Sera looked over the reports that Colonel Yusel had sent her. Random slaughter of live stock, the victims torn apart with only the children taken. If a normal bug was doing this it would have taken the victims to be hosts, leaving the livestock to eat later. Whatever was doing this was killing anything it saw at random. What she didn't get was why it was taking only the children alive and that was behavior she'd never seen. In her honest opinion it wasn't a xenomorph that was causing the killings but likely some kind of rogue wild animal. The only reason it had really been passed to her was the residual xenomorphic DNA left at each scene. She picked up the phone to call Yusel back. "I'm going to need more information if I'm going to decide what it is. I really don't think its a bug, it could be some kind of mutant or wild animal but it doesn't fit the normal MO of a xenomorph. Get me some more concrete evidence then I can do something about it." She hung up to hear Sam groan and Gabe wail in the living room. She walked into see see him rocking their daughter with a pained expression. " I'm turning into a real couch potato since the doctors won't let me move or lay down. A person can only watch so many Black King reruns before going insane." She took the baby from him, dropping onto the cushion beside him. " I'm the one who makes who you sit all day long on doctors orders." Wrapping Gabe tightly she cuddled up closer to Sam despite his groans. Although, she couldn't help but feeling like she forgot something.

On the lower level were the cells of Erza and Derek. Even through 10 feet of concrete he was starting to hear her thoughts. He couldn't talk back yet but he was sure it was just time needed to fix that. "Derek, we need to find a way to get out of these rooms. Your sister's blocking my link to anything else but I don't think she's sensed ours yet. " Even as she talked she felt his hunger as well as her own. Their captor had obviously forgotten to feed them. Through their link she watched the television in in room through his eyes since she didn't have one. A leopard was about to pounce on a antelope when the signal was cut. " Ok you two I'm letting you out but you are not leaving this floor and your sleeping in separate rooms." Sera's mental voice crashed on her like a tidal wave. The door opened to let her out, several drones surrounding them to take them upstairs. Nora opened the door to let them in, the smell of food filling their senses. Sam and Sera were sitting at a set table with their daughter on Sera's lap. Derek and Erza sat next to each other, eating when Sera motioned for them too. "I'm going to set a few ground rules because I have to be in town alot for the next few days so rule 1. You will sleep in separate rooms, not together. Your allowed to use your mind link but I'll be watching it carefully. Rule 2, either of you try to leave My drones will be the crap out of you, then I'll beat the crap out of you. Final rule, you are to do anything Sam asks. If he wants you to wear a tutu and a pink bra while dancing like a idiot you better do it. " Gabe started coughing so Sera took her to her room, leaving all of them alone at the table. " Well since she has to leave by twelve we can get the apartment neat. Erza you can start sweeping while Derek can mop." Both of them sat there with blank faces as if they didn't understand what he said. Sera's voice echoed from the other room, banging off the floor. "What did I just say. So quit gawking and move your asses NOW!" Both of them jumped from their chairs to grabbed the mop and broom with the sound of hurried cleaning filling the room.

"Thank you all for coming to this meeting. We're here to discuss the recent problems that have been occurring around the system lately. Present today is I Colonel Yusel of the USCM, Doctor Marco Leander who is head of research on xenobiology, Robby Menaul head of Local planetary security and finally Sera Slotzkin. As everyone here has been informed under pain of confinement in a maximum security penitentiary for life, Sera has the ability to command xenomorphs, the result of a new infection by xenomorph genetic material by a queen. The details are in the files that have been handed to you and are to be destroyed upon completion of reading. Now lets get to the point of this meeting." Sera listened as The colonel went through several slides that detailed the strange attacks as well as the brutal beheadings of several crime lords on nearby planets. "The beheadings we believe are committed by one of the yautja, a species that hunts dangerous prey for sport and honor. We have very little footage/photographs of them due to their cloaking technology and stealth. They are much more advanced of us technological wise and the average specimen appears to stand around 7 feet. They can easily beat a human in all physical activities. It's been observed that most follow a strict honor code while some break this code. other then that we don't have much more information." While all this happened Sera gathered intel from her network of drones that she had around the area. She watched as a woman got robbed only for the perpetrator to get hit by a car, a cat chase a dog away from its meal, and strangely enough one of her drones was watching too people fuck like rabbits through their window. The meeting continued on and on to the point she was so bored she focused entirely on her network. She had to be shaken back to reality after the meeting ended by Yusel. "Sera, Sera wake up. Meetings over for the day and you can go home. " She got up to leave as he called out to her while leaving himself. "I'll get some more information on those killings. Pretty damn sure its some kinda bug." By the time she got through the security checkpoints and sign out it was turning dark. She got in her truck and was about to reverse when a masked man ran up to the car. "Out the car bitch I want your wallet and cards. Try anything and your dead." He of course didn't notice the being rising behind him. "Buddy you don't know how bad you just fucked yourself."

In their apartment Sam was bottle feeding Gabe while Erza and Derek mopped the kitchen tiles and cleaned the cabinets. "Man you guys are helping me scratch so many things off my bucket list. Wish I had two happy willing helpers before today." Contrary to what he said they were neither happy nor willing. When that last task was done they were allowed to go to their separate rooms. Derek could feel some anger coming from Erza. "GAAAHHH. If your sister wasn't stronger then me then we wouldn't be doing all this. Why didn't she come instead of Sam to Quntara's hive." Derek heard her mental words and could have told her the answer but they both already knew it. Sera couldn't have come at the time because of her pregnancy. Erza felt Sera's presence coming closer, a slight cheer in her mental state. The stronger mind connected to hers, Erza unable to hide any thoughts from her. "Sam's told me how you children behaved today so for a reward I'll let you outside tomorrow." Derek's psychic ability was, despite being weak, strong enough to her his sister's mind and he did not have a good feeling about what she meant. "Tomorrow me and Sam are heading to the doctors office and you guys will be doing some of my errands." Again, Derek did not have a good feeling about this.

Finally after years of searching he'd found her. When the report of serpents acting strangely had come in he knew it had to be her. He'd complete his long mission the elder had given him and gain great honor, or die trying. He pressed several commands into his gauntlet, a small metallic fly obeying as it entered the hive. He watched as its metallic eyes recorded all it saw. It descended down several flights of stairs, landing outside a door. Before anything could be done the door opened and the drone was crushed under a thick boot. But he saw her, in its last seconds of operation the drone looked through the open door and saw her in the background. The female ooman serpent queen. At last he, Quick Blade would achieve victory.

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