Chapter 18: Fait

Mac-11: I'm updating sooner and finally getting back on track. The story shall continue.

The clan and humans had been thrown out of the tunnel and into a large room. Merc'rk's eyes fell to the ground beneath himself. "Queen's Layer" it read. For some reason he felt really happy and really bad at the same time. The clan leader got to his feet and looked at the center of the room.

Instead of the queen he found many statues. It looked like a field of them in a large circular room and each one of them was different. The gang searched around and inspected the statues. Most of them were predators, but there were also some that were aliens and even a few humans.

The Predators were disappointed and the humans knew nothing of what they thought because they couldn't read the alien language.

"What now?" asked Bebop.

"Hey, guys I remember this movie where this guy jumps into ruins exactly like this one and finds a statue. When he pulls the arm a secret door opens," said Steve. "So, let's find out which statue it is."

Steve began pulling at the limbs of every statue and trying to see if any would budge or if something would happen.

"Steve," called Richard.

"Yeah,"

"Lay off the Saturday morning cartoons,"

"Okay,"

Merc'rk began striding his way through the field of cold stone creations. He guessed that the Ancient Yautja would have set up more tests to see if they were indeed the worthy ones.

At that moment Netak decided to test something. He grabbed his disc and activated the plasma edged blade. He through it into the field of statues and let it shred a good row of them to bits.

Just then one of the statues stuck its arm out and caught the disc. Everyone was in shock and aimed there weapons at it. The statue was that of a Predalien. Amazingly it had enough reason and wit to catch his disc.

"I see you're finally here," it said in a hollow dead voice.

The clan watched in awe as it jumped down off its stand walked towards them. He was looking at Netak's disc at the moment and inspecting it.

"Pathetic compared to what I can do," said the creature and then through the disc back at its owner. Netak caught it with his left hand using little effort.

"Where is the queen?" asked Merc'rk.

"If I tell you, will you leave me here to kill Netak and Reco'de?"

"What?" shouted Reco'de wanting to know why it wanted to kill himself.

"You're welcome to come and try," said Netak itching to kill it for insulting his disc.

Merc'rk looked to Netak and Reco'de to see if they were up to it and saw the fire in their eyes behind their masks. Or it was more like he felt it burning into his back.

"Okay," he said.

The stone Predalien crawled to a certain statue. The statue was the only other one of a predalien. He smashed his tail into the stone figure and completely shattered it. They caught site of his tail and the part of it that struck the statue had become metal and looked like chrome. It must have just had a stone covering.

Under where the statue was standing there was a small hole. The Predalien pointed down the hole as if that's where the queen was. Everyone climbed down inside, leaving Netak and Reco'de to face the Predalien creature.

"So why do you want us?" asked Reco'de.

The Predalien just smirked. It was an odd smirk, but the face muscle contractions were easy to figure out.

"Do you know about the legend? How the Queen was freed?" he asked.

"Yeah, they were experimenting with putting blades in prey and the prey got loose," replied Reco'de.

"The legend is wrong. They were experimenting with putting me into the blades,"

"What the hell does that mean?"

Just then the predalien flexed and all the stone came off its body to reveal its chrome-like skin.

"My body is made out of the precious steel you Yautja use. The ancient Yautja were very advanced indeed, they could breathe metal and make it alive using plasma ice. They took my brain and all the nerves of my body and put it into metal charged with a light amount of plasma. My body became the metal and I created the internals to keep my brain sustained. The plasma is still keeping me alive. I could change my limbs into any weapon I choose..."

Netak thought this was taking too long and immediately interrupted his explanation. "You still haven't answered our question. Why do you want to us to fight?"

"Your fathers were the ones that came up with the idea to create me and I never asked to be created. I have formed vocal cords in my mouth so I can speak, but if all we Xenomorph could talk then you would understand how we fell. Our only purpose is you prey and you breed us just to kill us, but I particularly hated your ancestors for doing this to me."

"Interesting, how do you know it was our fathers and not Merc'rk's or Essra's?" asked Netak.

"Simple, I watched you grab your new weapons. When you were getting your fathers weapons I hid and was watching the whole time. Your fathers were a brawler and a Spear Master; which ever one of you grabbed the spear and dual wrist blades were the ones I was going to kill."

Netak grabbed his spear and unfolded it. In the dark under ground the plasma edges became the only light. Reco'de activated his wrist blades and they glowed as well.

"You must think pretty highly of yourself, do you know who you're dealing with?" said Netak as he got in a fighting stance.

"Do you?"

The talking was done. There no longer and need for words now. Their weapons were what was going to finish this conversation.

Meanwhile...

The rest of the gang landed in a large chamber. The walls were purposely around the same high temperature to make it hard to see in thermal vision. The Predators immediately switch to night vision, but the targets didn't stick out like they did in thermal mode. The humans were just sweaty from the heat. The chamber had pillars holding it up in random spots everywhere.

At the center they finally met their worst nightmare. The Queen was sitting on her throne and continuing her birth giving process. Aside from the fact that she was asleep it was still an impressive site. She was twice the size of a normal queen, she had beetle pincers on the sides of her jaw, two glands were bulging out of the sides of her neck with an unknown use, massive wasps wings were on her shoulders, her tail had poisonous barbs sticking out on all its sides, and there were tiny glands in her claws. Other than these differences she still had the same basic shape of the queen.

"Amazing," said Jason. The queen's head jerked straight at him when he said that.

"Rise and shine, sleeping beauty!" called Richard sarcastically.

The Predators pretty much just kept their guard up and grabbed their weapons. The queen stared at the intruders and bared its metallic teeth at them. It lifted its claws pulled it self off its nest. The chitin armor skin on its arms had jagged edges on the outer side, similar to a praying mantis' barbed arms. It rose off its nest and readied itself to kill.

Mac-11: Sorry this chapter was short. I'll make the next one much longer. I'm really busy with high school and stuff so I need to plan more. And remember Reviews equals Update.