Author's note: Sorry about not updating we've been pretty busy for a few weeks.

Warning: Author is a ditz

Disclaimer: If I owned AVP this would be a movie, and I'd be rich.

Haven

Lex inhaled fresh air deeply through her nostrils. It had been a week since they had landed on this planet, and the improvement it made on her psyche was absolutely brilliant. She felt energized and ready to tromp off into the woods with the guys to bring back some monster trophy for the hunting competition.

Unfortunately, Dodge wouldn't let her go out of view of the shuttle. Lex only got to stretch her legs, not go bounding after the dangers of the world. Scar, Burn, and Strike were off exploring a little further and Tool was helping Dodge, probably considering changing to a medical field himself since he was no longer being pressured by Dart.

Lex reflected on how she had met this group. Scar of course had been her first hunting partner, the one who made it possible to be here. Dodge and Burn had visited them in the medical center after they had been brought back on the mother ship barely alive. Strike and Tool were members of Dart's gang, Tool idolized him as his hero until Dart had revealed his true nature, Strike only hung out with him for Tool's sake. Lex smiled.

Who could have guessed?

She placed her hand on her abdomen were she had recently learned a baby was growing. She couldn't believe it at first. How could she be pregnant? After the initial shock of learning she was going to be a mother, she thought of course that it shouldn't be possible since she and Scar were separate species, but of course that sort of thing happened on Earth all the time.

The horse and the donkey make a mule, the lion and the tiger make a liger…humans and Vulcans make Spock… She cracked a smile at her mind's little joke, What will we call a human and Yautja hybrid?

She heard a sudden snap, like a branch breaking. "Scar?" She called, "Burn? Strike? Is that you guys?" There was no answer, just another snap. Lex's hand went immediately to her combi-stick and she started backing away, toward the shuttle. She might have called for Dodge and Tool to come help her, but there was nothing she needed help with yet.

There was a third snap, closer this time. Something was coming this way, that was clear. Lex froze and switched her camouflage on and tensed. Then she saw it. It came out from behind a rock, and could have very well been a rock itself. From this distance Lex could see that it was crab-like and had very rough skin, probably armor, and big enough to reach her hips. It crawled toward her. Lex backed closer to the shuttle, the creature was heading that way too, toward Tool and Dodge, who were unaware of its approach, she wanted to warn them, but that would give away her position.

Instead she thought to kill it herself. She turned, not too quickly in case she made too much noise, toward a near by rock formation so she would have high ground. She heard the creature hiss behind her, and turned around to see that it had changed its course as well, toward the rock formation. Toward her.

Oh fuck.

Lex dashed forward and scrambled to climb the rock, behind her the creature also rushed. Lex screamed as teeth came down on her legs pulling her down. Her camouflage failed and the invisibility vanished, not that it had done any good anyway. The creature growled and shook her leg, trying to drag her away. Lex kicked at it with her free foot, the crab caught it in its pincers and bit down harder on her leg.

"Lehkz!"

Dodge and Tool came running out of the shuttle, they saw the crab trying to drag Lex toward the trees and responded immediately. With snarls and roars they dashed forward, metal claws extended. Dodge cut off the pincer that held Lex's leg, she started kicking again and the crab released its hold on her other one, turning its attention to Dodge and Tool.

Tool fired a net at it; the creature struggled around in the shrinking wiring, screaming with rage and pain before freeing itself by cutting through the net with its remaining pincer. It lunged at Dodge, knocking him to his back. He jabbed at its underbelly, causing the creature to howl, and rolled off him. It turned onto its feet growling menacingly at the two of them with a hungry look in its big black eyes.

Dodge stood, "Get back to the shuttle!" He roared grabbing Lex's arm and hauling her to her feet.

"Ow!" Lex cried as she tried to walk on her injured leg, Dodge stayed at her side, backing slowly with her like a guard as they slowly crept closer to safety. Lex was beginning to feel dizzy. Blood loss? Venom? She thought of the child in her womb, the reason she wasn't out hunting with Scar, Burn, and Strike. She had to get back to that shuttle, it was the only way she'd live, and the only way her child would survive.

Dodge was clearly thinking the same thing as he pushed her behind him; he got out his combi-stick and shuriken. The crab rushed forward, Dodge thrust his combi-stick to meet it. The creature screamed and ducked back. Right into the waiting spear of Tool. With a triumphant roar, Tool delivered a succession of stabs and slashes, finally stopping with a killing blow to its head. His combi-stick pierced through its armor and it crumbled as its brain bled out.

It gave a few final shrieks and twitches before it stilled and became silent. Lex felt her legs give away beneath her, Dodge turned around and picked her up, muttering only a quick congratulations to Tool on his kill. The other Yautja nodded, and turned back to the crab, Lex could see him over Dodge's shoulder picking at the body trying to determine what sort of trophy he could make from it.

Lex clutched at Dodge's chest armor. "It could see me…" She told him, "When I was using the camouflage…It could see me."

"Don't try to talk." Dodge told her, "Rest and I'll take a look at your leg."

Lex nodded glad that the masks kept him from seeing that she was crying. She wasn't crying from pain though, jut fear. Fear for the child and what might have happened if Dodge and Tool hadn't been with her.

Author's end note: I have nothing important to say here.