Galactic Calendar 259872/ 2000 [ Sol Year 4387/ Day 155 of 365. Sol standard year]
Days after of Crash landing/ 5
Uninhabited Island /Tunnels near Yard Ship
Galactic Standard Time / 1320
Jinn fired at the robots as he cursed Karakpace in his mind. But he didn’t blame the big Insect for attacking Callahin, he just couldn’t. he understood more than most the rage one felt for those who had betrayed them. He knew that feeling too well, and he had acted on them once. The fact that he had survived was a miracle, one that might not be repeated here.
“Now besides these, where are those two pieces of food I brought with me?” Callahin said as he looked around. When he turned his body around, he looked right at Jinn.
Jinn glared back, aiming his pistol but he fired at a robot moving towards the door he was at.
Callahin looked at the door and saw the others next to Jinn. His eyes went to Karakpace who was tearing apart one of the robots, then he looked at the small insects by Jinn’s feet. “Oh my, you found me out? My my. Then you must be working with old Karakpace! What a day and time to be alive!”
As Paige and Sk’p kept running towards them, Jinn just aimed and fired. As his shots hit one of the robots, its head turned and looked right at him.
“HERE! YOU TWO GET OVER HERE!” Sara called out as she fired at the other robots.
Callahin only laughed and chuckled as he watched next to the spider-worm. “Yes, keep fighting! It only makes my victory that much sweeter! I can’t wait to tear out how you found out what I am from your brain!”
Jinn only looked at Callahin and felt his rage spike, but also his confusion. The way Karakpace had talked, the being should have killed him already. But instead, he was fighting the Apes and the Robots. There had to be a reason, there just had to be. But what was it?
It was only when the spider worm behind Callahin moved, that Jinn began to understand what was going to happen. He stared at the monster behind Callahin, and part of him could only feel that this was going to be poetic.
“Not saying anything, that’s fine. I guess I’ll have a conversation with your skull later! Go my beast, capture them all!” Callahin ordered and the spider worm did nothing.
Paige and Sk’p had reached others, and Paige swallowed.
“Tell me I’m not right about that big thing Paige, please,” Jinn said softly as he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes.
She didn’t say anything, but she turned away and nodded.
“Of course, I hate being right about these things. Get ready, this is going to be fast,” Jinn said as he watched the spider-worm.
“What are you talking about, what’s going to fast?” Sara asked as she fired at another robot that was coming towards them.
“What happens in all the mad scientist movies that have the villain make a giant monster?” Sk’p asked dryly as he started to fire.
“What? How does that….. wait. The movies with giant monsters?! But in all of them, the monster… oh,” Sara said in a whisper.
Jinn just fired at one of the robots, chuckling darkly as he did so. He might have been new to those kinds of movies, but he had seen enough of them to know what happened. But he never thought that he would actually see that in real life. But as he watched the spider-worm out of the corner of his eyes, he knew he would soon.
The spider worm moved side to side slightly. As he watched it flex its forward spiked limbs, Jinn knew it would act soon. Just what it would do beyond the next few minutes would be telling. And it would show just what the group would have to do.
Callahin blinked and turned his gaze on the beast behind him as it just stayed there. “What is it, why aren’t you obeying your master!? What is this!?”
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Jinn had to chuckle at the man's shock. To think that someone who actually hunted sentient beings was so dumb. He had always thought it didn't exist, but this showed there was justice in the universe.
“Your Beast ate too much meat after you used your powers on it! It gained reason! It can think for itself and plan! I doubt it wants you to stay alive much longer!” Karakpace called out, glee in his voice.
“What?” Callahin said as he looked upwards at the spider-worm.
The beast reared back, roaring in anger. As Jinn watched, Callahin started to scream before the beast slammed its head down, Callahin going into its mouth. It reared back and bit, the lower half of Callahin falling to the ground.
Karakpace roared in joy as he tore off the head of one of the robots. “So he only took the powers, not the knowledge of the laws? Then he was killed by his own arrogance!”
The large Ape looked at the parts of Callahin body and roared. As one all the apes ran towards the hanger door. Jiinn could only watch as the Apes left, wondering why they had come here at all. But that didn’t matter now, what did was the threat of the Spider-Worm.
Jinn looked at the monster, trying to find something in him to care that Callahin was dead. But the monster that was the Spider-Worm was still here, and that was very bad.
But a commotion from the shuttle caused him to turn. The sounds came from the shuttle itself, it was changing! As they all watched, the shuttle formed limbs and stood up on two legs and a tail that formed facing them. Two arms shot out and an elbow formed two feet away from the body. It turned and showed a human-like skull where the front would be.
The robots all around went still and then they all seemed to be waiting for something for a minute. Then the smaller robots all charged at the doorway. The bigger one just charged at the spider worm that met it with its own countercharge.
Jinn stared for a minute, then he glared and made a choice.
“No Choice! Go full powers, now!” Jinn barked as he aimed at the robotic shuttle. “Aether Dart!”
Jinn pulled the trigger, and a bolt of blue energy covered his laser bolt. The bolt hit one of the charging robot’s head, sending it down with a hole through it.
“Got it! Battle Enhance/ Flame!” Jess called out before she disappeared. She appeared in the air, and fired at two of the robots, each shot exploding in flames as it hit metal.
Karakpace looked at them for a moment before laughing. “I knew that something was different about you all! Good job!”
“Yeah, well get over here! Jess, grab him!” Jinn barked as he fired, keeping an eye on the fight between the two giant monsters.
The shuttle robot grabbed one of the spider-worm’s spiked limbs and tore it from the monster’s body. But to Jinn’s horror, laughter came from the shuttle robot.
“HA! Genetic abomination! Fall to one who knows the proper way to kill you! All of you!” The voice kept talking as the shuttle looked at the door. “Fall to a true scientist!”
Jinn could only stare, his mind racing. The one good thing that his upbringing had done was let him know all about all the threats out there that had ever existed. And the term, true scientist? That was a flag right there.
“Nova. The others…… we need to leave! Everyone, we’ll need……” Jinn went still as he saw a new message to his lower right. It read, ‘Aether Dart mastery has reached level two. Additional Aether Darts are generated with each use per additional level of skill. All Augmentations active will be auto-loaded into all Aether Darts generated. Aether Shot unlocked, auto-learning still offline.’
Jinn blinked and looked at the text, trying to understand it. But then a thought came from his lower brain and he took a deep breath. “You know what? Give me a second to try something.”
Jinn ‘dashed’ away into the air, appearing above the giant robot. He pointed his pistol down and took a deep breath. This is it, his next action will decide the course of the battle. “Hey metal head! Aether Dart!”
As he pulled the trigger, Jinn stared in shock as a blue energy dart formed to the left of his shot as it left the barrel. Both bolts speed through the air, and they tore through the giant robot's right arm, taking it off at the elbow.
The Spider-Worm didn’t let the chance it had pass it by. As soon as the limb was falling, the monster spat a glob of black liquid at the wires. The giant robot reared back and the Scientist roared in anger. “What the malware!? What is this!?”
Jinn almost laughed and ‘dashed’ away, appearing five feet above the ground. He dropped down and looked at Karakpace who was a foot to his right. “So my friend, ever faced anything like these two?”
Karakpace only chuckled a little as buzzing came from behind him. Jinn looked and saw three of the flying insects that he had fought before. Looking at Karakpace, Jinn had to wonder how far his control went.
Karakpace nodded and flexed his hands. “The metallic one, no. The flesh and blood one, once or twice. And the other giant even made it easier to take out a leg. You handle the robot and I’ll handle the other one with my last few fliers.”
“Not the worst plan I’ve ever had. And I might be able to do that. But stay out of reach, I don’t like those spikes, and it eats fast,” Jinn said softly. He looked at the robots, all of them had turned away from the others and were focused on him. As one of them raised its arms, he knew that there had to be a change in plans. “Actually new plan! Let the big ones fight it out, we handle the small ones first!”
Karakpace made a rumble before a laser bolt almost hit him if Jinn hadn’t pushed him a half foot away. Karakpace looked at the robots and growled as a black energy aura appeared around him. “This won’t take too long. There are only what? Five more of them between?”
“FOOL!” The scientist roared through the giant robot. “You peons could never even think to understand my plans! I always got what I needed from this place, and my remote unit made more gains for me than I ever thought!”
The Spider-Worm roared and slammed into the giant robot, but failed to move the giant robot. The giant robot slashed out with its other arm, and an energy blade formed from above the limb’s waist. The blade slashed down and made a mark going down the Spider-Worm’s body, and red blood gushed out.
The Spider-Worm screeched in pain and reared back, the blood slowly dying. From the stump where the torn point limb had been, another burst free. The Spider-Worm roared and slammed its side into the giant robot, and this time tore into the robot. Its tail came around at the same time and pulled one of the giant robot’s legs from its body.
As the Spider-Worm reared back and roared, the giant robot fell. The Spider-Worm wasted no time, and spat another blob of black liquid, this blob hitting the head. As the liquid ate into the metal, the scientist started swearing and roaring.
“Malware widen scrap! How dare you fail me! Sure, it has a reservation function, but more abilities!? That goes against all the records I have! Just what is this thing!?” The scientist demanded in horror and rage.
Meanwhile, the group destroyed the last of the smaller robots. Karakpace and Jinn both looked at the Spider-Worm, ready to fight.
Jinn slowly put his pistol away and drew out his blade, squeezing to turn it into its sword form. He looked at the Spider-Worm as it tore apart the giant robots and sighed. He just knew that their luck wasn’t good enough for the monster to leave. He watched it spit out the metal and looked around, seeing the people still in the hangar. As it looked at them, its round mouth seemed to twitch as if something was in it. And that was when he knew that they would need to kill this monster if they wanted to stay alive.