Odd and Dart dived into the middle again, running in helix formation, until they both struck forth for the robots, and Odd jumped virtually infinitely into the air, diving back down, with plenty of gunfire, crashing his foot into the mech, as its first shell of armor ruptured, revealing a jet black obsidian inner casing.
"Jeez louise," Odd said, firing off more shots. "These just won't do it!"
Quickly he thought; and dropped his M4, going hand to hand and mono y mono with the robotic being. He kicked it quickly, ripping off its outer shell of fist casing. Now he was ready to rock, as he connected each blow, cracking the obsidian armor, ripping out the motherboard from the robot and crushing it in his fingers, as the robot fell to the ground. Odd picked up his M4 again, holstering it, and went to kill D'Artagnan's robot. She was still firing, until Odd ripped its head off, pulling out circuits and wires galore.
"These things can only kill themselves." He laughed, heading down the hallway again.
Jeremie and Aelita watched as Robert took out the aliens, and the demon cracked the code quickly. A raiding party of alien soldiers rushed down the hall, as Robert and the demon ripped them apart, with their bare hands.
"He's so dreamy," Aelita said, smirking.
"Wh-Whaaat?" Jeremie growled. He ran up, into the battlezone, against all odds. He pushed Robert out of the way, into a wall. He prepared to attack an alien with his bare hands, until Robert yanked him back by his shirt.
"What do you think you're doing?" Robert snarled.
"You're such a charlatan, you know that?"
"What are you talking about?"
"First you steal the spotlight at school, and now you're stealing Aelita's heart even more, from me!"
"I'm trying to SURVIVE!" Robert yelled, shoving Jeremie over, and ripping the arm off the oncoming soldier.
Aelita walked towards Robert slowly, almost trancelike. "Oh, Robert. You fight so well;"
"Get away from me!" The angered boy yelled, sizzling with rage. You could see an aura of flame beginning to well up around him.
"Jeremie. I'm going to go up around the bend and scout. You and Aelita keep post. Demon? Keep me company." Ordered Robert.
The little devil hopped up onto his shoulder, as Robert wandered away, picking up an alien rifle.
"Aelita," Jeremie said, "I thought you and me..."
"He can play guitar and sing, he looks like such a sweet person, he's so strong - face it Jeremie, you can't do any of that!"
"I brought you to life, Aelita," Jeremie said, his glasses flaring in the light.
"But I'm in love with him now;"
"You can't be."
"Why not?"
Jeremie tried so hard to take her hand, but didn't.
"He doesn't even like you! Did you see how angry he got from you just going near?"
"He has a sense of duty! Not like you! You don't care about me, or anything, Jeremie."
Jeremie growled. He picked up an alien weapon from behind himself, and walked away.
"Robert said to stay here-"
"If Robert said to pick up that gun and shoot your own head off, would you?"
Jeremie marched off, steaming.
As Yumi, Raz, and Ulrich marched through the hallways still, steam pipes ruptured around them, erupting blazing vapor, They crept through the hall, to a dead end.
"This is it? This isn't the control room, bridge or... anything!"
Razputin looked up. "Wrong. If I'm right, it's right above here. And if I'm right..."
A soldier crashed through the floor behind them, opening a hole in the ceiling above Razputin, Yumi, and Ulrich. Razputin jumped up; taking advantage of space's low gravity. Yumi and Ulrich did the same, coming to the cozy, warm battlefield of the control room.
You could see the decay upon the consoles from hours of working. The soldiers fired shots, oblivious to the poor condition of the systems, the consequences of destroying a key engine or regulation component, or any other possible danger. Their only priority was to save themselves. Razputin quickly disposed of the soldiers, then aimed for the aliens with his weaponry.
"Wait!" Ulrich gasped. "Why did you kill the soldiers?"
"Simple," D'Artagnan growled. "If they made one miscalculated shot; it's over."
"Danger," a voice boomed over the speakers, "Cargo hold br-brea breach- Console disrupt-detpursid snoitcnuf elosnoc- All evac-cva- Evacuate."
"I guess they already made the miscalculated shot," Ulrich grumbled, as the computer's voice quivered nervously and began spitting garbage.
"Collision course to planet Earth."
"Hoo boy," Odd said, entering the control room from another entrance. "Oh hey Ulrich, hey Yumi. You hear we're all gonna die?" D'Artagnan signed, closing her eyes, standing behind Odd. She was gonna die in a computer game and she'd never even been kissed.
Robert dropped down from a hatch in the ceiling, followed by Jeremie and Aelita, both of the latter sulking in anger. The entire squad was reformed in the control room, for a few last brief moments, before quite possibly the premature end of their lives.
"Cheer up," Robert said. "There's a 78 chance we'll all survive on impact. Just look out the window. If we don't touch down in the water, it's all good."
"Why would it be bad to land in the water?" Aelita asked, still swooning.
"Because," he growled, "with all the extra weight," he said, pointing to her with contempt, "we'd all sink and drown."
"Robert, why do you hate me so much?"
Robert laughed at the virtual girl's remark. "You know why? Because that's not you that likes me. That's your hormones. I'll tell you now, you want the nerdy one. And if you leave him behind, he'll hate you. You'll never have anyone to love. It happened to me, Aelita."
He turned around, looking out the plexiglass windows to their impending fate.
"Odd," Dart said, crying into his chest, "why does it have to end like this?"
"It's not over," Odd said. "If I'm right, this is only the beginning. It's like Super Metroid, when the ship goes down – or like so in Metroid Prime. We've got a whole world ahead of us, a vast new world. This is a place where humanity on Earth has been extinct for thousands of years!"
"But in case it is over; do you want to..." D'Artagnan began, but Odd was way ahead of her. "Yumi, Ulrich, where's the closest supply closet?"
Ulrich pointed. As they left the room, he sighed. "I don't see how people can act like that. Being so romantic and yet... not. I'd never do that with a girl."
Yumi slapped him, and Ulrich didn't even ask what he did to deserve it.
"Our stop," Robert said, activating re-entry gear. He had no time to turn on the docking craft, or escape pods, being that the computers didn't have much more time before they fried.
"Ulrich," Yumi said, holding on to him for support, "I'm scared."
Razputin's teeth clattered, and Jeremie reached desperately for the helping hand of Aelita, finally receiving it.
"Brace yourselves!"
Everything went black.