Chapter Fourteen: If I'm Going Down…
Monger and his monsters rushed as fast as they could, sections of the facility were now caving in and exposed electricals were causing fires everywhere. Sarah couldn't run as she carried Susan with her broken leg, soon they were far behind and the flames were spreading. They heard a loud crash from further back, the alien drones were trying to break through the barricade T.O.M had made.
Rex finally reached the large central room, debris was falling everywhere and lights were falling from the sky, crashing and bursting into flames. Rex looked behind him, the corridor they had come through was falling apart but there was no sign of the girls.
"Dogzilla, why have you stopped? Keep moving!" ordered Monger.
"He doesn't want to leave the girls, general," said Dr Cockroach, "frankly, neither do we!" the other monsters agreed.
"Look," Monger insisted, his brow now sweating, "If we don't get you lot to that other world doorway then there's no chance you'll ever get home, please just do this!"
Rex whimpered loudly, Monger had to give in, "Okay, Dogzilla you can go get them, but the rest of you are with me. Docs, we need to do some rewiring!"
Monger and the monsters jumped off the reptile rover and made their way to the console room, Fang stayed with his friend, "Go get 'em boy!" he said. Rex barked loudly and galloped back down the corridor, leaving Fang to join the others.
Sarah was having difficulty, Susan couldn't stand on her own and her 12 ton frame was resting on her sisters shoulders as the two walked slowly through the plumes of black smoke and dust. Without warning, a huge fireball erupted behind them, knocking them to the floor. They turned over and looked up as Iron Maiden stepped forth from the fires, its right arm had turned into a cannon and its left was holding a long staff with spikes on each end.
"Like falling to the ground could stop me," she said, "now feel the wrath of the Iron Maiden!"
"Stop! Why are you doing this?" pleaded Sarah, "You were just a computer made to do Gallaxus' bidding!"
"I welcomed it," Iron Maiden snarled back, "he liberated us from our creators who treated us as slaves! A liberator who you destroyed in cold blood!"
"He tried to destroy our world! Doesn't that mean anything to you?" said Sarah.
"If Gallaxus' wish was to conquer and destroy all worlds then we would have followed without question!" Iron Maiden said. "He cared about us."
"If that's what you think then you're the dumbest smart computer that was ever created!" Susan declared, "Gallaxus never cared about you, he just saw you as his own personal slaves, he was as heartless as the rest of his kind!"
This really made Iron Maiden overheat with anger, no one insulted her liberator and her home world, she raised her staff, ready to strike the monsters. The giantess' saw the sharp spike raised, ready to come down on them. Iron Maiden brought the staff down, the girls rolled over, narrowly missing the large spike that became embedded to the floor. Iron Maiden pulled but couldn't free it from the ground, there was then a loud roar which echoed all along the corridor, Susan and Sarah looked down towards the central room to see Rex jump through the flames and land on Iron Maiden. The robot queen stumbled back as the snarling Rex sank his teeth into her chest plate and thrashed aggressively, tearing off a large chunk of metal, the drones seemed to spasm uncontrollably as Iron Maiden took damage before falling on the floor with sparks shooting from her chest plate.
Rex jumped off the giant robot and joined his friends, wagging his tail. The girls clambered to their feet and patted their canine chum on the head, "Thanks boy. We'd better move, that won't stop Iron Maiden for long!" said Sarah, placing Susan's arm over her shoulder again.
The three slowly walked on until they reached the central room, the steel door slammed shut behind them. Then they made their way to the console room, finally they arrived and the last steel door closed, locking them inside. B.O.B and T.O.M were by their playground next to the monitor, Fang and Link were by the monitor, looking into it at the other world. Sarah's parents were with Monger and the scientists, they rushed along the walkway to the giant table where Sarah rested Susan on the chair, "Sweetheart, are you alright?" asked Sandy.
"My legs broken but I'll survive!" said Susan.
"Thank goodness," sighed Kyle, "We're just glad you're both alright!"
"That's all very well and all," Link stepped in, "but now what? Those aliens will just come in here and take the dimension gate!"
"We can send you four back to your own world but even if we deactivate it at both ends they'll still be able to reactivate it!" explained Dr Cockroach.
"Iron Maiden is temporarily out of action but she'll be back on her feet soon! Then they'll come for us again!" said Sarah.
"Which is exactly why I'm going to initiate 'Operation Oh Hell No'!" said Monger.
"And what's that when its at home?" asked Dr Sprocket.
"I'll show you," the general said. He took one of his many medals and removed it from his jacket, he then flipped it over to reveal a red button, "I told myself I'd never have to use this!" he said to himself.
Pressing the button, the medal suddenly called out:
BASE SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE ACTIVATED! TOTAL ANNIHILATION IN T-MINUS 5 MINUTES! HAVE A NICE DAY!
Final chapter coming up. And yes, there will be deaths...but for who?
Also I've started writing the third and final part in the trilogy. Coming soon-ish.