Monsters Robots Aliens

Chapter 4

Inside the war room, President Hathaway held and emergency meeting with his cabinet and the chiefs of staff.

"We need to overthrow that robot and install our own government!" Chief Larry declared.

"Let's sacrifice the elderly to it!" Steve cried.

"I say we invade it!" Joe declared.

"The Earth only has two weeks left!" Jimmy wailed.

"If that thing walks into a populated area, there'll be a major catastrophe!" Advisor Oliver declared.

"We need our top scientific minds on this. Get India on the phone!" Marvin decided.

"Can we transport the United States to a safer planet?" Christopher suggested.

"I say we give this alien a green card and make him proud to be an American," Miss Ronson decided.

"Sir." Henry asked Hathaway, who was slumping in his chair. "It's at dire times like this when I stop and ask myself, "What would Oprah do?"

"Hang it all! What's the point? It's a disaster," moaned Hathaway, lowering his head. He turned and placed his hand on a large red button.

"Stop! No! Don't do it!" screamed the advisors.

"That button launches our nuclear missiles!" William reminded him.

Hathaway was annoyed. "Well, then, which button gets me a latte?"

"Uh... That would be the other one, sir," replied Alan.

Hathaway scowled as he reached toward another large button on the right. "What idiot designed that thing?" he asked.

"You did, sir," answered Advisor Toby Wedgie.

"Fair enough," said Hathaway as his coffee arrived. "Wilson, fire somebody!"

"Yes, sir, Mr. President," Wilson answered.

"Listen up," the president turned back to his advisors. "I'm not going to go down in history as the president who was in office when the world came to an end, so somebody think of something, and think of it fast!" He sipped the coffee and then added, "That's a good cup of joe."

A door that led onto the hallway suddenly opened with a swoosh. General Monger flew into the room on a parachute.

"Mr. President? Not only do I have an idea, but I have a plan!" he declared. he landed in front of President Hathaway. "Now, conventional weapons have no effect on this thing, and we all know nukes ain't an option."

"Sure they are. I just..." He leaned forward ready to push the all out nuclear attack button. The advisors flew into a panic again.

The president flashed them all a scornful look but dropped his hand.

Monger put his arm around the president's shoulders. "I'm not gonna kid you, president. These are dark times. The odds are against us. We need a Hail Mary pass. We need raw power! We need... monsters," he finished.

Hathaway thought for a moment.

"Monsters! Of course!" echoed Hathaway.  "It's so simple! I... I'm not following you."

"Over the last fifty years, I have built robots who help the coverment and I have captured monsters on the rampage,and locked them up in a secret prison facility," General Monger explained. "So secret that the mere mention of its name is a federal offense."

Advisor William whispered to the advisor next to him.  "Is he referring to Area Fifty..." A tranquilizer dart blasted him from out of nowhere before he could finish saying the name of the secret hiding spot.

Everyone in the room turned toward a large screen where Monger began projecting pictures of the monsters.

"Mr. President, say hello to Insectosaurus!" said the general.

The video showed a close up of a tiny bug being shown in debris. "Nuclear radiation turned him from a small grub into a three hundred fifty foot tall monster that attacked Tokyo. Here we have the Missing Link."

A scaly monster image was shown next.

"A twenty thousand year old frozen fish man who was thawed out by scientists. He escaped and went on a rampage in his old watering hole."

The next video showed a scientist preparing to film and experiment. "This handsome fellow is Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. the most brilliant man in the world. He invented a scientific machine that would give humans the cockroach's ability to survive. Unfortunately, there was a side effect. Now, we call this thing B.O.B."

On the screen, food scientists were injecting a tomato with a dessert topping. Seconds later, the tomato transformed into a large gooey blue mass.

"A genetically altered tomato was combined with a chemically altered ranch-flavored dessert topping at a snack food plant. The resulting goop gained consciousness, and became an indestructible gelatinous mass."

Another image showed the two robot twins. "Now Pokuna and Viraka are pump girls who are built to fix things. We design the robots to be more suitable, which they can inflate themselves into balloons to cushion anything that falls. And, our latest addition, Ginormica."

He displayed a picture of the enormous monster. 

"Her entire body radiates with pure energy, giving her enormous strength and size." And finally there was the last image of the prototype, Koco. "Now I hired Koco to help out. She's pretty naive and mute but she's really good at fighting. She can alert an alien invasion and can shoot her gun at a few miles. She can even fly with her rocket boots. Sir, these monsters and androids are our best and only chance to defeat that robot."

Advisor Freddie looked skeptical. "Don't we already have an alien problem, General? I don't think we need a monster problem, either."

General Monger narrowed his eyes on Freddie. "You got a better idea, nerd?" He pulled Freddie's underpants as the other men moaned. Then he approached Hathaway. "What do you think, sir?"

"OK. Stay where you are," he said forcefully, standing up. "General, I propose we go forward with your monsters-versus-aliens idea... thingy."