Chapter Five: Robot Wars
It had been several hours since they had taken off, Sarah was feeling a bit cramped. Sharing a plane with a snake, a robot, a mutant plant and a dino dog in a close space wasn't comfortable. Then Monger emerged from the cockpit, "Monsters, we have arrived at our destination! We will drop you off in the path of the alien machine; most of the local residents have been evacuated but the process is taking its time so it would be appreciated if you could steer the tin tyrant away from the evacuation points! You understand?" he barked.
"Sorry, wasn't listening!" T.O.M. called "What was that about an education?"
"Evacuation," sighed Dr Sprocket.
"Er, General? Where exactly is the place where we find the robot?" asked Sarah.
"No need to worry. Titana, you're about to find out! Open front hatch!" Monger shouted to the pilot. The front of the plane opened up and without warning tilted forward making the monsters fall out and onto the tarmac of a road. With a roar the jet soared into the sky and out of sight. The monsters brushed themselves off and looked around to see where they were. Sarah then gasped with joy as she recognised that they were in Times Square.
"We're in New York! We're not far from where Eric works!" she smiled.
Fang then started cracking his knuckles then sharpening his claws, looking eager for a fight. "Okay then, where is this oversized tin can?" he asked. Almost as if a response, there was a loud rumble coming from the north of them. The monsters all turned and saw the robot come from round a corner, taking a section of the nearby building with it. The robot had to be nearly 300 feet tall and it looked like a mechanical spider except it had four legs and its body was egg shaped with one large eye.
"By Einstein's moustache!" exclaimed Dr Sprocket.
Sarah's legs froze with terror, she had never seen such a huge and terrifying robot before, and Monger was expecting them to fight it? The robots eye then suddenly shone down on the five as if it were scanning them, then its eye turned red.
"I think if we wave at it, it might wave back!" theorized T.O.M. "Hello! Welcome to planet earth. We are here to kick your ass!"
"I can't fight that thing," gasped Sarah "I can't even…I've never…" she held her stomach; she was so scared that she felt like she was going to be sick.
"Head downtown, Sarah, and we'll take care of this," said Dr Sprocket.
With that, Sarah got to her feet and sprinted down the street leaving just the four remaining monsters to fend off the machine. Fang was ready to get stuck in, until the robots front legs split apart to reveal arms with powerful clamps on the ends; it now looked like a mechanical crab. Fang's confidence diminished into a tiny, pitiful squeak. As the robot carried on, one of its legs came down on them but they managed to dive out the way, except for T.O.M who just stayed still with a smile on his face as he got trampled. When the robot continued down the street T.O.M emerged from the crater with his fists in front of his face as if in a boxing match.
"That the best you got? C'mon, put em up! Put em up!" he called to the robot but it ignored him.
"Okay we need a plan," said Dr Sprocket "Fang, take Rex and go around the city till you cut it off. T.O.M and I will catch up to it from behind and take it by surprise!"
Fang nodded and climbed onto Rex who took off to the west. Sprocket then noticed T.O.M staggering near several abandoned vehicles and a construction site littered with worker's tools. He scratched his metallic chin in thought. "Oh yes! A big surprise indeed! Mwah hah hah!"
The alien robot marched closer and closer, crushing anything that was in its path, the sound of its footsteps echoing all around. Sarah cowered in fear as she heard the robot approaching, she hoped her friends were okay.
Like a giant explosion, the robot punched a hole through a building so it could see Sarah on the other side. She screamed and ran in panic through the streets; careful not to step on the cars otherwise she could end up slipping and falling. Then she noticed a large flat bed truck and an idea came to her, placing her feet on the flat bed she started to skate board away.
Fang however wasn't making great progress, Rex had decided instead to stop and sniff every single lamp post and fire hydrant on the west side of the city. Fang started getting impatient, trying to use his tail as a leash but to no avail. Then there was a whirring noise from up above.
"Tally ho!" called Dr Sprocket down to the snake. He had taken a taxi and strapped multiple parts from other vehicles onto it and made a taxi/gunship helicopter. Sprocket was piloting it from the driver's seat and T.O.M was sitting in the back seat. "Looks like you could use a lift!"
"You think?" shouted Fang. Then he lassoed himself onto the chopper and got into the front passenger seat, he then called down to Rex. "You just stay here, boy! We'll take care of this by ourselves."
Rex was too busy sniffing a car tyre to listen, so the remaining monsters took off after the robot.
Sarah meanwhile had been skateboarding down street after street narrowly avoiding obstacles but the robot was able to keep up with her. She swerved between different vehicles and jumped over larger ones, the robot simply flattened them. Then just as she thought she was getting away she realised she had reached Battery Park, she had run out of road! Turning round in time to see the robots pincer lunge at her and grabbed her forcefully, lifting her into the air.
Sarah screamed as the robot started heading out into the water, her screams were so loud that Rex's ears perked up and he saw the robot in the distance from the Hudson River with the struggling Sarah in its claws. Rex growled loudly before letting out a gigantic roar, he then sped off down the street as fast as he could towards the robot. The other monsters had also heard the screams and saw the robot was drawing close to Liberty Island. "What's it doing?" asked T.O.M.
"I'm not sure but I think it is looking for an open area to take off back into space." theorized Dr Sprocket.
"Well isn't that good?" asked Fang, "I mean it's about to leave, job done and we didn't really do anything!"
"Firstly, it is about to flatten Liberty Island and that area hasn't been evacuated yet. Secondly, those that survive being crushed will be vaporised when the robot takes off and thirdly, the robot has taken Sarah!" explained Dr Sprocket.
"Man, you are such a killjoy aren't ya?" grumbled Fang. Rex meanwhile had reached the coast where Sarah had been snatched, seeing the robot head towards the island the dino dog jumped into the water and started doggy paddling after it.
As the robot drew closer and closer to the Statue of Liberty, Sarah could hear the nearby citizens screaming in terror, the robot was going to crush them unless she did something. She pushed with all her might against the claws holding her and surprised herself when they parted with ease. She quickly leapt out of its grasp and landed on the bank of the island, civilians had already abandoned that section and made their way to the other side of the island where the evacuation boats were arriving.
The robot was still coming however and now appeared livid having lost its prisoner, its eye had turned an even brighter red, it swiped at her with its pincers, narrowly missing her but tore great chunks out of the ground. She had no where else to run and she needed cover; then saw the statue, it was slightly taller than the robot and it couldn't walk all the way round fast enough to catch her, so she darted behind Lady Liberty so the robot couldn't get to her and it worked, for about 5 seconds. The robot started punching the base of the statue, with every hit more and more cracks appeared and the statue started to shudder.
Sarah knew at any moment the statue was gonna come down and the robot would grab her again. She closed her eyes for the final blow, but it never came, she opened her eyes and looked at the robot, its claw was fully stretched towards her but could no longer reach the statue. Sarah looked past the robot and saw that Rex had swum ashore and grabbed the robots hind leg, pulling fiercely and growling loudly.
The other monsters finally caught up to the robot and saw Rex pulling the robot back with all his might. "That pup will not do as he's told!" sighed Fang.
"Never mind that," called Dr Sprocket. "He's got the right idea! Fang, T.O.M, lasso the robots other leg quickly!" Fang and T.O.M climbed out onto the taxi choppers wings, T.O.M. launched a bunch of his vines down onto the robots leg and Fang lassoed his extended tail round the same leg. Then Dr Sprocket pulled the control stick back and the whole chopper went into reverse, pulling the robot back even further.
Sarah sighed in relief; her friends had saved her and were pulling the robot away from the civilians. Then there was a loud scream followed by several others and then a huge cracking noise, she turned around and saw it was coming from the top of the statue. Oh No! There are people still in there! She thought. The robot had collapsed the exit from the statue and it was starting to sway too and fro.
"Okay Sarah, you can do this!" she coached herself. She approached the base and then started to climb up the statue. In no time she reached the top and saw there were several people trapped inside, gently as she could she smashed through the windows and held out her hand.
"It's okay! I'm here to help you!" she reassured them. The people were reluctant at first but gradually she got them into her hand, she put some in her trouser leg pockets and some in her breast pockets but there were still a small group of people left and no time to come back for them, so she told them to grab on to strands of her wavy gold hair. Once they were all on her she started to climb down slowly and carefully as the statue tilted from side to side. Eventually she reached the bottom; carefully she placed the people back on the ground and told them to head for the boats, as she watched them leave there was a giant explosion behind her, knocking her to the ground.
She looked behind her and saw the robot had reached the statue again; Rex had pulled off the panel his teeth were dug into from the robots leg, and Fang and T.O.M had lost their grip, springing back to Sprockets taxi like a pair of rubber bands.
The robot sighted Sarah on the floor and took one last swing at the statue, this time making it come down like a mighty tree, she screamed as the monument fell on top of her and she disappeared in a cloud of dust. "SARAH! NOOO!" the monsters cried.
Then from the dust, as if by magic, the fallen statue started to rise into the air again, with Sarah holding the entire statue up by herself.
"Wow!" exclaimed Fang.
With one big grunt, Sarah launched the statue at the robot, the machine couldn't react fast enough as the heavy structure collided into it, causing its front legs to break off, with that the whole thing collapsed in on itself. The sound rang out like an explosion with dust engulfing the whole thing. As the dust and the waves settled, there laid a pile of rubble formerly known as Lady Liberty mixed with twisted and smashed metal.
As the monsters regrouped, they glanced over the pile of scrap and the destruction it had made. "Can we do that again?" asked T.O.M eagerly.
Sarah just smiled, and then heaved a deep sigh of relief as the robots giant eye finally slid closed.
Note: I've never been to NY so apologies if there was anything wrong with this. Although, this is set in another dimension so i personally think i can get away with it.