Chapter 12.
And this is the twelfth chapter. It's now down to the teens to save the world. Hope you like it. I do not down G-force or any of its characters.
It was only until they could see the rapidly descending men-made meteorites heading towards them that they knew they were in danger. "INCOMING!" several men shouted at once to the others. The SWAT men started running, panicking and screaming just as the first bits of space junk came crashing down into the garden and the surrounding city, exploding on impact. If the men ignored the screaming of their colleagues, they were sure to hear the sounds of people screaming, as more space junk came crashing, into streets, onto building, houses, cars, etc. At the same time, army units have just arrived, tanks and trucks being called to help take down the robot, only to start baking away as the space came down, along with the SWAT men fleeing from the rain of metal. "JUST LIKE CRINIMALS! BRING PUNY KNIFES TO A GIANT GUN FIGTH!" Speckles taunted over the PA. Inside the cockpit, Speckles was enjoying his long-desired fun. The smile on his face disappeared when he saw Darwin climb on to the platform, through the wide gap between the start of the giant glass viewpoint. He then stood up, a brave and angry look on his face. "Darwin." Speckles said, once again pressing the thumb buttons. "Speckles, shut this thing down now!" Darwin shouted. "No!" Speckles shouted back, adamant. "The I'll shut it down myself." Darwin said, now showing the iPhone in his left hand. "I have nothing against you, Darwin. But mankind must pay for becoming so uncivilised." Speckles said back. "You know I won't let you do that." Darwin growled. Speckles then half turned to his computer, his face still facing Darwin. He pressed with his left hand another button on the computer. "Then you leave me no choice, my friend." Moments after those words left his mouth, a Saberling blender appliance appeared to his left and came alive. It had a small metal cylinder come out of its centre, suddenly extended eight sharp blades on the tip. The cylinder and bladed then started spinning very rapidly as it headed towards Darwin. He knew that since he had no weapons, he had no option but to run. Plus, if he didn't, the appliance would kill him He ran back towards the edge as the appliance started moving left ad right, trying to gets its blades to get a cut, using its four small mechanicals to move fast, closing on him rapidly. He was just two feet from the edge of the platform when the blades caught his flak jacket, coming off Darwin and thrown to the side. "My gear." He cried, stopping and looking at the jacket which now laid halfway across the platform. However, this gave the appliance a good distraction, as it used his stop to kick him off the platform with one of its feet. Taken by surprise, he was unable to grab the edge of the platform as he began falling. Luckily, he then grabbed hold of another one of the cables and then stopped. Unfortunately, since he was holding on with both hands, he let go of the iPhone, and it began falling further into the bowels of the beast. "The iPhone!" He shouted in panic, seeing their only hope fall.
Where they were standing, Blaster and Juarez could see the iPhone falling. As she was on the side closest to the falling phone, she instinctively jumped forward, grabbing hold off a cable (with her right hand), using it swing forward below the falling iPhone. She held out her left hand to catch it as it came by her, but shed misjudged its speed, as it went down past her hand before she tried to grab it. "No!" She cried, as she started to swing back to Blaster. When she got close enough, Blaster grabbed her back and pulled her back onto the level mechanism they were standing on. Besides the network core (which was probably the power core for the robot itself), which rested in the centre of the body, the rest of the insides were a huge array of cables, wires and mechanisms, some level, some moving as the robot moved. Meanwhile, the cable holding Darwin must have suddenly snapped from its hold point, as he was now falling straight down further into the body. He screamed while this was happening. Somewhere within sight of Darwin, with the cable right in front of him, Hurley began looking at the two (Darwin and the cable). He looked down and saw the cable was in two halves: The cable next to him was coming up, the other half being weighed down by Darwin. He then had a crazy idea. He looked down at the bit of cake he still held in his hands, brough it up to his head and gave it a little kiss before tossing it aside, before heading for the closer half of the cable.
As Darwin kept falling, Hurley then grabbed the cable with both hands, trying to stop it, but to no avail. Looking down, loosening his grip, he saw that he would soon run out of cable to hold on to. Narrowing his eyes, he then grabbed the cable again, hands gripped more tightly. He also brought his feet to the edge, brought them parallel and lodged them tightly between the cable, stopping it, all together. Darwin stopped falling, hung in the air and continued holding onto the cable. He looked up, and saw Hurley starting to pull the rest of the cable up to him, and the started twirling it around his body. "Hurley, what are you doing?" He asked from where he hung. Hurley looked down at him, still twirling the cable around. "I've got to get you back up there." Hurley answered back. "No, Hurley, don't do it." Darwin said back, realizing what Hurley was going to do, but would likely to kill himself doing that. "No. Listen to me!" Hurley said confidently, looking down at him, eyes narrowed, but Darwin notice Hurley had something on his face and in his voice, he hadn't seen before: bravery. "I admit I messed up earlier. I'm sorry. For everything. You were right. I was lazy, and foolish. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice, especially with the fate of the world hanging on us. You can finish this. I know what I have to do. All I have to do is fall. Anyone can do that." Hurley added, Darwin, his mouth slightly open, was clearly taken back by what he had heard. "Go get him, bro. It's the only waayyyyyy!" Hurley said, that last word he screamed as he then jumped, pulling the cable down, and heavy enough to left Darwin's end back up to the platform. Up and up he went. When he came close to the platform, he saw the point between the two ends of the cable was just above the platform, attached to the domed roof. As he came upon the platform edge, as quick as a flash, he grabbed with his left hand the edge, his right hand letting go of the cable and grabbing the platform. He then looked down. "Hurley!" He cried, seeing Hurley, though quite a distance now, could easily be seen falling downwards, screaming as he fell. Where they stood, Blaster and Juarez saw Hurley fall, then looked at each other. "Coming, Hurleyyyy!" Blaster shouted, as he jumped downwards off the level mechanism, turned his head upwards, then shot his grappling gun at a nearby supporting beam.
Back outside, the giant robot continued its mechanical mayhem. Around it, space junk continued to pound the area, as it walked towards the edge of the garden. SWAT and army men continued to fall back from it, tanks tried firing shells, but they barely made a dent. At that moment fighter jets could heard and seen, firing missiles at the robot, bot they just dented and burned the armour. The robot then brought its hands into a fist and brought its arms up near its chest. As the nearest fighter came up, the robots then brought its left fist down on the jet, exploding as the hand went under. It then started punching other nearby jets as they tried to evade and fly past it. The robot then glared down at a lone tank near its legs that was still firing (the others were still quickly withdrawing from the garden). "THIS IS FOR MY FAMILY!" Speckles voice roared out on the robots PA, before the robot's left leg went upwards, half bent, then suddenly stomped on the tank. The leg retracted a few moments later, the tank remains very similar to the wreckage of the truck the robot stomped earlier. The robot then turned its gaze towards the black command truck, which was parked nearby ahead, and started walking towards it. Inside the truck, agent Killian looked outside one of the side doors windows at the front, seeing the robot standing quite close to the truck, now extending its hand towards the truck. "EVERYBODY HOLD ONNNN!" He shouted to everyone in the back. The tops of the left and right walls then suddenly bent inwards, a loud CLANK! Echoing afterwards. The truck was then suddenly jolted upwards, everyone inside falling to the floor, Marcie screaming hysterically. The back-door half opened, as the robot held the truck in front of its half-domed head.
Inside the cockpit, Darwin was standing on the platform again, facing Speckles, who now had its attention and press the hands buttons, the outward arm (with the truck held by it) staying as it was. "Speckles, if you keep doing this, then you're no better than the people who destroyed your home, and killed your family." Darwin said. "Well, that's kind of the point of what I'm doing here. I lost my family." Speckles replied. But Darwin's, a hint of plea in his eyes wasn't finished. "No, you're wrong. We're your family: Me, and Blaster, and Juarez, and Ben, and Marcie." He added. Hearing this created a sad and emotional look on Speckles's face, all the evilness and anger on it before suddenly evaporating. "Speckles, ben took us all in. When we were given up on, and unwanted by everybody. And he made us a family. We're a family." Darwin added, himself looking a little emotional. Speckles then looked him in the eye, his face very saddened now. Did Darwin detect a tear coming on? "Oh, no. No! What have I done? What have I done?!" Speckles cried; his voice now filled with panic. "All right, stop it." Darwin said, happy he'd gotten Speckles but, he somehow, he already knew the answer. "It can't be stopped. Not until the last bit of space junk's been brought down." Speckles said with regret, shaking his head. "Not even I can stop it." He added. Darwin then spotted something ahead of him, and a smile fumed on his face. "But I can." He then said.
And that's the twelfth chapter done. Hope you enjoyed it. Added a few extra bits, like Hurley's speech before his jump. If you don't know, I got the "This is for my family!" quote from the movie "Spiderman: Far from Home" (2019). Hope you understood how the robot stomped the tank. I had trouble deciding what to say. The next chapter will be out soon.