"Th-that is..."
Inside the base, all the Night Doctors stared up at the sight in the sky in shock.
As the shield overhead shattered,
an enormous warship stretching several kilometers appeared, looming ominously and blotting out the sky above their entire base. Azure trails of light spread across its hull-a massive vessel capable of traveling even through interstellar space.
Yet a warship this enormous had silently evaded every one of their detection systems and slipped behind their lines.
"Battle stations!"
Roars rang out throughout the base.
The massed Anti-Mechanical Night Doctors rallied, swiftly reestablishing defenses throughout the base.
As the shield disintegrated, Lynn immediately planted one foot on the enormous warship beneath him.
But the instant his foot touched down,
Sshhh-
the metal beneath him seemed to come alive. It swallowed him like a swamp, living metal crawling up his legs and binding them in place.
Lynn abruptly looked up.
At the front and rear of the warship, several enormous secondary cannons had already aimed at his position.
Ratatatatat-
A barrage of annihilation rounds, packed so tightly they almost formed a straight line, tore through the air toward him, threatening to riddle him with holes. The entire warship's defenses had activated, evidently having detected him as an intruder.
Lynn smiled faintly, utterly unafraid.
The Trident in his hand swept out again, ripping a huge opening in the living metal beneath his feet.
He flipped into it, breaking straight into the warship's interior and evading the dense barrage outside.
"Enemy intrusion detected-defensive measures activated-annihilation order issued-"
The warship's central computer issued a series of digital commands.
Just as Lynn landed in the corridor below, hordes of Mechanical Humanoids charged toward him from the corridors on either side. Red lights flashed inside their helmets, and beams of laser fire instantly swept toward