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Chapter 11 - Friends Reunite

Travus watched as Brett and Amy moved out of the way for Clay and Tausha. Idiots, if those two got their weapons they'd be even more dangerous.

"Jason, stop them! Kill both of them!" Travus ordered.

"But don't you need the big guy?" Jason was starring at Travus with a puzzled look on his face.

"A dead specimen is better than nothing at all." Travus looked back at Clay and Tausha, they were already reaching for their weapons. "Kill them now!"

It was too late, Tausha and Clay were already equipping their weapons.

Derick looked at Travus, "I think we should get out of here now. When they're done getting ready they'll slaughter us. We don't have enough gun power to take them down, at least not the giant."

Travus glared at Derick, "You're right, lets get out of here." They took off running out the door, Jason followed.

They hadn't even gotten fifty feet from the lab when Travus stopped them, "Wait, I have an idea."

"What is it?" Derick wanted to keep moving, but was still interested in Travus's idea.

"We can set the aliens loose on them, that should keep them busy and give us more time to escape."

"Are you crazy? What's going to keep the drones from attacking us?" Jason obviously didn't like this new plan.

"Their holding cells are in the lab, when they're released the first thing they'll see is Clay and Tausha." Travus sounded pretty confident, "They will attack them first, trust me."

"What about Steven? We can't just leave him here." Jason still didn't like Travus's new plan.

"That's right, Jason you go get Steven. Derick you come with me, we'll go to the control room and release the drones from their pens, we'll all meet up at the van, if you're not there in ten minutes, you get left behind." Travus loved giving orders.

"What about the scientist's?" Jason asked another question.

"Who cares about them, they're expendable! Now get moving." Travus and Derick took off towards the control room, while Jason went to go get Steven.

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Steven finally made it back to Brandy and Mandy's cell. He was breathing hard from the run, he hadn't stopped for anything on his way back.

"Sorry ladies, I don't get to play with you, but I have a couple friends that would really like to get to know you." Steven started punching in buttons on a control panel just outside the cell door.

"What are you doing asshole?" Brandy hated Steven, and she wasn't going to try to hide it.

"I'm glad you ask. As soon as I finish putting my code into this little computer here, the trap door on the floor right in front of you two will open, bring up two alien eggs." Steven smiled, "I'm sure since you two hunt the alien drones you know what's inside."

"You're gunna use face huggers to kill us?" Brandy was so frustrated, she just wanted out of her shackles to strangle Steven.

"Yep, chiefs orders you know." Steven was about to push in the last button to his code when he heard Jason yell at him.

"Steven! We have to get out of here!" Jason made it to Steven and grabbed his arm, starting to pull him away so they could head for the van. "Travus is planning on releasing the aliens from their holding pens. We need to go now."

"Wait!" Steven pulled hard out of Jason's grip, Jason wasn't even holding Steven tightly in the first place, Steven just wanted to look tough in front of the ladies. That ended up being a very stupid thing, he jerked away with too much force and ended up stumbling and accidentally hitting some of the buttons on the computer. "Oops."

Mandy's Shackles snapped open and she fell to the floor.

"Hey! Why didn't mine come off?" Brandy was looking at Mandy's shackles.

"Look what you made me do!" Steven was yelling at Jason, "Now one of them is free!"

"So what! Finish your code and lets get out of here, its not like she can fight off a face hugger anyways." Jason wanted Steven to hurry, he didn't want to get left behind when the alien drones were running loose. "Hurry up!"

"Fine!" Steven hit his last button, then turned around and looked at Brandy, "Have fun baby." Him and Jason ran off down the hall.

Mandy rubbed her shoulders, "Aww, that feels so much better." She looked up at Brandy, "Sucks to be you."

Brandy just glared at Mandy, "Its gunna suck to be either of us in a few minutes."

A rectangular slab in the middle of the cell started sliding back, then from that spot rose two slimy looking alien eggs.

"Oh shit." Brandy felt helpless, what was she going to do? She was shackled to the wall, there was no way she could fight back a face hugger. Mandy was also too weak from hanging for so long, they were pretty much goners.

Mandy watched as one of the gooey pale green eggs started to open, the top was almost like a flower, its flaps opened up like a flowers petals would. Mandy didn't even have time to blink as the scorpion like creature jumped out at her, its tail whipping the air. "Ahh!" Mandy screamed as she rolled out of the creatures path. The face hugger hit the wall, but quickly recovered and scattered towards her. Mandy crawled backwards as fast as she could but the creepy thing latched onto her ankle with its pale skeleton like fingers. It started crawling up her leg fast. She didn't even have time to scream as it jumped at her face.

Mandy quickly brought both her arms up to protect her face. The force of the little face huggers jump and the speed from her block caused her back to hit the floor hard. The creatures tail whipped Mandy's face a few times before finally wrapping it around her neck. "No!" Mandy yelled, she tried to push the little sucker away from her, but she just kept getting weaker, and now she was starting to lose oxygen, she could feel the face huggers tail choking her more and more.

"Hey!" Brandy started to scream, she was trying to distract the face hugger on Mandy, but then she saw the second egg starting to open. "Mandy……I could use your help now!"

"I'm…a little….busy at the moment!" Mandy coughed as the tail tightened around her neck.

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Clay and Tausha finished putting on most of their armor. They equipped their weapons, then Tausha took off towards the door.

Clay didn't move, he could hear small scratching noises coming from behind two doors on the other side of the lab.

"Clay, are you coming?" Tausha looked really worried, Clay could tell she wanted to save her friends.

"You go on, I need to see something, I will catch up to you."

Tausha nodded, "Alright, but please be careful." She took off running in the direction she saw Steven go. She hadn't gone very far when she saw Steven and Jason running her way. She quickly turned on her cloaking device and waited for them to approach.

As Jason came rushing by, Tausha kicked him hard in the gut. "Uhh!" Jason fell to his knees clutching his stomach. Steven stopped dead in his tracks as he watched an invisible foe hit the back of Jason's neck, he heard the snap, then watched him fall to the floor unconscious.

"Holy shit!" Just as Steven finished he felt two hands grab his shirt and push him full force into the wall. "I don't wanna die!" Steven almost started crying.

'What a baby.' Tausha thought to herself. She let him go and turned off her cloaking device. "If you do as I say I won't kill you. Now tell me where my friends are." Tausha glared at Steven, even though he couldn't see her eyes through her mask, he knew she meant business.

Steven pointed down the hall, "Straight down this hall, you can't miss them."

"Give me the keys to whatever you've got them locked up in."

"Alright, here." Steven reached into his pocket and pulled out the cell doors keys, "But you need a code to unlock your girlfriends shackles." Steven closed his eyes and wanted to smack himself over the head, what an idiot, her didn't have to tell her that.

"Thanks." Tausha grabbed Steven by his shirt and pulled him down the hall. "I'll kill you if you try anything stupid."

"Oh don't worry, I'll obey every order you give me." Steven grinned, "I'm your prisoner now, you can rape me if you want, I won't fight back, I promise."

"Shut up you creep! Your making it harder for me not to kill you." Tausha elbowed Steven in his chest, not enough to really hurt him, but enough to keep him quiet.

Tausha heard Brandy scream not too far ahead. "That's Brandy!" Tausha pulled Steven along as she sprinted for Brandy and Mandy's cell.

When she reached the cell she looked in immediately, she noticed Mandy on the ground fighting a losing battle against a face hugger, while Brandy was still shackled to the wall, she also noticed an egg starting to open. She quickly turned and pushed Steven into the control panel. "Release Brandy from her shackles now!" She tensed her arm and ejected her wrist blades, placing them against Stevens neck, "Do it now!"

Steven looked at the wrist blades in horror, "Okay, I'm on it!" he quickly turned around and pressed a couple buttons.

Just as Brandy's shackles released her, the face hugger from the second egg leaped at her, it didn't jump high enough to latch onto her face, but it did grab a hold of her thigh. "Whoa!" Brandy quickly stuck her now free arms over her face, just barley blocking the face huggers attack. She was suffering the same way Mandy did, a few tail whips to the face, then the creature wrapped its tail around her throat starting to choke her.

Tausha quickly unlocked the cell door and ran to her friends aid.

Mandy was about to pass out when Tausha sliced the face hugger on her in half. "Watch out for its blood!" Tausha warned Mandy as she ran over to help Brandy.

Tausha sliced Brandy's attacker in half also, "How are you two doin?"

Mandy was rubbing her neck and gasping for air. "I thought I was done for."

Brandy looked up at Tausha, "That voice….. Tausha is that you?"

"I don't know who else I would be?"

Brandy jumped up and hugged Tausha, "Oh my goodness! We thought you were dead!"

Mandy pulled herself to her feet and gave Tausha a hug too, "What's with the mask? This isn't some kind of party is it?"

"No, this is from Clay. You guys will have to meet him, but I have to warn you, he's not exactly normal." Tausha was going to start explaining when she saw Brandy's eyes look at something. Tausha turned around to see what Brandy was looking at, it was Steven.

Steven was just standing right outside the cell watching the three of them talk, "What? I can't enjoy a nice view?"

Brandy charged at him, "You asshole! I'm gunna kill you!" She tackled him to the ground and pinned him with her legs, she started punching his face over and over again. She screamed 'I hate you!' every time she hit him.

Mandy ran over and pulled Brandy off of Steven, "Stop it! You're gunna break your hands."

Brandy kicked Steven one last time as she was pulled off of him. "I hate you!" She yelled at him.

Steven didn't respond so Tausha knelt beside him and checked him over. "He's unconscious, nice work."

"What should we do with him?" Mandy was still holding Brandy back.

"Leave him, he's scum." Brandy nudged out of Mandy's grip and turned away from Steven's body.

"Good idea, lets head for the lab, there's no way I'm leaving Clay." Tausha started jogging down the hall towards the lab, Mandy and Brandy followed without a fuss. They kind of wanted to meet this Clay guy that Tausha was so fond of.

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Clay listened closely to the scratching noises coming from behind the two doors in the lab.

'That's hard meat, it's got to be.' He thought to himself.

Clay looked at the two scientists that still remained in the lab, he tilted his head to one side. 'Why were they still here? Do they not fear him?'

The red headed male ooman noticed Clay watching him so he stared right back. Clay pointed to the holding pens and tilted his head a little more.

"You want to know what's behind those doors?" Brett actually knew what Clay was asking.

Brett walked over to one of the two holding pens and touched its door, "Behind these doors are the alien drones Travus likes to experiment with." Just as Brett finished the doors started to open. "What the?" Brett jumped back away from the door, only to be pummeled by an alien drone as it jumped out from behind it. The black creatures claws dug into Brett's arms and body as it leaned into his face, it ejected its inner mouth with lightening speed piercing Brett's skull right between his eyes. Blood splattered everywhere, Clay just watched. 'The ooman died an honorable death.'

Amy stood back and watched three more aliens run out of the first pen, then she saw the second pen starting to open, she knew there were four more in that one as well. "Oh no, what's happening?"

The aliens immediately spotted Clay and leaped at him. 'This should be fun.'

End of Chapter 11

By Tausha Monroe - Dahdtoudi

Wow, this is my longest chapter so far! Thanks everyone for your awesome comments! Hope you liked this chapter!