World Domination
Ch. 14
The creatures emerged from the vents and doors, filling the narrow corridors. Jerome and Melissa moved up next to a wall. Jerome was firing duel magnums, trying to clear a path. This was useless, the creatures kept coming. They had been summoned to the area.
Jerome pulled out his enormous rifle, and fired it into a wall, creating a hole in about a foot of diameter. He then did powerful kicks and widened the whole. "Get in there!" He yelled at Melissa, as he practically threw her beyond the hole. He jumped in next, and held off the creatures. He then ran to a safe. Melissa realized where he had brought the two of them: the armory. Jerome quickly punched in the code, and the safe opened as the creatures began to flush in through the whole. He tossed Melissa an assault rifle.
Melissa was amazed at how she was supposedly captive, and he just tossed her a lethal weapon, and she was clueless to the Golem Soldier Leader's true identity.
"Shoot the bastards!" Jerome roared at her. Melissa made a quick decision between getting eaten by creatures or remaining captive under a madman that was offering her a chance to live.
Melissa put the stock of the assault rifle to her arm and fired the semi- auto weapon. Jerome on the other hand was in the vault, loading himself with ammo and more guns. "Here, try this one."
Jerome tossed a chain gun to Melissa, and she nearly collapsed under its weight when she caught it, and she dropped the assault rifle. Melissa put the shoulder strap around her neck, held the massive gun by her waist, and fired a river of bullets and the never-ending chain of creatures, all coincidently ANMCs, no NMCs.
The creatures began to slowly decline, and by the time Melissa used all the ammo from the chain gun, the creatures had stopped charging. The Golem Leader grabbed the chain gun from her, and put it on a makeshift leg holster, along with a mass amount of other guns that looked like they weighed a combined 300 pounds. He handed Melissa a few clips for the assault rifle, and Melissa took them, and then picked up the assault rifle.
"You stay in front, and remember this. I am part robot, so even if my flesh dies, there is a time spread where I will still have conscious thought and be able to counter any attack you put on." The golem pushed her back into the hallway, this time through the door.
**
"I can't get the lock open!" Harding shouted through the thick steel door.
"Find a way! You're our only chance!" Heston called back from the other side of the door.
"Alright, there are some of those robot guys coming, I'll be back shortly." Harding called through the door.
Harding, instead of heading away, went towards the Golem Soldiers on patrol. There were two of them. Harding armed herself with her assault rifle, and leaned in a notch in the walls, making herself barely visible. At the intersection of the hall, the two Golems walked by as Harding remained hidden. As the two passed, Harding slowly crept out and began following. She aimed for the back of the head on the closest one, when she was struck by an idea.
Seeing that this Golem had a grenade launcher for an arm, and the other had some sort of plasma blade, Harding fired into the back of the golem that had the blade. The other turned and aimed its laser pointer, and fired a series of grenades. It bent over and began reloading as Harding darted off back towards the jail cells, and leaned on the locked doors. The Golem pursued, and she yelled, "Get back from the door!"
The Golem fired the series of grenades again as soon as it had its aim focused on Harding. Unfortunately, Harding hesitated to dodging a little, and was struck indirectly by shrapnel to her lower back. The door collapsed off of its hinges and the troops instantly raced out. They fired into the Golem Soldier, and it fell in seconds.
**
Melissa and Jerome finally found the target. Eve had evolved into the form, which by Jerome's guess would be the form when she attempted to give birth to the Ultimate Being. This would be impossible, for there was nobody to supply her with acceptable semen that wouldn't reject the mitochondria of her own, nor was there genetically engineered sperm that lacked all rebellious tendencies, which Jerome prevented against under the penalty of death.
"Go now, confront her," the golem leader commanded as he silently ducked out of sight. He loaded his anti-tank rifle, and silently checked the scope's alignment.
Melissa hesitantly stepped into the main chamber of the entire compound. Eve had doubled in height, formed massive growths around her abdomen the color of a pie crust, and her arms and hands grew enormously, each hand now containing claws instead of fingers. This was a form never before seen. It was similar to the form Mitochondria Eve once took in 1997, but the differences were apparent.
Eve greeted Melissa with a stern, icy stare that made it seem as if Eve was attempting to read Melissa's mind. "What is it you wish from me, my dear?"
Melissa found it strikingly odd to be called "dear" but she ignored it. "I can't let you do what you are thinking on doing."
"What's that? I'm doing what is destined for mitochondria to do, you once knew this. You once lived this."
Melissa had never thought she would say the statement she said. "I'm a clone! It was not me who did that attack on New York!"
"Who said anything about you? I was referring to your mitochondria. Talking to it. That is what I'm interested in. The host is cloned, this is true, but the mitochondria is and always has been, the same."
Jerome took a silent side step to get in the sight of Eve. He raised his gun, but hesitated on the shot. Melissa was in the center of the cross hair, and something kept him from firing the bullet through her into Eve. It could've been easily done.
Melissa took a step up to Eve, showing no fear now. "You are trying to confuse me, set me off guard. That's not going to happen!"
Melissa raised the assault rifle and fired into Eve. Eve double backed and grabbed Melissa by her face with her enormous hands and squeezed it tightly, then brought Melissa towards her, putting a tremendous strain on Melissa's neck. Melissa faded from consciousness again, and dropped the gun.
Jerome couldn't hesitate no longer. Melissa was being tortured, and he couldn't take the risk of Eve trying to absorb Melissa's potential power. He aimed and took the shot.
The bullet ripped through Melissa's torso with ease, and then easily ripped through Eve's. Eve dropped Melissa's gored body and focused on the point where the shot came from. Jerome quickly reloaded the gun, and then peered through the scope again, but Eve wasn't in his sights. He didn't lower the gun and pursued cautiously into the chamber.
Some sort of portal opened behind him, and Jerome dove out of the way just to avoid a collision with Eve as she rocketed across the room and into another portal. Jerome dropped down to one knee and set up for a direct shot if she tried that again. Eve rose directly behind him from the floor. She made even Jerome look small now as she grabbed the back of his neck and threw him across the large room.
Jerome landed on his back and slid into the wall. Before he even had a chance to realize he landed, he was grabbed at the neck again, this time face to face with Eve, and she smiled a crooked smile at him.
"I could kill you in an instant right now, but that would be too easy. Besides, I've come to realize something. You are the only living male on this planet that has the power to endure these conditions I set out to protect myself. And I'm sure that the people who turned you into this hideous robotic form kept you anatomically correct. What I'm trying to get to here is, you will be the one and only father of my child. The child that will become the undisputed leader for all eternity."
Jerome smiled back. "I'm sorry, but I've already taken the position of ruler of this planet."
Jerome used his strength to point the barrel of his rifle upwards, and he pulled the trigger. Eve's face ripped into shreds from the blast, and she released Jerome as she collapsed to the ground. Jerome felt the barrier preventing normal humans to enter the complex fall, and he radioed to Peterson to come and clean up the mess.
For the first time since his operation to form him into a Golem Soldier, Jerome Michaels became exhausted, and gradually drifted into sleep.
Ch. 14
The creatures emerged from the vents and doors, filling the narrow corridors. Jerome and Melissa moved up next to a wall. Jerome was firing duel magnums, trying to clear a path. This was useless, the creatures kept coming. They had been summoned to the area.
Jerome pulled out his enormous rifle, and fired it into a wall, creating a hole in about a foot of diameter. He then did powerful kicks and widened the whole. "Get in there!" He yelled at Melissa, as he practically threw her beyond the hole. He jumped in next, and held off the creatures. He then ran to a safe. Melissa realized where he had brought the two of them: the armory. Jerome quickly punched in the code, and the safe opened as the creatures began to flush in through the whole. He tossed Melissa an assault rifle.
Melissa was amazed at how she was supposedly captive, and he just tossed her a lethal weapon, and she was clueless to the Golem Soldier Leader's true identity.
"Shoot the bastards!" Jerome roared at her. Melissa made a quick decision between getting eaten by creatures or remaining captive under a madman that was offering her a chance to live.
Melissa put the stock of the assault rifle to her arm and fired the semi- auto weapon. Jerome on the other hand was in the vault, loading himself with ammo and more guns. "Here, try this one."
Jerome tossed a chain gun to Melissa, and she nearly collapsed under its weight when she caught it, and she dropped the assault rifle. Melissa put the shoulder strap around her neck, held the massive gun by her waist, and fired a river of bullets and the never-ending chain of creatures, all coincidently ANMCs, no NMCs.
The creatures began to slowly decline, and by the time Melissa used all the ammo from the chain gun, the creatures had stopped charging. The Golem Leader grabbed the chain gun from her, and put it on a makeshift leg holster, along with a mass amount of other guns that looked like they weighed a combined 300 pounds. He handed Melissa a few clips for the assault rifle, and Melissa took them, and then picked up the assault rifle.
"You stay in front, and remember this. I am part robot, so even if my flesh dies, there is a time spread where I will still have conscious thought and be able to counter any attack you put on." The golem pushed her back into the hallway, this time through the door.
**
"I can't get the lock open!" Harding shouted through the thick steel door.
"Find a way! You're our only chance!" Heston called back from the other side of the door.
"Alright, there are some of those robot guys coming, I'll be back shortly." Harding called through the door.
Harding, instead of heading away, went towards the Golem Soldiers on patrol. There were two of them. Harding armed herself with her assault rifle, and leaned in a notch in the walls, making herself barely visible. At the intersection of the hall, the two Golems walked by as Harding remained hidden. As the two passed, Harding slowly crept out and began following. She aimed for the back of the head on the closest one, when she was struck by an idea.
Seeing that this Golem had a grenade launcher for an arm, and the other had some sort of plasma blade, Harding fired into the back of the golem that had the blade. The other turned and aimed its laser pointer, and fired a series of grenades. It bent over and began reloading as Harding darted off back towards the jail cells, and leaned on the locked doors. The Golem pursued, and she yelled, "Get back from the door!"
The Golem fired the series of grenades again as soon as it had its aim focused on Harding. Unfortunately, Harding hesitated to dodging a little, and was struck indirectly by shrapnel to her lower back. The door collapsed off of its hinges and the troops instantly raced out. They fired into the Golem Soldier, and it fell in seconds.
**
Melissa and Jerome finally found the target. Eve had evolved into the form, which by Jerome's guess would be the form when she attempted to give birth to the Ultimate Being. This would be impossible, for there was nobody to supply her with acceptable semen that wouldn't reject the mitochondria of her own, nor was there genetically engineered sperm that lacked all rebellious tendencies, which Jerome prevented against under the penalty of death.
"Go now, confront her," the golem leader commanded as he silently ducked out of sight. He loaded his anti-tank rifle, and silently checked the scope's alignment.
Melissa hesitantly stepped into the main chamber of the entire compound. Eve had doubled in height, formed massive growths around her abdomen the color of a pie crust, and her arms and hands grew enormously, each hand now containing claws instead of fingers. This was a form never before seen. It was similar to the form Mitochondria Eve once took in 1997, but the differences were apparent.
Eve greeted Melissa with a stern, icy stare that made it seem as if Eve was attempting to read Melissa's mind. "What is it you wish from me, my dear?"
Melissa found it strikingly odd to be called "dear" but she ignored it. "I can't let you do what you are thinking on doing."
"What's that? I'm doing what is destined for mitochondria to do, you once knew this. You once lived this."
Melissa had never thought she would say the statement she said. "I'm a clone! It was not me who did that attack on New York!"
"Who said anything about you? I was referring to your mitochondria. Talking to it. That is what I'm interested in. The host is cloned, this is true, but the mitochondria is and always has been, the same."
Jerome took a silent side step to get in the sight of Eve. He raised his gun, but hesitated on the shot. Melissa was in the center of the cross hair, and something kept him from firing the bullet through her into Eve. It could've been easily done.
Melissa took a step up to Eve, showing no fear now. "You are trying to confuse me, set me off guard. That's not going to happen!"
Melissa raised the assault rifle and fired into Eve. Eve double backed and grabbed Melissa by her face with her enormous hands and squeezed it tightly, then brought Melissa towards her, putting a tremendous strain on Melissa's neck. Melissa faded from consciousness again, and dropped the gun.
Jerome couldn't hesitate no longer. Melissa was being tortured, and he couldn't take the risk of Eve trying to absorb Melissa's potential power. He aimed and took the shot.
The bullet ripped through Melissa's torso with ease, and then easily ripped through Eve's. Eve dropped Melissa's gored body and focused on the point where the shot came from. Jerome quickly reloaded the gun, and then peered through the scope again, but Eve wasn't in his sights. He didn't lower the gun and pursued cautiously into the chamber.
Some sort of portal opened behind him, and Jerome dove out of the way just to avoid a collision with Eve as she rocketed across the room and into another portal. Jerome dropped down to one knee and set up for a direct shot if she tried that again. Eve rose directly behind him from the floor. She made even Jerome look small now as she grabbed the back of his neck and threw him across the large room.
Jerome landed on his back and slid into the wall. Before he even had a chance to realize he landed, he was grabbed at the neck again, this time face to face with Eve, and she smiled a crooked smile at him.
"I could kill you in an instant right now, but that would be too easy. Besides, I've come to realize something. You are the only living male on this planet that has the power to endure these conditions I set out to protect myself. And I'm sure that the people who turned you into this hideous robotic form kept you anatomically correct. What I'm trying to get to here is, you will be the one and only father of my child. The child that will become the undisputed leader for all eternity."
Jerome smiled back. "I'm sorry, but I've already taken the position of ruler of this planet."
Jerome used his strength to point the barrel of his rifle upwards, and he pulled the trigger. Eve's face ripped into shreds from the blast, and she released Jerome as she collapsed to the ground. Jerome felt the barrier preventing normal humans to enter the complex fall, and he radioed to Peterson to come and clean up the mess.
For the first time since his operation to form him into a Golem Soldier, Jerome Michaels became exhausted, and gradually drifted into sleep.