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Chapter 15 - There's No Time
Sumiko backed up against a wall, the minute her back hit the wall she lost all hope. There was no where to run, and this creature was already leaning in for the kill.
The video camera was still in Sumiko's hand that rested at her side, so she pointed it up to view her face. She figured if she was going to die, everyone should remember how.
Sumiko felt the aliens hot breath against her cheek as she turned her face away from it's jaws. "What are you doing? Why don't you just kill me?" The huge alien just hissed a reply.
The queen grabbed Sumiko's arms tightly and pushed her back against the wall hard. "Uhh!" The impact knocked the wind from Sumiko's lungs and caused her to drop the video camera, "No!"
The creature held Sumiko up against the wall and began to cover her with the saliva that dripped from its jaws. It started getting thick and sticky. "Uhh, Stop! Please!" Sumiko couldn't move, the creature was coating her with the stuff. The saliva began to get hard as it held Sumiko tightly to the wall.
Ryann could barely move, the pain in her shoulder was excruciating, and she was still losing a lot of blood. She watched the creature cover Sumiko with a slimy substance, 'What is that?' Then it turned around and started heading her way, "Oh no, please don't!"
One of the creatures clawed hands wrapped around Ryann's ankle, she felt its hand tighten as it lifted her up. The only thing running through Ryann's head was how painful her death was going to be. But to her surprise the alien didn't kill her, instead it took her over to the wall where Sumiko hung. It turned her right side up and began to cover her with the same residue as Sumiko, the slime got sticky, then began to harden, securing Ryann to the wall right next to her friend.
The two girls watched as the alien moved away from them and into a small clearing. Sumiko could see the creature was starting to form some kind of sac under its belly. "What in the world is that?"
Ryann could see the sac too, it was a pale green-yellow color, it started growing larger, like it was getting bloated. It stopped growing when it expanded large enough to rest on the inside of the huge aliens legs. "That's disgusting." Ryann quickly turned her head to she didn't have to watch as the queen pushed out her first egg.
Sumiko looked down at her video camera, she wished she could be filming this, this was the kind of stuff that made people famous. She turned her head to look at Ryann, "Are you alright?"
Ryann nodded the best she could, considering she was stuck to the wall, "Yeah, this disgusting crap she put on us stopped all my bleeding."
"That's one good thing, why do you think we're still alive?"
Ryann turned her gaze to the alien queen, "We're probably the food for whatever's in those eggs."
Sumiko pouted, "Are you sure she doesn't just like us?"
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Brandy was the first one to reach Steven's cell, "What's going on!" When she looked in she saw why Steven had screamed, a face hugger was clinging to his face. Brandy began to back away when she saw more than a dozen face huggers begin to scatter out of the hole in the floor of the cell. Brandy bolted down the hall, she smiled when she thought about all the pain Steven was going to have to suffer through. Mandy and Tausha looked at each other funny when Brandy ran past them, then they heard Brandy scream at them, "RUN!" They didn't hesitate to follow her directions as they saw the face huggers begin to crawl between the bars of the cell and start heading for their position.
"Holy cow there's a whole army of them!" Mandy was running so fast that she had already caught up to Brandy.
Clay was barely even jogging, he wanted to just pick Tausha up and run, it would be a lot faster. But he knew she didn't want to leave her friends behind. He began punching in buttons on his wrist bomb, he decided it would be best to just blow the place up since there were so many face huggers, those things were such pests.
When Tausha heard Clay punching in buttons on his wrist gadget, she immediately remembered what happened back in the sewer, "Oh no you don't! You blew up half the city last time you used one of those."
"I will set it to low, it should only take out a few blocks." Clay sounded pretty confident.
"A few blocks! You act like that's nothing!" Tausha couldn't believe how little Clay valued all the innocent lives that would be lost.
"Would you rather have the whole city infested?" Clay clicked his mandibles in frustration.
"Fine! Do it! Just give us enough time to get out of here." Tausha ran ahead to tell Mandy and Brandy what Clay was planning.
"He's gunna set off a bomb!" Brandy was outraged, "Are you crazy!"
"No! Just keep moving!" Tausha saw that the exit wasn't too far ahead, so she risked a quick glance back and watched as Clay shot his shoulder cannon and killed at least five face huggers that were gaining on them, then he threw his bomb at them. She stopped dead in her tracks, "You already threw it!"
Clay growled, "GO!" He could see the look of panic on Tausha's face. He had already reached her, so on his way he swooped her up and tossed her onto his right shoulder, so she wouldn't rest on the same shoulder as his blaster. He looked ahead and watched as her two friends opened the escape door. They held the door open waiting for him, which wasn't very long, he was one of the fastest Yautja's of his clan.
Clay and Tausha made it through the door, while Mandy slammed it shut right behind them, she immediately realized they had ended up in the garage, and saw an overturned van. But that didn't matter right now, "How much time do we have before the bomb goes off?"
Clay looked towards Mandy as he put Tausha down, "Eight minutes."
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Travus felt a sense of relief when he heard the vans engine start, "Yes!" Finally something had gone right, he quickly jumped into the van and didn't even bother to buckle himself in.
Travus looked up just in time to watch the garage door crash open, then he heard a loud roar and saw the creature strong enough to open the heavy door. It was the same type of creature as Clay, only his armor was darker, and his hair only went to the top of his shoulders, which was way shorter than Clay's, plus his face mask looked more sinister some how.
Travus felt his chest get a little warm, when he looked down he noticed three red dots dance across his chest. He looked up at the humanoid and saw its shoulder cannon move. 'Shit!' Was the first and only thing that popped into his head as he punched the gas and swerved the van towards the predator.
The humanoid stood his ground and took a shot at Travus. Travus jerked the wheel so hard that he avoided the shot just barely as it skimmed the side of his right arm, but in the process he flipped the van. Since Travus hadn't buckled himself in, he was thrown from the vehicle, he crashed through a window as glass was shattered everywhere.
Travus landed on his side, he blinked a few times and flexed his bottom jaw, he rolled onto his stomach and started trying to get up. He realized he had broken his right arm when he put his weight on it while trying to get up. "Uhh!" He fell back onto his stomach and gripped his broken arm, he was covered in cuts, and bruises were already starting to form all over his body. Travus rolled onto his back and watched as the unknown predator approached him. "Why are you here? You ugly son of a…"
Travus didn't get to finish as Brandy and Mandy burst through the side door. They held the door open while Clay and Tausha came in, then they shut it as quickly as they could. Travus didn't hear what Mandy had asked, or what Clay had answered, but he heard Mandy scream, "EIGHT MINUTES?" Judging by that reaction, eight minutes wasn't a good thing.
The unknown predator looked at Clay and tilted his head in confusion. "Clay!" That was the only thing the humans understood, the rest of Clay and the unknown predator's conversation was a bunch of clicks, angry grunts and growls, and hand motions.
"Ae-nix?" Clay was surprised to see his brother, "What are you doing here?"
"I came because our scouters said you came to Earth again, I wanted to follow you and see why you were making such frequent visits to this backwater planet." Ae-nix started with an angry tone, "Now I see you've been running around with a bunch of ooman females!"
"I'm not just running around with a bunch of ooman females, I've claimed Tausha as my life mate. She just wanted to save her friends." Clay was pointing at Tausha as he began to explain but was cut short.
Ae-nix looked at Tausha from head to toe, then back up again, "You claimed this ooman as your life mate?" He pushed Clay hard out of the way and stomped towards Tausha, who had no idea what was going on. "How dare you dishonor our clan like this!" He reached Tausha and quickly wrapped a hand around her throat, lifting her up off the ground and choking her. He felt her struggle and kick him a few times as he lifted her and began to squeeze her neck even tighter. She punched and clawed at his hand, and kicked his chest as hard as she could, but her attacks had very little effect. 'Why does my brother have a heart for something so weak?' Ae-nix thought the way Tausha struggled was kind of funny, she had no chance yet she continued to try.
"AE-NIX! Let her go!" Clay punched Ae-nix hard in the side of the head, "If you mess with my mate, you'll have to deal with me!"
Ae-nix dropped Tausha and turned his gaze towards Clay, "I can't believe you'd hit your own brother just to save a pathetic ooman." He let out a harsh laugh, "When father sees your harem full of ooman females he will be disappointed in you." He looked at Brandy and Mandy.
"I claimed Tausha as my LIFE MATE, she is the ONLY female I need." Clay had knelt next to Tausha to make sure she wasn't badly hurt, he lightly ran his finger across her cheek, tracing her cheek bone, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine, but we need to move, that bomb's not going to slow down for us." Tausha gently caressed Clay's hand then stood up, that's when she saw Travus.
Travus was reaching for an M16 that was lying on the ground not to far away from him. He grabbed it as quickly as he could then aimed it at Tausha, it was a little difficult since he had only one good arm. Tausha's eyes widened as she saw Travus's finger tighten on the trigger.
"Tausha watch out!" That was all Mandy could say, there was nothing else she could have done.
When Clay heard the shots being fired from the gun, his instant reaction was to protect Tausha. He took a quick side step and stood in front of her, blocking the bullets with his back. A loud yelp escaped Tausha's lips, "Clay! No!" Clay roared in pain, it felt like dozens of small knives were being thrown into his back.
Ae-nix turned and snarled when he saw that the ooman he had spared was shooting his brother. He grabbed his shuriken and threw it at the ooman, slicing the hand that held the gun clean off. He clicked his mandibles a few times in satisfaction as the shuriken returned to him. He snapped it back into place, then clipped it to his armored belt as he stepped toward the unworthy ooman.
Clay turned and looked at Travus once the bullets stopped penetrating his back, "I want to kill him!" He stopped Ae-nix then ejected his wrist blades as he approached Travus, he grabbed the ooman by the hair and picked him up, turning him around so he could see his face as he killed the evil man. "This is for my mate, and her friends."
Travus just glared at Clay as he hung helplessly in his grasp, "Go to hell, you ugly bastard!" Then Travus spit at Clay's face mask.
Clay roared an intimidating roar of anger, he then brought his wrist blades across Travus's neck swift, slicing through the skin and bone with ease. He looked at the decapitated head as the body fell and began to spasm on the floor, Clay put the head in a small nap sack that hung from his armored belt, then shook his head from side to side in a cocky gesture as he snarled, pleased about his new trophy.
When Clay turned around Ae-nix was choking Tausha again. Mandy and Brandy were trying to stop him, but each time they'd get close enough Ae-nix would just swat them away with his free hand.
"Ae-nix! If you don't stop trying to kill my mate I will claim your head as a trophy!" Clay was growling and making some angry noises, Tausha remembered some of those noises from the little spat they had on the ship earlier, they definitely weren't meant to be nice.
Ae-nix dropped Tausha and clicked his mandibles in frustration, "I hate you ooman!" He was pointing at her as he spoke.
Tausha looked at Clay in confusion, "Clay? Who is this guy? And why does he keep trying to kill me?"
Clay wrapped his arm around Tausha's waist and picked her up, tucking her under his right arm, then he quickly grabbed a hold of Mandy and tucked her under his left arm. He looked at Tausha, "I'll explain later, right now we need to move." Clay turned his attention to Ae-nix, "Ae-nix, get the other female, carry her to safety, follow me! A bomb is going to detonate in less that a minute, I set it to low so we should be able to outrun it."
Ae-nix grunted at Clay, "Why should I help save a worthless ooman?"
Clay growled at Ae-nix, "Your honor depends on it!" Then Clay took off sprinting as fast as he could.
Mandy looked at Tausha, "Looks like he's not just your hero anymore."
Tausha laughed, "Yeah, isn't he sweet."
Ae-nix watched as Brandy ran after Clay screaming "How dare you leave me with the ass!" He couldn't understand what she said, but he decided it didn't matter, he would just do as his brother instructed. He ran to Brandy and picked her up, tossing her on his shoulder, he sprinted to catch up to Clay. If Clay wanted to he could have totally lost Ae-nix, he was way faster than him, even as he carried two oomans, although these females weren't heavy at all.
Ae-nix finally caught up to Clay. "Why do you get to carry two, and I only get one?"
Clay laughed, "Because I can actually handle it."
Brandy looked at Mandy and Tausha, "You guys, all this bouncing up and down is kind of making me sick." Brandy closed her eyes, "I think I'm gunna throw up soon."
Clay laughed harshly, then Ae-nix looked at him and growled, "What did the ooman say?"
Clay shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not sure, she spoke too quickly, I didn't catch what she said."
"Then why did you laugh?" Ae-nix clicked his mandibles a few times.
Clay laughed once more, "No reason brother."
Tausha looked up at Clay, "What are you two saying?"
Just as she finished, the bomb went off. A warm rush of air swept past them, just enough to blow their hair forward, then there was a loud thunderous blast. When the second rush of air swept past them it was loud and strong, it was so powerful that it knocked Clay and Ae-nix forward, causing them to drop the girls as they went down. Everyone hit the ground hard, scrapes and cuts were unavoidable, and there were chunks of wood and rocks flying everywhere.
Clay looked at Ae-nix and barked an order, "Don't forget the female!" Clay quickly got to his feet and picked up Tausha and Mandy as he started to sprint away from the explosion. As long as he was sure Tausha was safe with him, he was happy.
Ae-nix shook some of the dust particles off of himself as he stood up, then he looked at Brandy who was also starting to get up and shake the dirt off. He heard the concrete starting to crack behind him then roared in anger, which startled Brandy so much that she jumped. Ooman cities were built so weak, he hated visiting this ugly planet.
Ae-nix ran as quickly as he could, the ground was already starting to give way behind him. When Brandy saw him coming for her she almost screamed, he was pretty much charging at her. "No! Don't! I can run on my own!" But she couldn't outrun him, he grabbed her and tucked her under his arm as he had seen Clay do with the other females, it ended up being much easier than worrying about her falling off his shoulder.
Ae-nix made it up to Clay. "Do you think we can outrun it?"
Clay clicked his mandibles a few times, "Of course we can, if we can't then we deserve to die."
End of Chapter 15
By Tausha Monroe - Dahdtoudi
