Chapter Twelve: Final Confrontation

Gallaxus looked over the planet from his command bridge, wondering where he should put his home entertainment centre, when the computer started ringing in alarm. Gallaxus rushed to the monitors and saw that the reactor core had been set to overload. "Computer, what the flagnod happened?" he screamed.

Monsters infiltrated base and breached core room! Ship is set to self destruct in 10 minutes! Invasion cancelled! Not my fault, honest! The computer replied.

"Space nuts! Seal the middle of the ship and divert the Quantronium to the bridge!" the alien demanded. The green element emerged from different tubes in the floor and fed into a glass cylinder tank that was coupled to an escape pod. "This is not the end! As long as I have the Quantronium, no one can stop me!"

Alert! Female humanoid not contained! The computer announced.

"What?" Gallaxus yelled. Turning round he saw on the monitors the human female using the remnants of a hover craft to glide through the tunnels to the main hangar. "Interior defences activate! Disintegrate the earthling!"

Sarah was gliding down the hangar corridor as fast as she could, flying through the holes she made in the doors when she was a giant. As she reached the hangar, numerous alien probes started to come to life and guns emerged from the walls and began shooting at her. Sarah narrowly dodged the lasers only to be met with claws coming at her, leaning her hips she was able to spin out of their grasp, the robots and lasers kept coming however and Sarah was finding it hard to avoid them. Soon she was surrounded but there were so many robots moving around that the lasers couldn't get a fix on her and began shooting through the robots, making them all fall to the floor with their legs cut off.

Relieved, Sarah was clear to glide out the hangar and make her way to the bridge at the top of the ship, exterior lasers tried to get her but she was too small to hit. She soon found the bridge and Gallaxus staring angrily at her, she leaned forward for a sudden burst of speed and before reaching the window she put her feet forward so the hover board would smash the window. With a loud smash, Sarah flew into the command bridge and crashed into the alien, knocking him to the floor and knocking his gun out of his hand.

"Now what? You think you've got what it takes to stop me?" he sneered. They both got up and Sarah could see the Quantronium filled into a glass tank behind him.

"If my friends are in danger then I'll do whatever it takes to save them!" she replied. She charged at the alien and dived at him, knocking him to the floor; Gallaxus quickly knocked her away and got back up. Sarah lunged at him again with a punch, but the alien easily deflected and responded with two fists to her face. Every time she tried to hit Gallaxus he would counter and land well hit blows to her face and body, then he started going on the offensive, throwing her round the room with his tentacles, jabbing her with his four fists and using his large head to bash her in the face.

The monsters were in real trouble, the chamber was on fire and coming apart, the other causeways were collapsing and the reactor was close to falling onto the extraction device. They dived out the way of falling debris.

The computer rang out again: Total destruction in t-minus six minutes!

Fang huffed, "Great! Six minutes to avoid being flattened and then we get vaporized!"

With a powerful uppercut, Sarah crumpled to the floor; she had bruises all over her face, cuts above her eye and on her lip and she felt like she had a broken rib. Gallaxus stood over her, unscathed, scoffing at the pitiful sight in front of him; she hardly had any strength to get up.

"You flesh bags always think your so tough?" he said, landing a kick to her stomach sending her sliding along the floor. "You come here full of hope, bravery and determination and where has it got you?"

Sarah looked up at the alien and in a low voice she muttered, "Right where I need to be!"

Gallaxus frowned and then realised what she meant. He had thrown her in front of the Quantronium tank and his gun was lying right next to her, he rushed to stop her but she grabbed the gun and swung it, hitting him in the face, he recoiled clutching his nose and staggered away from her. Sarah looked at the tank and in a swift moment she fired the gun at it, making it break and letting the green element flow out.

At first it drifted around Sarah like a mist and then it fused with her body again. Gallaxus looked back at the tank, it was empty and Sarah was just standing there with the gun on the floor. "MY QUANTRONIUM!" he screamed.

He lunged at her with rage but Sarah raised her hand and grabbed one of his fists. She started to grip it tighter until Gallaxus felt his hand being crushed, Sarah then let go and grabbed his throat with her other hand, lifting him off the ground with ease. She was the same height but the Quantronium had started making her strong again, she looked up at the alien, her face was angry and covered in blood but also glowing green. With that she threw him to the other side of the room, crashing into a statue of himself and falling to the floor in a daze, lifting his head he looked over at the glowing human, this wasn't going to end well!

Sarah groaned as she felt her whole body growing bigger, her spacesuit grew with her just as is it had shrunk with her. Her arms lengthening till she could touch both sides of the room. She grew taller and taller until her head hit the ceiling making her crouch slightly, she was still bruised and bleeding but she didn't feel the sting anymore. Finally she had become Titana again, she looked around for her alien foe and found him grabbing his gun and pointing it at her, she was unfazed by this action.

"Do you really think that's gonna stop me?" she asked.

Gallaxus fired frantically at her and for a while she let him continue shooting, but the lasers had no effect at all. Finally getting bored she reached down and grabbed the alien, holding him close to her face, Gallaxus tried to shoot her again at point blank range but still no effect. Annoyed, Sarah took the gun off him and crushed it between her fingers.

"You'll never hurt anything or anyone I love ever again!" she told him. With that she threw the alien right into his statue, falling to the floor again he got up and heard a cracking noise. He looked up in time to see his own statue come down on top of him, with a loud crash he was no more.

"See how you like it." She said. The computer sounded again: Total destruction in t-minus four minutes! Sarah had no time to lose; she had to rescue her friends. Locating the small exit, she ripped off the door and squeezed through the doorway into a winding tunnel that would surely take her back to the extraction chamber. She ran down the tunnel as fast as she could, praying she could get there in time.