I was scared senseless, when I looked at the crowd of them, they could easily overpower me even if I gave it a fighting chance, after all, I've been doing lately was failing. I hoped someone else would come rescue to me. I had no fighting chance. I looked around and everything seemed to be in a standstill. I looked for any signs, any loopholes. They spoke and I clenched my teeth as they uploaded my data in a strange language on their monitor. How did I know? My picture was pasted up there. They pointed and studied my details and I struggled to break lose. The mimic touched a device on its neck. "Prepare for uploading. Lord Gondomier would be very disappointed with the results I assure you."I grimaced. "The Blundering Earth boy is weak and defenseless." It said stepping around me. I pulled at the shackles. Sweat trickled into my eyes. I clenched my fists and wriggled and one of them stuck a spear into my chest. I roared in pain at the currents and my eyes closed. I couldn't believe it
"I am trying." It said tapping on the control board and it boosted us up over the ships. I hit my head against the roof and dropped. One of the ships diverged from the others flying in a triangle. "There's a rogue on the loose." "Get ready to jump." It said to my surprise and the pod opened. "We get the leader." It said and I stayed unsteadily. The wind blew violently against my face and we dived. I screamed and bellyflopped on a ship. There were more Klozarians coming at us from the top. They aimed stunners at us and I ducked holding on, then I lunged at them. The Blue Guy caught me before I slipped off the edge like a piece of paper. I flapped at the clouds. The ships engines and the wind roared in my ears. He pulled me up and held on to its arm. "Keep running." I looked forward and almost went dizzy at the distance and no thrusters to protect me. The odds were against me, Blue Guy was in trouble but I had to keep going. I lunged and rolled into the next."Go, go!" I couldn't see
I brushed my hand over my face while he spoke and I bit my finger at the prospect of Oogie finding her way here. I heard a thump on the door. I brushed my forehead and Dexter exhaled. "You will be assisting me with the car tomorrow and mind you, you better be handing in the right tools else I'd be very disappointed. Understand? Are we clear?""Yes." I said with a squeaky voice and I had to clear up the table and pick up Lois's storybooks and toys. Beck stuck out his tongue at me. "You look like shit." He said and I heaved a sigh, and Seymour cried clawing at my foot. "Ow." I replaced her toys and tucked her in. Then I headed to the bathroom and soaked in warm water. I stretched my knee and groaned at the pain. I fumed at the thump on the door. "Zack...hurry up!" I tossed and turned in my bed. Seymour was taking half of the bed. Then covered my head with my pillow away from the blaring lights and the noise. I couldn't fall asleep because of the scraping noises I heard. The flashe
I swallowed hard raising my hands and Oogie marched steadily out the trailer to the ship. I noticed that some people didn't seem to mind us. Our cloaks were on and we got to a ship not far from the one we crashed in by that hangar. Someone had taken their time to clear it up. I couldn't think of anything else asides myself and how Oogie would act had the escorts not been there to supervise us. She was strangely docile but I winced as her gloved hands clenched. They wore black capes with Ms. The stairs to a ship unfurled in front of us. The ship was shaped like big metallic message bird. With blue lights on its body. I toppled when one officer nudged me. My breath caught. I couldn't speak to her. My eyes rolled up to the inbuilt lights, the marginalised spaces where aliens could work, I saw one man without a uniform in all white assorting complicated machine parts with a hologram.We stepped on to a circle and I froze when it lowered us to a dark room. "What's up?"She was quiet. T
My suit blinked and the gate rolled open, I ran in and my spine gave out. The suit was heavy. I spotted two robots coming after me. I threw a punch and my wrist gave out. One swiped a leg under me and I fell over. Huffing and puffing. It stumped on my sternum. I gazed at the handful in horror coming at me. My muscles were aching and I was astounded to find out that I couldn't gain much air in the suit. I glanced at the exit beyond me. A red light blinked above it. I was weighed down by their punches. I crashed into a podium and gazed through my swollen eye at the door. I gazed up at the notches. I punched a robot and grabbed it by its arm. The others came at me."You are under arrest for aiding and abetting a wanted criminal." I pulled up its arm and shot lasers at the others. It struggled spinning and lasers flew everywhere. The robots fell over. I ran and it felt like my suit was filling with sand. I took a leap on a robot's head and leapt to the notch on the wall. The robot I used s
I rammed into the pod several times and sank down the pod crying. It was over 6 minutes now and he was unresponsive. "Zed!" I would never be the same again. My chest was heavy and it had nothing to do with the suit. I stood up blindly and my legs trembled as I forged on. I met Oogie outside. She held her arm. "I apologize." "I'm sorry Oogie, I didn't make it. I left him down there and I couldn't even break the stupid containment system. " I said and I gaped at the lights going on. I was flustered and angry with myself. I didn't notice the councilmen materializing and the team rushing in. I sniffed. "I should have just taken you back to the ship like you asked." "Forget about it." She murmured sadly. "It's finished."I glared at her in doubt. "What are you saying?"[ Rejuvenation process complete. ] I gaped at Zed stepping out. He looked different, a lot more older than I expected but that sickly complexion was gone. Zed wiped water off his eyes like he had just come out of a hibern
My eyes strained on him. "If this is about Lois, I'm sorry. I know this is hard for you and I could be contributing_""I'm still very angry, she cries to sleep because of you. Even I can't talk it through to her." He wiped his nose. It was a tough call sitting here and talking about our feelings. I wanted to shrink into the room.He held up the picture. I gulped when I looked in and gaped at a snapshot of Dad as a younger version of himself by the Department of Physical Sciences, the background was blurry except for the sign, his brown hair was spiky, he was of average height, he was of average height holding on to his backpack around his chest. He wore a stubbed bracelet. The ones rockers wear. His friend was bigger in glasses and black clothes, they were having a conversation. There was a faint glow behind them. It was sunny. A lady with lustrous blonde hair, in a jean jacket and leggings, was posed in mid-walk, she was going past them and she was looking right at my dad and Manny, h
"Satellite Pics?" "It's just not possible, because I tried too and there was no such photo." He shifted on the edge of the bed. Seymour climbed onto his lap pawing at the photo. I saw the grief written on his face while he rubbed his scruff."You just weren't looking hard enough. The reason I wasted so much time that night after the game was because I wanted to get my hands on that photo." I added feeling guilty for lying at such a delicate moment. I looked away from him to Beck's robot. He left it there for some reason. "I know. I was looking for a proper picture to show Lois. This was before we met. I remember this. It's a big coincidence. I wasn't even aware of that. This was the day we first met. She kicked me on the first date and told me to get my priorities straight. We didn't exactly see eye-to-eye. She said it wasn't working and believe it or not, I made this insane chart on why we had chemistry and she gave it a shot." My throat clogged. I'm in a family of nerds. "It's a