The Thousand Years War: The Trilogy

by Angel Medina

  “Well what else did you expect, it’s the planet goo. We’re in their territory, which means we have to play by their rules.” Angel reminds his friends.

  ***

  Angel and the others three get out of the elemental world and enter the ultimate warp where they get to transport to any place that they want in the universe. Angel chooses to head toward the glooba’s home planet of goo. Back on earth Quentin and George finish rationing off their few resources they have remaining for the next two days and notice that the temperature has dropped off once again. Neither of them have any idea why the temperature is dropping again. All they can think about is the heroes themselves, they were encouraged by the ever changing conditions because that gives them the impression that the heroes are still alive. However they cannot be too sure about that, so all they can do is just wait anxiously for what will happen in the next two days. Indeed the next two days will be a very interesting period of time. Will Angel find his arch-nemesis, Orlando? Also where does Leslie the traitor fit in this puzzle? How many more twists and turns will the four have to endure in the next two days?

  Area 6: The Planet Goo

  Chapter 26

  Into the Lion’s Den

  Angel, Maria, Dayvon and Luis have made it to the glooba home planet of Goo. The sand is green in color and has a rather high amount of radiation. So the four ambush a group of salamander troopers and steal the radiation suits next to the troopers. The air on the planet is suitable for the glooba’s themselves, but toxic to humans. The heroes lost their space suits when they were transported to the elemental world by the black hole. However, even with the radiation suits the acid rain falling stings them, but not as bad as before. Angel gets a page on his radio, he is in disbelief. How was Quentin able to get in contact with Angel? Angel picks up the call, but the voice isn’t that of Quentin’s…

  “Hey Quentin is that you?” Angel asks.

  “Hahaha! Mida aquí es Ángel!” It’s the voice Orlando.

  “You son of a bitch, I should’ve known. Looks like he wants to play little kid games.” Angel says in disgust. “How in the hell did he survive the train crash, I thought he was burning in hell?” Angel is shocked and wonders how Orlando was able to survive the crash and how Orlando was able to tap into his radio.

  “Me conecté la línea! Yo era la última persona que esperaba? Haha.” Orlando taunts Angel by claiming he has jacked the line and that he was the last person Angel had expected.

  “Tienes razón usted es la última persona que quería ver. Que tu quiere? Quieres que golpearan a la mierda de ustedes? Si tu quiere eso, yo puedo hacer y va ase mucho gusto para mi!” Angel asks Orlando if he wants him to deliver him a beat down and if so he would gladly do so.

  “Vamos a ver con eso! Que idiota!” Orlando calls Angel an idiot.

  “Ya...Ya a donde tu están? Vamos a terminar esta lucha como hombre y hombre!” Angel tells Orlando to cut the smack talk and demands he show himself once in for all, so they can settle the score like men. Then the communication is cut off.

  “Well that coward isn’t coming out like a man, looks like we gotta go chase him.” Dayvon says.

  “You sure he isn’t trying to trap us?” Maria asks.

  “Trap or no trap we have to eventually deal with that scumbag anyway, even if it means we have to do it by his rules.” Luis says in a concerned tone.

  The four of them head forward and are ambushed by salamander troopers along with iguana enforcers. The four shoot the aliens with the laser pistols they got from killing the salamander troopers and after a long grueling firefight the four are able to survive with their heads still on. They run towards the first building they see is a movie theater for the aliens. However, they see a gang of flying salamander troopers. The four shoot down as many as they can, but they are outnumbered badly. They instead decide to enter the movie theatre to get some cover.

  “Whew! That was... too close, talk about... self defense.” Angel says almost out of breath.

  “Not even… in Amer...ica you’ll see… defense that crazy.” Luis follows.

  After catching their breaths they enter the theatre and see a group of aliens watching a movie where their race becomes ultimate rulers of the universe. It comes to no surprise to the four that what they’re watching as the feature presentation. After careful examination Luis spots a back door out of the movie theatre, however the four look to get out without being spotted by any of the aliens.

  “Crap there’s four of us and hundreds of them. We better use stealth or we’ll be the future presentation in real life or virtual life or whatever the hell…” Angel whispers to his mates.

  “We get it Angel, now how you suppose we’re going to get out of this place.” Dayvon asks.

  “Look up there a pipe.” Angel spots a pipe.

  “That pipe is full of grass, you expect me to touch that disgusting piece of shit?” Maria asks with an attitude.

  “Well either that or we’re gonna die in this hell hole. Come on Maria I’m sure your delicate hands can get dirty and you’ll live to tell the tale.” Luis replies.

  “Come on babe, we done everything together. This is just another task we gotta do, you’re tougher than this.” Angel says to Maria.

  “Fine, let’s do this. I’m not looking forward to it, but like Luis said, I’ll live.” Maria calms down and says in a reluctant tone.

  The four of them jump up to the pipe and begin to shimmy along the pipe. They find difficulty in staying up on the pipe and begin to lose their grip. Each of them jumps back up on the pipe’s top to regain their grip on the pipe.

  “Don’t look down, whatever you do!” Angel whispers loudly to the others.

  Some of the aliens become suspicious and ask amongst themselves what were they hearing. To the luck of the heroes the aliens don’t recognize them. In fact none of the aliens bother to look up. After a grueling journey along the pipes the four of them finally get to the back exit hall. They arrive at the door, but are hesitant to open it as it maybe booby trapped. The four search for any possible traps or anything on the walls and floor that could resemble a trap. They cannot find anything wrong with the doorway.

  “Well we got no choice, let's get out of here.” Dayvon says as he begins to open the door. To their surprise the door isn’t alarmed or no traps are spawned.

  “That’s a surprise, no traps!” Maria says puzzled.

  They arrive at a glooba hotel and Angel’s heart begins to race, indicating that the anti-matter ball is nearby.

  “Well looks like Hotel Hell all over again, the anti-matter ball is in there somewhere. I knew they weren’t going to give it up that easy!” Angel says prepared to enter the glooba infested hotel.

  The four head towards the glooba hotel, but are attacked another group of flying salamander troopers and glooba tanks. The four run straight for the hotel not wanting to risk getting blown to pieces by the tanks. An alarm goes off in the hotel alerting the aliens that the four had reached the hotel.

  “The four wanted humans have been spotted in the Goo Hotel. A reward is being given out to anyone who can take out the humans. These humans are armed and very dangerous, approach with deadly force!” An automated voice from the speakers in the streets of Goo says.

  “Shit looks like we’re four wanted bastards. They’re gonna do everything they can to kill us off!” Angel screams.

  “I’m not surprised we’ve had a bull’s-eye on our backs since we started this adventure.” Dayvon says.

  The four of them enter the hotel and they begin to attack the boar cops inside the reception area. They quickly disarm the boar cops and take their shotguns. The four have to survive with what they could find because they no longer had their weapons from before. After taking out the boars, they are attacked by turrets guarding the hotel stairs.

  Each of the heroes takes a shot at the turrets until they go down. Before they could get upstairs however, the flying salamander troopers fly inside the hotel and begin to go after the fo
ur. However, the four are ready for the gloobas. Luis and Dayvon blast a few of them with their shotguns. Angel jumps on a ceiling fan and uses it to spin him self around to slash the troopers with a shadow blade he still has. Maria shoots a vending machine which shoots out cans uncontrollably at the salamander troopers, whether tripping them or knocking them out with the cans hitting their heads.

  “Talk about machine malfunctions, I hope you aliens enjoy a lifetime supply of whoop ass fruit punch?” Maria says to the aliens arrogantly.

  After killing off the salamander troopers the four head upstairs to the hotel rooms in search of the anti-matter ball. Along the way they find iguana enforcers, boar cops and scorpion crawlers. Angel uses his shadow blade to slash the throats of the salamanders.

  Dayvon dodges several iguana enforcers who try to slash him with their blades on their chainguns. After that he grabs one and performs a suplex on the iguana. One of the iguana jumps of Dayvon’s back and another tries to slash him while the other enforcer is holding him. He is able to perform a desperation kick on the attacking trooper and he elbows the other trooper to escape the hold.

  “Damn you guys really think you’re going to kill me that easily, well this black man still has a few moves left in him.” Dayvon says with a renewed sense of confidence.

  A fourth iguana enforcer tries to charge him, but he decides to charge the alien back and does a spear move, which breaks the creature in half. He begins to make a roar similar to that of his favorite WWE wrestling superstar, Roman Reigns.

  Maria and Luis work together to take on the scorpion crawlers. They attempt to shoot the scorpion crawlers, but the hard shells are able to deflect the bullets. Before they could shoot again the two of them are disarmed. The creatures begin to attack with their claws and tails. The two are able to dodge the initial attacks, but are unable to attack back.

  One of the scorpions shoots poison spit towards Luis. She jumps in the way sacrificing her self to save him. She takes in the poison shot by the creature and goes down hard on the floor.

  “Maria!” Angel screams after witnessing his wife going down. “You bastards have just messed with the wrong person!” Angel says with extreme anger, a fire in his eye and his face turns red as a tomato.

  He runs towards the scorpion crawlers fearless and beheads a couple of them by jumping towards them a slaying them. Dayvon and Luis come in to help him and between the three of them they take out most of the creatures. One crawler did manage to avoid his sight and the crawler goes for an unconscious Maria who’s on the floor. The crawler raises its tail and attempts to impale her with its deadly sharp tail. He looks back and runs towards the creature tackling it.

  “No! If you’re gonna to kill my wife you gotta kill me first. Come on big guy, bite me!” Angel says out of pure instinct and anger.

  After tackling the creature the scorpion attacks him with its claws trying to get back up. He claws Angel on his arm and he catches the crust of the attack. He begins to bleed out of his arm, but he could care less. He is only focused on taking out the scorpion who tried to get a cheap shot on his wife. Without any fear, he jumps onto the scorpion’s head and begins to slash its head with the shadow blade. While he is able to behead the creature, he ponders if that’s a good enough death. After a few seconds, he decides to stroke the blade down to the chest of the creature. That is until its chest opens up spilling green blood everywhere to his questionable pleasure.

  After his 15 seconds of satisfaction he and the others head towards Maria to see if she was ok. She has a pulse, but she is unresponsive and not moving at all. This leaves everyone to believe that she is poisoned and unless she can be saved, she will die of the toxins spreading through her body. Angel looks around each room and doesn’t find the anti-matter ball. He is stunned by the fact he cannot find the anti-matter ball and is puzzled on why his heart is no longer beating hard. Perhaps the ball was moved or it was carried by someone, however he couldn’t worry too much about that right now. He has his wife on the verge of passing away and has to find a cure as fast as possible.

  “Son of a bitch! Guys we got a problem, I can’t find the anti-matter ball anywhere in here.” Angel says.

  “Could it be that you got a false signal from your heart?” Luis asks Angel.

  “Possibly, but I doubt it. I think the ball was here and somebody has it in their hand. If I know my Orlando like I think I do, he probably has possession of it and is toying with my ability to sense it.” Angel answers Luis.

  “Damn bro, we probably only have a day I bet to rescue the universe.” Dayvon voices his concern.

  “Whatever it is we gotta get that ball, right now though we gotta save my wife, we’re going to need her. I can’t let her die like this. She needs to be with us if we are to win.” Angel replies with emotion as he is worried about his wife surviving. “There’s gotta be a hospital around here somewhere, now let’s see if I can see a hospital from the window here…” He looks around for a hospital.

  “Wait there’s one right there, with the big red cross on the top.” Luis cuts off Angel as he spots what looks to be a hospital.

  “Wow good eye there Luis, but it won’t be easy getting there. See all those tanks there, we’re gonna need some heavy artillery to take those tanks out. We’re not getting through those tanks bypassing them.” Dayvon looks at the dismal situation.

  “He’s right we’re gonna need some heavy weapons if we are to get through this whole mess. Son of a bitch, where are we gonna find weapons that powerful to take out those damn tanks.” Angel looks where he could find weapons.

  “Hey Angel I see a factory downstairs where weapons are made. We should explore it, like right now!” Luis says.

  The three of them head back downstairs and make their way towards the factory. Angel moves behind the other two because he is carrying Maria on his back.

  “Damn you two are gonna have to cover me, I can’t do anything with Maria on my back.” Angel tells the others while carrying Maria.

  Once the three are outside the tanks begin to shoot in their direction. They look for cover and go from wall to wall carefully while timing themselves to catch the tanks when the operators are not paying attention. When they get close to the factory they see a column where they can hide, however Angel sees a ditch to their left that goes straight to the factory. While the ditch is dirty as hell and smells horrible, the three decide that they didn’t accept this mission to look and smell good. So if that meant they had to get dirty, especially if it would increase the odds of survival.

  “Shit is a stinkhole!” Dayvon wines.

  “Man, keep your voice down, unless you wanna get blasted by those tanks.” Luis replies.

  “We gotta be quiet. We’re trying to go under their noses. Any little noise and we’re goners.” Angel warns everyone.

  The three enter the ditch giving the gloobas the idea that they have killed them. They enter and move slowly to avoid making too much noise or attracting too much attention. A glooba soldier does get suspicious and looks down in the ditch, but finds no one. Where were the heroes hiding?

  They are hiding in a side hole just big enough to fit all of them and out of the range of view of the soldier. The soldier sees no one is around, so he decides to go back. Once they hear the footsteps of the soldier walking away they make their move towards the factory once again. After a couple of more close calls they reach the factory.

  “Ah that was a close call. Now let’s see what we find in here.” Luis says.

  “Hopefully we find some big time artillery in here. We’re going to need it badly.” Dayvon says as he begins to search through the boxes.

  After searching through a few boxes the three of them find powerful weapons for themselves. Dayvon finds a futuristic style rocket launcher, Luis finds an EMP electrical rifle capable of disabling enemy electrical circuits such as the circuits inside of the tanks, and Angel finds plasma rifle along with a flamethrower, which he saves for Maria. Angel also finds a glooba styled mo
torcycle and decides he’s going to use the motorcycle to head for the hospital.

  “Angel are you out of your mind dude, those guys are waiting for us to come out.” Dayvon yells at Angel.

  “Take a chill pill, Dayvon. Besides you guys have better weapons to take out the tanks and I’ll easily outrun those tanks. I need to get to the hospital right away, I don’t know if Maria can hold out much longer. I’ll meet you guys in the hospital, don’t worry about me.” Angel despite the warnings decides to go on with using the motorcycle and makes a bee-line to the hospital.

  “Just be careful, Angel. This isn’t New York. The roads aren’t going to be even and then again the roads are no better in New York anyway.” Luis warns Angel.

  “I know, but that’s a chance I’ll just have to take. Besides Maria might just die in the next few minutes for all we know.” Angel responds.

  ***

  Angel jumps on the motorcycle and starts the engine. He heads out of the factory in the motorcycle with Maria on his back. He rushes out with tunnel vision only focusing on getting to the hospital to cure his wife. He sees a small pathway where he can get under the tanks and around, all he needs to do is avoid being shot by the tanks. One of the tanks takes aim at Angel, but thanks to the speed of the motorcycle he is able to simply outrun the shelling from the tanks. Angel bypasses about 3 to 4 tanks and sees a bridge up ahead. On the other side of the bridge lies the hospital where he’s trying to get inside to cure Maria.

  One of the glooba tanks wise up to the idea of Angel trying to cross to the other side. So the tank shoots down the bridge causing the bridge to collapse and the structure next to it to fall apart as well.

  “Shit these bastards always seem to be one step ahead of me. I outrun them and they shoot my ticket to the hospital to hell. Damn gotta think of another way to get to the other side and fast, running out of prime real estate space!” Angel says in his head.