Matt attempted to lead Alysia away from the Drekker, but found it difficult as the Drekker started following them. Unable to do anything that might've set it off, Matt's forced to allow the Drekker to follow them.

Likened to a puppy following them, if it were a tall black oily dangerous creature, the Drekker followed Matt as he went with Alysia to continue their search for Hallway A.

Alysia kept looking back at the Drekker that followed them. She clung to Matt as it looked down at her, but didn't seem hostile towards her, whether because of the rosemary or because of it believing she's also one of them, too.

"I'm scared," Alysia whispered to Matt.

Matt comforted her as he said, "It's going to be okay."

He tried to keep them calm as to not provoke the Drekker and cause the illusion to fail. For now, it saw them as its brethren and that's good enough for Matt to work with.

However, came a problem, he didn't know how to deal with the Drekker following them. It seemed that it never happened enough for Ripley to hear about it and now that it did, he's in the blind, and he's worried that one wrong move could've caused everything to go wrong.

"Alysia, you know how to get out of here, correct?" Matt tried to remind her and she nodded, affirming that she did. He ordered her, "When we get to Hallway A, I need you to promise me, you don't run, you don't scream, you walk calmly away from us and get out of here."

It's obvious leading the Drekker towards the outside wouldn't end well and especially if Alysia started running and screaming as she ran away.

Alysia nodded, her brunette curly hair bobbing up and down as she held onto him, her little knuckles turning white as she clung to his trousers.

The Drekker continued to follow them until it stopped as they're about to leave Hallway C.

"Baaaah… Baaaaaaah…" the Drekker chirped.

This caused Matt and Alysia to stop in their tracks and turned toward the Drekker as it looked around, confused.

"Baaah… Baaaaaaaah?" the Drekker chirped.

Matt's confused as the Drekker chirped and looked around, as if it's looking for something.

His dark green eyes fell when Alysia tugged on his trousers and he asked her, "What's wrong?"

Alysia looked up at Matt as she whispered, "I think he's looking for his daddy."

Listening to the Drekker as it chirped, Matt's baffled as he heard, "Baaaah…?"

With what Ripley told him, Matt didn't want to encounter the Big One, on the account that it's not easily fooled as this Drekker, and would've saw through the illusion.

If it saw them with the smaller Drekker, it might construe them as trying to hurt it, and the last thing Matt wanted was the Big One coming after them.

Moving away with Alysia, Matt saw the Drekker continue to call out to it's father, and saw shadows behind the Drekker. It's the two that cornered them in the pool area and they've heard their little brother calling for their father.

Slowly, while the Drekker's distracted, Matt walked with Alysia and increasingly his feet started picking up speed until he's full on running with Alysia.

Running, Matt saw Hallway B and went through it with Alysia struggling to keep up with him, her hand tightly in his hand.

Seeing up ahead, the entrance to Hallway A, Matt stopped in place, and told Alysia to go ahead. He told her that since she still smelled like rosemary, it should keep the Drekker away from her.

Alysia wanted him to come with her, but he told her he couldn't. He needed to look for Johnnie.

With prodding, Matt watched as Alysia forced herself away from him and slowly moved towards Hallway A, disappearing in the darkness.

Exhaling sharply, Matt held a hand over his chest.

All he needed to do's find Johnnie.

He's not seen him since they split up looking for Alysia and he doubted that Johnnie would've left him alone in the dark hospital.

Thinking he'd go down the hallways that they sprayed with the rosemary, Matt tried to find him there, but didn't, and kept looking until he reached the hallways that they didn't get the chance to spray.

"Johnnie?" Matt whispered.

He didn't respond.

Looking around, Matt tried to think where he went, but couldn't find him in the darkness.

"… Doctor," he heard back.

Matt stopped as he tried to look around, he called out, "Johnnie?"

He heard once more, "…Doctor."

Thinking something might've happened, Matt searched for Johnnie in the darkness. He attempted to talk to Johnnie, but something must've happened because Johnnie didn't say much.

"Johnnie?" Matt called.

He heard again, "…Doctor."

It sounded closer to him than before and he followed where he heard it.

"… Doctor," Matt heard Johnnie beckoning him.

With it dark, Matt wished he could've used his Sonic Screwdriver, but with the noise it produced among other things, he couldn't on the account the Drekker wouldn't have any problems finding him.

"… Doctor," Matt heard Johnnie close to him, near an office.

Matt whispered, "Johnnie, what's going on?"

Johnnie didn't respond to anything more than what he's already saying and Matt worried. As he walked through the darkness, he nearly leapt fifty meters into the air hadn't he felt arms restrained him.

Nervously, he turned his head to see Johnnie, eyes wide, and Matt heard, "… Doctor…"

It wasn't coming from Johnnie and Johnnie's Adam apple throbbed as he tried to keep the air in his throat down.

Looking forward, Matt froze in spot as he saw something in front of them.

At first, he saw nothing, but his dark green eyes crossed a pair of glowing pinprick eyes. He saw the height and his blood chilled.

"Baaah… Baaaaaah…" Matt heard the young Drekker chirp as it tracked Matt down. It saw the tall figure in the darkness and chirped wildly as it hoped in place before hobbling towards it.

The Drekker nuzzled its beak against the Big One's and it reciprocated as it let out a deep chirp.

This would've been heart warming if not them being Drekker.

"Dreee… Dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee," the Big One let out a deep chirp and it sounded like an order.

Matt felt eyes on him as the young Drekker looked towards him.

The young Drekker chirped, seemingly asking the Big One a question, and Matt watched the Big One tell it something as it turned it's head back to Matt.

The Big One told the young Drekker Matt wasn't one of its brothers and it caused the young Drekker to let out a low hiss.

"Bawhh!" hissed the young Drekker as it snapped its beak at Matt.

The Big One gestured with it's head, Matt and Johnnie saw the beak, black and smooth, and the young Drekker departed. Eyes on Matt as it passed by and a low hiss.

Matt had the idea of using the poppers, but saw the Big One step out of the darkness, passing by a window that briefly lit up with light from a helicopter overhead.

Only brief, it's enough to see what the Big One looked like.

Like Ripley said, easily identifiable by it's sheer height, and demeanor.

If it wanted, it'd easily sic its sons on the men.

If not, it'd easily rip them apart itself.

Clacking noises came from its claws as the Big One moved its fingers.

"…Know…" the Big One let out a low voice. "… Pocket…"

Ripley mentioned the big ones talking, but they couldn't do whole sentences like humans. Swift, verbatim, that's it.

"Doctor, I think he knows about them," Johnnie looked at Matt as he suggested that the Big One smelled the poppers in their pockets and knows what they are by smell alone.

"What do we do?" Matt asked Johnnie.

Johnnie glimpsed to the Big One and suggested they do the wise thing and put the poppers on the ground.

Reaching into his pocket, Matt slowly pulled out the poppers and rested them on the ground as did Johnnie.

He stepped back with Johnnie as the Big One studied the poppers.

"…Why..?" the men heard the Big One ask them.

The men looked at each other, baffled, before Matt told the truth.

"Uh… well… there's people who are using you for their own political gain. We… we were only trying to protect the patients," Matt admitted. "We didn't want to hurt you, either."

The Big One narrowed its lit eyes on Matt as he said this and Johnnie affirmed that the Big One and his sons had no cover in the city. Humans were using them to control each other.

The men heard the Big One clack its claws against each other. As if it's pondering what they told it.

"You understand us, correct?" Johnnie tried to talk to the Big One.

He heard a low, "…Yes."

Curious, Johnnie asked if it's possible for them to broker peace.

"…No… peace…" hissed the Big One.

As said by Ripley, there won't be peace between the species. No amount of engineering by Matt would've worked to achieve it. As long as they continue their existence, the species will prey on humans. Humans, even with their technological prowess, couldn't do much against them.

"How… how did you know to come here?" Johnnie inquired.

The Big One replied, "…We…just…knew…"

In limited fashion, the Big One told them exactly.

They smelled the sickness and followed it.

The hospitals, they always avoided, but this one, there's no light, nothing to dissuade them. So, they came, and they now hunt.

When told there's no one else here, but them, the Big One laughed in a gurgled fashion.

It told them, "…Another… comes… another…"

It revealed that there's another person in the hospital with them that none of them knew about.

How they managed to miss a person, none of the men knew, but the Big One made it clear there's someone else here, someone else sick.

"Who?" Johnnie questioned the Big One.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Johnnie turned when he heard the scream and saw a frightened man with a ghostly white face, drained of colour, wearing a hospital gown running towards them. He nearly ran into the men as he's desperate to flee from the Drekker that chased him.

Panicked, the man's wild eyes looked around as he saw that Matt and Johnnie were human and squeaked, "You gotta help me!"

He screamed when he saw the Big One and hid behind Matt and Johnnie.

The Drekker moved fast as they chased after the man and stopped short of the men, hissing at the man in the hospital gown. Fully prepared to maul him apart, the Drekker would've hadn't the Big One hissed at them, and they relented.

"Who are you?" Matt asked the man in the hospital gown.

He responded, "I don't know, Santa Claus, who're you!"

Johnnie seemed to know who he is and exclaimed, "Jerry Cornell?"

Nodding, Jerry affirmed.

Summing, Jerry came to the hospital for treatment for a minor "problem" and when he saw the power go out, he tried to find a nurse.

Only, his door wouldn't open and no matter how much he shouted, nobody came to his aide and he's forced to bust out of his room.

When he did, he found the hospital empty.

Shrouded in darkness, Jerry wandered in the darkness, and as he did, he started feeling the hair on his neck stand up.

He thought it was his nerves, but when he heard low hissing and movement down the hall, he didn't stick around, and fled.

Unable to find his way, Jerry ended up lost in the ensuring chase, and wound up here.

"Yeah, now we're going to die," Jerry realized that they're surrounded by the Drekker. He didn't panic as much as he did when he realized what exactly chased him, confirming he's just as aware of their presence.

"A hit, that's what this is about, a hit?" Johnnie realized the connection.

Jerry Cornell's a political opponent for a senator and a piece of work unto himself. So, when it became known he's running for the senate, it's not surprising the senator's not happy about a chance of him taking his place.

It seemed that the senator figured out his dirty secret and constructed a plan to rid his opponent and claim ignorance.

"How did you find out?" Matt asked Jerry.

Jerry responded, "Well, shit, you learn a lot when you're with the right kinds of people."

Johnnie called to their attention to the matter at hand and the Drekker sought Jerry.

He's "sick" and thus their nature dictated them to hunt him.