Chapter Thirteen: 30 seconds
Total destruction in t-minus two minutes! Announced the computer.
"Yeah, yeah, we get the message! The ship go bye- bye in two minutes!" shouted Fang, who was getting sick of the constant reminders.
Hey, I'm just doing my job! Do you think I like stating the blindingly obvious? The computer shot back.
"Whatever," muttered the snake. By now the entire chamber was showered in flames, sparks and debris, the monsters had sheltered themselves under the extraction console but this wasn't going to save them for long.
"Well," T.O.M. piped up. "At least we know it can't get any worse right?"
With that there was a loud thumping noise; the monsters looked down the last remaining causeway to see a lone Mech guard heading towards them, oblivious to the destruction around it.
Monster enemies located! Exterminate! Exterminate! It bellowed, preparing to fire its weapons on them.
"You had to go and say it, didn't you, T.O.M?" moaned Dr Sprocket.
Fang lunged at the drone, trying to fend it off but the drone simply knocked him back to the others. The monsters had no chance of fighting off the giant armoured drone, what with the entire chamber collapsing around them.
The drone trained its laser targeting on them and charged its lasers and missiles ready to fire. The monsters prepared themselves for the final blow when suddenly something large and blue came down on top of the drone, crushing it like a paper bag. The monsters first thought they were saved by a piece of falling debris but then they saw that the item was a giant leg, they looked up and were delighted to see it was Sarah, and she was her giant self again.
"Sarah! You came back for us!" Fang said delighted.
"You inflated yourself again!" T.O.M. pointed out with his biggest smile yet.
"By Van Gogh's ear! What happened to your face, my dear?" asked Dr Sprocket, noticing the bruises and the bleeding.
"There'll be time to talk about it back on Earth, come on!" Sarah replied. She held out her hands and picked up her friends.
Total destruction in t-minus one minute!
With her friends on-board she turned and ran for the hole she had made through the door, hurrying down the tunnels, dodging the rising flames. She ignored the stabbing pain in her chest as she held her friends close to her whilst Fang wrapped himself round her middle like a belt. They soon reached the main hangar, there were still alien probes wandering around, confused on what to do as they had not been given any new orders, their large feet stamping everywhere. Sarah knew she had to get through them to the other side, "Hold on tight!" she told her friends.
Putting her arm in front of her as a shield, she charged at the probes, bashing several robots' legs aside, some even having their legs broken off at the hinges. The floor was also littered with remaining probes and alien clones rushing around in panic but Sarah just sped past them until they reached the exit, facing the open sky. They looked around but there was no sign of General Monger, "His plane was shot down, he might not have been able to acquire another one!" Dr Sprocket explained.
"Well we can't just stand here! We need a way down!" said Fang.
"Maybe if we flap our arms we can fly out of here?" theorized T.O.M., making the others sigh with frustration.
"So what do we do?" Sarah asked them.
Total destruction in t-minus 30 seconds! 29…28…27…
Her friends couldn't think of any ideas, she looked behind her to see the hangar turn into a huge fireball, engulfing the remaining probes and vaporizing the remaining clones and drones.
23…22…21…
Another explosion devastated the front of the ship, the shockwave sent Sarah and her friends flying out the doorway. Sarah reacted quickly and grabbed the ledge, she held on as best she could with her friends clinging to her as they dangled perilously over the edge. "You know, this would be the perfect time to be rescued by something with wings!" Fang said in panic.
17…16…15…
The entire ship was going critical. It started to shudder more and more violently until Sarah couldn't hold on any longer and lost her grip. She held her friends closer to her as they plummeted to the ground, there was no way they could survive the fall from this height.
Sarah closed her eyes as moments of her life flashed through her mind. Her parents, her friends, that jerk Eric and the day when she was supposed to graduate, getting hit by a meteorite and growing 50 feet instead, meeting her new monster friends, saving New York City then the whole world from alien invasion. And now here she was with her friends, plummeting to an almost certain death.
Is this it? She thought, Is this how it all ends?
END
And thats the end of this story. I'll be writing a sequel story sometime in the future but in the meantime I have some deleted chapters for this story that I'll be uploading next.