Disclaimer:
I don't own the characters: Lex or Scar (as well as other characters that will appear eventually). I really admire its creators and respect them; this fanfic is just for fun.
*Thanks to Frida521!
WARNING: This chapter contains VERY detailed descriptions of violence and cursing, if you do not like reading this kind of content, in the next one I'll put a small summary with the most relevant stuff that happened :)
*I've decided to answer your reviews until the end of the chapter because I think I got excited and I wrote more words in the responses than in the chapter haha*
Lex watched Scar's silhouette disappear into the darkness; she hated to leave him, but she couldn't do anything for him and staying there would only cause more trouble or hinder the predators' actions. She accelerated full throttle to get away as quickly as possible.
She was sure that the unexpected situation would bring consequences, so many dead humans, so much blood and destruction… everything was like a circle of bad luck, where one action led to another and another and everything went wrong. Her heart was already accepting that she liked Scar, as weird and crazy as it may sound, she felt something for him.
She still didn't know if it was love, maybe time would take care of ordering her thoughts.
The roar of the weapons continued to be heard in her ears along with the bloodcurdling screams of the men. She wanted to go back to days ago where everything seemed to be so simple, with Scar talking to her about his customs and her talking to him about her own life.
Yet something inside Lex told her that this was how things would be if she chose that path. Scar was surrounded by death, blood, and wounds. Ritual hunting was the drive of predators, the reason for their existence; it was a piece of their own essence and it just attracted problems.
She already sensed that the storm was almost upon her and it was a matter of time before the bomb exploded, and she didn't want that torrential rain full of problems to fall on her family, so she would leave and try to remove Fred and his horrible plans away from her and those she cared about. As for Scar, she would talk to him, maybe he couldn't stay on Earth forever, but she was willing to make this work.
She parked the car and a sharp pain was suddenly planted in her chest, as if she was short of air. With the dawning realization that something was wrong, she got out of the car, trying to find a good explanation or cause, but each idea made her more panicky.
At a first glance to the house, she observed the door ajar and fallen. All the lights were off, even the light in the kitchen. And Amber always left the kitchen light on.
Each step was more difficult than the last. She began to pray in a low voice, and although Lex had never been a believer, at that moment she really wished that if there really was a God, He would free her and her family from any evil.
When she stood in front of the door, she was already breathing with difficulty. "Amber?" She asked. She begged, prayed and wished that everything was part of her imagination and that her sister would answer she call.
She pressed the switch to turn on the room's light bulb and a gut wrenching scream tore out from her lips. All the chairs were splattered with blood and there was a big red trail on the floor as if something had dragged someone.
"No… no… AMBER!" Lex screamed, her eyes filled with tears. She couldn't see Amber or the children anywhere and she just wanted to wake up from that nightmare.
She advanced through the house, the curtains were torn, scattered and abandoned on the floor and in the kitchen, the container where the knives were, was on the floor. She picked up a knife and held it tight in her hand; Amber had tried to defend herself.
Lex felt that as if her legs were dragging heavy chains that prevented her from moving forward. She took a breath when she approached Amber's room, the whole house was a disaster but from that place, a large red puddle leaked under the door.
"No… no…" Lex muttered, wishing with all her life this wasn't happening. She pushed open the door.
"Lex ... I can't see ..."
"AMBER!" Lex screamed, noting that her beloved sister had a long spear piercing her neck and holding her to the ground.
The spear was attached to her, it was her downfall and her agony and at the same time it had kept her alive. Lex knelt in front of her sister, crying profusely and with a completely broken heart. "The children…" Amber whispered in a barely audible voice.
"Who did this to you?" Lex was trying to understand why her sister had been hurt like that. Why her? She was unable to kill even a fly, she avoided fights, she was a calm and homey person. She didn't deserve something like that and there was no way to save her life, her wounds were too many.
Her face was disfigured; a fierce blow had shattered her forehead, revealing a grotesque wound, her nose was somehow held to the right side of her face, barely supported by some pieces of remaining skin, her arms and legs had open and painful cuts that showed part of her muscles and nerves and were also broken. She was no longer Amber and it was a miracle that she was still alive; it was a miracle that her eyes were still open.
"A monster," Amber whispered brokenly, from her eyes a mix of tears and blood started streaming down her face. Lex put her hand on her left arm, "I don't want to die..."
"No, you'll be fine, I'm going to help you," Lex said, her own tears running free down her cheeks like a waterfall.
"Lex… Why?" Amber couldn't comprehend either why she had been attacked so viciously and brutally.
"Please not you… not you…"
Lex was covered in blood, her legs, her arms; she couldn't think rationally, she couldn't do anything!
"Take care of… the children," Amber said in a desperate plea with the last of her strength.
"Amber... please..." Lex wasn't resigned to losing her, but she couldn't allow herself to be selfish. Her sister needed her; she needed to hear that her children would be fine so she could leave... forever. "I will, I promise you."
Her eyes looked red and tired and her always happy look could only express fear and confusion when she felt the cold of death imprison her body. Lex caressed her sister's face and gently closed her wide, unseeing eyes
Lex got up shakily to pull the spear out, holding it and pulling while cursing as a stream of blood came out of Amber's neck. Lex was about to vomit, she couldn't bear the pain she was feeling.
She looked around the room, trying to find an explanation, her sister's body was lying in front of her: she panicked, she gasped, she screamed loudly, repeating, "This can't be happening", she threw the damn spear with a movement full of fury and despair and then she passed her arms around Amber's sides and hugged her body tightly. She cried out loud and screamed her name, the helplessness she felt was such that she started to hit the ground until her knuckles reddened and her skin parted.
Then a noise came out of the closet. Lex looked up sharply. Her lips were trembling, her grief was unbearable. But she let go of her sister for a moment and approached the closet to open the doors.
"Mum," Emma said, Lex held her face.
"Emma! Oh my God!" Lex's voice sounded disfigured by sadness.
Emma didn't respond, Lex hugged her and pulled her away from the cruel scene in front of her, leading her out of the room. She didn't want to leave Amber, but she had to find out what the hell had happened if she wanted to save her niece and nephew.
"Emma, where's Daniel?" Lex asked, lowering her to the ground, the girl didn't respond, she couldn't react, her state of shock at having witnessed the death of her mother was holding her prisoner. Lex began to search the house, observing how the pantry opened a little and then closed again as if someone was hiding inside it.
"Daniel, it's me." Lex opened the little wooden door.
"The devil killed mom," Daniel said, his eyes looking nowhere. Lex tried to get him out, but Daniel started kicking.
"It's okay, sweetie, it's me" Lex's voice came out choppy; Daniel gave in to his attacks and hugged her aunt.
"Mom's dead," Daniel murmured through tears.
Lex broke away from him. "I know, honey, but we can't stay here."
Lex was soul-torn and disoriented, but she had to think clearly, she had to draw strength and will if she wanted to keep the children safe, she had to gather her courage and get them out of the house before her sister's murderer returned. She ran into the children's rooms, pulled out clothes, and then ran into her own room, stuffed what she could into a gray backpack and slung it over her shoulders, then grabbed her ceremonial spear and extended it.
If necessary, she would defend the children with her own life.
Carrying Emma, the three of them left the house, leaving Amber behind her, along with a part of her. Without ceremonies, without flowers, there was no time for anything, the children didn't even get to say goodbye.
"Get in the car," Lex ordered.
"Mom's still there," Daniel said.
Daniel and Emma climbed into the back seats, reluctantly fastening their seatbelts, their faces devastated with sadness and painted with confusion. Lex kept sobbing quietly, she couldn't believe what was happening, it all seemed so unreal. She wanted to wake up already!
"I don't wanna leave mom," Daniel said, pointing to the house.
Lex got in the car, Emma was silent and Daniel was crying non-stop "Me neither" Lex said, her voice sounded shaky and sorrowful.
"THERE!" shouted Daniel "HE KILLED MOM!"
As Lex was starting the car, a huge figure under the roof of one of the houses across the street jumped out and stopped right in the middle of the street.
The hulking figure of a predator blocked the way. He kept his arms open, waiting for his opponent. His dreadlocks were between brown and red, his biomask was a dark red color and he didn't have the metal part that covers the mouths of predators, instead having an embedded reptile jaw, which made him look more savage and fiercer. His skin had a dull greenish tint, with hard reddish scales.
He had been the cause of everything.
"Hold on!" Lex accelerated, the predator roared sinisterly and jumped just as he was about to be run over, she didn't stop and kept driving.
《I'm not going to fall in your game, you fucking bastard…》 thought Lex,
The impacts of the predator's weapon made themselves present. He didn't hesitate to use his Plasmacaster and the rearview mirror fell to the ground, breaking instantly as Berserker continued firing, his instincts governed by violence and bloodlust.
"Shit!" Lex howled in pain when one of the shots shattered the rear window of the car and hit her left shoulder, she was about to hit a pole, but somehow managed to keep control and kept driving.
Berserker kept his ship above Lex's house, it was small and fast, ideal to move quickly if a certain prey managed to flee. He climbed up quickly the wall of the house and prepared for the chase.
Lex left the neighborhood, her shoulder bleeding, and as the children clung to the seats she drove through the streets hoping to reach the center and thus lose the predator.
"He's following us!" Daniel yelled.
"What the hell does that son of a bitch want!?" Lex wondered, her heart threatening to bounce off her chest, her hands shaking on the wheel.
After several eternal minutes she managed to reach an avenue. Emma and Daniel screamed while their aunt ventured to ignore each and every one of the traffic lights, "Damn it!" Lex exclaimed, from one moment to another, the car had started to move slower, gasoline going down just as her sanity.
And just that brief moment of distraction where she checked the gas level was enough for a small blue car to hit the left side of the car, making them turn and scream.
She looked at the children when she had finally managed to stop. "Are you okay!?" She shouted at them, both children were crying, the traffic had stopped, the night lights were shining brightly.
The driver of the other car opened his door but didn't have the opportunity to get out as the colossal predator landed on his car's hood and slammed his fist into the windshield, pulling the man out and throwing him away. Lex was terrified, the gas reserve had run out, and when she got away from the air bag and out of the car, she ran to her nephews, unbuckled their seat belts and took their hands.
People looked at the predator and at what was happening, a horrified fascination in their eyes. Berserker roared sinisterly, some took pictures, others ran, most reversed their cars, causing more crashes and a terrible road chaos. Those who couldn't get out of the jam continued running on foot and Lex took advantage of the confusion to blend in the crowd.
"What do we do?" Emma cried, Lex didn't even feel the pain in her shoulder, the adrenaline made her run faster, forcing her nephews to accelerate their own steps.
"Run, run without stopping," said Lex breathlessly.
Berserker located her using the perfect vision that his biomask possessed for the selection of close-range targets and ran after her, while unceremoniously shooting people who stood in his way.
"Get in there!" Lex ordered, pointing to a small restaurant.
"No! I don't want you to die!" Emma screamed.
"DO WHAT I SAY! RUN!" Lex shouted, the predator was a few meters from her and the children stayed behind, not knowing what to do. Wrapped in fear and panic, they watched as Berserker extended his long wrist blades while Lex did the same with her ceremonial spear.
"WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT FROM ME? YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN MY SISTER FROM ME!" Lex's tears turned into angry streams.
The predator advanced towards her, Lex attacked him with the spear and he effortlessly dodged the attack, then raised his blades to strike her.
Lex remembered her brief training with Scar, 《I'm small so they'll try to hit me from above》 and she used the spear as a shield, taking it with both hands and holding it horizontally over her head, expecting the attack of Berserker. He impacted his blades in the spear and the blow rumbled into Lex's hands, the force of the impact sending her tumbling to the ground. He backed away, he was just playing, wanting to know how far the little human female could go.
Lex got up and backed away cautiously, Berserker advanced with sinister and barely audible steps. The mark on Lex's cheek made her special, it was a trophy that he wanted to win, but not here, not like this, he would have fun with her.
Lex attacked again, with all the strength, hatred and courage of her heart. The cocky predator was overconfident and didn't dodge her attacks, so when Lex thrust forward her spear, she managed to pierce through his skin.
Berserker let out a supernatural growl that caused Lex to shiver and the next thing she knew was that he now had her spear. The movement was so fast, so unreal; Berserker moved so nimbly despite his massive size and with his long, muscular arm, he grabbed her by the neck, lifting her off the floor effortlessly and slamming her against the restaurant wall. Lex's head began to bleed by the impact and she felt a hot stream trickle down the back of her neck, along with a tremendous and overwhelming pain.
Her sight of what was happening around her became fleeting pieces of reality; she only managed to see that her niece was approaching her.
"Leave her! Please! PLEASE!" Emma pleaded between desperate sobs; Berserker stretched his free arm towards her, readying his harpoon to pierce the small creature. Lex wanted to scream no! But the big hand around her throat prevented her from speaking. She kicked the air desperately in an attempt to get away... and then, Berserker unexpectedly released her.
A roar echoed in the distance, Scar walking towards them with his hands extended in attack position, Lex saw him stand out among the lights of the cars and the lamps, with the long street in the background and the darkness of the night sky above him.
During the fight at the hardware store, Scar and Lake got separated. Humans who weren't killed by the Bad Bloods were seriously injured; Falconer decided to face Scar hand to hand just to show off his strength and to distract attention from him while Tracker took care of Lake.
But it didn't last long, Berserker ordered them to finish soon. Tracker struck the injured Lake in the head and pierced his lower back with a blade. Falconer escaped from Scar upon receiving the call from his leader and along with Tracker, they dragged Lake into their ship.
A successful kidnapping.
In parallel, Berserker was heading to Amber's house, looking for Lex. He had been stalking her for days and when he didn't find her he unleashed his anger and frustration on the only person he could find.
Scar didn't treat the deep wounds that Falconer had left him with; he could only thought of Lex, he needed to verify that she was okay. He used his own ship to get to her house and when he saw the bloody scene, he almost lost his head, thinking the body was Lex's, believing he had lost her forever.
He didn't know why the Bad Bloods had decided to attack her sister; he thought they were only looking for Lex even though he couldn't find a reason for them to do so.
The only thing that mattered was the here and now, and he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her. He would never leave her alone.
Berserker activated his plasmacaster again and began to fire, exploding cars and causing horrible explosions.
Lex could see that Scar was struggling to maintain an upright posture, something was wrong with him; he was dragging his right leg a little. "SCAR!" Lex yelled.
"Lex!" Fred's voice called to her, reached her and lifted her off the ground, Lex was confused, how was it possible that he was here too?
"Leave me alone!" Lex screeched, trying to get out of Fred's grip.
"Listen to me, we can't stay here." Fred pulled her by the arm and forced her to move forward. "I need you to come with me."
"No! I'm not going to leave him, let me go!" Lex pushed him and saw that Scar had started shooting too.
Lex was afraid for him, she didn't want to lose him.
"That monster is coming for you; you have to come with me!" shouted Fred.
A blue minivan waited for them, parked at the corner of the restaurant. Her eyes flooded, what else could she do? She felt powerless, she had no weapons, she had nothing. She took the kids and they ran after Fred.
Lex had disheveled hair, her mascara was ruined, her body was splattered with the phosphorescent blood of the Yautja and the blood of her own sister, her eyes were red and watery. She felt as if she would break at any moment. She fought not to.
The driver started leaving behind the new trail of destruction; there were only two rows of seats with a large space in between. The children were sitting together with Lex, hugging her on each side while Fred sat in front of them besides an elegant man in a black suit with dark hair combed back in a large pompadour. His eyebrows were bushy and his beard was thick.
"Miss Alexa Woods, I'm very sorry for you loss." His voice was very low and calm, his eyes were large and blue and he had fair skin.
"Who are you?" Lex asked.
"My name is Carl Weyland; I am the director of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Some years ago you participated in the expedition that my father financed and organized in Antarctica, to investigate a signal that was coming from a pyramid."
"Do you think that interests me now? Didn't you see what just happened!? I almost got killed!" Lex exclaimed with annoyance. What she needed the least now was to relive the memories of the expedition.
"Ten years ago in Los Angeles we tried to capture one of these creatures and the mission failed. Today they have returned." The man continued, ignoring Lex's complains.
"I don't care," Lex snapped.
The man's features were almost the same as his father's, Charles Weyland; the drooping eyelids, the same calm expression, the almost aquiline nose, the broad forehead. It was the same image of him, but much younger and bearded.
"Miss Woods, I'm in requirement of your cooperation," Carl continued, Lex saw a pistol dangling from his belt and that altered her nerves even further. The cooperation that the new Weyland asked for could very soon become a demand.
"My cooperation? My sister just died and I don't to deal with this. Not now, not never."
"Lex, I can explain everything to you." Fred entered the conversation, saving Carl from some insult or possible blow, "But first, you must agree to cooperate with this man."
Lex's rage turned to Fred. She was beginning to lose what little patience she had.
"You're a lying son of a bitch; this is all your fault!" Lex yelled, remembering her bracelet.
Carl took out his cell phone and showed Lex the photograph of a biomask, the mark it had was the same as the one on her cheek "We found it in the Antarctica" Lex knew it immediately, the biomask belonged to Scar and there was no doubt about it.
The first time he showed her his face was just before he put the hunter's mark on her, and after the Queen Alien emerged from the ice, Scar no longer bothered to put on the biomask again, he had just put it down and started fighting. But that couldn't matter less at that time.
"I don't know what that has to do with me." Tears came from her eyes but her voice remained clear and firm.
"You said that an explosion caused the deaths of all the other members of the expedition, including my father." Carl's eyes turned out to be even more penetrating than his father's, but Lex held his gaze, not backing away for an instant. "But we know that this story is missing many parts. Now that they have returned, we need you to tell us the truth."
"Lex, the bracelet I gave you had a-" Fred began.
"A tracker" completed Lex. That was the cause of all the problems.
"Yeah, but there's an explanation for it, just let me explain-" Fred started to say.
"We sent some of our best men to a hardware store on the outskirts of the town, as we suspected the place as the whereabouts of the beasts… however, the mission didn't go as expected." Carl interrupted.
"And as always, everything went wrong. You sent all those men to certain death. You don't seem to think before you act." Lex rubbed her brow.
"You could explain to us why that happened, Miss Woods. You were there." Carl's voice sounded irritated, but his gaze remained calm "We detected only two predators and there were four in that location. Which obviously complicated things."
《Well, it's five now, you fucking idiot》 thought Lex.
"Lex, we're not the bad guys here. Those beasts are the enemy, they have no feelings or regrets, they kill for sport and they don't even mind leaving little children motherless…" Fred declared, she gave him a furious look.
"Enough of that, what do you want from me? I don't think this damn help is free or that it comes from the goodness of your hearts," Lex asked, annoyed at the interrogation, the stories she hadn't requested and the hypocrisy. Her mind was a stormy sea of emotions, she wanted to cry and scream, but she just clenched her fists and exhaled through her mouth.
"We want you to tell us about the origin of your scar," Carl said.
Lex had the impression that those two men in front of her did not care in the least about her situation and that infuriated her "I think you already know him, or am I wrong?"
"We know you've had contact with predators for some time," Fred stated.
"And how the hell did you find me?" She questioned, she didn't think Fred's timely arrival was a mere coincidence.
Fred got up from his seat and sat next to Lex, ran his hand over the right strap of her black dress and ripped out a dark 3-millimeter square "It's another tracker." He confessed.
It was enough for Lex, her blood boiled, her insides twisted "All this time you already knew about the expedition, about the metal mask and about the mark on my cheek, you only looked for me to get to them and put two goddamned trackers on me, who the fuck do you think you are?"
"This is all for your sake, I know it's hard to understand but please listen to me-" Fred started.
"My sister died; do you think this is the best time to talk about this? I don't give a shit! I have other things to think about!"
"Lex, I know what happened; we went to your house and saw your sister… I know it's painful but you must cooperate with us."
The last thing heard was the hard punch Fred received in his face. Lex shook her fist after the impact "Can you stop being an insensible prick for just five minutes? My nephews are here! They lost their mother and I lost my sister. Have a little respect."
Fred rubbed his bloody lip and returned to his old seat, next to Carl.
"Miss Woods, the predators kidnapped Fred's father, Mike Harrigan," Carl said, his calm expression unfazed even after seeing Lex's fit of rage.
"I'm sorry Lex... but understand, I feel bad too, I've seen what those creatures are capable of and now they have my father," Fred apologized.
"And not only him, they also took Major Alan Schaefer, who thirteen years ago managed to defeat a predator, and they took Lieutenant Ellen Ripley who was carrying out a mission in a space base" Carl showed her the photos of the two soldiers: a white woman with curly hair, and a muscular Caucasian man "And also several soldiers along with some inmates."
"Another team of people will come to contain this situation, but you have to stay with us," Fred said.
"Are you sending in another team? Do you really think you can contain them? The people who go there will end up dead and what happened in the hardware store will happen again" The little esteem that Lex had for Fred disappeared. He spoke of people as if they were replaceable objects and she could only feel loathing towards him.
"And what do you propose, Miss Woods? A day ago all these people didn't believe in the existence of aliens, now two of them are fighting in the center of the city and someone must do the dirty work. My men are qualified for these kinds of situations; they'll clean up the mess and try to capture one of them."
"I still don't understand why you helped me." Lex shook her head and shot Carl a look full of disbelief, even though they cleaned up the mess, dozens of people had seen the show, some had even died from Berserker's shooting.
She was sure that it was impossible to cover the Sun with one finger.
"Mike Harrigan, like Major Alan Schaefer and you, had contact at some point with these… aliens, I think you'll be of great help to capture one of them if my men were to fail, and I know that you can also provide us with valuable information, we-"
Lex stopped listening to Carl's deep and calm voice, everything around her moved slowly, as if suddenly the world decided to slow down. She didn't need to pay much attention to the man's chatter to figure out what it all meant, her own mind was in charge of ordering the pieces of the puzzle.
It all made sense, the Bad Blood hunters were kidnapping different prey that even honorable predators couldn't finish. And all of that had a dark and morbid explanation: The game was about to begin.
It started to rain, the storm had already arrived, so she just leaned her head against the window of the minivan and listened to the sound of raindrops against the window glass.
*Quick note: I want to emphasize that this fanfic was developed in an alternate universe, so I modified many things to unite all these characters, in the next chapter I'll expand the explanations.
Thanks to nuraisah7 and Soul-girl for following my fanfic :)
Thanks to nuraisah7 for the favorite :)
RKF22 HELLO! Thank you very much for reading, here's the new chapter, I hope you like it :)
NeverNeverLady Hello! Haha I loved your comment! Lake was definitely a bit of an idiot in the past chapter -or maybe he was a lot- his perspective on Lex is a bit confusing, he thinks that she is only part of Scar's entertainment, which made the latter angry. I assure you that he never expected a human to help him, maybe that will change his attitude a bit. Thank you very much for reading :D
predator1701 Hi :) Haha I think everyone hates Lake and I really think this time he went a bit further :p
Some time ago I was reading information from the predator novels and it turns out that like some humans, there are also some idiotic Yautja who spend their time making fun of other Yautja, Lake thought that Scar wasn't taking Lex seriously, but hey, he already realized that this was not the case and will have to change his attitude or get his butt kicked (again). And yes, you are right, he's proud. I confess that I feel some joy at having managed to show Lake's attitude and at the fact that he has remained as I had always thought it. If he were human, I assure you that he would be the typical conceited and pretentious guy who's just obnoxious... and he may change his attitude it may get worse, time will tell haha.
Wolf paired Scar with Lake because he thought that he would make a kind of balance between the personalities of both predators, obviously Scar did not find this in the slightest bit funny (but remember that Scar is being punished for the facehugger)
Fun fact about Scar in this version of my fanfic: The elderly clan leader - the same one who gave Lex the spear at the end of AVP- is Scar's father. For that reason, they are harder on the poor Yautja, they expect a lot from him, his father wants his son to be part of the elite and this will only happen if Scar concentrates on it.
About Berserker, that comment makes a lot of sense, when I saw the movie I really admired the crucified predator, he was all badly hurt and hungry and still he managed to face Berserker -although he lost- I feel like he put up a great fight. I have some ideas to explain why these predators seem to be invincible and I will arrange them to make sense of this :)
Yes! I really like your fanfic, sometimes it takes me a little while to read as I am trying to improve my English and I do my own translations for my own readings, I didn't know that Winter was a character written for another work.
Edits are very common when one begins to write, when I write in Spanish I only check a couple of times, but when I do it in English, it takes me a long time (and my beta takes a long time too). In fact, I hadn't noticed the genre changes until you mentioned it to me, for which I keep thanking you :)
Haha I think that due to the rudeness of the Yautja, it can be a bit strange to imagine them in… compromising situations, but at the end of the day, it is something normal, it's only procreating. Maybe your friends wanted to read more chapters like this haha.
I have a kind of central idea of how I want things to progress, right now I have a disaster -or rather- the characters are in a disaster, but as things progress I'll put more characters, I think Winter would fit in well :) ( I'll give you the corresponding credits) and thank you for letting me use him :)
Everything is going to change for Lex, I assure you. I felt very sorry when he killed Sebastian, I liked him as a character and had a horrible fate, I admired that Lex gave him a merciful death... as for Scar, I'm sure he was impressed.
Haha is a good way to compare it, I really like the Men in Black movies, I have vaguely thought about them when the Yautja do their explosions and obviously someone has to clean up. That's kind of funny, now everyone is chasing a target and inadvertently doing a sequence of chases.
Trust me, the Xenomorphs are just waiting for the right moment to make their grand entrance. I like to write about the Bad Bloods because they are predators who do not follow the rules and that makes them more dangerous, because they don't give a damn about the consequences that their hunts bring.
And don't worry about the review, it's great that you take the time to write to me! It doesn't matter if it's a long or a short review, it's always great to read, so it can be as long as you want :)
Until the next chapter!