RIB

Part Fitteen

Reno and Rene were startled by the loud CRACK! coming from behind them. They forgot about their lustful thoughts at the sight of a dark cloud pouring out from the trees that was heading right for them. It took a few seconds before their eyes could adjust to the eerie shadows caused by the monochromatic light of the low pressure sodium street lamps, then they could see what that dark cloud really was.

"OMG!" Rene yelled. "Giant Cockroaches! Thousands of them."

"Oh no, not again!" Reno cried, grabbing Rene's hand and pulling her off the bench. "Run for it!"

They took off running toward the imagined safety of the Museum complex, though Reno had little idea that the building would offer them safety from the invading horde of monsters for long. Halfway between where they started out ,and the museum, he looked over his shoulder to realize they weren't going to make it in time. The bugs were too fast.

Astro saw the newly hatched bugs blast out of the cavern, heading north. "I found them, just a bit late!" Agent A radioed to agents K and J. "They're heading for the Museum"

"Roger that!" K replied. "We're after them!"

From his vantage point a few hundred feet in the air Astro saw the two people that had been on the park bench were running for their lives to get away from the bugs, and that they were being overtaken by the hungry mob. He recognized them as Reno as his date. Astro swooped down and grabbed Reno with one arm and Rene with the other.

One moment they were running for their lives, the next moment they were several hundred feet in the air with Astro between them.
"Thanks, You got here just in time!" Reno said turning his head toward his friend. Rene who had suddenly gone from running away from hungry giant cockroaches to being held in midair by a flying robot, had had all the excitement she could handle, and fainted.

Astro lit down in front of the downtown hotel that he and Reno had been staying at.
"You'll be safe here," he said. "I've got to get back and take care of those bugs!"

Reno waved to his friend as Astro took off again, flying back uptown. Rene came out of the fog she was in, and clung on to Reno for support as the two of them walked into the hotel lobby.

K pulled out his portable BFG, and crouched down in a stable position to aim the powerful gun. He let loose a full power blast into the heart of the mob sending a mushroom cloud of debris high into the air. Several hundred dead bugblatter beasts rained down all around him and J, but there were still quite a few thousand of them still there.

Suddenly, the mob split in half. About a thousand of the hungry bugs did an about face and started advancing at a good 50 mph toward the two MIB agents.

"Oh Shit!" J said. He only had the small ray gun in his pocket. Though it didn't look quite as impressive as the BFG, it also had quite a punch. He aimed and fired at the advancing mob, cutting down a few dozen of the nearest invaders, while K let loose another round on the BFG. Most of the bugs near the museum turned about to join the mob advancing on the agents.

K quickly calculated the balance and realized that at this rate there would be at least one or two thousand bugs that would make it to them. "It's been nice knowing you partner" he said to J.

Astro arrived on the scene to see that his fellow agents had managed to distract most of the bugs away from the Museum by setting themselves up as tasty targets. They were now doing a good reenactment of the battle of the Little Big Horn, with themselves as the 7th Cavalry, and the bugs playing the role of the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of the native Americans.

Astro morphed his arms into particle beam cannons and made a quick strafing run on the few remaining bugs advancing towards the museum. He then landed next to J and K and fired a huge double blast at the advancing enemy, creating a 400 foot deep crater in the middle of the park. Like lemmings advancing toward the sea, the bugs followed each other into the hole in the ground, which was slowly filling with muddy water. Astro had either hit the water table below the park, letting in the Hudson river, or had ruptured a water main. Within a few minutes there were several thousand drowned roach monsters sinking to the bottom of the new cesspool.
"I don't think the NYC Parks Department is going to be too happy about this one" J muttered.

Back at MIB HQ C debriefed the three agents.
"Well you guys did a good job handling the bugblatter beast threat." he told them. "The Vogons packed up and left the planet after your encounter with the one you hauled in here for questioning. Hopefully we've seen the last of them."

"What about that Bebblebrox character?" K asked.

"I'm not sure." C told them. "Although there is one more related matter I need you to look into. Seems we have a demented robot on the loose in Coney Island. The police aren't quite sure how to handle him."

"Sounds like Marvin." Astro said. "I'll go look into that."