Flying Burger

by Jared Martin

  “All Cryonic fighter-crafts, take up positions at Sector L246,” Major Thor ordered.

  “All Xenon fighter-crafts, take up positions at Sector R986,” Major Sonia ordered.

  Omegaton-1 and Omegaton-2 were huge metallic robots standing at eight kilometres tall, almost as tall as Mount Everest. In a very short time, Major Thor and Major Sonia saw the Omegatons from their command deck cockpit windows. They were shocked to see such gigantic robots! They began to fear they might not be able to defeat these war-machines. All the Cryonic fighter-crafts were positioned in a straight line on one side of the Omegatons while the Xenon fighter-crafts took up position on the other side.

  Just at this moment, the Scorpion shot a beam of death-ray at one of the fighter-crafts, exploding it in a blinding light. Once this act of aggression was committed, all the fighter-crafts went on the offensive. They flew towards the Omegatons in an intimidating fashion, diving down in a spiral path and firing their laser guns at the same time. Omegaton-1 was hit by multiple laser shots. Once these fighter-crafts flew close enough to the robots, they made a U-turn and the next fighter-craft came along. It was like flying a compressed elliptical path. The Omegatons were shot from both sides by the combined Cryonic and Xenon fighter-crafts.

  Once these huge Omegatons went on the rampage, it was no laughing matter. Omegaton-1 transformed its right arm into a conical drill, while its left arm was attached with a laser gun. The Scorpion began firing death-ray in spurts from its pincers at the fighter-crafts. Its tail also wrecked massive damages. Omegaton-2 activated its weapon remote control on its right wrist. The weapon carrier behind its back dislodged the big cutter which came to life instantly. This crescent cutter had three red lights shining brightly at its centre. It spinned slowly, drawing a red circle of light. It floated threateningly about in space. This weapon of destruction then started to spin furiously with a high-frequency sound. Its internal circuitry was programmed to seek out heat-generating objects and cut it into two equal pieces. This deadly crescent cutter began to fly towards the fighter-crafts. Soon, the Torrent Battle Formation was thrown into disarray! More fighter-crafts from the main battleship went on to engage these three Omegatons, but they were clearly no match for the big monsters.

  “Commander Biron, look out! The scorpion tail!” One Vokon fighter pilot alerted his comrade, but alas it was too late. Commander Biron was unable to avoid the scorpion’s lashing tail. His fighter-craft was hit by its powerful tail and exploded in fire.

  “Take that! You metal tin-can,” one fighter pilot took the chance to shoot a laser beam at the scorpion tail. The gigantic tail was not affected in any way and continued to lash out at those fighter-crafts which happened to fly too close to it.

  In another part of space, a Xenon fighter-craft made a sharp U-turn and took a shot at the deadly crescent cutter which was following it too closely. The crescent cutter swerved a little, flew off-course and this fighter-craft managed to escape to safety. However, another fighter-craft which happened to lay in the path of this deadly cutter was cut into two and exploded with a big bang.

  Onboard auxiliary battleship-1, Vokons were thrown into a flurry of activities.

  "Fire gamma-ray!" Major Thor ordered.

  Onboard auxiliary battleship-2, the scenario mirrored battleship-1.

  "Fire infra-red beam!" Major Sonia ordered.

  Two deadly radiation beams shot out from the weapon guns on the undersides of the auxiliary battleships. They were targeted at the Scorpion and Omegaton-1. The two monsters activated their radiation shields rapidly and put on a full defence. Omegaton-2 managed to fly past the battle front-line and began closing in on the main battleship!

  "Sorog, activate Weapon Wheel!" Commander Kohn ordered.

  Sorog got up quickly from his weapon console and walked to the centre of the command deck where a thin glass column was joined to the ceiling. On the ceiling was a huge circular glass pane with shining yellow light. The glass column also shone with yellow light. Sorog activated his wrist device and pulled up a column of red light on the glass column, which in turn caused the ceiling light to turn red partially.

  "Activated!" Sorog replied and walked back to his weapon console.

  The gigantic wheel attached to the middle of the main battleship sprang into action. All the weapon guns located around the wheel at regular intervals began to protrude from its openings in the wheel. There were two sets of weapon guns altogether, on both sides of the wheel. These guns were attached in such a way that their firing range could cover the entire hemisphere from where they were located. Most deadly of all, these guns could shoot beams covering the entire radiation spectrum, ranging from gamma-ray, X-ray, neutron beam, infra-red beam to ultraviolet radiation.

  Staring at Omegaton-2, the Vokon Commander Kohn whispered to himself, "come on baby, I want to tear you apart, grrrr…." He gritted his teeth, shook his head vigorously and was all set for a deadly encounter! Very soon, the big monster, Omegaton-2, loomed into sight, almost covering the cockpit window of the Vokon main battleship!

  "All fighter-crafts, engage enemy!" Kohn ordered.

  Immediately, all the fighter-crafts protecting the main battleship went on the offensive and shot their laser weapons at Omegaton-2. All the laser beams struck its target. However, this big monster seemed unaffected by the multiple laser shots. Omegaton-2 recalled its crescent cutter from the battle frontline using its remote control. Soon, the deadly cutter arrived on the scene with a sound that sent shivers down every Vokon spine in the main battleship. Circular flashes of bright red light could be seen following the trail of the cutter. The cutter spinned and hovered in space for a moment. It tilted its angle of spin several times. It made a few tiny revolutions before it zeroed in on one of the fighter-crafts. This fighter-craft was unfortunate to be targeted for attack by the cutter. It tried desperately to flee but was unable to do so. It was cut into two equal parts, right through its U-shape body. Upon completion of the cutting, this fighter-craft exploded into myriad of brilliant lights. The deadly cutter flew in search of the next target!

  Omegaton-2 transformed both its mechanical hands into chain-saws and waved them around. Two fighter-crafts flew too close to these chain-saws and were hit directly, which then exploded into brilliant lights. Before long, only a few fighter-crafts were left protecting the main battleship. Just when everything seemed so gloomy, four powerful neutron beams were shot from the front of the Death Wheel and struck the cutter, which was flying towards the main battleship. A small explosion occurred. The crescent cutter, a deadly weapon of destruction, was blown into atoms. Omegaton-2 was also hit by a mixture of deadly beams. It put up its radiation shield rapidly and went on full defence.

  The battle raged on fiercely at the front-line. Only a quarter of the fighter-crafts were left. Many of them were destroyed either by the laser beams from the Scorpion or by the conical drill of Omegaton-1. This big monster had transformed one of its arms into a gigantic drill and contacts with them had proven disastrous for the fighter-crafts. The Scorpion also shot out death-rays from both its pincers at the fighter-crafts with deadly accuracy.

  Onboard auxiliary battleship-1.

  "Borg, maximum death-ray intensity!" Major Thor ordered.

  Captain Borg pushed a series of cylindrical prisms of various heights on his weapon console.

  "Done!"

  Onboard auxiliary battleship-2.

  "Rita, maximum gamma-ray intensity!" Major Sonia ordered.

  Captain Rita pushed a series of cylindrical prisms of various heights on her weapon console.

  "Done!"

  Omegaton-1 stole a chance to fling two arrow detonators at the auxiliary battleships. Both battleships were hit as they could not avoid the arrows in time. Omegaton-1 then flew past the auxiliary battleships and began heading towards the main battleship! At this juncture, Omegaton-2 was facing the onslaught of deadly beams from the front of the Death Wheel. Omegaton-1 flew to the rear of the main battleship.

 
"Here comes another tin-can. Sorog, Death Wheel in full power!" Commander Kohn ordered.

  Sorog got up quickly from his weapon console and dashed to the centre of the command deck. Once again he activated his wrist device and directed the column of red light on the glass column right up to the ceiling, which in turn caused the ceiling light to turn red completely.

  "Full power, commander," Sorog replied and walked back to his weapon console.

  The Death Wheel went into full power and shot out deadly beams from both sides! Omegaton-1 put up its radiation shield and went on defence.

  BURGER123 arrived on the scene of the battle.

  "Wow! Everybody come and look, there's fighting going on out there!" Samuel called out to the rest of the crew.

  "Where's the fighting?" Antonio pricked up his ears on hearing the word 'fighting'. He loved excitement and was not going to miss out on this one. He rushed to where Samuel was standing. Very soon, everybody joined him at the cockpit window.

  "Over there, look!" Samuel pointed his finger in the direction of the battle.

  "Captain, a distress signal is received," DATA reported.

  "Hail spaceship commander, I am Kohn, commander of the Vokon convoy. We are under attack by big monsters. We need help," Kohn pleaded.

  "I am Captain Baldwin, star-ship commander. I have seen the trouble you are in. We will do all we can to help." Before the Vokon could reply, his image on the Big Screen in BURGER123 faded away with some unintelligible sounds.

  Onboard the Vokon main battleship.

  "Commander, we are out of fire power," Sorog informed.

  "Activate force field, maximum power!"

  "Done. Those big monsters are trying to cut through us. Our force field can't hold long, Commander!" Sorog warned.

  From the cockpit window of BURGER123, everybody could see the Vokon main battleship being protected by a green pulsating, spherical force field. Omegaton-1 and Omegaton-2 were using their drills and chain-saws to slice through this force field together at close proximity.

  "DATA, locate targets and fire polarity gun, maximum voltage!" Captain Baldwin ordered.

  "Affirmative."

  The polarity gun popped out from the topsides of BURGER123, it had two spiral tubes attached to a rectangular plate supported by a firm metal rod. On activation, two spiral beams shot out at once. One spiral proton beam was aimed at Omegaton-1. Another spiral electron beam was aimed at Omegaton-2. After a brief instant, Omegaton-1 became positively charged while Omegaton-2 had turned negatively charged. Out of a sudden, these two big monsters flew towards each other and got stuck together, unable to move a single bit! Omegaton-1 transformed its conical drills into hands, and tried to push Omegaton-2 away. It managed to push a short distance before the two robots got stuck together again with a loud clang.

  "DATA, fire anti-matter beam!" Captain Baldwin ordered.

  "Affirmative."

  A long rod was dropped from the undersides of BURGER123. Once this weapon took up position, it quickly opened up forming eight spokes, very much like an umbrella’s metal frame. Each spoke then went on to elongate until it reached a length of hundreds of kilometres. The firing mechanism at its centre sprang into action. Anti-matter beam radiated from the apertures along the entire length of each of the eight spokes of the weapon. After a short while, this weapon began to spin about its axis of rotation, increasing speed greatly within seconds. The resultant beam took the form of a solid anti-matter cylinder aimed at the pair of Omegatons!

  Omegaton-1 put up its radiation shield immediately once it detected the oncoming anti-matter beam. Once the anti-matter beam struck the radiation shield, it bore through easily. The anti-matter beam hit the two big monsters squarely in the body. Numerous electrical charges flickered throughout the two monsters. In a matter of seconds, the monsters disintegrated into emptiness, leaving behind no trace. It was awesome.

  At this juncture, another super-scale object came onto the scene. It was a spaceship built like a blue-whale and was one thousand times bigger than a real specimen. This colossal spaceship opened its mouth and fired a tractor beam at the Scorpion and towed it in. Soon this monster disappeared into the mouth of the spaceship. One of the extra-ordinary looking creatures inside this spaceship then broadcasted a transmission signal to all the spaceships in the vicinity.

  "Greetings to all. We, Centorians, come from Sombrero Galaxy, at the edge of the Universe. We apologise for the damage our robots had caused. This was due to a programming error on our part. We had accidentally modified the robots' mission to 'search and destroy all life-forms'. The original mission was to 'search and destroy all pernicious life-forms'. We are very sorry."

  "Oooo, Centorian has three round eyes hanging from its body like light-bulbs," Antonio was thoroughly amused. He was hoping to see more of such interesting aliens. Nikita and Melissa giggled helplessly.

  "Your robots have done great damage," Kohn was fuming. Both his gills were flapping rapidly.

  "Indeed, we have followed a trail of destruction to track them down. We have seen whole planet being wiped out and the Bosoonian civilisation destroyed," the Centorian said in a matter-of-fact voice. No emotion was forthcoming.

  After apologising once again for the Omegatons' attack, the Centorians drove their spaceship away at warp speed.

  "Thank you Captain Baldwin. We are grateful for your help," Kohn said.

  "My pleasure," Captain Baldwin smiled.

  "If you could help us in clearing up this mess, we will be most grateful to you. This territory is under our jurisdiction and we have failed in our duty," Kohn was apologetic.

  “No problem at all,” Captain Baldwin said.

  The surviving Vokon battleships together with BURGER123 landed on planet Goron on a flat plain near the disaster site. Planet Goron had earth-like atmospheric conditions and the percentage of oxygen was even higher than earth, at 25 percent of atmospheric composition. Captain Baldwin led the entire space team and trooped out of BURGER123. They were met by the Vokon commander, Kohn, and a few other junior commanders. After the military formalities were done away with by both parties, Kohn immediately went about giving orders to his subordinates. Captain Baldwin and our space team members waited quietly by the side for further instructions. Little Antonio was fascinated by the Vokons and being able to stare at them at close range, his eyes nearly popped out of his head. He was particularly interested in their flapping fins, which kept on flapping, very much like fish fins.

  Lieutenant Sorog pressed a few buttons on his wrist device and aimed his hand at the main battleship. A trapdoor opened slowly by the side and a strange-looking device floated out and up into the Goron sky. Sorog pressed another button and shot a laser beam at this device. It gave out a whining sound. Slowly, the surrounding debris and broken walls floated up into the air. All the casualties lay on the ground, waiting to be rescued. Goron buildings used a large amount of steel as reinforcements. As such, the electro-magnetic force generated by Sorog’s device was able to lift up all the debris and broken walls into the air.

  Thor pressed a button on his wrist device and scanned the surrounding areas. He was looking for a building, a building suitable as a temporary hospital!

  “900 kilometres north-east from here. The Proxy Radio Station. Evacuate the casualties there!” Thor commanded.

  At this moment, Vokons and Earthlings needed no instructions to proceed with rescue work. They helped all the casualties into their spaceships and flew towards Proxy Radio Station. Lieutenant Sorog retrieved his electromagnetism generator before flying off. All the debris dropped onto the ground with a loud rumbling sound.

  After travelling for about two minutes, the entire rescue convoy arrived at their destination, Proxy Radio Station. Working hand in hand, all the casualties were brought inside this temporary hospital. Many of them were young aliens and they were badly wounded. Some were suffering from shock and others from dehydration.

  “Lieutenant Sorog, check the water and food supply!�
�� Kohn ordered.

  “Yes sir.”

  “Doctor Spik, get the medical supply from our ship. You have work to do.”

  “Yes commander.” Doctor Spik was the Vokon chief medical doctor.

  Shortly after, Lieutenant Sorog returned and reported to Kohn that water supply is available but food supply can only last for three days.

  “Calling Andromeda mission control, this is Kohn, Vokon commander 8651. Request for evacuation fleet. Planet Goron. We have 569 casualties and three days’ food supply. This is an emergency! Over,” Kohn spoke into his wrist communicator. His fins were flapping rapidly.

  A short while passed before a distorted reply was received.

  “This is Andromeda ... mission control. Request granted. Fleet ... arrive in three days’ ... Over.”

  The Vokon medical team went to work immediately. One of these medical doctors stood out from the rest. He was slightly plump and walked in a way that resembled a penguin. He was the chief medical doctor, Doctor Spik. Antonio could not take his eyes away from him. Antonio was giggling most of the time and tugging at Samuel and whispering into his ears.

  Suddenly, this doctor looked at one patient’s medical record and was very angry.

  “This patient is suffering from shock and dehydration. You classified him as code blue while that one had bruises and you classified him as code red. Are you out of your mind?” He stormed. Suddenly, he adjusted his wrist device and shot a stun-ray at this junior medical doctor. Immediately, this doctor started laughing. He went on and on and could not stop. According to inter-galactic medical protocols, casualty classification used the following colour, red for serious, yellow for moderate, blue for light and black for dead. Many of the other Vokon medical doctors turned their heads and looked in this direction. Doctor Spik glared at them. They turned their heads away quickly, afraid to land up in the same fate as their compatriot. The stun-ray stimulated the Vokon nerves and its effect would last for half an hour.