DISCLAIMER: o0o0o for once I'm not gonna make a stupid disclaimer. I gotta be fast.
NOTE: I just want to tell you all that I did NOT do spellcheck on this. I'm in a rush to get this finished cuz I'm not going to be here for week, but I didn't want to make anyone wait so. . .here you go. If the spelling, grammar, and weird words bother you, I'll redo this when I get back. But for now, see what you can make sense out of all this.
F-RECAP-LE: No more Nisk rebels. After they escaped (due to the heroic demis of Pickles) the base was flooded and they high-tailed it outta there. Then they figured out a"plan". What plan, do you ask? Well. The best plan they could come up with given the amount of time they have left. And the best plan Freak Apple could think of while eating a Cinnabon.
Marco –
I squinted at Jake after he told us his brilliant plan. As far as I was concerned, even Rachel could have thought of a safer one.
Jake, apparently us DYING isn't an issue here. I said. Are you insane?
Well, Marky, do you have a better solution that could possibly get our butts out of here in a couple minutes? Rachel dared. If she was human, I bet her eyes would be glittering right now.
That's not even a PLAN! That's just running into an enemy army base and beating a tank with a stick, hoping it explodes! Just because you're nuts, Rachel -
Marco, we've got NO TIME for this. We can't do anything else. Tobias said forcefully. It caught me off guard. Tobias is usually soft-spoken. Maybe it's because I called his girl nuts. Whatever. Clearly, we were doing this.
Fine. But for the record: This. Is. Completely -
-Insane. Jake finished for me. Yeah, yeah. Alright Ern, if your up for it. . .
Up for it? Ern asked, confused.
Prince Jake wishes to know you are willing to go along with his plan. Ax explained.
Ah. I am. Ern confirmed. We started to descend into the Nisk base. It seemed oddly quiet. And I've been conditioned to think "oddly quiet" meant "trap".
Dude, does Motroveld know. . .I mean, is he waiting for us? I asked Ern. He looked at me.
He is will be waiting to brief me on how the raid on the rebel base went. Ern said. According to the plan -
You mean screwed up massacre in the making. I corrected.
- I will say it was successful and we have captured the rebel combins. They will come with me as evidence.
Okay. Jake said. Ax, time check?
Eighteen minutes. Ax said. I groaned.
Shut up, Marco. Rachel said. Well, then, let's do it.
Ern gave us last minute directions and he opened a hatch and made his way out with the combins and Kevin. Bobby shuffled out, pushed along by a Pemalite-combin. I think it's name was Steve or Joey or something.
Hey Rachel, what possessed you to give them names like that, anyway? I asked to lighten the mood. We were all demorphing.
Well - her face became human. "What would YOU have named them, Mr. Pain in the Butt?"
"I don't know. Like Ice or Gangsta G or something." The others stared at me increduously. Kevin snorted.
"Thank God it was Rachel and Cassie and not you, then." Jake quipped.
"Oh and speaking of names, Rashy. . ."
Okay, guys, um, seriously. NO TIME. Tobias said nervously.
"Rashy - ?"
"Later."
I morphed into the disturbing Nisk morph with Ax and Tobias. Jake went tiger and Rachel went elephant. Rachel had to leave the tiny ship to complete her morph. The entire bay was empty, which led me to believe that all the Nisk wre having some sort of "genetic mad scientist convention".
Alright you guys, you're up.
Rachel managed to place the still-unconsious Casseratops on her back. She had to be there when we blew up Motroveld. Assuming this kamikaze "plan" worked, anyway, we all had to be in close proximity. Jake and Rachel were to hang low, and try not to get noticed. Are you seeing the deep, gaping flaws in our plan yet? But we really had nothing to lose at this point. They stood in a corner with Kevin. We still didn't know what to do with him, but one problem at a time.
Which way did Ern say we go again? I asked Ax.
This way. he skittered in front of Tobias and me. We followed him through a set of shwooping hatches and into the now-familiar bright white hallways.
We should hug the base of the wall. Try to get noticed as little as possible. Tobias suggested. We did that. We walked for a while when I realized that was really really taking a very long time.
Ax are you sure we're going the right way? Ern said it was a couple seconds away!
Um. . . Ax started. I knew this was not good. Ax never said "um".
Are we lost, Ax? Tobias said a little shrilly.
No, it's just. . .I suspect Ern meant a "couple seconds" as a large body, not as individual Nisk. The larger bodies are infinitely larger, thus has larger strides. . .
Are you telling me this could take forever!? I demanded.
No, not forever. . .
You know what I mean.
Ah, well, then yes, perhaps in the popular human meaning of "forever". . .
Geez. . .
Hey, you notice there aren't any Nisk around right now? Tobias said.
Yeah. They're probably having some big victory meeting or something.
Well then, I go hawk and fly us to Motroveld. Tobais said. I felt him already demorphing. When he was done I felt a long talon as big as a bridge calbe sweep under me and lift me up. On another nail sat Ax.
Thank you for flying Red-tailed Airlines. Please keep all legs, stinging parts, and body segments inside while the hawk is in motion. Thank you. Ax said.
Um, Ax. Shh, please. I said.
Tobias tried his best to look like he belonged there while he flew us. Thankfully, no Nisk were in sight. That fact was getting me a little edgy. But as soon as Tobias reached the door, he had to demorph. We prepared to enter a room filled with Nisk and a radioactive monster.
Ax entered first. Tobias went after him, and after a few deep breaths and a promise to God that if I made it alive I'd stop bothering Rachel, I reluctantly skittered in after them. I remembered this was were we were first dragged. Everything in the room was irrelevant to me. All I saw were two things. One, the switch panel that opened the large door leading directly to the docking bay where Rachel, Jake, Cassie, and Kevin were waiting. Second, a huge, glowing, lump of a monster with blue pus leaking from its mouth that would make Jabba the Hut run crying to his mommy. Motroveld.
This is not going to work. I said quietly.
Shut up, Marco. Tobias said in a Rachel-like tone.
Billions of Nisk blanketed the floors and even Motroveld himself. Motroveld's many tentacles were swirling around the relatively dark cavern. He seemed to be enjoying whatever Ern, who I saw clearly with the rebel combins, was telling him. The combins were all restrained by thin-looking filaments and several million Nisk. My mind was going numb with panic, but I caught some of what Ern was saying.
THE REBELS HAVE BEEN DEFEATED! YOUR LOYAL NISK HAVE AVENGED YOU! Ern said gloriously. I heard Bobby give a very audible snort.
A tentacle whipped around Bobby's neck.
Bobby! I cried.
Marco, come one, all three of us need to do this. Tobias urged. We reached the switch panel unnoticed. There were three holes.
We each go into a separate one and activate the switches at the same time. Ax reminded us of Ern's instructions. I chose the middle hole and found out that it was a lot deeper than it looked. At the end of "tunnel" was a large blue pad with several dents in it. I placed one foot on one dent and it stuck like fly-paper.
Weird. I commented. I placed the rest of my feet on the dents except one, which I would place when Tobias gave the signal. We all had to do it at the same time.
Ready? Tobias asked. On the count of three. One. . .Two. . .THREE!
I whipped my last leg up and placed it were it belonged.
SWOOSH! The door opened to the docking bay. I felt about a trillion heads turn in our direction.
Jake and Rachel stormed in, with Cassie and Kevin on their backs. Bobby miraculously broke free of his bindings and declared NO MORE ENSLAVEMENT! The other combins also started to struggle. Commence Plan A: beat the crap out of everyone til something blows up.
All the Nisk seemed to be bustling in confusion.
Okay we go and join Jake and Rachel. Now! Tobias yelled. We dove out of our respective holes and proceeded to demorph, not caring who saw us.
Twelve minutes! Ax cried.
Rachel dropped Kevin and Cassie to the side. Kevin hid behind Cassie's limp body. Then she and Jake stormed towards Motroveld. The combins and Bobby began to fight off Nisk who had finally caught on that their master was in danger. Motroveld stared at us with his four eyes, but he seemed to not care. Without warning two tentacles whipped toward Rachel and lifted her up, stopping her charge. Only one tentacle was need to stop Jake. They struggled furiously.
I cursed. Many times. I knew this was going to happen. But how could this NOT happen?
Okay, Plan A obviously didn't work! I cried from my half-rhino body.
We can't get to his belly, there are too many tentacles! Rachel cried.
The combins were fighting for Motroveld's belly too, but they met the same fate as Rachel and Jake. They were dangled in the air.
Okay, our turn. I muttered. I charged my big rhino horn towards the Motroveld. I saw one disgusting eyeball focus on me. His other eyes were being clawed at desperately by a swinging Jake. Rachel, whose elephant body wasn't as agile, was just thrashing in an attempt to get Motroveld to drop her.
The Nisk had their little torture guns aimed at me. I knew I was about to be screwed.
I tried my best to make a big frustrated roar or something. Turns out rhinos can't do that, and I ended up giving a long snort and grunt. A Nisk fired and my legs gave way. My thick hide meant nothing, as those weapons worked on dinosaurs and despite my rep on Earth, I was a baby here.
AAHH! Ax was captured. Again, his flailing tail didn't even leave a mark on the thick tentacles. Tobias was making more progress than any of us. He was a Hork-Bajir. Hork-Bajir were naturally arboreal and he was swinging Motroveld's arms like a monkey. A gruesome, deadly, bladed monkey.
Go Tobias! I cried as Nisk started to envelop me. The stinging began, but I barely felt it. All my attention was focused on Tobias, the only one of us left.
GET HIM! a Nisk creature screeched as he aimed. I saw Ern swiftly dive at it and they all scattered.
Tobias was nimbly dodging all of Motroveld's assaults while the others were being swung around like a crazy carousel from Hades. He was almost there. . .a few more feet and he would reach the exposed belly. . .
HAH! A Nisk crowed. It had fired. And it hit.
NOO! Rachel yelled. Tobias collapsed and was engulfed in Nisk like.me.
That was it. . .we were all dead. Ax didn't need to tell us how much time we had left. I knew how much we had left. Zero. . .
But out of the corner of my eye I saw Kevin, his red shirt contrasting with everything else around me. He was slamming something against Cassie's head. I had the urge to tell him to leave her alone, but the pain was starting to take it's toll. No use.
Suddenly Kevin was thrown back about six feet.
What the hell? Jake yelled.
Cassie, or Casseratops, had regained consciouness, thanks to Kevin. Her head was leaking blood, but she didn't look hurt. She looked mad.
Holy crap. I muttered.
Then Kevin began to run wildly toward us. He held his hands over his face and just stumbled across the sea of Nisk. Motroveld looked amused at the weaponless human. Until he saw that the Casseratops was rumbling after him.
Watch out! Jake yelled as the Nisk took aim.
She's a combin! It won't work! Ax yelled back. It was true, Cassie wasn't paying attention to anyone but Kevin. This dino wanted revenge for being bashed in the head. And as far as she was concerned, she was going to get it.
FWAPP!
A tentacle swept down and knocked Kevin over. He scrambled closer to Motroveld.
FWAPP!
Motroveld was trying to swat Kevin away from him, to divert the raging combin! Kevin did not stop, he continued to make towards Motroveld, despite what looked like a broken leg. Finally Motroveld gave up and reached for Cassie. But it was too late. A predator's fury can never be stopped until it gets what it wants. Kevin was practically pressed up against Motroveld. The Nisk were firing at him now. Motroveld's tentacle swooped Cassie up, but she let out a cry of rage.
Oh my God, Cassie! Rachel gasped.
Cassie lunged forward desperately trying to bite off Kevin's head. But Kevin collapsed under all the shots from the Nisk, so she missed. Instead her long sharp fangs planted themselves deep into Motroveld's glowing stomach.
There was an unnerving silence for about a billionth of a second. Then –
RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
The universe exploded.
- - Heeee! Alrighty then. Not much to say except. . .Bye! See you in a week! Oh and Review please. . .Aw Flooty, I forgot bout the Happy Korner. . .How bout I do that in the next chapter That okay? Gotta go0o. . .