The Adventures of the

God Squad

Episode 60 "Man and Machine"

Now with Thomas gone, maybe Slugterra would be free from evil and destruction, but it turned out that something unexpected happened. Something I could believe when I heard it.

(Theme Song)

Our surveillance cameras spotted Thomas heading for the caves near a city! I ordered guards to catch him, but he escaped and the guards could find him. With Thomas back in the game, I knew that he would never stop until he had won, the only question, when would he strike with his next plan?

The only thing we could do was wait, and see what sort of plan he would cook up to help him conquer Slugterra. After he failed to take it all over at the same time, I was pretty sure that he would try to conquer at a slower pace. I wasn't comfortable waiting for Thomas to spring another one of his deadly and destructive plans, but what else could we do?

We waited for days, until our police told that their neighboring city was attacking them! I sent reinforcements to help them, and they successfully defended the city, but the citizens of the attacking city were very violent and vicious for some reason. I didn't know why they were behaving this way, but we put them in the prison all the same. The same thing happened the next day with two other city and the same results.

Finally after 4 of these attacks, there was another, only this time I wanted to go there in person. I ordered my team to help, but I wanted to see something first. I noticed that the attackers were unhappy or uncomfortable with what they were doing even though they tried to hide it, I saw it like black on white. We arrested them, but they surrendered almost immediately! This was very strange since in the previous attacks, the attackers, fought to the last person standing, but this attack was different.

We went back to the castle and I began to think "If this is Thomas's plan, what is he trying to gain from making 2 cities fight?" I thought. It just didn't add up, he didn't gain anything from making them fight. 2 more attacks happened with the same nervous attacking result. This truly began to trouble my heart as to why this was happening, but the answers would soon come to me.

My guards alerted me that the citizens from the vicious attacking cities were breaking out of their cells and escaping! There were too many and my guards couldn't handle it, so we went down to handle the situation. We waited at the dungeon door for the prisoners, and when they opened that door, Boy did they look scared! "Going somewhere?" I asked as I knocked one of the civilians back into a cell. The rest attacked, but we defended the door with ease. While fighting, me and Anna were surrounded, but we pulled off the old Double Twisteroo (A move where we twist each other around, shoot and punch our targets). "So, you doing anything tonight sweat heart?" I asked casually as if we weren't doing anything. "Eh, nothing much why honey?" she asked as she punched one of the prisoners running toward her, but she wasn't even looking at him! "You wanna go with me for a dinner date tonight?" I asked as I jumped and landed on 2 other prisoners. "Sounds great! What time? I hope you've reserved a table at a fine restaurant this time" she said laughing. I took out 3 more prisoners with one move and said "Oh don't worry. The restaurant won't be fancy, but it will sure be good!" I said as I cut off an arm of one of the citizens, but when I looked at it, it was a robot arm! The citizens were Thomas's robots in disguise! This made the defence a lot easier since we could destroy them, instead of just beating them up. Once the robots were destroyed and all criminals who escaped were put back in their cells, we headed back upstairs to rest, but we were far from rest.

"Sir...Sir can you hear me!?" a guard shouted to me through the communicator. "I copy soldier, what's the issue?" I asked. "Look for yourself!" he said as he sent a video of surveillance to me of the cities which fought. They were leveled! There was nothing left, not a single floor was left standing! We found out that when the calm people were arrested, then the robots hid in their homes and then destroyed both cities. We then received an unidentified message with no address or user on it. The message had the hacker symbol on it, so we all knew who it was from. The message appeared on screen and showed the back of one of Thomas's chairs as he turned around.

"Well, how was your fight this afternoon? Did you like my bonfire at those cities? I thought they were beautiful, wouldn't you agree?" Thomas asked smiling with his legs crossed and his hands together over his mouth. I suddenly became filled with anger. "You son of a bitch! Why did you destroy those cities? I thought you wanted to control Slugterra, not blow half of it to hell!" I said. "This was to send a message and I believe that you got it perfectly! This is just the beginning, soon more attacks like this will happen, and it will continue until you all surrender and admit that I am your true leader, but if you don't I will destroy you all!" He said as he deactivated the channel.

This was the beginning of a new rivalry for me and my team. This villain had given us the most trouble and destruction than any other criminal that we had so far and he would be the hardest to catch, let alone defeat. Since Thomas was only a child, I knew that I would be able to somehow get through to him, because what I saw under that evil skin, was a heart that just wanted to be loved and cherished because that was what he never had from his parents. If I could get through to him, I thought of the possibility of adopting him as a son and hiring as a worker for me. He was going to be a tough nut to crack, but I would break to shell soon enough.