Time of the Monsters (Part 1)
It was Friday night and the monsters were enjoying their night off. Dr Sprocket was off doing his own thing, most likely involving science on a mad scale, and the others were in the their living quarters. They were playing Must Dance 2015 on their XStation 4.1 console, taking it in turns to dance to the rhythm of the songs. T.O.M was currently leading with the highest score, though a brainless vegetable he certainly knew how to boogie. He had taken a break to raid the fridge whilst the other two held a secret meeting.
"We gotta claw back the points if we wanna beat him! He's beating us by 200 points! It's embarrassing!" Fang whispered to Sarah.
"What do you suggest?" asked Sarah.
"We do a co-op combo! That way we increase our chances of surpassing T.O.M and it'll leave me free to take you down!"
"Ha! Fat chance! You couldn't beat me if I was born without legs!"
"Oh yeah? Well I was the king of disco before it was cool!"
"Discos never been cool."
"I…shush. Let's try….that one," said the snake, scrolling down the list of songs before selecting Tanya Swift's Shake It Up.
T.O.M returned to the sofa with a sandwich filled with every filling imaginable. He watched Sarah and Fang standing in front of the television, getting themselves ready to dance. Fang cracking every joint in his body as Sarah stretched as if she was about to do a marathon.
Sarah took a deep breath then looked at her dance partner, "Okay, let's dance!"
Fang pressed the control button and the song began to play. Silhouettes of dancers appeared on the screen and Sarah and Fang had to mimic them move for move.
The mutant snake began copying his dance characters every movement; a passing glance saw Sarah doing exactly the same. Several times they had to interact like Fang twirling Sarah on the spot and then Sarah jumping over his head and then the pair of them doing the wave. Their perfect precision began rocketing their scores upwards until finally they both went past T.O.M's score, though he couldn't care less cos he had his sandwich.
Fang was devoting every fibre of his concentration to his characters moves whilst Sarah found humming to the tune helped her stay in time.
The song then came to the freestyle stage where the characters began dancing separately rather than together. Fang got to the floor and began using his long body to do the biggest worm in dancing history. Sarah countered by moonwalking and doing the robot at the same time.
"You got nothing on me! Check it!"
Fang then rolled to the floor and began doing the windmill, his tail swiping through the air till he finished doing a back spin. T.O.M had to bounce his sandwich several times to avoid it being knocked out of his hands.
"Booya! Beat that!" he said, finishing by posing on the floor.
"You underestimate me; I love it when you do that! You forget that I possess the ultimate dance move in the world, one that will wipe your score out of existence!" Sarah said as she slowly leaned forwards, bent her knees and placed her hands on her hips.
Fangs eyes went wide with horror, "No! You can't! That's not fair! You can't do this to me! You can't do THAT move!"
"Oh yeah! Get ready for the…TITANA TWERK!"
And with that she thrust her butt out and grew at the same time, her expanding rear slammed into Fang, sending him flying into T.O.M which caused the sofa to slide to the opposite side of the room. Titana was almost bent double before shrinking back down; she looked at the scoreboard as the song ended.
"YES! Twerking Super Bonus!" she said with hands raised, her score twice that of Fang, "So what do you think of that, Disco Stud?"
Fang was upside down on the sofa next to T.O.M who had the rest of sandwich squashed against his face, he wasn't complaining though as he licked it off, "Mmmm! Pickles and mustard! Congrats, Sarah! Looks like you won!" said the tomato, getting up and high-fiving the winner.
"Thanks, T.O.M, well I decided that if people were going to make continuous remarks about my butt I might as well put it to good use. So I practised day and night in front of a mirror and now I have the booty that can twerk a house down!"
"And beat Fang at dancing," T.O.M added, looking back at the sofa, "Right, buddy?"
Fang just groaned as he rolled off the sofa and onto the floor.
Then all of a sudden the lights and the TV went out and now everything was in complete darkness.
"What's going on?" called Sarah from somewhere in the dark.
"Who said that? Oh god, I've gone blind!" cried T.O.M.
"It's just a power cut, Bro, nothing major!" said Fang, reaching out in darkness to comfort him, he felt the side of T.O.M's head and began patting him, "Just take it easy and everything will be fine."
"Fang?" came Sarahs voice right next to him, "That's not T.O.M your touching."
Fang quickly retracted his hand as he stepped on something round which made him fall over, "Urgh, found the torch!" he groaned. He switched it on and saw Sarah standing in the middle of the room with T.O.M wrapping his vines around her, scared of the dark, when he saw the torchlight he sighed with relief.
After getting up Fang prized the front door open and then shone the torch down the corridors, "Seems the powers out all over the base as well!" he said.
"T.O.M, you can let go now," said Sarah, slowly prizing the many vines that were now wrapped around her. She then felt a buzz in her pocket and took out her phone, "Least there's something that's still working round here. Hello?"
As she answered her phone T.O.M slid over to Fang, "Why have all the lights gone to bed? They've never done that before?!"
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I don't recall there ever being a complete blackout in the base before. It's not possible considering that huge power core thing we got in the basement!"
"Alright, Doc, we're on our way!" said Sarah before hanging up.
"Doc called? What did he want? His batteries go flat as well?"
"No, he's at the main power core! He says he's found something that we really need to see!"
It took a while to work their way through the base, occasionally they would bump into someone else who was just trying to find their way around, at one point they could've sworn they heard General Monger and Covertron flying into each other somewhere close by. Passing the canteen along the way they had to stop because T.O.M wanted to save the food from getting cold so they had to wait for him to gather everything from the counters and put it in a sack so he could eat on the way.
Eventually they reached the Central Reactor Core, the skyscraper sized pillar of blue energy buzzing loudly as they entered the giant circular chamber.
"No matter how many times I see this it still gives me the chills!" said Fang quietly.
"The smaller reactors that this one feeds energy into are all off!" said Sarah, looking at the control monitor next to the cores shielding, "That's why the lights went out. But why have they been turned off?"
"Because of what I discovered," came Dr Sprocket from out of the shadows.
T.O.M leapt into Fangs arms with fright and they both fell to the floor.
"Seriously, Doc?" grunted Fang, pushing his buddy off of him.
"Sorry, I just really wanted to do that." Said Dr Sprocket, trying hard not to smirk.
"Doc, what's going on here? Why have you shut down the entire base?" asked Sarah.
"Well, seeing as it was my night off I thought I'd do some experimenting…"
"How's that different from every other night?"
Dr Sprocket ignored Fang and continued, "…I began running diagnostics through the entire base to see if there was anything that needed my scientific touch…"
"You wanted to explode stuff?" T.O.M asked innocently.
"…and I noticed considerably large energy spikes in the bases' core. When I came down to inspect I found something so perfect, so beautiful, so magnificent and at the same time something so cataclysmic it could wipe out everything on the planet!"
"Well that puts our dance night into perspective." Said Fang.
"What did you find, Doc?" said Sarah.
Dr Sprocket made them follow him round to the other side of the core; it was a fair walk as the cylinder of blue power was wider than a redwood tree trunk. On the other side appeared to be a shimmering streak of light reaching across the room, like a lightning bolt frozen in motion. The closer they got the more colourful it became and unintelligible voices could be heard emanating from it.
"What…what is that?" asked Sarah, gazing at the floating streak of light, its texture rippling like water.
"Oooooo! Pwitty!" said T.O.M, getting closer to it with his hand stretched out. Dr Sprocket quickly grabbed him and pulled him back.
"Don't touch it, T.O.M! It's something that shouldn't be played with! It's a Time Scar!"
"Time…Scar?" Sarah frowned; she'd never heard that one before.
"Yes, a wound in the fabric of space and time! Realities tender spot! This reactor core has been putting out so much power for so long that it has actually weakened the barriers of our universe to others!"
"You're saying that that thing there is basically time travel?" asked Fang, looking sceptical.
"I detected heavy quantities of Tachyon particles surrounding it. Time moves faster than anything and if this scar weakened any further it could have torn open and god knows what could have poured out! I had to power down the other cores so to reduce this one's energy level; it seems to have done the trick as the scars readings have stabilized,"
"Why don't you to tell General Monger about this?" asked Fang.
"He'd probably say it was just another 'mad science doo-hickey' and there'd be nothing to be concerned about. He would have the core reactivated and there was no-way I was gonna let those aliens nosey in on this!"
"So what do we do now?" Sarah said, still looking at the light show before her.
"Now we wait and hope that the power down will help the scar heal up. If not then I'll just have to come up with something else,"
"We sit around and wait for a gateway to all reality to close up?" Fang put simply, "Heck, I'm down." He laid down and put his hands behind his head.
"How long do we have to wait for this thing to disappear?" Sarah asked the robo-doc.
"Hours? Days? Eternity? I have no idea. My knowledge on this is limited,"
"But you're a mad scientist! This is the kinda 'mad' stuff you excel at!"
"Even I have my limits, my dear. I may be mad but this is full-gone loopy-whack-a-doodle!"
"Well if we have to sit around here for a while then how about we have something to eat?" suggested T.O.M.
"Darn, and I left my beef burger in my other scales," Fang said sarcastically.
"Really? Good thing I still got all the grub from the canteen in my sack!" said the tomato, pulling the large sack out of his body and opening it, the tasty aroma of Friday tacos rising out of it.
Fang sat up with his eyes staring at the sack, "I forgot about that!" he said, feeling hungry all of a sudden.
T.O.M then began handing out tacos to his friends (and passing some metal cutlery for Dr Sprocket). Once they had enough to eat he began consuming the rest which was more than his fair share.
As they sat around in the blue glow of the reactor cores light they started discussing the Time Scar again.
"…so you think there could be other worlds besides ours?" asked Sarah, sat down with her legs crossed.
"Well there's always been the possibility of other worlds similar yet different to our own, a parallel world if you like. A world that could be almost identical to our own but with small differences like Elvis had never died, grass is blue, NASCAR turns right instead of left…"
"That I'd pay to see," said Fang as he downed another taco.
"So you think there are alternate monsters as well?"
"Maybe, my dear, it would be most fascinating to meet another mad scientist like myself," Dr Sprocket pondered.
"That's something I would NOT pay to see."
"Hey guys, I found some condiments for our tacos," said T.O.M, taking out several salt shakers, "Want some on your food?"
"No thanks, T.O.M, I'm good." Said Sarah, nibbling on her third taco.
"Fang, you want any salt?"
"Nah, I'm alright, Bro."
"Mr Time Scar, do you want any salt? Here, try it,"
"NO, T.O.M, DON'!"
But it was too late, the brainless vegetable threw a whole salt shaker into the shimmering light and it swallowed it whole. For a few tense moments everyone stayed still like a statue, their breaths bated. When nothing happened they finally heaved a deep sigh of relief.
"T.O.M, next time you—"
The Time Scar suddenly lit up and blinded everyone as it grew bigger, its light enveloping the monsters with a loud roaring noise. With one final flash the scar disappeared, the monsters along with it.
She felt the cool touch of grass against her cheek and she could hear the rustling of trees overhead as she slowly woke up. Sarah groggily opened one and then the other, her vision slowly coming back into focus only to meet the rays of the midday sun.
"Wha…wha…"
Regaining the strength in her arms she pushed herself off the ground and looked around. She was outside, in a field somewhere, with her friends lying around her. She rubbed her head as her memory was a little fuzzy. The last thing she remembered was T.O.M throwing a salt shaker into a Time Scar.
Her friends began stirring and slowly they got themselves up on their feet. Dr Sprocket straightened his head which was facing the wrong direction and looked at T.O.M.
"T.O.M, that was a wound in time and space and you just threw salt in it! You don't throw salt in a wound!" he scowled the tomato.
"Why? Is it related to snails?" T.O.M asked innocently.
"Come on, Doc, it's not that bad! So we got thrown outside, big deal!" Fang said, looking around at their new surroundings, "Better than sitting in that dark hole of a reactor!"
"Didn't you listen to a word I said before? That Time Scar was a gateway to all reality! We could be anywhere at any time!"
"Or in this case…Modesto." Said Sarah, slowly wandering into a clearing. Her friends followed her out from under the trees and into a large grassy field, over a grassy knoll was a small gazebo with a white chapel close by.
"I know this place! This is North Modesto Chapel!" she said.
"See Doc, we only went as far as Sarah's hometown!" said Fang, nudging the worried robo-doc.
"Let's see if they have a telephone so we can call Monger and let him know what happened," said Sarah as she began making her way down the knoll towards the church. Just before she reached the gazebo the church's front doors opened and someone stepped out.
"Look out! Hide!" said Dr Sprocket, grabbing T.O.M and Fang and pulling them back up the small hill again. Sarah quickly turned and ran up the hill as well, diving between her friends as they peeked over the edge to see what was happening.
"Why are we playing hide and seek with someone we don't know?" whispered T.O.M.
"Think, banana brain, say this is the right place but in the past, what if we got seen and ended up changing events? Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?"
"What have butterflies got to do with it?"
"I'm talking to the wrong person here!" said the mad scientist, thumping his head on the ground.
"Alright, we get ya, doc, we can't be seen till we know what the date is," said Fang quietly, "We just gotta wait for whoever that person is to leave,"
Sarah peeked through the long grass of the knoll to get a better look at the person, it was a woman with short brown hair and wearing a silk white dress, "I…think that's the bride! There's a wedding going on!" she whispered.
"So we can't go into the church for a phone then? Perfect." Said Fang.
"We could just say we're well-wishers?" suggested T.O.M, everyone ignored him.
"Looks like she's heading for the gazebo," said Sarah, watching the brides every movement, "There's something about her…I can't make it out,"
Dr Sprocket poked his head up and used his telescopic vision to get a better look at the bride, he stared for a few seconds and then lowered his head back down, "Um…I think I've just verified that we are in an alternate past," he said.
"Why do you say that, Doc?" asked Sarah.
Dr Sprocket unscrewed his eyes and handed them to her like a pair of binoculars. She took them in both hands and carefully peeked over the long grass as she looked through the binoculars. The vision was much closer and much clearer, in fact she could get a good close up of the brides face. She stared at the woman for a few moments before dropping the binoculars and almost crying out in shock. Fang covered her mouth and dragged her down as Dr Sprocket reattached his eyes. After Sarah finally finished freaking out her reptilian friend calmly let her go.
"That's…that's me! That's me over there!" she said, still in shock.
"A parallel version of you. I estimate an 89.9% likeness apart from hair and age." Said Dr Sprocket, "Proof then that we are in the past of an alternate world!"
"Cos that Sarah ain't titanic yet?" said Fang.
"Precisely. Maybe she doesn't become a monster at all in this world?" Dr Sprocket pondered, "So many possibilities…"
"She's getting married…" Sarah said to herself, looking through the long grass again at the gazebo where the bride was casually walking around it, "She must be so happy…"
Just then the church doors opened again and out stepped a man with slick brown hair and wearing a tuxedo.
"Hey up, this must be the groom!" said Fang.
"Funny, he doesn't have brushes or a wooden handle?" said T.O.M.
"Groom not broom, T.O.M," Sarah sighed, "I can't believe there's a version of me that gets to have a happy ending, someone who has somebody in her life to love, to…"
"Hang on just a second there, my dear, don't bet on it being a match made in heaven!"
"Why do you say that, Doc?"
"The groom shares an 87.6% likeness with your former beau and all around creep: Eric Beadle!" said Dr Sprocket, his eyes zooming in on the grooms face as he spoke to the bride.
"She's about to marry…oh no, I can't let…"
Sarah got up and was about to go down the hill when her friends grabbed her and pulled her back down, pinning her to the floor.
"Didn't you hear what Doc said, the bumblebee affect?" Fang hissed.
"Butterfly. And yes I remember but I can't let her marry that jerk! He'll break her heart like Eric did with me! I can't let it happen again!" said Sarah, struggling to get up.
"Think, Sarah! This isn't our world and we have no right to say what can and can't happen in it! If we interrupt things we could end up damaging this world's entire timeline!"
"Let me go! I swear I will grow right here and now if you don't let me go!" she threatened, her face being pushed into the long grass.
"Sarah, we can't be seen and we can't interfere, we just have to let events take their course," Dr Sprocket said, he then looked at his chums, "Let her up."
Fang and T.O.M slowly got off her and she brushed the dirt of her shirt, the need to go down there ebbing away, "She'll be hurt, she be crushed just like I was," she said sadly, the feeling the pain in her heart once more.
"Yes, but look what it did for you. It made you a better, stronger person who doesn't rely on others to be happy, you are a more confident individual and you could only get that from being dumped by a jerk." Dr Sprocket told her.
"Yeah…yeah I suppose you're right."
"What do you think they're saying down there right now?" asked T.O.M, having not been listening to their conversation.
"My audio mics have only been able to pick up some words due to the distance but there's been mention of…crepes…Tahiti…Fresno…top 50 market and…anchor. That's all I got." He said, "Oh, the grooms leaving now, he's heading back into the church,"
"Alright, so back to the matter in hand, we know we're in a parallel past so the question is how do we get back to our own world?" said Fang.
"I implanted that problem into my calculation program the moment we got here and am still working on it; I'll let you know when I have something." Said Dr Sprocket.
KABOOM!
"Well you'd better think of something quick before it rains!" said T.O.M.
"Rains? There's not a cloud in the sky!" said Fang looking upwards.
Sarah sat looking at the bride, wondering what her life had ahead of her, how was her life going to be different from her own? She then saw her leave the gazebo and look to the skies. An icy feeling shot through Sarah as she realised that that was not a clap of thunder they had just heard.
"Oh god…it's here!"
"What is, my dear?"
She stood up and looked to the sky and there, burning brightly and getting bigger and bigger was a glowing green meteorite heading straight for the bride. It looked identical to the one that had landed on top of Sarah during her graduation.
"The meteor! The one that turned me into a monster! It's heading straight for her!" said Sarah, watching helplessly as the bride tried to run in her high heels, "She's not gonna make it!"
T.O.M followed the bride's movements as she ran towards the hill where they were hiding, "Relax, I'm sure she's going to be just…"
BOOOOOM!
"…then again…"
"It's landed on her! She'll be crushed!" Sarah cried, scrambling to her feet.
"Sarah, come back!"
But before Dr Sprocket could stop her Sarah grew big and jumped down the hill. The giantess landed right next to the meteorite which had stopped glowing and was now just smouldering in its crater. Sarah dug her fingers underneath the meteor and lifted it up off the bride and then placed it next to the gazebo. She looked into the crater and saw the bride lying right in the centre, covered in dirt and not moving.
"Oh god-oh god-oh god!"
Titana shrank back down and slid down the crater, her heart racing as she ran to her alternate self. She scooped up the bride and held her in her arms; she felt for a pulse and was relieved she was still alive.
Her friends arrived at the edge of the crater and looked down the deep bowl of dirt, "Sarah, you need to let go of her!" Dr Sprocket said to her.
Sarah looked back at the bride and saw she was glowing green like she had when she first grew, quickly she placed her back down and stepped back, waiting for something to happen. The bride however then returned to normal colour.
"What happened? I thought she was going to grow like me?" said Sarah.
"That might come later. Right now I think the Quantronium, or whatever it's called in this world, might still be fusing itself to her body, healing the damage she received from the meteor landing on top of her!" theorized Dr Sprocket, "Once she's healed then…shooom!"
"So what do we do now?" asked Fang.
"Ask if there's any wedding cake going spare?" T.O.M asked hopefully.
Whilst the guys discussed what to do next Sarah knelt beside the bride again and looked her up and down, it was weird looking at someone who looked almost identical to her. Her facial features were exactly like hers, her hair was the same colour hers used to be and was much shorter but she had the same fringe she had. She looked like a fallen angel wearing her wedding dress which was covered in dirt.
"I really hope you'll be okay after this," she said to her.
She then tried to brush some of the dirt off her dress when she began to stir.
"She's waking up!" she said.
"And someone else is coming out of the church! We gotta move!" said Dr Sprocket.
Sarah took one last lingering look at her alternate self and then climbed out of the crater; Fang lowered his tail down in order for her to get out.
"We need to take the meteorite with us too!" said the mad scientist.
"What? Why?" they said.
"If they find an object from outer space next to her they'll think she's an alien who came out of it and probably end up dissecting her! We take it!"
Sarah grew big again and took the giant space rock under her right arm, she then placed her left hand to the ground next to her friends, "Up you come!"
Her fellow monsters climbed aboard and sat on her shoulders. The giantess could now hear the bride murmuring as she rolled onto her front and trying to lift herself up.
"Where do we go?" she asked her friends.
"I have a heading, go that way!" Dr Sprocket pointed.
The giant blonde took off over the knoll just as another woman came into view; she too had short brown hair but wore a red silk dress as appeared several years older. She had a worried look on her face as she walked around the grounds, looking everywhere as she called out.
"SUSAN! Ugh, where could she be? SUSAN? WHERE ARE YOU?"
Titana ran on and on with her friends on her shoulders and the meteorite under her arm. She was careful to stay away from roads and populated areas till at last she finally reached the edge of a familiar looking farm.
"This is Jebs Farm, or whatever his name is here!" she said, shivering for a moment as the memory of what happened here during her first Halloween as a monster refreshed in her mind.
"Right here will do nicely," said Dr Sprocket, "Put the rock down, my dear,"
The giantess placed the meteorite down, it made a loud thump as it touched the ground. She then allowed her friends to climb down from her before shrinking back to human size.
"So what are we going to do here?" asked Fang.
"Feed chickens?" T.O.M asked hopefully.
"Farmer Jeb wasn't that kind of farmer, T.O.M, he was more into crops," Sarah told him.
"Not the 'puff-puff' & 'everything is funky, dude' crops though." Fang nudged his mate.
"Sarah, this is a pretty descent spot to dispose of this meteor. If you can bury it here and then we'll get ourselves out of this dimension," said Dr Sprocket, pointing to the flat patch of earth they were standing on.
"How? You said you were still working on how to get back!" said Fang as Sarah grew big once more and began using her long fingers to dig a big hole.
"Well I started scanning for tachyon particles again as it seems the Time Scar also moved with us; I traced it to this location. All we need to do is get to it and then we can get ourselves home!" said the robo-doc.
Titana finished digging the hole; it was a good twenty feet deep and wide enough to fit the black meteor rock. She lifted it up and carefully placed it at the bottom before sweeping all the dug up earth back in again. Once buried she gently patted the ground till it looked like nothing had been disturbed.
"There. All done." She said, wiping her hands as she returned to normal size. "It's not going to cause any side effects will it, doc? Burying an alien object underground?"
"There might have been some residual energy left in the meteorite but I doubt there will be any cause for alarm. It might even make Jebs crops grow bigger in fact so everyone's a winner!"
"Right, so we've met an alternate version of myself and gotten rid of an alien meteorite containing Quantronium…so where's the way home?" asked Sarah, ready to return to her own world after the experience she'd had.
"Right this way. Follow me!" said the mad scientist.
They crept into the farm, careful not to make any loud noises in case Farmer Jeb was around, and entered the barn. The barn was mostly empty except for a rusty old tractor parked in the center and a familiar lightning streak floating a few feet behind it.
"There it is!" smiled Sprocket, glad his scanners didn't lie.
The monsters walked up to it, inaudible voices and shimmering lights still emanating from it as they got closer.
"So this is the same one we saw in the reactor core?" frowned Fang.
"Yes, it freaked out when T.O.M introduced salt to it and sucked us in, spitting us out in this world,"
"So how do we go back?"
"I…hadn't thought that far ahead,"
The monsters all looked at the cyborg, expecting an answer that he couldn't give.
"Ooo! I know! I'll just do it again and…" before anyone could stop him T.O.M took out another salt shaker from his vine-made body and threw it into the anomaly.
There was another bright flash of light and once again the monsters and the Time Scar disappeared.
They all flew through the air before landing smack against a slopped wall; they all rolled down it and landed in a pile of rubble. They were all in a heap again, disorientated from the brief trip and now bruised from the bumpy landing.
"Okay, T.O.M, maybe you should ask us first before you…LOOK OUT!" yelled Dr Sprocket as the rusty tractor appeared, having joined them on their journey, and crashed against the wall they had just hit. The monsters got up and jumped out the way as it came crashing down and burst into flames on impact.
Sarah coughed as she brushed more dust off her clothes, when she looked up she stopped what she was doing and her eyes slowly went wide.
"Um…guys? This doesn't look like home!"
Her friends all looked at their new surroundings and saw once again they were outside, except this time the sky was orange with smoke and flame, ruined buildings were crumbling all around them and the streets were covered in rubble and smashed cars.
"Doc, we still ain't in Kansas!" said Fang.
"These buildings…we're in Washington!" said Dr Sprocket, surveying the ruins.
"This isn't Washington, Doc, this is a war zone!" said Sarah.
"Well I think it's safe to assume we are in another parallel world? Possibly a parallel future?" Dr Sprocket said, scratching his chin, "And T.O.M? If you have any more salt on you then give them to me right now!"
"Aww!" pouted the tomato as he handed over the rest of his salt shakers.
Whilst they were doing this Sarah slowly wandered down a torn up street, looking at all the devastation around her, there was no sign of any people but she did find a half-burnt toy bunny lying next to a crushed pram, "What could have done all this?"
Suddenly the car right next to her exploded and she was sent flying sideways, she rolled along the rock covered road, receiving cuts and bruises as she rolled, till finally landing against a twisted street sign.
"Sarah!" her friends called from a small distance away.
As she tried to stop the ringing in her ears she could feel something land over her as a shadow cast over her face, she opened her eyes and looked up to see what appeared to be the silhouette of Dr Sprocket, aiming his blaster cannon at her.
"D-Doc, what are you doing?"
"Finally I have you! It's time you paid for what you've done, Sarah!" he snarled.
Next Episode: Time of the Monsters (Part 2)
