Gossamer Wind
Ch 1: Prey Birds
rating: R for violence and massive blood loss.
disclaimer: The MiB do not belong to me. As far as I know anyway.
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No one knew how they came to be or why they ended up inside headquarters. That didn't matter at the moment so much as the fact that they were here and on a rampage. Rampage may be too tame a description, feeding frenzy or massacre may be more to the point. MiB was taken totally by surprise, several agents and others had already been killed, many more were fatally injured.
Aliens they could handle, the creatures running amok in headquarters were of Earth origin. Ancient Earth, yes, but Earth nonetheless, and MiB was near clueless on how to deal with it.
Kay cursed under his breath and closed his communicator. He'd been trying to raise headquarters for the past fifteen minutes. He had a feeling something bad was happening, and he and Jay were stuck here until their current situation was resolved. The Eldorian was being decidedly uncooperative at the moment.
Elle coughed as she struggled to remain on her feet and moving. Blood bubbled out of her mouth, dripping down her chin and throat, she felt so lightheaded and sick. At her waist, she felt X's grip tighten and her vision swam. A familiar scream cut the air and X immediately tensed, weapon ready. Both of them were torn and bloody from the ambush they had been caught in, the extent of their injuries largely unknown but frighteningly felt. Elle held back her tears and bitter bile at the memory of Agent E being torn apart before their eyes. She wanted her vision unclouded if this turned out to her and X's last stand. She tried to stand more on her own and raise her weapon ignoring the waves of pain this caused and the droplets of blood spattering along the ground.
Those animals would kill them if another ambush were set. Elle swallowed sickly, they were going to die down here in the dark sublevels of headquarters. She did not want to die. She was afraid. It was getting harder to breath through the blood that was continually dripping out of her nose and mouth. And her ribs were screaming in agony with every move she made. And X… oh God, X, he was just as badly injured as she was but apparently had a different idea about their fate than she did. He tapped in a sequence on a number pad and a metal door slid open. Dragging a barely conscious and badly bleeding Elle inside, he set her down and sealed the door as best he could. Seconds afterwards a heavy thud jarred the door but nothing could break in, at the moment.
For now safe, the green-skinned agent painfully sagged against the wall, resting for just a few seconds. A wave of dizziness passed over him. Must be blood loss… he thought, looking down at the rapidly spreading blue stain on the front of his shirt, what was left of it anyway. Pushing himself off from the wall, he staggered over to Elle where the tall Jee'Dangian collapsed to his knees beside her.
"You should probably bandage those cuts…" she mumbled before unconsciousness caught her in its warm embrace.
X stared at her a moment trying to think of something to help her. He hurriedly stripped off the remaining shreds of shirt and jacket clinging to his body. His human suit was unsalvageable, which he was rather glad about, it meant he no longer had to wear it, which left him bare from the waist up. Tearing the fabric into strips, X hesitated a split second about what he was going to have to do when he figured she'd probably forgive him considering the circumstances. Eventually. He made up his mind then and began to unclothe his partner. Once he'd unbuttoned and pulled her torn blouse off he discovered she had on an undershirt and a sheer article of clothing he had seen before but was unsure as to the purpose. He had seen Jay looking at a catalogue of them and obviously only women wore them, but what were they? Mentally he shrugged and bent to unclasp the odd undergarment.
Kay swore to himself, it had been close to 45 minutes of nothing but static coming from MiB headquarters. He and Jay had apprehended the Eldorian and were now speeding towards base. Their prisoner sat sullenly in the rear often making cynical and snide remarks. The agents ignored him.
Something had happened. Something bad. Best-case scenario was as mundane and harmless as a brown out, worst case… Kay did not want to think of worse case.
The garage was eerily empty and dark. It appeared that much of the lighting fixtures were broken. Pools of some liquid, coloured black from lack of illumination, were spilt in large and small puddles all over the ground. Crouching next to one of many, Kay tentatively dipped a fingertip into the mystery liquid. It was cold and thick as molasses. It was human blood. He felt himself pale; what was inside headquarters? And how many agents were left?
"Come on, Slick," Kay stood and opened the LTD's trunk, taking out icers and more-powerful-than-normal carbonizers, "Here."
A bewildered Jay followed him closely, "Uh, Kay… what's goin' on?"
Grim silence was his only answer.
Her eyes fluttered open painfully. Where was she? She was lying on cold metal with some kind of fabric covering her. Her vision blurred out like she was gazing through tears. Blinking rapidly, she realized she was. Pain felt like it had moved in to her body and made itself at home. God, she hurt.
"Elle?" X stirred from his sitting position beside her, concern seemed etched in his face. Something she had not expected.
The blonde agent groaned, at the moment all she could do. Weakness and fatigue overwhelmed her senses again as she slipped into a fitful sleep.
Later, it didn't feel like later though she was unsure of how much later it was but it must have been awhile, Elle cracked her eyes open to darkness. Were they still in the room X had locked them in? Or had he moved them? Or was she dead and floating in a void? No, she wasn't dead; she hurt too much to be dead.
"X?" Why did her voice sound so gravelly?
"Elle? How do you feel?"
"Awful. How 'bout you?"
She thought she felt a smile, "I'll live."
"What happened to the lights?"
"I don't know," he paused for a moment, they were so close she could feel his breath, warm and damp, on her face, he smelled like blood. "They're still out there," he said in a hushed tone, "I can hear their talons on the flooring."
"I guess those big kaff big ears are good for something," she went into a coughing fit and couldn't speak for a long while, she was fairly expecting X to make some insulting comment about her being a weak little human. Right now she felt it. Instead, a pair of strong arms encircled her, lending their support. She could barely get herself to think of that oddity because she felt something wet splatter onto her hand.
End Ch 1
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Miss Lizz ^_^