Me: Hi everyone. I'm sorry you haven't seen me in a while
Mordecai: Let me guess, summer classes?
Me: Yep
Rigby: Well that sucks.
Muscleman: Hey bro, we get it, do what you gotta do
Me: Thanks guys, I appreciate it. But with summer classes, and work, and other fanfics, it may be a long gap between my updates. Sorry
Mordecai: We understand
Grimlock: Enough Talk! Get on with Story!
Me: Alright. Here we go…
Ch 15, Two Brains are Better than One.
Black Forest, Germany
It was mid-afternoon, all was peaceful in this forest. All, save for the massive white energy beam currently shooting in the sky, leading to the rift-gate in space, and the massive alien fleet ready to attack. Several miles from this location, above the forest canopy, a large bright blue transparent orb had just arrived from the main G3 base, having left a short time ago.
Inside this orb, was the teenage Secret Scientist, Zak Saturday; and the main modular component by the name of Octus.
"This should be far enough." Octus said "My scanners are picking up the bio-signatures of many Mutradi, we should continue on foot from here."
"Good idea." Zak agreed "We wouldn't want to risk getting spotted just yet."
With that, the orb descended into the dense forest. When it reached the ground, Zak stepped out, and Octus resumed his robot form. Upon seeing Octus change shape, Zak couldn't help but smile.
"Why are you smiling at me?" Octus asked
"Well it's just… you're the coolest robot I've ever seen." Zak commented
"Oh… well, thank you."
Octus did not like being simply called a "robot", but he did enjoy the comment of being called cool; and he couldn't be too mad at Zak, the two just met, and they are each from a different parallel earth.
"We appear to be at least three miles away from the tower, and with time not being on our side, we had better get moving." Octus suggested
"Yeah, come on, let's go." Zak replied.
The two then began their small trek through the forest.
After about fifteen minutes of fast-paced walking through the trees, the two had just came before a thick brush, Zak was about to proceed, but Octus put his hand on the boy's shoulder.
"What is it?" The young scientist asked
"Our destination is just beyond this foliage, but I can sense the bio-signatures of at least eleven Mutradi guards, we should proceed with caution" Octus advised
Zak nodded and the he slowly moved the branches aside. He saw a large clearing down a small cliff, and in the middle of the clearing was the massive Mutradi tower, blasting the rift-gate energy straight upward. Zak looked down below and saw three Mutradi guards.
"I only see three, where are the others?" Zak asked
"The remaining eight are on the other side of the tower." The mind of Titan replied.
"Do you think you can handle those eight? I can take the three in-front" Zak told his partner.
"I'm certain I can, though I'd greatly advise caution when dealing with those Mutradi, they are quite dangerous." Octus warned
Zak gave a cocky smile and pulled out his signature weapon, The Claw. "Yeah? So am I."
The three guards in front of the tower we're watching everything in front of them. Their eyes ,not waning for anything. Their guns, primed and ready to shoot down any intruded who would dare come anywhere near them. However, there was one crucial flaw in their strategy, while they kept looking infront they failed to see any danger that would come from above.
From a large tree in-front of them, on one of the top branches was Zak. He made his move. Zak jumped down, as he fell, he extended the cable of the end of his Claw and landed on the Mutradi in front of the other two. As the creature screeched and squirmed, Zak was able to wrap the cable around the alien's neck.
The other two Mutradi caught notice of this, and primed their weapons. Zak looked behind and saw this. In response, he yanked the cord, causing the Mutradi to turn around, and take the blasts from the other two as they blasted their own.
With one dealt with, Zak jumped off the carcass and launched his Claw-grappler. It latched onto the guns of the leftmost Mutradi guard, and with a hard tug, Zak yanked it out of the alien's hands. The Claw retracted, bringing the weapon back to Zak. He immediately took hold of it and opened fire on the leftmost, still-armed Mutradi. The alien wasn't quick enough to respond and screeched as the energy in the weapon seared through it's flesh.
Zak heard another screech and saw the Mutradi, that he just disarmed, running for him, arms raised ready to crush the young scientist, only for Zak to turn the weapon and fire point-blank, blasting a hole through it's chest just as it was one-foot away from Zak. It fell over, dead.
The remaining eight guards heard commotion from the other side of the tower and turned. They we're about to head to the other side to see what was going on, but they heard a strange whistling noise.
One Mutradi guard turned and before he knew it, a transparent blue fist had impacted it's face, causing it to cave in, and send the poor alien flying into the wall of the tower, one down.
All seven Mutradi guards looked to Octus whom had just recovered from a punching-position. They pointed all they're weapons at them, but with a whistling sound and a blue blur, all they're weapons vanished. They looked at their hands in surprise and then back to Octus, whom was holding all seven guns in his arms. He dropped them, and then blasted electricity from his hands to the guns, causing them to explode.
The Mutradi just stood there for a few seconds, but then roared and charged straight to their enemy. Octus blasted two bolts of electricity from his hands and the two front-most Mutradi, whom we're completely electrocuted from the inside out. The remaining five still charged, only for Octus to zip straight for them, knocking them all of their feet. Once he was in the back of the pack, he grabbed the feet of the one in the back of the pack, and begun spinning at such velocity it could rival a helicopter blade.
The last four Mutradi recovered and saw Octus, still-spinning, heading straight for them. He spun at such intense velocity, it sliced all four of them in half. Octus stopped spinning, and dropped the corpse of the Mutradi that he just spun.
Zak was walking to the main door and saw Octus quickly zip towards him, dust at his trail.
"Done?" Zak asked
"Done." Octus replied
They both looked straight at the tower.
"How many are in there?" Zak asked
From Octus' POV, he could see the infrared signatures of all the Mutradi present in the tower.
"Fifty seven" was his answer.
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go" Zak told him
"Hold on." Octus put his arm in front of Zak to stop him from proceeding "Perhaps you should wait out here, and I'll handle it."
Zak was surprised to say the least "Huh? Dude, I can handle myself."
"I am not doubting your abilities" Octus replied "But we do have many Mutradi in that fortress, all armed and dangerous. On top of that, we don't know what kind of traps they have in store."
"I'm not just gonna sit here and do nothing!" Zak sternly replied "Look, it's true my only power is Cryptid-Telepathy, which doesn't work in this situation, but I'm not a helpless human"
"I never said you we're helpless." Octus said "I am merely saying that it is dangerous"
"Man, you sound just like my parents when I was eleven." Zak told him.
"I am only looking out for my comrade…" Octus began
"And I appreciate that." Zak interrupted "Believe me, I do. But I can do more than just fight, let me help."
Octus thought about this for a moment. He was always surprised when humans would constantly defy the odds, they would continue to persevere even though the odds we're against them; most of the time it didn't work out, but when it did… One of the reasons Octus had grown found of humans.
"Alright then."
"Yes!" Zak exclaimed happily
"However, it would be best if I take point." Octus suggested
"Fair enough."
With that they proceeded to the main door. Octus grabbed the point-in-between and pried it open, revealing the many aliens, all armed.
"Knock, knock! Any one home?" Zak joked before the two heroes ran in.
The two then fought they're way up the alien tower. It was the same gist for each floor, Octus would zip in and disarm all the Mutradi, and he and Zak would deal with them hand-to-hand. Octus was able to get most of them, but Zak got plenty as well, with his signature Claw acting as many weapons; bo-staff, grappler, and claw-slicer. Before they knew it, they had cleared most of the tower and had made it to the roof.
"Huh, that went by quicker than expected." Zak observed
"I think one would say that it was easy." Octus said
"Yeah, too easy."
In one of the lower floors, one Mutradi was still alive. It was scratched, bleeding greatly, and both its legs we're broken It slowly began to crawl to a large black-box-shaped device. It couldn't believe that the entire fortress had been overrun by only two! A human and a machine, by themselves! If it's master found out about this, they're would be hell to pay. It would not let this happen. It had crawled to the box, and typed open a few random keys. The box opened, and the last thing the Mutradi saw was fire, before it engulfed the creature.
Back at the top of the tower, Octus had just detected something that shook its sensors. "We have a problem."
"What?" Zak asked
"A massive heat signature has just emerged from my scanners and it's quickly moving to our location."
"Another Mutradi?" Zak questioned
"It's hard to tell but… LOOK OUT!" Octus quickly grabbed Zak and zipped far away near the edge of the tower as a large column of flame blasted from where they we're standing.
Octus put Zak down and they both looked in surprise as the column of fire took shape, almost humanoid. When it was done, red eyes pierced from the flames and a mouth formed, it roared at the two. This was just like the Fire Mutradi Mega-Beast that first came to earth; only it was 10-feet tall instead of the size of Godzilla.
"I knew this was too easy." Zak commented.
In one instant, the creature lunged in a large streak of fire. Zak and Octus both jumped in opposite directions as the fire landed where they last we're and retook its beast form. Zak extended his claw into a staff and was the first to attack. He swung and jabbed at the creature, only for it to quickly move and avoid each attack. Zak could hardly touch the thing, it moved as fast as fire itself.
The fire monster landed behind Zak and swatted him away. Zak landed on his back and saw the Fire Mutradi leap towards him, before either of them knew it, Octus landed in-front of it and blasted electricity, harming the beast as it roared in pain.
"Zak! You need to leave!" Octus urged
"No way! Forget it!"
"Listen to me!" Octus exclaimed "I have faced this kind of creature before, it is not like the standard Mutradi soldier you've faced so far, it's too fast for any human to counter, even I can only hold it for so long!"
"Do you know how to kill it though?" Zak asked
"I am just working on holding it back right now, but you have to go NOW!"
Zak didn't move. He thought about this. Think Zak, think! There had to be a way to bring this hot-head down to size. He was the scientist of two of his world's greatest scientists, he had to think outside the box. He looked at the massive energy beam being shot out in the sky. It was a massive amount of energy, it should be giving off a ton of heat itself, when something gives off too much heat it needs a… then it hit him.
"Octus!" Zak exclaimed
"What is it? You have to…" He replied, as his electric field around the Fire Mutradi began fail.
"Just shut up and listen to me! Can you find any coolant system in this tower?"
Octus activated his sensors and began to scan the area, his sensors picked up an area that was lower on energy than everything else in the tower.
"Fifty meters to your left, there is a hatch, it leads to a coolant system just below." Octus answered.
Zak looked to his left and saw the hatch. "Okay, just keep that thing buys." He got up and then ran to the hatch, just as the electric-field failed. The Fire Mutradi snapped at Octus and knocked him back, it saw Zak at the hatch and was about to pounce him, only for Octus to zip and push him quite the ways away. The Fire Mutradi snarled at the robot, and the two charged at high-speeds toward each other.
Zak got into the hatch and climbed down a large ladder. When he reached the bottom, he saw a large cooling unit in front of him. The room itself was so cold, Zak could see his breath. He saw one large tank with some kind of liquid inside, he theorized it was liquid nitrogen or something like it, he also saw multiple long tubes leading all over the room and into the walls, keeping the whole tower cool. Zak smiled "I just figured out how we're gonna beat this guy"
Octus and the Fire Mutradi had taken to the skies, the creature now in the form of a large streak of fire. Octus was now being chased, he continued to circle around the large energy beam with the enemy hot on his tail (no pun intended). Octus would turn around and fire more electric bolts, but the creature was quick enough to dodge all of them. After one attempted blast, the Fire Mutradi soared above Octus and in-front of him, he then slapped Octus back onto the roof.
Octus slammed hard on the roof, it almost looked like a metal crater where he impacted. The streak of fie landed in-front of him and resumed it's beast-form. It raised it's hands ready to finish off the robot until…
"Hey! Hot head!"
Both Octus and the Fire Mutradi turned to the voice and saw Zak standing near the edge of the hatch, holding a large hose, the tube leading down into the hatch, into the coolant room below.
"You need to cool off." Zak said
The creature roared at Zak before charging at him.
"Zak Run!" Octus yelled
Zak didn't budge, he then pulled a trigger, and a blast of liquid streamed out of the hose and impacted the Fire Mutradi. The creature roared in pain, and fell to the ground, a huge blast of steam coming off it. The creature slowly got up and begun to slowly walk towards Zak.
Zak began to back up and pulled the lever harder, shooting out more liquid, cooling the creature even further. As it slowly approached Zak, the fire doused out, and it looked like a being made of stone without the fire. Despite that, it was still alive and continued to walk closer to Zak, who continued to pour more liquid onto it.
Zak stumbled backwards, but kept pouring. The creature reached out for Zak, as it reached out, it began to turn blue as small icicles formed all over it's body. Just when the creature's claw was inches from Zak's face, it stopped moving altogether, completely frozen.
Zak took advantage of this and slammed his Claw weapon into the creature, shattering it. He smiled as the pieces all fell. "And that, is how it's done. Saturday Style."
Octus had just gotten up and looked in amazement "Impressive" He said as he walked to Zak. "You used the tower's coolant system against a being who's only weapon was heat. Why didn't I think of that?"
"Told ya I could handle myself. Telepathy aint my only power." Zak said as he tapped his head.
Octus then opened his communications channel. "Octus reporting to Solomon. Zak and I have just secured the portal generator in Germany."
"Roger that" Solomon replied back on the comm frequency "Only one generator remains. I am sending a squad to keep that location secure. Once they arrive, return to base. Solomon out"
The comn frequency then closed. "Only one generator left." Octus said.
"Then the real fun begins" Zak replied
Me: Done.
Mordecai: Nice.
Muscleman: Way to keep the action going bro.
Rigby: Yeah, that was awesome!
Grimlock: Me Grimlock can't wait for next update.
Me: As I said though, with Summer Classes, work, and my other stories, it could be a while. Thanks to everyone for your patience. I look forward to your reviews.