[I don't own AVP. Just my characters, and my ideas. XD.]
Chapter Nine: The Finale
"Who's a good little kitty-kitty? Who's a good little kitty-kitty?" Terra cooed, scratching a black cat underneath the head. "Yes… you are Rh'vage. You are…" Another cat mewed, hopping up on the bed beside the young girl seeking love too and she started petting it. This one was a white cat, unlike the black one who was curled up beside her. "Oh, don't worry Vis'chus. I'll give you love too…." A soft knock sounded on her door and got her attention. She rolled over on her bed to watch as Elizabeth came in.
"We going to the movies or what?" Elizabeth demanded, with her arms crossed over her chest.
"They finally stop questioning you?" Terra asked, blinking innocently and Elizabeth scowled angrily.
"Yeah; you got off pretty easy, after screaming about evil-kitties," Liz muttered, and then smiled slightly as a ginger-cat pushed past her to get into the room. "Hey Mh'dur. What's up?" She picked the cat up and it protested loudly, forcing her to drop it again, or get clawed to death by it. "So…Meet me downstairs whenever you're ready….but remember. The movie's in about twenty minutes. It takes fifteen minutes to get there. So, hurry it up." She turned and left. The black cat leapt off the bed and followed its ginger companion out the door. Terra grinned, grabbing her purse and was almost out the door when a soft hissing sound emerging from the closet got her attention. She froze almost solid as the closet door slowly pushed itself open.
-Beginning of the end-
"This way," Terra muttered, as she stopped and pointed. "You three going to be okay? Anyone know how we're even getting out of here?" Daniel pushed past her.
"I distract the evil kats…you guys find the open access door that's in that general direction. Vis'chus used it when he came in…he'll get everyone out," Daniel told her.
"What about you?" Elizabeth demanded in immediate concern.
"I'll be there," Daniel promised quickly, before racing off into the darkness. They heard shouting, then cursing and a weird scurrying sound.
"Mmm….my hero," Terra slurred out, in a teasing tone. "Okay…how do we set some bombs?" She tilted her head questioningly as Mh'dur strolled forward, plucking something off of both Rh'vage and Vis'chus's gauntlets. He waved them slightly in the air before continuing down the tunnel. "Um…do we go with him?"
"No…," Vis'chus murmured and glanced at Rh'vage. "Brother. I promised to help the two girls out of the mall…"
"I know," Rh'vage said and his hand clamped Vis'chus' shoulder. "Be careful…I'll see you when I get out." Then Rh'vage was moving swiftly through the tunnel, before vanishing into the darkness.
"So…no boom for us?" Terra questioned disappointedly and Vis'chus shook his head quickly.
"I must get you two to safety…," Vis'chus said, trailing off as if he wanted to do something else.
"Vis…dude…how bad is it?" Elizabeth questioned, touching his arm lightly. Even Terra gave him a sympathetic look.
"Aw…you want to make sure your brother and mentor get out of here okay…I KNOW…how about we ALL go-," Terra started and was cut off when a few Xenomorphs jumped them from out of seeming nowhere. Vis'chus rolled sideways, disappearing into the dark with one of the evil-cats snarling and hissing at him, while trying to bite and claw him at the same time. But that wasn't the only one of the evil kats as Terra and Elizabeth would forever call them.
"AH! EVIL CAT!" Elizabeth shrieked in fear as she began trying desperately to push the thing off. It weighed too much for her to move. Its second jaw snapped out, stopping a mere centimeter from her face. Too close, WAY too close! She pushed even harder, and couldn't see Terra anywhere. Damn it all.
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"What'stheplan?" Rh'vage questioned quietly as he followed his mentor down the tunnel way to an intersection that opened into a larger chamber room. Mh'dur gave a light shake of his head, holding a hand up to stop Rh'vage as they slowed down. Their helmet's navigation system wasn't working and he couldn't really tell where the enemies were. The were going into a battle zone completely blind, and none of them were happy about that, but Mh'dur still couldn't figure out what was causing the Cetanu cursed problem.
"Setthefuse…andannihilatetheentirestructurecompletely,andthehardmeatwithit," Mh'dur said as if that made complete sense," Trackdownanystragglersandeliminateallofthem."
"…and…afterwards?" Rh'vage questioned and smacked into his mentor when Mh'dur stopped walking. Something seemed off to him but he couldn't tell what it was. There was no movement anywhere.
"Igohometomymate," Mh'dur growled under his breath, sneaking forward. A loud hiss caught their attention and both of them turned to see the Queen watching them like an ooman cat watches a mouse.
"…Howlonghasshebeenthere?" Rh'vage questioned stupidly. Both had to duck and roll as her powerful tail smashed down exactly where they'd just been. The queen hissed loudly and angrily, flicking her tail up and around, the edge seeming to glisten dangerously as it flicked through the air again and sliced across Mh'dur's chest cutting into him. Luminescent green blood dripped down his chest, painting him as a clear and obvious target, although the wound wasn't serious or even debilitating, just annoying. The queen roared, and began lumbering forward towards them. Rh'vage flicked his wrist blades out, dashing towards her and slicing into one of her legs as he rolled beneath her. Acidic blood sprayed the floor and she roared again, angrily as she tried to catch him. His metal blades sliced into her tail, and he had to duck and roll to avoid being splattered by that same acidic blood as she flicked the remains of her tail ruthlessly. Her massive size had her confined in this small space and her movement was severely hindered, which the two Yautja were using to their definite advantage to inflict numerous wounds upon her. Sure, Rh'vage wasn't using his plasma guns right now but firing them off like an idiot in close-range combat against was not only incredibly stupid, it was just plain suicidal. He didn't particularly like using the clawed wrist blades, but he was fairly skilled with using them. He snarled as he got caught in the chest by the queen's tail and was slammed painfully into a wall.
"HEY! UGLY!" A female voice suddenly shouted. It was a voice that was familiar. FAR too familiar. He flicked through a few different mask views before picking out Elizabeth and Terra. Terra was waving her hands in the air like a total idiot. Elizabeth scooped up a rocklike piece of debris from the damaged structure and threw it at the queen. Vis'chus was nowhere to be seen. He spotted Mh'dur struggling to his feet. Somehow, Mh'dur had lost all of the detonators. They were still active though, and they were STILL counting down. Well pauk. Rh'vage struggled upwards.
"IDIOTS! GET OUT OF HERE! IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!" He beckoned at the floor in general, unable to see where the devices had gone. Then he noticed Terra was holding something in her hand. He took a closer look and immediately realized to his disbelief and dismay, that it was one of the bombs. PAUK!
"WE KNOW!" Terra shouted back and that stopped Rh'vage's line of thought. If they knew, then why did she still have it with her? The queen roared, enraged and lumbered after them but slammed into the top of the wall. She couldn't escape because she was too big. One problem with being a queen; was the huge size that resulted. The queen snarled, struggled and continued trying to get to the human girls. Terra waved the device in her hand as she taunted the queen almost happily. Why? Rh'vage didn't know, and he wasn't really sure that he wanted to know at this point. Instead of trying in obvious vain to understand the strange ooman female, he hurried over to help Mh'dur up. "You two get the hell out of here! We've got this one!" Elizabeth called out as she nodded, and Rh'vage was confused. This place was going to explode. They were holding one of the bombs, and one other had been lost somewhere. Mh'dur scooped something up, but almost fell down. He was losing blood, and he pressed the second bomb into Rh'vage's hand. Elizabeth suddenly snatched the bomb from Terra's hand and darted forward. Both Yautja warriors watched in mounting disbelief as the ooman female dropped into a rather fast slide across the slick floor as the queen tried in vain to get her.
"Please work," the girl muttered, before jerking her arm upwards and wedging the bomb into the queen's underbelly, between the overlap of two plates in her armor. Rh'vage leapt forward, slamming the second bomb into her in the same fashion, before he snatched Elizabeth up and turned to run. His motion detector indicated that Terra was doing much the same. She wouldn't be able to make it fast enough, he feared. They were weaving through the tunnel way, like an underground network when Rh'vage located a door. They could hear the enraged bellows of the Queen as she tried to follow them but couldn't because of her immense size. Rh'vage's shoulder mounted weapon whirled to life and blasted a hole out of the mall for them. Cool air was sucked in with such force that it almost knocked Rh'vage over. He tightened his grip on the girl in his arms and dashed forward with his mentor right behind them. An explosion ripped through the air. The concussion from the powerful blast grabbed them and threw them all several yards forward. Rh'vage managed to keep his grip on Elizabeth and rolled in such away that the most injury she'd receive was to have the breath knocked out of her. The two laid on the ground some distance away with Elizabeth flat on his chest. The mall was gone. Completely leveled. The girl on his chest started to shake slightly, and Rh'vage was instantly worried, but then a strange giggle escaped her mouth.
"You okay?" He asked, his mask translating to her language. She nodded, still giggling almost demently.
"We're alive…oh…we're alive…and the evil kitties are gone," she murmured happily, her head laying flat against his chest. His claws idly went to her hair, running through it soothingly. Neither of them said a word as they laid there. A hissing sound caught their attention as a Xenomorph slinked forward through the tree line towards them. Mh'dur scrambled upwards but was too late-a pair of metal claw like blades sliced through it and it fell to the ground; acidic blood bubbling out of a fatal wound. Vis'chus to the rescue. He huffed as he sliced one of its fingers off. Small and to a point. Terra stumbled through the trees towards them, almost getting shot as Rh'vage stood up with his shoulder cannon whirling to life. He deactivated it once he became aware of who it was.
"Ew…Vis'chus…what are you doing; mutilating it?" Terra demanded in disgust while shaking her head. "That's gross." Elizabeth got up and crossed the ground towards Vis'chus to look at it; she stopped with a slight shake of her head then turned to Rh'vage to ask what the guy was doing with it. Mh'dur took it from Vis'chus and used it to swipe a strange symbol onto Elizabeth's shoulder.
"OW! WHAT THE HELL?" Liz snarled, whirling around on him. Mh'dur then turned to Terra, offering the mutilated finger to Vis'chus. Terra quirked an eyebrow.
"So…can I PICK a location?" Terra questioned and Vis'chus nodded.
"oh so WAIT, Terra can pick but I can't?" Liz demanded angrily while crossing her arms under her chest over her midriff.
"You would've objected," Mh'dur replied quickly as if that made complete sense, "It is a special mark…Not very important to you, but very important to us; to our culture…We must be off now…we have to make sure that all the hard-meat died…and I suspect you two must deal with the proper authorities…" He indicated the police sirens, along with a few ambulances and some fire trucks that were fast approaching. The three then disappeared as they all engaged their camouflage.
"Now what…?" Liz murmured, turning to look at Terra. Terra was holding her shirt up to look at her newest tattoo around her belly button.
"Hunh?" Terra asked, dropping her shirt. "Oh…I'm going home…and taking a shower…A long HOT shower…" She muttered softly as she headed off into the distance. Elizabeth sighed and followed her. They were stopped and questioned by several people. Elizabeth told the truth about the evil demonic cats that had been attacking them. Terra just went on and on about how they were saved by buff men in special armor, which the police thought she meant that the army had been involved. A cover-story circulated around that a gas line had broken, and exposure to the gas had caused the girls to hallucinate some rather odd events before the mall simply exploded because of what had most likely been some type of electrical spark or even a pilot light from one of the many eateries inside. Terra went with that, but Elizabeth was exceedingly stubborn, and faithfully stuck to the truth, which was why she got stuck being questioned for a long period of time. Once they were both finally released, Elizabeth helped Terra pick out some cats, and everything pretty much went back to normal for them…minus a few kids who were now absent from their high school.
-After Blast-
Terra was slowly making her way home from school. It'd been a few days after the horrible incidents at the mall. She had no problem accepting that she'd hallucinated it all, minus the fact that both she and Elizabeth had similar markings on them which meant that the events had actually occurred. Too bad that she hadn't been able to get either of the nice looking Predator's phone numbers. The school Prom was coming up and she would've seriously liked to take one of them as a date. She was whistling softly to a song that'd been stuck in her head all day, when she suddenly heard it. Soft growling sounds, and some hissing. So of course, she'd wandered into the woods to find the source of the noise.
"Mr. Limp?" She called out, after spotting one of the evil cat creatures. It turned towards her, and she realized it wasn't Mr. Limp. This one was very different. It had a ridged head like the queen in a way, but then it had mandibles like the Predators. Even its toes were different. It stalked closer to her, but didn't make any aggressive moves towards her, but instead seemed to be observing her for some reason. "Oh…you must be someone else…Sorry…I confused you…Um…Can I call you Crabface?" The thing tilted its head to one side slowly, as if regarding her. "Yeah…good…okay…come on…I'll take you home with me…" She reached forward, and taking one of its hands while she made sure that it followed her to her house where she snuck it inside and upstairs to her room. It was pretty big too. "Okay, okay…here…." She started pulling things out of her walk-in closet before ushering the creature forward into it. "You STAY here…STAY!" She stressed, "I'll bring you something to eat…." She shut the closet door and hurried downstairs to her kitchen with a huge grin plastered on her face. She had just gotten another pet, and this one reminded her of some of the others. She grabbed an apple, taking a quick bite out of it and leaned against the counter. She figured that she could keep this a secret…yeah… after all...
What could possibly go wrong?
[End Note: What could go wrong indeed? Well, that's for the second book. I know I know. Two short chapters and its all over? I ditch you guys for this LONG, and then whip out two short-aft chapters? I don't expect you to be very happy with me right now. Hell, I wouldn't be happy with me…but it just WASN'T working like I planned… I'd left this untouched for TOO long…but guess what. I'm working on the Sequel…which currently has NO name. But don't worry. I'll come back…and post a lil update on here…for the SEQUEL link, so if anyone is INTERESTED in seeing Rh'vage, Mh'dur, Vis'chus, Elizabeth, and Terra EXPAND…that's where it's going to happen. I can already PROMISE that the sequel holds so much MORE promise then this little story did. I want to thank EVERYONE who stuck with me on this…Thank you guys, for all your reviews and EVERYTHING. I wouldn't have made it as far as I did without you guys. Thanks. I hope I kept some of you entertained until the end there. Um, special thanks to Khalthar. Just wait until the SEQUEL guys. It'll be EPIC when I post some of it….hehehe….]
