Chapter: 20 A plan
We finally landed about twenty miles away from the alien ship. The sun was now coming up. It didn't really fit the mood we were in right now. We all got up from where we were sitting and got out of the jet.
Link didn't really want to get out. Monger told us he could stay in there until he felt better.
I wiped my wet face with my sleeve and gazed out at the far away alien ship. Dark clouds swirled around where the ship was lightning cracked the sky. I could still hear the alien ship shooting at the base, or was it thunder? It didn't matter.
"I knew someday this would happen, so the government decided to create a second base if anything ever happened to the first base," announced Monger as he walked up to a rock that was as tall as him. He pressed it and then a password keyboard appeared. Monger pressed in the numbers and letters. The board disappeared and then the ground started to rumble. The ground gave away and revealed a huge, gigantic secret passage. Stairs led the way down.
We followed Monger down the secret passage. It was very dark inside. Then Monger flipped a switch. The second secret base was almost identical to the first one but not as…advanced. We could easily get out of our cells and not even be seen by security or any guards. "I'm sorry if it's not as glamorous as the first one but it will have to do," Monger announced as he showed us our rooms.
Then Monger turned on the computers, which were like the first computers ever made. It was really sad to see this, and how we all had to re live our prison life again. The huge room's white paint was peeling off and the windows were dusty from not being washed. Cobwebs hung in corners of the walls.
"Some food is in the freezer down the hall if you guys are hungry," Monger told us. B.O.B. yelled excitedly, "Yes!" and ran to the freezer.
Doc, Susan, and I followed after him.
B.O.B. opened the freezer and a wave of cold air hit us. Doc took a couple steps back. B.O.B. went into the freezer and went to the racks, and racks of meat. He grabbed a hanging ham and digested it.
"Shouldn't you cook it first?" asked Susan as she looked at B.O.B. with a disgusted look on her face. B.O.B. just kept eating.
"I don't think it really matters Susan, for a blob, its just food," said Doc. as we watched B.O.B. eat some more meat.
Doc, Susan, B.O.B. and I sat in the big room.
Susan picked at the old paint on the walls. When they fluttered to the floor B.O.B. cleaned them up like a vacuum cleaner…or a really wet mop. Doc and I just watched.
We didn't say anything to each other. We were still mourning over our lost friend and how we were going to take down those aliens at the first base. A lot of questions ran through my mind:
How did they know where the secret base was?
Why are they doing this to us?
Why the Mother Ship?
"I need some air," I finally said. I got up and walked out of the big room and walked up the stairs to outside.
The day has already gone by. The sun was setting where the Mother Ship was. The dark, swirling clouds were still over the hovering ship. I then saw Link sitting on a hill looking at the mother ship.
A breeze came up and moved his back fins a bit. I hesitated. Then walked up to him and sat down next to him.
He didn't say anything.
I looked up to him and saw he had a stern face while glaring at the ship.
I also looked at the Mother Ship.
"I'm sorry," I said to him.
He sighed.
"It was either him, or all of us," he finally said without looking at me. We sat in silence for a bit, looking at the alien ship. Another cold breeze went through and teased my hair and Link's fins.
My ears twitched in the breeze.
"So, what do we do now?" I asked him.
He didn't say anything for a minute, until he finally said, "We are going to fight those aliens…for Insecto…"
I looked at him. I've never seen this side of Link before. It was like he got hit by a lightning bolt or something.
"How?" I asked him.
He got up and still glared at the alien ship.
"I have a plan," he said.
Then turned and left me sitting on the hill.