"Huh?" Double-d mumbled wakng up to the odor of burning metal, "Ah!" the door had been blown open and fire was licking at everything outside of the room. Robot bodies and oil decorated the room along with smoldering walls and busted lights. Ten it came to him, they were the only ones still alive, well if the other two were still alive and if you believe robots can die that is. "Guys…"
"HIII!" Ed cried shouting sock-head's ear loudly knocking him down. "What happened?" Eddy asked dazed as he sat up and sniffed the air. Just then a radium tank behind them exploded and they ran out of the storage and stasis room into the ammunition room. "What happened here!" Double-d asked as a lazer cannon exploded inches from him. "A war?" Eddy asked unsure while they ran out of that room and into the engine room. "Good Lord!" said Double-d as the atmosphere turned into that of a furnace.
KABAM! About seven engines far above them exploded as bug-like metal creatures came swarming down. "RUN!" Ed yelled grabbing his friends and running for another door, "IT'S LOCKED!" The creatures were advancing quickly on the three boys in the smoldering heat. "It's been nice knowing you boys!" Eddy cried as Ed repeatiately rammed his body into the metal door and Double-d looked for a welding torch to weaken the surface.
Hiss! The door slid open and the Eds ran through as the robot that opened the door for them was jumped by the parasites. The boys ignored the cries of their saviour as they rushed towards the missle room only to be greeted by more of the bugs and the mechs blowing up. Across the room were badly damaged robots lying all over twisted into painful forms and the metal bugs munched on them. Their seemed to be no way out.
"There!" Double-d said excitedly pointing at a functioning missle-launcher on a platform. "Ragh!" Ed cried as some of the bugs jumped on him and injected their back tentacles into his body, "HELP!" One by one Eddy helped his friend yank them off as Double-d ran for the missle-launcher. "HUH!" he exclaimed as a humanoid creature with a centipede abdomen erupted from the floor flipping the boy over. Forming it hand into a scythe-like claw the monster drove the piercing tool down where Double-d's forehead used to be. "Go on ahead!" Eddy commanded, "We'll handle this thing!"
Double-d immediately obeyed and ran for the launcher yet again as his friends launched themselves at the metal skinned monster. "Get off!" he said as he pulled himself into the cockpit of the weapon and the parasites began to inject their back tentacles into his skin, "No time for them." Grabbing the handles he found his hands begin to sweat and his muscles begin to tense as he aimed at the monster his friends were battling while sweat and blood ran down his face. "MOVE GUYS!"
The beast could only look in horror as the projectile was launched into its face. BAM! Upon impact the creature shattered along with the wall behind. "It was made out those smaller things." Eddy told himself quitely as he looked at the body parts of the creature seperating into the tinier bugs.
Immediately Double-d climbed down tearing the bugs from him in pain as they headed for the new exit into the bridge of the battleship. "Help!" a robot stuttered painfully as it limped toward with only one leg. Immediately he was dragged under the floor and torn to pieces by the many bugs. This time Double-d closed his ears so as not to hear the screams and rushed over to the main computer. "Damage Check!" he cried and the screen flickered to life. "What in the…" all the wings and turrets had either gone offline or had been destroyed, the engines were all exploding one room at a time, and someone had set off the self destruct sequence. 'T minus 2 minutes' is what was read as Double-d screamed. "Guys, we gotta get outta here!" "Why!" Eddy asked frantically. "This place is gonna blow in two minutes!" "AW! Come on!" the short ed yelled angrily as Double-d pointed to the miniship docking bay on the screen, they could get off if there were any miniships left.
Only Ed noticed and the computerized slab that ejected from the computer as they rushed down the hallway to the place of hopeful salvation.
"T minus 30 seconds till selfdestruction." The computerized voice announced while the eds battled their way through hordes of metal tentacled bugs, deceased robot bodies, and burning engine rooms. "Finally!" they exclaimed settling into a miniships cockpit, "Ready for take off!" the brainy ed boy told his companions as they lifted into the air in the purple miniship, "Lookout!" Dodging falling bodies, bugs, and other such debris the Eds managed to pilot themselves through the closed docking bay door and into the silent void of space. Seconds later the Eds turned to view the space craft they had resided upon for the short timespan implode bit by bit.
"Guys look!" Ed yelled pointing off to the side where the other two decimated were floating lifelessly towards the planet their own craft was being dragged towards. "Woah… I guess all the ships were hit." Eddy said wide-eyed while a few robot bodies bounced off their ship's circular frame, "I guess no where else to go but down." "Right," Double-d agreed hastily piloting the vehicle into the planet's atmosphere.
"Now, what could this be?" Ed asked himself as he flipped on the computer slab's screen. 'Retrieving Data of scanned creatures' it read as it flickered wildly. Two pictures popped up showing the bugs and the robots both with descriptions below them.
Ricarlo Parasite:
Type: Energy Collecting Device
This vicious metal skinned creature can be a very lethal one. Discovered just recently this species is hypotesized to be the end result of one of King Shadow's many expirements derived from an unknown source. The only thing really known about these creatures is they latch onto its prey and feeds off of their energy until the victim either passes away, pulls it off, or they find something with even more energy. These pests posses five tentacles, two coming out of the side of their spherical bodies, and three coming off the back. All tentacles can extend to four times their original length except their middle back one which is used for inserting into the victim's body to feed from. Usually traveling in packs these three-eyed bugs are dangerous and can even push their bodies into the shapes of other creatures when in groups.
Golden Hotel Robot Combat Drone:
Type: Protective Fighter
These robotic warriors were designed within the last few years by Barbot and Datron mainly to help in the battles between the Golden Hotel and Shadow's minions. Within their chest pieces reside the robots' core, a spherical glowing ball of energy containing the EPU (Emotional Processing Unit), TPU (Thought Processing Unit), VPU (Voice Processing Unit), and many more things. Each one is like a person only metal and should be treated as such. Their main weapon of choice is a staff which fires particle beams out of the front end.
"Hey, let me see that!" Eddy exclaimed grabbing the device from his friend after getting over the event they had just expirienced, "Whoa, Double-d check this out!" Double-d took some time to look at the thing as Eddy took the controls. "Where'd you get this, Ed?" "From the computer in the bridge as we were leaving, you two didn't see it pop out." He told them with a smile. "This says the parasites feed off of energy and the robots' cores were made of energy, that makes them the perfect food source."
"Mission one: retrieve data from all encountered exotic species and eliminate those that appear to be major threats?" Double-d questioned reading over the set of instructions he had just now brought up, "Note: Drive King Shadow off the planet at least and also stop his plans during this mission." "Well, beats being a janitor!" Eddy exclaimed as he floored the acceleration pedal and zoomed them towards the planet at top speed. "Eddy, you're gonna-" Double-d was cut off by a big KABOOM as Eddy piloted the craft almost headfirst into the meteor sending them on a collision course with the planet King Shadow supposedly was operating from for the time being. If their was any oxygen where they were you could hear their cries for help, doom, and buttered toast as their miniship hurtled towards the planet.
Well, I do hope everyone enjoyed this chapter as well and hope youa ll had a merry Christmas. And if you don't like the story blame it on Ed, he dragged the others aboard the ship ;)