Note: Sorry for the downtime. Blame a combination of Writer's Block (I'm not really good at Coop's trademark speech) and a mountain of schoolwork. I also appologize if this chapter seems rushed. I wanted to start on the next installment of my Megas XLR fanfics, Adaptation.
Chapter 6: Retribution
Aboard the Glorft ship, everyone was still staring at the image of MEGAS, some in confusion, and others in surprise.
"What is that?" The Glorft Warmaster cried.
"Father!" The Glorft boy hissed, staring at MEGAS in shocked fear. "Destroy it! I don't know what it is but I have a bad feeling about it." The Glorft Warmaster looked at his son, and then turned to a nearby Glorft.
"My son might have a point, Commander. Destroy it." The Glorft Commander nodded once and moved to the nearby controls.
Meanwhile, inside MEGAS, Coop and Jamie were in the middle of an augment.
"Hey, I got their attention, didn't I?" Coop asked.
"Yeah, but Kiva didn't tell you to draw attention to us!"
"Well, how else would we have gotten their attention?" Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from the Glorft ship, but the attack missed them completely.
"Whoa! These guys need to take target practice." Coop noted.
Aboard the ship, the Glorft Commander had taken aim at MEGAS. However, just as he had the robot locked on, and was activating the laser cannon…
"NO!" Kit suddenly broke free from the Glorft that was restraining her, and shoved the Glorft Commander away from the controls. In doing so, the laser cannon's aim was directed away from MEGAS.
"Blasted slave!" The Glorft Warmaster cried, as he grabbed Kit's neck to strangle her. Just as Kit's face began to turn a faint shade of blue, a random Glorft went sailing into them. The Glorft Warmaster and Kit fell to the floor under the impact. Kit turned to the entrance of the hanger bay, gasping for breath, and stared in surprise at the sight of Kiva standing in the doorway.
"Kiva?" Kit groaned, rubbing her neck.
"Who are you?" The Glorft Warmaster barked.
"We're here for the Tygrin female." Kiva replied levelly.
"Kill her!" The Glorft Warmaster ordered, as a random Glorft took aim and fired at Kivva. At the last possible second, Kiva grabbed a nearby Glorft and pulled him into the line of fire. The blast ricocheted off his armor, and shot back toward the Glorft Warmaster. Moments before impact, Kit thrust her arm into the path, and the blast hit the restraint on her arm, severing it in two. As the broken restraint fell the ground, Kit turned to the Glorft with a malicious smile, and her hands began to glow as she prepared to unleash her Energy Balls at them. The Glorft instantly realized that, without the restraint holding back Kit's Tygrin powers, they were in serious trouble, and began to back away in fear. However, the Glorft boy tried to strike out at Kit, only to have her trap him in a headlock, and place a ready Energy Ball at his temple.
"Your choice, Warmaster Retnec!" Kit shouted. "You either allow us to leave, or you have no heir to pass the title of Warmaster to!" Warmaster Retnec and Kit glared at one another for a full minute, before Warmaster Retnec made his choice.
"Let the slave go, for now." Kit and Kiva slowly left the hanger, with Kit still holding the Glorft boy hostage.
"You shouldn't have came here, Kiva." Kit whispered when the hanger was out of sight. "You and the others would have been better off if you had left me to my fate."
"That is not how we do things, Kit," Kiva reasoned. "Your life is more important to Earth's future then you realize. I'll explain when we're back home." For the next few minutes, Kit and Kiva moved along in silence, until they reached the docking bay, and Kiva signaled Coop to pick them up. Moments later, MEGAS arrived outside the docking bay and punched a hole into the hull, giving the girls a way out. Kit dropped the Glorft boy to the floor roughly.
"You will pay for treating me like this, slave!" He growled.
"Get out." Kit glared at the Glorft boy in disgust. "Otherwise, I might just give you scars on the rest of your fingers, Gorrath!"
"WHAT!" Coop stared at the Glorft boy. "That's Gorrath?"
"The Glorft do age slower then humans," Kiva noted. "I suppose this is Gorrath as a child."
"Do I want to know how you know this little spoiled brat?" Kit blinked.
"Gorrath is the Warmaster from my time." Kiva explained.
"I weep for your time." Kit snarled, entering MEGAS. However, as she did so, the young Gorrath suddenly leapt up with a speed surprising for his race, and punched a button on the wall. Instantly a loud siren rang through the ship. Kit moved to attack Gorrath, but Kiva pushed her back into MEGAS.
"Coop! Get us out of here, now!" Kiva cried, holding back a struggling Kit.
"Little sneak!" Kit shouted as MEGAS began to fly off. "Should have killed him when I had the chance! Now every Glorft on the ship will be trying to kill us!"
"What?" Jamie moaned in panic.
"Kiva, let go!" Kit demanded as she tried to scramble out of MEGAS. "If I'm going down today, I want to at least bring him down with me!"
"No one is going do die, Kit, and especially not you!" Kiva tried to reason with the Tygrin, holding her back. "I told you: your life is too important to Earth's future!" Besides, Gorrath's not the only one who can be underhanded at times."
"What do you mean?"
"When no one was looking, I placed a few explosives in the Glorft ship." Kiva explained, holding up a hand-held detonator. All we have to do is activate them, and they'll destroy the Glorft's weapons system."
"Nice!" Coop grinned, taking the detonator. "All right, you space squids: You forced Kit into slavery, threatened her and Jamie, and…." Kit suddenly lunged forward, grabbed Coop's arm, and set off the detonater.
"Shut up, and get going!" Kit shouted. Coop froze for a moment, momentarily shaken over how much Kit suddenly resembled an angry cougar before obeying her command.
From the Glorft Ship, the young Gorrath watched MEGAS fly away with an expression of hate and fury.
