Chapter 25 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 12 (1/2)
The monster became confused and tried to decide in which he would try to attack.
*Bang, bang, bang...*
The momentary confusion allowed Lenny and John to take various shots at the Moontant.
*ROARRRRRRRR!!!!!*
It gave up and decided to swing the hammer at the one that closest, it was Lenny.
*Bam*
”Puu...” Lenny was hit by the hammer and was sent flying backward while spraying a mouthful of yellow plasma.
”LENNY!” John shouted. He took his sniper and carefully aimed at the Moontant's head. At this moment it seemed for John like the whole world slowed down. It was a wonderful sensation, like he opened his own world and was in full control of it.
*Bang*
He pressed the trigger, and he watched as the energy bullet slowly left the muzzle and travelled toward its target.
John aimed at a tiny hole in the Moontant's helmet that Lenny had made. The bullet easily travelled the distance and found its way toward the target.
The monster stopped moving for a while after it was hit, and then it fell flat on the ground.
John was shaken off from that weird sensation, [What was that?] He asked himself.
”Lenny” John searched for the Novakid and found him on the ground, a few meters away from him, ”Are you okay?” John concernedly asked.
*Cough, cough...* Lenny started to cough some of his yellow plasma, ”I'm not fine. But in a few seconds I'll be.” He struggled to get up, but he gave up after a few attempts, he stayed laid on the stone ground, ”Can you get my hat, please?”
”Here it go.” John gave the brown cowboy hat back to Lenny, ”Let's hope that aren't anymore of this type of Moontant...” John said.
”Yeah... I don't know if I can handle a few more hits.”
After a momentary rest John approached Lenny, ”Are you good now ?”
Lenny stood up, ”Yeah... Let's continue.”
They walked carefully deeper into the mine. But for their surprise there was no more Moontants around the place.
”Now... What... The... Fuck... Is that?” Lenny stared at the giant purple crystal floating in the middle of the room in the deepest part of the mine.
”I don't know, but-” John stopped speaking when he saw that the crystal had started moving.
The Erchius Horror slowly turned around, reveling the giant eye that was behind the crack from the Mining Laser Cannon.
The eye glared at them for a while before it started to glow stronger with a purple light.
”Shit!” John and Lenny started to run in different directions.
*ZUMMM* *ZUMMM*
It was of no use. The Erchius Horror divided the laser in two, and the laser streams followed them.
John jumped behind a rock and protected himself. He could feel the rock that he was hiding behind was getting more and more hot because of the laser.
When the laser beam was over John got out of the hiding and swiftly started to look for the Mining Laser Cannon.
Lenny got out of his hiding spot and started to distract the monster.
*Bang*
He first tried to take a few shots at it, but it didn't worked as planned, ”Force field? Really?” Lenny stared in disbelief at the invisible field around the purple crystal that was able to easily deflect the bullet.
*Bang* *Whoosh*
With a explosion followed by a sound of laser cutting through the air, a laser stream hit the Erchius Horror that was about to shot a beam at Lenny.
*SCREECHH*
The Erchius Horror screeched in pain. The sound was loud enough to make John, who was way far from the monster, dizzy.
He had found the Mining Laser Cannon, used the key he found with the young miner and fired the cannon.
The monster turned its rage filled eye at John. The monster charged another purple beam.
John also started to charge Mining Laser Cannon.
Both of them finished at the same and they fired.