two roads the four heroes were on elapsed after a certain point and the four were reaching it. At last Calvin, Hobbes, Tracer Bullet, and Stupendous Man crossed paths and met.
"Hey!" Calvin yelled as Tracer and Stupendous Man came into view. They turned around toward him from their scanning of the sidewalks bordering the street.
"Hello, Calvin," Stupendous Man greeted promptly. "Did you get all the fighters?"
"There weren't many to destroy, but we got 'em all," Hobbes answered for him. "But heaven knows what would have happened if there were more. I'm beat from just the one's I killed."
"We didn't encounter any real trouble along the way, but I'm still hoping Spiff up there can get rid of these things, this pestilence," Tracer stated. "It is an affront to a Private Eye to fight this king of enemy."
"No time to waste; now that the streets connect, we can handle trouble better, but we need to go," said Stupendous Man. He others silently agreed, and they ran down the connected street together.
The four of them sped down the street until they came upon the worst of luck; hovering over the broad street were three zargox ships. They were no ordinary fighters; their size was of great proportions. They had three mega- giant cannons on their face; two were bordering one in the center that was about ten-foot thick; the others were five-foot thick.
The four heroes decided they would make the first move. Calvin and Tracer outstretched their hand with a pistol in it and shot a bullet at vital wires on the rear exterior of the fighters while Stupendous Man flew in the air towards the same ship the two were firing at and punched it in the side and Hobbes leapt high up and slashed with his metal claws the same wires the two marksmen had shot at. The ship showed no signs of having taken damage but turned around instead. The other two ships turned around as well. All three fired their triple monumental cannons rapidly and accurately at their four targets.
Stupendous Man was struck with the blast from one of the center cannons, disabling him temporarily though the others escaped. Calvin continued his firing at the important wires, but they were unaffected, probably because they could've been made of mutagen like the mother ship's core. Tracer took out an acid bomb from his vest (Hey, a Private Eye's gotta have one!) and heaved it directly at the hull of the ship. The fighter merely shot a blast back in a physical form of response. Tracer managed to dodge it, although barely, and shot more times at the ships. Hobbes' slashing on the ship's powerful armor was futile; his fierce blows and metal claws couldn't penetrate the thick side of the fighter ship.
The four warriors were in bad enough trouble without the other two fighter ships attacking them, but it got even worse when they started. The three super zargox fighter ships (Name was originated as a quick reference) dealt some serious pain to all of the four warriors just with their jumbo- size cannons, but that wasn't their only weapon. After nominal time, the largest zargox fighter, probably the leader, opened a latch on its underside like the mother ship. A torpedo-shaped missile was lowered being held upside-down, and it was released from the ships with rocket boosters shooting from its tail end. The missile sped toward Stupendous Man; the side of it burning along his waist as it made contact with him. It did not explode having not taken enough pressure to, but the speed and power of it as it swiped Stupendous Man's side knocked him into the air and flat unconscious. The others didn't stop to assist him because they were toast if they tried. The three just kept on attacking the squadron of super zargox fighter ships, an act proving useless while they gave them no damage whatsoever.
Susie and I ran through the door we'd walked in from. It was illuminated now; the electricity must have short-circuited temporarily before when we blew up half of the room with the mutagen. It twisted and turned just like before, plus it was the same length as before, but Susie and I ran more frantically and swiftly than before for fear of something unknown to me.
We gradually made our way to the door at the beginning of the hall. Both of us opened its door carefully, expecting zargoxes in the room. There were none alive but a bunch of corpses lay near a spacious hole in the floor; both the former and latter caused by the mutagen explosion. I could hear zargoxes mumbling---either that or it was just the walls or me---so the two of us high-tailed it out of that room into the hall missing two doors, caused by the zargoxes ramming them off of their hinges.
After running through the very first hall we'd passed through, we came to the scarred up hangar. The sound that immediately caught my ear was the sound of zargoxes growling and lasers shooting. I swerved to my right and saw Spiff with his super frappe-ray in one hand and his Hyper-death handheld ray in the other, shooting both at about fifty zargoxes trying to fit through a door the size of a truck. His suit was covered in dirt and dust from crawling in the air vent.
He turned his head around when he heard us coming in though he continued firing his guns. "Get in the zargox fighter ship!" he ordered hastily. "Get in with Susie; I'll meet you in another in a second!"
I stood there puzzled for a minute, then ran with Susie to one of the undamaged zargox fighter ships. I didn't have time to open any exotic door, so I broke through the window of the zargox fighter ship and went to the controls. Susie hopped in with me, and I got the thing on. Soon the craft was hovering a few feet above the ground, and then I was able to move it around. Spiff kept shooting the onslaught of zargoxes and didn't look like any help was necessary from me, so I flew the ship right past him to the latch. It was sealed shut for some reason, so I aimed one of the cannons in the front of it and fired a ray of some sort several times. The latch burst open, giving plenty of room for me to fly out of the ship.
Once out of the mother ship, I remained by its side. What did Spiff want me to do? He had just mentioned getting in the ship, so I assumed he wanted me to fly out. I steered the ship around and began to move toward the ship's rear, guessing some of the booster rockets and vital parts of the ship would be there. While I was piloting, Susie kept peering out the windows lined along all the walls and sides of the ship. Occasionally she would shout, "Look out!" if she saw a zargox fighter ship pass by. In that case I would aim a cannon at the enemy and fire it, destroying the ship even though it was oblivious that I was their enemy.
Suddenly I saw a red fighter ship behind me. It was tailing our stolen ship close and it was of an unusual color, considering zargox fighter ships are covered in a cosmic green color. I turned the ship around to see what it was. Then I sighted, waving at us through the front window, Spiff.
I withdrew the ship's cannon and watched Spiff as he made hand gestures as to follow him. He accelerated and flew past me as I flew behind him. Eventually we reached the end of the ship.
Spiff's ship extended its cannons and fired them into the huge booster rockets on the end of the mother ship. I fired too; believing that was what he wished for me to do as well. Our two cannons blasted multiple times into the booster cones, causing inconceivable and immeasurable damage.
Suddenly a giant ray blasted Spiff's ship. I steered my ship around to see two zargox fighter ships shooting death-ray at Spiff's fighter. I hadn't time enough to destroy them before Spiff's ship exploded.
As a first instinct I aimed my cannon at the fighter ships and annihilated them. Then I piloted the ship directly under the cloud of smoke. As soon as I did I heard an abrupt "Clank!" In moments Spiff had crawled into my cockpit through the hole I'd generated getting in myself.
"Are you okay?" I inquired immediately as he slumped down into a chair.
"Uh uh," he replied shakily, "I think I fractured my arm and my leg is injured." Indeed it was. Blood was soaking from all of limbs, and even his face was bruised badly.
"Fire the cannons!" Spiff abruptly ordered, pointing faintly at a delicate-looking area between two of the largest booster rocket cones. I instantly thrust my paw into the 'fire' button, and a big, thick ray of light protruded from the giant cannon on my ship's hull and blasted into the ship. It burst straight through the side of the ship, going further inside the interior of the ship every microsecond.
Eventually something happened that I had waited for for hours today: The mother ship began exploding on all its sides and gradually its aerial capability died down.
Calvin and Hobbes were unconscious and bled incalculably. Stupendous Man (Who had re-reached consciousness) and Tracer Bullet were unable to muster onto the ships even a scratch. In this case, one could indeed say all hope was lost.
The three super zargox fighter ships turned to Stupendous Man and Tracer and charged up their all together nine macro cannons. As the blast was about to shoot out, suddenly the energy disappeared. The fighter ships stopped levitating and fell down hard to the ground. The piloting zargoxes smashed on their control bars, puzzled and angry, as their fighter ships slowly deactivated. Without any further delay and a streak of happiness, Stupendous Man, Calvin, Hobbes, and Tracer vanquished the zargoxes. They continued down the street and killed all of the zargoxes. They were all defenseless because all of their ships were deactivated due to the defeat of the mother ship.
All seven of us had gathered on that same knoll we'd stood upon hours ago. Instead of watching the mother ship deploy zargox fighter ships and terrorize the city, we were watching the mother ship slowly sink into the horizon as it fell to the ground, exploding all over its sides.
Eventually it met the ground and an ear-splitting earth-shattering conflagration occurred. It must've leveled mountains, 'cause of its immense size, but it was nowhere near urban area when it blew up.
All of my comrades were congratulating me for terminating the mother ship. It was partially Spiff's credit to be deserved, but I decided not to mention it. We came back to the building, worn out and beat up.
Today was certainly no boring, average day for me. A new day brings adventure…
…But for now, rest easy, all us heroes.
Author's Note: How'd you like it? No, this is not the end of this fic. But it won't be continued if you don't leave a review. It's okay even if it's a flame, just review.
