Once we got back to the facility, we all went and actually fell asleep for a full day!
After that we all went and just had regular days at the facility. Bob lost to Link at Go-Fish constantly. Dr. Cockroach worked on a few experiments. Susan was always just playing with her hair or reading a book. I had never had a regular day yet because of the mission to camp and so I would drift between Bob and Link s game of cards, occasionally winning fairly unlike how Link wins, helping Dr. Cockroach with an experiment and with reading a book with Susan. And also with the training my powers as well at the training room and working on my hand to hand combat with Link.
A week passed before anything exciting happened. Then at breakfast, we heard the Buzzing sound that meant that Monger was coming in.
Monsters, Monger shout out to all of us, We have a situation!
What is it Monger? Susan asks him.
Well a virus at a car factory has caused the factory to create a giant robot and it is currently is on its way to the fair city of New York City. Monger tells us, We need you there immediately as the economy can t stay stable when the city is empty and the Wall Street is empty. We already evacuated the city and now we have to get there right now.
We decide to take Insecto to get there faster and it will be my first time flying so Dr. Cockroach made a harness for this situation. After I got into it, it was just a series of ropes on Insecto that made it so I could maneuver around her but if I slipped I wouldn t fall off.
Once we were off, it felt like I was on a very fast rollercoaster. Luckily we weren t going fast enough to not be able to talk so we could plan for what we are going to do.
Soon we arrive at New York City and the city is looking wonderful except for the eminent, soon to arrive, giant robot trying to destroy everything.
Everyone stretches and soon we notice a large cloud of fog clear and then the huge robot is right in front of us!
The robot is a collaboration of car parts and car factory parts. Also the two eyes of it are thousands of headlights. Every step is the sound of a lot of car engines that power its steps. The arms have 5 fingers and each of those are a few of those clamp arms from the processing line of the car factory and the thumbs are the welding tools. Basically, it was a Transformers wannabe robot.
It notices us and Bob yells out to it, Hello, Hi, how you doing? Welcome, we are here to destroy you. He says while making outrageous hand expressions.
I start freaking out, I can t fight that thing, and it s huge!
Relax, Link tells me, Old Link s got this under control.
The last time you said that, Bob starts, You were knocked out and didn t do anything!
Link glares at Bob but shrugs off the annoyed look in his eyes and says, Finally, some action! I m going to turn that oversized jalopy into a REALLY DENTED OVERSIVED JALOPY!
Dr. Cockroach tries to calm me, Don t worry Paul, if you follow me, we ll go in and shut it down while Susan, Link, Insecto and Bob stall him.
Then Susan, Insecto and Link run up to it and try to stall it. Insecto shoots her silk at its feet while Susan holds its arms down while Link looks like he is trying to do damage but is doing it no harm. Bob meanwhile is staring at some seagulls flying in the sky as we were on the shoreline right in front of the city.
Dr. Cockroach and I went up and then we started going up the robot who was unknowing of us as it was preoccupied with Susan, Link and Insecto.
We get to the supposed mouth of the robot which is a bunch of high spinning wheels and most seem to be snow tires with the ice spikes.
Dr. Cockroach laughs maniacally and yells at the robot, You can t crush a cockroach! Muahahaha! He jumps in and then he starts yelling as though it hurts but he isn t dieing.
I yell, You can t tear a blanket! Hahahahaha! I defabricate and jump in but it only hurts a bit because if my indestructibility.
Meanwhile outside the robot, the robot is trying to attack Susan with its welding tools on its thumbs .
She barely holds it back. Link had already passed out because the robot's 'shins' and 'ankles' were covered in airbags and now Insecto couldn t get close because the robot will shoot rivets at high speeds at her to keep her away and she could get hurt.
Susan calls out to Bob, Bob! Help me!
What, Bob says confused, Sorry I was watching these seagulls over here.
Bob, try to eat the robot s hand! Susan yells at him trying to make him realize that he has to help out.
Okay! Bob says almost childlike and he goes over to the open robot hand and starts to put his mouth over the fingers and slowly, the hand is dissolving.
Susan exclaims, Good Bob, now try to get at those rivet shooters.
Meanwhile, back in the robot, Dr. Cockroach and I were making our way to the robot s central processing unit.
Hey Dr. Cockroach, I say to him, Why did you want me to follow you into the robot?
Dr. Cockroach replies, Because Paul, sometimes when I try to hot wire these things, I may get shocked and will need help.
Soon we reach the CPU of the robot and we see all it is really is just a GPS with a virus!
Dr. Cockroach tells me, Right, so I ll try to shut it down and then you will try if I get knocked out.
Got it, I say in response.
Back outside the robot, Bob has eaten all of the rivet shooters and now Insecto can stun the robot by cocooning the robots legs and arms.
Insecto, Susan calls out, It s safe now for you to stun the robot!
SCREEEEEE! Insecto roars to Susan and she fires some silk at the robot and soon it is stunned fully.
Susan says as the robot struggles, Now we have to wait for Dr. Cockroach and Paul to shut it down from the inside.
Back in the robot, Dr. Cockroach has gotten past the first layer of wires and now he is on the second.
Piece of ca-aaauughghhh! He says and is interrupted as a jolt of electricity shoots out and hits him and he is launched backwards and hits the wall and passes out.
Dr. Cockroach! I yell to him hoping he is ok. Don t pass out I need to know what to cut to stop the robot! It is no use he is already out-cold.
Oh well, I say in nervousness. I ll have to try to shut this thing down myself.
The machine is covered in wires so I don t know which one to cut.
I realize, Wait a minute that s it! I leave the CPU room and go to another section of the robot and then return and mess with the CPU and then I get out of there before anything goes wrong. I pull Dr. Cockroach onto my shoulder and we get out of there.
We reach the outside of the robot and I realize we are on the top of it and it is way up!
Well, I say in hopefulness, Here goes nothing!
I defabricate myself and then I go onto Dr. Cockroach s back and then I push him off! As we fall, I spread out and become a parachute! We drift slowly down and Susan sees us and catches us.
Bob oozes over to see us.
Slowly Dr. Cockroach and Link wake up and realizes we re out of the robot.
Dr. Cockroach and Link exclaim, What happened!?!?
Susan tells Link, Link, you fought bravely and used up all of your energy holding it back from reaching the city.
Link flexes his muscles and says, Yup, that s what you get when you mess with The Link!
Dr. Cockroach asks me, What happened in the robot?
I reply to him, Well, you were hotwiring the robot and you got electrocuted. You passed out so I messed around with the robot and now we just have to wait a few more seconds before it takes effect.
We all stare at the robot.
Suddenly, the robot stopped struggling and all the lights go dead. Then it doubles over like a windup toy when its windup ends.
Everyone eyes me and asks, How did that happen Paul?
I reply, Well, the robot was made of car parts, so it was like a big car. A regular car, once started, makes its own electricity to run itself. Therefore if I only messed with the battery it would not stop. So, I went down to the fuel tank quickly and clogged the robot s fuel line with string. By cutting off the robot s fuel, it won t make its own electricity and then it can t recharge its battery like a car does.
I continue, Then I went back up to the CPU room and I did what all the action movies fail to notice. If you remove the battery of a machine, everything stops! So I cut all the wires to cut off all of the electricity. Then I took Dr. Cockroach and we got outside the robot and I defabricated and I made a parachute and we floated down.
Dr. Cockroach walks up to me and says, Paul, That s Brilliant! Your thinking outside the box has saved all of New York City!
Dr. Cockroach, I reply to him, With me, there is no box to think outside of so its just natural!
Bob juts in, Oh yeah? Well I ate my box!
Link pats him on the back and says, Yes you did Bob. And I don t even use my box because its water clogged!
Dr. Cockroach adds in, And my box is filled with gadgets!
Susan chimes in, And Insecto and I can t even fit in our boxes!
We all laugh and then out of nowhere, Monger shows up.
Good work Monsters! Monger says to us in a salute. Do you want to go anywhere before going back to the facility?
We all are very tired so none of us reply so we all go onto Insecto s back and soon we re off to go back to the facility.
Mean while, off in a capsule in orbit around the world, an angry alien is trying to get his controls functioning.
Suddenly the control panel lights up and now, a female voice says, Control panel reactivated, what if you command?
Locate those monsters that ruined my ship and my invasion! the alien says with a revengeful voice.
Searching the voice says as outside the capsule a small lens pops out and scans the earth, Monsters located , A picture is shown on the monitor of all the monsters on back of the large one. Error it seems there is another being with them.
The alien yells, What? Enlarge the image and go to high resolution!
The picture adjusts and there is a boy with a camouflage hat on the back of the flying monster among all the rest of the monsters he hates with full rage along with the giantess who stole his Quantonium. He notices a certain imaginative look in the boy s eyes and soon, he senses a plan formulating and he laughs maniacally as he plans his revenge.
Soon you will all be destroyed, he says and then some of his tentacles reach out and start to adjust the controls. And all because your new friend is so imaginative!
Suddenly, the ship starts to reach out with claws and grab all of the scrap in orbit around the escape capsule and soon the capsule is now a large ship and is approaching earth.
The alien says, Nothing can stand in my way now! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
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Back on earth, we all finally reach the facility and we all eat dinner and say goodnight to each other and soon the facility is filled with the combined sound of snoring.
--End Chapter 16--