Disclaimer: AVP belongs to whomever makes it now... If I did own it, I sure as hell wouldn't be writing this, now would I?
Character Disclaimer:
Two characters do not belong to me, while they shall remain unnamed for now, their respective owners are:
Nok-tjau'ke - Infernothechinchilla.
Alha'uxi - GODDESS-Rita-ofDARK.
Thank you, Rita and Inferno! I love them both so much!
Ah yes, also... When in Italics that identifies all the times characters are speaking yautjan.
Ky'gon rushed in directly behind Alha'uxi and Small Stone was being his usual self, quiet but more prepared then them.
With their cloaking on, the trio silently made their way into the Temple, down the long corridor to the room where they had first met Diana and attempted to sacrifice Korrine.
Low sounds of human voices could be heard echoing through the halls and into the large room Korrine had told them Diana was at.
Alha'uxi slowed down, tighting the space between the wall and himself before stopping at the entrance. He only peered over the edge.
The scene before him caused concern. Diana was wrapped in the net, now switched off, and hoisted into a large stretcher with heavy reinforcement. The men lifting her were having some difficulty due to her size, but the others stood behind, guns and the stun weapon aimed directly at her even though she was unconscious.
The net was the only obstacle that Alha'uxi would have to worry about. Alha'uxi used all of his mask's sights to observe the armed humans and Diana. Small Stone and Ky'gon could worry about the armed men, but Alha'uxi's thermal vision said the net was the point of interest, with a push of a button the net could be set far to high for any living creature to take and could kill Diana. They would have no chance to save Diana with the humans holding the advantage.
"Alha'uxi, what do you see?" Small Stone whispered, he quickly caught onto Alha'uxi's troubled determination. "The ooman's outnumber us, but that is no concern truly. I am bothered by the netting they have wrapped Dy'anna in. It is electrical and if they do so decide they can kill her before we ever reach her."
Ky'gon crouched down beneath Alha'uxi to see for himself, "How many can turn the netting on?"
Alha'uxi scanned the room, seeing only repeating equipment on the humans, "I cannot tell. Either we slay these ooman fast or we find a way to pursuade them to show us."
Ky'gon looked up to Alha'uxi and Small Stone took used his own mask to scan the room and the humans, "You have a plan?" Small Stone spoke, not turning his attention from the targets.
"Possibly..." Alha'uxi still tried to use his mask to find the remote, "I do not know if it will work."
Small Stone nodded, "Let us try it. What is it?"
Alha'uxi pointed to Diana, "Move her in some way, make it seem like she's still awake... The ooman holding the remote will want to confirm Dy'anna's unconsciousness and with our cloaking we will not be-" "Tango's at the door!" A human shouted as the entire room lit up with guns firing in the trio's direction. Bullets wizzing past their heads as they ducked behind the frame entrance.
"How can they see us?" Ky'gon stood back up as the gun's stopped firing. "I do not know..." Alha'uxi sighed, almost shot in the head overlooking a dangerous situation. "It is not impossible that the ooman's have technology much like ours. If you had not noticed, there were many with large masks on over their eyes, most likely a device meant to see in different sights." Small Stone pointed out, neither of the others spotted anything of the sort.
"We have to go in after Dy'anna." Alha'uxi concluded, "She is in a very dangerous place right now, we must fight." He looked back to the room, using his heat vision he could see the humans approaching the door, "And fast."
"There were at minimum fifteen armed in the room." Small Stone answered, "It should be fair to have five for each of us." Alha'uxi nodded his agreement, "Very well, Ky'gon, you are on the left, I will take the ones behind Dy'anna and Small Stone will take the right." Ky'gon armed himself, taking out his combi stick.
"Watch the ooman's closely though, if one takes out a remote, go after him, leave the others behind. We are here to rescue Dy'anna, this will be marked a failure if she dies." Alha'uxi snapped his disc out as Small Stone checked over his blades, "Cloaking will not help us, keep it off to conserve it."
The trio stood behind the entrance, ready to barge into the room. "Wait!" Korrine jogged over, "Stop!" She stood behind the trio, each equally confused.
"Koorene, it is best you wait outside where it is safe." Alha'uxi stood up to her, his translator buzzing to life.
"I know, it's just there's a man holding a very strange gun in there. I recognized the design though, it looks like your shoulder cannons." Korrine pointed to the dormant plasma caster on Alha'uxi's shoulder, "Beside the electric net, I think that's what knocked her out after I left."
Alha'uxi glanced to his comrades before turning back to Korrine, "This is... troubling. We will take your word and find him." He bowed slightly, "We will return with Dy'anna." Korring smiled, "Thank you."
The trio came back to the door, the armed humans were now ready to scout the area, checking for them. As soon as the barrel of their guns appeared, Alha'uxi tossed his disc, slicing through the gun metal causing sparks to fly as his disc returned to his hand. "Remember the plan." Alha'uxi watched as the humans retreated into the room, "Small Stone, you are the fastest, find the ooman with the stolen weaponry."
Ky'gon jumped into the fray first, all guns turned to him and Alha'uxi charged the opposite side of the room half were forced to target him. Small Stone passed by the cot Diana was laid on and straight to the back, over the stone slab and his dagger met the chest of an armed human. Alha'uxi had his side nearly cleared out before Ky'gon and Small Stone were half way.
Astonishingly, the humans were resiliant, some offering counter attacks and actually gaining ground on the trio. Few did and were silenced quickly after it, the sheer survival instinct was driving the humans into massive power and whatever training they had received was not far off from a yautja's own judging by the melee combat styles and strengths. Yet, none of it was perfect, the trio had well over sixty years training and experience. The men fell quickly.
The last were left in a corner, five aiming guns at the three who were now closing in. "What do we do?" One cried to their leader, "Hold on." He messed something in his uniform before dragging out a large gun. The stolen technology.
Alha'uxi didn't even blink, the gun was aimed at Small Stone but all three dodged. The blast was tremendous, it left only a steaming crater where Small Stone once was.
"Say your goodbyes." The man aimed at the three now all keeping their distance from the human. Alha'uxi contemplated using his disc, how long it would take and it's accuracy against a human with his finger on the trigger of a gun more powerful then any weapon in the room. The odds were not pleasing.
"We must leave the room, see if we cannot find a way around this matter." Alha'uxi looked to Ky'gon, Small Stone took the idea and went barreling out of the room, directly to the spot where they had planned assaulting the room only moments ago. "Go Ky'gon, I will follow." Ky'gon nodded, quickly jumping from one spot to the next, listening as the stunning blue power blast from the gun blew a hole in his footsteps.
Ky'gon was panting, "That is not simply stolen technology." Small Stone pulled him aside nodding. "Alha'uxi must be fast, one wrong step and that ooman will kill him." Small Stone watched as Alha'uxi stepped side to side, the gun was ready but the human was hesitant about Alha'uxi dodging before the blast reaches him. It would shatter the ground and the wall, but Alha'uxi would have a chance to escape. "You can do it..." Ky'gon narrowed his eyes.
Alha'uxi had no choice, either run and hope he's not killed or stay there until such time as the others come up with a plan.
Clearly, the human was getting impatient, so he begain to approach Alha'uxi who cautiously backed away more and more. Then there it was, the human smiled, Alha'uxi was thrown into high alert asking what made this human happy all of a sudden?
"Alright, either you surrender and we take you into custody." The human bartered, the gun was no longer aiming at him... It was targeting Diana who lay unconscious behind him. "Or she dies. See, my boss would love me, maybe even get a promotion and a paid vacation. We, as a private army, don't get many of those anymore." He grinned, the other humans visibly relaxing as they came closer, aiming their own guns at Alha'uxi and Diana. "I figured you were in here 'cause her. Oh, and I know you understand me, don't act like you can't. I've taken down bigger predator's then you and they even answered me, well, not answered, more like cursed my name."
"How fast can you aim your disc?" Ky'gon asked Small Stone who blinked in return, "If you are implying I use it to either disarm or kill the ooman threatening Dy'anna, then I am afraid you will be disappointed. In the time it takes to pull a trigger and hit it's target at point blank range compared to the time it would take to stand, aim, and throw a disc should not even be considered an option."
Ky'gon sighed, "What choice do we have? We can die here, go with the humans, or let him kill Dy'anna. I will not stand to be captured and tested but Dy'anna's death is not possible. We must fight, the ooman dies or we do." Small Stone almost glared back to Ky'gon, "We must try."
Small Stone took out his disc, "It is the most honourable way. Die for a cause to save another." He held onto his disc tightly, "Be prepared Ky'gon and pray to Paya that this works."
Alha'uxi kept as still as stone, he had no freedom in this situation. For the first time in his life and probably his entire family tree time on Earth hunting, a human held a warriors fate and that of his hunting brothers. This was not a preferred position, but Alha'uxi would make due. He was never one for surrendering.
The only fast enough choice was to shoot the ooman with pure yautja technology, his plasma caster was the quickest weapon he had on him. The arm time was only a second and the firing rate was impressive being that he is an honoured warrior.
Saying his last prayer's, Alha'uxi was arming his caster. Life or death, surrendering could never be part of any yautja's life.
The human smiled, the gun's side symbols lit red and blue, both signalling the owner of it's condition, unfortunately, not one of the trio understood it's pattern.
In a split second, the human was thrilled, he was triumphant in his own mind and the next... He went cold, the gun was gone.
The trio had not noticed, no one had, as the fourth yautja in the room took aim and fired the heavy weapon, knocking her back a little ways as the rest of the humans in the room began to panic.
Small Stone reacted first, throwing his disc into the crowd of four humans as one fell, Alha'uxi took another down and Ky'gon lept from his defencive wall to throw his combi stick perfectly into the chest of another human, impailing him into the wall and the last was met again by Small Stone's disc before the entire room was empty.
The trio had their moment of turning to each other in satisfaction. Small Stone had taken to Diana first, holding the mutated yautja technology in his own hands as he examined it closer.
Diana had propped herself onto her elbow to reach the gun aimed at her head and fire, her skin was seared in different places, thin black marks of cross netting marred her thick hide on her shoulders, forehead, outside of her legs and arms, her stomach and finally her clothes. Black smoke came from her body as the trio tended to her.
"Dy'anna," Alha'uxi smiled, "I am pleased to see you have awakened." Diana smiled weakly, "I'm happy I'm alive too." She laughed, her voice and body crackled under the burnt off electric traces.
Ky'gon made hismelf known by overlooking Diana's blackened skin, "We must hurry, the burns may not be fatal, but they will be infected if we do not remove her from the Temple into a safer place." Diana bent up to see Ky'gon scanning her legs, "Like the view?" Ky'gon blinked, staring at her, "Nice to see you to." She mumbled before Alha'uxi nodded to Small Stone and Ky'gon.
"Can you stand?" Diana took a deep breath, trying to lift herself up with anything but the palms of her hands. She swung her legs over the side, drapping them carefully so as to not agitate the burns anymore then they already were. "Give me a second." Diana took a few fast breaths before hopping onto the floor.
All her square burns lit up again, she sucked in a painful lungful of air as the trio offered their hands to help her forward, she merely shook her head, "I can walk, but that stupid net makes me feel every second of it."
Ky'gon came to her aid and with her smaller size, Ky'gon wrapped her arm around his neck as Alha'uxi took her other arm around his. "Careful, careful, careful... That burns." Diana hissed, her hands lifted up so her palms and around her hands could feel cool air blowing on them.
Small Stone took another look, "Your hands, the burns are severe." He pointed out, catching both the males attention as they walked Diana out. "What happened to them?" He asked, taking a deeper look into the burning indentions. "I, uh, grabbed the net. I tried to get it off but... It didn't work so well... So now my hands are crispy."
"Diana!" Korrine cried as the trio came around the corner with Diana in tow, "Oh my God, are you okay?" Korrine began her own motherly study of the netting burns across Diana, "I'll be fine, just a well cooked."
GrimlockX4: It's cool, just remember two (Alha'uxi and Small Stone) aren't mine, so says the disclaimer!
Hmm... I just wanted to toss that in there.
Blood Shifter2: Well, eventually maybe. I hope to be a bit twisty with my story and throw the characters into a full throtle plot twist...
Malakia: I RETURN!
Yeah... I know, go ahead, send me to my room. D':
It's fine, I just want to know if a word(s) are so blatanly misspelled/typo'd that it ruins the whole imagination while reading this. We got a new computer (YES!) I should be fine, but I'll also be getting one upstairs so I'll be able to write more often and publish quicker with less problems. At the same time, I'll be paying for XBOX LIVE so I'll be playing Halo 3 and other games like mad since I've never had LIVE before.
Kurounue13: Here's more! :D Diana's finally getting braver and, well, Alha'uxi is the awesomesause. But he's not the romance in Stunning Encounters! OH NOES!