Space Sharks: Deep Space Terror

by Nick Pond

  She slapped him round the face.

  “Shut up!”

  “OK... I'm sure they weren't that important anyway...”

  After a few seconds of indulging pleasure, the room jolted violently and the lights flickered.

  “Oh baby!”

  “No! No! Get off! We've hit something! I knew it! Of course... If you get pleasure always expect pain! I don't believe it! WE'VE FUCKING HIT SOMETHING!”

  “Captain! Security will be here any second... We need to hide the girls!”

  A knocking suddenly thunders on the hatch door.

  “Shit! Where can we put them?”

  The room again goes frantic with the sound of a giant metal thud, like a girder being snapped in half. But the door knocking still continues after the second commotion and an angry voice follows, “WILL YOU LET ME IN!!! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!”

  “In the cupboard! Put them in the cupboard!” Hissed the pilot to his co-workers as he went towards the door, and eventually shouting, “Just a minute!”

  The pilot opens the door, and smiles nervously at the security guard in a black uniform.

  “What the hell is going on?!”

  Much to the pilot’s horror and disgust he realizes he took the feather duster off the girl and is still holding it. His eyes dart down and back up, and he gulps.

  “Erm... Nothing!”

  “FUCKING NOTHING! FUCKING NOTHING!! THE SHIP'S AIR TIGHT DOORS HAVE EFFING ALL SHUT! EVERYONE IS SHITTING THEIR PANTS! AND ALL YOU DORKS ARE LOCKED AWAY WITH A FUCKING FLAMING EFFING FEATHER DUSTER!”

  “Sorry Willis,” The pilot says sulkily.

  “Now open up the black box dialogue will you! So we can work out what the flaming ell is going on! I'm guessing with the curtains shut, you know fuck all! You really are complete wash outs aren't you! What sort of pilot drives with the curtains over his window!”

  The pilot’s nervousness increases tenfold as he realizes the black box was located in the cupboard where they hid the girls. My life is officially over! And the security guard was going straight for it.

  The Space Shark encircled the Spacetonia, looking particularly hungry and angry at the same time. Her circles began to get closer and closer to the ship, as her gaping mouth was wide open; showing all her walls of teeth. Then she turned to the ship again, as she made another hit with a powerful charge.

  The alarms were going off all over the place on the ship, and all the passengers were officially scared, apart from these people – the shady men – still drinking in the bar.

  “If the ship keeps this up... That bomb is gonna go off,” The stern shady man said casually, as he looked around at the terrified passengers running in all sorts of directions, “Someone’s gonna do themselves a mischief if they're not careful...”

  One man was so pissed; he climbed up onto the bar, and set himself on fire. He shouted, “We are all going to die! Calm down everyone! I'm here!”

  He then fell back and passed out on the floor, as he's engulfed in flames for a few seconds.

  “So anyway, what are we going to do about the bomb?”

  “I say fuck it... Be quicker to go in a blast... Than being eaten alive...”

  “No follow me... Up that corridor are several orange boxes... I think we should suit up, I mean them knocks... We've blatantly hit something! And I bet somewhere has been breached,”

  All the shady men stood up from the table, and walked out the bar area to the corridor.

  Amazbos International Space Port was arguably the biggest ever transport hub made by humans – as literally the amount of people that flow through would easily surpass billions daily. The control tower plumed up through the sky, towering the rest of the Space Port; as it was made up of call center floors employing over 3 million agents to converse with the space traffic. One of the floor managers was very stressed; not only because he's got a whole team who he just found out they have no legal immigration papers, but also one of the new guys being trained on the Spacetonia's flight path has somehow managed to lose it's co-ordinates. No establishment was ever made to determine if it was definitely his fault or not.

  “Fire him! Fire him!” The floor manager shouted, with sweat pouring down his balding forehead, “I want him gone! Get out the building!”

  The business suited HR agent tried to reassure him.

  “Oh it's his first day! He's trying his best!”

  “IT'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH!” The floor manager shouted, as he hurled his china cup of coffee at the glass wall, as it smashed to pieces over the floor.

  “Ohhh... Jamie... You don't get good work ethics on a first day... An employee has to grow and flourish within a company... In fact... You could learn a thing or two from that boy!”

  A lower ranked phone agent burst into the room, with a headset still attached to his head over his ears.

  “We think the Spacetonia's been in an accident! You better come check this out!”

  “Blast them illegal immigrants! I want everyone out!!! Go home!” Jamie shouted in a mental frantic outburst.

  “No Jamie! Come on!” The agent shouted, as he tugged him out his office by his arm.

  “Jamie's a sweetheart really,” The HR woman said to herself, “Just a bit misunderstood,”

  Men in black camouflage, with rifle laser guns militarily marched through the barren desolate lands of Jimmy's asteroid. The ground would shake violently now and then, as tremors erupted, and lava would spit out from the rigid gaps in the rock. The soldiers would come to a complete motionless stop now and then, to avoid losing balance when things went a bit shaky. The man leading the group could see an upcoming lava pit with fireballs occasionally shooting out. Out of no where the Space Rex emerged out from the lava pit, as she took the solid ground and turned towards them ferociously. She then let out a growl, as the Rex made no hesitation in storming towards them like the quickness and brutality of a tornado. The leader and his surrounding men instantly shot lasers at the beast, purposefully not hitting her – as it was the Space Rex they were coming for and intending to take alive.

  “Tranquilize her now!” Screamed the leader, as he realized he was only seconds away from a death of mutilation.

  The predator roared again, as a long metal cylinder flew into her neck; as the dinosaur then instantly fell to the ground unconscious.

  “Well done! We got her!” Shouted the leader, as all the men erupted in cheer and applaud.

  A Space hover-copter, a round saucer shaped disc with propellers, appeared over them, as spotlights from above came down. A massive metal cage hanging on a rope was then winched down; an enclosure that will aid them in taking the animal.

  Keagan and Jimmy were nearby calling for Mittens.

  “Mittens!! Mittens!” Jimmy was calling in desperation.

  They stumbled and climbed through the hostile jagged rocks, as they could hear the lava sizzling and moving, similar to listening to the ocean.

  “Boy... Do you know how to get yourself in some scrapes! This place is fucked up! And you live here!” Keagan chortled at Jimmy, trying to lighten the racing mood.

  They hear the sounds of machinery burst from the sky, as Jimmy saw the Hover-copters exit his atmosphere.

  “NO! NO! THEY'VE TAKEN HIM! GET TO MY LAUNCH PAD NOW! THEY CAN'T GET AWAY WITH THIS! I'M COMING FOR YOU!” Jimmy screamed in a huge passionate rage, as if nicking his Space Rex was well beyond crossing the line with this man.

  Zipper and his crew were going through embarrassing times too, as they are being towed across space from suffering a break down – or the battery went and Zipper couldn't turn it over to get going again. There was a tow rope between them, and the rescuing ship pulling them.

  “This is so lame!” Chris complained, “We are meant to be heroes! And we can't even get there without being towed! You're a bunch of idiots!”

  “God! I just hope Zara's OK... I don't know how long it's been!” Zipper said nervously, who was starting to lose his cool.

  Sharon who was st
ill half-ill, and half scared tried to mutter a few words.

  “I'm suing your ass Zipper! Is this how you treat all fashion models! It’s your fault for getting me in this right state!”

  “DON'T YOU EVEN DARE START!” Zipper screamed in heightened temper as he slammed his hand down against his lap drawer.

  The room was very very closed in on Zara, who was nearing more back to that place of accepting death. She couldn't guess how long it's been, a bit like being trapped in a desert and you lose all sense of time in days without using wasted brain power on counting the nights. She decided she was ready to try and get to the orange box for a suit. Most of all, she really yearned to breathe in new and fresh oxygen from a different tank. Her breath was wheezy, from taking in the thin air in the room, and she was gradually finding it harder to breathe. Using her arms she slowly began to pull herself across the floor.

  The panicky man then screamed, “Oh my god! Oh my god!”

  “WHAT?!” Screamed Zara who then thought how did that idiot manage to stay alive.

  “There's a pigeon!!! How the hell!? What on earth?”

  The intruding bird flew around the ceiling before perching on top of a light fitting directly above the panicked man. Suddenly spatters of white shit came down over him.

  “Oh bloody hell!” He shouted angrily, “Shoo! Shoo!”

  The pigeon cooed before flying off into the corner. Zara was very confused, “That bird must have come in on the ship at the dock, then managed to get in here before the ship went down,” Zara said out loud before laughing and saying, “That’s the funniest thing I've ever seen!”

  Jimmy and Keagan were already shooting through space in his voyager, as they tried to track down the Space Rex kidnappers. Jimmy was especially in a tempered place as he still ranted off about what happened.

  “I'm going to kill them! One by one! With my bear fucking hands!” Jimmy screamed.

  Suddenly out through the window a monstrous giant shark appeared, gliding unknowingly through the dark space. Her snout and mouth were portraying grotesque evil. Jimmy immediately halted the craft as it came to a stop, and remained suspended in the vacuum. Keagan's mouth was wide open.

  “I've never seen this one before...” Jimmy examined, “that is a male, and I see our Space Shark all the time, which is definitely not her and not a female...”

  “You what?” Keagan said.

  “We got a new visitor... And I think he's come to mate with the female...”

  “Oh my god... Our solar system will be infested with them!”

  “Radio Amazbos! Now!” Jimmy ordered, “They must be stopped before it's too late,”

  The shark remained undisturbed by their nearing presence in the space craft, as he swam through the void heading in the direction of the inner solar system. His pointy snout leads the way pulling along a massive wiggly swimming body, showing different traits than the female. His mannerisms and behavior seemed significantly different to the female.

  Keagan was through to the president on the radio, “Do you copy? This is Keagan! We have a male Space Shark coming through our way! We think he may potentially breed with our female shark! We must kill them; otherwise they will multiply and conquer everywhere we live!”

  The radio clicked, it was one of the president's aids, “Where is its location?”

  “About a section west from the outer meteorite belt... Co-ordinates read as 50 Tr by a minus 18...”

  There was a few seconds silence.

  “OK! I got it! We're sending out our forces to dispose the both of them!”

  In the president of Amazbos's office, in Central House, a grand white oval structure in the central governmental district of Narelly; he stood by his window looking out at the blowing trees, as winds were becoming turbulent. The flag emblem honoring the nation blew aggressively, and looked as if it would come off the pole. The blowing gusts of wind whirred like being below an enormous vacuum cleaner, as everything struggled to clutch to the ground.

  “Over and out!” The president shouted as he came off the radio.

  “Sir, the nuke... What are we going to do? It’s chaotic up there! If it goes off we don't know what will happen! The radiation will spread and kill everything and everyone!! Who knows how far gravitational forces will drag it!” One of the aids shouted, as he burst into the room.

  The struck down Spacetonia, floated aimlessly as the ship no longer propelled forward. The Space Shark with full force smashed through into the interior; as the metal casing for the ship just merely shredded back for the creature. She continued going in, until her waving tail disappeared into the hole she made.

  The shady men had managed to all each space suits and they followed each other down the ships corridors passing the many cabin doors. Now and then people ran passed them trying to get to safety as the ship was in tatters!

  “We need to get to the bomb!” One of the men ordered.

  The part of the ship they were on, near the bar, had not yet been succumbed to the space vacuum. But the majority of the ship’s chambers have been breached, with many survivors wandering around in space suits, whilst the not so lucky all dropped dead. The Space Shark was amongst them, as the massive creature ended up penetrating through the front of the ship.

  The nuclear bomb was in the cargo bay at the back of the ship, and so far remained intact.

  “I can't work out where we are! I'm not even sure if I'm holding the map right!” One of the shady men complained.

  The whole corridor came to a sudden smash, and felt like it was spiraling.

  “Hold on to something!” One of the men screamed from inside his suit.

  All of a sudden, the massive 80 ft monster smashed through into the corridor, with those without a suit coming to an abrupt end to their lives. As she faced them full on, the shady men panicked – and soon found themselves struggling to stay out of her mouth as they clutched at the sharks teeth. One of the men clutched the tooth looking down into the dark abyss which was the entrance to the shark's digestive system. Suddenly her mouth snapped shut, as the man split in half by the pounding meeting teeth. Blood spattered everywhere, and clouded the front of the shark’s snout, as she explored further with her snout in a bid to catch some new victims.

  Chapter 6: What goes up must come down

  The space craft housing the Space Rex has just landed outside the rioting city of Playa De Sontos, which was becoming more and more of a mangled heap on fire. The craft was still hovering as to allow them to open the hatch and lower the Dinosaur cage. Men in orange luminous space suits were all gathered round on the ground, doing hand signals up to the pilots above. Growls were coming from the cage, as it was becoming apparent that the Dinosaur was starting to awake. The sound of working machinery clunked heavily creating a constant drone noise. The men on the ground quickly hurried in line with a hatch above that entranced the ship, which let out a gravitational yellow light-beam; which allowed the men to ascend up. Once they entered the craft, it then quickly shot off up into the sky. The Space Rex, left abandoned, growled much louder indicating she was fully awake. Heavy rain started to occur, drumming down everywhere around the cage. In one swift charge, the Space Rex broke the cage to pieces; as she made way for freedom. Giving another triumphant roar, she looks on at the devastation of Playa De Sontos as she begins to head towards it, where human screams still pop up now and then.

  The general is leading a group of soldiers as they are back outside with all the chaos, mowing down anyone that posed a threat or caused a blockade. Bombs were still going off down the street, and the road was now gone, covered in massive crater holes. Many buildings were shattered, with materials and debris hanging down. Another bomb went off very close to the general, as the team took cover by rolling away from the explosion.

  “This place is littered with mines! Jesus Christ!” The general shouted in desperation.

  The men then got back up and they all bunched up close together, whilst smoke filled their surroundings from the bl
ast. But it looked like no one was hurt. .

  “Right... The shops just there! We just need more milk for coffee, then we’ll go back home! I can’t believe you forgot the milk! The MILK! The one resource we should be stocked up on in case of events like this!” The general shouted a bit more.

  “SOLDIERS!! KILL THEM!” A down and out man shouted, who sided with no one as was a more extreme rebel where he kills everyone.

  On his shoulder he carried a massive rocket launcher, which he proceeded to take aim with by pointing right at the general and his men.

  “Freeze! We will shoot you first!” The general shouted.

  “No you won’t wank face!” The rebel shouted, hunched to one side slightly from the weight of his launcher.