Agent Di in "Attack of the Saucers from Glorp!" Part 4
"Oh this is just great," Di murmured as she crawled through the damp pipe with Chase trailing behind her a little too close for comfort. 'Ugh,' she could even feel his breath on the back of her legs, she really hoped that skirt was long enough!
"I can't believe we haven't spotted that thing yet," Chase grumbled, "not that this view is bad or anything." he added beneath his breath.
Di blushed and sped up, the pipe wasn't large enough to stand upright in without slouching over and she had a feeling that that position wouldn't be any better. Just her luck that she'd get paired up with a hopeless romantic and adventure starved alien!
"Wait," he grabbed her ankle.
'I'm gonna kill him if he thinks about…' Di began to think angrily.
"Did you hear that?" he whispered. Di stopped to listen, she did hear something strange echoing through the pipe.
"Maybe it's the creature," she muttered, "let's bust it and get outta here!"
The odd noise grew louder, whatever it was, it was getting closer. Chase still had a hold of Di's ankle when he suddenly screamed out in pain.
"Chase!!!" Di shrieked as he was quickly jerked away, dragging her along.
Di fumbled for her blaster but, just her luck, she dropped it! "Di! Shoot it!"
"I can't reach my weapon!" she yelled back as she was yanked further and further away from her gun. "Chase, let go!"
He didn't seem to hear her, "Chase! Let! Me! Go!!!"
That time he heard her and released her ankle, Di struggled to get back on her knees and crawled towards her blaster, once she had it she spun around to shoot the…thing, but it and her partner had vanished!
"Chase?!" Di could hear the faint sounds of screaming and gnawing. "CHASE!"
She scrambled to her feet and slumped forward made her way down into the dark recesses of the pipe towards the sounds. She spotted her partner near a tear on the side of the pipe and the dim light that shown through illuminated his terrified face as he struggled against the black creature, the size of a Baruga, looming over him, chewing on his foot, or at least the shoe of his human suit. Di wasn't the type to act like one of those pathetic women in a horror flick but before she could think of how stupid it would be in the situation, she screamed.
This not only caught Chase's attention but the attention of the creature as well. Big mistake. 'Oh that was so stupid!' Di scolded herself and took off back down the pipe, but, big surprise, the creature was faster. "Aaahhh!!!!"
Di was tackled and felt the creature's fangs dig into her flesh, piercing the think material of her jacket.
"Di!"
"Little help here Wrangler!!!" Di cringed as the creature on her back tugged at her shoulder, 'This hurts!' she thought while clenching her teeth.
A blast knocked the creature off Di and sent it tumbling down the pipe a little ways. "C'mon Di!" Chase shouted helping her to her feet, "We gotta get out of here!" he motioned towards the tear in the pipe, intent on blasting his way through it.
"Oh great." Di murmured as something growled in the shadows.
"What?" Chase demanded between blasts, supporting her with his arm around her waist.
"Itttt'ssss baaaccckkk!"
The creature lunged from the darkness and tackled the pair of agents, Chase was on top of Di making it difficult for her to breathe, "Get off!" she squealed trying to inhale.
"I can't." he yelled, "The thing's on top of me!" and it was crushing his spine.
"I'm beginning to think I should've taken that job at the nuclear power plant," Di groaned, "much better for your health."
She was pulling out her blaster as she talked, "Take this you pathetic piece of space trash!"
"HEY!" Chase snapped.
"Not you!" Di made a move to fire over his shoulder, not easy in her position, "Crap!"
"What?" Chase's spine couldn't take much more abuse, he was strong but not indestructible.
"It's jammed!" Di spat, "The darn thing won't fire!"
"Perfect," Chase laughed sarcastically, "we're gonna die Di!"
Di forced herself to turn over under Chase, "Uh Di," he blushed, "I'm real flattered that you wanna go this way but-"
"Oh you are such a male!" Di snapped and reached into his jacket, pulling out his icer.
"Oh yeah," he laughed, "forgot about that."
Di rolled her eyes and took aim at the creature, making a mental note to haunt the weapons designer if this thing jammed, "Now as I was saying, freeze space trash!"
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Zed waited in his office for some word from the two new field agents. They'd been gone for quite some time and it didn't seem like it should've been this long without some word. He looked at his communications screen and decided to contact them, "This is odd," he said to himself, "no signal??"
Just then his door swung open and a large alien ice sculpture slid across his office floor. "What the--"
"Here you are Sir," Di panted as she and Chase stumbled into his office and collapsed in the chairs in front of his desk, "we, uh, caught the creature."
"And came out the worse for the wear I see," Zed examined the two shambled agents and surveying their ripped clothing and bloody patches on their bodies (even Chase's wound was exposed through his ripped human suit) decided to send them down to the lab for immediate medical attention.
"Just a scratch in the line of duty Sir," Chase said proudly, "we uh, would've called but our communicators kinda got banged up in the struggle."
Zed cocked an eyebrow and sent the next paper pusher that entered his office to get a containment crew up there for the frozen alien. "Looks like a Yitile," Zed murmured, "their real killers you know."
"We know!" they both chorused angrily.
Zed chuckled and sent them down to the lab, "Go get cleaned up you two, and after you finish the paperwork you can report back to my office for your next assignment."
Di and Chase moaned and sluggishly dragged themselves out of Zed's office, Chase limping and Di grumbling amusing little complaints about their brush with death.
Zed's amusement was short lived when Kay suddenly contacted him via his communicator, "What is it Kay?"
"Just thought you might like to know that we've got some unexpected company Zed." Kay replied in his usual flat tone.
"Great," Zed sighed, "and who are the uninvited guests this time?"
"You're gonna love this," Kay stepped back so that Zed could have a clear view of the wreckage behind him.
"Good grief Kay it looks like a war zone there, Central Park?" Kay nodded and Zed noticed something else, something unusual, something he hadn't seen in ages and had hoped never to see again, "Sweet rings of Saturn," he gasped looking at the odd shaped saucers amidst the rubble, "the Glorps!"
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