The Space-Time Conundrum: A Funny Sci-fi Space Adventure (Captain Quasar Book 1) by Milo James Fowler

Author:Milo James Fowler [Fowler, Milo James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-01-04T22:00:00+00:00

Episode 42: Sea Nukembers

Moments later, after scouring the surrounding countryside and destroying every annihilation bot in sight, the Effervescent Magnitude—looking much the worse for wear—arrived at what appeared to be the remains of a military command center, half-buried in the earth under dunes of ash.

"He's in there," Hank gestured, reopening the comm channel.

"Bill, we're going to need your rockets." Quasar licked his lips, glancing at the display where thousands of the annihilation bots' heat signatures remained, heralding the earth's imminent demise. "How many do you have?"

No response.

"Captain," Commander Wan pointed at the viewscreen, their window to the world, as a projectile launched itself from the command center and pierced the sky, leaving a thick tail of smoke.

"The escape pod," Quasar muttered. "He's left us to fend for ourselves."

Then something unexpected happened: missile silos creaked open in the scarred earth, iron hatches yawning as rockets poked their noses upward like weasels sniffing the air after a long internment.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Quasar grinned.

"Humph," replied Hank.

In a matter of minutes, the captain had utilized the tractor beam to haul each of the missiles into the cargo bays of the Effervescent Magnitude where the ship's engineers and best weapons tech officers immediately went to work modifying, transporting, and loading the rockets into the ship's empty torpedo tubes.

"Captain," said Commander Wan, her eyes darting across her console. "Before Bill left his post, he triggered silos across the continent—"

"How many rockets are we looking at?" Captain Quasar glanced back at her.

"Hundreds—and all viable, as long as those robots don't get to them first."

Quasar grinned. "Then let's not keep them waiting. We've got a planet to rescue."

She couldn't help asking, "For whom, sir?"

Captain Quasar glared at his first officer for the fourth time in half as many hours. "It's the principle of the thing, dammit!"

It took some doing, but the crew of the Magnitude were more than up to the challenge. With the captain's steady hand at the tractor beam and the engineers retrofitting the rockets as makeshift torpedoes, they managed to get the job done, wiping the earth clean of every annihilation bot they came across. Granted, hundreds of the robots succeeded in breaking apart a continent or two and sinking the pieces into the sea, but the oceans of the world ultimately aided in the machines' demise, drowning them with elaborate sparks and fizzles as they drifted out of sight.

So thanks to the undying devotion of Captain Quasar and company, the dastardly plans of one Emperor Zhan—whoever he was—were thwarted with extreme prejudice, and Earth found itself ultimately saved, albeit nothing at all like its younger self. As Hank steered the ship on one more flyover to make sure all of the bots had been destroyed, the captain stroked his clean-shaven chin and narrowed his heroic gaze at the destruction.

"If only," he murmured.

Now, more than ever, he longed for a way to reach the mysterious Opsanus Tau Prime and drink from their magical elixir, to then travel back through time and keep Earth from ever seeing such horrific ruin.

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