Chapter Twenty Nine: Mega Ginormica Vs Mutant Nemesis

The Apocalypse [Central Core]

Present Time…

The two continued to battle it out regardless of where they were. Susan had punched Nemesis right into the large chamber where the power core resided.

The chamber had to be over a mile in diameter and height, but the drop seemed endless, you couldn't see the bottom. The power core was a single pillar of bright light that went down through the centre of the room. It was very much like Gallaxhar's ship but bigger, and more menacing.

Nemesis used his multi arms to deliver a double blow to Susan's face and stomach, then he spun on the spot using his spiked tail to deliver a sharp whack to the ribs. Just when Susan had steadied herself, Nemesis launched at her again, this time sinking his razor sharp teeth into her shoulder. He clamped down hard but his teeth could not penetrate her super tough skin.

Susan grabbed the mutant alien and threw him along the walkway towards the core, Nemesis dug his claws into the floor to stop himself sliding, creating tears in the floor.

"You will never succeed. I will rip the flesh from your bones!" he snarled, his voice becoming deeper, beastly and more unhinged.

He leaned his head back and then shot it forward, roaring out a blaze of what seemed to be lightning from his mouth. Susan shielded her face as the blast hit her, it was like being hit by a high speed train, whilst on fire.

Susan was pushed into the far wall as the electric blazed all around her, she gripped the Lifestar tightly in her palm as she opened her eyes, Nemesis was beginning to tire until finally he stopped.

Susan charged towards him and elbowed him in the mouth, breaking several of his teeth. The alien swung his fists like crazy and countlessly bashed Susan all over, at first it was nothing but the more it went on the more it began to hurt.

Susan could see that Nemesis' eyes had gone completely wild, his mutation appeared to have clouded his mind till he was nothing but a savage animal. Nemesis then climbed on top of her and sank his claws and remaining teeth into her, she tried to fight him off but he clung on tight.

"Get. The. Hell. Off. ME!" she shouted.

Remembering a wrestling move Link tried to learn some time ago, she grabbed the alien and power slammed him, Nemesis taking the full blow to the floor making him lose his grip.

Susan got up and grabbed him by the throat, holding him above her she raised her clenched fist with the Lifestar inside, "For every life you destroyed."

She punched the alien right in the face, sending him flying. The shockwave of the punch shook the entire area as the walkway began to creak and buckle. Nemesis rocketed up till he hit the ceiling, one mile up. He crashed into the metallic ceiling creating a massive imprint of his body in it, for a moment he stuck there but then slowly began to peel off.

Finally coming free, he fell back towards the walkway and landed right in front of Susan. The hit had been too much, Nemesis' body began to give off different colours as he started to shrink, his mutated form melted away till he was back to his original form.

He came to and weakly lifted his head in time to see the giantess' hand come down on him, forcefully grabbing him and holding him to her face. Her grip on him getting tighter till he felt his ribs collapsing.

"N-no, I am Nemesis, the ruler of Pandora, the king of the galactic empire. Y-you can't do this, you can't…please, p-please don't kill me!" he begged.

"That pleasure belongs to someone else." She said.

She let go of him and he fell to the floor, hard. Looking up again, this time there was another figure standing before him, the recently awakened and bloodied Eclipse. She stood over him as he scrambled to his feet.

"You…go on then, do it!" He taunted her, "Finish me, become a murderer…just like me."

Eclipse didn't say anything, nor did she flinch.

"Thought so, you can't do it. You are weak, you haven't got what it takes to…agh!"

In a swift movement, Eclipse produced her solar blade and ran it straight through Nemesis. He choked and spat out green blood as he was skewed like a kebab, Eclipse leaned forward to whisper in his ear.

"Should have chosen your last words more wisely, and for the record…this is justice, not murder."

Eclipse kicked him off her blade and he fell to the floor in a pool of his own blood.

Susan closed her eyes and she powered down to her original self. She felt a little dizzy as the sudden change sent a rush to her head.

"I see you managed to master the Lifestar?" Eclipse asked her.

"When you and your friends' life is in danger you tend to be a fast learner." Laughed Susan.

The ground them suddenly shook and began to sway, then came the sound of distant explosions. Fires began pouring out of the walls and the power core turned red.

"What's goin on?" Eclipse shouted over the noise.

"Hang on, I'll check," Susan tapped into her earpiece, "Hello? Doc? What's happening? Did you find the self-destruct button?"

"Aah, Susan there you are!" came Dr Cockroach's voice, "No, the President has launched an all-out nuclear strike against the Pandorian ship, I have taken the shields down so every missile strike is edging the ship closer to total oblivion."

"Oh wonderful." Susan said sarcastically.

"Don't worry, I have your signal now. We'll be with you shortly!"

Susan took her finger off her ear piece and looked back at a puzzled Eclipse, "The ships being hit with nuclear missiles, the whole things coming apart!"

"They do know we're still up here right?" Eclipse asked.

Suddenly a blade shot of Eclipse's chest and she jarred back, Nemesis' bloody face emerged behind her. Susan just stood there, paralyzed in shock as Eclipse held her open wound; she fell to the floor with the alien overlord standing over her.

"Looks like the roles have reversed," he wheezed, holding the bloodied blade in his hand as he looked at Susan, "Now it's your turn!"

A massive red laser shot out of the wall and struck Nemesis, forcing him into the burning red power core. He screamed as he disintegrated into nothingness.

"Oops, sorry Susan, wrong button, hold on!"said Dr Cockroach.

Susan knelt down next to Eclipse and carefully picked her up in her hands, she struggled to breathe as blood spilled from her wound.

The robot probe ripped the hole it had made wider so it could fit through and enter the chamber, "My word, that is some impressive engineering!"

"Doc, Eclipse has been critically wounded, we have to get out of here now!" Susan called.

"Right, opening the air lock!"

The bulkhead door in the robot's foot opened and Susan rushed inside, struggling to stay balanced as more nukes hit the ship. Quickly she made her way to the control deck and when she saw her parents she was momentarily overjoyed. A choking cough from Eclipse brought Susan's attention back and she placed her next to her parents and Link.

"Geez, what happened?" asked Link.

"Nemesis stabbed her!"

"Where is that alien frog?"

"Vaporized."

"We can discuss it when we're back on terra firma," Dr Cockroach called down, "Right now, just hold tight!"

The Murphy's strapped Eclipse into a folded back seat before fastening themselves into their seats with the monsters. Doc pushed the controls forward and the probe moved.

"There's no time to get back to the cargo hangar, the ship will blow in under 60 seconds. We'll have to take the old fashioned exit…Geronimo!" Doc howled.

The probe dived over the edge and began to fall through the deep pit of the chamber, its front arms raised. With a loud crash and a violent jerk, Dr Cockroach managed to punch the probe out of the base of the ship and back into space.

"Right, thrusters on, full power!" he said to himself, not noticing everyone's pale faces below.

The main monitors showed the burning Apocalypse, the nuke strike had ended but the ship was now coming apart. The electric field holding the rings in place had dissipated and were now floating into the ship, cutting into it. There were fires on every deck and explosions going off everywhere till finally the ship fully went up like a supernova.

The blast hit the probe hard, the shields held but the shock caused internal damage, making the holographic controls turn from blue to red. Dr Cockroach began hitting the controls rapidly in a panic, "No no no no no no!"

"What is it, Doc?" Link called.

"That shockwave has sent an electromagnetic feedback pulse through the primary and secondary power grids causing a total collapse of the warp canisters and depolarized the thruster cores!"

"Er, in English Doc."

"We've broken down."

"Well someone should get out an push!" B.O.B cut in.

"Now's not the time, B.O.B." said Susan.

"Well the good news is we'll still get back to earth," Dr Cockroach gulped, "The bad news is we'll be going down in a ball of fire and be roasted in the process!"

"A little too graphic there, Mr Cockroach." Said Wendy.

Susan looked at her parents with tears in her eyes, "I'm so sorry, I never wanted you to get caught up in this."

"Oh Susie-Q," said Karl, "No matter what happens, we'll always be happy to have been part in your extraordinary life."

The robot ship began to shake and the portholes shone bright orange as they entered the atmosphere, the probe was consumed in fire as it began its accelerated decent. Doc fought for control as the others held on to each other tightly, Eclipse still strapped to her bed, trying to keep her eyes open.

"Heat shields are reaching maximum tolerance!" Doc called out over the roaring noise, "We're breaking apart!"