by Nick Pond
“Blast!” The general shouted.
The general was easily outnumbered now he was only down to one man. Suddenly gunfire erupted towards the rebels; unbeknown to the general of whom else is shooting.
“Maybe more of our men made it back!” The general’s aid whispered.
The general then barked, “Get them!” As he reloaded his gun and advanced towards the rebels.
The rebels are armed with the home basics – a ball of spikes on a chain, swords, daggers and knives; so the general was able to shoot a few down, until a big screaming horde charged towards him. A hiss in the sky can be heard, as the general looked up and saw a bomber plane beginning to fly over them. It didn’t take long for a series of bombs to fall from the aircraft creating explosions, fireballs and aggressive flames all around them. Unfortunately the general’s bunker was flattened, and was now written off by ‘act of war’. A rebel who was much under dressed in only skimpy brown underpants and an open orange shirt showing his hairy torso managed to grab the general in all the commotion and then held a blade up to his throat.
“Die!” The rebel shouted.
With that the general experienced a massive gash across his vocal box, and blood started pouring out over him and on the floor; as it collectively formed a puddle. As he unsuccessfully tried to breathe, the general then fell to the ground. The rebel then charged off through the flames, seeming as if he wasn’t aware that he’s murdered an important figure to the state. But it was a revolution after all; sometimes boundaries can get forgotten amongst the excitement of all the mayhem. But the fire from the bombing crackled fiercely and took over most of the road and surrounding buildings, and especially engulfed where the bunker used to be. The general’s aid and the few soldiers retreated, running away in a panic.
The Space Rex is chasing a group of frantic screaming people down one of the streets, as she stomped heavily but managing to pick up great speed. The screams were endless, and the dinosaur lunged forward to pick up a hopeless human whom she killed quickly with her very powerful bite force; in which she mutilated in seconds. The dinosaur towered over everything around her, as crowds of people scrambled in a group trying to get away. Keagan and Jimmy caught up with her, as they surveyed the beast from down the road on a street corner; her scaly, reflective skin glowing in orange from the reflection of all the fire.
“Crikey! She’s mad!” Jimmy exclaimed, “The state she’s in I don’t think I’d ever be able to win her round!”
“Shout her name! Call her back!” Keagan ordered.
“Impossible! I’d be eaten in seconds! She’s in a different world! All her hormones and primal instinct will be rewired and going havoc! Sorry to say this... But Mittens is on the rampage, back to being from the wild!” Jimmy explained.
To there horror, they look on in astonishment when the Space Rex suddenly develops the ability to breathe fire; as she exhales a huge waft of flames at a group of rebels running around in a frenzy. But their misery is put to an end, when the dinosaur happily incinerates them, and charges off round the corner. An alarm suddenly goes off, and a space craft hits the ground in front of them as it goes off in a massive explosion, knocking Jimmy and Keagan to the ground. Keagan raises his head and says, “Now what do we do?”
“Get to cover! This whole place is a furnace!” Jimmy replies in a frantic shout.
The two guys then ran after Mittens.
The President of Amazbos was standing on a stage, in a dark bar hosting people dining around small square tables, and a big cloud of smoke from all the cigarettes. There was laughing, minor chatter, and a break out of applause now and then; as the President spoke into his microphone.
“Our campaign 5 years ago was to fill space with humans! Now the humans are running from space...” The president delivered whilst his left eyebrow flickered up as he waited for his laughter, which did happen after a few seconds.
Suddenly two suited men barged on stage, and one started to whisper to the president, “The Spacetonia’s been attacked... You must come with us immediately!”
The president looks alarmed, and says into the microphone, “Thank you everyone, duty calls, if I don’t attend to this, then my presidency will be as quick as this comedy!”
The audience erupted in laughter again.
“President! We have to go NOW!” The suited man whispered with much annoyance.
The president was then lead out of the club by his two advisers in a big hurry.
Zipper felt like he had been traveling for weeks or even months, as the two ships glided through the pitch black corridors of space. We haven’t seen anything in ages... This is definitely the correct co-ordinates! He was using his radio transmitter to bounce energy waves to detect any solid objects, and for what seems like eternity nothing is being picked up in their range distance of 150 million miles.
“Wh... Wher… Zipper?!” Zipper recognized the voice in a split second, as he turned to see Zara, or a very pale looking Zara who was sitting up.
“Jesus! Thank god!”
Zipper sprang over to Zara, with his arms wrapped round her, and he whispered into her ear, “I am so glad you’re OK, Hun,”
“Oh it’s been awful, there may be more survivors left, and the whole of our ship was attacked!” Zara screamed.
“I know... There’s been another ship incident, we’re heading too it now! And... There’s a nuclear bomb on it, and Playa De Sontos is going through a civil war...”
“Zipper! Zipper!”
“And I got kidnapped and interrogated!”
“Zipper, breathe, breathe!”
Zipper breathed slowly, inhaling and exhaling, trying to calm his nerves.
“Oh and my ex-wife is with us, yay!”
“What? I’m going to kill the bitch! Where is she?!”
“With the guys who kidnapped me in the front...”
“Your kidnappers are here too?! This shits gonna be good!” Zara shouted, “But I need some water! And a sandwich or something... Peanut butter!”
“No...”
Sharon came into the room from the pilot cockpit. Again, she was holding up a mirror and rubbing foundation into her skin, and also her eyelashes have grown massively since Zipper last saw her a few moments ago.
“Nice to meet you, Zara,” Sharon said, in an almost sarcastic tone.
“Come here! Come closer,” Zara ordered.
Sharon cautiously walked over, but kept back at the same time.
“Why?” She asked.
“Just come here, I wanna show you something...” Zara prompted further, gesturing her finger towards herself.
Sharon edged nearer. Then out of no where Zara’s hand flew at her eyelashes which got met with a giant tug, pulling the whole fake eye lash liner off; to which Sharon yelped in pain.
“The moral of the story is… Don’t piss me off!” Zara said which had heaps of satisfaction in her tone.
After Sharon got over the initial pain, she started crying and sulked back into where Jake and Chris were, and her face now covered in mascara.
The president is now on board his emergency space craft, Space Force One, which orbited round their nation’s atmosphere. He was in a meeting with all his military advisers, who were discussing options regarding the Spacetonia.
“Deploy our space military units now! That nuclear bomb is exposed to everything in that position! Or even worse... One of our enemies could nick it!”
“Units are already on there way, president,” One of the military chiefs explained, “we’ve also now got some units flying over Playa De Sontos, and they are reporting back total devastation! And there’s something rampaging around there eating everyone! We don’t know what it is!”
“What about the leaders of Playa De Sontos...” another gray haired military chief started saying.
“Look! Fellas! It’s perfectly simple! We retrieve the bomb, shoot down any sharks, let Playa De Sontos kill each other and burn each other to the ground, and the leaders... Well they’ll
be put on trial and executed more than likely... Come on... Less chatter more golfing! Isn’t that the Amazbos motto?” The president stated ending with an invitation and big smile.
If Hanksii was pissed off before, he certainly is now.
“We must be able to do something!” He shouted, flapping his arms everywhere in his orange suit giving similarities of a chicken being taken into an abattoir.
The Space Shark was biting chunks of metal from their ship, using her big muscular mouth, and her solid sharp jaws. It had been a while since she had a decent dinner, so she was determined to be victorious with her catch.
“Everyone in space suits!” Gavin shouted coming back into the pilots quarters, whilst the woman (named only Agent X) was seated where he previously was before getting kicked out.
“That creep eating our ship is just like you!” Hanksii shouted.
In a matter of mere seconds the three of them got in space suits. The ship shook wildly, as the shark continued to eat away at it. Hanksii still had a small pang of nervousness putting on the suit, but he’s done the years of training and experience, so he managed to control the emotions of fear.
“We should get out through the hatch! She sounds like she’s right underneath us!” Agent X shouted.
With that the floor beneath them suddenly smashed to pieces, and the instant environment removal resulted in all three of them finding themselves floating. In a panic they started swimming for the top where the hatch is, with the guidance of going to the side and pulling themselves up on all the available handles and knobs. The sharks head filled up most of the room, and Gavin suddenly found his leg caught on one of her teeth; as the shark’s mouth snapped shut and she ripped off the leg in question. Blood started to cloud, and the shark came up higher taking the rest of his body into her mouth. Hanksii and Agent X didn’t look back, when they have successfully made it to the top, and are trying to twist the hatch open. The shark has finished her prey, and knew Hanksii and Agent X were there, as she lunged forward in a bid to get nearer. Agent X felt the commotion beneath, and screamed when she looked down; as she could see the whole gigantic shark head with an open mouth coming straight up for her. Hanksii continued to turn the wheel as he felt it begin to loosen. He gave another push. He looked round for Agent X when he realized she has disappeared from view. He scaled the whole room, and she was definitely gone without trace, and then it dawned on him; the shark had disappeared too. He started to feel the realization that he’s lost both of his colleagues, and was now on his own. He gives another push to the hatch, which flies open and he climbs out. Seeing the glistening landscape of Andromeda galaxy, twinkling like a Christmas tree, he then sighs and sits on top of the mangled space craft. He didn’t know what to do now apart from wait.
Chapter 7: The Finale
The Space Rex continued tormenting the residents of Playa De Sontos; as three male rebels were seeking refuge in a burning wooden beamed bar. A building which looks like it could burn flat to the ground in a mere few seconds.
“We need to get out!” One rebel shouted.
“That monster’s outside!” Another rebel screamed.
The place shuddered as the dinosaur stomped around outside. Suddenly Keagan and Jimmy burst into the room.
“That one is... Inconsolable!” Jimmy shouted, “You put em up, feed em, take em in! Then they breathe fire on your parade! That’s dinosaurs for you!”
“Jimmy! You need to calm down! Just think things out and look for the solution... OK... Rampaging dinosaur tearing up the city, and we’re trapped in a burning down building... Go!” Keagan shouted trying to seek an answer from the wise old man.
“Oh shut up you idiot!”
Some of the roof fell in, bringing down flames also as the room begins to ignite.
The rebels started screaming, until Jimmy tugged on all of them to follow him including Keagan. They ran back out the door, and onto the outside street. And lurching over them was the menacing Mittens who is snarling, and flames would flicker out her nostrils.
“MITTENS! ITS ME!” Jimmy shouted, who proceeded to come where the dinosaur is standing, “come on lets chat about this, huh? I’m your master! Now listen to me! We need to get you in your box!”
The Space Rex just glared at him, bearing her teeth.
“Jimmy! Get back here man!” Keagan shouted who cowered back at the doorway with the frightened rebels.
Rain was still coming down hard, although it made no difference to the full power of the blaze that rid the street.
“Mittens! Back! Back!”
The dinosaur gave a mighty roar to the sky, then lunged forward and snapped her mouth around Jimmy, before walking off with her prey. A blood gurgling scream follows, but not for very long as Mittens chews further on her victim. It’s down to me now, a panicked Keagan suddenly thought. Still in his ripped and not good condition Hawaiian shirt; he stepped up to the mark of taking leadership to his group.
“Right! Everyone! Follow me!” He shouted, gesturing by clapping his hands.
The president sat relaxed in Space Force One; which continued to orbit calmly around Amazbos.
“It’s been a while... Any news yet?” The president asked to one of his aids.
“Nothing yet, President,” He replied.
“Damn! The waiting is the worst part of this job!” He screamed, slamming his fist down onto his lap tray where his laptop was opened.
Another suited man in dark sunglasses enters the room, “I got the Playa De Sontos leader on the radio for you, president,”
“Tell him I’m taking a long and peaceful shit! I’m too busy to be taking calls!” The president fobbed the man off.
“But... President...”
“Not now!”
All the aids in the room were ignoring them, as they all stared out the window in a look of pale white terror. The male Space Shark was looking in through the port-hole windows, as if he was surveying the contents of what’s inside.
“What’s the matter with you guys!!? I want another coffee!! Didn’t you hear me the first time?!” The president slammed in utter offense of being ignored.
“President, look out the god damn window!”
The president looked in curiosity which soon turned to propelled fear, as his high pitch scream rang around the cabin. The shark opened her mouth and snapped at the side of the space craft.
“CALL FOR HELP!” The president screamed.
“No time! No time!” The aid shouted, “Let’s just get it over with and self destruct!”
“NO!” The president pleaded, “I have a daughter at home!”
The Space Shark soon came through the wall, but the aid managed to hit the red emergency button and the whole place went up into a massive fireball. Blood from the remaining pieces of Space Shark clouded everywhere.
Hanksii looked on motionless at the wanders of the galaxy performing a light show from trillions of light years on. For a few moments he completely forgot about all his problems and how irrelevant they actually were compared to the scale and size of the grand scheme of things. Similar to a man being trapped on an island, Hanksii was stuck on top of a half eaten space ship near the Spacetonia. The Spacetonia looked like an abandoned ghost ship, as she remained motionless and still. Suddenly Hanksii saw something, shit! The familiar shape of the Space Shark appeared in the distance, she was circling; as if she was waiting for something. Just die! Hanksii thought.
The two ships, with Zipper still in tow, are arriving at the Spacetonia, and have started doing a radar sweep, as one of their computers starts bleeping.
“We’re getting something!” Zipper yelled.
Sharon wanders in from the pilots quarters, “can we go back home? I don’t feel good!”
“Just sit down and take it easy!” Zipper ordered, it wasn’t the time or place to have a go at her now, plus she did also have her fake eyelashes ripped off; Zipper even started feeling a bit sorry for her now.
Zara swallowed hard, as much as she hated
her – she had no experience of space, and was a mere civilian in all this, so she gave her advice, “It’s space-sickness Hun, I’ll get you a glass of water,”
“I’m not listening to you – jerk!” Sharon said bitterly, “forget it I’m going back there with the boys...”
“The worse thing you can do is sit in a room watching space! You just need to chill...”
Sharon stuck her two fingers up at Zara, and walked away back to the pilots.
“What an absolute ass-hole!” Zara then complained, “I was only trying to help,”
Zipper laughed, and ruffled Zara’s jet black hair and whispered, “I’ve really missed you,”
