Disclaimer: As usual, I do not own Predator/Alien. How sad, but the characters and storyline are mine.
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Chapter 3
Kenzie pushed herself faster. She had been right. After her grandfather had gotten all the samples he could, they'd continued on and ran into a group of Glass Mouths. They we're able to get a running head start, but the ugly creatures were quick on their tails. Now as she entered this room filled with those slimy looking eggs, she couldn't help but curse under her breath. She saw a doorway on the other side of the room. The last place she wanted to be taking these things on was in a room with there impregnators. Kenzie skidded to a halt when she saw two more Glass Mouth appear in the doorway she was heading for. Those ugly sons-a-bitches had trapped them.
Kenzie grabbed her m16, finger on the trigger. She felt her brother press his back to hers. Out of the corner of her eye she could see her grandfather looking around for another way out. Kenzie took a deep breath. She didn't want to die, but it was possible that this time, she wouldn't make it out of here alive. Steeling herself, she brought up her gun. "McKenzie, wait. They aren't charging us." Daniel stated.
Kenzie's eyes narrowed to slits. "I don't plan on giving them a change to either."
Just then they heard a loud noise off in the distance. What the hell was that? Kenzie never took her gun off the creatures. Again she heard another sound, and a few pieces of the wall began to trickle down. At the third sound, the Glass Mouths seemed to be…contemplating? No…waiting. They were waiting on something. Kenzie would be damned if she waited to find out. If she was going to die, she was taking more of them with her.
Taking aim, she fired at the Glass Mouth to the left of the door. Firing off rapid shots she soon turned to the other one, which was now coming her way. It got within three fee of her before she dropped it. She then heard other gun fire. Turning around to quickly stand beside her brother she continued to fire. Emptying her magazine into as many as she could, but they were still coming. How many of these things were there?
Dropping the empty gun to hang at her side, Kenzie quickly pulled out her two mk24 handguns. She began firing, but knew she could only put down four Glass Mouths. Maybe five. To her dismay she only took down three. Quickly she pulled the m27 infantry automatic rifle, from the place on her brothers back. Aiming, she continued to fire as she began backing towards the other door. She stopped immediately when she heard hissing behind her. Turning quickly she saw three more of those ugly creatures. This time Kenzie heard the blue light, well what it was shot from, before she saw it. She ducked out of the way as fast as she could, but wasn't fast enough. The acidic blood of one of them began to eat at her vest. She had no choice, but to lay the gun down, and strip it off as quickly as possible.
With a fraction of her attention, Kenzie vaguely heard the sound of the blue light shots. Throwing the vest to the floor she retrieved the gun again. Turning around, she saw three Glass Mouths slowly stalking and advancing on her brother. His back was to them. She didn't have time to look for her sharp shooter rescuer. Kenzie was an excellent aim, but she didn't want to take the chance on hitting her brother. Slinging the strapped of the gun around her neck, she retrieved her machete, and ran towards them.
Wielding the machete, in two fluid movements she had ones tail cut off and cut it in then turned around shooting one of the other ones. Kenzie went to cut the other one, but it landed a forceful blow with its' tail, sending her backwards across the room. Kenzie quickly picked up the gun and began to fire at the same time Colby did. Together they dropped the Glass Mouth.
"Behind you!" Kenzie called to her brother.
She got up quickly turning to her grandfather. The old man was holding his own. She took aim at some of the creatures walking towards him. Dropping a few of them. The ringing of gunshots was so loud that Kenzie never heard the three Glass Mouths that were sneaking up behind her. She was only made aware by the sound of her sharp shooter.
Turning around, Kenzie saw the scorpion-like tail coming her way. She tried to move, but again wasn't fast enough. The tail dug into her midsection, causing a shattering scream of pain to force its way from her lips. Kenzie roll on the floor, trying to quickly push herself to her feet through the pain, as a deafening roar resounded in the room.
Viper was angry as he killed the Kainde Amedha that had just injured the Ooman. Jumping down from his ledge, he injected himself fully into the battle. He'd been enjoying watching the oomans battle the hard meats. They were very skilled. Firing his shoulder cannon, Viper picked them off one by one. It didn't take long for the room to become silent, as the hard meat lay dead on the floor. Remembering that they still couldn't see him, Viper uncloaked himself. He watched as the female oomans eyes became wide, but he wasn't sure that it was with fright. Her wound was bleeding. Viper was sure it pained her. She smelled of blood and…curiosity? He looked to the other two Oomans in the room. They smelled of curiosity as well, and one smelled of…intrigue.
He scanned the female ooman, making sure her injury wasn't too bad. He took a step closer to try to help her up, but she quickly pushed herself to her feet, taking a step back. Viper paused. She was frightened of him. He held both his hands up in an ooman sign of surrender. One he'd seen often. The female cocked her head to the side studying him.
Viper shifted his attention from her to the older male that was inching his way. His hands were in the same position as Viper's. He came a little closer before the female held out her arm to stop him.
"I don't think you should get any closer Gramps." she spoke.
Viper understood her words, but the last he was not familiar with. Maybe, it was simply the old man's name.
"Would you look at him. He's exquisite." The older male spoke.
"Yea, so are sharks, but you poke and prod them." Kenzie replied.
Viper watched as the male took a few steps back. It was strange to him. He suspected that the male was the one in charge. His early studies with this race, had somewhat proved that. Yet, this small ooman female seemed to be the dominant.
"We should reload." she then spoke gaining Vipers full attention. "Thank you. I'm not sure if you understand me or not, but thanks for saving my life."
She turned and began to reload her weapons. Viper watched silently. Impressed with the skill she possessed, and the care she took in her weapons. He was so engrossed in watching her that he hadn't noticed more of the eggs were opening until she said something.
"Shit." Kenzie looked around her and noticed more of those damn things were opening. "Colby, today's your lucky day." She stated turning to her brother. "I'm going to let you blow them up." Colby smiled. He really did have a thing for explosive. "But just this room, we have to be able to get out of here." She tacked on. Surprisingly her grandfather didn't object.
Colby produced a small spherical object from a compartment on his belt. Setting the timer he threw it directly into the middle of the room. The giant clicked cocking his head.
"It's a bomb. You know explosive. Big boom." Kenzie tried to explain
"Let's go people. Forty-five seconds until it goes boom."
They all headed out of the door, but Kenzie's side was killing her. Making it hard for her to run. Reptilian claws picked her up and threw her over it's massive shoulder. A sharp pain went through her side.
"Damn it." she gritted out.
As they made it into a large room Kenzie heard the explosion and felt the room shake a bit. She looked around from her position. She hadn't been in this part of the structure.
"Where do we go from here?" she heard Colby ask.
The big thing, put her down and she watched as he brought up what looked like a map. She hadn't noticed before that he had long dread like tresses. Maybe, it was because she'd been in a little pain. He was tall to. Kenzie thought it was just because she was short, but he was much taller than her. He was taller than her brother, and he stood a little over six feet. He made a clicking noise and motioned his head towards the right passageway.
"Are you sure?" Kenzie asked, putting blind trust into this, out of this world creature. Again he clicked and motioned. "I guess we're going that way."
They started down that passageway. It was dark. Kenzie, her grandfather, and brother all took out flashlights. They lit up there path as the continued on. Kenzie wasn't sure how long they'd been walking. It felt as if it was a lifetime. Hissing caught all of their attention. Kenzie searched the ledges above her. Before she even had time register what was happening, the big guy whirled around and fired off three shots.
Kenzie watched as the blue light sailed through the air and hit three Glass Mouths. She looked back at the big guy, and saw smoke rising from what looked to be a mounted weapon on his shoulder. Without any warning he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. There must have been more of them.
She was being jostled and that wasn't helping her injury. She heard more hissing and shone her flashlight. She reached over and pulled the weapon from her brother back. She mounted it on the big guys shoulder as she positioned her light. The kick back from this gun was too much for Kenzie to try and shoot it with one hand.
Firing, it took a few times for her to hit the two she saw. She then heard more hissing and her stomach churned. They were going to die. She knew it.
Suddenly coming to a stop the big guy put her down and turned firing. They'd made it to the entrance, and it was well lit. Kenzie handed Colby his gun back, quickly picking up her m16. The room was filled with the sounds of guns as they shot at every thing that came through that door way. That's when Kenzie noticed that the mini bomb they'd set to be tripped had been detonated. She looked at the entrance and it was wider. That had been the explosion they heard. Something had gotten out. Kenzie felt sick.
"Now can we blow the damn place up?" she shouted to her grandfather over the gunfire.
"That would be fitting." Daniel responded.
"Set us up Colby." Kenzie told her brother.
Quickly securing the gun on his back, Colby pulled out his baby. A creation of his own, made with C4 and dynamite. He set the timer on the explosive for thirty seconds. He was sure that was more than enough time to get them out of there. The gun fire stopped and Colby looked up briefly to see that there were no more Glass Mouths invading the doorway, but he did hear a slight distant screeching.
"Is it ready?" his grandfather asked him.
"Yes."
"It's strong enough to kill them, right?" Kenzie asked.
Colby smiled. "Strong enough to level a city block."
Colby started it. Watching as the giant creature once again picked up his sister. Colby mentally counted down in his head as they made here way down the exit hallway and out into the open night. "Keep running!" Colby shouted. They had to get father away.…8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2...1. "Get down!" Colby yelled as the bomb detonated.
Every body dropped to the ground as it shook with the force of the explosion. Parts of the structure went flying in all directions. Some fell pretty close to them.
Colby lifted his head to make sure his sister was okay, only to find the creature leaning over her. Colby got up and help up his grandfather. Kenzie stood on her feet after the big creature moved.
"We have a problem." she stated.
Colby looked at the ground beside her. "We sure and the hell do."
He leaned down examining the large claw like print in the dirt. He studied it quickly and knew it was a Glass Mouth.
"One of those things got out." He stated following the direction of the prints. "And it's heading for town."
