Chapter Twenty Five: Area 51
Earths Outer Atmosphere
Present Date…
The glass cage lowered into a pool of light and opened up at the bottom, dumping its three occupants. Karl stood up and rushed over to his wife, "Wendy, are you okay?"
"I…I think so!" Wendy said quietly.
Looking up, she could see nothing beyond the light they were standing in, they could hear distant sounds, some like a twitching noise and others like a bleeping noise.
Then they remembered the blue female who had been dumped in the cage with them, she was still out cold. The Murphy's walked over to her; she had been helping their daughter and her friends so she must be a friend of theirs.
"Excuse me, miss? Are you alright?" Karl shook her shoulder.
"Don't disturb her, Karl. She had a nasty shock earlier, we should let her rest," Wendy suggested.
"It's alright, I'm okay," Eclipse muttered, she slowly lifted herself up and brushed her silver hair out of her face. "You must be the Murphy's? Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise, and you are?" asked Karl.
"Princess Eclipse of the planet Serene."
Karl momentarily stepped back, "You're an alien?"
"Goodness sake, Karl! Not all aliens have to be world conquerors, she tried to save us remember?" Wendy said sternly.
"Yeah, you're right." Karl looked at the alien, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," said Eclipse, slowly she stood up, towering over the humans.
"My, you're a big girl aren't you?" Karl said, the look from his wife meant he had said the wrong thing again.
"Should look at it from my point of view, you humans look like midgets!" smiled Eclipse, trying to lighten the mood.
"What a delightful conversation," came a voice out of nowhere.
Eclipse knew that voice, she reached for her solar blades but they had been removed, as had the Lifestar. The room slowly began to light up and soon the size of the room they were in was revealed, it was massive, a large circular room with drones all around the sides, a massive machine hanging from the ceiling and on a balcony stood Nemesis.
Nemesis just stood there, grinning, his generals stood behind him, shaking and singed from yet another zapping for failing their mission.
"I must thank you for retrieving my DNA core for me, but your kind did break it in the first place so I guess you owed me?"
"We owed you nothing!" snarled Eclipse.
"Let me be the judge of that," Nemesis continued, "My DNA accelerator has gotten rusty through lack of use and I have a planet at my feet just waiting to be enslaved, hmm, if only I had someone to test on to see if it still works,"
He looked at his hostages and grinned even wider, "Oh wait, I do!"
Karl and Wendy held each other close as Eclipse stood in front of them, "Leave the humans alone, Nemesis, they've done nothing to you!"
"Ah, your right," sighed the alien overlord, "We'll use you instead!"
Mechanical tentacles appeared out of nowhere and restrained the alien princess, lifting her into the air and thrusting into the centre of the room, directly under the large machine, the tentacles retracted as glass walls surrounded her, Eclipse banged against the glass but couldn't break free, "Our friends will come for us, and then you'll be sorry!"
"Hah, those fools? I'd like to see them try, I'd also like to see what they look like when you've calved them into tiny pieces! Now relax, this will hurt!" Nemesis nodded to his generals and Klaw flicked a switch which activated the machine.
The DNA accelerator came to life and began swirling energy inside the glass container, soon Eclipse was lost inside the energy mist but her screams could still be heard. The Murphy's looked away as Nemesis looked on in satisfaction.
"Sir, DNA alteration complete!" said Klaw.
"Proceed, general," grinned Nemesis.
Klaw deactivated the machine and pulled a lever which slowly opened the glass container, silhouetted in the smoke was a figure, knelt down in the middle of the floor, two drones walked up to it carrying Eclipse's solar blades. The moment they were in reach, two clawed hands reached out and grabbed them, grabbing the blades and slicing the drones in half.
Nemesis happily watched as the creature screamed and snarled as it continued to smash the drones into smaller pieces, the alien overlord raised his hand and called out, "Enough, come forward my new soldier,"
The being slowly stepped out of the smoke, the Murphy's almost doubled in horror, Eclipse was now a nightmare of her former self, her eyes glowed bright red and her skin was now a mixture of blue and mucus green, razor sharp claws protruded out of her fingers, causing severe bleeding. She had long spikes sticking out of her elbows and shoulders and her mouth was now full of rotten, needle like teeth.
"Perfect, it still works beautifully," Nemesis said, "Slave, take to the bridge and wait for further instructions,"
Mutant Eclipse bowed and left the room, he then turned to the humans, "Guards, take these primates to the brig, I'll think a befitting execution for them later."
Several drones motioned the Murphy's out of the room towards an elevator that led to the prisons.
General Skarz stepped forward to his leader, "Sir, we have gathered numerous debris from this system to begin army recruitment!"
"Begin DNA engineering immediately," Nemesis told his generals and made for the bridge.
The room was quickly filled with various objects such as meteorites, stray satellite debris and different contained gasses that had been collected from Jupiter and Saturn. And soon the DNA accelerator was active and was creating more and more mutant beings ready to do their evil masters bidding.
Area 52, [classified]
North American time…
Monger made his way through his facility using his jetpack, his team of monsters and humans followed close behind him, most of the original staff had already returned, they were glad to be back at their old jobs and to see their general again.
Soon Monger flew into the central room where the monsters used to reside, he landed in the middle of the floor and waited for the others to come in, the monsters were slightly perplexed about what Monger was up to.
"Okay, Monger," said Link, "You led us back here, now what? Where's this thing you've been keeping?"
"Stand on the centre circle," Monger said bluntly.
The monsters did so, Rex standing next to Susan with Matt and Sarah on his back. Monger pressed a switch in his watch and suddenly the ground beneath them shuddered.
"Earthquake!" cried B.O.B and T.O.M.
"It's not an earthquake, you dipsticks," Sprocket said, "It's an elevator!"
"But where to?" Dr Cockroach asked the general.
As they slowly descended, Monger enlightened them, "When it was decided to keep non-human beings locked away from the world, it was agreed that there should be two facility's made. Area 52 was built to lock away all things monster, and another facility to keep extra-terrestrial life away from humanity was built directly underneath Area 52, so far we've had no alien prisoners but we've had quite a few U.F.J's,"
"U.F.J's?" Susan frowned.
"Unidentified Flying Junk! Spaceships, comets, space matter. We confiscated it all and locked it away down here, welcome to Area 51!"
It was a giant, dimly lit warehouse, miles of alien artefacts stored away on shelves and crates. As the elevator reached the bottom, Susan could see something large at the far end of the facility, it was sectioned off from everything else, giving it plenty of room, it was oval shaped, as large as Butterflyosaurus and looked very familiar. As Monger pressed another switch, the main lights sparked on, revealing the massive object's identity.
"Oh my god, its Gallaxhar's robot probe!" gasped Susan.
"The very robot you destroyed in San Francisco," Monger informed them, "Whilst you were in Modesto, I had it shipped here and stored, to see if we could learn anything from it, we had the head welded back on and tried to fix what damage we could to try and fully utilize it, with no success!"
"So how do you think this is gonna help us?" Fang asked.
"If this thing came from outer space then it sure as hell should be able to go back up there again," Monger turned to the mad scientists, "Think you two can get this space can goin again?"
The docs rubbed their hands, eager to get to work, "We're gonna need some extra hands in on this!" said Dr Sprocket.
"We'll all help you, docs!" said Susan.
"Right, let's get to work! MWAHAHA!" howled Dr Cockroach.
As the hours went by, the group worked furiously on the robot probe, indeed it did have the capability of going back into space but the thrusters in its feet were fried, so Susan, B.O.B, T.O.M and Link did what they could in order to fix them as well as other external damage, Rex went back and forth to find anything that could cover any breaches.
Dr Cockroach and Sprocket worked hard on the interior with Monger, Matt, Sarah and Fang doing their best to keep up with their instructions. The interior had to be welded up more thoroughly in order for it to stay in one piece and any unnecessary load was removed, leaving enough room for a small group to sit inside.
Then it happened, Monger began receiving emergency transmissions of unknown alien mutants and robots landing across the globe and invading major cities, "We're outta time," he called to the others, "Docs, gimme a sit rep!"
"It's done," said Dr Cockroach, wiping the sweat from his massive head, "We just finished adding new controls to the system, we can pilot it manually now!"
"Right, we need to split into two teams now," Monger informed them.
"What? Why?" asked Sarah.
"Nemesis has started his invasion, we need one team down here with me and one to go and take the fight to that alien toad!"
"What about the army and all forces related with guns?" asked Sprocket.
"They're doing their best to fend them off but they need all the help they can get. Susan, B.O.B and Link will take the probe to the Apocalypse with Dr Cockroach and the rest will stay and defend the earth!"
"I want to go with Susan!" protested Sarah, "They killed her the last time, I don't want to lose…"
"Sis," Susan knelt down to her now small sister, "You need to be here, you gotta look after the planet whilst I'm away and more importantly, you gotta look after Matt."
"She's right, Sarah," said Matt, taking her hand, "You're needed here."
"Oh, okay," Sarah looked up to her big sister, "Just be careful, okay?"
"I will."
"Right, let's move!" Monger shouted.
And so, the group of monsters split up, ironically separating them from their parallel selves, Susan watched as the elevator raised up till her friends and sister were out of sight.
"Alright," cheered B.O.B, "The old team back together again!"
"Well not quite," Link cut in, "B ain't here."
"Monger ordered her to retrieve Esqargantua from Area One, they are going to need every monster they can get!" said Dr Cockroach.
Soon the four monsters were inside the robot probes head, the room was large and circular with three passenger seats round the side, the middle one was four times the size of the others. From the ceiling hung a pilot seat with complicated control systems and a viewing screen connected to the robot probe's eye.
Dr Cockroach sat in the pilot chair as the others sat in the passenger seats and strapped themselves in, Susan had quickly changed into the space suit she wore when she was captured by Gallaxhar, it had been stored away in one of the alien crates and she had managed to find it.
"Right, Doc," Susan called up to Dr Cockroach in his chair, "We're in!"
"Excellent," Dr Cockroach cracked his knuckles and touched a button, the blank pads in front of him suddenly lit up with holograms, they all had different diagrams on them, one had 'Launch Sequence' on it and the middle one had controls for the thrusters. He pressed the launch sequence hologram and the robot probe was slowly carried on a rail track over to a disused missile silo, the blast door closed behind it and the surface hatch opened, revealing the open sky.
"Here…We…Go!" Doc punched the hologram saying "Ignition" and the whole thing shook like an earthquake, the thrusters had fired but for some reason they were not moving.
"Doc! What's goin on?" Link called out over the roaring engines.
Dr Cockroach checked to see what was wrong then slapped himself silly, "Silly me, I left the handbrake on!"
He grabbed the handbrake and took it off, the probe shot upwards faster than expected; the monsters felt like they were being crushed into their seats, B.O.B had gone as flat as a pancake from the pressure.
As the probe left the silo and into the sky, the only thing that could be heard, other than the thrusters, was the mad laughter of Dr Cockroach.