Chapter Thirteen
Author's Note: Thanks to Toby Hamee and Wraithlord42 for the advice about a thousand words. I'll try to do that now. Unfortunately, I can't do long chappies on 'The Next...' till they get to Chapter 4 or 5. Sorry to Mickiept, Toby, and Wraithlord. Thank you.
I dashed into the passageway as fast as I could. Muscles screaming, Hork- Bajir chasing, Dracon rounds firing, I ran. I was seriously interested in staying alive, and I hoped that when the fighters arrived they wouldn't blow up this base straight away, though if the completion of this mission required my death, then so be it.
I fried several Hork-Bajir with my SD and MOS-2. Though sooner or later it was going to come down blade-to-blade combat.
I dashed along yet another side passage.
Hork-Bajir! About a hundred Hork-Bajir in front, sealing of the passage. More behind.
Trapped! I was trapped! I would not make it!
Then...
TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW!
Shredder fire!
The fighters!
TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! BOOOM!
The ceiling exploded! Huge chunks of debris fell inwards. The passage had been blown wide. My way was no longer blocked. I ran forward for all I was worth. My hearts were throbbing, desperately pumping blood to oxygenate my body.
A massive Hork-Bajir-Controller leapt at me, Dracon beam drawn.
Fwapp! Fwapp!
The Hork-Bajir lost his arm and head.
My SD was telling me that there was general mayhem going on behind me. There were no passages in the base anymore; the entire place seemed to be a large field. I escaped through a large hole in the wall of the superstructure.
Chaos reigned outside as well. Holk using Andalite Shredders, fighters Shredding Controllers and structures, Mleb ship lifting off...
Wait a minute. Mleb ship...?
I gasped. We had expected the ship to be armed with plain old Mleb Nelcox cannon, which are weaker versions of Shredders. The ship wasn't armed with Nelcox cannon, but was equipped with Dracon beams.
In a few moments, the ship would blast off. This whole mission was absolutely pointless.
But I was in a bad mood. I'd been fatigued, betrayed, sliced, burnt, and I was plainly frustrated. That ship WAS NOT GOING TAKE OFF WHILE I WAS ALIVE!!!
Fuming, I pulled out my MSD-100. I put the setting on 'Thermal Scan'.
The Mleb were utterly primitive, even more primitive than the Yeerks. Their ships' engines produced a lot of heat. I easily destroyed them.
The huge ship shuddered once, then plummeted. It collided with the ground and sent a small tremor through the Earth.
Bug Fighters were taking wing, but I was able to destroy a few by putting the setting on 'Shield Penetration' and targeting the Dracon beams. We had set up a signal for me to use, so after a while when I thought it was likely that I might be incapitated, I fired two Shredder beams into the air at an interval of three seconds. A fighter swooped down and picked me up.
When the pilot asked me if I was okay, I nearly tail-whipped him.
Author's Note: The total is 517 words.
Author's Note: Thanks to Toby Hamee and Wraithlord42 for the advice about a thousand words. I'll try to do that now. Unfortunately, I can't do long chappies on 'The Next...' till they get to Chapter 4 or 5. Sorry to Mickiept, Toby, and Wraithlord. Thank you.
I dashed into the passageway as fast as I could. Muscles screaming, Hork- Bajir chasing, Dracon rounds firing, I ran. I was seriously interested in staying alive, and I hoped that when the fighters arrived they wouldn't blow up this base straight away, though if the completion of this mission required my death, then so be it.
I fried several Hork-Bajir with my SD and MOS-2. Though sooner or later it was going to come down blade-to-blade combat.
I dashed along yet another side passage.
Hork-Bajir! About a hundred Hork-Bajir in front, sealing of the passage. More behind.
Trapped! I was trapped! I would not make it!
Then...
TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW!
Shredder fire!
The fighters!
TSEEEWWW! TSEEEWWW! BOOOM!
The ceiling exploded! Huge chunks of debris fell inwards. The passage had been blown wide. My way was no longer blocked. I ran forward for all I was worth. My hearts were throbbing, desperately pumping blood to oxygenate my body.
A massive Hork-Bajir-Controller leapt at me, Dracon beam drawn.
Fwapp! Fwapp!
The Hork-Bajir lost his arm and head.
My SD was telling me that there was general mayhem going on behind me. There were no passages in the base anymore; the entire place seemed to be a large field. I escaped through a large hole in the wall of the superstructure.
Chaos reigned outside as well. Holk using Andalite Shredders, fighters Shredding Controllers and structures, Mleb ship lifting off...
Wait a minute. Mleb ship...?
I gasped. We had expected the ship to be armed with plain old Mleb Nelcox cannon, which are weaker versions of Shredders. The ship wasn't armed with Nelcox cannon, but was equipped with Dracon beams.
In a few moments, the ship would blast off. This whole mission was absolutely pointless.
But I was in a bad mood. I'd been fatigued, betrayed, sliced, burnt, and I was plainly frustrated. That ship WAS NOT GOING TAKE OFF WHILE I WAS ALIVE!!!
Fuming, I pulled out my MSD-100. I put the setting on 'Thermal Scan'.
The Mleb were utterly primitive, even more primitive than the Yeerks. Their ships' engines produced a lot of heat. I easily destroyed them.
The huge ship shuddered once, then plummeted. It collided with the ground and sent a small tremor through the Earth.
Bug Fighters were taking wing, but I was able to destroy a few by putting the setting on 'Shield Penetration' and targeting the Dracon beams. We had set up a signal for me to use, so after a while when I thought it was likely that I might be incapitated, I fired two Shredder beams into the air at an interval of three seconds. A fighter swooped down and picked me up.
When the pilot asked me if I was okay, I nearly tail-whipped him.
Author's Note: The total is 517 words.