Yayz! We had a school project to do, and I finished early, so I was able to update! More good news: my parents said I will probably get my laptop fixed at the end of the month, so hopefully I can update again soon.
Okay, I decided to do this chapter in Susan's Pov. Why? No reason, just felt the chapter would be better this way. Also, two quick heads up: The only characters will be Susan and Gallaxhar (don't worry, Megs gets the next chapter, and after that the monsters get their own chapter), and two: This chapter may be a little short.
Hope you enjoy! :)
What happened?
I remember watching the stars with Doc. We were both having such a nice time and... wait. The spaceship.
That energy cannon thing. Insectosaurus. Minion. Getting abducted.
Oh my god.
My head felt like it was spinning, I could barely get up. I felt cold hard metal on my hands, but I felt something else. I opened my eyes and looked at my arms. They were covered in some sort of shiny fabric, the kind you would only see from something like Star Trek. It was like a jumpsuit.
As I stood up, I looked around my surroundings. I was in a different room than the one I was pulled up in. This one was bigger, much bigger. All around me was an army of giant alien robots, all looking like the one that destroyed the bridge. Luckily, they were all turned off.
A laugh, an evil laugh, echoed from behind me. I quickly turned around to look, but no one was there. Then suddenly, I felt a platform sweep me off my feet, and another platform flew over and hovered above my head. They both shot out bright pink lasers, trapping me in a small cage with what looked like a force field.
I reached out and touched the energy wall, and immediantly pulled my hand back. It had given me a small shock, but it wasn't that painful. I was going to try again when I heard the laughter. I glared at the darkness in front of me. Go on, show yourself.
A small hovering scooter moved out of the darkness, and on it was an alien. He looked a little like Megamind. Big head, skinny, elf like ears, and he had a bluish skin color. But at the same time, he looked very different from Megamind.
Instead of having two, human like eyes, the alien had four eyes, their irises all red. He also had six tentacles for feet, like a squid, and small antennae on his head.
"I imagine this must be confusing for you," the alien said with a swarmy smile, speaking flawless English. He started flying around me. "You wake up in a strange place, wearing strange clothes, imprisoned by a strange being on a strange hovering device. Strange, isn't it?"
I thought back to my first day at the monster prison (which was sounding really good right about now). "Hardly," I replied, "It's not the first time."
The alien gave me a strange look. "Wow, you certainly do get around." But then he just shrugged his shoulders and turned his hover scooter around. "To the extraction chamber!" he announced. The platforms moved forward, taking me with them.
I have to admit, when he said "Extraction Chamber", I got a little worried. But there was no way I was letting him see that I was scared.
"Look, what do you want from me?" I asked.
"You've stolen something that was rightfully mine," he answered, very sure of himself.
"I didn't steal anything from you!" I said. Sure, I destroyed his robot, but I didn't steal anything from him.
"Your enourmous grotesque body," Grotesque? "is filled with Quantonium, the most powerful substance in the universe." He then turned to look at me, and smiled. "You didn't think you could keep it from me, did you?"
I was dumbfounded. "That's what this is all about?" I asked him, "You destroyed San Fransisco, you terrorized thousands of people, you hurt my friends... just to get to me?"
The alien then made a bunch of weird noises. "Silence human!" He commanded, "your voice is grating on my ear nubs. Besides, you don't deserve the Quantonium. What have you done with it? Saved those worthless humans, helped those freaks of yours..."
"They're not freaks!" I shouted, getting angry, "They're my friends!"
"Call them whatever you want," said the alien, "they probably won't last the next twenty four hours anyway. Once I've extracted the Quantonium from you, you'll get to see the power it has in the tentacles of someone who knows how to use it!"
Not if I could help it. "Oh I know how to use it," I said, getting my fist ready, "just fine!" I punched the energy wall as hard as I could. The electricity stung my hand, much worse than last time. The squid alien just chuckled.
"Don't waste your time," he started to say. I glared at him, and got my fist ready again. If I could take down a giant robot, I can take down a little force field and an alien on a scooter! "That force field is completely impenetra..." With all my strength, I shot my arm out, and after feeling a little shock, I felt my hand hit the metal scooter.
It spun a little, so much the alien almost let go of it. "What the flagnar!" he shouted in disbelief. I gave him a smirk, and started my attack again.
The force field ripped like plastic wrap, and before I knew it, it was completely gone. I looked up and saw him trying to escape. I caught the top platform and hurled it at the miserable little squid. Unfortunately, it missed, and he was able to get behind a pair of metal doors.
"Ha," he said as I walked over to him, "there's no way you can get me..." Without giving it a second thought, I raised my arms and knocked over the door without breaking a sweat. But his scooter was quick, and he was already getting away. With my body filled with energy and determination, I ran after him.
"Computer, close door hanger number 2!" A pair of doors closed in front of me, but I easily broke them down. "Close door hanger number three!" Another pair of doors, easily knocked down. "Door hanger four! Oh just close them all!"
I had never felt this way before. So angry, so determined. I didn't know if Insecto and Minion were okay, but if they weren't, this squid was definitely going to pay! He headed for a small tunnel attatched to the ceiling, so I quickly tried to hit his scooter, but missed. Knowing I could never fit through the tunnel, I ran below it, making a hole through the tunnel every once in a while to try and hit the alien.
Then, after the fourth or fifth time, I felt my hand hit something. I knew I had hit my target. Hitting a dead end, I broke through a metal wall, and practically dove towards a platform. The alien was trying to keep control of his scooter, but eventually fell off, landing on the hard floor.
That hard floor's going to feel like a pillow when I'm done with him, I think to myself. Normally I would never think of something so dark or violent, but I think I can make an exception.
The alien looks up at me as soon as I land on the platform. Scared, he starts to run what looks like a control monitor, and I chase after him. He's able to get to the controls, and he presses a few buttons.
I hear a noise, and three glass walls come down around me, trapping me again. I glare at the alien, who's smiling to himself. But as soon as I start to hit the glass and make a few cracks, his smile is replaced with fear.
He shouts something, I can't understand it because it's muffled, and I hear something happening inside my glass prison. I start hitting the glass again, making more cracks but still not breaking completely through. As I continue hitting the glass, green smoke fills the air around me. I feel like I'm losing all my energy.
I tried to ignore the feeling and continue hitting the glass, but it's practically useless. I'm not even making cracks anymore. As a last attempt, I hit my hand against the glass, and then fall back onto the metal floor.
When I open my eyes, the glass walls are gone. I sit myself up and look around. Everything seems so bigger, no wait, I'm smaller.
I hear the alien's laugh again, and I turn to look at him. Compared to a human, he's actually pretty tall, even a little intimidating. "Finally," he said, with a pleased grin, "I can rebuild my civilization. Any ideas on where I should 'set up shop'? Your planet perhaps?"
I immediantly think of my parents and all my friends. "You keep your slimy hands off my planet!" I get up to try and tackle him, but he grabs my throat with one of his tentacles and stops me before I can even get near him.
"Do you really think you can stop me?" he asked, "Without the Quantonium, you're nothing."
I kick my legs, trying to hit him or make him let go, but it's useless. I couldn't go the physical route, maybe I could try reason. "Please," I start to say, struggling thanks to his tight grip, "There are innocent people down there, who didn't do anything!"
As soon as I had said that, I heard him give an angry growl and he threw me to the ground, hard. "There were innocent people on my planet too," he says, towering over me, "Before it was destroyed!"
For a split second, I actually feel sorry for the alien. "Look," I said, catching my breath, "I'm sorry your planet was destroyed, but..."
"Oh don't be," he interrupts, "I'm the one who destroyed it." He chuckles at my confussion. "Confused? Once I tell you my tale, everything will be crystal clear." He turns around and walks away. A giant metal circle comes up, with a space carved in for the alien. He climbs inside, and starts to speak.
"Many zentons ago, when I was but a little squidling, I found out my parents were..." The circle slams down, and I can hear it scanning the alien, as if it was a copy machine. It comes back up. "No child should ever have to learn that!" he continues, not caring that I missed part of his story, "So I went on the road, with a giant..."
The scanner slams down again. It does this two or three more times while the alien continues to tell his story. "I don't care what his story is," I mumble to myself, "he's insane."
"But I've told you too much already!" he shouts when the scanner comes up and stops glowing, "Now, let the birth of my new planet, now called..." He thinks for a moment, "Gallaxhar's...planet, begin!"
All around me, I hear machines start up. At one machine, it presses down onto the floor, and when it comes up I can see about thirty aliens that look exactly the same as Gallaxhar. They were clones, made from the quantonium, my quantonium. As the clones go through the other two machines that give them uniforms and weapons, I look back up at Gallaxhar.
"It's amazing, I know," he said proudly, "Now as for you, you're useless to me now. I have to go get a few things ready for my invasion, but don't worry, I won't forget about you." He gives an evil laugh, and walks away.
He's just leaving me here, I think to myself, maybe I could try and escape...
"Oh, and don't bother trying anything, Su-san," he says, mispronouncing my name, "As we speak, there is an army of clones right down the hall. You wouldn't stand a chance. Not that you could actually do anything if you got past them."
I frown. He's right. I look around at all the machines, creating an army ready to destroy my planet, my home. For the first time since I defeated that robot, I feel useless. All I can do is stand there, watch and wait.
About ten minutes later, I notice an army of about sixty clones. I take a couple steps back as they come closer. They stop about five feet away from me.
"Clones!" barked a voice behind me. I turn around, and see a holographic version of Gallaxhar's head.
"Hail Gallaxhar!" the clones shout, getting their weapons ready. But Gallaxhar stops them.
"No, not all of you!" he says, "You!" The clones look a little confused. "Um, let's see, how do I do this? Three from the back!"
Three clones down, a clone raised his hand as if to say "Me?" but then three more clones thought they were the one. "No! No, the one I'm pointing at!" Everytime an alien would move back, three more would come up. If the situation wasn't so serious, I probably would've laughed.
Finally, two clones took a step forward and Gallaxhar must've decided that that was close enough. "Yes! You two! Stay!" he shouted. He then gave a frusterated sigh. "Okay, take the prisoner to the incinerator, she's useless to us now."
The two clones each took one of my arms. "Hail Gallaxhar," one said.
"Yes yes, hail Me," said Gallaxhar. He then sent the other clones away, and the two clones started to lead me alone.
I tried to think of a way to escape. Unfortunately, both clones had a good grip on me, and even if they didn't, they both had ray guns. I was running out of options, and running out of time.
"Don't worry," a voice whispered in my ear, "I won't hurt you."
I looked up at him. He looked the same as all the other clones, except for one thing: Instead of red, his eyes were bright green.
I was going to ask him what he meant, when a familiar voice interrupted me.
"Halt!"
I looked, and I couldn't help but smile at the sight.
Okay! Done! Hope this chapter wasn't too disappointing, I didn't think it was my best work. Maybe it was because it was in first person (not really my strong point). Oh well, whatever. Next chapter, we see a little more of Gallaxhar and a lot more of Megamind. Please review! :)
