Lex walked through the city of Los Angeles as a human in casual clothes. She had been dropped off and injected with a temporary formula that would make her human for a short time. She was tasked with finding the last human for the Yautja's hunt. The Yautja wouldn't accept some random human. She needed to find a good one. She decided to use this opportunity to try to escape. She went to a major hospital.
After a long wait, she found herself in the care of a young doctor in his late twenties. "So, no identification or insurance. I guess you're lucky the government doesn't keep tabs on people like you," the doctor smiled amused.
Lex smiled back humoring him. "So, what can I do for you, miss?" the doctor asked.
"I need you to check my blood for anything weird," Lex requested.
"Anything weird, huh?" the doctor asked skeptically.
"Right. I think I might have leukemia or something," Lex said lamely.
"Tell you what. I know something that will make you feel a lot better," the doctor said getting out a needle.
"If you could test it that would be great," Lex said feeling uncomfortable.
"You won't feel a thing. I promise," the doctor said giving her a quick injection into her arm.
"Was that a test?" Lex asked curiously.
"Something like that," the doctor replied. "By the way. You can call me Edwin or Ed. Friends would call me Ed if I had any," the doctor smiled.
Lex felt a weird sensation and suddenly lost muscle control. She fell out of her chair and wasn't able to move. The doctor whistled away and took out a scapula. Lex struggled to move as the doctor was almost on her. "Don't be alarmed. It's a tranquilizer," the doctor told her.
Lex wanted to scream or shout for help but couldn't. The doctor reached for her wrists. "You're not going to feel a thing," he said and then slit her wrist. Blood started flowing out immediately from the wound. The doctor then reached for his phone and called the main hospital. "I have a suicide victim. I am going to need an ambulance as quickly as you can!" he said excitedly.
Once he was done, he went back over to Lex. "At the rate, you're going you'll be dead from blood loss and the neurotoxin will have disappeared," Edwin said pleased with his work.
Lex suddenly grabbed Edwin by the throat and lifted him off his feet. The wound on her wrist had regenerated and the toxin had been cleared through her system. "Impossible!" he gasped.
Lex took her own tranquilizer and injected Edwin's neck. He fell to the floor already unconscious. She then took out her communicator from her pocket and signaled a pick-up.
Back on the Yautja's ship, Edwin's limp body was dragged across the floor and placed in a special holding cell. The Elder gave Lex, who was now changed back, a suspicious look. "Why this human?" he asked.
"He tried to kill me with a neurotoxin. He's a psychopath," Lex said.
The other Yautja immediately made their objections known. The human was small, weak, not experienced in combat, non-military, etc. The Elder considered Lex and then silenced the others. "The human can give medical aid to the others making them more worthier prey. I have researched this human, and he has killed the same amount of people as the others through cunning deception. He will be an acceptable addition to the hunt," the Elder declared.
"The human doctor is not to be killed first among them," the Elder instructed the others.
During the flight, the male warriors rested. Lex was to spend most of her time learning Yautja culture, history, language, and tactics. The Elder was supervising her training as her eyes were focused on a red-colored screen.
"Tell me about the Schism?" she asked the Elder.
"Thousands of years ago, Yautja settled on a colony. Over a few generations, they forgot our customs and decided to kill all of the life forms on the planet. They went to another planet until they destroyed all the game there as well. During these thousand years, they altered their DNA so they could become faster, stronger, heavier than that of the rest of the species. This has always been strictly forbidden and the High Council condemned them to exile. They then hunted their fellow Yautja, stole weapons, technology, and ships from us. They now wander the galaxy," the Elder began.
"They do not share our values. They will kill indiscriminately, not always take trophies, and will not fight with the equivalent level of force as their prey. They fancy themselves the true predators of Galaxy and consider us their prey," the Elder said disgustedly.
Lex absorbed the information and realized with dread that there were even more dangerous aliens out there. Looking at the body statistics, her female Yautja body would be no match against a male Black Yautja. They were a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than she was. Their heads were roughly twice as big as hers holding a large mandible jaw. Their genetic mutations not only made their jaws stronger, but they were more intelligent as well.
"They are rare in galaxy. You will not likely encounter them," the Elder assured her.
The Yautja ship approached a gas giant with several moons. Of those moons, one was hospitable and was covered in forests. The Yautja ship orbited the moon and studied it for a few hours. Another Yautja ship rose from the moon and took off signaling it was their turn.
"The moon is of similar size to Earth. Using terraforming techniques over many centuries, the atmosphere of the moon is the same as Earth as well as its atmospheric pressure. The gravity is also similar to that of Earth. We have successfully planted many species of plants and animals on the planet. It is ideal for hunting men," the Elder said proudly.
Lex considered the possibility of freeing the humans and taking over the ship. However, she didn't know how to wake them up nor if they would be cooperative with her plan. These people were the monsters of humanity. Before she could consider such things, the ship was suddenly hit with an explosion. The ship went into a spin and fell into the atmosphere.
"We're under attack!" one of the warriors informed the Elder.
"By whom?" the Elder demanded.
"It is one of our own," the warrior replied.
The ship was hit a few times more forcing a crash-landing. The warriors immediately went to get their gear encouraging Lex to do the same. Quickly, the Yautja put on their masks, armor, and weapons. "Release the prey!" the Elder ordered.
Several humans were thrown out of the ship with parachute devices on their backs. The ship crashed into the forest throwing a few Yautja around the ship. Lex was on the ground stunned by the impact.
"The ship is disabled," the warrior pilot informed the Elder.
"Evacuate the ship," the Elder ordered and then sent a bomb into the ship.
The Yautja ran out of ship just as it exploded. The Elder then accounted for everyone still alive; a few Yautja on board the ship had been killed in the explosion and impact. "Another ship is scheduled to arrive in a season," the Elder informed the group.
"How long is a season?" Lex asked curiously.
"Six of your months," he replied.
Lex sighed in a human-like gesture as she realized she was stuck on an alien moon that looked exactly like Earth. She could even recognize the species of trees and plants around her with her mask. "We must discover who attacked us," the Leader said to the Elder.
"We cannot investigate what is in space. We can only wait. In the meantime, we hunt!" the Elder declared.
Nearby, a Yautja ship landed gracefully on the ground. Three figures emerged from the craft and then started creating a base for themselves. They were larger, heavier, faster, and more powerful than a normal Yautja. They were the Black Yautja and had stolen a Yautja ship. They had made some modifications to their ship giving it better armor and weaponry. Their cloak made them undetectable, so they could sneak behind other ships.
Of the three, there was an Alpha male that Lex would later describe as Bezerker due to his behavior. He had a large overbite that went beyond his mask. On his right, was Falconer who hunted by using a remote-controlled drone. His mask covered his entire face. On his left was Tracker, whose lower jaw held large tusks resembling an elephant. The three were all armed with the most modern Yautja weapons.
They looked around, clicked to each other for a moment, and then Tracker took out a whistle. A dozen animals the size of large feline cats or bears ran towards them. They were covered in spikes and had large jaws. Tracker played his whistle again and immediately the beasts ran into the forest.
Of the Yautja that survived only four remained. They were the Elder, the squad leader from before, a junior warrior, and Lex. The hunting beasts tore through the forests and using their sense of smell attacked the junior warrior and Lex. The beast cut into the Yautja's arm but in a quick slice the Yautja cut its head off. Lex kicked the beast off her, targeted it with her plasma cannon, and hit it causing an explosion of guts.
The Elder gestured his displeasure of Lex's use of force. The correct amount of force was to use blades. Blade for blade, projectile to projectile was the rule. The Elder used a scythe blade and expertly cut the beasts' heads off. The squad leader used a shuriken blade to slice a beast's throat open before it even got near. A whistle signaled for the beasts to return sending them reluctantly away.
"These beasts are used for hunting," the squad leader considered.
"What foe are we dealing with?" the junior warrior wondered.
"There is only one kind of foe that would do this," the Elder realized.
A sudden plasma burst hit the junior warrior to the chest. He fell to the ground immediately and stopped moving. "They can see throughout cloaks!" the squad leader growled.
The three remaining Yautja fired into the forest creating a small forest fire. More energy discharges went straight for the three. Lex got down to gain some cover around some of the tree trunks. A small device flew through the air near them and then shot back away. The enemy shots became more accurate; the squad leader got hit in the leg and then his own plasma cannon got blasted off.
The three Black Yautja decloaked revealing themselves. The Elder took his scythe blade and pointed it at them in defiance. Berzerker and the Elder clashed with blades and were seemingly evenly matched. Falconer and Tracker ganged up on the squad leader cutting him multiple times until he was dead. Lex watched in silent horror as the Berzerker slashed the Elder's staff in half. Berzerker then forced the end of the staff into the Elder's neck. Finally, with his blade Berzerker slit the Elder's throat and then the Elder's head fell off.
Lex tried to keep herself hidden from the Black Yautja but was soon discovered as well. Three triangle beams were on her body from their plasma cannons. She stood up and lifted her hands in surrender. The Black Yautja chuckled at her in amusement.
"Remove your weapons," Berzerker ordered.
Lex slowly took off her mask and the rest of her gear and placed it on the ground. She was horrified as to what would happen next. Would they kill her or do something far worse? Berzerker then pointed a device at her and immediately she was caught in a net. Falconer gathered her gear and the three walked casually through the forest dragging Lex along with them.
Once they had gotten to their destination, Bezerker cut the net around Lex. She attempted to escape but was easily tackled to the ground by Tracker. Bezerker then took her by the throat and pinned her to a monolith structure. Looking around, she saw pikes with skinned animals all around her. Falconer took a large metal chain and wrapped it tightly around her waist and the monolith. Pinned to the structure, she couldn't move her arms or legs. The Black Yautja mocked her some more and then walked off into the forest.
For a number of hours, the Black Yautja would enter the camp, place skeletons on pikes, skin various kinds of game, and then go out again. They ignored Lex, for the most part, chuckling every so often at her expense. She realized with disgust that there were a number of human skulls placed around the camp. It was similar to a hunting shrine. The stench of the dead bodies irritated her, but in some corner of her brain, she was attracted to it. She was glad she could not see like a human her surroundings. She worried the entire time whether she would be killed, tortured, raped, or any other sadistic idea the aliens could come up with. While strapped to the monolith, she didn't feel any real sense of shame. She was barely dressed, but she never saw her skin as herself. Rather, she felt her body was merely a costume over her true self. She could be tied naked to the monolith and not feel anything from it. Unlike a normal Yautja, she didn't even care if they messed up her hair.
Finally, a team of heavily armed humans entered the camp. She was asleep at the time trying to ignore the reality around her. This was the same team her Yautja group had collected. The doctor that tried to kill her would be among them. Tool, unfortunately, didn't even get a chance to survive; his parachute didn't open correctly due to the rush of sending the humans out. His body slammed into the forest floor. The last remaining member of Dutch's team was still alive; Royce was out front.
Lex awoke to find the end of a mini-gun in her face. She immediately woke up and instinctively roared at the offender. The Chechnya fighter backed up in fear, and Lex regained her composure for the moment. Suddenly, blades sliced through the Sierra Leon fighter. He shot off his machine gun in vain, as his spine, lungs, and heart were punctured. The other humans fired in all directions in an attempt to hit the Black Yautja gang. Many of the bullets and pellets nearly hit Lex, as they went past her. The whole area was being shot up by the humans' panicked attempt to defend themselves.
"Go, go now!" Lex said to the humans in a guttural tone, as she struggled with her binds.
The Black Yautja advanced using their laser sights. They blasted the Chechnya's mini-gun, so it was unusable. They then fired into the forest forcing the humans to retreat away. Falconer engaged his tracking device into the air. A few minutes later, the device came back to Falconer attaching back onto his shoulder. The three Black Yautja briefly decloaked, as they considered their next move.
For the next several hours, Lex was left with little to look forward to. The humans were her only hope, and they had been routed. At least one of them was dead and the remaining humans were probably being killed off one by one. Finally, in the evening one of the humans came back to the camp. She recognized him as one of Dutch's teammates named Royce. He pulled out a long knife and attempted to engage her in dialogue.
"I want off this planet," he said.
That was easier said than done, but Lex would tell him anything he wanted to hear to get down. "You understand me?" he asked.
"Yes, I understand," Lex said slowly, so she could articulate the words correctly.
"I'll cut you down. You take me to the ship," he offered.
Lex nodded to his request. She had very little flying experience and couldn't make any promises on whether she could take him back to Earth or not. However, she decided she would say anything to get cut down. Royce then took his knife and sliced off the binds around her waist. She fell to the ground with an embarrassing thud.
Getting back to her feet, she stared at Royce. Her vision could detect infrared disturbances in his body indicating internal bleeding or low body temperature. Judging him to be fine, she concentrated on getting her equipment back on. Royce simply stared as she quickly put her wristbands on, her plasma cannon, her shoulder pads, knee pads, back armor plate, and finally her mask.
"You're different than the others," Royce muttered.
Lex pointed to herself. "Female."
Royce nodded and then smirked like he knew he was doomed. Lex didn't particularly like his misogynistic tone, as she was roughly his height and one hundred pounds heavier than him. She could easily smack him around like a doll. She punched some buttons on her wristband which showed a hologram display of the solar system and then the planet Earth. Royce seemed to have greater confidence in her now.
She used her wristband to communicate with the Black Yautja ship. It became active again and started readying its engines. Berzerker then appeared holding a net with two human victims. Lex couldn't make out who the two were and was mainly focused on Royce. He looked like he was going to flee.
"Kill him or no ship," she said to Royce.
It was a harsh thing to say coming from Lex, but it was the only practical way. She knew that the monster only had a wrist communicator, and would blast them out of the sky with it if they attempted to leave. Royce seemed to understand but wasn't going to fire shotgun rounds near the two captured humans. Lex, likewise, wasn't going to shoot off her plasma cannon with humans so near.
Berzerker roared his displeasure at the Yautja/human alliance. It reminded her of when she allied with Scar back on Antarctica although now the roles were reversed. The two Yautja charged each other. Berzerker was heavier and more powerful and easily slammed her to the ground. He then punched her to the face twice nearly stunning her.
Royce came to her aid slicing the arm of the Black Yautja. He backhanded Royce away knocking him to the ground. Berzerker then attempted to slam his foot on her. She moved just in time and smacked Berzerker away. The Black Yautja fell to the ground stunned by what had just happened. The two stood and circled each other.
Berzerker roared once more and ran at her. Lex attempted to dig in her heels and block. Berzerker pushed her across the wet mud of the camp eventually sending her to the ground. Berzerker attempted to get on top of her, but she tossed him off sending him into a fire. Lex scrambled to get back up and then targeted Berzerker with her plasma cannon. Unlike a normal Yautja, she didn't have the values of fair play. She fired on Berzerker forcing him to retreat and starting fires in the forest. She then targeted the trophies destroying as many as she could see. When she was done, Berzerker was missing.
Lex then turned to Royce who had a torch in his hand. "Create fire….everywhere," she told him.
"Why?" he questioned.
Lex pointed to the eye holes on her mask. Royce nodded in understanding and began to light everything on fire. She wouldn't be able to see very well with fire everywhere but neither could Berzerker. She turned on her cloak and waited. Berzerker walked around seemingly confused. His cloak had been damaged due to a previous battle with the humans. Lex fired on him blasting away his mask and some of his armor. Lex could now see the Black Yautja without his mask. He had large mandibles that made him look like he had an insect head. Berzerker charged her, but she smacked him to the face. She then went for the kill with her bladed right arm. Berzerker blocked her and then head-butted her hard. Lex was stunned by the blow and after two more head-butts her mask fell off. She was bleeding from her head and could barely concentrate on anything but the pain.
Berzerker then grabbed Lex by the throat with one hand and prepared his bladed hand to slit her throat. Just as he was about to, a blade sliced off Berzerker's arm. Lex was freed and fell to the ground. Berzerker roared in pain and backed away dumbfounded. Royce found himself a metal club and started to whack at the Yautja. He used the fire to his advantage since it confused the Yautja's visual scanner. Still, the Black Yautja had hunter instincts. He fired on Royce exploding a tree near him. He fell to the ground burnt and hurt. Berzerker advanced on Royce kicking him and throwing him about. The Black Yautja was just about to kill him when a bullet went through his back.
Lex turned to see the woman with a sniper rifle. The Black Yautja fell to his knees upon being shot. Royce took immediate action by hitting Berzerker several times with the club busting open his head. Royce finally sliced Berzerker's head off. Royce then walked over to the woman with the sniper rifle and then to Lex who was still on the ground.
"We need it," Royce told the sniper woman.
Lex wasn't happy about being called an "it" but she was too dazed to protest. She was still bleeding green from her forehead and had a painful headache. Royce assisted Lex to her feet and kept her up. "The ship? Remember the ship?" Royce said to her.
Lex pointed the way to it. "We have to bring him with us," the sniper woman said to Royce.
"After what he tried to do to you?" Royce protested.
"Who?" Lex asked groggily.
The doctor was on the ground still bleeding from his mouth. "Don't kill me," he said pathetically, as he tried to crawl away.
Lex grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up. "You want to be like me?" she asked in a harsh tone.
"Please let me live," he said, as he coughed on his own blood.
Lex let the doctor fall to the ground not certain what to do with him. She didn't want to kill him in cold blood, but she couldn't trust him either. "You decide," she said to Royce and continued her walk towards the ship.
A few moments later, Royce and the sniper woman caught up to her at the ship. They had decided not to kill the doctor but to simply hand him a metal club so he could fend for himself. It was a death sentence of a sort. He would mostly die of his injuries, get an infection, or become eaten by a wild animal. Lex felt at ease with the decision, since she didn't have to make it and the doctor had tried to kill her.
She entered the ship and attempted to access the computers. She didn't understand any of the language or the controls of the ship. She was able to get some computer articles on the moon and the system they were in but not on how to set a course for Earth. "What's the problem?" Royce asked impatiently.
"Don't know. I need help," she said.
"That's just great. An alien that doesn't even know how to fly a spaceship," Royce said sarcastically.
"Cut her some slack. She is the only way off this planet," the sniper woman said.
An image of the moon appeared as a hologram. It showed ships of similar design orbiting the planet, but they seemed to be chasing each other around the gas giant. Some of them were firing rockets at each other, and ships were being destroyed. Lex realized there was some kind of blockade occurring in space. Even if she could get the ship into space, it would be fired upon.
"We stay here," she told them.
Lex punched the keys that would make their ship cloaked in case there were any other Black Yautja out there. She found the ship remarkable clean; she had expected the Black Yautja to be like beasts. Royce and Isabelle nervously looked around the ship.
"So, what the fuck do we do now?" Royce asked rudely.
Lex fidgeted with the language controls on her mask so that it would replicate a human voice. The Yautja would often do this to lure humans to them. She had programmed her mask with her own human voice before she changed back. "There is food, water, and beds here," Lex said with a more human voice.
Royce simply stared at Lex, as he heard the simulated human voice. He eyed her as if he had heard the same voice before. "She's right. We should get some rest," Isabelle said.
"Can we trust you?" Royce asked Lex rhetorically.
"You're welcome to fend for yourself in the forest," Lex replied annoyed.
"I want some answers. How did I get on this planet?" Royce asked.
"You were transported here like the others. You were captured one-by-one into a game preserve," Lex explained.
"Why me?" Royce asked.
Lex shook her head in a human-like expression, as she realized she would have to tell him the truth. "You performed well retrieving our weapon. You were the loose end," Lex told him.
Lex walked over to a desk that held the plasma cannon and showed it to Royce. "You understand now?" she asked him.
"Yeah…loose end?" Royce asked.
"All of the others involved in that mission are dead," Lex answered.
Royce's eyes flashed when he heard that. "Dutch…Barney….Lee…," he started to list off.
"They were all hunted and killed," Lex interrupted.
"I recognize your voice now. It's the same voice as the woman who was with us. Did you kill her too and record her voice?" Royce accused.
"No, I am that woman," Lex clarified.
"How is that possible?" Royce wondered.
"I used to be human just like you. I was part of an expedition in Antarctica. My crew was killed, and they almost left me there to freeze to death. But they decided to kidnap me and change me into this. One of the captured prey escaped. We crash landed and the weapon was confiscated by the government. They couldn't afford to allow humans to have such weaponry so either it was retrieved or the whole human race could have been wiped out. You get it?" Lex said.
"So, that justifies the killing of all my men?" Royce asked angrily.
"Your men? You're a mercenary for hire with no loyalties. You have killed scores of people all over the world. You are no different than them. At least, I gave you a chance to survive," Lex shot back.
"You're a traitor to your own race," Royce accused.
"I didn't choose this form. If I could change back I would, but I can't. I can only take my human form for a short time," Lex said.
"I think we should trust her," Isabelle interjected.
"Why the fuck should we?" Royce asked her.
"We barely survived two days. How do you expect we survive without help?" she asked.
"Those parachutes we saw. There are others like us, and they have guns. We bring them all together, and we fight the bastards," Royce suggested.
"Everything is completely under their control. Just one of them could kill an entire team, and they have ships watching in space. You can't form a rebellion," Lex disagreed.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Royce asked incredulously.
"We find another one of them to help pilot us out of this blockade," Lex replied.
"We should get some sleep. All of us," Isabelle said.
Lex took off her mask and her equipment, as she readied for bed. She was using one of the quarters the Black Yautja had used. She locked the door behind her; she didn't trust those two humans. She had good reason to believe the ship was well hidden and that they wouldn't be attacked. She went to sleep only to face nightmares of Black Yautja in her head.
When she woke up, the two humans were still asleep. Lex toured the ship finding their trophy room. She realized with some disgust that there were a dozen human skulls placed in the room. She also found a holding cell with the beasts that acted as hunting dogs for them. The beasts growled at her as if programmed to want to kill her. However, as soon as fed them with some raw meat, they changed their tune.
She looked over a hologram of a map. She could see a large valley and markings indicating camps. She also received a message from another Black Yautja team asking how the hunt was progressing. She decided not to reply thinking she would immediately give herself away. When the two humans woke up, they both ate whatever was available.
"So, how are we going to find our pilot?" Royce asked suspiciously.
"First, we are going to load up on weapons and utilize their cloaking technology. Using this, I know the positions of the aliens," Lex said pointing to her wristband.
"Fresh air would be good. It's stuffy in here," Royce commented.
After their meal, Lex showed them the plasma cannon weapons. They took the form of a gun like before. Lex taught Royce and Isabella how to use the weapons. She then gave them armor, a mask, and wristbands with the cloaking technology. When they were finally dressed, they appeared as miniature Yautja; almost childlike compared to her.
They stepped outside the ship and immediately activated the cloaking device. They walked single file through the forest, as they searched for a fellow Yautja that could help them. Lex wasn't entirely sure there would be any normal Yautja in the preserve left. After a long walk, they deactivated the cloaking device. "I think I am going to be sick," Isabelle complained.
"The cloaking device has some side effects," Lex told her.
"I feel it too," Royce admitted.
"We have to keep moving," Lex encouraged.
"Mile-after-mile, they continued through the forest. For Lex, she didn't feel a thing but the two humans were getting slower-and-slower. She eventually stopped and waited for them to catch up. A plasma burst suddenly went through the air. They immediately activated their cloak and looked for the source of the burst. More blue plasma bursts went through the air creating explosions around them. The three retaliated sending plasma bursts back at the enemy.
"Time to go," Lex pressed them.
They ran through the forest until they reached an open clearing down the hill. The entire area was filled with plasma fire. None of the combatants were visible but plasma bursts were coming from the trees, behind rocks, from close to the ground; it resembled a war zone. On occasion, a plasma burst would get close to a combatant and suddenly they would decloak. They were Yautja firing on each other. One side was the Black Yautja and on the other side was normal Yautja. The Black Yautja were winning with superior numbers and technology. Falcon drones flew around the battlefield shooting at some of the Yautja down below deactivating their cloak.
"We can't go there," Lex said to her group.
The Black Yautja advanced killing the normal Yautja on the field. Lex led the team away from the battlefield but had the impression she was being followed. Suddenly, she was hit flinging her to the ground. Her back armor had protected her from being killed, but her cloak had deactivated. Royce and Isabelle returned fire with their plasma rifles. However, they were inexperienced and their weapons became too hot to use.
The three Black Yautja decloaked and advanced on the group. They chuckled at the human/female Yautja alliance. The leader extended his blades and went towards Lex for the kill. Plasma bursts from all directions fired around them. They hit the Black Yautja killing all three of them in an instant. Lex, Royce, and Isabelle faced different directions, as they tried to find the origin of the attack.
"Let's move," Royce suggested.
The three moved up the hill to higher rocky ground. Royce was ahead with Lex injured from being shot at. He climbed up a hill and found red dots all over his body. He tensed up and waited for the end as the red dots concentrated on him. Lex came up the hill and realized what was happening. With the emergence of Lex, the red dots disappeared from Royce's body.
Five normal Yautja decloaked before them. "Why are you here?" one of them asked Lex in Yautja.
Lex told them her mission and the death of her Yautja crew. "Why are the humans with you?" he asked.
"These two killed three Black Yautja," Lex explained. It was half true; she was involved in the fight too. The Yautja seemed somewhat impressed with a series of clicks. "They have our weapons," he said displeased.
"The weapons they were given have no ammunition left," Lex explained.
"It is not for us to decide the humans' fate. You will come with us," he said roughly.
Lex turned to Royce and Isabelle. "We have to follow them, or they'll kill you both."
Royce and Isabelle reluctantly followed behind. The group looked in all directions for any Black Yautja activity. When the day came to an end, they set up camp. "Where are we going?" Lex asked them.
"Our Prince is not far," they said.
"What is happening on this moon?" Lex asked.
"The Black Yautja are trying to take this game preserve from us. They did not build it nor maintain it, but they wish to take it from us," he said.
"How do we get off the moon?" Lex asked. "I have a ship," Lex added and then showed a hologram of its location.
"If we take the ship, we will fight them in space!" the Yautja said; the others raised their weapons in solidarity.
Lex wasn't happy with that answer. "We have no need to leave here," he said. "The Black Yautja is not a threat to our Prince."
"What's so special about this Prince?" Lex asked.
The Yautja stared at her ignorance. "He has a superior intellect."