Liz woke to music. With her eyes closed, she listened.
"take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls all pretty… oh wont you please take me home…"
"hey I love this song!" came soul's voice from her left.
"Attention, passengers." Came Z's voice from the speakers. "You will be landing in approximately 6 minutes. Repeat, you land in 6 minutes."
"you? Not we?" said Tsubaki.
"correct. I have taken the liberty of going to search for your meisters before the ship has even docked. Even as I speak, I am en route to the control hub, where I will surely find them."
"um… who's driving the ship?" asked Soul.
The autopilot" replied Z. "5 minutes now. I'll convert the ship to glass so that you can see the Zship from the outside."
Suddenly, the ship's exterior, floor, everything disappeared, except for the seats (and, of course, the weapons themselves.)
Before them loomed the Zship, far bigger then Liz pictured it.
To put it in proportions you can comprehend, imagine this.
If our solar system (including Pluto, even) was a plankton, the Zship would be the bloody death star.
Imagine how huge it is due to our solar system's actual size.
It appeared to be a huge sphere, made of rectangular, interlocking, ridiculously huge panes of glass. They couldn't see through the glass very well, but they could still see the lights from the megatropolis inside. It was like the Zship was a huge ball of rapidly flashing rainbow fireworks. The ultimate rave party.
"holy s#it…" muttered Liz.
"ah-ha-ha! Sissy said a bad word!" giggled Patty.
Meanwhile, as they approached a relatively tiny hole in the surface of the ship (compared to the ship itself), the song appeared to be wrapping up.
"oh wont you please, take me hooooomeee!
The rocket pulled up into a huge air lock, the size of a small city. The rocket was puny compared to it.
"hooooommmeeee!"
the inner hatch opened with surprising speed, but not to a docking station: directly into the metropolis itself.
And the song went into some kind of second phase, even more epic then the first.
They saw a city, an endless city. Thousands of spires, some small, some tall, a few almost out of view above them, causing Liz to almost fall out of her seat looking up.
There were thousands of restaurants, mega-arcades, pet stores, train stations… you name it and it was in the weapons' sight. The lights which flashed would have put Tokyo to shame. Liz began to feel nostalgic for Brooklyn, just looking at it.
Thousands of people walked below them. The people were the size of ants. Some of them, at least. Many of them weren't even humanoid. Some were small, some huge. Some were just downright bizarre. There was one which looked like a living mass of water, moving on tentacles. Another looked like a giant red tyrannosaurus, only alien, with black lines over it.
Some leaped from rooftop to rooftop, with such agility and speed that Liz could barely see them.
Others even flew. As Liz watched, a purple moth with green wings flew by the ship, grinning cutely at them.
"kya ha ha ha! I wish I could fly like that!" giggled patty.
"wish granted!" said Z's voice.
And their seats were no longer there, and they were falling, falling towards the street thousands of feet below.
ooh, cliffhanger!
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