Chapter Ten: Initiating Stage Two
Dawn was breaking over the eerie silence of the city, but in Central Park there was mass activity. General Monger had assembled his men around the abduction site, the alien ship had moved high into the sky until it was no more than a spec.
Rex had been lifted out of the lake and onto a flat bed truck where numerous doctors and vets examined him. The remaining monsters stayed near the parked jet that had brought them to New York, they were all shaken from last nights events, even T.O.M had not spoken since the attack. Finally Monger had finished talking to the doctors and walked over to the monsters, his face tired and worn having not slept in days.
"Is he okay?" Fang asked anxiously. His hands clenched tightly, preparing himself for whatever the result was going to be.
"Well," Monger cleared his throat. "He took a massive hit to the thigh; it's caused some severe bleeding. But they say Fido will recover though it's gonna take time, he will need a vet collar for a while,"
Fang heaved a huge sigh of relief and T.O.M's face lit up again. Only Sprocket seemed to be focusing on the big picture. "Yes that's all very well, but we still have our other problem! Our alien menace has revealed itself and taken Sarah hostage, also it has not left our atmosphere which means it is here to invade us!"
"My thoughts exactly!" said Monger. "I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but we have no choice. Operation Monsters vs. Aliens has now reached stage two!"
"And that would be…?" Sprocket asked.
"Infiltration of the enemy base!" Monger answered.
"They have a great big death ship and we have 3 monsters and a wounded pup!" Sprocket stated. "You sure we can do this?"
"We can and we will," Fang piped up. "We're not gonna let Rex's efforts go in vain. We're gonna get up there, find Sarah and then kick that squishy alien's butt!"
"Yeah, let's go! Leroy Jenkins!" T.O.M yelled as he bounced into the plane with Fang, Sprocket and Monger following.
In no time they were in the air, circling the city in order to gain height to the alien ship. Whilst the plane was on auto pilot, Monger briefed them on their mission; he paced up and down explaining the plan. "Okay monsters, you each have a jet pack with the power to get you up to that ET ship but there won't be enough left to get you home, I'll try and get you if I can but there is a good chance I'll be killed before hand."
The monsters stared at each other, they knew Monger was going to divert any enemy fire so they could sneak in undetected, but they never thought that the general might not make it back alive. Monger stopped pacing then looked at his team.
"I've been your warden for 50 years but I no longer see you as prisoners, more like this planets saviours and for that...I salute you!" said Monger proudly.
"Well, salute you too!" T.O.M shot back. Sprocket shook his head.
"It's not an insult T.O.M; it's a sign of respect!" Dr Sprocket said.
"Right! Lets rock 'n' roll!" barked Fang. Monger got back into the cockpit and opened the plane doors; one by one the monsters jumped out and activated their jet packs. They were now soaring towards the open entrance at the tip of the ship. Mongers plane circling round the other side to get its attention, soon the alien gun that had struck Rex appeared again and opened fire on the jet; hitting its engines and making it fall out of the sky in a ball of flame. The monsters were worried until they saw a parachute appear; Monger had ejected in time and was now gently drifting back to earth.
Eventually, the monsters made it into the hangar. Removing their jet packs that were now knackered, they used stealth to slowly make their way to the hangar corridors. They found hundreds of alien troops, all looking identical, coming through the walkways so they had to enter the air vents and crawl to the centre of the ship, Dr Sprocket was the only one not complaining about the smell cos he could turn off his aroma sensors. Finally they reached the end of the vents and found themselves looking into the giant central chamber of the ship.
"Isaac's apple!" gasped Sprocket. The room was enormous, there were four causeways linking to a central mechanism. The causeways were pumping out more and more aliens and each batch of troops was then escorted by an ape looking drone and four small versions of the NY robot, no bigger than a Shetland pony.
"Where's Sarah then? All I see is more aliens!" asked T.O.M.
"First we have to locate the right section to look!" said Sprocket. "Fang, you can use your infra red sight to locate Sarah's heat signature! These aliens will have much colder body temperatures!"
"All right, here goes." agreed Fang. Concentrating hard he peered all around the chamber, the aliens were indeed cold blooded, there bodies appeared a blue/green colour. Fang checked the bridges, the doorways and finally the central mechanism where there seemed to be a small red coloured blip mixed with a large quantity of green blips. "There in the middle. I see something with those alien troopers!"
Dr Sprocket then used his enhanced eyes to magnify his sight on the central area. He saw a platoon of aliens standing in formation, facing a hologram of their leader! He finally caught sight of the human form. "Sarah's down there with those troopers!" he confirmed.
"Wow! Titana ain't so titanic anymore!" observed Fang. Then the hologram disappeared followed by a chorus of 'Hail Gallaxus!', the monsters then saw that a single alien was escorting Sarah along one of the causeways.
"How do we get down to her?" asked Dr Sprocket. "We're outnumbered infinity to 3!"
"I may be as brainless as a cabbage, gentlemen," T.O.M piped up. "But I got an idea."
Minutes later, Fang and T.O.M. had secretly snatched two aliens, knocked them out and stole their uniforms. Dr Sprocket meanwhile had to look for a different disguise, being a robot and all, and he found it in a Mech guard that was on its way to escort the next batch of aliens to their vessel. The drone stopped in front of Sprocket and looked down at him.
What is your function on this ship? It asked him.
Dr Sprocket kept his cool and replied, "Well my function here is infiltration and then this…"
He produced a circular saw from the many tools in his hands, leaping up he sliced the drones head off, it clattered on the ground and shut down. Dr Sprocket then climbed into the open hole in the neck and seated himself into it like a cockpit, working the controls he managed to get the drone to move and meet up with the others.
"Well, that's a nice outfit doc!" laughed Fang. "You look like something out of Transformers! Shame about the small head!"
"Yes very funny!" said Sprocket sarcastically. "Now let's go and rescue Sarah!"