A few days later, a number of hardened ex-military and mercenaries arrived at the house. They each seemed to be on friendly terms with Dutch and had an interest in Lex's appearance. The first night they arrived, they drank beer and related old war stories. Dutch introduced each one of them to Lex using either fake names or code words.
"This is Barney," Dutch introduced first. He appeared to be in his late fifties but was fairly muscular like he was full of steroids. He had black curly hair, a goatee, and an Italian olive complexion.
Lex politely shook his hand, which was twice the size of hers. "Gunnar," Dutch introduced next. This man had blond spiky hair and was even bigger than Barney. He towered above Lex. Even in her Yautja form, Gunnar would have been roughly the same size. When he spoke it was in a Swedish accent.
"Nice to make your acquaintance miss. They call me Lee," the next man said to her. He was nearly bald, shorter, and smaller than the other men, but Lex could sense that this man was dangerous. His accent appeared to be English.
"This is Yin. He doesn't talk much," Dutch introduced. The former Chinese agent nodded to her. He was shortest among them all, but Lex had seen him outside practicing with a sword. He was known for his speed.
"And this is Toll, Caesar, and Tool," Dutch listed off. Toll was a muscular former Green Beret; Caesar was an African American former Staff Sergeant, and Tool looked like he just came from the jungle. He grinned showing off all his gold teeth.
"What about him?" Lex asked concerning a man off to himself.
"That's Royce. He's not very sociable," Dutch told her.
"So, what is this all about?" an older man asked her. He was bald, dressed in a suit, and had a cynical look about him.
"This is Church," Dutch introduced. Church rolled his eyes at Dutch as if his name was contrary to his nature.
"I'll explain everything," she said, and then placed a hologram projector on the table before them. Instantly, an image of the Western United States appeared in red light. The group stared at the image with interest. The map zoomed towards a secure military base in northern Colorado in the mountains.
"Our objective is acquiring this," Lex explained showing an image of the plasma cannon.
"What is it?" Lee asked.
"It doesn't matter what it is. All that matters is that we take it, and leave," Dutch said to the group.
"You're asking for us to break into a military facility?" Royce asked skeptically.
"You will each receive a million dollars in the form of gold bars once the object is in my hands. Untraceable, and can be converted into any currency," Lex enticed.
"How do we know you can deliver?" Gunner asked.
Lex unlocked a chest behind her and revealed a dozen gold bars. "I have more where this comes from."
"If you are in, stay here. If you want out, go," Dutch told the group.
There was silence for a moment, but no one got out of their seat. "Good," Lex said pleased.
"Everyone has a job to do. Tool will stay behind as our medic. He couldn't pass for a soldier anyway," Church said to the group.
"Thanks," Tool replied sarcastically.
"Dutch and I will stay behind, so we can keep a watch on you guys from here," Church added.
"We're going to need uniforms," Royce pointed out.
"That's right. We will go to a supply depot and buy several uniforms. You will be Sergeants and Lieutenants; nothing too special," Church said.
"The next part of the plan is to place these devices around the base. These devices can monitor all movement in the base," Lex said displaying some diamond shape devices.
"I have never seen technology like this," Lee remarked.
"They can use infer-red and visual light, so we know what's going on at all times," Lex added.
"We're going to need military ID cards," Gunnar mentioned.
"I'll take care of that," Tool volunteered.
"When do we move?" Lee asked anxiously.
"The job begins tomorrow morning," Dutch said.
The next morning, a collection of cars drove south towards the Colorado border. A separate truck filled with weapons was in the back. Once they got a few miles from the base, Royce, Lee, Yin, Gunnar, Toll, Caesar, and Barney prepared their equipment. They were all dressed in ACU Army uniforms. Inside their uniforms were pistols and explosives.
In Wyoming, Lex, Dutch, Church, and Tool stayed behind. Radio equipment was set up to monitor the group. A red hologram of the base was before them. "Place the devices at the locations, and then get out," Dutch ordered.
"Roger sir," Barney replied back.
The team took a van and entered the security gate. "Your military ID cards please," the MP requested of them.
They each showed their fake ID cards. The MP nodded, and then passed them through. The team gave a sigh of relief and then parked. "Let's get this done quickly," Barney told the group.
The seven of them went in different directions trying not to act suspicious. Barney was the highest-ranked of them all as a 1st Lt. He had to shave his beard, and get a haircut for this mission. He identified the building where they were to plant the device. Looking around, he placed the diamond device close to a building. As soon as it stuck to the building, a cloak immediately made it disappear.
"We have a visual," Church said, as the device became active. They could now see a corner of the base. The other devices were similarly planted giving headquarters full view of the base. They could now see the entire base as if they had a satellite pointed at it.
"Good work. Now, get out of there," Dutch ordered.
Meanwhile, the Yautja found the survivors of the nuclear explosion in Colorado during the Xenomorphic outbreak. They tracked down Dallas and Ricky and then killed them both in the middle of the night at their apartment. Their bodies were stabbed through, so as to avoid detection from the neighborhood. They then tracked down Kelly and her daughter. The Sergeant was better prepared for the Yautja than the others. Upon hearing movement in her house, she took out a pistol. She saw the air slightly disturbed in the night. She fired at it splashing green on the floor. The Yautja's cloak deactivated from the impact. Kelly fired off a clip hitting the Yautja's arm, chest, gut, and shoulder. She went for another clip just as a second Yautja stabbed her through the back.
Kelly tensed up and then fell to the floor. "Not my daughter…," she muttered.
The two Yautja recloaked and considered the dying woman. They then left the room towards the hallway. They found the little girl confused by the gunfire. The Yautja scanned the girl and then walked past her.
The team entered the base a second time as the sun was going down. Passing through security, they radioed the position of the plasma cannon. Church gave directions to the team, as they walked through the base.
"So, how do you know each other?" Lex asked Dutch and Church.
"We go way back," Church mused.
"Church was in the CIA and a good friend of George Dillan. He told me so many stories about you," Dutch recalled.
"What happened to Dillan?" Lex asked.
"He was killed along with my entire team in 1987," Dutch answered.
"Oh," Lex expressed, and then kept her mouth shut.
"We at the right building?" Barney asked through the radio.
"Yes, standby," Church ordered.
Using the hologram, they looked at a see-through 3-dimensional image of the building. They could also see the people inside. "There are ten individuals inside the building," Church reported.
The team considered the lock on the door. Toll took out a kit and began brushing the numbers on the pad. The rest of them gave him cover, as he continued his work. Toll found out the numbers on the pad. After a few combinations of four numbers, he got the door open. He silently motioned for the others to enter the building.
Using the hologram projector, headquarters was able to see the team enter the building on the first floor. "If only the agency had this kind of technology," Church commented.
Lex bit her lip, as she realized she would have to recover all the technology, or there would be a repeat of this mission. The team entered the building, and then slowly went up to the stairs to the top floor. Upon entering the floor, the team immediately hit the personal with TASER weapons. The personal fell to the floor stunned.
One of the personnel attempted to escape, and give off the alarm. The team ran after him, held him, and then hit him with a TASER. They then found the safe holding the plasma cannon. "There is no way I can open this," Toll told the group.
"Use the explosives. It won't damage it," Lex told them.
The team gave themselves a confused look, and then placed explosives on the safe. The team then took out the remaining personnel on all of the floors with TASER weapons, and then dragged them outside. Tying them up, they then gagged them, so they wouldn't make a noise. Caesar then activated the detonator causing a small explosion on the third floor. Alarms were heard moments later.
The team went up inside the building and found the object. "What is it?" Barney wondered upon seeing it.
"Looks like a weapon," Lee said.
"Nothing I have ever seen," Caesar commented.
"We don't have time for this," Yin reminded them.
"They have the package," Church told the group.
The team quickly picked up the diamonds around the base, went back to the van, and placed the plasma cannon inside. Headquarters immediately lost the signal on the group. They then drew to the security gate but were stopped. "Sorry. No one leaves the base. We're on lockdown," the MP told them.
"That doesn't sit well with us," Lee told them. The team exited the van and overwhelmed the MP guards. Yin quickly incapacitated one of the guards, and Toll slammed another to the ground.
There were a number of vehicles that were moving in the base towards the exit. Unbeknownst to all, cloaked winged probes were following the van. Reaching a distance from the base, the team split up into different vehicles, and then took different routes. Headquarters could see the plasma cannon headed north towards Wyoming on the larger map.
"Let's get going," Church said.
Taking a truck, the headquarters team drove off towards Devil's Tower. The car with the plasma cannon would meet them there. A ship in cloak settled on top of the tower; three Yautja warriors looked down from three different directions.
The car holding the plasma cannon drove up into the park next to the headquarters van. Barney came out of the car and handed the plasma cannon to Lex. "You want to tell us what this is supposed to be?" Barney asked suspiciously.
"No questions," Dutch rebuked.
Barney shrugged at that. "Let's meet back at the headquarters," Church suggested.
"I'll be with you tomorrow, so you can collect the money," Lex assured them.
Dutch gave Lex a knowing look and then looked around in the darkness for a short while. "Let's go," he ordered.
Lex sighed, and waited for the ship to swing around Earth another time, and then landed in the forests of Colorado. It was the next morning, and all of the members of the team had escaped the MP. Lex led them over to some crates filled with gold bars.
"That's the stuff," Toll said grinning.
"Look at all that gold," Caesar said pleased.
"Once you're done sniffing up gold, I have a job for either of you," Church said to Barney and Dutch.
"What kind of job?" Barney asked curiously.
"I got some pirates off the coast of Somalia I need to have taken care of. They are taking hostages, and Uncle Sam doesn't like it," Church said.
"I'll pass," Dutch said immediately.
Church shrugged. "That was easy."
"I'll get the team together. We're going to need to get some weapons and gear," Barney agreed.
"With all that gold you could be the deadliest fighting team on Earth," Church complimented.
"Thanks, Church."
"Remember that you are all expendable assets," Church reminded Barney, and then walked off towards his truck. Dutch frowned at Church's remark but kept to himself. Lex walked up to Dutch and Barney.
"Job well done," she said with a hint of sadness.
"I have some things to discuss with her," Dutch said to Barney.
Barney held out his hands defensively and walked off giving them privacy. "Is the world safe?" he asked her.
"For now," Lex said.
"Good," Dutch nodded.
"We can cure your cancer, but…," Lex trailed off.
"I will be hunted again," Dutch finished her sentence.
Lex nodded. "I'll take what you got," he said to her.
Lex took out a blue vial and handed it to Dutch. The other team members were leaving and driving down the road. Dutch drank the substance, and immediately felt a burning sensation throughout his body, and it quickly eradicated his leukemia.
"That feels a lot better," Dutch commented, as he regained his strength.
Lex smiled at his healing. Dutch smirked at her, and then quickly shot her in the leg dropping her.
Lex cried out in pain and outrage. "So, your blood is still red," Dutch remarked.
"Are you crazy?" Lex shouted at him.
"The others will come for you. I am sure of that," Dutch smiled, and then took up an assault rifle. He looked in all directions peering into the tree line. He then aimed and fired blasting the air with bullets. The Yautja fell to the ground stunned; green blood was splattered on the ground.
The two other Yautja decloaked, and advanced on Dutch. Out of bullets, Dutch threw the weapon aside and took up a long knife. One of the Yautja extended his blades in response. "Come on motherfucker," Dutch said to the Yautja.
The Yautja charged at Dutch; the two clashed with blades. The other Yautja watched intently as the two warriors fought on the open field. Lex felt her body begin to morph in response to her injury. She cringed, as she felt pain throughout her body. She was reverting back.
Dutch outdueled the Yautja slicing him to the chest. The Yautja retaliated hitting Dutch's blade with enough force that it flew out of his hands. The third Yautja confronted Dutch without any of his weapons. Dutch punched the Yautja to the gut a few times before he was slammed to the ground.
The Yautja extended his arms challenging Dutch to get back up. Lex watched as Dutch punched the alien with all of his strength. Eventually, the Yautja subdued Dutch sending him to the ground stunned.
The Leader decloaked just as the Yautja was about to kill him. "Wait," the Leader ordered the Yautja warrior.
The second Yautja walked over to the first and assisted him to his feet. He had blood leaking all over himself from his wounds. Lex saw her hands change shape before her eyes. Her vision became distorted until they saw the way a Yautja sees. She got back to her feet with the wound in her leg repaired.
The Leader stared at Lex who was barely clothed with shredded human garments. He seemed embarrassed for her. Dutch looked around gaining his senses. He saw Lex's true form and shook his head. "The rest of the team will kill you all," Dutch spat.
The Leader advanced on Dutch punching the human to the face. Dutch fell to the ground with a thud. The Leader went behind Dutch and stuck a blade into his back. He then ripped the spine and skull out of his body in one quick motion. Lex looked away in disgust, as the Leader hung the blood skull and spine in the air. The Leader then incinerated the rest of the body with a liquid compound and destroyed any evidence they were there.
Onboard the ship, Lex rid herself of her human clothing and suited up in Yautja armor. The wounded Yautja warrior was treated for his injuries in the medical wing of the ship. He would roar every so often once a bullet was taken out of his body. He would live, but he wouldn't be happy.