Sci-Fi-Story

"We're going down!" Paul screamed as the spaceship plummeted towards the planet. Behind them, a black spacecraft, with a red eagle on its side, swooped down, guns blazing. Bullets flashed past the windows in the pursued ship, while red lights flashed and warning sirens blared inside the cabin. John, the copilot, was the only one at the wheel, Paul, the captain, having run off to warn the other two crew members, Grunge and Spoke, the robots. Outside, the ship had entered the planet's atmosphere, and, seeing the trail of smoke it was leaving, the second spacecraft broke off its attack. The fist ship, entitled Louisiana, was headed straight towards a mountain. It hit the mountain, cutting a chunk clean out of it, and then hit the water of a bay. Inside, the four-man crew scrabbled for the exits. In the end, it was Spoke who got there first. He opened the hatch, letting in a torrent of water, and dived out. The rest, half-submerged in water, quickly followed. One by one, they bobbed up, out of the water, and floundered onto one of the many algae mats that filled the bay's waters. Deep below them, startled by the sinking spaceship, massive predators began to head to the surface. Up above, the robots had gotten to thier feet and were gazing all about them, scanning the mountanous land that rose up around them. John and Paul, meanwhile, were gazing down in the clear, lucid waters for their spaceship. John saw something writhing down there, and then his puils dialated and he fell away from the hole in the algae. He was shaking all over, and Paul asked him waht was the problem. John responded, "I-i-i saw s-something down th-there. It was really, really, big." Then it was Paul's turn to look into the water and he, too, saw the something that was down there. Then, suddenly, over to the far side of their mat, the water exploded. A long, segmented body almost flew out of the water, and a giant water millipede stared down at them, glaring. It howled, an acid-green spittle flying from its mouth. Another one erupted from the water, directly opposite the first one. Then two more, both smaller than the previous two, exploded from the water. Then they turned to the other two, and attacked them. They all screamed, blue blood mixing with the frothed-up water as they writhed about in a primordial battle. The four earthlings sitting on the algae mat dived for the water, and began to swim toward shore. by the time the giant-bug fight was over, they had clamboured out of the bay and had hidden themselves in the forest.