Chapter 3 - My Hero Returns

As Tausha got to the bottom of the ladder she saw something move quickly in the corner of her eye. "Just where do you think your going?" She began to pull out her gun, but before she could get off a shot the alien whipped her wrist with its long tail causing her to lose her gun. Before she had time to think the alien whipped his tail at her a second time, this time spear tip first, just barely missing her head. "Whoa!" She screamed, but again before she could react the alien whipped his tail hard across her stomach, throwing her into a wall and knocking the wind out of her. "Ouch! This isn't going very well."

She got up as fast as she could and was able to dodge the aliens strike, he tried knocking her head off with his claws, but Tausha dodged again. She tried to dodge his third strike but he surprised her with his tail and nicked the back of her head. 'I've gotta turn this around.'

She brought up her right leg and kicked as hard as she could, her foot landing right under the aliens chin, causing him to go flying back. This gave her just enough time to grab the hilt of her sword and pull it out. " I'm ready for ya now." She moved quickly over to the staggering alien and brought her sword down swift and hard, slicing the aliens head clean off. She watched as the aliens blood started to burn through the sewers floor. She placed her sword back into its sheath and felt the back of her head to see if any blood had been drawn from the aliens blow. It was only a little scratch, she was pretty lucky. She managed to find her gun and place it back into the strap on her leg.

Tausha started heading deeper into the sewer, following the bloody trail. "The water looks so nasty. I hope the nest isn't too much further." She walked a bit further. "Why haven't I seen anymore bugs?"

As she turned the corner she found the mother of all alien nests. "Oh no…" There were eggs everywhere, and the place was crawling with bugs. Before she even had time to really move, four bugs spotted her and immediately leaped at her. She turned around and took off running back around the corner she had just come from, the aliens were right on her heels. "There are too many of them." Just as she finished her sentence she ran into something standing right in her path. It didn't even twitch, she fell hard on her ass. "Ouch! Feels like I just hit a brick wall." She looked up to see what she had hit and saw an invisible humanoid come into view. "It's…. really you."

Standing above her towered a Greek god with long black dread locks, her hero. He took a step over her and began slaughtering the aliens, one by one. "Wow, he's amazing." Tausha was so entranced in the hunters skills and agility that she didn't even notice the alien that had spotted her.

The alien hissed as it flew through the air towards her. Tausha had no chance of avoiding its blow. The alien stabbed her with its tail barely under her breasts, cutting her swords strap in half and going straight through her combat suit. "UHH!" She screamed as her sword hit the floor and she grabbed for the tail digging its way deeper into her chest, she knew in less than a second the tail would rip straight through her. But for some reason it didn't. She fell backwards and landed hard on the floor. "Why didn't…. his tail go straight through me?"

She could barely catch her breath as she looked up and saw the predators spear crunching through the aliens chest. It hissed with pain as its acid blood began to spill. It was dead before the predator let it drop to the ground.

Tausha used the wall to help her stand up, putting one hand on her chest and applying pressure to try to stop the bleeding. "Ya got him. But we need to get out of here now, we need to figure out how to take out the rest of the nest."

Just as she finished her sentence the predator began to punch buttons in on his left wrist gadget. "What are you doing?" Tausha asked. "What is that?" She started getting dizzy, she knew she would be out cold soon.

He continued to punch in buttons, ignoring the oomans questions. He unlatched the device from his left wrist armor and threw it as far as he could towards the alien nest. He was going to yell "run!" to the ooman female, but he noticed her hugging the wall and clenching her chest. She yelled something, and it was obvious it caused her pain to even breath.

"That better not be what I think it is! If it's a bo…… om……" She couldn't even finish what she was about to say as she blacked out and started to fall to the floor. "Oh great." She managed to whisper, as her blue eyes closed and she fell out of consciousness.

End of Chapter 3

By Tausha Monroe - dahdtoudi