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what are you.......” started Taylor.
    “No time,” he said and ran to the exit.
    Suddenly the door blasted open. Q flew ten feet back and fell hard on the ground.
    He gazed at the demolished entrance. It was covered in smoke. He could make out a few large forms emerging from the smoke.
    When the smoke finally cleared, there stood the monsters Q had seen in his dream! They dropped a limp body on the floor. Q looked closer. It was Carlos!
    The largest monster of the lot came out of the smoke and smiled with his crooked teeth.                                                                          “Hello, lovebirds,” Nigel said.
     

Annihilation
    The people in the cafeteria froze in reaction to the sudden intrusion. Their eyes looked towards Taylor and Q, desperately pleading for help.
    Taylor analyzed the situation. They needed a strategy. She looked around her. All the doors and windows had been shattered into pieces. All the people in the cafeteria seemed to be either navigators or healers. That made sense since all the warriors had practice right then.
    But that meant that they effectively didn't have any warriors to fight with at all.
    Carlos lay unconscious on the floor and Taylor hoped he was still breathing. Q got onto his feet and tried to take Nigel one-on-one.
    Nigel bellowed loud and clear. Fear rang through the cafeteria. All the cadets unfroze and ran out screaming and tumbling.
    Nigel pushed Q hard. Q lost his footing and went tumbling down. Even though he was hurt he managed to get up quickly. He charged at Nigel but Taylor caught his hand and stopped him.
    “I’ve got a better idea,” she said.
    She talked into a transmitter that she pulled out from her suit.
    Instantly, a huge ship crashed into the cafeteria. The door opened and Kai was standing in the doorway.
    “Get in. All of you,” he shouted.
    Q stared at Taylor. “What...How...?”
    “Broadcasted a S.O.S.” she related quickly. “Spacecrafts usually respond immediately”.
    Q ran to Carlos and carried him to the ship. Taylor guided all the others to the ship as well. He looked around to see where Nigel was.
    He heard a monster-like groan. He looked around. There he was!
    Apparently Kai had slammed the ship into Nigel and knocked him unconscious!
    “All aboard,” Kai ordered loudly and took off as soon as everyone was in.
        Once he was inside, Q could not believe what he was looking at. The inside of the ship was awesome! Everything around him was tech beyond his imagination. Even his video games couldn’t feature something like this.
    As Q put Carlos down on one of the seats, he groaned.
    “Thank god he’s alive,” mouthed Q silently.
    Taylor glanced through the window. The sight she saw sent shivers down her spine. The whole academy was being wrecked by insanely huge giants. Even Godzilla would feel dwarfed!
    Q walked over to her. “What are those things?” he exclaimed.
    “Indiff giants,” Taylor mumbled. “They’re from the same planet as the Corein giants.”
    “The what now?”
    “The Indiff giants are the large ones destroying the academy. The Corein giants are Nigel’s species. They’re both from the same planet, Ing.”
    Q looked through the window.
    Cadets were helplessly fighting them. Some of them escaped in their space ships; others lay on the cold ground, lifeless.
    Kai put the ship on autopilot and came over to the passengers’ area.
    “Welcome to the Atlas!” he said, trying to make his voice as cheerful as possible.
    For a small guy he had quite a loud voice; deep too.
    “Where are you planning to take us?” a cadet asked.
    “Well. I’d like to say I have it all figured out but honestly I didn’t think we’d make it this far.”
    Taylor and Q couldn’t help smiling. This guy sure was a goof off.
    “Anyone care for my opinion?” groaned a voice.
    Carlos sat up, still in a daze. Taylor and Q ran over and hugged