Authors note: Well I'm surprised that people are still reading this… see people! This is what happens when you don't review, authors believe no one cares about their work and they decide to put it aside. And yes this is mainly aimed at Mr Barney Calhoun but damnit if you liked my work why the hell not review it! … anyway just for you and because I am extremely bored and just cant be arsed to revise for my AS exams I give you the next chapter of origins
The three of them ran down the corridor as fast as they could with the gigantic creature behind them, its single red eye glazing at them with predatory hunger as it stalked after them, its every step shaking the tunnels. They reached the maintenance door in record time and crashed through it, ignoring the startled cries of a security guard and a maintenance man on the other side before sprinting down the narrow corridor and out the door at the end. The startled cries of the men turned into screams which were cut horribly short as the gargantuan came crashing through the wall crushing them both to death beneath its own weight and several tons of concrete.
Beyond the door opened up into a larger section of tunnel filled with rubble as it was obvious the ceiling was beginning to collapse from the explosions that had racked the base earlier. The most noticeable part of the tunnel section was the suspension bridge that joined the two sides of the tunnel which were separated by a deep chasm. Sherry who was still ahead took a moment to look back at the tunnel behind them and managed to tripped over a piece of rubble lying around and fell with a cry, she lay wincing painfully at her twisted ankle. Both Gemini and Dr Matthews stopped to pull her to her feet, the second blast door collapsed as the colossal monster crashed through, it stopped for a moment scanning the tunnel before its giant red eye focused on them once again.
Dr Matthews pulled her gun out and fired a volley of bullets at creature, most of which bounced off the hard chitin exoskeleton that the creature seemed to have except for one bullet which hit the huge creature in its eye. The massive creature roared and thrashed about in pain, closing its eyes and smashing its arms into the walls bringing down a large portion of the ceiling before it finally turned and glared at them again, this time giving off the impression that it was quite thoroughly pissed off.
Grabbing Sherry harshly, Dr Matthews pulled the injured girl to her feet and all but dragged her towards the bridge. Gemini lagged behind a second and had to dive aside to avoid being flashed fried by twin infernos that shoot out of the creatures arms, the patch of ground she had previously been standing on had turned into a pool of molten rock. Gemini's eyes widen in shock at that and she made a mental note that it would not be a pleasant experience to get caught by them.
The Creature raised its huge foot before slamming down on the floor, transferring some sort of energy shock wave into the ground. Gemini struggled to keep her footing as the whole tunnel seemed to rock and shake the tunnel; she distantly heard the panicked cry from sherry. However her attention was diverted by having to dive out of the way again, first from a chunk of the ceiling that decided now was a good time to collapse and then again from those lethal flame-throwers.
Gemini hissed slightly as a wave of intense heat barely missed her, which had been way too close for her personal comfort. She cast a look across the metal suspension bridge to see Sherry trying to pull Dr Matthews back onto the bridge from the place where she had almost fallen off probably when that... thing... had unleashed its shock wave. Well she couldn't stay here with this creature for much longer, it was only a matter of time before her luck and reflexes failed her and she be turned crispy by big, bad and ugly. So Gemini started sprinting towards the bridge were Dr Matthews had just managed to get to her feet and was making her way across the bridge with Sherry who seemed to be limping quite a bit.
Gemini ran for the bridge pretty much dropping to all fours to climb over the mountains of rumble that had build up, sliding down on of the piles she landed on her feet. Not even giving herself a moment to rest she ran flat out across the bridge, the very ground shaking with massive footsteps as the gargantuan followed her. She was only halfway across the bridge when she was almost thrown from the bridge as it lurched; metal shrieking as it twisted agonisingly. Gemini had to slam her claws into the bridge to prevent herself from being thrown off, leaving large 8 inch claw marks in the very metal floor of the bridge and leaving her hang off the edge of the bridge which was tipped at a almost 90 degree angle.
The Massive creature was on the bridge advancing as fast as it could on her, the bridge obviously never designed to withstand such massive weights was buckling and twisting, the cables on the very verge of snapping. Gemini pulled threw herself back onto the bridge, not actually that difficult for herself when one thought she weighted almost nothing and of the strength in her silicon muscles. The monster roared again and crashed itself through the cables and bridge supports, cables snapped and metal twisted and snapped as the creature came towards her, the bridge suddenly disturbingly dropped several inches and the straining noise from the cables seemed to increase in volume. Gemini staggered to her feet despite the fact that the bridge rocked side to side worse than a fishing boat in the storm of the century. Gemini then was promptly forced to throw herself to the floor again as the gargantuan used those heat beams again turning the bridge supports behind Gemini to little more than slag, the heat stung her back as she counted her blessings once more.
The Bridge lurched again as it dropped several more inches as Gemini became aware of the others screaming at her, something about getting the fuck off the bridge, Gemini snorted as she rolled herself to her feet 'what the hell did they think she was doing?'. Gemini began running for the other side of the bridge as fast as she could which proved to be a worthy challenge of itself with the bridge tilting and pitching as it was, not considering the giant evil killer monster out to kill her. She didn't get very far before the gargantuan decided to raise its foot again and slam another shock wave down, the bridge pitched dangerously and it finally buckled and collapsed. With the cables supporting the bridge all snapping and coming lose, Gemini made a mad leap for the edge of the platform on the other side, missing she plunged down the chasm.
Falling, she made a mad grab at one of the suspension cables that hanged from the ceiling and caught it, the cable lurched a bit being not entirely secure in the ceiling since the bridge incident. Gemini looked down watched the bridge and monster tangled up in the cables twist, flip and fall until it crashed at the bottom of the chasm some 500 meters below her, she pondered briefly if the fall would be enough to kill something like that.
"Gemini!!" the scream came from above her probably from Sherry she guessed
"Oh God! Are you alright!?" Shouted Dr Matthews, Gemini looked up to see Dr Matthews and Sherry some 30 or 40 meters above her looking down at her.
"I'm fine!" Gemini shouted back up while not entirely true there was no point in worrying them, looking down Gemini became convinced that yes that was the biggest bloody hole inside a tunnel in the whole damn world... Hell it would probably give Xen a good run too.
Gemini looked up at the cable and then across at the platform where Sherry and Dr Matthews were currently looking over the edge from, she was still in the middle of the chasm and even if she climbed up she could never reach that platform even if she jumped. She also didn't fancy her chances of finding something to stop her fall if she fell a second time, looking below her she noticed another level some ten meters below her that she could easily swing and then drop to. Her mind made up Gemini turned and looked up at her companions.
"Look! I can't make it back up there... You'll have to go on, I'll meet up with you again later alright?" Gemini shouted up to the top.
Dr Matthews looked dubious, the facility was massive and it would be damned difficult for them to meet up again but Sherry shouted back down.
"Okay! We meet up with you later!" Before she moved out of Gemini's vision, Dr Matthews stayed for a moment longer before finally leaving.
Gemini sighed before she set herself to the task before her, shifting her body weight she began swinging back and forth on the cable making the cable groan worryingly. Once the cable was swinging over the platform the she let go and dropped the ten meters to land in a crouch, her eyes quickly scanning the area for danger. The only heat signatures that she could spot were that of a few hot pipes which ran under the platform and then poured out at the edge, After looking around she walked towards an access hatch in the side of the wall. After spending several minutes trying to figure out how to open it, Gemini gave up and slashed at the hatch with her claws until she managed to tear the thing open and then stepped through into the corridor beyond.
The corridor was made of old cracked concrete this combined with the dusty floors convinced Gemini that no one had been in this part of the base for a significant amount of time and that it was quite abandoned. Moving past large wooden crates that seemed to be stacked everywhere, Gemini walked through the corridor, some of the doorways had been boarded up while others seemed to have been bricked up for reasons not apparent.
A noise caught Gemini's attention and she moved cautiously in to investigate, turning the corner she caught sight of two decent sized Xen creatures... the grunts of the Xen army, large and powerful her Xen side supplied... They were also used to maintain the purity of the Xen species and so were probably not going to like her much. Gemini paused and thought for a moment, sure she could take an alternate route but what was life without a few chances.. besides she wanted to know how they would react to her, better to learn out now with only two of them than with a group of 30 or 40. So with that thought in mind, she stepped out from around the corner and straight into the Grunts field of vision, both of which stopped when they saw her. Gemini took her time to take them in, every muscle, ligament and bone comparing them to her memories while the grunts seemed to take in the mesh of Xen and Human that was her. They seemed to chatter agitated to one another in their own language that she simply didn't understand.
Her own Xen side had been purely telepathic in their communications so she didn't know what they were saying and these grunt were like humans in the fact that their body language was all screwed up so she couldn't tell what they were thinking. Not being able to tell what people were thinking made Gemini twitchy.
This proved a moot point after a sudden roar from one of the grunts and they both turned their guns on her and fired. Gemini dropped down onto all fours and lunged forward at the two grunts closing the distance on the two of them so rapidly that her telepathic senses could note their surprise. Sharp pains entered her back as the homing insect bullets hit their target but Gemini ignored her injuries as she leapt past the first grunt, slashing with claws severing the hornet gun from its arm, cutting through flesh, muscle and bone with frightening ease. Gemini then landed on the second Grunt her claws slashing through the creature's chest and neck until it was quite dead, its body a total mess. She then turned her attention to the first grunt who was bleeding heavy from what was left of its arm with predatory intent, Gemini growled and then pounced with bone shattering force killing the grunt before she began to tear into it with her teeth, devouring it.
Several minutes later she was licking the copper and slightly sulphur-ish tasting blood from her arms and body feeling better if a tad disturbed, she knew they were predatory instincts from her Xen side emerging, well... at least she wasn't hungry anymore. She gave the ruined corpse at her feet a good kick, her back was still sore from where their weapons had hit her fortunately she had acid blood meaning that she didn't have to dig the insect bullets out of herself and the injuries were all but healed. Gemini sighed, the fight with the grunts had been ... fun but it didn't distract her from the longing to be back with her siblings and the thought that she had to find Sherry and Dr Matthews before something happened to them. She didn't much care for Dr Matthews honestly but Sherry seemed like a nice kid to her and well... she was the closest thing to Gemini outside of her siblings, something else that was a born and breed killer.
Pushing herself to her feet Gemini started looking around the corridors for somewhere else to go, looking along the walls Gemini found an air vent about head height for her although that wasn't saying much considering her 4'10" height. Gemini shrugged, it was as good a way to go as any other so she slashed her claws across the air vent grate tearing it from the wall before pulling herself up into the air vent with ease. Where a human might have great difficulties seeing where they were going, Gemini's heat based eyes could easily see everything and she prowled through the air vents truly in her element. Coming across a vertical air vent going up some 50 feet, she decided that was going to be her route up to the surface, digging her claws into the metal she climbed up the sheer vertical air vent with only minimal effort. Pulling herself up into the horizontal air vent at the top, she heard alien chitterlings nearby, moving with cautious stealth, her muscles tensing for another fight, she turned the corner... coming face to face with small crab critter.
The little crab alien tittered and crowed as it came up to her, it seemingly taking her as friendly and she rubbed her hand across the top of it, stroking it, making it come out with the most bizarre whirling purr that made Gemini giggle in delight.
Stroking the little creature some more Gemini then left it alone in peace and headed over to one of the air vents, looking down through the air vent she could tell she was in the ceiling above a corridor. Checking that it was clear she kicked the vent through before dropping down into corridor. The Corridor itself was much newer looking than the previous one although a layer of dust covered the floor here too although that seemed to be more from the explosions than disuse to Gemini, looking around Gemini picked a direction and headed off that way.
Coming across a lab she looked around, she didn't even pretend to understand half of what the equipment or machinery was for but it looked similar to the equipment that was in the labs near her and her siblings. Perhaps this lab was used for some sort of genetic research too although there also seemed to be a significant number of small obviously expensive pieces of cybernetics lying around.. How she understood the concept cybernetics still confused her.. then again whole reasons behind her memory and sense of self threw her, she decided it was best to leave such things alone and not question them.
A Philosophical thought entered her mind curtsy of her human sides memory.. "The easiest way to end a miracle is to ask it why it is" .. musing over that thought Gemini stepped into a medical room of some sort.
The room had a steel examination table, a heart monitor which was making that annoying flat line noise and an IV which was connected to a needle covered in blood. The needle drew her attention as it was covered in fresh blood and was still warm meaning whomever it was attached to only left a few moments ago. Frowning at the heart monitor that was being to annoy her, Gemini slammed her claws into it and ripped out the wires killing the heart rate monitor. Gemini walked over to the door on the other side of the room which lead out onto another corridor, this one made of concrete and the floor of it was covered in dust too although the general scents of the corridor again told her the dust was not from disuse.
Suddenly a familiar hysterical voice came from one of the air vents in the wall, Gemini paused in bemusement, it was that security guard from earlier and from the sounds of his screaming he had run into something a tad unpleasant. Having nothing better to do Gemini tore the grate of the walk, jumped into the air vent system again and began prowling down the air vents. Coming across the cross junction she came across the crab from before which upon seeing her rubbed itself against her body screeching. Gemini grinned and stroked the crab again, which made that odd whirling purring noise again making her giggle yet again before she focused back on getting to the noise of the screaming. She moved through the air vents until she came above the room where the screaming had came from, looking down from the air vent she noticed a number of different things.
Firstly all of the screaming had stopped, the source of said screaming, the hysterical guard was slumped against the wall unconscious or dead Gemini didn't know with a young woman was crouched over him holding a pistol in her hands. The young woman had obviously taken out the guard but what really interested Gemini was what the woman was saying.
"Need to get above ground." The young woman whispered to her self "That guard was running from something, an I don't really wanna know what..."
Gemini grinned to herself, that something had probably been herself then Gemini heard the sound of footsteps, it seemed like she wasn't the only one who had been attracted by the screaming. A group of Security guards, some armed with pistols, others with machine guns had barged into the room, the woman gasped and span around looking at the 6 guards with frightened eyes, the gun still at in her hand at her hip.
"Awww fuck man she wasted bobby!" Cried out one of the guards before levelling his gun at the young woman.
Gemini realised if she didn't do something now the guards would kill the young woman, making her mind up Gemini came crashing through the ceiling, landed in crouch in the middle of the security guards. Gemini lashed out with her claws at the group of men, the first man cried out in pain as his hamstrings were cut before she stood up, slashing across his stomach disembowelling him. He collapsed to the floor dying as Gemini swung around with her claws flashing and sliced the neck of the guard behind her open, killing him too her body seeming like a lethal blur of motion.
She then leapt at a third security guard slashing and killing a forth guard as she flew past him, landing on the third Gemini literately smashed her fist through his chest and tore out his still beating heart. The two surviving guards reacted to this lethal monster which had dropped in amongst their mist by shooting everything they had in her direction, bullets flying, Gemini dropped down and rolled avoiding them, slashing at the fifth guard as she past cutting deeply, severing the artery and spraying blood everywhere. Gemini shrieked in pain as two of the bullets from the last guard clipped her side before leaping on him and tearing his throat out with her claws before letting his corpse drop to the ground dead.
Gemini stepped back from the five corpses and the one whimpering security guard who wouldn't live much longer still covered in blood. Gemini now turned with predatory slowness to the young woman who seemed terrified by the slaughter... yet the way she stood spoke of training, the tense way she stood as if always being ready for a fight and she had a dangerous aura of her own.
"Don't come any closer!" The young woman warned
"Really?" Gemini half murmured, half purred challenging the young woman, she almost had an instinctual hatred of being told what to do.
The young woman snapped up her gun and levelled it at Gemini's head with impressive speed for a human, the woman seemingly taking in the appearance of Gemini for the first time. Her eyes widened as she took the blood, the Chitin ridges along Gemini's arms and the "predatory" body language she radiated. Not willing take any chances the young woman fired a volley of bullets at Gemini with deadly accuracy only Gemini's inhuman reactions saved her from certain death and even then she hissed in sharp pain as a bullet when through her shoulder. Lunging forwards and covering the ground between them in the blink of an eye making the young woman gasp and slashed at the woman's stomach. A move that would have disembowelled anyone else but the woman's reactions were fast enough that claws only just caught her stomach cutting her painfully but not the dangerous or lethal blow it could have been.
The woman kicked out and managed to trip Gemini up but Gemini made a grab at the woman catching her painful on the shoulder with her claws and the two went sprawling to the floor rolling about. Neither managing to lay a blow on each other as they rolled about until Gemini managed to roll on top. She raised her claws for a lethal blow down across the woman's neck only to be stopped by a gun being shoved in her face and clicked back.
'Hmmm stalemate' thought Gemini
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