Chapter 2 – life is never fair
When the procedure was finished, Clover pulled back her wings and staggered back and let out a sigh, Ke-Apho shook his head making his dreadlocks flap around, and then flopped on the floor. Striker ran over to them both
"Well? How was it… did it work?" he asked enthusiastically, Clover staggered towards him and looked at Ke-Apho, sitting on the floor,
"Well… I would say it did Striker, and judging by the fact he isn't dead or seriously sick that thing inside him has been eliminated", she then collapsed on the floor parallel to Ke-Apho and flopped on her back.
"Now there's just the matter of getting the other one out of you "Striker muttered
"WHAT!" Clover screamed and jolted up-right "There's a chest-burster in ME…IN ME?" she screamed again at Striker who was backing off,
"W-well ye-yes there is one in you… didn't you know I'm surprised"
"You're surprised… YOU'RE SURPRISED!" she yelled arms flailing around
"CLoVeR CaLM DoWn it's in your MeTaL SaCK, I don't THiNK It'll GeT ouT Of THeRe" Ke-Apho said through his hand as it was rubbing his helmet,
"Is-is it still alive?" Clover asked him, calming down a touch; he looked at her chest,
"yeS" he said emotionlessly
"Aww man this cannot be happening" she said starting to cry, then Striker backed up to his arch way and Ke-Apho approached her and put his saucer sized clawed hands on Clover's black furry shoulders
"LooK Clover … you'Re NoT GoiNG To Die, you'LL Probably Be SiCK Or SoMeTHiNG" he said, rubbing her shoulders and looking into her watery eyes
"Oh man this life I lead just gets bloody better and better!" she said and was cut off by the tears as she burst out crying and buried her head deep into Ke-Apho's chest as he hugged her.
"Aww man…" Tip mumbled "this is serious…Clover might die", then String curled her white tail round and slapped him over the head, then told him to shush "OW what was that for" he shouted and strings tail reared up for another blow when he got the hint and raised his arms in submission.
Ke-Apho wrapped his muscle bound arms tightly around Clover as she melted half of his chest armour, with her tears. Although you couldn't see it, he closed his eyes and placed his head over hers and they stayed like that for a while, even when Clover stopped crying. That moment they had couldn't have been broken whatever happened… it was that deep
A/N: HEY I COULDN'T THINK OF ANYTHING BETTER!
When Clover finally prized herself from Ke-Apho's armour she noticed that her fur was a very light silvery silver, her hair was electric blue and the wing membranes were white/see-through. She also noticed that the storm had calmed down a-bit and Thunder was sitting next to Tip looking concerned.
"Are you ok now?" String asked her walking up and handing her the warm towel to dry her face,
"sniff Yeah… now I am" she replied cupping the towel around her face
"aRe you SuRe?" Ke-Apho asked rubbing his hand around Clover's shoulders
"Yeah…yeah, I'll just need time, to figure how to get it out" she said handing back the towel.
"OK, now that's sorted, you'll have to figure out how to get your chest-plate de-warped" Tip told Ke-Apho pointing to the warped metal splattered across his netting.
Clover walked across the cave to where Thunder was and sat against the wall. Seeing this Thunder moulded her huge black and rainbow body around Clover's and dozed off,
"oh thanks a lot Thunder, just because SHE has an Alien inside HER, she gets all the attention!" Tip shouted folding his arms and sulking. Thunder's tail curled round from Clover's body and thwacked him across the head, then let out an irritated gruff. "OW… WHY ARE PEOPLE SO OBSESSED ON HITTING ME AROUND THE HEAD!" he screamed and scrambled out the way of Thunder's second blow.