Sink The Allentown
To todd fan: Hey there todd fan! Glad to see you'll be updating your stuff soon! I'm very glad you liked the last chapter! My sister goes out shopping all the time. Enjoy the new chapter, and I can hardly wait for new chapters of "Slugs and Snails", "Little Shop of Mutants", and "X-Men: Evolution, the Musical"!
To Red Witch: Hey there, Red Witch! I just read the new chapter of your new fics "Memories Are Made of This" and "Valor, Venom, and Other Stuff" and I loved them! Looks like we are going to have some crazy rides down the way! Penny ate the chart. PENNY ATE THE CHART! Can you please send me a copy! I'm really confused! Anyway, your new stuff sounds like such fun! Enjoy the new chapter!
To Firefly25: Hey there Firefly! Actually, I think the vessel is a Cobra Moray. Yes, you'll get to see the Triton BATs in this story for the first time, yay! I don't think it really matters where the Firebats come from at this point. Yes, it is a surprise to see Whithalf first noticing and reacting to danger. All in all, I'm glad you liked the last chapter, enjoy the new chapter, and I can hardly wait to beta-read the next chapter of "Reindeer Flotilla"!
To Raliena: Hey there, Rae! I'm glad you liked the last chapter! Oh brother. Sounds like your teacher really doesn't like fanfiction. I'll see if I can send the Misfits over! Anyway, enjoy the new chapter!
Author's Note: Thanks to Firefly25 for suggesting the idea of the Triton BATs. They're going to debut in this chapter!
Disclaimer: "King Kong ain't got squat on me!" - Denzel Washington, Training Day (I saw the movie on TV and that's how it was dubbed. It made me laugh)
Chapter 4: Turning Traitor!
A shipyard in San Francisco, California
"WAHHHHH!" Siryn used her sonic screech in her attack on the numerous amounts of Firebats. Backing her up in the air was Thunderbolt and Sunfire. Thunderbolt was using various constructs made of electrical power to trap the planes. Sunfire was hitting them with streams of fiery plasma.
"What does Cobra want here!" Sunfire growled as he smashed a Firebat's jet with a solar fireball.
"Maybe they wanted to protest the Allentown's scrapping, Sushi. That captain sure raised a stink about it. Made the Thunderbolt want to smack him in the mouth, if you smell what the Thunderbolt is cookin'!" Kyle quipped as he trashed a Firebat with a steel chair made of electricity, then nailed another one with an electrical pulse, causing its systems to go dead and to crash into the water.
It makes no sense at all. Siryn thought to herself as she blasted at a Firebat with her sonic wail. Why in the name of God would Cobra be here! The only thing special about the Allentown is the fact that it's an old ship. It has no strategic value, no special new wondrous feature or anything, so what are they after? Meanwhile, the military police posted to the area were fighting Cobra' ground troops alongside Velocity, Dazzler, and Thunderbird. The ground troops were BATs, robotic troopers who were programmed to do only one thing, blast everything within sight.
"These are some weird-looking robots!" John Proudstar noted as he tore one BAT's head off. "They definitely don't look like the normal BATs." Thunderbird noted that these BAT's black coloration was replaced with blue with green highlights, painted with thin black lines to make them look like they had scales. Their arms, legs, and heads were decorated with fins that had small motors built into them. Their heads also had fins that made them look like they had Mohawks. Their feet had built-in retractable flippers. Mounted on their arms were small machine guns with built-in retractable harpoon launchers, and they had manta ray-shaped backpacks with torpedoes under the wings. "These things look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon or something!" The Apache mutant grumbled as he caught a harpoon and yanked on the steel cable it was attached to, causing the fish-like BAT that fired it to fly into John's fist.
"I think they may be adapted for underwater use." Alison Blaire suggested as she dodged some laser fire from one fish-like BAT and blasted it and several more with light beams. "Certainly would explain the whole fish theme to them." Meanwhile, Destro's Moray, raced towards the Allentown, kept invisible by its cloaking shield. Another squad of the new fish-like BATs climbed on board the ship. During the battle, Admiral Jones got tossed overboard. General Whithalf was using one of the Allentown's gun turrets to attack the strange new BATs.
"YAHOO!" General Whithalf whooped as he blasted the androids. "TAKE THAT, YOU HUNKS OF SCRAP METAL! OH, I LOVE THE SMELL OF EXPLODED COBRAS IN THE MORNING! I FEEL LIKE I'M 18 AGAIN! YEAH!" However, the numbers game eventually caught up with the old general. "Uh oh! I'd better get out of here!" Whithalf was forced to flee, even though he didn't want to. He raced towards the control room. It was empty, except for a chair with the back of it turned to him. "Larson! Please! You have to help me! You have to stop these Cobras! You have to join the fight!"
"Oh really?" A familiar voice said. The chair turned around, revealing Destro. "On which side?" Whithalf's face turned to shock.
"Destro!" Whithalf snapped at the arms dealer. "What're you doing here on this ship? Where's Admiral Larson? What have you done with him?"
"Why don't you ask him?" Destro smirked. Whithalf heard the click of a gun from behind. He turned around and saw Admiral Larson pointing his gun at him.
"Here I am." Larson said flatly.
"Gerard…" Whithalf said in shock. "Why?"
"For the Allentown, that's why." Larson replied. "Those ingrates down there want to turn this old girl into scrap metal just because she's not some state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line craft! This ship served its country for over half a century, and it doesn't get to go into a museum, it gets turned into tin cans! That's not how I want this ship to end its career! I do not want the Allentown to become some hunk of rust waiting to sink at last in a junkyard! I am willing to do anything to save the Allentown, even if…even if it means joining Cobra to protect it."
"Gerard…you can't…you can't do this!" Whithalf exclaimed. "You join those Cobras, you'll be turning your back on your country and your friends!"
"My country turned its back on me the day they decided to scrap the Allentown. And the Allentown is my only friend now." Larson responded. Suddenly, a batch of BATs stormed into the room. One pinned down General Whithalf, but the old general kicked him off. Another BAT threw a chair at him, but Whithalf ducked, and the chair flew through the window behind him. Whithalf took the opportunity and tried to make his escape. But that was going to be difficult. The new fish-like BATs were all over the ship, and all Whithalf had was a pistol in his jacket to fight them off.
Well, well, well! Looks like our heroes are in trouble! What craziness will happen next? Will Larson regret turning traitor? Can Whithalf fight off the new BATs? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!
