episode 3 (8/9) [FanFic]

[Joseph Morreale]

"I still don't think this is going to work," Toni was saying as they
opened the door to the lab.
"Just trust me," Karl said. "We'll find something."
"Do you trust him?" Toni asked Heather.
"No," Heather said simply.
"Neither do I."
"Oh! You two should show more repect for me," Karl said with an
indignant air.
The three walked into the lab and looked around.
"Sheesh, what a dump!" Heather said. "It's a wonder you could find yourself in
a place like this!" Indeed, Karl's lab did give new meaning to the phrase "pig
sty" with all of the electronic and mechanical gadgetry spread throughout the
laboratory. The three had a great deal of trouble walking around as they waded
through it all.
"Just what... ouch! is it we're supposed to be looking for?" Toni said
with disgust.
"I'm not sure yet," Karl said. "I'll know when I find it, though."
"I'll kill him," Heather said, but as she attempted to climb over some
junk to get at him, she tripped and fell. "Hey,wait! I think I found
something!"
"Really? What?" Toni said.
"This," Heather said as she stood up and cleared some junk away from
what appeared to be a control panel. A big, shiny label on it read "All-purpose
Plot Device: One-time use only."
"That looks like exactly what we need all right." Toni admitted.
"How do we work this thing, Doc?" Heather asked.
"All the man who sold it to me said was that you press the right button
for the problem you need solved, and it does the work itself," Karl answered.
They all looked at the control panel and read off the labels ender the
bottons. "Problem... big problem... disaster... Armageddon would be more
pleasant... It's Monday... The
Zentraedi, Robotech Masters and Invid have teamed up and are threatening to
blow up the world."
The all looked at each other, and Toni said, "It really is an
all-purpose plot device. Okay, let's press it, and see what happens."
Meanwhile, the brawl that Pam had started had managed to return the
fighting spirit to the depressed characters. The Invid and others might have
been able to handle it if suddenly a large number of Robotech mecha hadn't
suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Suddenly Rook, Rand, Scott and Lancer were climbing into cyclones, Rick
and Max were boarding their respective mecha, and Dana, Bowie and the rest of
her crew were prepared to do battle. Inside the space of seconds, the scirmish
with the hospital staff had accelerated into an all-out war with the small
force that had been holding them prisoner.
In short, it was a massacre.
Out in space, the five leaders had been thrown into confusion. "What is
going on down there?" the Zentraedi leader was demanding, when suddenly they
noticed the viewscreen. They all gaped in surprise when millions of mecha
started to appear in space, followed by no less than twelve Super Dimensional
Fortresses.
"Where did these come from!" the triad cried out in surprise.
"It is estimated that the total force assembled is
enough to completely destroy our armada," the Hive Queen said. "I reccomend we
retreat."
"Agreed, this attempt has failed," the Zentraedi leader declared.
"I knew we should have asked for pizza," the triad said.
Once the massive fleet escaped out of real space and back into their
proper universes, the mecha slowly faded out of existance, as did the mecha
that were conviniently wrecking property back near the hospital. Fortunately,
the bad guys had fled from there as well.
Heather, Toni, and Karl ran to the lobby and stared in silence for a
little while at all the destruction. Karl then fainted. "I don't know what you
did, but it worked great," Mike said.
Heather continued to look around. "If you say so," she said. "Except
for the repairs, are our troubles over?"
"Think again," Toni said, and pointed to the front door. Hobbling their
way inside were the cast of the Robotech saga,extremely injured because of the
mecha they were riding
disappearing.
"Well, at least they aren't depressed anymore," Heather said.