"Hey, look!" Larry yelled.
I didn't want to. I wouldn't be able to stand the sight of my loved ones being killed in cold blood. I'd let him kill me blind. I didn't care.
"Spiny, it's okay. It's just one of our guards. I think you'll be pleased to see what he has." I removed my hands from my eyes. I still didn't see anything because…well, I had them closed aside from having them covered.
"Open your eyes, you coward!" Larry shouted.
I finally commanded my eyelids to burst open. The guard had some still coming from his gun and his clothes. And in his left hand, he was carrying what was left of the robot. The little one, of course. Who knows what damage the huge one was still causing.
But at least we'd caught one and that was a step in the right direction.
"Is…is it dead?"
The guard nodded. "Yes, sir!"
He let the metallic bust of the robot fall to the ground. Larry scurried over to inspect it. "Spiny, I see the IEO logo on this."
"Really? So it does mean they're after the Terra-Track?"
"It confirms it. What I don't understand is why one of the leaders or main generals came? Why did they send a small robot army on their behalf? It doesn't make sense."
Roger dusted himself off and pushed his hair behind his ears. "You think something else is up? Like, suspicious?"
"Mmm. I'm not certain. But I am somewhat sure that something's not right here."
Patty was still standing on the ground, holding Greeny. "But…how did they find out we were in possession of that thing?"
Larry shrugged. "I have no idea. I knew they would find out. But I just don't know how. If they knew all these years that it was down there, why didn't they attack before? Why did they wait until now to do it?"
"That's what's bugging you?" Rudy asked.
Larry nodded slowly, still staring off into space and lost in deep thought. "That and a lot of other things I'm not quite sure of."
"Are you planning on finding out?" Robert asked.
"If it will guarantee the safety of Amarkia and the Terra-Track, then yes, I guess I will have to take risks, won't I? Then again, we all have to take risk to protect those we love."
"Can't you get rid of that thing?" said Kathy. "It's causing a lot of trouble!"
"No, I can't just throw it down the trash!" Larry responded, sounding angry and agitated. "Do you realize what will happen if the IEO or the Red Eyes get ahold of this?" he said, holding up the cube to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.
"If they got hold of this and put it to use…it would mean the end of everything. I don't just mean Earth, but the entire universe! And all the other universes! All the dimensions would cease to exist. Can you comprehend that?"
No one answered. Another guard walked in and said, "All clear, sir. You can come out!"
We all walked out of the Bunker, except for Darla and Lilia who were still behind being treated by the Doctor.
He went up the flights of stairs to the ground floor and out the door. Things didn't look too bad if you ask me. Of course, nobody did. Anyways, the scenery didn't look like it had come close to destruction.
"Well, I guess we're safe. For now at least," said Dimetroodon.
Just then, we heard the air raid sirens starting to sound. "Don't cry victory yet!" Larry said. We heard a low, deep rumbling as the ground shook and animals took for shelter. A dark shadow cast over the city.
The IEO spaceship was enormous. I was probably half the size of the entire city. It had hundreds of moving parts and lots of small flashing blue lights. I heard screaming from far way. But I heard no explosions or shooting. The only sound was the screaming and the rumbling the spaceship was causing.
"Sir, all the electricity in the southern region of Amarkia has gone out!" a guard said.
"That's what's probably causing the screaming. At least for those who haven't seen the spaceship yet."
Then we witnessed a great spectacle. The massive IEO spaceship in front of us suddenly exploded! It just went KA-BOOM! Everything was incinerated, vaporized, or disintegrated into pieces.
At first I breathed a sigh of relief. But it all changed when I saw what had caused the IEO spaceship to be destroyed. The Red Eye ship was HUGE. This one was larger in size than the city and its suburbs. It had a sinister-looking shield and it had a laser strong enough to wipe out Sauropolis in two seconds.
It hovering over us like a bloodthirsty bird of prey, taunting and terrorizing its prey with its awesome power before making the kill.
The air raid sirens were still going, but I'm not sure how useful they were going to be. I looked at Larry. "Give an order. Send all civilians to the City Bunker System. We are under a Level-5 Red Alert."
Larry turned to the guard. "You heard the man! Inform the authorities."
"Sir, yes, sir!"
The behemoth spaceship started unraveling, with several reptilian-like robotic creatures arising from its skin and crawling all over it. Then, one of them shot a massive laser and it destroyed three skyscrapers in Sauropolis instantly.
Smaller Red Eye fighters started coming out and began firing down randomly on everything and anything. "We need backup! Get the entire Air Force and all aerial units of the Army and Navy!" Larry yelled into his walkie-talkie.
I just happened to look behind me and…uh-oh. "Larry, what's that?" I said, yelling over the noises of destruction.
"What's what?"
"There's another ship coming in!" I said.
Larry's head turned towards where my finger was pointing. Another sinister-looking galactic aircraft was moving towards us. "Holy crap! It's another IEO spaceship!" He started looking in all directions. "We…we're stuck between the two!"
"Um…Larry? What should happen in the IEO and the Red Eyes start fighting each other to see who gets us?"
His eyes got huge and I could see a lump on his throat going down. "Uh….I vote they auto-destroy each other."
The IEO spaceship was now directly above us, lowering a giant, flat-headed, metallic object hanging from its underside. We heard a loud humming and things started being lifted in the air; cars, trash cans, tire irons, chains, and other pieces of metal. I caught the Terra-Track just in time before it was also lifted.
"I don't know about you," I yelled to Larry as the skies darkened due to both ships blocking out the sunlight. I mean, they were both enormous! I think gargantuan would be a definitive term. I continued, "But I vote they destroy the Red Eyes first. At least we can handle IEO more easily!"
As if on cue and in mock, one of the reptilian-robots on the Red Eye ship jumped onto the IEO ship and bit into one of its wings. The instant it did that, the entire ship went up into thousands of pieces and the robot was also destroyed along with it.
Red Eyes don't care about dying themselves. Just as long as they kill the enemy. Even the IEO doesn't do that. I'm sure the Red Eyes are somehow linked or are what's left of The Great Conglomerate Larry was talking about earlier.
Now, the Red Eyes had no competition for the bounty, so to speak. A shaft opened beneath the ship and something dropped out of it onto the street with thud, causing a large tremor. At first I thought it was a plasma bomb and that would the end of it. But as I got a better look, I saw it was something. It was someone.
The guy was about eight feet tall and had sinister gray eyes and massive muscles. A mass of metal dropped at his feet and a giant iridium-exoskeleton started forming around him. Iridium. Only Red Eyes use iridium in their armor.
He took out a giant gun and pointed at us. "Say, cheese!" he yelled, laughing manically.
There was no way any of our weapons or shields would protect us. Red Eye technology was far superior that Amarkian. And there was not time to call the Space Armies. I did the first thing that came my mind, not even knowing what it was.
"Larry, give me the Terra-Track!" I said.
"What?"
"Just do it!" I yelled. He handed it to me, and I grabbed a proton gun that was lying at my feet. I took out all the proton bullets and placed the cube near the casing. "Just hope this works!" I loaded the gun, closed my eyes and pulled the trigger.
The cube suddenly got very hot and my palm started searing form the intense burning. But I didn't let go of it. I felt the sweat pouring down my forehead and down to the tip of my nose. Then the Terra-Track started vibrating intensely and I felt a sudden beam of energy flowing from me. I dared to open my eyes to see.
A massive white-blue beam of energy penetrated into the metallic armor and a giant flash followed. The Red Eye captain ceased to exist. For a few moments I stood there completely agape. Did…did I just kill a Red Eye captain? I mean, did I just kill…an actual Red Eye?!
Before, no one ever believed Red Eyes could be killed.
I didn't waste any time. I pointed my new weapon above me. The entire underside of the Red Eye mothership shot out flames and within seconds the entire metallic mass disintegrated.
I turned to Larry was literally in a state of shock. "Larry…we…we did it! We destroyed a Red Eye mothership! We got rid of those bastards!"
He shook his head and kind of stuttered. "Wha…what just happened?"
I was all prepared to celebrate victory until a giant explosion blasted us both to the ground, raising a massive cloud of dust. My eyes stung with tears and I felt my throat suddenly get dry. I lost grip on the Terra-Track and it rolled several yards down the street.
I got up, trying not to lose my balance because everything was spinning. I grabbed onto a nearby car and waved my hand to clear the dust. About 100 feet in front of me, the cube was in the black hand of a Red Eye.
My heart jumped into my throat and I was sure he could see it pounding against my skin. "Give that back!" I know it was stupid of me to do what I did. I ran towards him completely unprotected and he knew that.
I suddenly felt a piercing pain in my left elbow and collapsed on the ground. Hot blood started fountaining from where he had shot me and I suddenly felt my entire body crying in pain. The Red Eye left me there to bleed to death and ran to his helicopter.
By now, the entire 5th and 9th squadron of the Amarkian Royal Air Forces had arrived and they all started firing on the helicopter as it was taking off.
Larry came behind me and helped me get up. "What…they shot you."
"The cube…"
"What? Where is it?"
"They have it. You have to get it back!" I wasn't worried about a gun wound on the elbow. That could be taken care of. But the fate of the entire universe and all that it contained…that was a different matter.
Just as the helicopter was taking off, the side doors opened and someone threw something at us. "Get inside! Get inside the car!" Larry pointed at the abandoned car next to us.
I didn't ask why. I just did it. A terrible explosion ripped the doors off the car and sent the vehicle flying down the street, rolling. All the blood rushed out of my head and I felt my face go pale. When the car came to a stop, my vision was still rolling. I quickly busted down a door that had survived and vomited.
Warm blood was now staining the back of the car and my entire left sleeve. Fire was now raging across the street. As I stood up to take a closer look around me, the entire front section of the Palace Walls and the Gates were gone. The front windows of the Palace were shattered and all the trees in the area were flattened.
Every house and even the bridge on the west side was gone.
"The Terra-Track. They threw it at us," Larry said. Then he pointed about 40 feet in front of us. The blue-white flow was still strong and steam came off the cube. Larry jumped on it and put it away before someone else took it.
My eyes then fell upon Lilia's house across the street.
It was gone.