Chapter Nine: The Power Within

Groggily, Sarah's eyes fluttered open. She looked up to see she was in some kind of large hangar; it was filled with hundreds of alien robots identical to the one that attacked New York. She started to remember what happened, she saw Rex get shot and then she was pulled inside the alien ship where she heard the distant sound of laughter before blacking out. She looked down to see her red outfit had been replaced with some kind of spacesuit; it was a deep blue colour, it glittered in the light and was covered in weird alien patterns.

Slowly, she got to her feet, then she heard the faint laughter again, followed by a whooshing sound. She looked around to locate the source but it could have come from anywhere. She turned quickly at another whooshing sound to see two frisbee like objects come towards her, one stopped above her and the other scooping her up, the two then joined together by an energy field, caging her like an animal.

The wicked laughter rang out again and this time the source revealed itself from behind one of the alien robots, it was an alien! His body was maroon coloured and he wore some weird alien suit that made him look like he was off to a disco. He had three eyes in a triangular pattern, his arms split at the elbows giving him a total of four hands and he had tentacles for feet. He flew towards his captor on a hover board that resembled a jet ski. "Greetings, specimen, you may know me as Gallaxus the almighty!" he smirked at her, "You must be petrified, waking up in a weird place, wearing weird clothes, imprisoned by a weird being floating on a weird hovering device?"

Sarah snorted as she faced him, "Hardly," she replied. "This isn't the first time!"

"Wow," Gallaxus retorted. "Looks like someone's been getting around a lot. Mech guards, escort prisoner to extraction chamber!" he commanded suddenly.

From several alien robots emerged smaller drones, they were only 20 feet in height but they seemed quite strong looking, they had large arms which they walked on making them look like gorillas! They gathered around Sarah's cage as it slowly levitated and floated after Gallaxus who led the convoy.

"Look," she demanded suddenly. "What do you want from me?"

"You have stolen what is rightfully mine!" snarled the alien.

"I didn't steal anything from you!" Sarah protested.

"On the contrary, your enlarged and repulsive body contains Quantronium- the most powerful element in the entire cosmos. I discovered its existence on my home planet, they thought I was insane, accusing me of megalomania and threatened me with imprisonment. And so I escaped and stole our greatest warship, equipped with all our high tech Mech guards, Science drones, Escort bots and the mighty Extraction Probes, one of which you destroyed by the way, and turned its weaponry on its own creators, wiping out the entire planet!"

Sarah glared in disbelief, "You destroyed your own people…?!"

"Silence!" Gallaxus hissed. "I wasn't finished! Anyway. I scoured the systems, searching for the precious Quantronium. Years passed until finally I got a reading of a large concentration, I followed the signal to this mud ball planet and what do I find? It has been taken by a snivelling, inferior species! Well not you, that reptilian fuzz ball I killed or anyone else on this planet is going to stop me from harnessing the power of the Quantronium! I and I alone know how to use it!"

Sarah narrowed her eyes, furious. "I know how to use it just fine!" She punched the force field surrounding her but it merely crackled.

Gallaxus sneered at her, "Don't waste your time. That force field is impenetrable. Not even a meteor shower can penetrate…"

With that Sarah punched right through the force field, narrowly missing Gallaxus, she then tore the force field apart, grabbing the top generator and throwing it at Gallaxus who manoeuvred his hover board out the way and towards the exit where he sealed himself off.

"What the spagboll?" he gasped. "Mech guards, subdue the prisoner!" The drones then rushed towards Sarah with some ready to grab her and others producing alien weaponry from their bodies ready to fire.

"Bring it," the giantess growled.

The drones leapt at her but she easily threw them off, grabbing one of the drones and swinging it at the others like they were bowling pins. Others kept their distance and fired missiles at her but many simply bounced off her, eventually some did explode on impact but Sarah hardly felt any pain, just a slight poke in the side. She punched and kicked more drones as they advanced on her, wreckage now littering the floor until only one Mech guard was left, it fired helplessly at her as she slowly walked up to it and picked it up with both hands.

"That the best you got?" she asked before tearing the drone in half. She turned round to see Gallaxus hiding behind the hangar door with a worried look on his face. Her anger towards the alien growing by the second. "Come here you little..."

With an 'eek' Gallaxus sped off down the long corridor from the hangar. Sarah charged after him, easily knocking down the hangar door, she could hear Gallaxus ordering all hangar doors closed, the doors started closing one after another but one by one Sarah merely crashed through them.

Gallaxus was panicking now; he had the most advanced technology at his disposal and yet he could not stop one giant humanoid. Eventually he reached the extraction chamber at the heart of the ship. He turned round to see that the human female had reached the last door, it was the strongest one but she still managed to punch a hole through it and had started tearing the door apart like it was made of paper. Gallaxus looked around frantically, then he saw the main controls, he dived for them as fast as he could.

Sarah had managed to make the hole big enough to fit through, she climbed into the chamber to find Gallaxus behind a console and she took off after him. But as she reached the middle platform the alien pressed a switch and a glass container appeared all around her. She started to slam her arms against the glass, making it crack. Gallaxus quickly barked out, "Computer, initiate extraction!"

Sarah tried her best but it was too late, the chamber suddenly became filled with a bright green aura. She felt light headed as she punched the walls, but the cracks she had made were now beyond her reach, the Quantronium was leaving her body and making her smaller. Finally the process finished and the chamber released Sarah, who was now her normal size again, she felt like she had the wind knocked out of her. She looked up to see Gallaxus now standing over her; he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up till her feet couldn't touch the floor. He sniggered.

"I know how to use it just fine!" he mocked her. "Well now the time has come for the reign of Gallaxus the almighty to begin, starting with this mound of dirt you call home!"

"You can't…" Sarah choked. But Gallaxus wasn't listening; he then threw her to the floor and climbed into what looked like a glass bowl with the Quantronium now in large containers around the ceiling.

"Computer begin duplication process!"

With that the bowl he was in started shining lights all over him, like it was scanning him. Sarah looked around to see large machines stamp down on the four bridges connecting to the centre of the chamber. When they came back up she saw, to her horror, the machines were making hundreds of copies of the alien. The clones then marched forward to be given uniforms and weapons, "Hail Gallaxus!" they chanted.


This should be the last of the similarities things:

Gallaxus/Gallaxhar

Quantronium/Quantonium

Not that big of a change.