Citali and Maquinna took a shuttle off Yautja Prime to their battleship in orbit. The Yautja warriors took the biological weapon and loaded it in the torpedo bay of the battleship. It would require only one shot to expose the Earth to the powerful weapon. However, if need be the vessel had dozens of plasma canons and rail guns. Using the gravity of the enemy planet, the projectile would travel at incredible speed down toward the intended target causing the same damage as an asteroid impact.
Upon boarding, Citali immediately took command of the ship. "The fleet is standing by Prince," the Captain of the ship said.
"I only need one ship. There will be less attention that way. Set a course to Earth," Citali ordered.
The battleship went faster than the speed of light towards Earth.
At the same time, Nahuel kept the Prince hostage on a phony hunt. The Prince was honor bound to go along with the rather unimaginative hunting schedule. Unlike Nahuel who wasn't taking the hunt seriously, the Prince took every kind of weapon he had. The two departed the planet in a light cruiser giving Makawee the authority in the home.
Once the light cruiser was steady in space, the Prince called Talutah over to him. "You asked for me my Prince," she said.
"Do you know why I have asked you to come with me?" the Prince asked.
"I do not. I am not proficient in hunting like some of your other wives. You married me for my political connections," Talutah said bluntly.
"That's correct. Of all of my wives you have been the least supportive of Lex. I do not know what my first wife is planning but I cannot risk you foiling it," the Prince said.
"I have always been loyal to you," Talutah said offended.
"Loyalty and betrayal can be confusing to discern. You would protect me from myself would you not?" the Prince asked.
"Yes," Talutah admitted.
"And you would disrupt my plans if you believed it would lead me to ruin?" the Prince continued.
"Yes," Talutah answered.
"That is why you are here," the Prince said.
"I have displeased you," Talutah said unhappily.
"On the contrary. The greatest disrespect is one of indifference and you are not indifferent," the Prince complimented.
Makawee gathered the other wives into the throne room. "Evacuate the children to our safe houses on the other side of the planet," she ordered. A hologram of Yautja Prime appeared before them indicating where the Prince's secret houses were. "Split them up,"Makawee said.
"As you wish," they said without questioning her.
Makawee turned to Lex. "The other houses do not have the equipment necessary for your child to survive. Your daughter will have to remain behind," she said.
Lex figured as much but appreciated Makawee's concern. "Leave me," Makawee said to the other wives once she was done with her instructions. Makawee then showed a hologram of the biological weapon. "The virus spreads through the birds on your planet. The human victims will develop flu like systems until they die in mass. It is highly contagious," Makawee told Lex.
"Have the Yautja done this before?" Lex questioned.
"I don't know," Makawee said. "The estimated casualties are in the billions. One hundred cycles ago, humans were 2 billion in numbers. That is their goal. If you want any chance to stop them you will have to approach the King," Makawee said.
"Just like the story," Lex realized.
"The Prince never recalls myths and fables only for his amusement. He wanted this done," Makawee said.
"Why didn't he do it himself?" Lex asked scornfully.
"The Prince enjoys humanity as his favorite hunt but he will not risk his entire family for your race. There is a low probability of success if you address the King. He is willing to sacrifice you for that low probability," Makawee said.
"Sounds like him," Lex replied.
"To address the King you will have to get past the King's guard. That will prove difficult and if you kill any of them it will be automatic death penalty," Makawee said showing a compartment with plasma weapons.
"I have changed the settings to stun. The King's guard will not have the same setting. I would say this mission is suicidal, but you have a reputation for surviving," Makawee said.
"Thanks," Lex said as she looked over the weapons.
"Once you have broken through the guards you may be able to get close enough to the King to give him your message," Makawee said.
"Will he listen?" Lex asked.
"I don't know how the King feels about Earth, but his sons have overreached on their authority," Makawee said helpfully.
"There isn't much time. I should go soon," Lex said.
The other wives took transports and departed the house with their children with them. Lex suited up in armor that covered her entire body. Two plasma canons on stun setting were on her shoulders, wrist blades were latched onto her arms, cloaking device installed, noise disrupters were on her hips, and unknown to Makawee was a stolen thermo-nuclear detonator on her wrist. If she was going to die, she was going to take down the King with her.
She went inside Naira's room and looked down at the sleeping child. She didn't have the lips to kiss her forehead or tender fingers like a human. All she could do was stare at the child. "I love you," she said in English and then left the room.
Lex noticed Makawee wasn't leaving the house. "You are not leaving?" she asked her.
"I am to protect the house. That is my duty," she said.
"Well, are you not going to put on armor?" Lex asked.
"If they penetrate the house's defenses there will be no need for it," Makawee said. She then opened a case with a metallic necklace inside with a cross. "He said it meant something to you."
Lex nodded and placed the necklace inside her armor. "Thank you for everything."
The Yautja battleship approached Earth to fire its deadly missile. Citali came to the bridge and looked over the planet. He hesitated to give the order that would kill five billion sentient lives. He knew he would always be remembered as the "butcher" of the humans. Maquinna came onto the bridge as well to see how his weapon would be deployed.
"Before we deploy the weapon we should dine first," Citali said nervously.
In low orbit, Earth satellites were oblivious to the battleship since it was cloaked. One satellite detected the heat signature of the battleship and sent it back to Earth. Within moments, British intelligence had detected the large heat signature in space. They then shared it with NATO command including the United States.
"A civilian British satellite from Weyland Industries has detected a large heat signature in space. We have just received this intelligence from the British just now," Rumsfeld warned President Bush.
"The shape of the ship and its metal composition is similar to other ships we have encountered," Rice said.
"Share this intelligence with the Russians. We need them to understand what I am going to do next," Bush ordered.
"What is our plan of action?" Rumsfeld asked.
"As far as I am concerned they have already declared war on humanity. I will not allow another 9/11 to happen again anywhere in the world. We hit them first," Bush said.
"We have never hit a target in space before," Rumsfeld said concerned.
"Maybe it will scare them off. We have to do something," Bush said.
Secret Service agents brought a suitcase into the oval office. The suit case was opened and the President put in the codes.
Lex was brought near to the King's palace by a servant of Makawee. She immediately activated her cloak and went towards the palace. There were two guards standing at their posts not moving. Lex fired at one and then the other stunning them. She took their security cards and went inside the ancient building. At the entrance were more guards that detected her cloak. Lex quickly hit one of the guards with a net gun pinning him to the wall. She then fought with the guard who activated a warning alarm. Lex blasted him with a stun blast and then hit the pinned guard with a stun blast. Retracting the net from the wall for future use, Lex continued inside.
Near the entrance, Lex placed two devices on the walls that created a red field of lasers to prevent anyone from coming inside. She then threw two additional devices that caused an ear splitting noise through the palace. Her mask protected her ears from the sound. Instead of hearing, the mask would send her messages of potential threats.
Additional guards struggled with the sound allowing Lex to stun them easily before they even got close to her. With her mask, she scanned the area with cloak detecting energy signatures. She fired on the cloaked guards stunning them. The Prince had gone to a lot of trouble to create an undetectable cloak and a mask that could detect them. Even with the cloak, sound waves would become disrupted by the cloak. The mask could also detect heat in the air around the cloak giving the location away.
Unable to see the intruder, the guards fired wildly with plasma bursts. The plasma caused sparks everywhere on the floor, the walls, and pillars. Even some of the statues were hit causing them to fall onto the floor. Lex targeted each one of the guards like a video game stunning them.
A device suddenly turned on creating an electromagnetic pulse. Lex's cloak disappeared and her energy weapons would be useless until they rebooted. The laser field at the entrance became deactivated temporarily allowing more guards to flow in.
Lex then took canisters off her hips, which sent gas everywhere. Completely covered in armor, Lex was protected from the gas that would cause an intense burning sensation on the skin and in the lungs. She also sent out flash grenades that blinded the guards temporarily. The guards still kept coming with blades ready. Lex counted down the seconds it would require for her system to reboot.
She fired a net gun at one of the guards who sliced it up before it could hit him. Lex then fired a metal projectile at another, which was expertly deflected. The guards threw their own projectiles that bounced off the armor. Lex unattached a sawed off shotgun and aimed it at the guards blasting them with pellets.
"Let's see how you dodge this," Lex said as she blasted them with pellets. With the shotgun used up, Lex threw it aside.
One of the bigger guards engaged her with his wrist blades. Lex unsheathed her sword giving her a longer reach. She dodged his attacks and then swiped at his leg disabling him. A net gun hit Lex pinning her to the wall. The guard extended his spear and went for the kill. Lex swiped the net off with her sword and then clashed with the guard's spear. Lex was faster than the bigger clumsy guard and sliced his spear in half. Suddenly, Lex's systems rebooted.
Lex fired on the guard stunning him and then went back to cloak. As she continued her war path, the room was filled with a water mist designed to deactivate her cloak. It failed to work but it kept the guards from doing so. Lex fired on the guards who couldn't determine her position.
Finally, she found the King sitting in his chair. Lex detected five cloaked signatures in front of her. They circled her and then fired across from each other. Lex couldn't believe it as they were firing across from another potentially killing themselves in the process. Some of the guards were hit from their partner's plasma bursts and their cloak deactivated. Lex got hit as well knocking her to the ground and deactivating her cloak. Lex felt intense pain in her gut as the plasma burst went through her armor into her skin. She quickly activated the thermo-nuclear detonator on her wrist beginning the count down.
"Bring her to me," the King ordered.
The remaining guards dragged Lex towards the King. The King took Lex's wrist and stopped the countdown on her bomb. Lex struggled with the guards but they then slammed her to the ground. The guards then stripped her of her mask, cloak, and other weapons.
"You are the seventh wife of my ninth son," the King said upon looking at her face. "You are the human turned Yautja with the hybrid daughter," the King realized.
"Are you here to kill me?" the King asked.
"No," Lex gasped as she was crushed by two guards on the floor.
"Then you wish to speak to me?" the King asked.
"Yes," Lex squeezed out.
"Bring her up," the King ordered. "You should be ashamed that a lone female was able to penetrate your defenses so easily," he said to his chief guard.
The King looked over some of Lex's gear. "My son's work," he observed. "Did he give them to you?"
"I stole it," Lex lied.
"You have my attention," the King said sitting back on his throne.
"Your oldest son and crown prince is going to kill billions of humans on Earth with a biological weapon. He has already left," Lex said.
"Why do you think I oppose this?" the King asked lazily.
"I don't," Lex said flatly.
"You risked your life to give me this message. More than that you were willing to kill me and yourself if I refused to hear you," the King said.
"Yes," Lex answered.