Meanwhile in Sydney, Australia
The Super X had finally arrived in Australia and was fully refueled and rearmed. The flying fortress was perched atop a building just outside the area that was mysteriously disintegrated. Tanks and jeeps rolled around on the black earth which was discovered to actually be completely devoid of oxygen, and the oxygen levels in the air were slowly decreasing.
"So what do you think this means?" George suddenly said.
"What does what mean?" Maria inquired.
"I think he's talking about the disintegrated city, or maybe the falling oxygen levels," Tanaka said nonchalantly.
"The oxygen actually," George replied. "I've already developed my own theory on what happened to the city and the fleet. That meteor released some kind of microscopic organism that cut through everything and ate it or burnt it or something like that."
"That doesn't to make much sense," Ryo said.
"Do you being the commander of the engines of on this vessel make much sense? Captain Tanaka could easily take care of that himself," George retorted.
"Actually Mr. Omani is very vital. I give the least orders to him because he knows how to regulate the engines and reactors. He gives the orders to the crew and make it sure I don't have to micromanage that, I can concentrate on flying the X," Tomoyuki explained.
"Maybe you're micro-monsters are eating the oxygen," Maria blurted.
"Or simply destroying it," Tanaka said. "That Armageddon message thing did mention a destroyer of life. Oxygen is very essential to life on Earth, so destroying oxygen is a great way to end life."
"I wonder exactly what they're doing down there anyway?" Ryo blurted.
In what used to be the streets of Sydney around the bay tanks, jeeps, and EDF soldiers roamed. The soldiers held the most powerful rifles in the world, even the world's militaries wasn't allowed to use them.
One squad of soldiers wandered into the basement of some large building. The basement seemed to be a boiler room with bronze tanks and pipes leading to no where. The room was deadly silent; the soldiers' breathing was the only thing they heard in their ears, along with their nervous heartbeats. Suddenly they all jumped when they heard a loud crunch. One soldier held up his foot and saw a crushed red shell.
"What the hell are those!" another soldier exclaimed. They all pointed their rifles in the direction the trooper pointed. Tiny red crabs were appearing out of thin air on the metal floor. On a closer look they noticed red spot collecting and merging into the crustacean like creatures. Soon they too began merging and grew to twice the size of a poodle.
"What do we do commander?"
"Um...." The commander had no idea what should be done. He'd been trained to fight large reptiles, not little mutant crabs, which were now climbing up the walls and tanks and disappearing in the darkness below the ceiling.
"Stay sharp troopers!" the commander said, not knowing what to expect. Everyone kept their rifles pointed to the ceiling, waiting for even bigger crabs to fall down on them. They got worse than what they expected.
Silently a nine meter tall red monster glided down from the ceiling. It had numerous legs protruded from its underside and two stood out, rising from its body just behind from where their neck started. The neck held up a narrow head with flat sides and a small mouth like that of a round claw. Two orange glowing eyes were on either side of the creatures' snout and these glowing eyes were fixated on one soldier on at the edge of the group.
The monster lashed out with its two long limbs, penetrating through the trooper's body and covering its bright red exoskeleton in dark red blood. Everyone turned to the man's scream as the crustacean rose up behind him. It retracted its attacking legs and the soldier fell. Ignoring the other soldiers for now it reaches down and from its mouth came a claw-like tongue. It punched into the soldier's spine and then was back in its mouth.
"Open fire!"
The rifles began spraying bullets made to penetrate the armor of the tanks outside. The monster shrieked an ear-splitting, bone-chilling scream. As its body was cut apart yellow-green blood sprayed out from its wounds, and soon it was a pile of red exoskeleton covered in green goop.
More terrible screams came from behind the squad and they all turned to find two more red monsters dropping from the ceiling. They opened fire upon the crustaceans that were torn apart like the last, but three more came up behind them.
"More over here!" a soldier yelled as two more monsters came rushing from the other end of the room. Another trooper yelled when a red monster came from the side. Soon the soldiers were overrun by the monsters who punched into them with their second claw-mouth.
On the surface the ground began exploding as hundreds of these red crab-like monsters rose up. The barren land became alive with fire and screams from humans and monsters alike. In no time at all the red creatures' outnumbered humans and seemed to keep growing. They even showed a new ability when they fired purple beams from their mouths that vaporized all it touched.
"We need air support, now!" the ground commander called to the Super X.
"In to action we go then. Maria, prepare the plasma bombs and auto- guns. I want anti-personal masers targeting those things to George. Ryo keep the X moving below a hundred miles per hour," Tomoyuki ordered.
"Yes sir!" everyone said in unison as the Super X left it perch. The black airship glided down to the battleground and began dropping the plasma bombs onto crowds of red monsters. The crustaceans were pulverized in the green and orange explosions.
When the monsters were closer to humans' armor piercing shells and blue masers pummeled the alien crabs. The creatures began to scatter and returned underground when the Super X entered the fray. The ground forces began to retreat when the ground once again exploded in nine spots. Rising from these massive new holes rose 100- foot tall versions of the red monsters. "This is kind of new," George said. "Let's keep this relatively simple. Target all weapons on one at a time, that should kill them quickest," Tanaka said. The Super X began hovering in front of one of the monsters while the eight others charged off to confront the army. The giant mutant crustacean growled at the Super X as the flat ends of its head lit up with yellow and purple lighting. The creature opened its claw-like mouth and unleashed a more powerful version of its vaporizing beam. The X's heat shield and armor were powerless against this new attack as it burnt into the aircraft's left wing. "Fire the plasma grenade!" Tanaka ordered. The Super X's nose opened and quickly charged a yellow plasma grenade as the monster recharged its own attack. The grenade fired first and exploded against the creature's red exoskeleton, obliterating it instantly. The other eight were now engaged in fighting with reinforcements. Helicopters and more tanks arrived and where showering the red monsters with missiles and shells. The creatures screamed, but no one could tell if it was in pain or annoyance. They all simultaneously returned the military's fire with their vaporizing beams. In seconds the human opposition was disintegrated. The Super X came up behind them and began firing missiles and masers on the monsters' backs. One exploded before the others dug into the ground. "Not again," Maria moaned. "Ryo, get the Super X up to seven hundred feet, they should put us out of their reach no matter how big they get." Size though wasn't neccasary when the monsters rose up again, this time three. The monster no longer had any legs, but now had wings and long tails with a claw at the end. Their heads were more fearsome now, and their mouths and filled with yellow teeth were horizontal. Two of the monsters flew towards the northeast, while the third charged at the ascending Super X.
"Ryo, full thrust forward," Tanaka ordered. The X sped forward just before the red flying creature hit it. It immediately began pursuing the black aircraft. Its head glowed yellow and purple and it fired a vaporizing beam. This one skimmed the top of the Super X as it began to descend. The monster stayed on the air ships tail until it suddenly stopped. The flying crustacean flew past the flying battle fortress and soon found its back being obliterated by plasma, masers, and missiles. The monster yelled in pain as it glided down to the ground, crashing in the airless land. The creature withered there as the Super X floated down.
"They kept merging to create become bigger and bigger, so there's nothing to say it couldn't do the opposite and then regroup," Tanaka said. "Fire the plasma grenade, and continue firing all weapons until we can be sure that thing is gone."
The Super X's powerful plasma grenade began charging, along with the lasers and masers on the vessel. The energy weapons, rockets, and cannons fired first, drowning the monster in a sea of smoke, dust, and fire. The plasma grenade finally fired and the monster was finally completely vaporized.
"No signs of life left, sir," Ryo said.
"Then its time to get those other monsters," George said enthusiastically.
"Actually we've expended a good deal of energy just now, so recharging the reactor would be a good idea first," Ryo said.
"Besides, they've disappeared into the ocean," Tanaka said, reading a message from a fleet off the northern coast of Australia.
"I wonder how things are going in America," Maria murmured.
The Super X had finally arrived in Australia and was fully refueled and rearmed. The flying fortress was perched atop a building just outside the area that was mysteriously disintegrated. Tanks and jeeps rolled around on the black earth which was discovered to actually be completely devoid of oxygen, and the oxygen levels in the air were slowly decreasing.
"So what do you think this means?" George suddenly said.
"What does what mean?" Maria inquired.
"I think he's talking about the disintegrated city, or maybe the falling oxygen levels," Tanaka said nonchalantly.
"The oxygen actually," George replied. "I've already developed my own theory on what happened to the city and the fleet. That meteor released some kind of microscopic organism that cut through everything and ate it or burnt it or something like that."
"That doesn't to make much sense," Ryo said.
"Do you being the commander of the engines of on this vessel make much sense? Captain Tanaka could easily take care of that himself," George retorted.
"Actually Mr. Omani is very vital. I give the least orders to him because he knows how to regulate the engines and reactors. He gives the orders to the crew and make it sure I don't have to micromanage that, I can concentrate on flying the X," Tomoyuki explained.
"Maybe you're micro-monsters are eating the oxygen," Maria blurted.
"Or simply destroying it," Tanaka said. "That Armageddon message thing did mention a destroyer of life. Oxygen is very essential to life on Earth, so destroying oxygen is a great way to end life."
"I wonder exactly what they're doing down there anyway?" Ryo blurted.
In what used to be the streets of Sydney around the bay tanks, jeeps, and EDF soldiers roamed. The soldiers held the most powerful rifles in the world, even the world's militaries wasn't allowed to use them.
One squad of soldiers wandered into the basement of some large building. The basement seemed to be a boiler room with bronze tanks and pipes leading to no where. The room was deadly silent; the soldiers' breathing was the only thing they heard in their ears, along with their nervous heartbeats. Suddenly they all jumped when they heard a loud crunch. One soldier held up his foot and saw a crushed red shell.
"What the hell are those!" another soldier exclaimed. They all pointed their rifles in the direction the trooper pointed. Tiny red crabs were appearing out of thin air on the metal floor. On a closer look they noticed red spot collecting and merging into the crustacean like creatures. Soon they too began merging and grew to twice the size of a poodle.
"What do we do commander?"
"Um...." The commander had no idea what should be done. He'd been trained to fight large reptiles, not little mutant crabs, which were now climbing up the walls and tanks and disappearing in the darkness below the ceiling.
"Stay sharp troopers!" the commander said, not knowing what to expect. Everyone kept their rifles pointed to the ceiling, waiting for even bigger crabs to fall down on them. They got worse than what they expected.
Silently a nine meter tall red monster glided down from the ceiling. It had numerous legs protruded from its underside and two stood out, rising from its body just behind from where their neck started. The neck held up a narrow head with flat sides and a small mouth like that of a round claw. Two orange glowing eyes were on either side of the creatures' snout and these glowing eyes were fixated on one soldier on at the edge of the group.
The monster lashed out with its two long limbs, penetrating through the trooper's body and covering its bright red exoskeleton in dark red blood. Everyone turned to the man's scream as the crustacean rose up behind him. It retracted its attacking legs and the soldier fell. Ignoring the other soldiers for now it reaches down and from its mouth came a claw-like tongue. It punched into the soldier's spine and then was back in its mouth.
"Open fire!"
The rifles began spraying bullets made to penetrate the armor of the tanks outside. The monster shrieked an ear-splitting, bone-chilling scream. As its body was cut apart yellow-green blood sprayed out from its wounds, and soon it was a pile of red exoskeleton covered in green goop.
More terrible screams came from behind the squad and they all turned to find two more red monsters dropping from the ceiling. They opened fire upon the crustaceans that were torn apart like the last, but three more came up behind them.
"More over here!" a soldier yelled as two more monsters came rushing from the other end of the room. Another trooper yelled when a red monster came from the side. Soon the soldiers were overrun by the monsters who punched into them with their second claw-mouth.
On the surface the ground began exploding as hundreds of these red crab-like monsters rose up. The barren land became alive with fire and screams from humans and monsters alike. In no time at all the red creatures' outnumbered humans and seemed to keep growing. They even showed a new ability when they fired purple beams from their mouths that vaporized all it touched.
"We need air support, now!" the ground commander called to the Super X.
"In to action we go then. Maria, prepare the plasma bombs and auto- guns. I want anti-personal masers targeting those things to George. Ryo keep the X moving below a hundred miles per hour," Tomoyuki ordered.
"Yes sir!" everyone said in unison as the Super X left it perch. The black airship glided down to the battleground and began dropping the plasma bombs onto crowds of red monsters. The crustaceans were pulverized in the green and orange explosions.
When the monsters were closer to humans' armor piercing shells and blue masers pummeled the alien crabs. The creatures began to scatter and returned underground when the Super X entered the fray. The ground forces began to retreat when the ground once again exploded in nine spots. Rising from these massive new holes rose 100- foot tall versions of the red monsters. "This is kind of new," George said. "Let's keep this relatively simple. Target all weapons on one at a time, that should kill them quickest," Tanaka said. The Super X began hovering in front of one of the monsters while the eight others charged off to confront the army. The giant mutant crustacean growled at the Super X as the flat ends of its head lit up with yellow and purple lighting. The creature opened its claw-like mouth and unleashed a more powerful version of its vaporizing beam. The X's heat shield and armor were powerless against this new attack as it burnt into the aircraft's left wing. "Fire the plasma grenade!" Tanaka ordered. The Super X's nose opened and quickly charged a yellow plasma grenade as the monster recharged its own attack. The grenade fired first and exploded against the creature's red exoskeleton, obliterating it instantly. The other eight were now engaged in fighting with reinforcements. Helicopters and more tanks arrived and where showering the red monsters with missiles and shells. The creatures screamed, but no one could tell if it was in pain or annoyance. They all simultaneously returned the military's fire with their vaporizing beams. In seconds the human opposition was disintegrated. The Super X came up behind them and began firing missiles and masers on the monsters' backs. One exploded before the others dug into the ground. "Not again," Maria moaned. "Ryo, get the Super X up to seven hundred feet, they should put us out of their reach no matter how big they get." Size though wasn't neccasary when the monsters rose up again, this time three. The monster no longer had any legs, but now had wings and long tails with a claw at the end. Their heads were more fearsome now, and their mouths and filled with yellow teeth were horizontal. Two of the monsters flew towards the northeast, while the third charged at the ascending Super X.
"Ryo, full thrust forward," Tanaka ordered. The X sped forward just before the red flying creature hit it. It immediately began pursuing the black aircraft. Its head glowed yellow and purple and it fired a vaporizing beam. This one skimmed the top of the Super X as it began to descend. The monster stayed on the air ships tail until it suddenly stopped. The flying crustacean flew past the flying battle fortress and soon found its back being obliterated by plasma, masers, and missiles. The monster yelled in pain as it glided down to the ground, crashing in the airless land. The creature withered there as the Super X floated down.
"They kept merging to create become bigger and bigger, so there's nothing to say it couldn't do the opposite and then regroup," Tanaka said. "Fire the plasma grenade, and continue firing all weapons until we can be sure that thing is gone."
The Super X's powerful plasma grenade began charging, along with the lasers and masers on the vessel. The energy weapons, rockets, and cannons fired first, drowning the monster in a sea of smoke, dust, and fire. The plasma grenade finally fired and the monster was finally completely vaporized.
"No signs of life left, sir," Ryo said.
"Then its time to get those other monsters," George said enthusiastically.
"Actually we've expended a good deal of energy just now, so recharging the reactor would be a good idea first," Ryo said.
"Besides, they've disappeared into the ocean," Tanaka said, reading a message from a fleet off the northern coast of Australia.
"I wonder how things are going in America," Maria murmured.