Chapter XVI

Well, Lex thought. That is if my dad let's me out of his sight after he sees the move I'll pull fighting the Queen.

Lex took a look into the future, scanning it for anything out of the ordinary like, the Cyrel Institute showing up to take her back to the labs, well that depended on if they had managed to fix all of the damage that her last stay with them had caused.

She grinned darkly in satisfaction, when she saw that nothing was going to happen. She lunged forward and clashed with the first Serpent in front of her stabbing it straight through its acid proof scull.

She ducked under the tail that one of the other Serpents had sent her way and got in close to another, she unsheathed her dagger and stabbed it before jumping back and away from the acid that spurted from the wound, after she had ripped her dagger out of its body.

Lex turned rapidly and got in front of another goading one of the serpents to try and use its tail against her. Both went for the bait and swung their tails straight at her aiming for a killing blow, but in reality they hit each other as she ducked at the last second, Lex moved as fast as the tight space created by a wall of serpents allowed.

She glanced over at the one that she wanted to put down, if she didn't then he would create all sorts of trouble on Earth and she couldn't allow that especially when her father would practically kidnap her to have her close to him.

She sighed at that thought, her father was going to be overprotective with her, he wouldn't allow a male to get close enough for her to see if they were an alright mate. She growled lowly in frustration, sometimes she hated her instincts, she shouldn't be thinking about mating until long into the future but her cycle was coming and it was hard to live through it single, but she knew if she had a mate then it would be easier, that thought didn't comfort her at all.

Alright, stop thinking about that and concentrate on the fight! Lex growled mentally. Especially when you have a target to eliminate.

Scar and Range watched the female Ooman take on the Serpents expertly, ducking and dogging when necessary. They glanced at each other for a moment communicating silently an agreement to never piss this female Ooman off under any circumstances; they would even go against the Elder's.

Scar had trouble blocking certain thoughts from his mind but he somehow succeeded. He crouched and launched himself at the Kiande Amedha to help the female Ooman take them down and earn a few kills; well that and he hoped to impress her.

Range sighed and resigned himself to guarding the flat piece of metal that seemed to be their way out of this icy cavern. He knew that Scar was focusing his attention on hopefully impressing the female Ooman, earning a few kills and help the female in whatever endeavor that she had set herself.

Lex smirked when she saw that the Yautja had taken up the roles that would assure the best possible future for not only her and Earth but their Clans and fathers. She couldn't believe that they had done this without any prompting from her, normally she had to manipulate something in some way to get the desired outcome.

She dragged herself from her thoughts and focused back onto the small battle that was currently in progress. She ducked under the tail strike that one of the Serpents sent her way allowing her the time to shoot forward and impale it with her weapons cylinder, she really needed to name it at some point, she backed away as quickly as she had struck, even if her clothes were resistant to their acidic blood she didn't want to risk it.

She glanced into the future to see what kills she had to make to kill the one that would cause problems on Earth, once she knew and acknowledged what she needed to do she moved forward and started to attack certain Serpents, whose demise was necessary for Earth's survival.

Scar kept an eye on the female Ooman and saw that she was fighting distractedly, not really paying attention to her actions, obviously she was consulting whatever power she had to make a concrete decision, when her attention snapped back to the battle he saw that the decision had been made as she started to be selective with those that she attacked.

The Ooman was making her way slowly but subtly closer to one Kiande Amedha in particular, making sure that the abnormally intelligent hard meat wouldn't notice her until it was to late and twenty minutes later he was proven right.

Range watched in shocked surprise as the female Ooman launched herself viciously towards one particular Kiande Amedha that had deemed the Yautja to be more dangerous that her, which evidently was the last mistake that it would make in its life, as the Ooman sailed through the air and hit it at just the right angle to pierce it right through its scull and brain, the weapon that she had used protruded out of the opposite side to the one that she had hit.

There was no way that the Kiande Amedha was alive after a hit like that especially since a moment after pricing it the Ooman detracted the blade and moved onto attacking the last Kiande Amedha that were still alive.

Lex paused for a moment as she saw that the bomb had about ten minutes left before detonation, the vision caused her to end the Serpent that she had been fighting, turn and make her way as fast as she could to the sleigh, once beside it she gestured to the Yautja to grab onto the sleighs handles as she imputed the code that would activate the mechanism to draw it back to the surface.

Scar and Range grabbed the indicated handle as the Ooman inputted the code, after the code was inputted she grabbed the bar and pressed the green button, which started the mechanism and pulled the sleighed up the slope that lead to the surface. As the sleigh made it way rapidly to the surface, Lex scanned the future to see if there was anything that she needed to be forewarned about.

Dead bodies hanging around the Whaling Station, two Yautja ships floating clocked in the air, the Queen smashing through the ice with intent to kill us a second after landing, me bei... Wait. WHAT! Lex thought with wide eyes. That can't be right! The explosion was big enough to immobilize her, no matter her size or age!

Her eyes widened when she felt the sleigh catapult into the air, she quickly moved so that she was crouching and waited for the right moment to push off of it, she wanted a pleasant landing not one that would knock the breath out of her and a chance of taking her out of the fight.

A second after moving she jumped and flew through the air aiming for a pipe that lead from one building to the next, her aim was true and she used it to swing herself around once before she let it go and landed on her feet just as the sleigh crash into a building.

"Idiots." Lex said as she shook her head and made her way over to see if she would have to fight the Queen alone. She looked them over and saw that they were a groaning mess on the floor; obviously Yautja weren't made to withstand crashing into a wall and then the floor directly afterwards.

Scar put his hand to his head as he groaned, he hadn't ever had to experience crashing through a wall and then onto the floor mere seconds after so it took him a minute to gather his wits enough to look at Range and see if he was okay.

#At least we know why the Ooman jumped off of the sleigh.# Range groaned as he pushed himself up from the floor and shook his head.

UUUU

The two Yautja Clan sips that were hovering above earth all watched wide eyed as the hunters crashed into a wall then the floor mere seconds after the first impact and winced when they saw the state that the two Young Bloods were in, they had been surprised when the female Ooman had launched herself off of the sleigh but understood why moments later.

#Well it seems that the Ooman has more intelligence then the Hunters that we sent down to the Pyramid.# One of the Yautja said.

#Yes, it seems that she is worthy to become a part of our society.# another said.

#There's no question on whether or not she can be accepted, as she will be accepted. My clan is in complete agreement on taking the female in.# Adrinle said from the communication screen.

#Why?# Na'tauk asked curiously.

#The female Ooman is only half-Ooman, not only that but she is my daughter.# Adrinle replied.

#Well it seems that my son is interested in having your daughter for a mate.# Na'tauk commented.

#So it would seem.# Adrinle said. #You better make your son aware to the fact that it will be difficult to gain my blessing to mate with Alexandria.#

Na'tauk nodded his head as he made a mental note to have a talk with his son.

UUUU

Lex frowned in thought as she turned and made her way to the crater where the pyramid had sat.

"This is going to be a huge test of skill." She said to herself, then turned and took in the whaling station that the Weyland expedition had been using as a base, coming up with different plans, then mentally going over them to see if they were viable or not.

Lex sighed as she checked the future for the umpteenth time noticing that the only thing that could change was the outcome of the battle, or last skirmish, with the Queen. The deciding factor was currently unknown, and that didn't sit well with her.

She usually had all of the factors when she fought as she searched tirelessly to discover all the factors that would help decide the outcome of the fight, it was critical that they won or all of Earth was, to put it simply, fucked or, if you would like a politer term, screwed to Hell and back again.

Dark eyes looked back at the crater taking in the way the ice and snow had fallen, comparing it to what she had seen, it was radically different to the vision that lead to the death of not only the Hunters but her as well, it was just as well that that had happened as it meant that there was less of a chance that she would die and more chance of her living.

She saw the ice and snow that covered the Queen vibrate subtly, showing that the Queen was trying her hardest to get out of the icy prison that the bomb had made. At that moment the Yautja appeared at her side and looked in the direction that she was looking in.

Lex then began baking up, to the distance that her vision showed had the highest possibility for all of them to come out of this alive and relatively unharmed, the two Hunter's followed her lead, obviously they had caught onto the fact that she had a gift of some type that gave her an idea of the future.

A moment later the Queen burst through the ice and snow that had been her prison moments before screaming out her rage at the fact that her children were all dead, and the fact that their murderers where in front of her preparing to deliver to her the same fate as that of her children didn't help her rage.