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Chapter 13 - Surprises

Tausha felt the full weight of the lead alien as it crashed down on her. She made the "Oof!" noise as she hit the hard brick floor. She tried to bring up her right arm as fast and hard as she could to cut through the aliens neck with her wrist blade, but the bug caught her arm and pinned it to the ground.

Tausha took aim with her shoulder cannon, aiming at the aliens head, she took the shot but the alien moved and avoided the blast to the head. Instead the shot nailed him in the shoulder, its blood splattered everywhere. A few drops hit Tausha's upper right shoulder and chest, and even more had splattered on her face mask.

The alien jumped off of Tausha in pain and took off running down the hall after Brandy and Mandy, the second alien followed him.

Tausha screamed in agony, the pain from the acid blood burning through her skin was unbearable. "Come back here!" She was so pissed that the bugs had gotten away.

She started feeling the heat come through her mask, the acid would soon start burning her face. She quickly ripped off the mask and threw it against the wall in frustration. "Ahh!" She screamed again, just the movement from her tossing her mask made the burns hurt even more.

Tausha slowly stood up, gripping her right shoulder as she did, the pain was so strong she just wanted to fall over and die. "Ah, it won't stop throbbing…….I'm such an idiot." She couldn't believe she was actually stupid enough to shoot the alien when it was right on top of her. But what else could she have done, she wasn't just going to lie there and let the thing kill her.

Tausha didn't want to worry about the pain right now, she needed to get to Clay, she had to make sure he was alright, the thought of him being hurt was more painful then the acid that was still slowly burning through her. She loved him, she wasn't going to deny it, she'd loved him since the night he saved her. She longed to be by his side, she couldn't believe she had ever left him alone in the first place.

"Why am I so stupid?" Tausha started heading towards the lab in a light jog, it was the fastest she could move with the least amount of pain.

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Travus and Derick watched and listened as the alien drone rammed into the control rooms door every few seconds. Travus was completely unarmed, he looked at Derick's gun, then up at Derick. "Are you a good shot?"

Derick nodded, "Not as good as Jason, but I'm sure I can nail a pretty good sized drone."

"I don't think I trust you." Travus was looking at Derick with one of the most evil glares, if looks could kill, Derick would have dropped dead.

Derick stared back at Travus with a look of pure confusion, "What?"

Travus punched Derick hard in the face and ripped the M16 out of his hands. Derick fell back in a daze. "What the hell do you think your doing!" Derick had no idea what was going on.

"I don't need you anymore." Travus stepped back and pushed a button on the side of the door, he moved far to the side clearing a path for the drone as it leaped in and landed flat on Derick pinning him to the ground.

Derick screamed as the drone dug its claws into his shoulders and moved its head closer to his for a final blow, its lips quivered as some of its spit dripped onto Dericks chin.

Travus moved out the door, he made sure he was a safe distance back as he started shooting at the alien. He held the trigger down as dozens of rounds shot out of the M16. The drones blood began to drip and splatter all over. The acid blood began to burn through the controls and lots of it dripped onto Derick, he began to scream from all the pain.

Travus stopped firing and watched as the alien fell dead on top of Derick, he could see Dericks skin starting to melt away, the smell was horrible, like something was rotting. He almost felt bad for killing one of his best friends, especially like this, but then again he didn't really care, his motto was every man for himself.

Derick felt the burning sensation as the acid ate through him, he looked down and saw his skin starting to deteriorate, he looked up at Travus and watched him turn and runaway, "You bastar…" That was all he could say, the acid had already eaten through his chest and was burning through his lungs, he closed his eyes and died the most painful death he could have ever dreamed possible.

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Clay watched as the last alien in the lab scratched at the scientist under the counter. He walked over and retrieved his spear and shoulder cannon, he then hooked up his shoulder cannon and made sure it was good to go.

Clay stared at the alien and shook his head slowly form side to side. This hard meat was so dumb, it was so interested in the ooman that it hadn't realized a greater prey was standing right behind it.

Clay aimed his shoulder cannon at the back of the aliens head, he didn't have time to play around, he needed to make sure Tausha was alright, a bunch of hard meat had run out of the lab earlier, no doubt they had attacked her. He shot one blast through the back of the aliens head. He couldn't believe how easy these hard meat were, either he was getting really good, or something was wrong with these ones.

Clay stared walking towards the door when he heard the female scientist yell at him, "Wait! Please don't leave me!" She was crawling out from under the counter, she was bleeding badly, the aliens scratches had cut her deep. Amy had cuts on her arms, legs and face, the alien had got her good.

Clay just growled at Amy, then turned around to walk out the door, he didn't care about her, he cared about Tausha, and nothing was going to stop him from finding her.

Just as he was about to leave the lab Tausha appeared in front of him. She wasn't wearing her mask, and she was gripping her right shoulder. It was obvious that it hurt her just to take in a breath.

"Clay…..your….alright." Tausha was smiling, and it looked like she was about to cry.

What really worried Clay was when Tausha's eyes rolled back into her head and she began to fall backwards. He caught her by the sides of her arms and pulled her into his chest. He quickly picked her up and carried her to one of the examination tables that they had broken free from earlier. When he laid her down he immediately noticed the acid burns on her chest and shoulder.

This was bad, hard meat blood was probably poisonous for oomans, and his med kit was back on the ship. How was he going to save her, he couldn't lose her now, not when he cared about her so much.

Clay looked around the lab in a panic, there had to be something that could help. Then he noticed the female scientist, of course she could help, it was time to stop the silent treatment. "Ooman!"

Amy looked at Clay in disbelief, "Me?" She was pointing at herself.

"Help!" Clay pointed at Tausha. He then stood tall, threateningly, if Amy didn't help, he would cut her head clean off her shoulders.

Amy ran over to Tausha's side, she noticed the acid burns right away. Amy did have a treatment, but she didn't know if she should really touch Tausha, she remembered what happened to Travus when he hurt her. This Clay guy had backhanded him across the room.

Amy looked up at Clay, "I have something that might help."

Clay nodded, "Help."

Amy went to the counter she had hid under and pulled out a needle and a bottle filled with a dark green liquid from a drawer. She filled the needle with the dark liquid and walked back over to Tausha's side, "This should stop the acid from spreading anymore, and help her start to heal faster, it'll numb the pain. She'll be alright." Amy reassured Clay, then stuck the needle into Tausha's right arm and injected the liquid.

Amy pulled out the needle, "There, see I can be a good guy." Her vision started getting blurry. "Oh, I've lost too much blood." She looked at the floor, there was already a puddle of her own blood around her feet.

Clay noticed Amy starting to wobble a bit, then he watched her fall to the floor. He didn't feel the need to actually try to help her, he knew she was already too far gone, judging by the amount of blood she'd lost, and her low body temperature, she wouldn't last much longer. But he was thankful that she was able to help Tausha.

Clay walked over and knelt beside Amy, "I can end it fast." He tensed his arm and ejected his wrist blades.

"No! Please, I'd rather die slowly, and enjoy my last moments alive." Amy had her hands up to block any attack Clay might try to attempt. She knew she wouldn't be able to stop him, but she hoped he would respect her wishes.

Clay nodded and walked back to Tausha's side, he gently took his finger and ran it across the side of her face, starting at her temple and stopping at her chin. He wished she'd just wake up so he could see her beautiful blue eyes. He ran his fingers through her long, dark hair, it was wavy and a little tangled, but still very soft. He leaned his face in as close as he could to hers, he had his mask on so it wasn't like he was trying to bite her or anything, he just wanted to hear her breath, he wanted to feel that she was alive.

Tausha could feel something was hovering over her, her first thought was that it was the alien back to finish her off. She decided that she wasn't going to just start blindly kicking and punching, she was going to open her eyes and see who, or what was hovering above her. So that's exactly what she did.

Tausha's eyes snapped open, "Clay?…..Clay!" With an automatic reaction her hands shot up and hit Clay right in his face mask, pushing him away. "Don't do that!" She was scared out of her mind, she sat up and tried to catch her breath.

Clay roared, he didn't know weather to be angry because she just attacked him, or to be happy that she was awake.

"Don't you take that tone with me, you just about gave me a heart attack!" Tausha then realized that her burns didn't hurt anymore, he had saved her again. She looked up at Clay with the most sincere look she could come up with, then she slid off the examination table and walked over to him. "You saved me." She brought her hand up and rubbed a finger gently next to the new scar across Clays left peck. "And you're hurt." She was going to try to stand on her tippy toes and kiss Clay's mask, but she thought she wouldn't be able to reach and she didn't want to look stupid trying, so she kissed his new wound instead.

Tausha felt Clay's muscle tense as her lips touched his skin. A bunch of doubts began to fill her head, she kept telling herself that she shouldn't have done that, that he didn't like her like that, and that he probably hated her now. She looked up at him, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you, and I didn't mean to yell at you." She lowered her head and closed her eyes, "Thank you for saving me again."

Clay had loved the feel of Tausha's warm lips against his body, but he could tell that he had made her feel awkward about it. He gently ran his hand across the side of her face until it stopped under her chin, he pulled her view form the floor back up to him, "Thank you for the kiss, you have made me feel better." One of his hands found its way to the small of Tausha's back, he rested it on the tattoo she had gotten on her 18th birthday, he remembered watching her get it from outside of the tattoo parlor. It was of two dragons facing a Japanese symbol, but he never knew what it meant. He pulled her closer to him and hugged her, "You had me worried." She rested her head against his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist. Whenever she was this close to him his body would tingle and feel warmer that usual, he decided then and there that he would claim her as his life mate.

"You had me worried too, I don't ever wanna leave you again." Tausha hugged Clay tighter and snuggled up even closer to him.

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Steven blinked a few times as he woke up, still lying on the floor he turned his head to look into the cell that Brandy and Mandy had been locked up in. "That Brandy bitch should be dead, I never did like blondes." He then noticed the hole in the floor of the cell was open, the eggs were gone, but the trap door wasn't closed. "Why is that open?"

A thought flashed through his head, with that door open, face huggers could probably come up into the warehouse. He quickly looked to his other side and saw what he didn't want to see, a face hugger lying dead on the floor next to his face, its pale bony legs sticking up in the air. He sat up fast, "Shit! This can't be happening! One of those things is inside me!" He wanted to cry.

Whack! Something slapped Steven across the back of his head. "Ow!"

"If you look closer idiot, you'll see that it's only half of a face hugger." Brandy started laughing, "This blonde bitch just got you good."

Mandy started laughing, "Thanks for the gun Stevo."

Steven turned around and looked at Brandy and Mandy, "You guys put that there? I'm okay?"

"It was Brandy's idea, she wanted to see the look on your face." Mandy was still laughing.

"Yeah, but now playtimes over, you tried to kill us earlier, remember? Because I do." Brandy brought up the 9MM gun she had taken from Steven. "I wanted to make you die a slow and painful death, but I guess a single bullet will be good enough." Brandy was about to pull the trigger and blow Stevens brains out when the two aliens from earlier came crashing down the hall.

"Brandy! Save the bullets for those guys!" Mandy was pointing down the hall at the aliens.

"How did they get past Tausha?" Brandy was starting to worry about Tausha now, and it was making it harder for her to concentrate on the task at hand.

Steven quickly crawled into the jail cell and closed the bared door behind him, "I should be safe in here, you two have fun."

Brandy glared at Steven, "Could you get any lower? Oh, and Tausha has the keys, remember?" Brandy started laughing, then she turned her focus back on the aliens that were closing in fast.

"Looks like there's one for each of us." Mandy picked up the fire extinguisher, "Lets kill these bugs for Tausha."

End of Chapter 13

By Tausha Monroe - Dahdtoudi

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