Chapter Eleven: Monsters Strike Back
Sarah stood there helpless as the cloned aliens stood there watching her, she felt their multiple eyes burning into her. The real Gallaxus soon appeared as a hologram, he had returned to the command bridge to watch over the whole invasion. "My loyal duplicates!" he addressed his army.
"Hail!" the front row replied, seeing clones saluting himself was deeply disturbing.
"Clone, front row, second on the left!" Gallaxus called. "Take the humanoid to the incinerator. She is of no use to us now!"
"I shall obey me! Hail Gallaxus!" the clone said followed by the others. The clone started to lead his prisoner down a sidewalk next to the causeway. Sarah watched alien after alien being spawned and then marching off to its ship, ready to destroy her world. She couldn't bear to think of what would become of all the people below, she felt so hopeless. As they separated from the armies, they then went down an empty corridor that, no doubt, would lead to the incinerator.
"Hold it right there!" called a voice from behind them.
The alien and Sarah turned round, she couldn't believe it, it was Fang and T.O.M wearing alien suits and Dr Sprocket in a Mech guard body that made his head look tiny. Sarah felt relief washing over her, her friends had come to save her. Fang then stepped forward.
"I have received orders from the big guy that you are to hand over the prisoner this instant!" the snake ordered.
The alien looked puzzled, "Who is 'the big guy'?" he demanded.
"Me!" answered Sprocket, using his giant robot arm to punch the alien to the other side of the corridor, knocking him unconscious. "I say, that felt jolly good!" said Sprocket.
The monsters then turned and walked down another empty passage, far from the alien army. "I can't believe you guys came to save me, thank you!" said a grateful Sarah.
"Don't mention it, we monsters look after each other!" said Fang.
"Except I'm not a monster anymore. I mean, look at me!" Sarah pointed out.
"Don't worry, Sarah!" reassured T.O.M. "You'll always be a boy monster to us!"
Sarah smiled at T.O.M.'s efforts of comfort.
"Now you know what he was like trying to comfort me!" Fang sighed.
"Oh, now this is interesting!" interrupted Dr Sprocket. "It seems each robotic drone has the full layout of the ship, including the reactor core, it's in the heart of the ship above the extractor!"
The monsters soon returned to the central chamber, pretending to escort Sarah. Dr Sprocket explained that the only way to defeat the aliens was to destroy the ship by overloading the main reactor. As they got closer they could see the reactor core hanging above the extraction device. T.O.M however wasn't watching where he was going and bumped into an Escort bot, the small robot beeped angrily and punched the tomato in the face, T.O.M retaliated and decked the robot, the whole incident ripped off his disguise, exposing the monsters to the aliens.
"Monsters! Destroy them all!" the aliens cried.
"Come and get some!" roared Fang. Charging right into the alien crowd and started punching, slashing and biting his way through. Using his tail, he whipped numerous clones off the causeway and into the abyss. "This is for Rex!" he declared.
Soon the other monsters dived into the action; T.O.M engulfed one alien after another and spat them out over the edge. "Hmm, I guess I am a vegetarian!" he said.
Dr Sprocket was still working out his new body as aliens shot at him with their lasers, finally he pressed a button and different alien guns and rockets emerged from his giant arms. "Oh yes! Taste some of these, fiends!" he called to the aliens. Firing missiles and lasers all over the place, vaporizing hundreds of aliens and drones and causing the rest to retreat.
Sarah meanwhile dodged and dived around many aliens and robots until she was directly underneath the reactor core, soon her friends caught up to her, having had their fill of alien beat ups. They still needed a way to get up there and the aliens were returning with reinforcements. "Hold on!" said Fang.
The snake then stretched his body so he could reach the base of the core, then using his tail he grabbed his friends and pulled them up to him, yanking Sprocket out of the drone body. Finding a hatchway they climbed through and were confronted by a large multi coloured keyboard underneath what almost looked like a heart made out of electricity. Dr Sprocket examined the keyboard when a computer voice rang out.
Intruders detected! You haven't a hope in cyberspace of cracking my security codes! The computer boasted. Dr Sprocket cracked his fingers ready to try.
"My dear electrical gizmo, you have no idea of what I am capable of!" he declared confidently. Suddenly he started pressing different keys as if on a piano, making sounds similar to one too. Sarah and Fang looked behind them and saw the aliens climbing up after them; they dived for the hatch and put their weight on it to keep it shut. "Hurry, Doc! We can't keep this door closed much longer!" Sarah urged.
"My dear, I received my PhD in being a pianist!" he told her. The computer almost made a gulping noise followed by an Oh this can't be good!
"On the contrary, this is the best thing to happen! For Earth that is." Sprocket corrected the computer. Finally he hit the last note and the electric heart exploded, sending showers of sparks everywhere, the computer finally gave up. Very well, you win! Ship will self destruct in t-minus 10 minutes!
"I vote we leave the ship now!" said T.O.M.
"Seconded." Agreed Sarah. Fang used his body as a slide and managed to get his fellow monsters back on the causeway, they then saw the aliens heading for the doors which were starting to close. The monsters realised the chamber was being sealed off and they were going to get trapped inside. Sprocket looked back at his Mech guard body and had an idea, "The Mech body has thrusters that we can use to get to the door in time!" he said to the others.
Quickly they all got on board and Sprocket activated the drone's thrusters and the they took off towards the door, as they got closer the drone started to short circuit and smoke, Sprocket looked in panic. "The thing's sustained too much damage, its gonna blow! EJECT!"he cried to the others.
The monsters all jumped off in time, however the explosion sent them flying in different directions and only Sarah was thrown through the doorway. The others started to make their way to the door, but they were too late. The door slammed shut on them, sealing them in.
Sarah tried to get the door open and let her friends out but the door wouldn't budge. She could hear Fang trying on the other side, but it was no use, the ship was going to explode and take her friends with it, she couldn't let that happen. She looked behind her and saw a broken hover board, the flotation unit had come off and an idea came to her. She called to her friends "Don't worry, guys! I'll get you out!"
"Forget us, kid;" urged Fang, "You've got a chance to get your life back!"
Sarah placed her feet on the floating board and under her breath she said to herself: "That's exactly what I'm going to do."