Chapter 21
The two burning objects cleared orbit as they fell from the sky and entry plates fell away as two large robot figures came into view before they slowed and landed.
One vehicle was jet-like but more of a robot than ship, and it transformed from jet into a feminine looking sentinel as it made contact with the ground. It had two sets of wings, a pair of legs and arms carrying long menacing lance in one hand and a missile launcher in the other, and two bulky shoulder pods that housed a variety of weapons. It stood at a good twenty five feet tall and had a light cream and magenta color them, complete with racing stripes down the center of the fuselage. Small laser pods on its body shot at some of the flying octopus-anglerfish pestering survivors as it wound down.
The other was massive and was more like a giant fifty foot long lobster or scorpion RV with eight legs. It had two giant weapon arms at the front and four missile pod type appendages on its back. Twelve drones the size of medicine balls shot out from under the tail and chased down the rest of the ugly flying beasts that were abandoned and quickly mopped up any survivors. It came to a loud landing as its thrusters burst to life, a cloud of dust billowing around the group gathering around Leon.The lobster bot stood a good thirty feet off the ground, its underbelly ten feet up. It also had a heavily armed robotic lobster-like tail in the back that housed the drones and could curl under or behind the machine. The mechanical carapace was topped by a giant fifteen foot long cannon on the top.
The machine squatted as the engines wound down, a cloud of vapor bursting from vents on its sides. On the front was a small octagonal window about eighteen inches across and with another vaporous hiss, the window separated to a coffin shaped pod. As it dropped to the ground it popped out little arms, four legs and rabbit ear-like antennas. The cockpit window opened up and a midget in a dirty brown tank top, hand cut jean shorts and a raggedy old cowboy hat with the sides curled up and a big metal Texas state -shaped pin on the front, pulled out a fat cigar and sparked it, taking a big puff with a satified sigh then waited for the occupant in the other ship present herself. He leaned forward and did a farmers blow out of his little robot body and wiped his fingers on his grungy pants before taking another huge pull off his cigar.
The long, darkly tinted cockpit in the chest of the sentinel opened and out jumped a very tall, very long haired brunette with massive double H cup breasts. She had a shiny rubber jumpsuit that had the same cream and magenta color theme as her robot. She wore light green, high tech HUD sunglasses and a pony tail. Her waist was very thin, assisted by a corset and her six inch heals made her eight feet tall. Her long dark brown hair was in a pony tail and went to her knees. Her lips were puffy and had one gold ring in the middle of her bottom lip. She took off her sunglasses and looked down to the midget.
"Tch. Cletus, must you smoke that ridiculous poop stick? It smells horrid." The tall woman said in a thick Russian accent.
The midget snorted a huge loogie and spit before he answered in his heavy Lonestar accent "Clamp it, Raz. I don't get to smoke up there and it's been weeks since I had a break to come down for some fresh air."
She walked over to where Polly and Naomi's heads were imbedded into the concrete walk way. "Which you immediately taint with your cheap tobacco."
"Cheap!? Fuck off!" Cletus said. "This fucker was recovered from Arnold Shwartzenegger's private bunker after he took that super soldier serum and went on a raping spree. Ha! Could you imagine that guy running into a gym and raping some poor girl and hearing 'Your vag-Y-na has been terminated!' as he ran out? Man, I wish I was there to see that. You can't get a Cohiba with that kind of history nowadays. The only one more pricy than that was the Lewinsky cigar. And that was half smoked when I got it! Cost me two gold bars for the damn thing. Cheap? You have no taste for the finer things, lady."
Raz kneeled between her teammates crushed skulls and assessed the damage. As she looked, she saw the flesh creeping back into place and the broken bones pulled into position as they re-fused back together. She reached over and grabbed the chunk of mohawk from the ground and blew at it, making a weak attempt to clean it before placing it on the skull, which the tiny pieces of flesh re-bonded the scalp to Pollys head.
She pulled the bodies out of the divot and looked around some more. She saw half of a wolfman dragging himself to its lower half as a wolf woman dragged the other half to her brother, pulling huge scorpion spikes from her arm and abdomen.
From the pool house came a large group of young adults lead by Laura, René and Shawna, gasping and crying as they looked over the devastation. They all scurried off to the busted fountain in the courtyard where the others were gathered. Laura howled in sorrow seeing Leon dismembered and incapacitated and collected his arm off the ground. Cletus was standing over the barely conscious body of Leon, wondering what sort of thing had the man wrapped up. He went to touch it with his squat robo-body but there was a sizzling bolt of electricity and his machine froze.
"The hell?" He shouted. "Fuck is this thang? Gawd damn alien piece of shit!" From the crowd, the two tall shop twins appeared and ran up with a look of worry.
"Don't touch it!" One said.
"It is very dangerous!" Said the other.
"We will need a jar of salt," said one.
"And powered allumina."
"What is it?" Raz asked.
"It is a borkle beast."
"A Saturnian creature."
"Very nasty." They said together.
Jenny, the maid who had helped Lina before, and knew the lab well enough, stated she knew where the drum that had alumina was and ran to get a container full while a bunny ran to the kitchen for the salt.
As they waited, the group checked on each other. They immediately noticed the parents and their children were missing, apart from Leon. Tony saw his cousin and ran over to Naomi and Polly's bodies as they laid on the ground.
"Hell no! Nonono!" He kneeled between them and almost cried. The triplets rushed to him to console him but Tina noticed movement and pointed.
"Look! I don't think she's dead!" They looked over and saw the her skull close up and the last of the flesh bonding to it as it regrew to cover the skull and both women jolted upright, screaming as they regained consciousness. They both panted heavily to catch their breath and Tony excitedly hugged both in each of his huge arms and bawled as the triplets gathered around them, adding to the hug pile.
They separated and Tina pointed and said "Y'all's faces are fucked up."
The two looked at each other and had to stifle laughs.
"Yo, your lip and ear and dangling off your head." Naomi giggled.
"Ya? You should pull that wig of yours back down so it can grow back on your head. You look like a Pez dispenser with no nose." Polly chuckled.
"Man, Pat is a fucking piece of shit." Naomi groaned as she fixed her hairline.
"WHAT THE FUCK, NAY?" Tony yelled incredulously as he observed in shock at the madness of his cousin regenerating and not being dead.
"Ah. Well, I did tell you we got into some wild shit. You ain't even seen half of it."
