Chapter Eleven: Starting Over
Warhead glared at the group, his red eyes burning into them, the monsters were a little unnerved but Monger stood firm. "You forget Warhead, that I am in charge of Area One. Whether I am here or not!"
"Be that as it may, this place does not welcome outsiders," growled the robot, "And I thought I got rid of fluffy and slimer there!" he pointed at Butterflyosaurus and Esqargantua. They growled in response, "Talk to me when you can speak English, gottit?" snapped the robot.
"He is quite rude isn't he?" muttered Dr Cockroach, Warhead then produced a gun from his arm and trained it on the mad scientist.
"This rude machine can hear you! This island is not for holidaymakers, turn back now!" Warhead growled.
"We can't do that, the government has declared all monsters be re-imprisoned. We have nowhere else to go!" said Monger.
"I gotta hand it to you humans, when you screw things up you do it big time!" smirked Warhead.
A loud squawk like an eagle rang out and then a large winged creature appeared next to Warhead, it was a hippogriff, the body of a horse and the wings, head and talons of an eagle. "Greetings General Monger, what brings you to our home?"
"Ah, Gryphon, I was hoping you'd be close by. We're on the run and we need to stay here for a while." said Monger.
"Of course you can, sir. It would be an honour to welcome you and your friends here!" said Gryphon.
Warhead rolled his eyes; Gryphon always had to play the part of the knight in shining armour. The monsters were glad at Gryphons acceptance and his charming personality, "I'm afraid we haven't done much in the way of keeping things tidy."
"That's alright, as long as it's a place we can stay," said Monger, he looked at the grumpy Warhead, "We don't know if the military will still be looking for us, so if it makes you feel better you can patrol the perimeter?"
Warhead perked up, "Fine, if I see any more humans come near this island I will personally bury them underneath the waves!" He changed back into his jet mode and shot off into the distance.
"You sure that guys here to keep him safe from humans?" asked Link.
"He has issues against humans, its complicated." Said Monger.
"Now if you would kindly follow me and I will show you to your facility, sir." Said Gryphon.
"Carry on my friend," smiled Monger.
Butterflyosaurus followed Gryphon as he swooped towards the military zone. Gryphon landed next to a large glass dome building, he folded his wings as Butterflyosaurus unloaded her passengers, Monger straightened himself then turned to the 350 foot monsters. "Good work B, now get yourself and Esqargantua back to the vegetation zone, you two could do with a rest."
Butterflyosaurus roared in agreement and flew towards the jungle section of the island, still carrying Esqar in his shell.
With them gone, Gryphon then turned to the remaining monsters; he looked up at the giantess', "Is there anything I can do for you ladies?"
Susan and Sarah were flattered, Monger stepped forward, "This is a code M emergency Gryphon, I need you to join Warhead's patrol of the perimeter."
"I shall do so at once, sir." The hippogriff saluted and took to the skies once again, shedding some loose feathers as he took off.
"Why is he here?" asked Susan, "He's no threat, in fact he's quite charming."
"He is the last of his kind; the hippogriffs were hunted to near extinction in medieval times by man, Gryphon stays here to be safe from human poachers." Said Monger.
"That's terrible!" exclaimed Dr Cockroach.
"Maybe, but to bag the last hippogriff would earn a poacher millions!" said Monger. "And besides, everyone still thinks they're mythical. I managed to find gryphon when he was still preserved in his egg, I raised him on this island and he's been loyal ever since!"
"What about robot man?" asked B.O.B. "He's mean!"
"Warhead is from about 200 years in the future, he was built by humans to help protect humanity against an invading extra-terrestrial. Fighting to protect humanity was what he was programmed for, but instead he was kept on earth to guard the people instead of fighting on the front line, and the human soldiers went to war instead. They were quickly defeated and the invaders soon bore down on earth, Warhead did his best but was badly damaged. A ruptured atomic matter vessel tore open a brief window in time and sent him into the past; he's been stranded in the past for about 30 years so far."
"So he hates humans because they stopped him from doing what he was built to do?" said Sprocket.
"Pretty much, although deep down I think he hates himself more for failing to save those he was pledged to protect. He told me that he intends to wait 200 years for the war to start again, and then he can correct the mistakes made."
"Wow, so metal mouth there does have some issues!" said Link.
"Right now we've got our own to deal with." Said Sarah, "We need to find out where our parents are, how to convince the President that he's made a mistake…"
"And to get my frikking tail sorted!" grunted Fang. He had unwrapped the bandages cos they were now soaked in blood; Susan carefully examined the tail with her hand.
"I did a brief inspection on the way here Fang," sighed Dr Cockroach, "I'm afraid that all we can do now is to amputate it."
Rex whimpered at this news, Susan then leaned towards the dino dog and patted him. Fang had his head dipped, he couldn't believe that his precious tail was gone for good, he wasn't a chameleon so he couldn't grow a new one. Just then a tingling sensation ran down his spine, then feeling came back to his lower body, he looked behind him and saw his tail was shrouded in a glowing green mist.
"What the hiss?" he choked, everyone turned to look at what was happening, through the green mist they saw that Susan's hand was the cause, her hand was close to Fangs tail and it was giving off waves of green energy that seeped into Fang's wounds. The wounds slowly sealed themselves up and soon Fang's tail was normal again, it slithered from side to side as Fang regained control of his tail, he was ecstatic.
Everyone else was wide eyed, they all stared at Susan who was staring at her hand, as before it had stopped glowing and looked like nothing had happened, this was starting to scare her now, "Why is this happening to me?" she cried.
"I don't know but I'm loving it," smiled Fang, "Thanks for that!"
"Has this happened before?" asked Monger.
"Once, back on the highway," said Sarah, "She started glowing all over and her strength went through the roof!"
"And now it appears she can rapidly heal others!" added Matt.
"It appears as if the Quantonium in your body is somehow evolving and in the process is slowly changing you." pondered Dr Cockroach.
"Ginormica, it would be best if you went to the med labs for some tests, whatever's happening to you could be dangerous," suggested Monger.
"There's no need now, I'm fine," she insisted, "I don't feel giddy or weak, I feel absolutely…aah…aah…"
A passing breeze had blown some of Gryphons loose feathers through the air and tickled Susan on the nose. She let out a massive sneeze and the ground suddenly tore itself up like a meteor impact created by the gust of her sneeze. They all looked at the giant tear in the ground; whatever was changing Susan's body was now even making her sneeze's super powerful.
"That settles it, Susan; you need to go to the med labs." Said Monger.