New chapter, and first appearance of two new monsters.
Chapter 6: Take me to your LeaderMathias and Hella are preparing to leave in search of new allies for the brotherhood. The power of the demons has become too great, and the monsters need also larger forces to have a chance to survive and restore peace. Outside the castle, Kita and Mana have gathered the zombie corpses into a pile and burn them. Despite the flames, some pieces still fidgeting. In the castle, Amen and Ox are lying in their rooms and regain their strength. Awa will stay to watch over them while Mr. Lordi will start preparing defenses in the village of Soulaires to counter the attack of the new demons. Mathias and Hella are in the large living room and get ready to leave in the vortex. Awa walks towards them and smiled, to wish them good luck.
(Awa): "Be careful my friends. The forces of evil have spread everywhere. I do not know what you'll find, but I know that your power will protect you against the dark forces."
(Mathias): "Thank you Awa. We will make sure to succeed, I promise."
(Hella): "It's time to go."
The vortex opened in front of Hella and Mathias, which hold by the hand. They throw a last look to Awa and Mr. Lordi, which their wish good luck, then, Mathias and Hella plunge into the vortex, which closes behind them.
Mathias and Hella fly again at full speed through the vortex. They wonder where they will come. An unknown and hostile dimension, or the total annihilation? Awa was right, the forces of evil are everywhere now, and they have to be very careful. A few seconds later, the couple finally arrived at their destination. They arrive on a cold metal floor, in a dark room. They are barely arrived they already guess where they are: in front of them, behind a glass wall, they see the earth from space. The young man is amazed in seeing this. When he was a child, Mathias had always dreamed of going into space, but he never thought to see it one day.
(Mathias): "But where are we?"
(Hella): "It looks like a human space station, but it seems abandoned. Come with me, we will explore the places, maybe we'll find something, or someone. But stay near of me. We do not know what may be hiding here."
Mathias nods and starts walking with Hella in the corridors of the station. It reigns a dead silent and the only sound is that of computers still running. The station is in darkness, but even more disturbing, where's the crew? By now, he should have seen someone. Mathias did not like it at all. This situation reminds him a lot the video game Dead Space, and he hope it does not exist in real life. On some walls, Mathias and Hella can see strange marks of claws and fangs. There's also blood marks on some walls. Several rooms were ransacked and many machines have been destroyed. Whoever did this must be very strong physically, or possess an arsenal of very powerful weapons.
In one room, they saw a man dressed as an astronaut, sitting on a chair and facing a control pad. Man is turn in the other sense, and do not move. Hella approaches to him and she turns him towards her. Mathias has almost back away: the man is dead, with a hole in the head, and his skin is completely rotten, so he died long ago.
(Mathias): "Holy shit! But who could do that?"
(Hella): "I do not know, but at least we know what is happen to the crew. Look."
In a corner of the room, several other dead astronauts. All were horribly mutilated. It's a real carnage. On a desk in the hands of a dead astronaut, Mathias finds a folder and gently takes it of the hands of the corpse. He opens the folder and begins to look at the files. One of them in particular caught his attention and he began to read it.
(Mathias): "Station Report 15. August 1, 1981.
Today is a historic day in the history of space exploration. Our radars detected an SOS issued by an unknown vehicle. Later, we were able to recover a strange vessel, which seemed to drift in the space since long. The damaged hull of the ship appears that he was hit by a shot. Inside, our team discovered an unknown but highly advanced technology. And above all, inside the cockpit, we discovered the bodies of two aliens, which seemed long dead. Surely asphyxiate by the lack of oxygen. The two bodies were taken to the laboratory of the station, and scientists will examine them. This discovery marks a big day: the discovery of the extraterrestrial life."
Mathias was really intrigued by reading this, but now understands that this space station was a research laboratory. But this does not explain all the dead astronauts and the devastation of the station. Meanwhile, in the same room, Hella notices that a message was recorded on one of the computers of the station, and is still working. Curious, she presses the button and starts the message. The computer screen lights up and the video message begins. Mathias comes beside Hella to watch the video. An astronaut, terrified, appears on the screen. Behind him, screams and fighting noises are heard. The astronaut starts talking with terror facing the screen.
(Astronaut): "Hallo earth, can you hear me? Come to our rescue! It’s a carnage! Something in the station is about to kill us all! These are the two aliens that we discovered in the ship! They are come back to life, and now they kill everyone in their path! Come help us, please! What is this..... Oh no ...... Stay away from me..... Please, NOOOOO!!"
A roar is heard and a humanoid silhouette leapt on the astronaut and blood squirts on the screen. It was too fast and Mathias and Hella have not had the time to see what it is. A moan of pain is heard and the message stopped at this moment.
After viewing the distress message, Mathias and Hella look in the eyes with the same puzzled look, but now they know what happened here.
(Hella): "Whoever was this thing that we have seen on the screen, he is probably still here."
A shiver runs through the back of Mathias. Suddenly, a growl is heard in one of the corridors of the station. It's too dark to see what it is, but the noise seems closer. Heavy footsteps are heard too. Mathias and Hella will hide behind a desk and do not make noise. Few seconds after, a humanoid creature of two meters high enters into the room with heavy and slow steps. Mathias and Hella watch discreetly to see how he looks. The creature looks like some kind of cyborg, with black helmet and a black metal armor, studded by pipes and buttons. A green face with red eyes appears behind the helmet visor. A zombie cyborg. In his hands, the cyborg holds a kind of big gun with futuristic and menacing aspect. The robotic monster breathes hard and noisily, and advanced of several footsteps into the room, looking slowly around him, as to scan the room. He starts talking with a grave and robotic voice.
(Magnum): "Unknown life form detected in the room. Standard search. Destruction mode activated. Find the intruders and destroy them by any means. G-Stealer, report."
He talks like a cyborg soldier. Then, a second creature comes into the room. He has a beastly look, with a warrior armor, claws on the hands and jaw full of sharp fangs, and also antennas on her head. He almost looks like Kita, maybe he is from the same species. The man beast begins to sniff the air and turns to the cyborg.
(G-Stealer): "I detected two different smells. One of the intruders is a monster, but the other is human. They are in this room, I feel it."
This monster named G-Stealer seems to have a highly developed flair, like a predator. Both aliens are surely those discovered in the ship adrift, and who have killed the astronauts on the station. Mathias and Hella decide to come out of their hiding and show themselves to the two creatures. The man beast growls of anger, and the cyborg takes a weapon, a kind of plasma cannon and shoots. Mathias and Hella dodge the shot.
(Magnum):” Life forms detected! Ready to fight!”
(Mathias): "Wait, we are not your enemies!"
G-Stealer jumps to Hella in roaring, but she strikes him and throws the monster against one of the control panels. Magnum sends a burst of plasma with his gun, but Mathias dodges the shot by throwing himself on the side. The young man out his claws and rushes towards the cyborg. Magnum tries to hit Mathias, but the young man is faster and managed to disarm the cyborg. Unfortunately, Magnum grabs Mathias by the throat and began to strangle him. The monster has a huge force, and Mathias fears that he will break the windpipe. Seeing this, Hella want to go to help Mathias, but G-Stealer jumps again on her and she dropped to the ground. The monster tried to bite her on the throat, but she holds the jaws with her hands. With a kick, Hella successfully reduced G-Stealer and sends him crashing against a wall. Mathias hits the head of the cyborg several times, but the monster seems not affected by the blows. Magnum continues to strangling Mathias, and he turns one of his arms to a circular saw. Mathias paled with fright.
(Magnum): "Life form caught! Ready to eliminate."
But Hella comes and hits the cyborg with all her might, in the chest. The monster has made few steps back, but does not fall to the ground. Hella helps Mathias to get up, but the two monsters seem to still want to fight. Hella has had enough.
(Hella): "Enough! We do not want to fight! We're looking for allies to help us. Our worlds are in danger, and it is the fate of the entire universe that is at stake! By the power of the Monsterican Connection, we need your help!"
Hearing this, Magnum and G-Stealer have stopped and they see she is sincere. They stop to fight and want to know more.
(G-Stealer): "What? Can you explain us?"
(Mathias): "Peace between monsters and humans is threatened, we must at all costs to restore the peace, or the whole world will be plunged into confusion and war. Me and Hella we must again use the power of our love to overcome evil, but our love is not enough powerful, we need more forces."
Magnum and G-Stealer exchanged looks rather perplexed. The cyborg is speaking again.
(Magnum): "We have heard about the war of the monsters and demons. We also heard of this power, the Monsterican Connection. I thought it was just a legend, but my scanner detects that you and the female monster are in a perfect love."
(Hella): "But what are you doing in this human station?"
(G-Stealer): "I was a soldier of Mu Arae, and Magnum was a mercenary hired to help our army. I was team with him, but in a battle, our ship was damaged and we drifted in the space. The lack of oxygen eventually killed us. But humans of this station spotted our signal and recovered our ship. The scientists have surely performed experiments on us because we came back to life."
(Magnum): "But as soldiers, we thought we were captured, and we killed all humans of the station in a fit of rage. Since then, we're stuck here, but we seek a way to go in. search our allies and continue the fight."
(Hella): "Listen, one of the members of your army is still alive. His name is Kita, and he is our ally and a loyal friend. Magnum. G-Stealer. You seem to be very powerful. You say that you want to continue the fight, well, join our brotherhood. We need soldiers like you to bring peace and destroy the demons."
Magnum and G-Stealer seem a little hesitant at first glance. The cyborg looks at Mathias and Hella who hold by the hand, and senses that everything they said is true. He slowly walks towards them, and they expect the answer. He looks at them in the eyes as if he scans them.
(Magnum): "You are brave, strong, and the love between you is very sincere. I am perhaps a machine, but I also feel these things. I agree to trust you, and help in your cause."
(G-Stealer): "If Magnum comes, I come too. I do not especially trust strangers, but if the universe is in danger, it is our duty of soldiers to react."
Mathias and Hella have smiled and thanked the two aliens. Magnum and G-Stealer must prepare for combat and will join Mathias and Hella later, but they promise they will come, and the couple trusts them. The Scarbie opens a new vortex, and enters inside with Mathias.
TO BE CONTINUED
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