Escaping the Nightmare
Chapter five
Robert and Danny ran to the control panel to the large doors and stood on the tips of their toes trying to reach the buttons but it was no use, they were still too small. Sarah placing her arm in the strap of her X-30 and flung it over her shoulder then grabbed both of the boys by the shoulders and angrily yanked them back. "What is wrong with you two?!" She scolded, placing their backs against the wall then motioned the rest of the group to do the same, once they all were against the wall she turned a knob with a clank then pressed a square button lighted red beside it. There was a click then the lighted square shut off followed by another square button beside it turning green, then, the large doors opened noisily, seconds went by until they came to a stop.
Sarah as usual peered her head around the corner checking for any unwanted company, there was none, but still decided to walk out and get an even better look, as before, no one or nothing was around, only thing to be heard was the faint hum of distant engines. Walking out even further but this time looked up, her rifle lifted and pointed upwards as she scanned the tops of the buildings, nothing, everything was still, the feeling sent shivers up her back. The first time there was no sign of the xenomorph in sight or even hearing them and it scared her even more, now starting to get that feeling that something was terribly wrong, or else, was it just her mind playing tricks on her of the fact that there was no xenomorph?
Could the predators have killed them all? She asked herself looking around the complex some more, forcing herself to calm down just a little then called for the kids "Alright kids, you can come out." Their little heads peered around the corner just as they crept out then ran for her. There would be no way a handfull of predators could kill all the xenomorph with just one firing weapon each and one spear each. Noticing the two predators were already far ahead of her and carrying the one she killed.
And there lied the reason why no governments were able to fully study the predator's anatomy or their technology, they never left any of their dead behind, capturing one alive from what she heard was near too impossible. Sarah's senses snapped to attention as she heard a clatter, spinning around to her right side, nothing on the ground and nothing on the building, listening for the sound again, there was more clattering and it was coming from the top of the building. Seconds later a xenomorph reared its blackened head from the building.
Hands gripped her legs and waist tightly, Sarah aimed her rifle then stopped, it was too far up for her to get a clear shot, just firing her X-30 and eventually hitting it would surely work but it also would waist ammo. It jumped off the building gracefully landing on its feet and ran at her full tilt. The children began squealing, aiming the gun and fired, about three shots missed but five hit its body.
The xenomorph fell but it wasn't dead, hearing more clattering coming from the same roof it was just on. "Move!" She ordered, one appeared on top the roof where the last was standing, then three more on it's right side, followed by about five or six more on the other side, eventually the whole roof was covered in a moving blackness.
"Good god." Pushing the children to move even faster and turned back around seeing some had already jumped to the ground and was running after them while others were still reaching the ground. Scooping up Aiko-Chan with her left arm as if the small child weighed nothing and ran, Natasha tripped over her own feet and fell to the dusty ground, instead of getting up, she only laid there crying. Sarah ran to Natasha quickly wrapping the fingers of her right hand around the little girl's left shoulder and picked her up standing her back on her feet. "Keep moving."
Natasha said nothing but did what she was told and started running again, they got to the complex square then Robert stopped. "Sarah! Look!" He said pointing to something out of her sight.
Sarah ran to his side and looked. "What the hell?" The road leading to the east side of the dome was blocked, a building beside the road was blown to bits with large pieces of debree blocking the road, cursing to herself as she turned head seeing the black wave was gaining on them.
"What do we do?!" He said. Some of the children started crying.
"We keep running." Gently pushing some of the nearby children forward, again, the group started running. A minute or so went by until Sarah came to a sliding stop kicking up a cloud of dust then yelled to the kids, the children stopped and turned around. "Through here!" Motioning her head to a small alley way, without hesitation or question they ran into the alley. Sarah hoping no xenomorph would jump on them in here, it would be a tight squeeze and near too impossible to get out. "Stop!" She yelled. They stopped.
"What is it Sarah!?" Robert yelled.
"I got an idea." First, she put Aiko-Chan on her feet then slung her X-30 over her shoulder and grabbed the old clothed back pack and unzipped it, hearing high shrills in the distance.
"Hurry!" Courtney yelled as Sarah pulled out a F.S.A bomb, (Fryer Self Activation) carefully pealing the paper off the paper behind the hand size bomb and stuck it onto the metal wall, more louder shrills from the oncoming horde.
"Sarah!" Most of them screamed with a sob together, now pulling out the little detonator and stuck it in her mouth then lifted her hand and flipped a switch on the bomb stuck to the wall, the bomb beeped then a red light came on the detonator in her mouth also beeping. Zipping the back pack closed, slung it over her back then pulled the X-30 into her hands and motioned for the kids to start running again. Like what happened to them, she also was going to do the same to the xenomorph, put a block in their path, yet, it wouldn't last for long, knowing they eventually would get around.
They got to the other end and Sarah easily slid past the group and scanned the street, no xenomorph, leading the group to the other side of the street and took the detonator out of her mouth. "Cover your ears and drop to your knees." The children quickly pressed their hands to their ears and fell to their knees pressing their bellies to their legs. Looking ahead seeing some had already gotten into the alley, extending her hand with the detonator and pushed the button on top with her thumb. The red light on the fryer bomb went off with a beep a millisecond before it exploded.
She covered her eyes and face with both her hands, feeling the heat wave and the ground shake as well as hearing the boom from the explosion along with tearing metal, seconds later she lowered her hands opening her eyes. It worked, there, laying fifty feet in front of her was a wall a flame and rubble. Danny and Robert started jumping up and down hollering and hooting, "We're not out of this yet boys." Picking up Aiko-Chan then turned to her left running down the street they came to an intersection then turned left.
Sarah's heart began pounding even faster. The edge of the dome was right there, "Almost there!" She said to the kids, they were so close she could see the airlock doors, then, four xenomorphs ran into their view making the group stop in their tracks.
"Fuck me." Robert said.
"Robert!" Sarah scolded, "Watch your language!" Putting Aiko-Chan back onto her feet then aimed her X-30 and fired, they fell but they were still moving. "Keep running!" The group started running again, Sarah though was faster and ran ahead of them, aiming the X-30 and fired again once she got closer.
The one closest to her jolted upwards then fell back to the ground and began twitching. It was dying. The second which was just behind its fellow did the same once she fired at it, the third surprisingly got to it's feet and jumped, she aimed and fired but missed allowing the xenomorph to land on top of her, her X-30 thrown out of her grasp. It opened its mouth revealing it's teeth just as its second pair of jaws shot out, Sarah though was fast enough and moved her head. The jaws hit the ground. Quickly throwing her head side ways hitting the jaws with her head then threw her head away.
The xenomorph pulled its head back along with the upper half of its body and threw its head from side to side screaming. Sarah found this as the perfect opportunity and pulled out her pistol, aiming the pistol at its side and fired, it jumped off her body screaming even more. Sarah also adding into it's screaming from some of its blood spraying onto her chest, pushing her body into a roll screaming at the same time and got to her knees, she couldn't help but scream. Luckily the pain fed her and was changed into rage, when that happened she felt little pain, pointing the pistol again at the xenomorph and fired. She hit its leg and it fell to the ground, pushing herself to her feet and fired again. Now hitting its chest, it screamed a piercing howl. Walking to it and fired yet again, now hitting its shoulder just above where a human's heart would be at. The screaming got even louder.
"Sarah!" A voice screamed, she took aim of a different part, "Sarah!" The voice screamed again, she shook her head from side to side slipping out of her state, "Sssarahhh!" The voice became persistent, Sarah looked at the airlock doors seeing Robert standing beside a predator, that's when she realized the airlock doors were open and the predator group along with her group was standing at the doors waiting for her, dropping her pistol and bolted for the doors.
"Hurry!" Danny yelled, Sarah ran into the airlock and bent over placing her hands on her knees gasping, seconds later there was a hiss her ears feeling like they were about to pop, then, the door in front of her opened allowing everyone to walk in. Sarah straightened her back and walked in with the others, once inside she fell to her knees. The air felt different, like it was thicker and it was harder to breathe but she didn't care, they were going home, all of the children running to her hugging her. She just covered the wound on her chest so they wouldn't get burnt and hugged them back. "I-I told you..." She said with a gasp, "I'll get you guys home."