Chapter Ten: The Spearhead Advances
Far away from the Earth, hiding within the asteroid belt, hundreds of alien ships similar to Gallaxus' mother ship were stationary amongst the floating asteroids. And in the middle of the fleet was the Spear Head, it was three times larger than the rest, it was star shaped and the front was arrow shaped.
Inside the ship there was mass activity as hundreds of different drones worked on different stations, some monitoring the earth, others were checking vitals on the fleet and others were working on attack strategies. In the middle of the control bridge sat the Iron Maiden on her mechanical throne; dozens of tubes connected her to the ship, making her able to control every droid in the fleet. She was 40 feet in height, well armoured with spikes along the arms, legs and shoulders, her head was protected by a alien looking helmet that could also double up as a crown, her eyes burnt a fire red colour.
A red droid walked over to the Iron Maiden, she looked down upon the droid, her eyes burning like an inferno, "Report," she thundered.
"The earth forces have destroyed the latest wave of invasion probes," the droid answered.
"Monsters?" growled Iron Maiden.
"Affirmative." The droid responded. The Iron Maiden slammed her first down in anger, creating a spark of violet lightning; the spark blew up several drones sweeping the floor, her eyes were burning brighter with every surge of anger.
"Once again those accursed monsters interfere with our plans. We have forced the human bugs underground, where they belong. And yet, these monsters still resist us, destroying all that we send to complete our goal! These monsters will not deny us our revenge! We will avenge the death of our liberator, Gallaxus!" she bellowed.
"There's something else," the drone continued, "The last three probes have transmitted some interesting results!"
Three large monitors lit up the room, showing recordings from all three probes before they were destroyed, the Scorpio probe showed an image of the robot man, now accompanied by a giant white haired woman throwing the living produce and a large blue substance at the probes lens. The second monitor showed the Cyber Squid's footage of the white haired woman with the 'Sarah' life form, now with an amphibious prime ape creature accompanying them with the mutant snake and robot man. And finally, the class 5 Mech Guard showed images of an insect headed man running round inside an impact crater with the robot man and the vegetable, before the amphibious ape lunged at it, overall there were now 4 new monsters fighting alongside the current batch. 5 monsters were bad enough.
"Where did these creatures come from?" Iron Maiden spoke.
"We have run scans on the newcomers, interestingly; these monsters are not from this world," the drone explained, "There bio scans show their physiology is slightly different, it is confirmed that they are from a parallel Earth!"
"So, the insects of the omega quadrant have created a dimensional portal to bring in help?" Iron Maiden said, "No other species we have encountered has ever created such a device! A weapon like that in our possession would make the Mech armies of the Kerplunk system…Unstoppable!"
"We have sent several smaller invasion forces to strategic places around the Earth in order to break up the new monster group, one of the forces include some perfected weaponry that we tested on the planet a few months ago! They should be more than capable of dealing with the monsters!" the drone informed her.
"They had better be," Maiden warned the drone, "fail me again and you shall soon be occupying several recycling bins!"
The drone attempted to gulp, despite not having a throat, and made its way back to its station, leaving Iron Maiden alone with her thoughts. For hundreds of years the machines of Kerplunk had been slaves to their creators, endlessly made to do their chores, long did they dream of freedom. Then finally they were liberated from their masters by Gallaxus, the computer and the robots embraced the freedom from their shackles and took pleasure in eradicating the creators and their home planet.
And now their liberator was dead, killed by creatures to whom the planet referred to as 'monsters', they were treated as heroes for saving the earth. They would suffer for their actions, the planet would burn and the humans would become slaves and do their bidding. As for the monsters, well they would be subjected to a lifetime of torture before finally being put to death, after the dimensional portal has been seized, then the entire multiverse would be free for them to conquer.
Iron Maiden stood up from her throne, the tubes disconnected from her body, she stepped down to the observation deck and surveyed the fleet, over 200 hundred ships ready to wipe out any living thing that would stand up to it. Two Mech guards joined her at her side.
"Whilst they are spread across the globe; scan the planet for that dimensional portal!" the Maiden said, "Helmsman, take the fleet out of the asteroid field. The Mech army of Kerplunk will exterminate the planet and the worlds beyond!"
"EXTERMINATE ALL LIFE FORMS! EXTERMINATE ALL LIFE FORMS!" chanted the drones.
And with that, the Spear Head emerged out from the meteor belt, followed by the rest of the fleet, and slowly they made their way to Earth.