Chapter VI

Sebastian cautiously approaches the edge with Lex, both peer inside. "Take a look at this." Sebastian said before the others begin to crowd around the sarcophagus and saw that it held three futuristic looking guns of alien design. "The master culture." Sebastian continued ominously.

Quinn's body lies near the tunnel entrance covered in frost, it looks liked he never regained consciousness and froze to death but then his eyes suddenly shoot open, he's alive but barely, his body temperature was low and his heart was barely beating. He could hardly move, the frost on his face begins to melt due to him sweating in fear.

Quinn watched as the three Predators appeared at the mouth of the tunnel and headed towards him, he tries to get away from them but he is frozen stiff, so he gave up and watched as they got closer and closer to where he was.

The three un-blooded Yautja make their way towards the pyramid, the Ooman that two of them thought was dead, was actually practically invisible to their helmets heat vision, this also nearly blinds them due to the lights that illuminate the pyramid, Taro made his way to where the nearly dead Ooman was laying and waited for him to reveal himself.

Quinn held his breath and couldn't believe that the Predators walked right by him and they were close enough for him to reach out and touch one of them, after a moment he moved his head in the direction of where the two Predators had disappeared in and saw them heading to the pyramid, he thought he was safe until he spotted the Predator that stood over him the last thing he saw was the Predators wrist blades descending on him.

Taro detracted his dah'kte after he had killed the pathetic Ooman, he then turned and made his way to the entrance were his brothers were waiting for him.

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Back in the sarcophagus chamber in the pyramid, Sebastian and Max were still standing over the guns whilst the others had settled in various parts of the room as they knew that they weren't going to be moving anytime soon.

"Any idea what those are?" Miller asked as he looked at Sebastian.

"Nope." Sebastian responded. "You?" he shot back.

"No." Miller replied as he looked at the weapons.

"Good thing we brought the experts?" Max said sarcastically.

Miller turned and glared at the dark skinned man. "Hey, we just found the equivalent of a DVD player in Moses' living room. Why don't you give us a second to figure it out?" he retorted.

"Well to me," Max began as he looked at the weapons for a second time. "It looks like sophisticated weaponry." He finished.

Lex looked at Weyland for a smile, but her mothering instincts came to the surface when she saw that he was having trouble breathing, he then took his portable oxygen bottle and takes a shot into his lungs.

"Is he alright?" Sebastian asked when he noted the state that Weyland was in.

"It's just asthma. He's fine." Lex replied gaining a grateful look from Weyland.

"Let me see if I can get a base reading off the metal." Miller said after a while, and steeped up and starts a basic spectral analysis of the metal careful not to disturb the weapons, his hand held computer started processing the information that it was receiving from the sensors. "There are two chemicals here. Tilanium and Cadmium 240." He reported.

"Never heard of them." Sebastian replied as he looked at the weapons then at his fellow scientist.

"You wouldn't have." Miller said as he observed other readings that the sensors had picked up. "They're found in meteorites." He continued.

"Meteorites?" Sebastian asked incredulously.

Miller sighed. "Whatever they are, they weren't made here." He said.

Lex shakes her head at the truth that Miller spoke, she glanced around and spread out one of her other powers that one that had kept her alive and had helped her more than any other gift she had been grafted with by the scientists back at the Cyrel Institute.

"When you say here, you mean…?" Sebastian asked as he raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"Earth." Miller replied. Verheiden looked concerned just like everyone else that was in the room except for Lex, she had her eyes focused on Weyland, she moved closer to the billionaire and asked. "How are you doing?"

Weyland nodded at her but she could see and feel that he was not doing well as his emotions had become slightly faded.

"We've been out long enough for today." She began. "We're going to set up base camp tonight at the whaling station and we'll get back at it first thing in the morning." She finished looking around the room.

"You can go back to base camp Ms. Woods, we're going to stay here." Max replied with a smirk.

Yeah like I'm going to leave you lot down here when I'm the only one that knows what is truly going on or rather what's about to happen. Lex thought as she glared at Max. "You wanted to leave without proper prep we did. You wanted to be the first here we are. You've claimed the find, it's yours. Now we move as a team and we're done for today." She said curtly before everyone turned to Weyland to see if he would agree with her or overrule her decision.

Weyland looked around the room before he said. "You heard her." And that got everyone moving.

"What should we do about the guns, Mr. Weyland.?" Max asked.

"Take them. We can run further tests on the surface." He responded as he got up.

"No… don't touch them!" Sebastian shouted as he threw his hand towards the men that had moved to obey Weyland.

But his warning came too late as Connors had already reached into the sarcophagus and grabbed two of the futuristic weapons, Max then reached in and removed the third, as the last gun was removed a trigger that was hidden underneath was activated with a click, which echoed around the chamber. Everyone looked around concerned, but for a moment nothing happened but then the walls began to move sealing old entrances and revealing new passageways.

"Watch out! The doors!" Sebastian yelled. "Look at!"

Weyland used to be standing in front of a solid wall but it was now a long dark corridor.

"Sebastian." Miller called. "That happens in all pyramids, right?" he asked.

Sebastian looked around the room before he turned to Miller. "No." he replied, then a large block of stone slides down and seals the entrance before anyone could leave the room.

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In the chamber above Rousseau, Thomas and four other scientists brace themselves as the walls began to move, the entrances were sealed by huge blocks of stone that came down from the ceiling.

"Get something under there!" Rousseau yelled at the others, making the scientist push one of the large metal cases under the door but the attempt was futile as the case was crushed.

"You okay?" Thomas asked, as Rousseau looked at the walls that had just stopped moving, they were sealed in like the other team.

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Taro, Range and Scar had reached the pyramid, they stopped at the entrance to check the status of the homing signal and they saw that it had changed.

The three Yautja exchanged worried looks, this was clearly not a part of the plan.

#This Chiva is not going to be a normal one is it?# Range asked Scar, who was the more intelligent one in the group.

#It seems that it won't be and that just makes it harder for us. Let's just hope that no real damage happens before we get marked.# Scar replied.

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Back in the sacrificial chamber Thomas, Rousseau and the scientists were struggling with the stone block that was currently covering the entrance to the room, but the attempts were made in vain.

"The slab's got to weigh two tons. We'll never move it." Rousseau said as she gave up on moving the slab.

Thomas looked around the room, not giving up anytime soon and saw that the bowls that were beneath the mummified corpses had a type of egg in it, the egg appear to fit snugly in the bowls. "What is that?" Thomas asked after the first egg had appeared.

"There. Another. One more." Thomas said as more appeared until all seven slabs had one. There was a long silence before the first egg began to open, then the others opened up just like the first the movement causes Rousseau to pull out her Colt .45 and keep it at her side.

"What did you say this room was called?" Rousseau asked nervously.

"The Sacrificial Chamber." Thomas replied in fright.

Rousseau brings up her handgun but it was too late as the facehugger was already airborne, the other six launch themselves simultaneously, in a split second the facehugger collided with Rousseau's face muffling her scream, the screams of the rest of the team join Rousseau's in echoing through the grate on the floor down into the Sarcophagus Chamber as Lex prepared to lead the team back to the surface.

Lex's head snaps up and looked at the shaft that lead up.

"Lex!" Miller yelled. "What's going on!?" he asked still yelling.

But Lex ignores the question in favor of turning to Max and Sebastian. "Get Rousseau and Thomas." She ordered.

Max and Sebastian each grab their walkie-talkie.

"Rousseau? Come in, Rousseau." Max said whilst Sebastian asked. "Thomas? Tommy. Come in! Tommy. Come in. Thomas can you hear me?" before they both looked up when they got no response. Sebastian just shook his head.

"Nothing." Max said, before fear starts to spread through the rest of the team.

Lex turned to Weyland. "Is there anything that you didn't tell me about this place?" She asked, still hating the fact that she had to hide who she truly was.

"Nothing, I have no idea what this is." Weyland replied, looking at the woman that he would prefer to be his heir as she was the sort of person that wouldn't waste his hard earned money on unimportant things.

"Well whatever it is, we're not prepared for it. We're going to round up the rest of the team and get to the surface." She said even if she knew what was going to happen, she also knew that there was nothing she could do to change the future, and it was true that the future wasn't set in stone but there were parts that were very much set in stone. "Let's move" she said.

Lex looked at the dark corridor behind Weyland, then Max and Connors opened the equipment cases that they were carrying around and pulled out an arsenal of heavy weapons, they were joined by three others Bass, Stone and Verheiden.

"What are you doing?" Lex asked them when she saw the guns.

"My job." Max replied. "Yours is over." He continued as he slammed a magazine in to his MP-5, then he locks and loads the weapon in a quick and precise movement.

Oh how she wished she could tell him that the gun wouldn't do any good. "I told you. When I lead a team, I don't leave my team. My jobs over when everyone is back on the boat safely and that gun doesn't change anything." She said with a bit of a hiss.

"Mr. Weyland?" Max asked after looking at the man.

Weyland looked between Max and Lex before he sighed tiredly. "She brought us here, she's getting us home. You and your crew back her up." He said as he moved to Lex's side.

Max nods showing that he would follow orders, around the room the sound of machine gins being loaded and cocked echo throughout the room and down the corridor.

"After you." Max said looking at Lex.

Lex looked at her digital wrist compass. "This bearing should take us back to the entrance. We make it to the surface and we regroup at the Whaling station." She said absentmindedly.

"What about Thomas and Rousseau?" Sebastian asked stepping up to Lex's side.

"We'll find them on the way out." She replied looking at the Mexican Professor, before leading the team out of the room.

"Stone, Verheiden cover our backs!" Max ordered.

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Translation:

Dah'kte = wrist blades (Yautja language)