Chapter 8 Feel The Fear
The past few days were tense for Alvin and Tyler. Each of them took turns every other night watching the forest, incase project X should happen to appear. The erie sounds of the forest added to their fears. Looking into the forest, they feared they would see the form of X running towards them, a unstopable force, but everytime, nothing happened.
Everytime project X was mentioned, everyone could see anger and hate burn deep within Tyler's eyes. and his hands shook in anger.
Alvin laid in the make shift tent with his arms wrapped tightly around Brittany. Brittany slowly woke up and gave a relaxing sigh. She loved the feeling of Alvin holding her close, she felt safe and protected. She slowly unwrapped his arms from her and turned so that she was facing him.
His nose let out soft breaths as she moved hers close to his. Alvin flintched from the touch as he slowly opened his eyes and saw Brittany ice blue one's looking back at him. "Good morning" said Brittany as she smiled at him. "Same to you" he said as he quickly kissed her on her lips. They laid there for a moment, looking at each other, then Alvin slowly sat up.
The tent seemed oddly darker than usual. "It must be cloudy out" said Alvin as he quickly threw on his hoodie. Brittany slowly got up as well and threw on her clothes. "Great" she groaned, "no sun, this day will be a drag". Alvin and Brittany walked out of their tent and stopped in their tracks. It wasn't cloudy at all, a thick fog covered the whole area.
The glanced around and saw Tyler standing a few meters away, looking out at the thick blanket that covered the area. "It rolled in last night" said Tyler as he went up to Alvin and Brittany. "Kinda adds to the tense mood here, doesn't it" said Alvin.
Tyler gave a small nod as he looked back out into the forest. "It is like those horror movies" said Tyler, "the mind plays tricks, making you think you see erie figures moving through the fog". Tyler then looked back at the tent that held his family, and then the ones that held the rest of the chipmunks. "I have to get you all off this island" he said as he looked down at Alvin and Brittany. "It was bad enough there is a live dinosaur on this island, but with X somewhere aroound here, this place is now a death trap".
"There has to be some way to use our powers again" said Alvin as he held Brittany's paw. Tyler remained quiet, thinking about his options. "I see only two possiblities" he said quietly, "both dangerous".
Tyler then looked down at his hand, as a small white crystal formed in his hand. "Option one, I implant raw energon with dark energon, since they are the exact opposite of each other, the should cancel each other out" he said as he crushed the white crystal in his hand. "What is the dangerous part?" said Brittany.
"The process may be viloent, and I have no idea where the core of all this dark energon is. Without it, I can't completly destroy it". "And option two?" said Brittany. Tyler took a deep breath as his chest began to glow. "I merge dark energon with my spark. Making myself immune to the effects".
"That's suicide" said Alvin. "You have no idea what it could do. That stuff was born from pure evil. You may very well become the very thing you swore to destroy". Tyler smiled as he as he gave a small chuckle. "Like I said, both are dangerous".
Just as Alvin was about to speak, a loud explotion caught their ears. The sound echoed through the hills, making every passanger on the beach jump out of their tents. They could hear all the passangers yelling out in a panick. "What was that?", "Is it rescue?", "Are we not alone on this island?".
Sarah came out with the kids in her hands and slowly walked up to Tyler, followed by Dave and Claire, and the rest of the chipmunks, who all start staring out into the forest. "What was that Ty?" said Sarah and she went to hiss side. "I don't know said Tyler, "but it sounded like it came from the cave".
Tyler then turned back to everyone else. "Everyone stay here, I'm going to check it out". But before he could take one step, Sarah grabed his arm. "We aren't going to be letting you go out there by yourself. We are coming with you". Tyler shook his head, "It is to dangerous. Project X is out there, and I might not be able to protect you if it appears".
Sarah slowly shook her head. "I'm not giving you a choice. We will leave the kids with the captain. He seems nice enough. I'm sure he will be happy to do it. Then we will all check it out togeather". Tyler glanced to everyone else and saw them all nodding in agreement.
He knew there was no way to force them to stay, so he sighed and looked down. "Alright, we leave in two minutes".
Tyler slowly trudged his way through the thick foilage, with everyone close behind. The dense fog made it difficult to see where they were, but Tyler seemed to know where he was going. "Alvin" whispered Dave as he looked at Alvin on his shoulder, "Why does Tyler seem to be trying to go where ever there is trouble?".
Alvin gave a small shrug, "I think in a way, he is hoping to find X because he feels guitly. I think he wants to make it pay for the horrors it commited". "But it wasn't his fault" whispeared Jeanette, who was on Claire's shoulder.
"Tyler created it" said Alvin, "if he didn't, those kids may still be alive. And because of that, he feels guilty". Before anyone could say anything, the forest began to clear, with the cave emerging from the fog. And to everyone's horror, they could see the cave enterance had been blasted open, boulders littering the whole area.
The chipmunks jumped off whoever they were clinging onto and on the ground. "It was here" said Tyler as he moved past the boulders towards the cave.
Theodore looked at the cave mouth, then suddenly felt himself trip. It felt like he fell quiet a distance as he hit the ground. He slowly got up and saw he was in a hole about the size of a human head, that was pointed on the bottom. "Guys" said Theodore nerousely.
Everyone went to Theodore as Dave reached in and picked him up. "You alright son" said Dave as he set him on his shoulder. "Yeah" he said as he brushed the dust off himself, "What was that?". "Tracks" said Tyler quietly. Everyone looked and saw the whole gound was covered with them.
Leading into the cave, then back out to a path of collapsed trees. "What ever it turned itself ito" said Tyler as he kneeled down looking at the hole. "It has six legs, and is big, probably the size of a small house".
"What was it doing?" said Eleanor as she studied the holes. "What I feared the most" Tyler said grabing a stray shard of dark energon. "I think he will be using this on the grave of our ancestors". "How can you tell" said Simon as he fixed his glasses.
Tyler then pointed to the path of fallen trees. "It is the same direction as that area of the island". Tyler took a step forward, then looked back. "I don't care what you all think, I have to go alone. If it has a shard of dark energon, he could raise several dead warriors".
Before anyone could protest, Tyler turned and ran off into the distance, disappearing into the fog.
"That ass" growled Sarah. "We have to let him do what he thinks is right" said Alvin. Alvin then climbed onto Dave's shoulder. "We should get back to the beach, I'm not comfortable staying here". Everyone nodded in agreement as they turned back to the beach.
After about five minutes of walking, they reach a hill that had a small cliff along the side. Everyone slowly made their way to the top, and just as they did, they heard several loud metalic snaps. They looked ahead, and to their horror, saw a giant metalic crab infront of them, screaming and growling, snapping it's giant metal claws at them.
It jumped into the air, tranfoming into a giant robot with human characteristics. It's green eyes glowling bright and coldly. (Look at Link 2 It is basic how I see this scene play out).
The robot was huge, the size of Tyler when he was in his robotic form. It began to advance towards them, it's huge feet stomping on the ground. It snarled, growled and slurped, the same sounds Alvin and Brittany heard a few days ago.
Alvin looked at everyone, seeing the fear in their eyes. He then jumped into the air and hovered infront of the giant robot, trying to prevent it was coming close to his family. It growled as it extended its arm and batted Alvin away like a bug. The world tumbled as Alvin felt himself fly through the air and hit a tree.
He fell to the ground with a thud as he tried to get back up. The giant robot then pulled out a gun and aimed for everyone else. The shot blasted out of the barrel struck a few meters from everyone else. Everyone screamed as they were thrown back several meters, striking the ground hard, knocking the wind out of them.
Alvin quickly jumped to his feet, and made a ball of energy form in his paws. The air seemed to crack as Alvin shot the ball towards the robot. But it quickly noticed and fired a shot right at the ball, destroying it before it could be hit.
It then fired another shot, hitting Alvin right in the chest, throwing him back against the tree, knocking him out. The robot laughed coldly and loudly as it transfomed back into it's crab form.
Sarah's head was spinning, she couldn't recall where she was, or what just happened. She then heard the sound of whirring motors and hydralics as she felt something hard and cold grab her. She slowly opened her eyes hoping to see Tyler, but saw she was in the grasp of a huge purple metalic claw as the robot brought her close to it's face.
It's big green eyes seemed to almost be looking right into her soul. "It that fear your feeling human" it mused. Sarah tried to hold back her fear as she tried to free herself. "Mmm Yes" it said, sounding like it was getting pleasure from this, "My spark, it feeds on terror. Let it grow, let it consume your soul".
Sarah felt her terror go over the edge as the it continued to strike more fear. "Yes, feel it, feel the fear". Sarah then let out a hair raising scream that seemed to bring everyone back to their senses. Everyone almost ran at the sight they saw, but knew they couldn't leave Sarah.
Then a voice screamed out, making everyone's blood run cold, and almost stopping Sarah's heart. "MOMMY". Sarah looked and could see everyone of the kids including hers, standing at the ridge of the hill, with the captain standing there, his eyes wide in disbeleif. "Oh joy" it said, "more toys to play with".
It then then dropped Sarah, and made it's way to where the kids were standing. It's giant legs stamping into the ground, coming closer and closer to the kids, all of them to frozen with fear to move.
All the chipmunks and Sarah were frozen, knowing they would be able to save their kids without Alvin or Tyler. "This will be fun" it growled as it stopped a few meters from the children. Suddenly a horn echoed through the forest as a red and blue transport truck the jumped over the ridge of the hill, heading straight for the robot.
The truck then transformed just as it stuck the surprised robot. The sound of twisting metal echoed out as two forms rolled on the ground. All the children instanly ran to their parents where they were greeted with hugs. While Brittany and her kids went to Alvin's aid.
Alvin was already starting to get up just as they came to his side. "Are you okay Daddy?" said Aubrey as they all hugged him. "I'm fine sweety" he groaned as he hugged them back. Everyone made their way to where Alvin was, as they all turned to the brawl that was occuring infront of them.
Tyler and the giant crab continued rolling on the ground until Tyler landed on his back, with the robots giant legs and claws wrapping around him. "Greetings my old friend" it said, "I'm so glad to see you again". "X" growled Tyler as he tried to free himself.
"I call myself Rampage now" it chuckled, "a bit obvious, but to the point, don't you think". Tyler growled in pain as Rampage's giant claws began to crush Tyler. Sandra and TJ ran to help their father, but Sarah and Dave quickly grabbed them and held them tightly to prevent them from running off.
"Ahh, your pain is lovely" said Rampage, "but where is you terror? it would make this so much more amusing. Just like our little party back on Earth". "You weren't amusing you creep" growled Tyler. A shell of white light then formed around his body, then quickly shot out wards, catapulting Rampage off of him.
Tyler quickly stood up, just as Rampage transfomed and landed on his feet. He chuckled as he looked at Tyler. "Your trickier than before. I like that".
Rampage then pulled out two guns and aimed right for Tyler. Tyler sheilded his face as the shots struck him repeatedly. As he struggled to remain standing, a weapons handle transformed out of his back as reached back and grabed it.
In one quick, well aimed shot, Tyler fired straight at Rampage's weapons, knocking it out of his hands. Rampage growled as he looked at his empty hands. "I'll crush you for that" he said. He then flipped backwards into the air, back into his crab form. But this time, the legs folded up as the flipped and turned backwards, releasing tank treads. And just below it's head, sat a huge missle launcher.
(See link 3 for a photo). "You have a few new tricks to I see" said Tyler. Rampage then began to charge towards him, firing huge missiles out of launcher right at Tyler. Tyler quickly jerked his right arm, making a white energy sheild deploy. He quickly put the sheild between him and Rampage as the missiles began to strike, creating huge explotions that almost engulfed Tyler's body.
Everyone remained where they were standing, to scared to move, as they watched Tyler get hit again and again by the missiles, almost reminding them of that day were he faced Jordan and his army one last time.
Rampage screamed as the gap beween him and Tyler began to close. One more missile shot out, but Tyler quickly grabed the weapons handle on his back and pulled out his qun, firing one shot that stuck the missile.
A huge explotion ripped through the air, making everyone fall off their feet. Tyler and Rampage however where pushed off the cliff. Ramage transformed, trying to land on his feet, but instead landed onto a long pointed rock, impaling him through his chest.
Tyler landed several meters away onto his stomach, avoiding the field of rocks. Tyler stuggle to get back onto his feet, but felt his vision blur as the hydralics in his arms gave out. Everyone leaned over the edge of the cliff and looked down.
They could see Ramage getting to his feet, with the rock still in his chest. Rampage looked down at the rock, then reached for it with his left hand, and pulled. He let out a loud scream as the pain coursed through his body.
Everyone looked and could see the hole in his chest seal up on it's own. Ramapge let out a cold laugh as he looked towards Tyler, and began to slowly march towards him, with the pointed rock still in his hands. "GET UP DADDY" yelled Sandra and TJ, with Sarah and everyone else joining in.
They then heard Ramage speak as he neared Tyler. "Ignore the pain, it's only going to get worse. Especially when you won't be able to help your family". He then stopped a few meters from Tyler. "I'm so glad to be playing with you right now Prime. But then, it was you who caged me the last time, wasn't it. I shall enjoy feasting on your still pulsating spark".
Tyler remained motionless, still out cold. Everyone closed their eyes, fearing about what will happen next. Suddenly, huge and heavy foot steps approached from behind. Everyone looked back in time to see Alvin in his robotic form jump over them and over the cliff.
As he fell, he aimed right at Rampage, as huge ax transforming out of his hand. Rampage was about to finish Tyler off when Alvin landed on top of him. The sound of cruching metal echoed up the cliff wall. Everyone watched in surprise as they watched Alvin swing his ax, striking Rampage across his chest, sending him flying. Rampage slamed against the cliff wall and collapsed to the ground.
Alvin then quickly turned to Tyler and kneeled down beside him. "Tyler, can you hear me?". Tyler growned as motors began to whir, he then slowly began to push himself off the ground and looked towards Rampage, who was starting to get back up.
"Why am I even bothering with you" said Rampage as he transfomed back into his giant crab form. "Soon, my arm of undead will rise, and will destroy everything on this island, then this planet". Alvin and Tyler both stared at Rampage in anger as Ramage just chuckled.
"You know" he continued, "It took me a while of digging, but I found where the dark energon's source is. All I have to do is wait for it to travel up to the surface a little, then it will reach the graves". Tyler felt a course of panic rush through him, realizing what Rampage's plan was. "Until next time, my old friend" said Rampage as he skimpered away.
Tyler glanced Alvin as they both turned back to their original forms. They looked up to the top of the cliff, then jumped. They flew up into the air, and landed several feet from everyone else. As soon as Alvin and Tyler turned to look back at everyone else, they fell to the ground as their familes rammed into them with tears in their eyes.
"Don't ever do that again" growled Sarah as she looked at Tyler. "Same for you" growled Brittany as she looked at Alvin. "I can't make promises" said Tyler with a small smile. Alvin and Tyler then looked towards the captain, their eyes burning with anger. "Why did you bring them out here?" growled Alvin.
"They wanted to be with their parents" said Captain Hammon, "I didn't know what was going on out here. What is going on here?". Tyler then sighed as he looked back at Alvin. "We will worry about this later. Right now, we have a more serious issue".
