Dr Covers Hidden Agenda

Sarah held T. hand as she walked him into his room; his room was filled with plant pots of different sizes, numerous toys and empty candy wrappers.

"Come on, T.O.M, its past your bedtime and you need your sleep!" she said.

"Will you check under my bed in case the bogeyman's under there?" he asked her nervously.

"Alright," she sighed, she walked over to the largest pot and lifted it up, "No bogeyman here," she then checked his closet, hundreds of sweet wrappers falling out, "Nothing here either besides a bad smell!"

T.O.M edged further into his room, "Will you read me a bedtime story?"

"Get into bed and I'll tuck you in," she told him.

T.O.M climbed into the plant pot as Sarah poured a whole bag of fertilizer in with him; she gently patted it over till he was up to his tomato head, all warm and cosy.

The tomato started to relax as Sarah told him one of his favourite stories, "The beef burger was topped with melted cheese and then layered with crispy bacon before another beef burger was added to the top, and then they added the lettuce…"

T.O.M instantly fell asleep, snoring loudly. Sarah smiled as she kissed her friend goodnight. She then tip-toed out the room and closed the door. She let out a deep sigh of relief as she rested her back against the wall.

"The Leaders of Team Monster and Team Alien are to report to Hangar One at the double!" came Mongers voice over the tannoy.

Sarah groaned, "A girl cannot catch a break!" she said to herself.

She entered the hangar and found the General talking to two women, one had short brown hair and was wearing a lab coat, she seemed to be doing all the talking. The other was a young Japanese girl who seemed to be keeping herself to herself.

"Ah, Sarah, right on time," said Monger, "Allow me to introduce Dr Anne Cover, she's the head of WorldTech, the biggest technology company in the world!"

"I kinda got that," she said.

"Please, General, 'Dr' sounds so out dated and dusty, I am part of the now people, I prefer to be called 'Doc'!" said Cover.

"Doc Anne Cover?" Sarah frowned.

"Doc Cover, this is Sarah Miller aka Titana, Leader of Team Monster. Our Leader for Team Alien should be along shortly," Monger said.

Sarah looked at the little Japanese girl, her head was bowed so she couldn't see her face, "Erm, hello? What's your name?" she asked nicely.

The girl didn't respond.

"Don't be rude, Ella!" Cover said sternly, "Introduce yourself!"

The girl looked up and her eyes were glowing green as her body made electronic noises, "Hello, my name is Ella." She said in a soft yet rasping voice.

Sarah was shocked, the girl looked ill and whatever was going on with her face was definitely not natural.

"Apologies if my appearance disgusts you, I am a cyborg. Half Human-Half Robot." Said Ella.

"Poor thing, the state she was in when we found her, barely had a leg to stand on…literally. She was caught in a terrible explosion but WorldTech managed to rebuild her with the best tech our boys managed to invent. Show them, girl,"

Ella lifted her shirt up and revealed a body of steel, titanium and LEDs, "I am 67 percent cybernetic thanks to the brilliance of Doc Anne Cover." She said. Sarah could detect a hint of reluctance in her voice.

"Her abilities such as strength and stamina are also greatly increased, so I made her my personal assistant." Cover said proudly.

"Um, okay, but…why exactly are you here?" Sarah asked.

"Ah, getting to that, some of our technology has been rusting up and wearing out so I got WorldTech to come down and bump our base up to the 21st century!" explained Monger.

Just then T.O.M came screaming in, holding his plant pot bed, "Bogeyman! He's right behind me!" he cried, he then saw the two women standing next to Monger, "And now he's in disguise!"

He was about to charge them when Sarah grew big and stomped on him, preventing him from getting any closer, "Ah-Heh, sometimes T.O.M has bad dreams!" she laughed sheepishly at the General.

Then Covertron hovered in, "Sorry I'm late, I was in the middle of not giving a damn when…"

The alien and Doc Cover's eyes met and almost instantly there was a spark. They ran to each other and started flirting.

"My, you look positively radiant, even for a human!" said Covertron, flexing his eyebrows.

"You're such a divine specimen! I'd love to get to know you more!" she said.

Everyone else was feeling very uncomfortable now.

The next day Sarah was walking T.O.M down the corridors after finally managing to get him off to sleep, "T.O.M, there are things such as monsters and aliens in this world but the bogeyman does not come into either of those categories!" she told him.

"He said he wanted to…t-turn me into soup!" shivered T.O.M, trying to hide behind his friend.

Sarah rolled her eyes, "Maybe you should sleep somewhere else tonight? A change of scene might help you relax?"

"Good idea! I'll go in this room!" said the tomato as he barged his way into a random room.

"No! That's Doc Covers room!"

T.O.M began moving things around so that he'd feel more at home, "I saw people on TV do something like this! I think it's called funky shoes!"

"Feng Shui!" sighed Sarah, "Now put all that stuff back! It isn't yours and this bedroom is already taken!"

"Fine, where did this go again?" he held up a giant blaster with a drill on the end.

Just then they heard Doc Covers voice coming towards them.

"She's coming! Everything back! NOW!" Sarah whispered frantically.

They quickly moved all the furniture back to its rightful place before hiding, Sarah under the bed and T.O.M in the closet.

Doc Cover walked in with Covertron next to her, "What a wonderful tour, Covertron. You are a natural at leading!" she said.

"Oh you flatter me, Anne," the alien giggled, "The tour wouldn't have taken half as long if we hadn't stopped for our little 'canoodle' session,"

The pair giggled as Sarah felt the need to throw up.

Cover took Covertrons legs, "My, what admirable limbs you have! Long and strong!" she said, stroking his foot.

"That's not the only thing that's long and strong if you know what I mean?" Covertron grinned.

Sarah really wanted to throw up under the bed right there and then but then she saw T.O.M slowly sneaking out of the closet, he had gotten bored of hiding and thought it was safe to come out. Sarah waved at him to stay put but the tomato didn't see her. As he got out the blaster he was holding earlier fell out with him, switched on and bounced over to Covertron, his moustache got wrapped around the drill and sent him vibrating out of the room, Doc Cover running after him and giving the monsters the chance to escape.

"Why do you think she had that blaster in her room?" asked Sarah when they were safely back in their living room.

"We need the best detective on the planet!" declared T.O.M, "I'm thinking that curly haired guy! What's his name? Banana Carrotpatch?"

"Benedict Cumberbatch and no we don't need a detective," said Sarah, "We have no reason to believe that she is up to something!"

"That's just how the bogeyman tricks you! Making you think he's completely innocent and then WHAM! Tomato Soup!" T.O.M then got one of Dr Sprocket's experimental weapons and made for the door, "I'm going to take out the bogeyman once and for all! If I don't make it back in five minutes tell the police I love them and then call the children!"

Sarah ran after the armed T.O.M as he went to find Doc Cover.

The doctor was accompanied by a now untangled Covertron, he was demonstrating how his telekinesis worked by lifting several objects and then dropping them 'accidentally' on people.

"It's all too easy, really," he bragged.

"Fascinating! I'd really love to get to know every last bit about you!" smiled Cover, "And how do you get your moustache so neat?"

"I have a special comb. Wait here; I'll go get it for you,"

And he hovered off leaving Doc Cover alone, momentarily. Sarah had managed to stop T.O.M just around the corner from the doctor; she took the weapon off him and threw it down the garbage chute.

"T.O.M, you are being irrational! Doc Cover is not the bogeyman and you can't go blasting ANYBODY with ray guns!" she told him sternly.

"Not even…"

"No!"

Just then Ella walked up to Doc Cover, "Ah, is everything in order?" she asked the cyborg. This got the monsters attention and they looked around the bend to see the two women talking.

"It is all set up as you asked." Said Ella.

"Good. The sooner we try this blaster on Monger the better. It's been too long!"

"Must we really rush things? Couldn't we just…"

The doctor slapped Ella's face, hard, "Don't question me, child! When I say we're going to do something…we do it! Understand?"

Ella had a hand to her cheek as a tear formed in her eye.

"Understand?!"

Ella nodded and then walked away, followed by Doc Cover.

"Oh my god!" Gasped Sarah, "She's going to use that drill laser on Monger! We have to stop her!"

"Well I could've stopped her if I had my ray gun but SOMEBODY threw it away!" said T.O.M, his arms folded, "I forget…who was that again?"

In the War Room, Doc Cover was opening up a large crate and taking out the large drill laser in front of Monger, she was just pointing it at the General when the monsters dashed in.

"General! Look out! She's going to laser drill you!" shouted Sarah.

T.O.M leapt over everyone, going for dramatic slow motion like in movies, and knocked the drill laser out of the Docs hands.

"Monsters, what's the meaning of this?" Monger demanded.

"We heard Cover said she was going to try the blaster on you!" said Sarah.

"Duh, we were going to demonstrate what it could do!" Cover explained, "It is a multi-purpose working tool! It can drill, laser and also fry an egg at twenty paces, all the things you need to keep this place shipshape after we've gone. It was to be a present for the General,"

"Oh…well, erm…that's embarrassing!" said Sarah, suddenly feeling foolish.

"Oh, it's quite understandable!" said Doc Cover, "A big laser pointed at the General you had no reason to suspect otherwise."

"Nevertheless, this drill laser is the latest in high-grade technology…and worth a few bucks too! And now it's scratched!" said Monger crossly, picking it up, "I'll have to take it to the mechanics to see if they can buff it out!"

And the General stormed out, Doc Cover innocently skipping out after him.

"Huh, so the bogeyman wasn't really a booger?" said T.O.M.

"No, T.O.M, she wasn't," sighed Sarah, "We were putting a puzzle together with all the wrong pieces!"

"Well maybe if we took it apart and started again?"

This made Sarah realise something…You're such a divine specimen!...My, what admirable limbs you have!...I'd really love to get to know every last bit about you!

"She's not after General Monger…" Sarah said suddenly, "…she's after Covertron!"

In the main hangar Doc Cover stood before Covertron who was tied up and locked inside a large cage, "My, my, Doctor, you earth ladies certainly are kinky!" he smirked, still not figuring out what was going on.

"Oh you are going to make me one happy lady!" she grinned wickedly, a worried Ella standing behind her.

Then a giant foot came down between them, making them fall on their butts.

"Forget it, Cover!" said Titana, "You're not taking Covertron anywhere!"

"Hello? Having a private moment with a lady here!" Covertron said crossly.

"Doc Covers taking you away so she can dissect you! That's why she's taken a liking to you!" the giantess told the alien.

"Oh, so just because I'm an alien you think she only wants me for my body?" said a sceptical Covertron.

"Actually that is the only reason! She got it in one!" Smiled Cover, "When I take you back to WorldTech I'm going to cut you open and see what makes you tick! It'll make me a fortune!"

Covertron thought she was kidding at first but then his face dropped.

"Well you're not getting this alien!" Sarah told her.

Cover laughed at her words, "I believe I am. Ella, if you please?"

The cyborg produced guns from her shoulders and started blasting the giantess away; she tripped over and landed on T.O.M, pinning him down. The cyborg then produced electricity from her hands and started zapping her.

"Ella! Please!" Sarah begged between her screams of pain. Ella was not enjoying any moment of this but she had no choice.

"What are you playing at? SAVE ME!" Covertron shrieked.

"Once I'm done with your autopsy maybe I'll add machine parts to you just for fun," smiled Cover, "Like I did with Ella."

The cyborg stopped shocking Sarah and turned to face the doctor, "W-what?"

Cover realised she had let the cat out of the bag, "Oh alright, there was no explosion! I just needed a guinea pig to see if cybernetic alteration was possible. I found you, wiped your memory and made you perfect! You can't be angry with that?"

Ella marched over to the doctor and threw her to the floor, "You ruined my life! Made me your little science project!" she screamed at her.

"Don't you dare hit me! I am your creator! You can't hurt the one who made you!" Cover said.

Ella then punched her in the face and stood over her unconscious body, "Apparently I can." she said quietly.

"Cover will be taken to an equally secret prison for her crimes!" Monger said to Ella later on, "Guess that leaves WorldTech without a boss?"

"Not really, Cover altered my brain, giving me tonnes of extra memory and processing power, all WorldTechs technology plans are in here," said Ella, tapping her head, "I shall take over WorldTech and make sure no one else gets harmed!"

"Good, no one deserves to have their lives destroyed like that," said Sarah, "But you can always drop by for a visit? See your fellow monsters?"

"I'd like that, I suppose a name like Cyberella would work in this base of monsters,"

"Cyberella…I like it. Wish I'd thought of it," said Monger.

Cyberella smiled and boarded the plane. Covertron then hovered over to Sarah.

"You're welcome," she smirked at him.

"Please," she scoffed, "I could have gotten out of there at any time! I just wanted to see you monsters getting your backsides kicked…"

"BOGEYMAN!" cried T.O.M as he brought a giant plant pot down on top of him.

Pacific Grim

T.O.M led Fang towards the hangars, he wanted to show his mate something he had found.

"So what did you find?" asked Fang, unable to stand the suspense.

"Well, I was playing my favourite game of Super Spy in which I play a secret agent infiltrating a base,"

"Wait, then why are you covered in mince?"

"I'm a mince spy! Anyways, I broke into a hangar and I found…."

They entered a small hangar and were met with dozens of strange alien parts, they all had symbols on them that glowed purple.

"Woah! Awesome! These must be parts from some alien spaceship!" said Fang.

T.O.M went nosing around when he found some documents on the wall, "Look! Words!"

Fang took a look at the documents, it was all the notes that the base had gathered on the broken up spaceship, "Says here that it was fished out of the Pacific Ocean 43 years ago and placed in storage. No one's ever attempted to put it back together again! You thinking what I'm thinkin?"

"That I can really go for some mince pies right now?"

"No no, we put the spaceship back together ourselves! We can build ourselves the sweetest ride on the planet!"

"Best. Idea. Ever! Well, except for mince pies,"

So the two monsters began putting the space bits back together, guessing what part went where. Fang welded the pieces and added a few bits of his own for style and T.O.M decorated the whole thing using hundreds of different paint bottles.

Eventually they finished the rebuild, it looked like a flying monster truck with no wheels. T.O.M was in such awe that a tear came to his eye.

"What shall we call it?" asked Fang.

"Oh, how about the Pacific?" asked T.O.M.

"Hmmm, we could try that. Have you checked out the Pacific's rims, all chromed up!" said the snake.

"OOH, shiny!"

"Oh yeah, now let's get this baby outside!"

They pushed the Pacific outside of the base and admired their handy work. Behind a rock, Covertron suddenly emerged, "Someday I'll find a toilet that isn't covered in germs, then I won't have to do it outside!" he muttered to himself, he then saw the alien spaceship hovering by the base entrance, "Oh…god! We're being invaded! Talk about queue barging!" he was about to make a call to the grand Coverlord to make a complaint when he heard the monsters round the other side.

"Where should we take this baby first?" asked Fang, rubbing his hands.

"To a toy store? That's where all babies love to go!" said T.O.M.

"Y'know what? Let's just make it a road/air trip of it! We'll go get some snacks and then head out!"

They went back inside to get a packed lunch whilst Covertron emerged from cover and looked at the spaceship.

"What have those monsters down to you? A proud alien warship reduced to a simpletons pimp mobile! It's disgraceful!" the alien said angrily, "Well let's see how they like it with no communications and busted locks!"

He went inside and destroyed the comms and then broke the locks so that when the doors closed they wouldn't open again.

In the mess hall Fang and T.O.M had raided the cupboards and had a whole sack full of food. They were about to leave when they bumped into Sarah.

"Oh, hey, Lil' S!"

"Hey, what's in the sack?"

"Erm, Christmas presents…we're delivering to…children in hospitals?"

"Presents? It's November!" she frowned.

"Some people can't wait that long and we cannot deny the children their presents!" said the snake.

"Please, someone please think of the children!" wailed T.O.M.

"Okay, okay, fine!" said Sarah, stepping to one side and allowing them to pass.

The two monsters boarded the spaceship and strapped themselves in.

"Let's rock!" said Fang, pressing the thrusters button and shooting off into the evening sky.

As they flew along they did numerous aerial stunts such as a loop the loop, resulting in sonic booms that threw many cars off the roads.

Later on they were pressing all the buttons to see what they did and when T.O.M pressed a big green button the whole ship transformed into a giant robot.

"Whoa! This thing has a robot mode? Sweet!" said Fang.

"Awesome with a capital…erm…er…"

"A."

"A! Yeah!"

However, whilst they were flying around Nevada with their spaceship/robot, people were taking photos and tweeting about what they had seen and this got the attention of Area Fifty-Unknown.

General Monger, the monsters and the aliens examined all the photos on the big display screens in the War Room, "Get that hunk of flying alien metal on the comms! Their flying in American air space without my say so!"

"We can't get a connection to the ship, sir!" said a staff member, "It appears they don't want to talk, whoever they are!"

Covertron let out a loud gasp when a clearer picture of the ship appeared, "Can my eyes deceive me or is that the warship of the Reytards?"

"Reytards?" Sarah asked.

"I've never heard of that species!" said Sqooty.

"Of course you haven't! They are an anti-social species that only appear when they want to destroy worlds! Their motto is 'We come for you and turn your women and children to stew!"

Everyone gasped.

"No one stews our women!" bellowed Monger.

"And children." Dr Sprocket added.

"Yeah, them too. Everybody to their battle stations! We gonna take us down some Reytards!" the General ordered.

Fang and T.O.M were returning to base after a fun and wild ride, they hovered slowly towards the base whilst tucking into the last of their snacks.

"Quite a productive day, eh Bro? Flying across the sky in a spaceship that can turn into a robot!" said Fang, "Could this day get any awesomer?"

"Aw, look! Everyone's come outside to greet us!" said T.O.M, pointing out the window.

Fang looked out and indeed see all their friends and soldiers standing outside the front entrance, their tanks were out too and their guns trained on them, "Er, buddy? I don't think they're here to greet us! Not in the friendly way at least!"

Without warning they started firing on them, missiles and lasers striking the Pacific and making it spin round and bounce on the floor. Fang and T.O.M tried to regain control but couldn't as the attacks kept on coming.

"Don't they know it's us?" asked T.O.M.

"Course not! They think we're aliens! I'll radio them and…oh!" Fang reached for the radio and discovered, to his horror, that it had been destroyed, "Okay, change of plans, evacuate!"

They made for the door at the back of the ship but it wouldn't budge.

"The doors stuck! WE'REDOOMEDWE'REDOOMEDWE'REDOOMEDWE'REDOOMED-"

T.O.M stopped screaming when Fang slapped him round the face.

"Snap out of it! When they realise we're not there they'll stop their attacks!" Fang reasoned.

Down below, the army were unloading all their weaponry onto the alien spacecraft; Sqooty and Bar'Hbi were firing their laser weapons whilst Sarah used her enlarged bazooka. Dr Sprocket was using his homemade rocket launcher when he realised something, "Hey, where are T.O.M and Fang?"

"Delivering presents to children in hospitals," said Sarah.

"In November? Meh, I'll believe that," and he continued shooting.

"We gotta find a way to tell them it's us!" said Fang as they bounced around the cockpit like ping pong balls.

"I'll try all the buttons again!" said T.O.M, using his vines he reached over to the controls and pressed everything on the dashboard, including the big green button.

The Pacific suddenly transformed into a fifty foot robot in front everyone.

"Well strip me down and call me a Private!" exclaimed Monger.

"This ship can transform? Fascinating!" said Dr Sprocket.

"Yes, if you think giant robots of doom and destruction are fascinating!" said Covertron, "It is clearly the Reytards ultimate weapon to liquefy all women and offspring! Destroy the now!"

Fang and T.O.M began pressing all the buttons at random, making the robot spazz out. It appeared to everyone as if it was breakdancing, even moonwalking, till suddenly it fired a laser that wiped out all the tanks.

"Not ma TANKS!" cried Monger, "Ma lil tanky-tanks!"

"It appears our weapons have no effect on this machine!" said Sqooty.

"Then perhaps we send in our best weapon?" suggested Dr Sprocket, looking at Titana.

The giantess cracked her knuckles, "I'm going in!"

She charged the robot and tackled it hard. The robot held its footing, its feet sliding along the floor but staying upright. It then grabbed her arms and threw her over its head. Inside, Fang and T.O.M could see what was happening, they were more reluctant to press any buttons now.

Sarah picked herself up off the ground, "Okay," she said to the robot, "That's the way you want to play it?"

She charged it again and delivered a right hook to its chin, then jumped back shaking her throbbing fist.

"What if we pressed this one?" asked T.O.M, pressing a blue triangle button.

The robot then marched up to Sarah and wrapped its arms around the giantess.

"Gadzooks! The Reytards are molesting Sarah!" said Dr Sprocket.

Sarah tried to get free but the robots grip grew tighter, "Gaah! Let me go! Is this some kind of robo-rape? GETOFME!" she screamed.

The robot brought her closer till her face was pressed against the robots windshield, as she peered through the screen she saw Fang and T.O.M sheepishly waving at her.

She drew her head back in surprise, her friends were inside! She didn't know why they were doing this but she knew she had to get them out. She head-butted the robot as hard as she could and it blew a fuse, making it drop her.

She then noticed the robots core was in its chest, with a well-aimed punch she hit the chest plate hard and the robot started vibrating. It then bent over and fired the two monsters out of its crotch plate. Everyone ducked as Fang and T.O.M flew past them and slammed into the wall. They stuck to the rocky wall as the robot exploded.

Everyone gathered round the mounted monsters with displeased looks on their faces.

"Don't worry, folks!" groaned Fang, "The kids got their presents!"

At the back of the crowd Covertron was enjoying the trouble he'd caused, till the robots head landed on him.

Once the TV series ends this series will be updated every two weeks, taking it in turns with the What If Series. I have some future stories in the pipe line and they include:

∙ Christmas special

∙ Aliens in the wild west

∙ Evolution in New York

∙ Team monster beta

∙ M+A vacations

and perhaps more...