Hello everyone...yeah...more Ottomans for you. If your wondering why I did this again, it's due to a random name picker I used to pick the story I will work on next. So yeah, I got it three times in a row.
Oh, and I also added a bunch of new events to the USSO's history, if you want to check it out, head here: art/The-World-of-the-USSO
But anyways, let's begin...
The Little Girl and the Ottomans
Chapter 3
Val and the others woke up early, the beaming sun raising the temperature back to schorching levels. They got ready to head out, and soon they got into Tanfüry and left the town. Luckily, the town was connected to Algiers via an old road built before the Ottomans even recolonized Algeria. The road was twisty, but can be navigated.
"How big is Algiers anyway," Quinn asked.
"Hm...if I can remember, it's considered the largest city in all of Ottoman Africa. It's also a immigrant station, where aliens go when they flee to our nation if they're planet is in danger or destroyed," Sumer said.
"Aliens?"
"Yes, aliens. Aliens of all kinds come here to become citizens of the USSO. We're considered a safe haven to the galaxy," Sumer told them.
"Speaking of aliens, I think a spaceship is falling out of the sky," Damien said, looking out the window.
"Don't be silly Damien, alien ships are usually escorted by Skyway Patrol, there's no way..." everyone's eyes widened in shock as a large spaceship falls from the sky and crash-lands behind a sand dune. Sumer shivered in disgust.
"They're here," Sumer said," Tanfüry, get us to the crash site and contact Skyway Patrol, we've got an invasion on our hands." Tanfüry swerved off the road and quickly reached the site.
"Wait, wait, who's here," Quinn asked.
"*sigh* During the Fourth Great War, a military shuttle in orbit around Earth was captured by an unknown species of alien, now dubbed xenomorphs. The ship was predicted to land somewhere around here around this time," Sumer explained as everyone got out of Tanfüry.
"Xenomorphs? Fourth Great War? Skyway Patrol!? This place just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Damien said. Suddenly, two spaceships appeared near the crash-site. The hatches open up, revealing ten soldiers in each ship. They were quick to respond to the crash.
"Conagher, set up a defensive perimeter around the ship," the officer ordered. The soldier began to open up several red boxes, revealing wicked and futuristic sentry turrents. Val and the others walked up to the officer while some of the soldiers were putting on battle suits.
"Ah, Sumer, pleasant surprise seeing you here," the officer said with a smile. The officer herself has double braided, oily, chestnut hair, hazel colored eyes, and a scar stretching from her forehead to her left cheek. She wears a grey, Ottoman-style blouse, an ankle-length pleated skirt, and a pair of military boots.
"Same her Allyssa."
"Well, we probably should get on our battle suits, I've already picked out a few soldiers to head in while the rest stay out and defend the perimeter," Allyssa told Sumer.
"Right," she said as she turned to face Val and the others," you all should stay out here. It's dangerous for you to go in there and fight them."
"But we want to help," Quinn said.
"You may have shown your skills in hand-to-hand combat, but for these things, you'll need a gun, and your too young to hold one, let alone use one," Sumer rejected.
"But..."
"Good, go find Tanfüry and stay with her for the time being. Me and my cohorts will be back in a jiff...probably," Sumer told them as she walked off to go put on a battle suit.
They find Tanfüry and stay by her side as they watch Sumer, Allyssa, and a bunch of other soldiers rush into the spaceship. Val grew a worried look on her face. She wanted to help them, but she couldn't. She couldn't stand it.
While Quinn, Tanfüry, and the others were not looking, she transformed into a hummingbird and flew to the ship's entrance. It seemingly opened by itself and she flew in, turning back into her normal form when the door closed behind her. The ship is dark, grimy, but somehow mostly intact. Val continued walking, but felt a presence near her.
Turning around, she fount the one thing she didn't really want to meet while she was alone. An xenomorph. But something was off. She felt a strange connection with this one, and she decided to take the chance. She held out her palm to the alien, who began to look at her curiously. It held out it's own hand, causing Val to giggle. The xenomorph then nuzzled her hand.
"I'll call you Shade," Val said. The xenomorph chirped in agreement.
"Are there any survivors on this ship?" Shade seemed to know what she was talking about, and she led Val to another part of the spaceship. The door they came across was sparking and off it's hinges, indicating a break-in. They walk in, and find the whole room a mess, with claw marks all over the place.
"Oh my, what happened here," Val said as she picked up a piece of paper. This paper turns out to be a poster, showing an angel with the Ottoman flag surrounding her holding the galaxy in her palms.
Shade got Val's attention, pointing her tail at two stasis pods. In one of them is a three year old boy, but with ginger-colored wolf ears and a tail. In the other pod is a girl around the same age as the wolf boy, but with grey cat ears and a tail. They were both wearing nothing on them.
"...Shade, can you go find me some clothes that could fit them," Val asked as she tried looking for the controls to the stasis pods. They could here laser-fire in another part of the ship. She cringed when she heard the screams of the xenomorphs that were unfortunate enough to be in the way of the lasers. She finally fount the controls and pressed a button that says, "salıverme (release)."
The pods drained and opened up, causing the two inside the pods to collapse onto the floor. They were unconscious, which Val was thankful for. Shade came back with two stacks of clothes.
"Thank you," Val said as she took the clothes away from Shade. She was about to shake them awake, but she felt a presence. She looked around, but couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. That was until she noticed something decloaking somewhere in front of the control panel. The figure she could sense turns out to be a predator.
Val's eyes went wide as the predator began to stalk up to Shade in a hunting fashion. Shade growled at him as she stayed in a protective stance near Val.
"WAIT!" The predator stopped in his tracks as he looked at Val under his mask.
"She doesn't want to hurt us," Val said as she hugged Shade around the neck. The predator continued staring at them for a few minutes until Val could hear it grumble under his mask. It pressed something on it's wrist-control pad and stood guard near the door.
Val smiled in worry before looking down at the two hybrids. She gently shook the wolf boy, who woke up with a jolt. He looked at her in confusion.
"Hello," Val said, waving at him. The boy tilted his head.
"C...can you speak?" The hybrid just looked a lot more confused than before.
"Val!? What are you doing in here!" Val looked back at the door to see Sumer in her battle suit, still holding her futuristic-shotgun.
"I...I felt like someone needed help inside. I wanted to help so I snuck in after you all," Val explained. Sumer looked at Val in disbelief under her helmet.
'And this is why I rather not have kids,' Sumer said to herself. She walks up to Val, only to notice the hybrids. She looked at the predator.
"Is the hallway secure," Sumer asked. He looks at Sumer and nods his head.
"Right." Sumer then pushes a few times on her suit's wrist-communicator.
"We need an evac in here," she said. She carefully picked up the hybrids in her arms as she began to walk out of the room. Val looked at Shade.
"We need to find out if the others of your kind are okay," Val told her. Shade and Val left the room, seeing that the predator guarding the door must've went deeper into the ship. The sounds of laser fire and the screeches of xenomorphs got louder the deeper they went inside.
Shade and Val ran through the halls, looking for any possible survivors. Pools of acid ate through the ship, notifying them about the battle that had been going on earlier. They turn a corner and enter another room. The place was quiet and dark, but they could sense something in the shadows.
"Who's there," Val yelled. She noticed a light-switch near the wall and flipped it. The light was minimum, but it was enough to see. It was the queen xenomorph, surrounded by its eggs and a multitude of drone and soldier xenomorphs. They had a feeling of defense eminating off of they're bodies.
The xenomorphs noticed Val and began to growl, preparing to attack. However, they stopped when they noticed Val smelt familiar. She smelt like an xenomorph.
"I'm not here to hurt you," Val said, holding her hands up in a friendly gesture. The xenomorph queen noticed her, and thinking that she is one of her xenomorph soldiers, ordered her to guard the door. She understood and went to the door, wanting to help the xenomorphs. She looked out, but was suddenly pulled away by a soldier. She couldn't see who this soldier was, but she could tell that, inside the battle-suit, is a woman.
"Stay here," the woman told her. Holding her shield and sword, she peered around the door and her eyes went wide. She looked down at her wrist-communicator.
"I've fount the queen's nest," she told the person on the other line.
"Mein Gott," Val could here on the other side of the line. Soon, three more soldiers appeared, one of them being Allyssa. She looked down at Val, and then at the other soldiers.
"How the hell did she get in here?" They shrugged they're shoudlers. Allyssa growled in disappointment.
"Val, stay here and don't move. Jen-I mean Sumer is already coming back in to get you out," Allyssa ordered.
"Are we ready," one of the soldiers said in a German accent. His suit had a medic symbol emblazoned on its shoulder.
"Let's do this," another soldier said in a Scottish accent. They turned the corner and into the room.
"Everyone, behind me," the medic says as he gets out a weird device. He turns on the device and it generates a red, translucent shield. The other soldiers fire they're weapons, which go right through the shield.
Outside, currently:
Quinn paces around in circles while the others look frantically around the perimeter. Val had gone inside without them noticing, and she hasn't come out yet. They fear for the worst.
"We've got to go inside."
"But didn't you hear what Sumer said. We can't go in there," Damien responded.
"But...we need to find Val. We don't want to find her dead," Quinn said, a look of sadness grew on her face.
"You lookin' for sumone?" Quinn turns her head and noticed the same soldier from before.
"It's just...one of our friends snuck her way into the ship. We're getting really worried that she's...you know..."
"Thair is squat ta worry about. Most of thuh xenomorphs 'ave been wiped out by now. Your partner is safe in thair, considerin' thuh fact that she done followed highly trayined soldiers," the soldier said. They all sighed in relief.
"Who are you anyway, you don't seem to be from around here," Damien asked.
"Maah name is Dell Conagher, but ya can kahwl me Engi. Ah done came from thuh moon, which is where ah gawt maah 'straynge' dialect," he said.
"You came from the moon? You sound more like a Texan," Quinn said.
"Maah family was from Texas before thuh Yar awf thuh Apocalypse," Engi told them.
"'Year of the Apocalypse?"
"Ah, yes, 2057. Thuh world's supply awf oil has just went dry. Thuh last remainin' oil was located under a nature reserve. Thuh nations awf thuh world all collapsed into anarchy except thuh USSO's predecessor, thuh USO, eend its vassal Romania," Engi explained.
"Wait, how did the USO and Romania survive," Aggie asked.
"Thuh USO an Romania were in thuh midst awf makin' everythin' that needs fuel 'laser-fueled,' inculudin' generators an cars," Engi added.
'So that's why I couldn't sense any gasoline in those vehicles earlier,' Quinn thought to herself. They talked for a few more minutes until another soldier came over to them.
"Engi, we need you over in the vehicle bay. We have some problems with the towing cables," the soldier said.
"Sorry guys, but ah gawt t' gitty-up now," Engi said as he walked away with the soldier. They waved at him, and they looked at each other.
"He seemed like a pretty nice fellow," Rocco said.
"Tell me about it. I never knew the moon looked like Florida when you got there," Damien added.
"But still, ain't we supposed to be lookin' for Val," Aggie asked them. Everyone's thoughts were interuppted when an explosion came from the other side of the ship. The sentry guns began to fire at something, something big.
"Let's go check it out," Damien said as he ran off to the other siren of the downed spacecraft, the others soon following. They got to the other side, but it was too late. The being that caused the explosion had already left and has escaped into the desert. Allyssa exited from the new entrance.
"Are you Val's friends? Because that xenomorph queen just took her and is now running into the desert with what remains of her hive," she told them. Quinn and the other's eyes widened in shock and fear.
"We've got to stop them!"
"But how, we can't catch up to something that big and fast," Damien said.
"Need a lift?" Quinn and the others turn around to see Engi again, but this time on a tank with a fusion cannon. They marvel at how shiny and futuristic it looked.
"But A thought tanks were slow," Aggie questioned.
"Ya may thihnk so, but this one is awf maah own personal build an can gallop up t' a hundred miles per hour," Engi told them.
"A hundred!?"
"Yep, she syhaw can. Now git in ifin' ya wanna save your partner."
Val clung on to the xenomorph queen as she, and what was left of the hive, fled the ship. They were being followed by soldiers on motorcycles, which had gun attachments on them and were spraying lasers at them. She cringed when she heard the sound of an xenomoprh getting hit by one of the lasers, killing it almost instantly. A new vehicle entered her hearing, and she noticed a tank somehow managing to drive right up beside them. Quinn peered her head out of the tank.
"Val! Jump! I'll catch you," she yelled. Val jumped off from the queen and landed right in Quinn's arms.
"Next time, don't wonder off without our permission," Quin said. Suddenly, the tank's turfs this spun around, pointing the gun at the queen. It fired a large ball of energy that hit the queen dead on, vaporizing her arm and some of her shoulder. The queen collapsed onto the ground after letting out a loud screech of pain.
"NO!" The tank stops in its tracks. Val breaks free of Quinn's grasp and runs in front of the xenomorphs, protecting them from the soldiers that just got off of they're motorcycles. They aimed they're weapons at the xenomorphs So they could finish them off.
"Girl, get out of our way," one of the soldiers said as he began to approach her.
"They never wanted to hurt anyone, we just startled them and they fought back," Val told them, hugging Shade by the neck. The soldiers all looked confused.
"Your just a delusional girl. There is no way that you'll be able to understand a single noise that even comes from those hell-beast's mouths," another soldier yelled.
"If your not getting out of the way, we'll just have to kill you as well," the first soldier yelled. They aimed they're weapons at the queen and prepared to fire.
...
...
"Hold your fire!" The soldiers lowered they're weapons. Sumer and Allyssa appeared right beside them.
"You were really going to shoot a child!? What is wrong with you. Skyway Patrol is not supposed to kill them! They save them," Sumer scolded.
"Er...uh...it wasn't my fau-" Allyssa sent a cold and deadly stare at the soldiers, who instantly shut up and cower in fear. Sumer walked up to Val.
"You...can speak to them?"
"Ye...yes. I can speak to all animals, not just them," Val told them.
"Now that's sumthin' ya don't har everydee," Engi said as he exited the tank, along with Quinn and the others. Quinn runs up to Val and hugs her like a friend.
"Hm...Allyssa, prepare the transport ships. Make sure the cages are acid-proof. We're taking these creatures and you all back to base," Sumer ordered as she left to angerly scold the soldiers. Val looked at the queen. She let a single tear fall from her eyes and land on the queen's body. Her arm and shoulder suddenly repaired itself, and she got back up with a loud roar. The soldiers pointed they're weapons at the queen.
"STAND DOWN!" Sumer yelled at them. Sumer looked at queen.
"How did she heal herself so quickly," she asked herself.
"Its because Val here is more special than you realize," Quinn replied as she put her hands on her waist. The others nodded in agreement.
"Hm...so Val healed the queen..." Val looked at the queen, who looked at Val and nuzzled her.
"Come with us. We'll help you find a new home," Val asked. The queen looked at her, and then at the soldiers, and then back to Val. It let out a low grumble, which signified that it agrees.
"She said she'll come with us," Val told Sumer.
"If that's the case, let's go. We're heading back to base."
Holy! This is the largest chapter I've ever made. Over 3000 words!? I've never done that before! Anyway, I thank you for reading this chapter. If you have ideas for this story, or any of my other stories, go ahead and tell me.
Oh, and Gabriel and Mariah, I've seen your ideas for your stories and I thank you for them, but I was planning on taking a break for a while. What I mean is, I'm going to update stories I already made, and I'll make new stories later when I feel like it. Your stories could be made. Also, I would appreciate if you would read my other stories, they are just as interesting? (If you do read them, I recommend you start at The Land That Can't Be Erased, since it was my first story, and then you can either pick the Lone Dragon or Lost and Found)
Anyways, this is Sporedude135, signing off...