Darkest Blight
Chapter 3
'Do something, anything you idiot.' Naomi's interiorly scolded herself. She stood just where the Grossologists and their enemies had been fighting only a few seconds ago but now were gone without a trace. Her eyes scanned the area for clues as to where they could have gone but all she could see was the people surrounding her, all of them talking to each other over what had just transpired.
Her eyes fixated on one particular person thou. The only person in the crowd that wasn't talking, probably because his best friend had just been taken away. Andy. The podgy little guy had a very unusual expression. Like he was contemplating something he didn't quite understand. Suddenly, he turned around and ran back into the school building.
Naomi ran after him. Up the entrance stairs and thru the corridors. She didn't know why exactly she ran after him. She wanted her Ty back, she wanted answers and something told her Andy was the person to give them to her. 'He is the only person in school that stands closer to Ty than me. He has to know what's going on.'
Andy disappeared into the computer lab, closing the door after him. Naomi immediately swung the door open and shut it with a bang as soon as she got into the room. "Andy!"
Andy, turned around in his spinning chair. He gave Naomi a puzzled look. "Hey, Naomi."
"Andy, do you know what's-huh-wait a minute, I have to catch my breath." Naomi vented with her hands on her knees. "Yeez Andy, you're much faster than you look."
"Well, its pure physiology, really. People with shorter legs accelerate faster than people with longer legs. You are probably faster than me in long runs thou."
Naomi took a deep breath and straightened her back. "Andy, do you know what's going on?"
"Um…no. Not much."
Desperate, Naomi grabbed Andy's face and stared right into his eyes. "Andy, did you know that Ty and Abby are Grossologists!"
Slightly timorous over being so roughly handled by Naomi of all people, Andy slowly shook his head.
"You didn't?" Naomi asked puzzled and let go of him.
"No, I didn't. How do you know they're Grossologists?"
"I saw Abby change into a Slimesuit. A yellow slimesuit." Naomi replied.
"Oh my god!" Andy exclaimed. "Do you know what that means?"
"Yes, it means the Grossologist in orange has to be Ty and it also means that our friends are in terrible danger."
"No, it means you saw Abby undressed! Tell me, what color was her bra?"
Naomi scowled. "Andy…"
"I bet it was black, she would look so good black." Andy started drooling.
"ANDY!" Naomi shouted.
"Right, right, Ty and Abby. We have to help them." Andy said.
"Should we call the police?" Naomi asked.
"They're not equipped to handle situations like this, that's what the Grossologists are for. Of course since Ty and Abby are the Grossologists…
"You mean we should try to save them?" Naomi was surprised at what Andy was suggesting.
"Sure, why not? I have Ty's DNA and Sentry-Pede has a bio-scanner." He held up the centipede-like robot to Naomi like if it was a puppy. "It will be a piece of pancake to find them." He placed Sentry-Pede on the floor and it speeded away, following Ty's DNA trail. Andy ran after.
"But we're not trained for-huh, forget it." Naomi sighed and ran after Andy.
When Abby opened her eyes, the world was dizzy. Once her vision became clear she saw that she was in a small metallic room. There were two windows, one in the door leading out and a second one on the left side of the wall that seemed to lead to yet another room. Both windows were enforced with bars. 'Bars, never a good sign.' At the end of the room was a television bolted to the wall.
She heard moans coming from the other room. "Ty!" Abby gasped before rushing up onto her legs and got to the wall, looking thru the window.
Her brother was there, lying on the floor. He sounded like he was in pain.
"Ty, are you okay?" Abby asked worried.
Ty sat up. "I'll tell you once the world stops spinning." He rubbed his forehead, feeling like he would throw up. "Where are we?"
"I don't know." Abby walked up to the door. Thru the window she saw a large empty hall with two hallways leading in opposite directions. She looked around till her eyes landed on a keychain, hanging from a hook on the wall. She smiled and stuck out her arm, reaching for the keys. She could almost reach them, they were only a few inches away from her grasp. Annoyed, she grit her teeth and tried harder.
Suddenly, a Rip-1 jumped out of nowhere and tried to bite into Abby's arm but Abby managed to retract it just in time. She stumbled backwards and fell on her butt, hyperventilating in shock. Outside, the robotic Velociraptor hissed menacingly.
The televisions suddenly turned on, showing Fartor and Kid Rot laughing at them. Fartor and Kid Rot seemed to be in some kind of lab. "See Kid, I told you she would try to reach for the keys. Heroes never learn." Fartor giggled.
"Hey Abby. Hope you didn't lose your arm or anything." Kid Rot said, waved a bit to them. "Oh, by the way, if either of you are thinking about contacting that computer geek LabRat, I think you would need these." The parasite held up Ty's and Abby's grossometers before crushing them with his bare hands and then let the scrap metal fall to the floor. "Whoops. Sorry" He joked with a smile.
Abby sneered at their bad luck. "Why have you stink-faces taken us here?"
"And what exactly is here?" Ty asked, a bit more reserved than his sister.
Fartor smiled. "Don't worry, everyone is here for a reason. I'm sorry for the televisions making this a bit more impersonal than our usual face to face encounters but things are different now. I have grown tired of our hero/villain game and I want to focus on my true passion, conquering the world. Which is why this time I won't leave anything to chance. You two are locked-up behind bars while my partner and I are here… at the salad bar."
Ty raised a puzzled brow. "Salad bar?"
The two villains smiled and the camera zoomed out. There, behind Kid Rot and Fartor was a tank full of potatoes and vegetables.
"It's the stolen farmers' crops." Ty exclaimed.
"Oh, this is nothing. We got much more in stock." Fartor stated.
"Just so you know, I wanted to simple disintegrate a forest but Fartor just had to have farmer products because then the methane is the "purest". His words not mine." Kid Rot said with a look of utter annoyance.
"Anyway," Fartor rolled his eyes at his partner's snarkyness, "in order for my new doomsday machine to work, I needed a power source that that could break down all of this plant material so I sought out the help of Kid Rot. An apprentice a tad more…ferocious than Far-Ty. No offence Ty."
"None taken." Ty spat, offended.
"I told you not to call me that!" Kid Rot barked angrily at Fartor. Fartor sneered at him.
"Wait, did you say Doomsday machine?" Abby asked, getting slightly worried.
"Ah, yes. To go back to Ty's question as to where we are? Well, I think the local news can tell you." Fartor chuckled.
Ty and Abby looked at each other thru the window. 'That didn't sound good.'
Fartor smirked. "Hold on heroes cause this secret hideout is about to be… famous."
Meanwhile, outside the coast of Ringworm City.
Onboard a fishing boat three sailors was looking down grimly at the waters below because there was no catch to be had. There was a gray-haired man in yellow overall and a younger man with jet-black hair stood on the left side of the ship while the captain was on the right side of the ship.
Suddenly, something rocked the boat so violently they fell to the floor. The gray-haired managed to hold onto the railing. "What was that?"
"I don't know." The dark-haired fisherman replied as he got up onto his feet. "Did something big get caught in the net?"
The captain supported himself on the reeling as he got up on his feet. When he looked down he got disturbed by a dead fish that float to the surface. It was then followed by yet another dead fish, and then another and another. Soon the water around the ship was covered in fish carcasses. The captain rubbed his forehead. "What is happening here?"
The boat was hit by get another strong wave that rocked the boat, almost knocking the fishermen of their feet again. They ran to the front of the ship and was astounded at what they saw.
"Is than an …island?" The dark-haired man asked.
"I have never seen an island rise out of the ocean." The captain said.
What had risen out of the water could almost be described as an island. It was a huge dark ridge with jagged, triangular spikes running from front to back. The water surrounding it started to boil and gray smoke expelled from its back. The island then started to move.
The fishermen couldn't do anything but to stare in bewilderment as the colossus passed the fishing boat and headed towards Ringworm City.
The Detective was driving thru the city in his police car, heading back to the station. He had heard what had happened to Ty and Abby. According to reports from both LabRat and witnesses, both Grossologists had been confronted and kidnaped by Kid Rot and Fartor. As of now, the bureau hadn't been able to reach them. The Detective honestly hoped Ty and Abby would be able to handle the situation by themselves and were on their way home by now. The burly law officer had grown rather attached to the Archer siblings.
Suddenly, a giant metal foot came down and crushed the road in front of him!
"Whoow!" The Detective tried to brake and swerved the steering wheel. His car skidded to a stop, leaving skidmarks on the road. Around him, all the other cars also came to a stop, some ramming into one another. The Detective got out of his car and looked up. What he saw horrified him.
There, standing 490 feet high and 980 feet long was a giant Godzilla-like robot. It gave out a deafening roar that shake the entire neighborhood. The armor's paintjob was a mixture of obsidian black and garnet red. Jagged, triangular spines ran across its back with the tallest ones positioned atop its shoulders and the smallest ones being at the hips. Two huge wings protruded from the monster's flanks. The creature's short snouted head was equipped with large red eyes and its jaws were filled with dagger like teeth. Its arms were relatively short in comparison to its massive body but they were both armed with huge reaper like claws. Its massive tail ended in a cannon barrel.
After getting over the initial shock, The Detective grabbed the com-radio from his car. "This is The Detective, I am at the Cullen's Street/Capillary Street crossing. I'm requesting immediate backup."
"Help is on its way sir. What's your situation?"
"It's um…I don't think there is code for it. It's a giant, metal… Just look out a window and you will see what I mean!"
The mechanical monster roared again and swung its clawed arm at the nearest building, demolishing the wall. "Oh no." The Detective got into his car and speeded away, actually driving onto the sidewalk and got out of harm's way before the debris hit the pavement. Other cars were not so lucky.
A news helicopter hovered in the sky above.
"This is Kelly, reporting live from our very own Channel 7 News helicopters." The redheaded reporter spoke into her microphone as her cameraman filmed her. "I am looking right now at what appears to be a 500 feet tall robot attacking the city. This robot bears some resemblance to Fartzilla, the methane spewing creation of the criminal flatologist Fartor but this one seem to be fifty times as big!"
Ty and Abby was watching the news report on their respective televisions in their cells. Both were terrified by the enormity and destructive power of this robotic Dinosaur.
"A new Fartzilla. I don't get it?" Abby asked. "You said this headquarter would be famous."
"Don't you get it Abby?" Ty said and pointed at the screen. "We are inside that thing!"
Fartor showed up on screen again. "Astute as always, Ty. You two are literally in the belly of the beast, or should I say in the belly of MegaFartzilla. Kid Rot, how about we give these heroes a little demonstration of what this creation of mine can truly do."
The screen now showed Kid Rot walking into a machine next to the vegetable tank. The machine was rectangle shaped and inside where two mechanical holsters. With an arrogant smirk, Kid Rot stuck both his hands in the holsters and the machine's exhaust vents started to glow with the same dark light as Kid Rot's rot-power.
"One of the many things I found fascinating about my new partner is his ability to tap into certain aspects of his powers depending on what the task at hand is." Fartor explained. "I designed this machine so Kid Rot could chare one specific power of his with MegaFartzilla. His ability to turn plant material into swamp gas. Which also happens to be a large part of my breathing gas."
The potatoes and vegetables in the tank composed into a mushy, soft stew before drying out, becoming husky and black.
MegaFartzilla paused in its rampage and slowly turned its head to the news helicopter. Kelly pulled back in fear as the robotic monster's huge crimson eyes seemed to stare right up at her. After a horrific strained moment, MegaFartzilla turned its back on the helicopter. Kelly sighed in relief.
Then the metallic reptile aimed its giant tail-canon at the helicopter. One after another, the spines started to glow red and then it fired a hot stream of swamp gas right at the news helicopter. Stacey and her crew started coughing and crying from inhaling the toxins. The pilot passed out, hitting his head against the control panel. The helicopter spun out of control and hit the side of a wall before coming crashing to the ground, tumbled across the pavement before coming to a stop.
Kelly crawled out on her stomach. Her skin was cut in several places from glass splinters. 'Do my hair still look good on camera?'
A cop car stopped next to her and The Detective opened the front door. "Get in."
The redheaded reporter got into the car and The Detective drove them out of there. Kelly used her little pocket mirror to look at herself. "Oh no! My makeup got smudged!"
The Detective sighed. "I hate modern journalism."
MegaFartzilla roared to the sky and let out even more swamp gas from its tail-cannon. From a far one wouldn't even be able to see most of MegaFartzilla or the city surrounding it anymore because of the toxic smokescreen that had enveloped them.
"Impressed?" Fartor said with glee on the TV-screens in Ty's and Abby's cells
Abby crossed her arms over her chest. "Yes, we are both very scared of your big toy. So what now? You're just gonna rampage thru the city. I was expecting a bit more creativity from you, Fartor." Even thou Abby tried to sound tough, Fartor could definitely hear the underlying desperation in her voice.
"Oh, more you shall have. Did you notice the wings on MegaFartzilla's sides?" Fartor asked. "You see, just like me MegaFartzilla is not just a producer of methane gases but a consumer as well. The more methane he inhales the more powerful he gets and once he is fully loaded he will go airborne. I will take this walking headquarter to the upper atmosphere and really let it rip! Earth's airwaves will carry my gases all over this planet, turning earth into a giant fart-jar! Humanity will either suffocate or be forced to adapt like I did. Mwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!"
As Fartor laughed his maniacal laugh, the seriousness of the situation started to dawn on Ty and Abby. They were imprisoned inside an unstoppable doomsday machine with no way to contact the outside world and unless they did something before the day was over the world would be a barren wasteland. This might be their most impossible challenge yet.
Author's Note:
I was originally gonna make this chapter longer but I feel this is a good place to end for now. Next time we will check in with Andy and Naomi again and we will go more into what Kid Rot's role is in all of this, so there is a lot to look forward to.
MegaFartzilla is mostly inspired by 2014 Godzilla as well as Trypticon from Transformers.
You might remember Kelly from some of the season 2 episodes. She is that readheaded reporter in a green dress with really big lips.
Ps. Cullen Street is an homage to Sean Cullen, Fartor's voice-actor.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. As always, your reviews/comments are appreciated.