Now everyone, before reading I just have to let you know that due to a thing called life, I was not able to get this chapter out as soon as I wanted. If I have not updated for a while then have no fear because I will not abandon this story no matter what! I will see this story out to the bitter end, so have no fear.

Now, on with the show!


Where'd you get those eyes?

*with Eli, Rezeal, Norma, Sophie and Blair

"Can you see anything strange?" Rezeal asked peeping over Eli's shoulder

"Nope…It's clear" Eli said as they both emerged from the corner gripping their weapon handles tightly. Eli squinted his eyes as if expecting something, then took a few sharp sniffs of the air before signalling the others to follow him.

Norma (with Dexter on her shoulder), Sophie and Blair all emerged behind the large Kamad and began to move ahead. Eli was in front the group and Rezeal was at the back, having the two large alien warriors at both ends of the group was a standard yet effective formation for Kamads to use in this situation as they could very easily protect them both ends.

"Rez, would you mind putting on your helm? We have to check our com systems" Eli stated as his helmet emerged from his armour and clicked into place firmly around his head. Rez's helmet did the same as the pieces clicked and locked into place.

"I hope you guys don't mind if me and Rez speak in Kamad for a while?" Eli asked turning his head around.

"No go ahead" Norma smiled

(Hey Rez, how is your transmitter holding up?) Eli asked in his native tongue

(Fine Eli, how about yours?)

(Good, good. I think you know that you know why I am talking to you like this?)

(Not really) Rezeal replied

(Well Rez…..do you notice anything different?) Eli asked his friend quietly as his gaze went to Norma

(Different?)

(About Norma) Eli stated

(Ah….no…she seems fine) Rezeal replied

(What was that?) Eli asked

(She…seems…..fine) Rezeal said with a wide eyed look

(Exactly, the rush should have worn off by now. She should have come down from it and should be more sluggish) Eli said as he observed Norma from a distance.

(Maybe her metabolism is different enough for it to last longer) Rezeal suggested

(Not likely, I have seen creatures with way different metabolisms have the same effects) Eli said while pondering. Kamad blood was known for its healing properties and the high it gave in the Galactic community, there had in fact been instances where criminals would try to kidnap Kamads to drain their blood and sell it on the black market for extremely high prices; of course said criminals didn't count on Kamads being as tough as they were.

Eli himself had used his blood to heal ally soldier during missions and he had seen his fair share of the effects on other alien species. So seeing Norma like this was, strange.

(I suggest we keep a close eye on her, look out for anything strange) Eli suggested to which Rezeal nodded.

Eli then saw something he really didn't want to see as he turned the corner and came to a halt.

A wall of wreckage

Obviously the ceiling of this particular hallway had given way and collapsed, probably after the initial invasion of the ship. It was common that during boarding that the ship would often get damage such as this, and the Asclepheus was apparently no exception to this.

"Great…as if we weren't slow enough" Eli grunted, switching back to English as he walked up to the wreckage and began to closely inspect it. Eli had experience in seeing wreckage like this, usually he was the one that caused it, and being an Elite he had his fair share of boarding enemy ships and utterly decimating them. He only hoped that the Black Yautja weren't as good as he was.

"Alright, good news first or bad news?" Eli asked the others as he turned to face them, his helmet retracting back into his armour as did Rezeal's.

"Good news" Norma stated first

"Well…the good news is that it shouldn't be hard for me and Rez to lift this pile of wreckage so that we can get through" Eli replied

"And the bad news?" Sophie asked

"Once we are past this point there is not going back. The instant that we let go of the debris, the entire ceiling will cave in, and once that's done I don't think we will be able to go back" Rezeal explained

"Really? I don't see the downside there" Blair said

"The 'downside' is that this may not be the correct way, meaning beyond here is the point of no return. We have to be 100% sure that we want to go this way because there is no turning back" Eli said with a hint of caution in his voice.

"Well on the bright side it will be a good distraction for those Black Yautja Bastards if they try hunting us down again" Sophie smiled

"That is if they don't use the tram systems, they do have control of the ship remember" Blair said

"Don't be a buzz kill Blair" Sophie groaned.

"Go ahead boys…clear the way" Norma smiled, at Eli in particular.

"Yes Ma'am" the two large Kamads grinned as they cracked their fingers and each grabbed a hold of a support beam that seemed to be holding the wreckage in place.

"1, 2 and 3!" Eli counted down as both he and Rezeal used all their might to raise the wreckage high into the air. Norma and Sophie were simply amazed at the show of strength that the two huge reptilian warriors were showing, their tails seemed to be helping them as leverage as they lifted the wreckage up at least 6 feet into the air.

"Rez, you get under and hold it up" Eli grunted as he kept the wreckage at the height they had lifted it to. Rezeal simply nodded and quickly got underneath the pile of jagged steel and wires before keeping it in the air with his natural Kamad strength. Any human, even a Myrmidon would have had trouble keeping this amount of wreckage in suspension, but Eli and Rezeal had lifted heavier weights in their lifetimes and could defiantly take the pressure.

Blair went to try and go before the others but Eli's armoured tail shot in front of him like a barricade of steel. "Uh Uh, Ladies first" Eli grunted with a predatory look in his golden eyes, Blair gulped and stepped back as Norma and Sophie went through first with Blair following after. Once Blair had cleared Eli went through and grabbed the wreckage by the other side, ushering Rezeal to get from underneath the assorted metals and loose cables.

Once his friend was on the other side, Eli let go of the wall of wreckage causing it to come tumbling down with a loud and heavy crash as more of the ceiling came down with it. Even with their amazing strength the Kamads would not be able to lift it again as some of the wreckage seemed to have imbedded itself into the floor.

"Well…there is no going back now, so we had better keep moving, we can cover much more ground before making camp again" Eli said as took point, leading the others away. As Eli walked however, Norma sped up her pace to catch up with his large strides, reminding the large Kamad of how much faster he was than the others.

Norma frowned a bit before she picked Dexter from her shoulder and gave him to Rezeal. The flying monkey seemed to have taken a liking to both of the Large Kamad and leapt happily onto the black haired Kamad's shoulder. Norma did this because she wanted to have a one on one with Eli, and even though she loved Dexter, she knew he would probably interrupt.

"You know, you don't have to walk that fast" Norma smiled, causing the large Kamad to slow down his pace to a speed that the humans in the group could keep up with.

"Do you mind if we could have a talk?" Norma asked

"Not at all, what do you want to talk about?" Eli asked

"Anything, just to pass the time, after all I feel that we will be walking for a while"

"Yeah, I guess we will be" Eli said, wondering of a subject that the two of them could talk about until a question that had been lingering on his mind since he had heard of the ship. "I actually have a question, if you wouldn't mind answering it?" Eli asked.

"Shoot" Norma smiled

"Why is the ship called the 'Asclepheus'? I assimilated giga tons of information on your language but that word doesn't come up" Eli said, curious about the title of the ship.

"Funny story about that actually, the ship was originally going to be designated Asclepius after the Greek god of medicine and healing. But when the orders for the name to printed onto the ship's Data ID, the person who sent the orders was a minor dyslexic and after a while the name just stuck" Norma smiled

"Oh…Umm…ok that makes sense" Eli sighed, he was actually hoping for a more interesting story behind the name. Naming a ship in his culture was very interesting in his opinion, as many captains and pilots would name ships after events that had happened in their lives or even after lovers from other species. Very exotic named ships were very common in Kamad society as many travelling Kamad merchants would often take mates of a different species.

"Hehehe" Norma giggled cutely as she looked at Eli's reaction.

"What's so funny?" Eli asked, his brow arching in confusion.

"Sorry, I was just picturing you like an anime character with a sweatdrop" Norma giggled once again

"You are a strange creature Norma Rockwell" Eli grinned at her randomness. The only reason that he understood a single word of what she said was because of all the human themed data he had assimilated on the way to the ship.

"That's what everyone keeps telling me, but when you have a very high IQ you have to have be a bit strange" Norma smiled back. Eli had to admit that he liked that about her, to him a lot of things about her were strange, her strange looking hairstyle, those weird non-slitted pupils and not to mention her overall attitude about the situation they were in.

Any females he knew would treat this like a mission or a challenge, but Norma kept a level head and a smile on her face, at first he thought that this was because she may have had something mentally wrong with her, but after a while he realized that it was just the way she was.

"I suppose your right" Eli chuckled back

"Ok, my turn for a question" Norma said

"I didn't realize we were taking turns"

"Alright…what are Kamad girls like?" Norma asked out of the blue. Eli's facial expression immediately changed from a smile to as awkward a smile as he could pull. Eli may have been an experienced killer, a natural born leader and might have been able to stare death in the eye, but one thing he wasn't experienced with was women.

"Ah…umm…well I guess, Kamad women are more…um….forceful than human women I suppose. They seem to value…um…strength over a lot of other things…uh…they um…well…" Eli stuttered, trying to hide a blush from his face as he awkwardly spoke about the females of his race, a subject he wasn't comfortable with.

Even though Eli was a great warrior and the Prince of his people, he never had much luck with finding mate. There was no question that Eli enjoyed the company of females, but as the future Emperor of his people, one of the most powerful positions in the universe, he had a lot of pressure on his shoulders and thus couldn't find the time. Then again the females of his species would seek him out all the time, trying to win his heart, probably because power was very attractive to Kamad Females, the fact that Eli was an attractive man only added to the reasons why the daughters of many prestigious Kamad families would try everything to gain his favour.

Eli couldn't count the amount of times that his trainers and instructors would try and introduce him to their daughters. Arranged marriages weren't part of his culture for thousands of years, so the heads of Kamad families couldn't sell their daughters off to marry him, but instead they would sneakily try to get their daughters in Eli's good books. Eli had many female friends back on his home planet, many whom he knew would wish to be his empress one day, but he just never felt the spark.

That probably explained why he felt so awkward talking about female Kamads to someone like Norma, whom he hadn't quite figured out yet.

Norma giggled at Eli's attempt at describing the females of his species, it seemed even battle hardened warriors like Eli could get flustered when forced to talk about members of the opposite sex.

"I meant in a biological sense, silly. I meant what are the physical differences between male kamads and female kamads" Norma giggled at Eli's misconception of what she meant.

"Oh…well in that case the differences are only as varied as the differences between human males and females…well, except for the fact that females have venomous glands in their mandibles" Eli explained, relieved that Norma meant something different.

"Venomous? Isn't that dangerous to the males?" Norma asked with curiosity. She knew from her studies that carnivorous creatures while mating would often bite each other, if what Eli said was true then mating must have been hazardous to the males.

"Well, when I say venomous I mean to other species, but to other Kamads it acts more like a…well…like an aphrodisiac" Eli couldn't help but blush under the intense look of concentration that Norma gave him as he finished the sentence.

He had to admit the physical similarities between their two species were very disturbing as the only thing separating her face from a female Kamads was her eyes and height. Her hair was something that could have been easily changed as both their species had hair, though Kamads braided their hair into dreads and braided ponytails while Norma's was a simple ponytail. Then there was her height, while Female Kamads were shorter than the males it wasn't by that much, while Norma was only about…wait…

Did she get taller?

Eli couldn't help but notice that the last time Norma was standing beside him, she reached up to his waist while now she was defiantly higher than before.

"Uh…Norma is it me or have you gotten taller?" Eli asked causing Norma to slightly tilt her head and ask "Excuse me?" to the Kamad Prince's question. "You look taller, im serious, yesterday you were much lower than now" Eli said looking closer at her this time.

Eli and Norma then came to a stop, in turn causing everyone else to grind to a halt.

"Uh is everything alright?" Sophie asked

"Sophie, does Norma look taller to you?" Eli asked he blonde

"Hey…Hey she does, I mean she has always been taller than me, but wow!" Sophie gasped as she walked up to Norma and began comparing their heights, how could she not notice that?

"Hey Eli, you don't think that?" Rezeal asked with an arched eyebrow as his eyes shifted from Eli to Norma. "How tall are you Dr Rockwell?" Blair asked with a curious tone.

"I'm 5'4" Norma said with a confused tone

"I'm sorry Norma, but that can't be it, you are taller than that" Sophie said with amazement as she found that Norma had reached at least 5'8

"Norma, how are you feeling right now?" Eli asked as he examined Norma closer.

"I feel fine, im fit as a fiddle" she said

"Are you sure, because those clothes look way too small for you" Sophie said, Norma's trouser legs looked much shorter.

"Ha, well would you look at that?" Norma smirked, seemingly unfazed at the fact that she had grew a full 4 inches within a single day.

"Norma…give me your arm" Eli asked softly, holding out his hand. Norma was slightly confused but did as Eli asked and gave him her hand.

"Now, bear with me here alright?" Eli asked, Norma nodded in response as Eli dragged his cawed finger across the inside of her hand "Ow, what was that for?" Norma winced as Eli drew blood.

"Ah…this is a problem" Eli said as he looked at the blood leaking from the small incision he made in Norma's hand.

"What? What is a problem?" Norma asked

"Does human blood normally glow?" Eli asked, showing Norma the red, glowing blood that was beginning to pool in her hand.

"Oh…My…God" Norma gasped as she put her hand over her mouth while she stared at the glowing liquid leaking from the cut.

Sophie and Blair braced themselves for the reaction that they would certainly get. Both of them knew Norma much longer than the Kamads and thus knew how she reacted to certain things, she would most likely be over the top panicking and shouting and screaming in a panic that no normal person would be seem making. Any moment know she was going to break down and…

"This is amazing!" Norma squealed with a massive smile on her face and a glint in her eyes.

'Ok never mind' Blair and Sophie thought in unison, her reaction was certainly unexpected.

"This is amazing; I mean this is simply unheard of! My blood is luminescent! There must be a strange acute reaction that my biology has to Eli's blood, the chemical in Kamad blood that makes it luminescent must have had a large chemical reaction to the oxygen in my blood! Does your blood have a large concentration of luminol in the haemoglobin?" Norma fired away at a rapid pace, her inner scientist running free.

"Wait…aren't you the least bit worried?" Eli asked the brunette who seemed to be almost foaming at the mouth from excitement.

"Worried! Well yeah a tiny bit, but my god this is amazing, on so many levels! Who know what other amazing effects your blood has had on...oh my god" Norma gasped as she closely inspected her hand.

"What? What is it?" Eli asked with worry.

"My…My hand just healed" Norma smiled with a little chuckle. Eli's eyes widened as he snatched her hand and began to inspect it much more thoroughly.

Her hand had indeed healed, there wasn't even a scar left in its wake, this worried Eli to a very large extent as this was defiantly not normal among any other sentient beings that would take Kamad blood into their bloodstream. Norma had literally inherited Eli's regeneration ability and had used it to heal her hand; this was extremely worrying to Eli as her biology seemed to be changing at a very fast rate.

"Ok now this is downright bizarre" Rezeal said, Dexter screeching in agreement as he hopped up and down on the Kamad's shoulder.

"Ok, if you are saying that, then I'm worried" Sophie replied

"Trust me, I have seen a lot of weird shit in my life and this is starting to get near the top of the list, being a bit worried is expected" Rezeal said

"Eli…what is happening to me?" Norma asked the Kamad holding her hand.

"…I…I Don't know Norma. I have seen some strange things but this is beyond what I know" Eli replied

"Eli can you stop squeezing my hand?" Norma asked with a wince

"I-I'm not squeezing it" Eli said, showing her that he was simply holding her hand in his.

"Well it sure as hell feels like…..AAAH!" Norma shouted in pain as she withdrew her hand from Eli's

"Norma!" Sophie shouted in shock as she immediately ran to Norma's side.

"Norma, are you alright!? What's happening?" Eli asked with a worried tone

"MY HAND…IT FUCKING HURTS! OH GOD!" Norma screamed in agony as she fell onto her knees and an audible cracking sound was heard coming from her hand.

"Shit!" Eli cursed as he knelt down next to Norma and under close inspection he saw that the bones in Norma's hand seemed to be shifting and cracking as if they were changing in shape.

"Jesus! ELI DO SOMETHING!" Sophie shouted at the Kamad who seemed to be frozen in place as Norma screamed in agony on the floor.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!GOD IT HURTS! AAAAAAAAAGH!" Norma screamed at the top of her lungs as the pain began to spread to the rest of her body. Both her hands began cracking and twisting in horrific shapes, her spine felt like someone was giving it a Chinese burn and her ribs felt like they were being constantly yanked on, but that was nothing compared to the pain she was feeling in her lower jaw as it felt like her skull was being torn to shreds.

Sophie was in utter and complete shock, her eyes watering like waterfalls as her best friend screamed in utter agony as if she was going through some sort of seizure. Rezeal was frozen in place as the spectacle in front of him caused the blood in his veins to run cold while Dexter was screeching and howling in panic over his master's pain. Blair was also stood still but the look on his face was not that of shock, but fascination, he was a scientist so it was only natural that a sight like this would catch his attention but then again he seemed to have a glint of admiration in his eye.

Eli couldn't find the words to describe the situation; he was completely powerless right now, he was a warrior and a dam good one at that, he took lives, he wasn't a medic so he had no idea what to do.

"GODDAMMIT ELI DO SOMETHING!" Sophie shouted at the top of her lungs.

Norma had never felt a pain like this in her entire life, the best way that she could possibly describe it, is that it felt like her entire skeleton had turned into clay and someone was forming it into something different.

She slowly felt the pain overpowering her, her senses going all over the place until she could barely tell how much time was passing. The pain was so overpowering that she could barely think straight anymore. Before she knew it she began to feel herself going faint from the pain and her eyelids began to get heavier.

"Norma…NORMA! Stay awake! Stay Awake!" Eli shouted grabbing a hold of her arms and shaking her. In a state like this it was extremely important that you didn't fall unconscious, who knows what the hell was happening to her.

"…I…I…I can't….I…I…feel…..tire…" Norma spoke weakly before she slipped away into unsconsciousness, the final words she heard where that of Sophie's cries of worry and Eli panicking as he kept shaking her arms.


"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! KEEP RUNNING!" Erik shouted at the top of his lungs as he and Sha'ra kept running as fast as they could from the horde of Xenomorphs perusing them. Erik would occasionally turn around a fire off a few short concentrated bursts from his Pulse Rifle, he was sure to conserve his ammo as the spare ammo clips were with Vlad. Sha'ra on the other hand could fire bursts from her Plasma Caster as she ran, her Plasma Caster didn't have ammo clips but rather ran on a battery that was nearly fully charged though her auto targeting systems were damaged in her fall so they may as well have been pot shots due to the terrible accuracy.

Neither one of them however would risk a head on fight as neither of them were at their peak efficiency. Erik was still recovering from his injuries and thus didn't want to risk close quarters combat with a large Xeno. Sha'ra may have been a Veteran Huntress but she was also in unfamiliar surroundings that the Xeno's cold use to their advantage, then there was the fact that both Sha'ra and Erik were probably outnumbered and where not used to fighting together.

It was simply a much better option to try and lose the Xenos and perhaps try to reunite with their groups and then they would have a chance at completing their objectives.

The Xeno's chasing them however were not any average Xenomorphs, of course 4 of them where the Warrior types with ridged crests but they were being led by a Xenomorph that was the size of a crusher with a bladed edged Crest with long dreadlocks hanging from its head. This particular Xeno was a Blade Yautja born, and was much stronger and agile than one of its smaller brothers, for this was born from the leader of the Black Yautja hunting party that had infiltrated the hive within the Asclepheus.

"Do you have any mines or anything?" Erik shouted to Sha'ra as they ran. He had already used both his frag grenades and didn't have any Pulse Rifle grenades to begin with; he just hoped that Sha'ra had some kind of explosive that could at least slow these things down if not stop them in their tracks.

"Actually, now that you mention it" Sha'ra said as she reached into one of the pouches in her belt and retrieved two small flat triangular devices. The Yautja Huntress activated both devices and stopped in her tracks before turning around.

"What are you doing? Run!" Erik shouted as he caught up with the Huntress who had the devices at the ready. As Soon as Erik was beside her, she threw both of the Devices at the wall to the right and the wall to the left. Both Triangular devices clung to the opposite walls like magnets and glowed red.

"You may want, to stand back, this will be messy" Sha'ra warned the Myrmidon who was still unsure of the nature of the devices.

The Xenomorphs were running on all fours at full speed, making the larger of the five slower than the others, but as one of the smaller, more agile warriors was close enough it leapt at the two of them with its claws and teeth bared. Sha'ra smirked behind her mask as she typed some controls into her wrist computer causing thin red lights to shoot out of the devices, creating a laser grid.

The Xenomorph Warrior couldn't stop as it made contact with the laser grid and was swiftly cut into pieces. Erik saw that the Warrior's acidic blood was still intact and an arc of the corrosive liquid was on its way to Sha'ra, using his Myrmidon reflexes he shielded Sha'ra with his body, the corrosive liquid simply splashed against the back of Erik's Myrmidon armour.

"Are you alright?" Erik asked Sha'ra

"…Yes…thank you" Sha'ra replied blushing behind her mask, Erik then noticed that he was embracing her in a very suggestive manner with his arms around her waist.

"Oh...um…sorry" he replied as he turned and saw the mutilated, twitching torso of the Xenomorph. The Laser Net really fucked the creature up.

"You might want to lead with that thing next time" Erik said as he stomped on the Xenomorph's head, splattering it's brain's all over the place.

"I only had the two" Sha'ra replied.

Erik then saw the other Xeno's still charging, apparently the one that the net killed was much faster than the others, Erik smiled and unconsciously got close to Sha'ra in case he had to shield her against another rain of acid blood. The Myrmidon and the Yautja waited for the group of Xeno's to meet the same fate as the last one but instead the larger one skidded to a halt, its claws creating sparks on the metallic ground. The other Xeno's stopped in their tracks as well, following the example of their leader.

"Did you see that? They followed their leader" Erik asked in disbelief

"Yeah…wish I hadn't" Sha'ra replied

"You're a smart motherfucker aren't you?" Erik asked the large Xenomorph. The Myrmidon and the Yautja were now separated from the Xenomorphs by a very deadly laser grid that would slice any organic life form that tried passing it to ribbons. The Large Xenomorph snarled at Erik, baring its sharp silver teeth at him, drool dripping from its maw.

"Abomination" Sha'ra said looking at the Xenomorph, taking note of the dreadlocks that her people had, though this creature was not a Hybrid of their race, but more so of their Black Yautja cousins. Erik looked at the Creature in the area where it would have eyes and could see it was trying to figure things out, he had gotten used to that look after all his years of being a Myrmidon.

"Ok, I can tell this guy is trying to figure out how to get past this, I think we should take this as our chance to get the hell out of here" Erik said as he turned to Sha'ra

"Good idea" she agreed as the two of them began to walk away at a fast pace, the Xenomorphs left behind snarling and hissing at the two of them as they left. The larger of the Xenomorph stared at Erik In particular as he walked away, the alien then roared loudly into the air, the other Xenomorphs bowed down low as if apologizing to their superior.

Meanwhile with Erik and Sha'ra, the two of them seemed to have regained their breath as they walked. Erik reloaded his Pulse Rifle, he cursed slightly when he realized he was on his last clip, if they encountered another group of Xenomorphs like that then he wouldn't be so fortunate in the ammo department next time.

"How long will that Laser Grid last?" Erik asked as he holstered his Pulse Rifle on his back

"It runs on a plasma energy conductor, so it should last for at least 2 or 3 hours" Sha'ra explained

"Well, as long as it keeps that big fucker away from us long enough to get away, I'm fine" Erik smiled behind his helm.

"That thing is the offspring of a Black Yautja, they must have wandered into their hive by mistake" Sha'ra said

"Huh…so that's a Black Predalien then?" Erik said, causing Sha'ra to cock her head.

"Predalien?" She asked

"We tend to give names to different breeds of Xenomorph, it helps us categorize how dangerous they are and how to best fight them. Predalien is the term we give to Xenos that are birthed from Yautja" Erik explained

"So, your people have encountered those abominations before?" Sha'ra asked

"I have encountered them once or twice, but the first time humanity encountered a Predalien was…what's the matter?" Erik asked as he noticed Sha'ra was looking forward instead of looking at him. Erik may not have known that much about Sha'ra, but in the short time that he did, he knew that whenever she was genuinely interested she would look at him.

"I…well, Yautja in general don't like talking about those creatures, and being subjected to their birth is a dishonourable way to die. A true Hunter should die either in battle or of a ripe old age with battle scars that would make their ancestor's proud" Sha'ra said

"Agreed, though last I checked you guys tend to use those wrist detonators when you feel that a fight isn't going your way" Erik asked

"Not if we can help it, besides we don't do that when fighting more advanced races. The whole reason we use wrist detonators is so that either Kainde Amedha can't take us as hosts or so a technologically weaker race doesn't discover our tech before they are ready" Sha'ra explained, tapping her wrist computer to emphasize her point.

"You really think Humans aren't technologically weaker anymore?" Erik asked

"Well, you seem to have gotten the hang of acid resistant armour, long distance space travel and oh yeah, this thing" Sha'ra said gesturing all around them.

"Ok point taken" Erik chuckled

"Then there is the fact that you humans seem to be way more mature than you used to be" Sha'ra said

"Care to elaborate on that?" Erik asked

"Well, last I checked Humans get scared by anything that's different than them, prejudice is the word I believe, it happens to all species. But here you are, a Human talking to a Yautja as if she is a Human herself" Sha'ra said

"What can I say? You're a very good conversational companion" Erik smiled behind his mask; he couldn't remember the last time he had spoken with a woman that wasn't another Myrmidon. Sure there was a rare occasion when he would meet a female Myrmidon who would share his rank so he could talk to them normally instead of like a superior or subordinate. The last time he had properly spoken to a woman who wasn't a Myrmidon was probably his Foster sister when he left to become what he was today.

"How long have we been travelling now?" Erik asked

"I don't know, about a day and a half" Sha'ra said

"I think it may be the time we actually get some rest, tell you what, when we get far enough we should set up for the night" Erik suggested.

"That would be nice" Sha'ra sighed in a relieved tone, her feet were absolutely killing her from all the walking she was doing. But what she could really use was a shower or at least whatever the human equivalent of bathing was nowadays.

"Then we can maybe regain our Barings and try and find our groups. By the way if we come across your group first, can you please try to make sure your Uncle doesn't take my head off?" Erik asked

"Haha, only if you promise the same for me" Sha'ra said.

"Alright, we got ourselves a deal Ms Yautja" Erik smiled as he held out his hand, though Sha'ra just stared at it.

"…You shake it" he said, though Sha'ra simply grabbed his thumb and literally shook his hand about, making Erik laugh "Good enough"


*with the Myrmidons

"RAAAAAAGH!"

*BANG!*

The hog creature's brains blew all over the floor as Sasha let loose with a blast of her shotgun. The Myrmidons seemed to have come across a large group of the very same creatures that the Yautja Hunting party had encountered earlier.

Hanzo sliced one of the creature's arms off before he ducked underneath it lashing out; he used this time to drive his Katana upwards through the creature's skull. Hanzo preferred getting up close and personal anyway as it gave him a buzz of adrenaline whenever he used the world famous sword of his people to bring down a foe.

Baako shot one of the creatures in the head, killing it in one but when he saw a pair of the creatures charging him he holstered his pulse rifle and drew two serrated knives from his belt and went into a kneeling position. Baako took his time and waited as when both creatures were in range he rolled past them, slicing open their stomachs as he did, causing their guts to spill out onto the floor.

Michael fired his pulse rifle, taking the legs off of one of the creatures before he ran over to it and round housed it in the face, resulting in a loud snap of breaking its neck. The rookie then looked over to Ramirez who was sniping the Creatures, killing them in single headshots while Vlad was near him, killing anything that got close with his hand axes. However the American Myrmidon noticed a particularly large Hog creature had somehow gotten behind the Spanish Myrmidon.

"RAMIREZ! BEHIND…" Michael shouted but before he could finish Ramirez quickly holstered his Sniper Rifle and rolled out of the way as the creature brought its arms down into the ground. Ramirez then drew his Rapier and using the creatures' position to his advantage and decapitated the creature, its head hitting the floor with a thud.

"…You" Michael finished before he felt Sasha put a hand on his shoulder and say "Remember who the rookie is, Stratford"

"Alright, regroup and Reload" Baako said as he cleaned his knives on the Dead creatures' furry hides. Hanzo swung his Katana, blood creating an arc on the floor before he sheathed it, Sasha reloaded her shotgun, Ramirez reloaded his sniper rifle, Michael reloaded his Pulse rifle and Vlad put away his Hand Axes.

"Well, that was a good workout, now does anyone know what the hell these things are?" Baako asked as he picked up the head of the Hog creature that Ramirez decapitated.

"Those things are Tranvierian field trolls" Sasha said as she put another shell into her shotgun chamber. "They were called that due to the fact that…well they look like Trolls don' they?" she said gesturing to their furry yet leathery hides and the tusks they bared in their mouths.

"How the hell do you know that?" Michael asked

"I Told you to read the mission files, they come with extensive files of the creatures they were researching on board…you did read them right?" the Female Myrmidon asked

"Uh…how was I supposed to?" Michael asked

"Ah, still a rookie, the mission files are downloaded straight into your helmet's data base, you can read them at any time" Ramirez laughed

"These things are apparently very popular in the Bio-weapons research" Sasha said gesturing to one of the Troll's corpses. "They are very strong, but stupid, then there is the fact that they operate purely on smell and breed like Rabbits in heat…that would explain why there is so many of them" she said

"Huh, not very good fighters though" Hanzo said poking one of their corpses with his foot.

"They operate on scent, last time I checked, to be a good fighter you need more than just smell" Vlad said. These creatures may have been strong, but in terms of skill they paled in comparison to the Myrmidons whom where trained from a young age to fight creatures like the Xenomorphs. Xenomorphs were smart, agile, fast, strong and sneaky, so creatures such as the trolls were small game for the Myrmidons.

"Imagine if a Xeno got a hold of one of these things" Michael said

"I doubt even a Xeno would want to hive something this disgusting" Ramirez said as he inspected the head that Baako was still holding up.

"Anyone want a souvenir?" Baako asked as he tore one of the tusks from its mouth.

"Ugh, no thanks" Sasha said as she finished loading her shotgun, cocking it causing an empty shell to pop from the chamber. The female Myrmidon then started walking again at a steady pace, leaving Baako still holding the Troll's head.

"I'd rather not thanks" Ramirez said as he loaded his Sniper rifle back up and holstered it on his back, he then began to follow Sasha down the hallway.

"I don't take souvenirs, but thank you anyway" Hanzo said as he sheathed his Katana and followed Ramirez and Sasha.

"Fine, all mine then" Baako said as he put the tusk in his belt before following the others.

"Is…is he always like this?" Michael asked Vlad

"Da, he always takes a keepsake when he kills something new, you haven't seen his room yet so you can imagine what it's like" Vlad smirked as he started walking to the others with Michael just trying to keep pace at the back of the formation.


*Eli, Norma and Co.

Norma felt consciousness returning to her as her eyelids slowly opened, the first thing that she noticed was the fact that the extreme pain that had put her in this position was no longer there as she slowly opened her eyes.

Her eyes scanned the room around her to find that she was sat in an apartment bed, one of the beds that presumably belonged to one of the previous crew members. She also found that none of the other members of her group was to be seen anywhere. She raised hand to scratch the back of her head in confusion but as she did she felt a sharp pain, she instantly withdrew her hand and looked at her palm and in shock she widened her eyes.

Her fingers had claws like those of Eli and Rezeal and in her palm were a few drops of glowing red blood. Her claws must have cut the back of her head when she scratched herself.

"What in god's name?" Norma murmured before reaching back to rub the cut, but as she did she found the pain was gone and there was no cut to be found.

"What the hell?" she murmured in shock, genuinely worried this time she began checking herself for signs of what else had changed. She lifted up her shirt to find that her skin seemed paler than before and when she checked her feet she found that she nails on her feet were claws like the ones on her hands.

"Ok...on the bright side I'll never need to clip my nails again" Norma smirked as she felt the sharpness of her nails. But as she smirked she felt something different in her mouth, she then felt around inside her mouth with her tongue to find to her utter shock that her teeth were now serrated like Eli and Rezeal's.

"Wow" Norma said as she felt her sharp teeth, also noticing that her tongue was tougher than before. Norma then felt something giving her discomfort about the way she was sitting in the bed, she stood up and looked behind her, seeing something protruding from her lower back, moving as if it had a mind of its own, but as she got a closer look at what it was.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Norma screamed at the top of her lungs.

The door burst open and Eli and Rezeal shot out with their hands on their weapon handles, Sophie was right behind them a look of concern that rivalled Eli and Rezeal's as they saw what position Norma was in.

"What the hell is this?!" Norma shouted as she did a full turn showing the others what made her scream in the first place.

"T-That….That would be a tail" Rezeal replied awkwardly scratching the back of his head. Norma did indeed have a pale white reptilian tail sprouting from her lower back, it looked like the tails both Eli and Rezeal were sprouting.

"A tail? Why the hell do I have a tail?" Norma asked with a panicking tone. Eli Then noticed that the clothes she was wearing looked very…very tight on her body, the White haired Kamad noticed that Norma's muscles had substantially grown much larger than before. Of course before Norma wasn't skinny or anything, in fact she was quite well built but now she had the physique of a Female Cage fighter.

"I think you had better sit down Norma" Eli said as he stood straight up and walked over to her. The Female Researcher did as Eli told her, but as she tried to sit she found her new tail was getting in the way of her sitting comfortably.

"You may want to hold your tail in your lap, it's how Kamad Women sit" Eli said, Norma did as he suggested and immediately felt much more comfortable.

"Now, first off I have to say that no matter where this conversation goes, don't get too panicked alright?" Eli asked

"Of course, now could you tell me what the hell is going on because im really freaked out right now?" Norma asked

"Alright…apparently when I injected my blood into you, there were more side effects then I thought possible" Eli explained slowly

"…Like?" Norma asked

"Well…normally when a species is given Kamad blood, they will be healed of whatever physical injuries they have and for a short while will experience a buzzing sensation, but it seems to be….different for humans. In short it seems like Human DNA and Kamad DNA is extremely compatible because you are becoming more like a Kamad as time passes, first your height, then a regeneration ability, now it seems that you have acquired a tail, claws, sharp teeth, paler skin…and your eyes" Eli slowly explained.

"My eyes?" Norma asked

"Yeah…Sophie, can you pass me a mirror?" Eli asked the blonde who immediately retrieved a mirror and handed it to the large Kamad.

"Take a look" Eli said as he handed Norma the mirror. The researcher took the mirror and held it In front of her face and her eyes widened at the sight of her eyes, before this point Norma's eyes were a very common brown, but now her eyes were way different. Her pupils were now reptilian slits and instead of brown they were beautiful sparkly sapphire blue with gold highlights, she had never seen eyes like that, and even now she realized that her vision was much sharper.

"Wow…my…my eyes look amazing" Norma said as she was entranced by her new eyes.

"Yeah…they certainly do" Eli said, his own golden eyes gazing at hers.

"Uh…Eli…you are staring" Norma said

"I know, it's just that…the only other Kamad I have met that has those eyes was my father's sister" Eli said as he inched closer to her.

"Those eyes are those of royal blood, only females of the royal family have those eyes" Eli said

"Uh huh, now could you tell me why this is happening?" Norma asked

"Norma, there is a lot of stuff the human race doesn't know about itself, things that I think you would prefer not knowing, but if you really want to know…then I won't deny you that knowledge" Eli said. Sophie looked up at Rezeal and tilted her head at the black haired Kamad "What does that mean?" the blonde asked gaining the attention of both Eli and Rezeal.

"It's a Taboo subject, one Eli of all people should know" Rezeal said eying Eli

"Do you think I should know whatever you have to say?" Norma asked the white haired Kamad

"What?"

"Do YOU think it would be a good idea to tell me this stuff?" she asked yet again.

"…Well…on top of these…changes, no I don't think it would be a good idea" Eli said

"Then it's settled…not yet" the brunette smiled as she put her clawed hand on Eli's, only then noticing that aside from the size of their hands, they were virtually identical.

"Well, I guess you should probably get some…well….better fitting clothes" Eli suggested

"What do you mean?" she asked

"I think you should listen to him Norma, if you don't want to burst out of those clothes" Sophie suggested as Norma noticed the tight fitting clothes she was wearing.


"My Lord….My Lord…My Lord!" a Black Yautja guard said as he shook a sleeping Ma'zax by the arm. The Black Yautja Elder slowly awoke with a bit of drool hanging from his mouth, Ma'zax wiped the drool from his mouth before asking "What is it?"

"My Lord Ma'zax please forgive me for disturbing you, I would not dream of disturbing you if the issue at hand was not…" the Hunter feverishly spoke before Ma'zax interrupted him

"Just get to the point Boy" Ma'zax ordered with a yawn. Under a single glance he could tell that this particular Hunter was a Youngblood due to his still clean armour and lack of scars.

"Well first off the Ooman captains have still yet to talk, despite Lord Tra'kan's best efforts"

"Ah of course 'best efforts', but then again there is only so much you can do to a Ooman before they die or fall unconscious" Ma'zax smiled "What else?" he asked

"We have managed to activate a small number of the surveillance cameras so we can scope out certain areas of the ship we haven't discovered yet. Thermal imaging and motion scanners can only do so much my Lord" the Hunter explained

"Good, Good, and what exactly have you found?" Ma'zax asked

"Well My Lord, aside from the primitive Creatures on board we have actually located two groups of what we think may be hostile groups that are heading from the rear of the ship" the Youngblood explained

"What? Ooman survivors or is it the Kamads again?" Ma'zax asked with a very uninterested look on his face.

"Neither sir, I think it may be best if you look for yourself" the Youngblood said as he typed into the control pad of the main terminals. As he did, two screens turned on showing footage taken a short while ago from the rear section of the ship.

The first showed the Hunting Party of Yautja led by Zen'tau as they killed a small group of Field Trolls, the image was paused on the image of Zen'tau ripping one of the creatures heads off while Yeyinde and the other Hunters fought on around him.

The second showed the Myrmidons in combat with the group of Field Trolls that had attacked them earlier on, the image that had paused on the Myrmidons however was much different as the lighting was not nearly as good and the Myrmidon's pitch black armour helped them blend into the background very well thus making the image hard to make out.

"Yautja and….what are those things?" Ma'zax asked as he looked at the image of the Myrmidons, he had never seen such creatures in his life, the armour and the way they fought was very unfamiliar to him as his eyes scanned them for signs of what they were.

"I do not know My Lord, we have cross referenced their armour and fighting styles with whatever we had in our database and we have yet to find a major match" the Youngblood explained

"And as for these Yautja I hope that….wait a minute…I know that one" Ma'zax said, as he pointed to Zen'tau's image a grin slowly made its way across his face.

"…Zen'tau, it's been five hundred years and the little shit still persists in being a nuisance for us, still I must say its impressive that those runts have managed to stay undetected this long" Ma'zax smiled as he leaned back.

"Should I alert Lord Tra'kan my Lord?" the Youngblood asked

"Don't trouble yourself with this Boy, just concentrate on getting the remaining surveillance cameras up and running, those pathetic excuses for Yautja won't be a problem unless they somehow manage to get to the mid-section of the ship, and in that case I brought a contingency plan with us. And can you alert me when Captain Grey and Azarov are awake? I would like to have some alone time with them" Ma'zax said as he put his hands behind his back and began walking.

"It will be done my lord" the Youngblood said, banging his fist to his chest.

"Make sure that it is" Ma'zax said as he walked away.


"Ah, thank god for that, you have no idea how stuffy that armour gets after a while" Erik said as he finally disengaged the last part of his chest plate and laid it down next to the other parts of his armour.

"Must you wear such bulky armour?" Sha'ra asked, sat down by the fire that they had started, both of them had deemed it risky to use any electrical lights due to the fact that they might alert the Black Yautja in control of the ship of their location.

"Trust me, this armour is actually really useful in a number of ways, number one being that Xenos aren't as dangerous as they would if I didn't wear this armour" Erik smiled as he sat down opposite Sha'ra. The Yautja Huntress on the other hand didn't wear such bulky armour seeing as hers consisted of an armoured Pauldron, Greaves, gauntlets and her mask, so taking off her armour didn't change her appearance much.

Erik without his armour was wearing a Black vest and pants, he still wore his revolver belt around his waist as he didn't want to be rendered completely armless. He took one of his revolvers from his belt and opened up the cartridge to empty the used shells.

"That gun of yours, it seems like an old design" Sha'ra said as she scraped a wet stone across one of the blades of her Glaive. She remembered seeing such a gun of the same design on her Uncle's trophy wall, only the one Erik had looked much more bulky and advanced, that had the same basic design.

"It is, but trust me; this pulse Revolver is anything but primitive, I bet it could give a Plasma Caster a run for its money" Erik smiled as he loaded a new shell into the chamber. Even though he was British he absolutely loved the design of the Revolver, a lot of his favourite films were westerns and he honestly fancied himself a Doc Holiday of sorts with his Revolver skills.

"I look forward to seeing that" Sha'ra smiled with her mandibles. Erik still couldn't get over the fact that he wasn't weirded out by Sha'ra's mandibles and how she could smile and grin with them without him not understanding her facial expressions.

"I reckon that we have at least another day before we reach the level that our people were on when we fell, I still have trouble believing how we both survived that" Erik smirked as he finished loading his revolver, snapping the cartridge back into place before twirling it in his hand before holstering it in his belt.

"You are really good with handling that gun, you must be quite skilled handling it" Sha'ra said

"I have had a lot of practise; if I run out of Pulse rounds I could do some major damage with these puppies. Most powerful handgun created by the human race actually, only Myrmidons like me can use it, if a human tried using this baby it would probably take their thumbs off" Erik smiled spinning his Revolver.

"Ha, I remember one of my uncle's stories about when he hunted your race" Sha'ra smiled

"Uh…I don't think stories of how your Uncle ripped people's skulls out will help me sleep tonight" Erik stated awkwardly.

"No, no it's not what you think, before my Parents disappeared and he lost his arm he really loved humans, well more than other Hunters anyway" Sha'ra said as she put her Glaive away.

"Really, in what way?" Erik asked

"Well, the Majority of Hunters tend to think of your race as nothing but prey, little more than primitive beasts that can decorate walls. But my Uncle was not one of them, he treated your people like equals, he wouldn't kill humans in the shadows, he would observe humans and find which of you were the strongest, most worthy opponents and would fight them in single fair combat. One story was when he fought a warrior who wielded the same sort of guns you have, the man was so skilled that my Uncle had to use his entire arsenal to bring him down. But when my uncle defeated him he didn't take his skull, but one of the guns on his belt, his opponent deserved to retain his head" Sha'ra smiled

"You know for a moment there I forgot you were an Alien head hunter" Erik chuckled

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sha'ra huffed with her arms crossed.

"You are…really not what I expected a Yautja Hunter to act like, I always pictured creatures that snarled more that spoke, that always adorned themselves with human skins and skulls and didn't ever show mercy….but you…you are the complete opposite" Erik smiled at the Huntress

"Huh…I don't know whether to be insulted or flattered" Sha'ra smirked

"I'd prefer the latter" Erik smiled

"And I can say the same, I never expected a Human to be like you" She replied

"Well…im not a regular human, and neither are the other Myrmidons" Erik smiled as he stood up "I'll go check if the shower works, I think the both of us could use it" he said as he walked over to the bathroom.

"Alright" the Female Yautja agreed as she laid back and gazed at the ceiling with her hands behind her head.

Meanwhile in the bathroom Erik was fiddling with the dials of the shower trying to figure out how the water worked. His Dog tags dangled around his neck as he leaned into the cubicle of the shower; once he turned one dial however the Shower hissed to life, spraying cold water at a rapid pace.

'Well…it's better than nothing' Erik thought, he didn't mind a cold shower and hopefully neither would Sha'ra, though her scale-like skin must have been a lot more resistant to cold than his skin.

"Sha'ra! Do you want the shower first?" Erik asked loud enough for the Huntress to hear, "Yes thank you" was her response. Before Erik left the room he got a glance of his top in the mirror, he couldn't believe he hadn't noticed it before but the abdomen area was shredded to hell probably from the Xeno that attacked him when he and Sha'ra met. The reason he must not have noticed this was probably because unlike the Latex material that was part of Myrmidon his top was simple cotton and would not seal itself.

'Dammit' Erik thought, he may as well get rid of the black top as it was basically rags right now with the claw marks in it. The Myrmidon Major then took the top off and threw it into the bin that was located in the room.

But when Erik turned around he met eyes with Sha'ra whom had both her eyes focusing on Erik's bare chest. What her eyes were concentrating on however wasn't his chiselled physique, but the amount of scars on his body.

He looked like his torso had been through a Paper shredder, there were claw marks that defiantly matched the claws of the Xenomorphs, but that was not all, there were acid burns, bite marks and bullet wounds, it was simply amazing that she hadn't noticed them earlier. She noticed the scars on his arms of course and they looked normal to her as he was a warrior and scars where the mark of an experienced warrior as Sha'ra had quite a few scars of herself.

But the real shocker wasn't the battle scars…..but the scared Gridlines all over his chest. Erik's torso had Gridline scars all over; the scars were perfectly straight with very perfect circle scars located on his collarbone, ribs and abs.

They certainly looked painful, even by Yautja standards

"…Yeah, they look painful don't they?" Erik rhetorically asked gesturing to his gridline scars on his chest.

"H-How…how did you get those?" Sha'ra asked

"I…I don't like to talk about it, let's just say that these bring up bad memories" Erik replied as the Huntress arched her eye brows in confusion as to why he would not want to talk about his scars. Yautja males always loved talking about how they earned their scars, but by the looks of things Human men seemed a bit more sensitive about such matters, or at least Erik did.

"The eh…the water is cold just so you know, I hope you don't mind" Erik said before he quickly left the Bathroom, shutting the door behind him, leaving Sha'ra standing there with the sound of the shower hissing in the background.

Erik, once he shut the door behind him walked over to a nearby wardrobe that probably belonged to a long dead crew member and rummaged around until he found a shirt that fit him. The Myrmidon Major then sat down by the fire, hearing the sounds of the shower in the background.

He could already tell the thoughts that were probably going through her mind, most likely she was thinking about the scars adorning his body, the gridlines in particular and how the hell he got them. The Myrmidon didn't like to think about his scars too much, all Myrmidons had scars like his Gridlines, it was a price that all had to pay to become what they were.

And no matter what, the gridline scars brought back horrible memories.

Memories that Erik of all people tried hard to forget


The dark surroundings of the hive were all but silent, the only sound being the wet dripping of liquid resin falling to the floor. Corpses of Marines, scientists and engineer's decorating the walls, their chests burst wide open from the birth of the hive's residents.

Then another sound came from the entrance of the hive, a loud thudding followed by the sounds of whimpering. A large, hulking figure then came walking slowly through the cavern of the hive, it was the Xenomorph that had chased down Erik and Sha'ra and even though it had no face to speak of, it had an air of shame and failure about it.

The Xenomorph trudged along, step by step with two smaller warriors behind it both of which looked ashamed of themselves as they walked with their heads down. Once the three aliens got deeper into the hive they were greeted by the hissing and screeching sounds of their many sisters and brothers as they emerged from the walls.

The Xenomorphs gathered in mass, Facehuggers, New-borns, Drones, Warriors, Crushers, Spitters even Xenomorphs that had developed wings and 4 large Xenomorphs that looked identical to the massive brute leading the two warriors except they were not nearly as large.

The 4 Xenos with the bladed crests and dreadlocks hissed in unison to their larger brother only for it to reply with a deep snarl as if breaking some sort of news to them. The 4 smaller Xenos seemed to whimper in response and lower their heads as their brother walked past them on all fours.

The 3 Xenomorphs then entered the main chamber where the brunt of the hive nested, the chamber was massive as the Xeno's seemed to have destroyed a large section of the ship in order to house their new home.

But the one thing that any creature that could see was the massive form of the Queen, suspended up against a wall by huge streams of hardened Resin. This by no means was a regular queen as her crest was bladed and her size was twice that of a regular Queen; by her sides laid her two fully grown Royal Guards who seemed to have grown in size since their birth, their small talons now looking like claws you would see on a dinosaur and their size almost comparable with a Tyrannosaurus.

The Royal guards stood up on their hind legs and walked over to the Massive Xenomorph with Dreadlocks and hissed at the two warriors behind him, causing them to scurry away into the crowd of thousands of Xenos.

The Black Predalien was not intimidated by the two Royal Guards as he was just as large as they were and it knew that they would not risk combat this close to the Queen. So as the Royal Guards snarled at the Predalien, he only snarled back, baring his mandibles and secondary mouth.

"Now, now, no one here wants a fight" said a soothing voice from behind the Royal Guards, the voice echoed through the Hive and all the Xenomorph's seemed to relax and bow in respect to the voice.

The voice in question came from a very feminine shaped creature balancing on a very thin piece of resin attached to the Queen. The creature was softly stroking the Queen's head with her very feminine claw.

"Fighting is one thing I shall not abide by my children" the voice had a slight French accent to it and once the woman's head turned, her yellow slit pupils shone in the darkness. She stood up and dropped from the thin piece of Resin, landing flawlessly on the ground before approaching the Royal Guards and the Predalien.

"Quite yourselves my children, your fathers would not want you squabbling with your siblings" the female creature said to the Royal Guards, causing them to look at each other before lowering their heads, letting her stroke their head crests softly.

"Now, allow me to handle this, you are to protect your Queen and are doing a fine job" she smiled, showing her silver teeth. The Royal Guards seemed to purr before returning to the Queen's side.

"Now, my child do not fear, you are alive and that is all that matters" the female Hybrid said putting her hands on both sides of the Predalien's head in a caring manner before placing her forehead on the Predalien's head, closing her eyes before using their connection through the Hive Mind.

"And we shall punish those who murdered your sisters, a Yautja and…" the Hybrid female said with a calm tone before her eyes shot wide open.

"…A…A Myrmidon? What is one of my old Brothers doing here? Hahaha, oh this is perfect, not only will we have more brothers, but we shall convert those murderers to the way things must be" she smiled with utter glee.

"My son, you have done perfectly, but your task is not yet done, you and your brothers will hunt them down and bring them back alive" she smiled, stroking the Predalien's head.

"But…you will need help in this matter…" she smiled widely before turning her head to behind her. but as she turned, the dog tags around her neck falling, showing the text

COMMANDER LINDA GREEN – MYRMIDON THETA SQUAD

"…Brother…wake up" the semi blonde whispered as a rumbling sound came from the ground beside the Queen, the resin on her right side cracked and split as a humanoid shape tore itself from the wall, the resin fell onto the floor in shards as a deep growling was heard. Two large claws emerged from the crack and yanked the rest of the creature yanked itself from the wall, landing flawlessly on the floor before rearing its back.

The male Xeno human had certainly changed as it had large tubes like those of the Xenomorphs protruding from its back, its claws had become larger and what was left of its hair was longer and covering what was left of its human face.

The dog tags hanging from its neck jangled showing the following text

SERGENT BRIAN MILES – MYRMIDON THETA SQUAD

"You know what to do" Linda smiled, the former male Myrmidon growled and stood up on his hind legs before letting out a long and loud roar that echoed throughout the entire hive.

Erik and Sha'ra may not have known it, but they were in for it now.


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