Taken In Again
A/N: I used the Martian info from Wikipedia, taken from the LOEG2 comic.
Disclaimer: It's a fanfiction, what do you expect? I own whatever wasn't invented already.
The league arrived immediately in Woking, a few minutes after their departure from the MI5 headquarters. The automobile, driven by Patel, stopped the car before a group of policemen, trying to keep people back from the commotion they were guarding. A few people complained of their houses being crushed by the 'silver meteor', and they have no place to go, or their homes were near the crash and they didn't want to stay away. Others complained of their desire to see the unidentified spacecraft.
"Well I'm guessing this is where the crash took place." Mina said.
"No kidding." Tom said in a surprised tone, amazed as well by their sight of the ship from where the car was parked.
The league assembled out into the foggy weather, slightly better than that of London. Followed by Alisha, the most eager to see the spacecraft, they harshly walked through the crowd to the police officers. Alisha approached one policeman with a black moustache sweaty face, looking a little overweight.
"We are the league of extraordinary gentlemen, sent by MI5." Alisha's face showed the sudden surprisement in the word 'we'.
"MI5, eh…yes, Mycroft mentioned you. Make your way through then, carefully and help us guard this thing." The league passed through the guards, attempting not to let any other citizens come through as well. Alisha came through first followed by Tom, and their eyes slowly gazed up upon the spacecraft as their mouths were left hanging open.
"Whoa." said Tom, similar to his reaction to his first sight of the Nautilus.
"Oh…my…god." said Alisha. "That is definitely…alien material."
"My god, look at the size of that thing!" Mina proclaimed.
The league took several steps closer, identifying and speculating each and every detail of the ship. It resembled a metal octopus or squid, with its oval base and top, and ten tentacle-like legs. For about ten minutes they touched and discovered the machine and its metal scaled legs, its windows, openings and design, never entering the crater itself but only what lay outside the earth's depression. Mina kneeled down and discovered a dark red powder, in which she exclaimed to Nemo who handed her a small tube. The vampiress carefully pinched the powder with her fingers, and cascaded it into the small vile. The league noticed Mina's findings, and made their way to the site.
Then something happened.
"HEY! HEY, GET BACK HERE!" A guard shouted vociferously and used all his strength against a young boy of about eighteen. All the guards nearby tried their greatest to hold the boy back, but he got too far. He ran past the guards and toward the league.
"Hey, catch the boy!"
The league all readied their selves to encounter the boy's wrath. But instead, the young man pushed them aside in a scurry, and peered down into the depression. Unfortunately, before the league could get to him, the boy was peering too far he leaned all too much, and dropped inside the crater. He tumbled down the sides of the basin and eventually dropped to the bottom. His face was scuffed with dirt from the fall, and his clothes were slightly ripped. His vision was far from the crowd looking in; he was nearly under the spacecraft and hardly moving at first. Alisha was about to jump down into the crater herself to retreat the boy when she saw a movement. She stopped, and Tom, questioning her sudden halt, readied his self to jump in as well. Alisha swung her arm in a nippy time against Tom it sent him tumbling back just a bit.
"Hey, what's with the smacking?"
"Nobody move." Her eyes never left the basin of the machine. The boy looked up, and his face turned to terror within seconds of realizing what lay in front of his eyes, not yet visible to the league.
"Aaaahhh!" the boy, shouted in panic at the top of his lungs to an unidentified horror.
Tom peered in carefully. He squinted his eyes. "W-what happened?" he gulped.
Then, it crawled out of the base. It was similar to the ship itself but a smaller version; with only four extended scaly legs and an elongated skull with four glowing blue eyes across the face, an alien had finally came into view.
"Dear god, what is that thing?" Henry inquired in almost a whisper.
A group of men from the crowd slowly and carefully walked past the guards, never leaving their gaze off the alien. The men let them pass, taken aback themselves. In fact, every single person in the crowd never made a noise, shout, or sudden movement. The league however, thought it was best to take a few steps back, just in case. Alisha got up from her crouching position and walked back, near to where Henry was standing and positioned next to him, with a hand rested on his biceps. He looked over to her face which was instead laid on the alien and its visitors.
The five men assembled together from different parts of the crowd. They slowly lowered themselves down into the crater to meet the alien, first sitting on the edge of the depression then scuffing their shoes across the descending dirt, being careful not to fall. Everyone else around the spacecraft were still as stone. The alien frantically looked around in panic to the men closing in. Glancing at the uptight boy lying on the ground who watched carefully at the alien and the men's actions, a young man with brown hair approached the alien once all the men were in the depression. The alien fixed its four glowing eyes on the man.
"Hello." the man said.
The alien twisted its head on an angle, making bizarre sounds that resembled a machine.
"We…come in peace." his head moved closer to the alien's as he pushed out his words.
The alien recklessly twisted its head around to all the men surrounding it. It made louder noises and now squirmed its tentacles in different directions. Without warning, it wriggled its body back into the spacecraft within panic. The crowd looked at each other in confusion; the league remained still. Within seconds, the opening in which the alien retreated closed shut from the bottom of the UFO. Lights began to flicker on the side of the craft and four of its legs moved, attempting to rise. One by one the legs slowly strived the machine to ascend several feet into the air. The metal creaked as it stood over the crowd, now in slight fear. The league backed up further, with Alisha never leaving her grip on Henry's arm. Rodney seemed to notice, and so did Mina.
The lights at the bottom of the ship grew red, and small openings from the cylinder released. It made a strange noise as it was about to fire up. Captain Nemo was the first to notice. His face quickly grew into revolting alarm.
"Everybody get down on the ground!" he shouted at the top of his lungs…but only the league heard his words over the shouts of the crowd.
Light penetrated from the opening onto the crowd. At the slight moment before they were to be hit, the league hit the ground. Nemo grabbed Mina and Tom, closest to him with his two spare arms, and pushed them with his force and caused them to fall on the cold road cement. Rodney, from the loud thunder the beam made from hitting the crowd caused him to fall as well. He bundled himself into a ball in fright. Alisha's eyes widened in alarm and turned her head to the side. She tightened her grip on Henry's arm as his face reacted to the ray as well. She pushed them to the ground along with the rest of the league and they came down with a thump, tumbled on top of each other. Henry lay by her side, too frightened to get up, and looked to Alisha who already fixed her eyes on his. Rodney struggled to get off his coat, hat and makeup.
As the league safely lay below the deadly white beam, the rest of the crowd burned to a dreadful end as the ship walked with its four legs; the other six squirming above in a frenzy. After a few minutes of destruction to the entire crowd and alarm in the league, Tom willingly loaded his Winchester, and aimed it to the source where the heat-ray flared. The shot rung in his ears as his professional aim caused the small bullet to hit the opening, and the beam stopped. The ship encountered the alarm of the wounded shaft as the remaining of the crowd ran off in fear, disgusted by the burnt bodies.
Rodney Skinner looked up and saw the corpses covered in scorched flesh, and shuddered at the memory of the fire in Mongolia. His fear for fire grew and grew each day.
Alisha and Henry's stare was cut off by Henry's sudden look to the hit the ship received. He looked back to Alisha and never left his fearful stare, and slowly moved his hand to the interior of his jacket, and felt the smooth sides of the formula. He could hear Edward chant in his mind, hurting to get out.
"Alisha…"
"Be careful, Henry."
Alisha let go of her grip as Henry shifted away from Alisha a bit, then forcing down the clear liquid. He panicked and hysterically faced the change from Jekyll to Hyde, jerking on the road with smoke coming off the doctor and sweat beating on his body as his body parts bulged up, causing an asymmetrical balance to the size of his body. When he finally performed the transformation, Edward Hyde glanced to Alisha then to the injured ship, and jolted up onto his feet to threaten the aliens with violent death. The monster raged forward to its legs, and grabbed one with his bare hands, ripping it from its socket. The machine struggled to balance and tipped over, making yet another crash into the earth. Edward finished the job by pounding his fists into the side of the UFO. The opening once again was released, and this time several of the same alien squirmed out of the vehicle, aiming to attack their enemy. The league now got up ready for action, and charged to the squid-like creatures. Alisha ran with might to the one closest to Hyde and stopped before it to spin her leg around and hammering it with her foot, causing it to fly a few feet back. The aliens then focused their endeavor to the witch, when Tom shot the closest one with his rifle. Captain Nemo charged to the group of exposed aliens with his sword, and slit one's body as Alisha ran around the alien she sent flying. Mina got up as well, her nails and teeth elongating; her hair curling. Alisha ran to the curve of the depression, and jumped high to the inside of the crater. She stood there ready to the pounce as the creature struggled to get up and growled an unidentified sound. It darted to the witch, who jumped up in the air, taking a vial from her holster belt, and chucked it down. The creature screeched and writhed as the bottle broke and acid drenched its head. It burned the aliens face, causing it to wriggle in all different directions in pain as Alisha retrieved to the ground. As Tom, Hyde and Nemo all pulverized the swarm of aliens, Mina viewed the blood spill from the creature's body which made her senses to twitch with lust. The vampiress growled as her body leaped to the grey body and punctured her teeth into its side. Alien blood may differ from humans, but to Mina it was still blood. Before long, the battle ended with the aliens' dead from either being slit by Nemo, shot by Tom, bitten by Mina, burned by Alisha, or hit by Edward. The league stood there, deserted by the crowd and guards tall and proud of their successful battle.
"Well, this is a first." Tom said, facing the rest of the league, including Alisha, who all now stood inside the crater to face the dead grey corpses. The league stared at the bodies in shock; Mina shaking her head, Nemo squinting his eyes in curiosity for another world, and Tom in slight fear for the world's future. Edward's face showed pain as his formula was near an end. Alisha twisted her head to look around.
"Hey, has anybody seen Rodney?"
The league all looked around, noticing the missing rogue, not making a noise or action to show his presence.
"Skinner?" Tom backed up from the bodies and climbed out the crater. The league followed his action.
"Hey…Skinner can you hear us?"
No voice was made in response.
"Where could he be?" Tom asked, showing his perplexity by scratching his head.
"Mina, could you sniff him out?" Nemo asked, turning his head to vampiress.
"I don't know his exact scent, so I can't pin point his location. I can sense he is near, though."
The league all looked around to the burned rubble of the village. The panic of his possible death spread across them.
"Hyde?" Nemo asked.
"I don't know his scent either."
Then Alisha walked past Tom, and stopped to listen.
"He's alive. I can hear him."
"What? How?" Tom questioned her by furrowing his eyebrows.
"Listen."
The league listened. A faint sound could be heard a few feet away; a fearful gasping.
"I can hear him too." Mina said, startled that Alisha could hear the diminutive sound before her.
Alisha walked carefully past all the bodies and stopped near the right side of the street.
"Rodney?" The witch kneeled down to the pavement, feeling around. Her hands stopped to the bulging feel of naked, invisible flesh. She felt his muscular arm, and then moved to his puffed and slightly hairy chest, up his veiny neck and to the side of his stubble textured cheeks.
"Rodney…Rodney are you okay?" Alisha tried to look into where the man's eyes would be.
"F-f-fire…hot, ray…fire, burning flesh…" he stumbled, trying to come out with his words.
Alisha put her hand to the back of his naked head and supported it as she attempted to get his invisible arm over her shoulder. Picking him up with slight difficulty, the league came over to assist the witch and the injured thief.
"I think we should give him some rest." Alisha said to Nemo, almost a whisper.
"Right. I think we should report back to Campion first, though."
"Ok, well let's make it fast. I'm getting pretty anxious being around all these dead aliens."
"Good idea." Tom said.
Edward began to transform back into the lanky doctor Jekyll. Henry stood before them in a matter of seconds.
"And possibly get the doc some clothes?" Tom said as Henry tried to keep his pants up. He smirked at the American's comment.
Henry muttered his fearful thoughts as the league walked to the un-damaged automobile. "Do you think the Martians would have called for…help, or something?"
The league stopped in their tracks. They never thought of the possible fact of an actual Martian attack. They turned around to face the half-naked, trembling doctor. A silence lasted a few seconds as the gap was filled with inquisitive looks.
"I really think we should get back to Campion before we think about that…too creepy of a thought." Tom said.
The league got all got in the automobile; Henry very awkwardly being shirtless and exposed to the league, especially the women, and Alisha attempting to help Rodney into the car. Captain Nemo drove the British Museum as the league left the smoked rubble behind them.