"48 miles to surface…"

"Bout time. I was getting claustrophobic." Said Liz, stretching.

DING! "surface reached."

"We should be in the main terminal." Said Z, as he and the gang stepped out into a humongous room of various creatures. The room was so huge, it could fit half an airport. Thousands of aliens milled around, on their ways to various places. Huge signs, placed like jumbotrons, flickered their numbers rapidly, showing travel time estimates, ticket prices, available seats, things like that.

Z cleared a path through the crowd. "Lucky I'm wearing this suit, otherwise we'd get mobbed by people looking to suck up to their king." He muttered to the gang.

They made their way to the exit, and came out on a street, which would have put the las vegas strip to shame. Signs everywhere, more then a few of them moving.

"Ohhh, im so excited!" Said Z. "Ok, our first stop is-"

"BOOM!" "AIEEEEE!"

Explosions and screams came from around the corner of the terminal. Z swore. "id better check that. Cmon." Z ran towards the noise.

"shouldn't we be running away from the big scary noise?" whimpered liz. She followed the rest anyways.

Z stopped at the corner, near the crosswalk. He pushed them all back to the wall, and peeked around the corner.

"fuck. Im sorry you guys, I gotta take this." He sounded remorseful, like a cell phone call had interrupted a pleasant conversation. "Looking around this corner is not recommended. Especially for Liz."

"W-Why?" asked Liz fearfully.

"Um… It's a daddy."

"daddy?"

"look, just stay here, ok? Ill take care of this."

Z then exploded into action, rolling onto the street, instantly posing on one knee, both arms held in front of him. The buzzsaw was revving, the red bar had morphed into some kind of high-tech crossbow, smaller bars flipping out from each side.

"OY LEGS! OVER HERE, SHITHEAD!" he screamed, firing horizontal laser blasts from the crossbow, buzzsaws launching from the other arm's weapon.

Whatever it was responded with a laser, the thickness of a redwood, which hit Z head on. He didn't even flinch. Just kept firing. The disturbing thing was, it was being launched from above, at an angle, down at Z; almost like from a plane.

It definitely wasn't a plane, though, judging by the rapid "thoom"ing footsteps.

"Gnnn… Shit…" He said, being weakened by the relentless laser. He backed up, not ceasing his attack either.

Once he had backed up about fifty feet, a huge vertical rod emerged from around the side of the building, at least 100 feet tall, slamming a car, setting its car alarm off.

"what the hell?" muttered Kid, but as the entity emerged around the side of the building, it became evident what it was.

"it…" said Maka.

"it's a…" gasped Tsubaki.

"SPIIIIDDDEEERRRRR!" screeched Liz, running around in circles. "BIG BIG SPIDER! FUCKING BIG SPIDER!"

Sure enough, a metal robot spider, easily 100 feet tall, had emerged, following Z. The aforementioned laser shot from it's tiny body, which was ridiculously out of proportion with its huge legs.

"how dare you scare Liz! Take this!" screamed Z.

He ripped his arms to each side, disassipating the laser. The spider revved up for another blast, but before it could charge, something strange happened.

Over Z's upper right shoulder, a shape appeared: a black circle, with an blue X dissecting it.

Almost as soon as it appeared, the shape disappeared with a "ding!" which Maka could swear she heard from a couple hundred feet away, over the spider's footsteps, the sirens wailing, and the people screaming.

Immidiately after the shape disappeared, Z leapt at the spider's leg. Then, it was like he was in slow motion for a second as another solid black circle appeared, this one emblazoned with a hollow green triangle.

Another ding was heard and the shape also disappeared. Again, Z demonstrated a superhuman feat, climbing up the spider's leg. Then, as he hung from one arm from the spider's underbelly, in front of a large red hole, and as he unstrapped his huge cannon from his back with his other arm, time slowed again, and another black circle appeared, this one with a hollow pink square. Yet another ding banished the circle, and Z fired the cannon into the huge red spot. A metallic groan, like a huge piece of metal bending, emitted from the spider. Then it exploded, in a flash of orange shockwaves, which could be felt from 100 feet below.

Z landed, making a small crater in the ground, but he was unharmed. He brushed off his armor and said, "how troublesome." He then turned to the SE cast, and said, "sorry about that. Let us continue as though nothing happened." He stopped Liz from running around any more with a hand.

"Liz, calm down."

"spider… s-s-s-spider…"

Z sighed. "I was afraid she'd be traumatized like this." He cracked his knuckles. "I have the perfect remedy."

Then he placed his hands on Liz' shoulders, and gave her a magnificent shoulder/back rub. Liz stopped shivering. Slowly a smile grew on her face, and her eyelids drooped closed. "mmm… aww yeah… right there…" she murmered.

Z stopped rubbing after a couple minutes, and Liz opened her eyes and turned to him.

"thanks, Z. that felt… really… good. Where'd you learn to do that?" she said.

"Trade secret, hon. C'mon, A trip to the mall will wash the last vestiges of that creature from your head." He put his arm around her shoulder, and steered her down the street, everyone else following.

Z didn't notice Kid's murderous glare as he led Liz on to places unknown.