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Chapter 12 - Try to Survive

Travus and Derick stood in the control room and watched on one of the surveillance monitors what was happening in the lab. There were cameras all over the warehouse, Travus liked to keep a watchful eye over everything.

Derick was a little spooked when he saw the first alien jump on Brett and pierce his skull. "We should go now, I don't feel very confident with just this one gun." Derick held up his M16.

Travus just stood watching the screen, he really wanted to see Clay get ripped to shreds, but then he noticed Tausha wasn't in the lab. "Where's the broad?" Travus never took his eyes off the screen.

"She probably went to save the other two hunters." Derick was slowly backing up towards the door. "She probably killed Jason and Steven……I'm out of here!" Derick turned and was going to open the door and run out, but Travus grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him back.

"I wouldn't open that if I were you, only two drones are attacking Clay, and one is chasing down Amy. The five left just ran out of the lab." Travus walked over to the control panel and brought up the view of the hall outside of the lab on a second monitor. There were four monitors in all, so on the third monitor Travus brought up the view of the prisoners cells, and on the fourth he brought up the view of the garage, he wanted to make sure the van was still there.

They watched as four alien drones took off in the direction of the prisoners cells, while only one came toward their position.

"How did they know to send more of their troops in a certain direction?" Derick was pointing at the screens as he talked, "What, can they read minds? Or are they just really good guessers!" Derick had gotten into Travus's face. "How do they know, Travus!"

Travus pushed Derick away from him hard, forcing him to the ground. "I don't know! Their probably just mad because their mothers not here anymore!"

"What are you talking about?" Derick looked at Travus funny, "The queens not in her pen anymore?"

"That's right, I let her loose in the 9th Street sewers." Travus looked down at the floor, obviously upset, "Now she's dead, probably taken out in the explosion."

Derick looked at Travus wide eyed, "You lunatic!" Derick stood up and was going to yell at Travus some more, maybe even take a swing at him, but then they both heard something hit the control rooms door hard. Most of the rooms and doors of the warehouse were made with thick titanium metal, so Travus was pretty confident that the drone trying to break into the control room wouldn't get in very easily.

The alien hit the door again, this time denting it in. "Crap! He's gunna be in here soon!" Derick brought up his gun and held it ready.

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The first alien that jumped at Clay was easy to kill, Clay speared him through the chest and swung him to the side with ease, the second alien caught Clay off guard.

The drone tackled Clay hard to the ground knocking his shoulder cannon off and forcing him to drop his spear. Clay could feel the cold brick floor against his back. The alien ripped Clays left breast plate armor off, and in the process one of its razor sharp claws cut across Clay's left peck, Clay heard his skin tare and felt the knife like finger cut into him. He'd have a diagonal scar for sure.

Clay roared, then managed to get his feet planted flat on the aliens chest, he kicked up hard and threw the alien across the room. Clay jumped up to his feet fast, then heard the female scientist scream. He looked over just in time to see her duck as an alien jumped over the top of her.

Clay watched as Amy quickly scrambled across the floor on her hands and knees. Clay noticed that this scientist had red hair just like the other one had, only hers was long and was in a single braid that went down to the small of her back..

Amy managed to squeeze under a cupboard type of thing against a wall of the lab, she pushed herself back against the wall as far as she could, hoping that the alien wouldn't be able to reach her.

Clay watched the alien try to fit under the counter to get to the scientist, it finally gave up and just started reaching under it and scratching at the female, it was obvious by the sounds the ooman was making that the alien was cutting her, he could hear her scream and yelp every time the alien took a swipe. It was like watching a cat trying to catch a mouse. But Clay couldn't worry about that now, if the female ooman was Tausha he'd help her in a heart beat, but it wasn't, and he had his own opponent to take care of.

The alien Clay had kicked across the room stood up and hissed at Clay. Clay ejected his wrist blades and walked towards the alien with caution, it swung its spear tipped tail at him just barely missing Clay's head as he tilted it to one side to avoid the blow.

The alien jumped on top of Clay a second time, forcing his back against the ground once again. This time the alien wasn't going to play around, it bent down into Clay's face and was going to deliver the final blow fast. The drone started to eject its inner mouth, it was going to pierce right through Clay's skull.

Clay watched as the inner mouth of the hard meat shot out towards his face, but with lightening quick speed he caught the mouth in his left hand and ripped it to one side. Clay moved his head away from the blow, tilting it to the left, while pulling the aliens inner mouth to the right. Clay pulled as hard as he could, until he finally felt the aliens snake like mouth come loose and lie limp in his hand.

The alien jumped off of Clay and screamed a shrill hiss so high pitched that it hurt just to hear it. The blood from the new wound inside of the hard meats mouth began to drip and spill to the brick floor. It kept shaking its head and screaming its high pitched scream, it was obviously in pain.

Clay was careful to avoid any of the acid blood the alien kept flinging around as he ran quickly at the hard meat to deliver the final blow, he sliced his wrist blades across the aliens throat , killing it instantly. When he was young he remembered his father teaching him how to kill a hard meat without damaging the weapon, the throat was one of those places that if you sliced it fast enough you wouldn't get any blood on the weapon. Clay wished his father could see him now, his father was a high elder, a great warrior, he would love to see his son killing so many hard meat. Clay smiled as his hard meat prey fell limp to the floor.

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Tausha lead the way for Brandy and Mandy, the two were pretty much unarmed, although Mandy did get her hands on an axe from a fire emergency box while Brandy had taken the fire extinguisher that hung on the wall next to it. Brandy didn't feel very safe with just a fire extinguisher, but it was better than nothing.

Tausha could see Jason still on the floor not to far ahead, he was starting to move a little, no doubt he'd be up in a couple minutes. Then Tausha stopped dead in her tracks.

Mandy and Brandy stopped a few steps behind Tausha, they looked at each other funny. Mandy finally whispered, "Why did we stop?"

Tausha just shushed her. She then tensed her right arm, letting her wrist blades shoot out to their full length. "There are bugs heading our way." She looked at her wrist blades and noticed they were a little dull. 'The blood from the face huggers must have dulled them a bit, hopefully they'll still cut.' She was thinking hard to herself.

"The ass on the floor is starting to wake up." Mandy pointed at Jason. He was starting to sit up off the floor.

"Good, he'll slow the bugs down." Brandy started backing up a little, "There's no way we can take on a bunch of bugs, all I have is a fire extinguisher."

Tausha turned and looked at Brandy and Mandy, she had a worried look on her face, "You're right, you two go back, see if that Steven guy has a gun or something on him, or try to find an exit. No need for you guys to die when you can still escape."

"What! Are you crazy! We're not just going to leave you !" Mandy was shocked that Tausha would even ask her and Brandy to just runaway.

"Go!" Tausha pointed down the hall, "I can fend for myself! Or at least slow them down." Tausha was really worried about Clay she couldn't stop thinking about how these aliens got past him, the thought of them killing him turned her stomach, was she actually in love with him? She did really care about his well being, and the thought of him getting hurt or even dieing made her want to cry.

Tausha turned around just in time to witness an alien whip its tail towards Jason, the aliens tail pierced Jason's chest, going clean through. The three girls could hear Jason's ribs crunch as the sharp tail pushed through his body.

"I've never actually seen one do that." Brandy started backing up more, "What I'd give for my gun right now."

Tausha took aim with her shoulder cannon, Mandy watched the three red dots go across the aliens smooth dark head. Tausha blasted it, the head of the alien that had killed Jason exploded and splattered all over the walls. Then three more aliens took its place, two ran across the floor towards them, while one scattered across the ceiling.

Tausha took aim at the one on the ceiling, she fired and missed, the alien had dodged by moving sideways and dropping to the floor.

"Why do you suck when it comes to any type of gun!" Mandy was glaring at Tausha.

"I just prefer swords alright! Now get out of here!" Tausha crouched, getting ready to take on the aliens head on with her wrist blades, but Mandy stepped up and threw her axe as hard as she could at the alien that had jumped down from the ceiling and was now in the lead.

The lead alien dodged the spinning axe with a swift sidestep, but only to let one of his followers take it to the head.

Everyone heard the crunch as the sharp end of the axe slammed into the aliens head, it would have nailed him right between the eyes if he had any. The alien tripped over its own feet as it fell lifeless to the ground.

"Nice!" Brandy nodded and started to smile.

"Yeah! I know!" Mandy was running back towards Brandy, she grabbed Brandy's arm and pulled her along as they broke into a sprint, "Good luck!" She managed to yell back to Tausha as they headed back towards Steven and away from the aliens, Brandy never let go of her fire extinguisher.

"Yeah, I'm gunna need it." Tausha readied herself as the lead alien leaped towards her.

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Sumiko and Ryann were two of Angel Cities finest reporters. Ryann reported the news, while Sumiko held the camera. Ryann was a beautiful young woman, long dark hair and a body that made men go crazy, as a child she took martial arts lessons, so she was way more than capable of defending herself. Sumiko was also one hot lady, only she had short dark hair that went just below her ears, she was just as tough as Ryann, probably more deadly. She had a weekly ritual of making it to at least three kick boxing sessions a week.

Ryann was so excited when she didn't see any other reporters at the 9th Street scene, "Look at this huge crater! I can't believe how lucky we are." She had a huge smile on her face as she looked at Sumiko, "Let's get down there and start filming."

"Whoa you little tweaker, what if there's radiation or something?" Sumiko was holding Ryann back.

"Then we're gunna die for being this close anyways, so come on." Ryann was going to try to walk down the side of the crater, but she slipped and slid down the rest of the way on her bum.

Sumiko slid down next to Ryann, only she looked more professional as she slid down keeping her balance. She started laughing at Ryann, "I'll make sure not to get any shots of your back side."

Ryann stood up rubbing her butt, "Thanks, your so thoughtful." Ryann made sure she sounded real sarcastic.

Just as she finished they both heard something moving not too far away, they could hear concrete starting to crack and wood snapping, something was breaking out from under some of the debris.

"What do you think that is?" Sumiko was looking puzzled at Ryann.

"How am I supposed to know? Why don't you go check it out?" Ryann had an evil little grin across her face.

"Why don't you check it out? You were the one that wanted to come down here." Sumiko pointed in the direction the sound was coming from.

Ryann stared in the direction of the noises that seemed to be getting louder, then they heard a loud screech, so high pitched that it hurt their ears just to hear it. "Maybe because I'm scared." Ryann turned around and tried to scramble up the side of the crater as fast as she could, but in this particular spot it was too steep, every time she'd get up a little ways she would just slide back down. "Shit! How do we get out of here?" Ryann was checking out the dirt that was now stuck under her long finger nails.

"Shut up." Sumiko was whispering and backing up towards Ryann, "I think it's coming this way." Sumiko looked at Ryann, "We should hide."

Ryann nodded, then they moved quickly and hid behind a huge chunk of some buildings wall. They peeked around a corner and watched as a huge creature walked into view.

"Oh, I've got to get this." Sumiko pulled up her camera and started video taping.

The creature was huge, it was dark black, and walked on two legs, it was almost like a tyrannosaurs rex the way it walked, and with its sharp teeth. It had no eyes, or nose, and it had an extra inner mouth inside its regular mouth with even more sharp teeth. It had four long arms, and it looked like each of its hands had six sharp fingers, it also had a long bony tail with a sharp spear tip on the end.

Ryann quickly turned and placed her back against the wall, so she didn't have to look at the queen anymore, she was breathing really hard. "What in Gods name is that?"

Sumiko noticed the creature looking their way. 'Crap, it must have super sensitive hearing or something.' "Ryann run!"

"What? Why?" Ryann then felt the ground beneath her start to shake, she looked wide eyed at Sumiko, "It's coming this way isn't it?"

Sumiko took off running, "Split up!"

Ryann listened and took off in another direction. 'I can't believe this is happening.'

The queen alien sensed the reporters movements up ahead, this was great, she was pretty hungry after being buried under all that debris for so long, two humans would make a nice snack.

End of Chapter 12

By Tausha Monroe - Dahdtoudi

Authors note!

SPECIALGUY - had commented that he didn't like that the face huggers blood didn't splatter all over Brandy when Tausha saved her in chapter 11, and that Tausha's wrist blades didn't melt when she cut the face huggers in half during her rescue. Well to clear things up I had just watched AVP and I was referring to the scene when Scar killed the first face hugger that jumped at him, he sliced it in half and its blood splattered to the sides, also I was going on the fact that predator weapons are more durable than human weapons, so when Scar threw his shuriken at the face hugger in AVP it didn't melt away, I figured Tausha's wrist blades wouldn't just melt away either. I'm just gunna guess that maybe a face huggers acid blood isn't as strong as a full grown aliens blood or something! I hope that makes sense.