Chapter 25 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 12 (2/2)
*Bang* *Whoosh*
*ZUMMM*
*BOOOOOOOOM!!!*
The blue beam faced again the purple one. Both of them were kept in balance while the clash was ongoing, but the Erchius Horror started to lose power and slowly the blue beam arrived the opening that the first laser beam made.
*SCREEEEEECH*
The laser destroyed the eye within the crystal, and the monster started to screech in agony again.
*ZUM* *ZUM* *ZUM* *ZUM*
Series of unfocused purple laser started to leave from the hole while the crystal started to float everywhere, hitting the walls and making giant pieces of rock fly around.
*Bam* *bam* *Bam*
John hid behind what appeared to be a Mining Drill.
...
Once the screech sounds and collisions stopped, John walked out from his hiding spot.
The first thing he saw was the giant crystal that was dropped in the ground. The only difference was that it had lost almost all of its luster.
”Lenny!!” John shouted.
”I'm here!” John heard Lenny's voice coming from the other side of the Erchius Horror.
John circled around the crystal and found out that Lenny was stuck beneath a giant rock.
”Can you give me a hand?” Lenny asked.
”Sure.” John took out the Matter Manipulator and slowly absorbed the piece of rock, ”Done.”
”Ahhhhhh... Thanks” Lenny moved his limbs trying to see if there was something out of ordinary. He pat his hand around his body and cleaned the dust, ”I'm good now.”
”So...” John looked around and saw that still had a lot of Erchius Crystals in the walls, ”Do we have to mine this stuff ourselves?”
”Can't you use the Mining Laser Cannon?”
”No... It was damaged by one of the Erchius Horror's lasers when it went berserk.” John helplessly shook his head.
”And what about your Matter Manipulator?”
”It won't work. The Erchius Crystal is to hard to mine it. I would need to upgrade it before i can mine it.”
Lenny looked around and soon spotted the Mining Drill, ”How about that?”
”We don't have the key, and even if we had, we don't know how to operate it.”
”No. That's not what I meant. There must have a storage inside the drill, right?”
”Yeah! That's true!” John was elated.
He walked toward the giant Mining Drill and opened the back compartment.
The moment he opened it, a bright purple glow came from the inside. It was Erchius Crystals.
”Here it is...” John took a palm-sized crystal and inspected it, ”They look good.”
”Let's take them and get out of here.” Lenny hurried John.
”Okay...” John stored 20 Erchius Crystals and closed the compartment, ”We can finally get out of here.”
”Right... We need to go to the surface. The Retriever can't get any signal here.” Lenny looked at the Retriever.
”And what about the jamming?” John and Lenny were already by the elevator.
”It was coming from that guy... You... You know.”
”Oh...” John looked at the inventory and sawthe object that looked like a old fashioned cellphone with a antenna, ”This thing?” John asked Lenny.
”Yes, this is a short range Teleport Signal Jammer. A quite expensive device.” Lenny instantly recognized the object, ”I wonder... What he meant when he said he was doing his mission.”
”It doesn't matter for now. I just want to get out of this place as soon as I can.”