Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground

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Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground is a short graphic novel written by Alan Grant and published in October 2000 based on the LEGO Rock Raiders theme.

Plot summary

Three days before arriving home, the LMS Explorer travels into a meteor storm. An impact on the ship's thrusters causes it to lose power and be sucked into a wormhole. The ship emerges out the other end in a different galaxy. Docs detects that a nearby planet is rich in power crystals; Chief sends him, Jet, Bandit, and Axle on an expedition to explore the planet. The four Rock Raiders and their Hover Scouts teleport into a large cavern. Axle lands his Hover Scout and gets stuck in a trail of slime left by a group of slimy slugs, which start feeding on the Hover Scout's fuel supply until Jet scares them away. The Rock Raiders find a tunnel lined with large statues, which they suspect to have been carved by an ancient civilization that may have also dug out the planet's caverns. After Sparks beams down mining equipment, the other Rock Raiders build oxygen purifiers and the Ore Processing Plant, as well as a bridge across a nearby lava river.

The Rock Raiders spend the next two days mining for power crystals and LEGO ore. While mining, Axle is confronted by a rock monster that wants a power crystal he found. A swarm of rock monsters attack the Rock Raiders' base and devour most of their power crystals before they are driven away by Axle in the Loader Dozer. Meanwhile, Bandit is exploring an underground river in his Rapid Rider when he is ambushed by ice monsters. Jet and Axle find and rescue him, but have to escape from a lava flood caused by rock whale. Bandit shoots the cavern roof to block the lava with a cavein, causing it to erupt on the planet's surface. Axle and Bandit are beamed back to the Explorer as a hoard of rock monsters cause the tunnel they are in to collapse.

Back aboard the Explorer the other Rock Raiders realize that Docs is missing. The ship's transporter has been damaged by rocks caught in the previous transport and can only transport to the planet. Jet and Bandit take two Granite Grinders out to locate Docs, encountering ice and lava monsters on the way. The two find Docs being chased by lava monsters across a river. Jet charges her Granite Grinder towards the river and leaps across it; as the vehicle is damaged by the jump, Jet carries Docs back across the river on a grappling line.

The next day, the Rock Raiders had gathered enough power crystals again when an army of rock, ice, and lava monsters attacks. With the teleporter still malfunctioning, Chief beams down to help, using his plasma arm gun to fight off the monsters. Sparks discovers that the teleporter is not plugged in and the Rock Raiders are beamed back to the Explorer, leaving the monsters to "reclaim their lost civilization." Sparks creates a map of the galaxy but spills his drink on the computer, so the LMS Explorer sails off to new adventures.

Bibliography

  • Grant, Alan (2000). Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground. LEGO Systems, Inc. ISBN 1-903276-05-5.
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