7:00 AM
The Elder gave Lex a complete tour of the ship including the chamber holding Xenomorph face-huggers. Lex stared in amazement as a half dozen canisters filled with liquid held the little monsters. The face-huggers pressed their mouths up against the glass so as to sense them. Some of the others were motionless and would move on occasion.
"Why have?" Lex asked.
"They will be used for the next hunt," the Elder said simply.
"World, not safe, almost died before," Lex objected.
"The world's population has always been threatened by Xenomorphs for hundreds of years as we hunt them. It is a rite of passage to kill a Xenomorph," the Elder explained.
"Humans…almost all died for a hunt," Lex said.
"Perhaps if only those three were hunting," the Elder said referring to the dead Yautja. "We were observing the hunt during the entire time. The humans faced no danger," the Elder said confidently.
"Still think they be destroyed," Lex said.
"In time you will appreciate what we do," the Elder replied.
8:00 AM
The youths had each taken a glance at the new female on the ship. It was their first time seeing a female in some time. They each gave respectful nods as they approached her; the Elder was typically with her the entire time and teaching her the Yautja language.
Meanwhile, an alien life form had shed its cocoon and had totally consumed the body of Scar as he lay on the altar. The Xenomorph was larger than usual but not as large as a Queen. It held some characteristics of a Yautja; its face held four mandibles. It was common knowledge among the Yautja that Xenomorphs would often take characteristics of their hosts.
The Hybrid was over seven feet tall; higher than a typical Yautja male. It had a long tail behind it that had enough force to penetrate right through the body of a humanoid. Its head was larger containing eyes and a larger brain cavity. It was roughly twice the size of a Xenomorph spawned out of a human.
The Hybrid used his hands to tear the door down and then quickly ran through the halls looking for something to kill. It could smell food everywhere. A Yautja youth walked around the ship unsuspecting as the Hybrid rushed him. Before he could defend himself, the Hybrid sliced through his head with its secondary mandibles. The Yautja fell to the ground; green blood flowed from his forehead.
Another Yautja youth spotted the brief fight and immediately activated his targeting computer. The Hybrid snarled at the Yautja as he targeted it. A plasma blast went through the hall but missed the target. The plasma bolt blasted the hull of the ship causing a small explosion.
Lex heard alarms ring through the ship as the ship lost altitude. "Stay here," the Elder told her.
Another unsuspecting Yautja was sliced through the back by the Hybrid's tail. The Hybrid threw the dead Yautja aside and went after the next one. The second Yautja slashed at the Hybrid with his blades causing small wounds on the Hybrid's chest. The Hybrid retaliated by knocking the Yautja to the floor. The Hybrid then pinned the Yautja to the floor and blasted his head with its secondary mandibles.
As the fighting continued, more plasma blasts went through the ship causing large explosions. The ship began to drive toward the planet as it lost control. The inexperienced youths were firing madly at the Hybrid causing more damage to the ship. Lex could only watch in horror as the ship reached Earth's atmosphere and was descending rapidly toward the ground.
The Elder finally confronted the Hybrid as it killed another Yautja warrior. The two roared at each other and clashed with their blades. The two slammed each other into the walls. The Hybrid shot its second mouth at the Elder in an attempt to kill him. The Elder kept the Hybrid back and slammed it against the wall. The Hybrid swat the Elder with its tail, but the Elder sliced deep into the Hybrid's gut. The Hybrid screeched and slammed the Elder with its forearm.
The spaceship hit a hill causing massive damage to the belly of the ship and causing dust to fly up into the air. The spaceship flew across a large lake and slammed into the forest. The ship immediately halted on impact; Lex was thrown off her feet.
Pieces of metal went flying on impact; the Elder and the Hybrid were thrown across the length of the ship. Lex got back to her feet and looked herself over. Seeing no injury, she looked around. She started changing her vision scanners as she looked around her.
Seeing no one, she ventured outside half thinking the ship would explode at any moment. The last Yautja youth programmed his thermal detonator as he was dying from his injuries. The Hybrid looked over the youth and saw the blinking arm-band. The youth stayed perfectly still to give the Hybrid the impression he was dead. The Hybrid walked over to the Yautja and sliced through his mask with its second mouth killing him. The timer was deactivated as he died.
The Xenomorph canisters had been blasted open upon impact. Xenomorph face-huggers crawled out of the ship and raced into the forest. The Hybrid followed the face-huggers into the forest and was gone.
Lex walked around the ship and found the Elder pinned in the wreckage; his chest was covered in green blood. "What happened?" Lex asked.
"Scar must have had a Xenomorph inside him. The Xenomorph grew inside the ship and attacked us," the Elder said.
"What do I do?" Lex asked.
"You must hunt the Hybrid and kill it before it creates more of its kind. This planet depends on you killing it," the Elder said.
"What about help?" Lex asked.
"Once this ship crashed, the home-world was notified. They will send another but by the time they show up, it may be too late. The humans must not know about the Xenomorphs or the Yautja," the Elder stressed.
"Why not?" Lex asked.
"It will interfere with the progression of the human species. If humans are aware of us, we will have no choice but to incinerate the atmosphere of this planet," the Elder said.
Lex stared at Elder stunned as she realized what that meant. "Get as far as you can from here," the Elder said as he programmed his thermal detonator.
Lex watched as the red dashes began to blink and slowly disappear. Lex nodded and ran as far as she could from the spaceship. Within a few minutes, the spaceship was completely destroyed. Lex took cover behind a fallen log as the explosion ripped through the forest.
Once the explosion had settled, Lex looked back and saw nothing but a large crater. Any evidence that an alien spaceship had landed was erased. Lex was alone; no one else had survived. Lex looked around and saw large mountains in the distance. It was hard to tell with her vision, but she was confident that the mountains in the background were the Rocky Mountains in the United States.
Realizing time was not on her side, she went to work to track down the Hybrid and the other face-huggers. Hopefully, a town would not be nearby.
Meanwhile, a hunter and his son were out hunting for deer. The explosion of the spaceship a distance away scared the deer off preventing a perfect shot. The hunter looked in the distance and saw smoke rising nearby.
The son eagerly ran toward the explosion to investigate. The father followed his son but was more cautious. "Don't get too far ahead," he said.
As the two came closer to the explosion, face-huggers moved quickly towards them. Suddenly, one appeared before the hunter. The hunter stared at the alien monster with uncertainty and then it struck. The hunter instinctively fired on the alien blasting it to pieces as it jumped into the air.
The alien's blood showered the hunter's arm and immediately started dissolving his arm off. The hunter cried out as his arm fell off. The son stared in horror as another face-hugger leaped up and attached itself to his father's face. The son looked over his father uncertain as to what had happened. Suddenly, another face-hugger attached itself to the boy's face knocking him to the ground.
9:00 AM
Lex quickly found her speed greatly increased, and her endurance was enhanced from that of a human's. She ran through the forest scanning everything she could but found no trace of her target.
Lex suddenly found herself looking down on a small Colorado town. Lex quickly programmed her cloaking device and made herself invisible. The town appeared to have a population of a few thousand, enough for those aliens to create a large hive.
Lex went back into the forest hoping she would be able to find the aliens before the townspeople did.
12:00 PM
The face-huggers had detached themselves from their two hosts and died nearby. The hunter got up and wondered what had happened to him. His son likewise was now awake. The hunter realized his arm was missing but something else was wrong. Suddenly, he felt enormous pressure in his chest. Before he could know whether he was having a heart attack or not, an alien head blasted through his chest.
The son looked at his father in horror and then experienced the same pressure. Another alien blasted through his chest and screamed as it reached the outside. The two slumped as Xenomorphs escaped their chests and ran off.
Yautja Outpost
Thousands of light-years away, a Yautja warrior looked at his viewer screen. The planet had an orange atmosphere and a desert terrain. There was a small settlement planted into the rock. The Yautja warrior could see the damage Yautja spaceship descending into Earth's atmosphere. Deactivating the view screen, the Yautja warrior got off his chair and collected his weapons for battle.
Within a few moments, the Yautja warrior was in his own ship. The ship blasted off and headed toward Earth at maximum speed.
Earth
Lex found it easier to scan on the top of trees. A previous hiker, she had no fear of heights. Using her blades, she expertly climbed up the trees and looked around. Lex felt a sense of invulnerability in her more powerful body. She found that she could leap from one branch to another with ease.
As she leaped from one tree to another, Lex realized that her body might be ideal for hiking and climbing. With the proper gear, she would be able to climb the highest peaks in half the time. Lex looked at her blades as her feet rested on a branch.
"I could probably climb without any gear," she thought to herself.
As these thoughts entered her mind, she suddenly realized what she had become. She was a monstrous creature, an alien from another planet. She would never be able to interact with humans. The closest she could get was observing them with her cloaking device. She felt some bitterness with the Yautja for what they had done to her.
Still, she was the only one who could stop the Hybrid and save the planet. With that thought in mind, Lex continued her search through the forest.
3:00 PM
Lex became frustrated with her lack of success and went back towards the crater for any clues. Back where she started from, she used various visual scanners to track the face-huggers' movements. To her surprise, she was able to find small traces of identifiable fluid that created a trail.
Lex carefully walked through the forest and continued to track the fluid marks. Eventually, she came upon the bodies of an adult male hunter and his son. Lex saw that their chests had been blasted open. Lex had seen similar scenes before when it came to her crew. An alien had burst out of them.
Lex remembered what the Elder had told her: no evidence. She took out the vial of blue liquid and carefully took the cap off. She then poured a small amount on both bodies. The liquid immediately dissolved the bodies removing all traces of them. Lex felt a sense of disgust as the young boy's body was completely dissolved.
Putting the vial back in her belt, Lex found a new trail of blood and fluid.
6:00 PM
As it became evening, Lex continued to track the trail. Broken branches, small footprints, and destroyed vegetation gave her small clues on where the face-huggers were going. It became clear that the face-huggers were moving towards the city.
The start of the night made no difference to Lex; her infrared scanners were able to see everything as if it were the day. The fluid the face-huggers gave off was a slightly different color than the rest of the environment.
After a long search, Lex sat down and turned off her cloaking device. The only food provided for her was these injections. Lex considered the small needle and sighed as she injected herself with nutrients. Lex estimated that within a few days, she would run out. She wasn't sure what she would do then. Hunt for deer or elk? The idea was not overly appealing.
Lex considered the idea of using her cloaking device to go grocery shopping. The absurd idea made her smile on the inside. She needed to keep her sense of humor alive if she were to stay sane through this ordeal.
Standing up, Lex looked around and readied herself to resume the tracking. Lex quickly turned around; she had heard something. She faced a sheriff officer a small distance away from her.
"How did he sneak up on me?" Lex wondered and then kicked herself for being so careless.
The sheriff gave a stunned look and pointed his gun at her in fear. Lex wasn't sure if the sheriff's gun would hurt her new anatomy, but she wasn't going to take any chances. She extended her right blades; hopefully, the sheriff would run off.
The sheriff instead cocked his pistol at her. Lex knew the only way to solve this problem would be to reason with the man. She walked over to the sheriff. "All I have to do is get him to shut up and realize we are on the same side," Lex thought to herself.
"Don't get any closer," the sheriff said fearfully.
Lex gave an annoyed expression underneath her mask. The sheriff was white and not physically impressive. Lex put her hands up in a defensive stance but the sheriff was still pointing his gun at her.
"Please put the weapon down," Lex said.
The sheriff didn't budge. Lex quickly realized she was talking in Yautja. Lex walked closer to the sheriff putting her hands up so he wouldn't shoot her. Maybe she could get close enough to take his gun away and reason with him.
Lex got close enough to the sheriff that she would be able to take his pistol away from him. Suddenly he shot at her; the bullet bounced off her mask harmlessly. Lex instinctively shot out her blades into the sheriff's chest. Lex quickly removed her blade but the damage was already done; her right blades were bloodied from the sheriff.
The sheriff looked at her in shock and then fell to the ground lifeless. Lex could see two slice marks through the sheriff's chest. She checked to see if he was alive; he was dead. The blades had sliced through a lung and his heart.
Lex felt a sense of panic wash over her as she realized what she had done. A man was dead, not just any man but a sheriff. Immediately, she began to rationalize the event. The sheriff attacked her first, right? It was a reflex, it was self-defense. What would they do to her? Lock her up?
Lex looked around to see if anyone was around. Her long-range scanners detected a crowd of people walking in the area. Why was the sheriff so far out in the forest? Maybe it was to search for the hunter and his kid. Lex considered putting some of the liquid on the sheriff but thought better of it. She would need to conserve it if she was going to hide all evidence of the aliens.
Still, she couldn't just leave the dead sheriff on the ground. As she looked at the dead sheriff, she found herself feeling apathy for him. She was no longer human and that fact made her feel less connected to the sheriff for some reason. Lex looked up and saw a tall tree nearby.
Moments later, Lex dropped down from the tree. She had hung the body up in the tree where he would not be easily discovered. She didn't have time to bury him or hide him away someplace safe; it would have to do. Lex then turned on her cloaking device to avoid a similar incident.
Lex reflected on the killing. The sheriff was the second human she had killed. In the pyramid, she had killed one of the crew members as an alien burst from his chest. She had been human back then with Scar watching over her. She had pulled the trigger on her pistol ending the man's life. It was a mercy killing; the man died before he could feel the pain of his chest ripping open.
Lex sighed as she realized her life had fundamentally changed. Leaping up into the trees, Lex went from one tree to the next towards the crowd of people. With her cloaking device, she would not be detected by the crowd. Lex could see the warm bodies of the crowd as they passed her way. They had bright flash-lights and were shouting the names of the two presumably missing.
Lex could see an advantage in the authorities looking for the two missing people. If they continued to search for bodies that would never be found, she would be able to work easier without interference.
9:00 PM
Lex cautiously stalked through the sewers in the search for Xenomorphs. Her mask was able to provide night vision in the pitch black sewers. As she walked through the sewer system; she found herself oddly unaware of her former distaste for them. Normally, she wouldn't ever consider walking through the liquid surface of a sewer, but things were different now. With her mask firmly in place over her nose, she could not sense the smells found in a typical sewer. Even if she took off the mask, she was uncertain if it would make a difference.
Her vision system kept constant track for heat signatures throughout the sewers; the majority of detections were rats. Finally, after a period of searching, she found evidence of a Xenomorph nearby. A human body lay on the ground dead. As she examined the body, she realized that his chest had been punched out by a Xenomorph. Lex looked around and found two more bodies; they were all homeless.
Lex felt a slight emotion of pity for them but then remembered her mission. Taking out a blue vial, she poured the contents on the dead bodies and watched as they completely dissolved. Lex was spared the bloody sight by her vision sensors that denied her the specifics of the acid dissolving flesh and blood.
Realizing she was close, Lex continued down the sewer looking in every direction for a sign. Suddenly a green flash showed up on her vision sensors. A Xenomorph appeared hugging the ceiling of the sewer. It stared at her as if observing her and then snarled with its mouth. Lex immediately felt a surge of hormones as she became excited. She had never fought a Xenomorph one-on-one before.
With her mind, she activated her targeting system which immediately zeroed in on the Xenomorph. "Gotcha," Lex said to herself as she fired.
A blue blast of plasma went through the air and hit the Xenomorph causing it to explode on impact. What was left of the Xenomorph fell to the ground in the water. Lex put her hands together in pleased observance of the dead alien; her second kill.
The death of the first Xenomorph caused others to come to investigate. Lex quickly found three more Xenomorphs crawling towards her. Looking behind her, she realized that more Xenomorphs were headed toward her from the opposite direction. Lex fired off another blast hitting a Xenomorph critically. The two other Xenomorphs scrambled away and took to either side of her.
Lex extended her wrist blades and kept track of both aliens. The two Xenomorphs hissed at her and whirled their tails in a threatening gesture. Lex fired but missed causing the floor of the sewers to explode upward. The first Xenomorph leaped at her with its second mandible extended. Lex blocked the Xenomorph with her right arm knocking the alien away from her. The second curled its tail around her foot and caused her to fall to the ground. Lex fell with a thud.
The second Xenomorph leaped on her and snarled at her with its two mouths. Lex put her two hands up and kept the Xenomorph at bay from puncturing her mask. The Xenomorph whirled its tail to strike her. Lex kicked the Xenomorph off her causing it to slam into a sewer wall. Amazed by her strength, Lex got back to her feet and was immediately attacked by the first Xenomorph. She fired off another shot which missed. The shot blasted a hole into the sewer wall but caused the Xenomorph to cautiously move away from her.
The second was not so cautious and sprung at her once more. Lex turned around and punched the Xenomorph down to the ground and then fired at it. The blast hit the Xenomorph's head causing it to explode. Lex turned around and fired at the first Xenomorph hitting it in the chest. The Xenomorph fell to the ground dead.
"I think I got the hang of this," Lex thought happily.
A Xenomorph tail suddenly slammed into her back dropping her. Lex moved out of the way as the tail almost struck her again. She fired at the third Xenomorph causing it to explode. Its acidic blood got on her causing her tough skin to burn. Lex felt some discomfort and used the sewer water to get it off her. As she sat in the water, she saw more Xenomorphs approaching her.
Getting back to her feet, Lex targeted the Xenomorphs one-by-one. Plasma blasts hit three more causing them to explode on impact. Lex looked around and saw several Xenomorph corpses. She didn't have enough of the vial to get rid of all of the bodies. Lex then saw another reading on her computer vision screen.
It dropped down and held her tightly in a wrestler's grip. Lex stared at the Hybrid as it snarled at her. It was taller than her and more muscularly built. Lex had never seen it up close before; it was nearly as impressive as the Queen. Lex tried to target the Hybrid, but she was too close to it to get out a shot. Instead, she tried to punch the Hybrid away. The Hybrid swat at her smacking her masked face. Lex was stunned by the blow but stayed on her feet. Had she not been masked it would have created heavy damage.
Lex kicked the Hybrid in the gut causing it to roar at her. Lex attempted to target the Hybrid causing blue plasma blasts to fill the sewer in random directions. The Hybrid decided to leave the scene and sprung up through a hole Lex had made in the sewer ceiling. Lex looked up and realized that the Hybrid was now retreating to the surface. Bending her knees, she launched herself up to the surface and looked around.
It was dark and there was little traffic. Lex lost sight of the Hybrid as she looked in all directions. Realizing she was exposed, she turned on her cloaking device and ran off down the street.
A Yautja ship soared through Earth's atmosphere and landed in a large lake close to the crash site of the first ship. The ship quickly sank into the lake avoiding all detection. After a few moments, the Yautja Warrior known as Wolf sprung out of the water and calmly walked onto the shore.
He was masked, heavily armed, and about the same relative size to that of the Elder that had taught Lex. Turning on his invisibility cloak, he walked towards the crash site. Once he got there, he saw a large crater where the ship should have been. His vision sensors picked up a type of radiation only associated with a Yautja wrist detonator.
Walking around the perimeter of the crash site, it was not long before he found the dissolved remains of the hunter and his son. His vision sensors detected the chemical substance commonly used by the Yautja to get rid of the evidence. A Yautja survivor had survived the crash.
12:00 AM
Lex sat in a tree in a cemetery wondering what to do as time passed. The town seemed to be moving again in another attempt to find the hunter and his son. Suddenly, the power went off in the entire city. Finding this peculiar, Lex looked around and saw people walking outside in a panicked fashion.
"Had the aliens destroyed the power supply?" Lex wondered.
Lex heard some shouting close by. A man with a gun in his hand was threatening a woman and her child. Lex listened intently as it appeared the man was demanding all of their belongings. The man suddenly cocked the gun and aimed it at the child.
Lex had a quick second to react. She targeted the man and fired. The blast hit the man's head causing it to explode. The headless body fell to the ground among the tombstones. The little girl screamed as she saw what happened. The woman, the mother took the child away from the body and took her to another location.
Lex considered what she had done. She had saved a life, hadn't she? This has been her third human kill and she felt terrible about it. She glanced at the headless body, but it didn't seem to affect her. Her vision was in night vision green; she could not see the blood.
1:00 AM
Xenomorphs were on the loose in the town. Sightings had been spotted all over the town and now suddenly the National Guard had been called in. Convoys of soldiers entered the city with automatic weapons. Lex tried to stay clear of them in case she was spotted. She was certain that the National Guard would be all too willing to shoot her down.
Observing the town, she saw some people entering a sport's store. Xenomorphs then raced toward the store; surrounding the store they then went inside. Alarmed, Lex leaped from building to building as she got closer to the sport's store.
Inside the store, humans were attempting to fend off the aliens with various weapons found in the store. Once Lex got to the scene, some of the aliens were dead while others had escaped. She found two headless men on the floor along with a few other humans. Some had been killed by Xenomorph stabs to the head while others were clearly killed by a plasma blast.
Lex felt the human side of herself become chilled as she realized that another Yautja was in the area. Lex left the scene and searched for humans and Xenomorphs.
2:00 AM
Wolf ran down the halls of the hospital as he killed several Xenomorphs. His plasma cannon had been damaged in the battle at the sport's store. He now used it as a gun manually fired by a trigger mechanism. As he went about his work, humans, would on occasion, get in his way. He swung a shuriken into the air that was supposed to slice into a Xenomorph. Instead, it sliced through a human female killing her instantly.
Lex reached the hospital and saw plasma firing from the windows of the top floor. An experienced climber, Lex raced up the stairs to the top floor. The humans retreated to the top floor where a helicopter was perched. Xenomorphs engaged them from all sides. One of the humans had confiscated Wolf's plasma gun and was now firing it at the Xenomorphs.
Lex reached the top floor and saw the battle before her. Aiming her red beam on the Xenomorphs, she fired at them killing them. The humans, numbering a half-dozen survivors, looked at her with frightened expressions.
"I am here to help," she told them.
Her tone resembled a computer through her mask. It was masculine sounding and mechanical, but it got the message across. The humans simply stared at her in fear. The one named Dallas still held his plasma gun at her.
"I think we can trust it," the one named Kelly said.
Lex appreciated the vote of confidence but not in being referred to as an "it." "We have to get out of this town. I think they're going to bomb it," Kelly told her.
Bomb the town? Who and why? Lex then considered the situation; the other Yautja might be willing to destroy the entire town to get rid of the infestation. If that was the case, she would have to stop him.
"I can't believe the military would bomb the entire town," one of the humans expressed with dismay.
"Is it really that far-fetched?" Kelly argued.
The military? Would they actually nuke a town to control the situation? Do they know about aliens? Lex didn't have the answer to these questions but for the time being, she needed to concentrate on survival and saving these humans.
"Get the chopper ready," Lex ordered.
The humans nodded in stunned amazement. Kelly entered the helicopter and worked to activate it. Suddenly, Lex saw him above her a short distance away. Wolf looked down her with his mask; he was no longer cloaked.
"That's the other one," Dallas said holding up his gun.
Lex pushed Dallas gun down. There was no need to antagonize the Yautja. She barely noticed it, but her strength and power were at least double a human male; it was unreal. She could over-power Dallas with ease as well as the other humans.
Wolf dropped down closer to her and began clicking at her. Lex understood the clicking in part. She understood his emotions. He was angry at her for getting in his way. He extended his wrist blades in a threatening manner. The humans stared at Lex wondering if she would kill them or defend them.
Lex looked at the humans and then back at Wolf. The male Yautja was bigger and more experienced than her. If she couldn't win, she could at least stall him until the humans left. Lex extended her wrist blades and took up a fighting stance against Wolf.
Wolf clicked amusement at her downplaying her abilities. Lex became annoyed with his attitude and fired off a plasma burst at him. The blast nearly missed Wolf's head and shot off into the air; an intended miss. Wolf stared at her; his clicking ceased.
Lex engaged in some clicking of her own presenting her emotions of anger at him. Wolf clicked back; he was no longer amused but greatly angered by her. Wolf extended a spear and held it above his head. Lex targeted Wolf for the kill this time.
Wolf whirled his spear over his head and then threw it at Lex with amazing accuracy. Lex froze up as the spear hit her plasma cannon. The plasma cannon fell off her shoulder and hit the ground; it was damaged and unusable. The spear punctured an air conditioner unit behind her.
Wolf dropped down and rushed Lex with his blades extended. Lex kept her arms outstretched as she braced for impact. Wolf attempted to slice at her neck in a killer blow. Lex dodged the attack and tried to slice at his chest. Wolf blocked the attack with his other blade. Wolf sliced down on Lex slicing her right arm. Lex retaliated by slicing his leg.
The two circled each other for a moment and then Wolf went in for another attack. Lex dodged the blow, but his wrist blade sparked off her mask. She punched him hard to the face knocking his head aside. He then kicked her to the ground. He sliced down nearly missing her; she sliced at his ankles causing him to roar in annoyance.
Lex got back on her feet; her wounds bled green. Wolf also bled green blood from his wounds, but he didn't seem affected by them. Wolf stared at Lex for a moment and then decided to take off his mask. Lex watched as his mask slowly came off revealing his true face. It was similar to other Yautja from the ship, but she could also see differences more clearly. Wolf dropped the mask on the ground and then roared at her. Lex decided to like-wise take off her mask; it just seemed like the right thing to do.
Lex took off her mask and dropped it on the ground. Her vision changed dramatically as the mask fell off her face. She realized that her vision was rather poor and the colors were different. Wolf seemed to hesitate to attack her and then looked at the humans near the helicopter.
He dismissed Lex and rushed the humans, especially the one with his gun. Before he reached Dallas, Lex pulled him back keeping him from getting closer to them. Wolf elbowed her hard to gut causing waves of pain to flow through her. Lex retaliated by punching him hard to the back. Wolf whirled around and smacked her to the face. Lex grabbed a hold of Wolf and head-butted him stunning both momentarily.
Suddenly, an explosion erupted from the floor of the roof. Wolf and Lex turned to see the Hybrid climbing onto the surface. Wolf looked at Lex and then at the Hybrid. The Hybrid snarled at them both with its salivating mandibles. It whirled its tail in an aggressive manner. Wolf went into a fighting stance and confronted the Hybrid.
Lex watched in amazement as the two titans dueled before her. Wolf sliced upward into the Hybrid's head but the Hybrid sliced into Wolf's gut with its tail spraying green blood on the floor. Wolf gave a roar in pain as he continued to struggle with the Hybrid. Lex looked around her and saw the spear still inside the air conditioner unit. She ran over to it and pulled it out.
Wolf saw Lex take out the spear and decided it was time to acknowledge his destiny. He clasped onto the Hybrid even as it sliced more into him. Bearing the pain, Wolf continued to hold on as the Hybrid slashed at his chest and arms. Lex ran with the spear and sliced it through the Hybrid causing it to screech in pain. Lex dodged the Hybrid's tail as it swung around her. Keeping her grip on the spear, she attempted to peal the Hybrid off of Wolf. A bloody Wolf sank his blades into the Hybrid's neck spraying acidic blood on him.
Finally, the Hybrid fell to the ground dead. Wolf fell to the ground severely wounded from the fight. He reached for his wrist to activate his thermonuclear weapon. Lex knelt next to him and realized what he was about to do.
"Activate that and I will cut your arm off," she threatened in English.
Wolf seemed to understand and closed the lid on his bomb. "Plan?" he made out in English.
"I will take you back to your ship," Lex offered.
Wolf said nothing and then activated another device. Lex looked at it cautiously ready to kill him if he tried anything. "Ship….come to me," he said.
Lex nodded giving him permission. Within a few moments, his ship decloaked above their heads. The humans stared up at the ship in amazement as it descended down on the rooftop. "Take my body," Wolf requested faintly.
"I can't pilot that thing," Lex protested.
"It knows where to go," Wolf replied.
Lex looked upon Wolf as he closed his eyes and died. Lex looked back at the humans. Could she go back with them? Lex looked at her reptilian looking hands and then at Wolf. No, she was no longer human. She didn't belong here.
"Go!" she told the humans.
The humans got into the helicopter and took off into the air. Lex grabbed a hold of Wolf's body and dragged it towards the ship. Eventually, she managed to get it on board. The ship became active and took off from the hospital roof. Rapidly accelerating, the ship went through the atmosphere with ease and floated into space.
Lex watched in amazement as the alien ship headed away from Earth. As Earth became smaller, she saw a small flash of light in the Western United States where she had left from.
The Yautja ship picked up speed and headed toward an unknown area of space. Earth was far behind and now the Sun had become no different than any other star. Lex considered Wolf's body; its wounds had sealed up. Lex picked up the heavy body and put it on a table. She was now alone on an alien ship.
As the ship sped towards its final destination, Lex used her medical tools to heal her wounds. When she had sealed all of her wounds; she explored the ship. It was similar in design to the first ship she was on, but a little smaller. She explored Wolf's trophy room; it was filled with various skulls of alien life forms from all over the galaxy. To her dismay, she found a large collection of human skulls.
She also found a table filled with various weapons. Some were familiar to her while others were new. Feeling the weight of her equipment she stripped it off and placed it on the table. She then entered Wolf's private quarters and found a small reddish hologram of several Yautja. Some were female and some were children; Lex determined the hologram to be Wolf's extended family.
Looking around the room, she found what resembled a bed. It was not all that different from a human bed except there was no need for blankets; the ship's temperature was comfortably warm for her. Exhausted by her ordeal, she rested on the bed and went to sleep.