KIDNAPPING
Lionel and the man with the cigar heard detonation, so they commanded quick investigation on what was happening.
''Looks like the other two hunters came in. Catch them. Try to keep them alive! "He ordered a group of heavy armored soldiers.
Walls were shaking because of detonation. Electricity disappeared for a short time, but they were protected with the thick impenetrable walls so they weren't worried.
Capsule testing went undisturbed. They haven't noticed traces of radiation, so they won't have to take in to the quarantine.
Scientists were trying to find out what kind of material they were using to make it. They came across few metals that could be found on Earth too, but just in small traces, it was mixed with three unknown materials.
They tried to find an opening, but they couldn't see anything. It's was as if the opening has grown together. One linguist, who worked on it, was trying to decipher the symbols that were engraved on the capsule. He recognized some of them, but they were not exactly the same as those of Indian tribes they were looking like.
''It seems our kind has managed to learn something from them. Maybe they showed us how to write and communicate." Other scientist said.
They were puzzled by what they saw. "These two symbols are similar to those depicting the gods who descended from the sky."
It wasn't clear to them what this meant and why that symbols were on their capsule. "Is it possible that the Indian tribes worshiped them?"
They continued observing the remaining symbols to find a link between hunters and Indian myths. For the time being they could associate them just with some of their writings.
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Kiau and Ishe found the entrance to the main hangar. Through the door opening they could see the humans around capsule.
'' They really aren't wasting time!'' Ishe told Kiau. They will have to go inside and destroy that room, but first they have to get inside somehow.
The doors they were standing by were closed. Some kind of device blocked the entrance. Kiau have put small metal ball on that device. Beam of light came out of it and unlocked the door.
They heard the sound behind them, as if someone was breaking through the fragments of the explosion that had taken place in the room they were in moments ago.
''It seems they already sent someone at us,'' Ishe said. They quickly activated invisible shield, and entered the main hangar.
Everyone in there was busy working around the capsule. It was their main priority. The technology they have been waiting for so long to show it's secrets.
Lionel watched it all from the office above the hall. He just caressed his chin and watched scientist working on the capsule.
Ishe and Kiau came closer to the capsule. Nobody has noticed them yet. They decided to have some fun and make a few more trophies. First, they turned on hand device to disrupt computer's work. The image on them started to make disruptions.
Scientists who worked with them looked around themselves.
"What's going on?" one of them asked.
Lionel noticed something was wrong, but nothing could be seen from the office. He suspected that the two predators somehow entered inside. Probably under invisible shield.
He turned on water alarm connected to the pipe above the hall.
Ishe and Kiau already climbed the beams above the hall so water could not do anything to them. They waited them to stop spraying.
Lionel lost his patience. "Where are they?" He angrily asked the man with the cigar.
Ishe and Kiau were still waiting and watching from above. When water stopped spraying, they took shuriken, and shook their hands to open it. Ishe had thrown one toward the office from which two men looked hangar. Kiau threw it at the people who worked around the capsule. Several of them around just fell to the ground. Heads separated from the body.
Lionel was shocked to see something almost broke the office glass and hit them. It was pure luck nothing happened. He looked down and saw couple of headless bodies around the capsule.
''Where are you?'' He screamed fiercely across the computer link.
Special unit came in. ''We were looking for them, they were in first hall moments ago. Everything is destroyed. Something exploded inside".
"Well, while you're having fun out there, our capsule is in danger and half of our people are dead! They are here somewhere. Find them before they destroy all the rest!
He ordered them to send capsule to the base in the north of the state.''Truck will wait for you soon.'' He said them.
He went to the base. He'll be safer there than here with these beings. Nobody yet reported what was happening there. He waited for a while to see if everything was going right.
Ishe and Kiau fired their plasma canons and hit several computers and machines that worked on the capsule. Sparks began to fall all around the soldiers and scientists who were trying to pick up bodies of their coworkers.
They did not know from which direction fire came nor where are they, so they started running away from the hall. Soldiers stayed behind and waited.
With the help of the masks on the face they managed to detect both predators. They fired tranquilizer shots at them, but they already jumped down from the beam in front of them, and stabbed two of them with blades coming out their hands.
They started shooting all around.
Lionel yelled out of his office: "Bring them alive! We need them alive, not dead!" No one has heard his commands.
Ishe and Kiau fired few times at beams above the soldiers, and blow it up on top of their heads. Dust have flown all around so they were able to get out of the hall unnoticed.
They saw Lionel running out toward the exit. They ran after him. Ishe pulled out small detonator and threw it into the hall.
They quickly got out and ran down the corridor in front of them. Detonation was strong, everything around them shaking, dust was everywhere, but they managed to escape further into the base.
Kiau was trying to get Sinai, but failed to transmit the message, he will have to try later. For now they will have to follow the corridor and try to get through it and into the base. They followed Lionel's scent their mask detected.
Lionel was already near the side entrance to base. He looked around to see if hunters were following him. No one was there.
"Excellent." He smiled.
Most of the information they managed to extract from the capsule and their armor had already been passed down to the base. He needs it to get himself secured. Man with a cigar offered him a huge sum if he passes the information about their technology.
Sinai and Keishe felt detonation that happend, but for the time, they had bigger preoccupation they had to solve.
They managed to break through to the first floor, nobody was there. But they knew they are here, waiting for them, hidden.
Elli and Annie looked around them.
Behind them was a group of soldiers hiding inside of the room they just passed. Two of them managed to get behind Annie and Elli's backs. Annie heard someone approaching. She turned and saw the two standing with the tranquilizer. They firred at them.
Annie threw the blades down and cut soldiers' legs. He fall down screaming in pain. Other looked in him with fear.
Sinai and Keishe went to protect them, but other group of soldiers came from other side in front of them and fired. Keishe managed to get to the girls, but Sinai stayed to fight the group that just came in.
Other soldiers fired at Annie and Elli, but Elli managed to avoid the shots. She threw a spear to protect Annie. The spear went through the chest of one soldier. He fell to the ground. Blood started to spread around him. She watched with horror what she had done. Her hands began to tremble, she shivered.
"I became killer." Tears began to flow from her eyes.
Annie watched her in shock, not believing what had happened. "You could not do anything else," Annie tried to comfort her. She hugged her tight.
Shots began to fly from everywhere around them. Keishe fired at soldiers with plasma canon.
''Quickly '', he ordered them.
Girls picked up their weapons, and still in disbelief from what they did, went to Keishe.
They heard hissing sound from somewhere. Acid queen was freed. The sound got stronger. Soldiers who were in the hall beneath them began to scream. Few of them disapeared.
Sinai and Keishe knew what that meant. The acod queen is free. Looking for hosts for it's children.
Lionel managed to get to the base and the hall where his main office was. He watched what was happening there. In his office was a man with cigar.
He will have to get to the office somehow until Robert gets all informations he has collected. With pain and hard work. He decided to go down the side corridor. Although it was longer, it was safer than the main passage through the hall.
Ishe and Kiau followed that same corridor that was previously Lionel in. They watched what is going on in the hall. They saw Sinai and Keishe on the floor above. There were also girls with them.
"The old man's granddaughter." Kiau told Ishe.
''Let them be there. They're safe with them.''
They went further the same corridor Lionel had left. His smell was strong.
Lionel got to the office. As expected man with cigar was there: "Robert," he said. "I did not know you are so fast."
"What are you talking about," he replied quickly.
"Don't play the innocence. You meant to take all the information and go with them without paying. You know what I've done to get them. I risked my military career and honorable service.''
''What honorable service, you got your hands dirty at first oportunity,'' he replied with a mockery in his voice.
"Maybe, but they did not leave me other choice, they slowly took away everything I had acomplished over the years of service in Asian countries, while they were getting rich on our lives.
"Don't worry, your salary is waiting here, I've never left anybody empty handed, especially if it's done with hard work." He laughed loudly and pulled out the memory card.
"I just have to transfer it to your account. ''
Elli and Annie were slowly following Sinai and Keishe. There was silence around them..
Soldiers waited the queen to help them in capturing predators.
Elli felt something terrible is going to happen. She did not know how bad, but depending on the coldnes that went throuhg her body, she knew that it wasn't good.
Somebody screamed in the hall. Soldiers turned around but didn't see anything. On the floor, one of them found somekind of translucent mucus.
''What is this? '' He asked.
"The Queen," one of them replied, ''It seems she have found the first host for her nest.'' He said.
Panic began to spread among the soldiers. They knew what that meant. If they don't control it, they'll became hosts. Bugs are ruthless. Nothing on this planet is like them. Not even predators.
Soldiers have moved away from the place they found mucus. They went in search for girls and hunters.
Sinai and Keishe waited for the acid queen to appear. Judging by the panic that had caught the soldiers, she had to be close. It looks like she also found hosts for her newborns.
The situation worsened. Maybe they won't be able to get out of here. He has to save Elli and Annie… His distant cousin. He hoped that Ishe and Kiau were near and had managed to get int he base. He'll need his entire clan to get out of this.
Elli watched him. She could feel his impatience and restlessness. Although he was a warrior and a hunter he also felt danger. She held the spear in her hand firmly. Maybe she'd be better with Ann's blades.
But, she had never held any kind of weapon, except the knife for cutting meat and vegetables.
''It would be of great use to have one of those knives now," her father taught her how to throw them when she was child.
"If he was here, he would have found a way out of this mess. He was an experienced member of special forces, but due to his illness, he had to leave his career.
Annie came to her. Sinai went to look for the queen. Keishe moved another way.
"Come here!" Keishe ordered the girls, showing them with his hands to prepare the weapon and be ready. They listened what he said and went with him.
Soldiers were already scattered by side corridors, which were protected by solid walls and doors from the rest of the base. This will keep them safe from the queen, and if something goes wrong, it was near the exit from the base.
For now they'll try to catch hunters and keep the queen in control, and now, bugs too, if it's possible.
Lionel was pleased to see amount on his account. It was damn worth it. Even if they lose information, he can cover himself. And, he didn't give him all the informations. Some things are stil kept in secret. Far from the hands of others.
When transfer was over, Robert looked at Lionel. "It was nice to cooperate with you." He smiled laughingly. He knew that the sum he paid him for the informations was just a drop in the sea of what he could get for it.
They both went out. They heard the approaching of heavy steps. Hunters were approaching them. They hurried in direction where Keishe and girls went.
Robetr was heading for another corridor leaving Lionel alone. He had a map of the plant, so he decided to use side exits to get out. His pilot was waiting for his call in town.
Walking through the corridor, he again heard heavy steps aproching. He knew the familiar sound of the steps: "Hunter and humans, girls probably, they must be with one of them.
''It seems that Elli found her alien boyfriend." He laughed at the though.
"If only you wanted to be mine, I would give you more than he will ever." He began to squeeze his fists in anger. Steps were approaching, and he was caught in panic. "If they recognize me, he'll kill me." He thought.
Nearby was a room with large windows. He decided to hide in it until they go through the corridor. He left the door slightly open. Steps were coming closer. It was exactly as he though, hunter was with girls. He slowly looked through the window.
He heard words. Keishe told girls to wait for him here until he checks the end of the corridor and the other passage. Girls listened.
Elli watched the room in which Robert hid. It was full of medical supplies. Some of them known and some unknown. Somehow it seemed they were not alone. She felt a familiar feeling, like the one she would have when her housekeeper was wandering around her apartment.
"It can't be", she thought, and quickly dismissed the thought.
Annie was restless. She heard various sounds from the end of the corridor. She decided to follow Keishe, and see what's going on.
Elli warned her that it was not the smartest idea, but Annie, as always, did not listen. She was impacient.
Annie hugged Elli and went for Keishe. She won't be long. She said.
"Beware!" Elli asked and hugged her. And than she stayed alone again, like she was in Sinai's spaceship. Only this time she wanted she didn't run away.
The feeling of being observed has increased. Feling of nausea came to her throat. "It can't be. What would he doing here?" She tried to calm herself. She leaned on the window of the room.
Robert only heard silence. He decided to get out of here. This is a chance to get out. He slowly raised his head over the table underneath which he was hiding. He saw the familiar silhouette.
He smiled with lust.
''Looks like I'll have a little bit of fun with you before you go with your new boyfriend. ''
Slowly he approached the opened door.
Elli did not hear anything, except the feeling that was growing in her womb. He stepped forward slightly, and put his hands on her mouth. He pulled her hard and pressed her with all his strength on his chest.
Elli began to lose air, soon to faint. She had somehow moved her head and saw who was attacking her. Horror appeared on her face.
''Impossible, Dave!'' It was the only thing she say do before she fainted.
'' No Elli, Robert. My name is Robert. And I did not know that you would be so easy", he said and dragged her into the room. She did not react.