Chapter 16
Mine
(Kanani's POV)
As I stormed off, I vowed that nothing was going to get in my way.
The fence did. I glared at it hotly. Psycho pushed past me and lightly jumped over it. I hissed as he looked over his shoulder at me. Hell, I bet he's smirking, the smug bastard...
Had no idea, though, that he got hops. Then again, his muscle is all lean and all sexy…
Gawd, Kanani, get a fucking grip on yourself! How old are you, 18?… Actually, yes...
I hissed as my wings snapped out and I flapped hard once, lifting off the ground as I half jumped into it. Throwing my tail back, I flipped, landing crouched, steam coming out my nostrils and hissing out from under my helmet. Psycho's already walking off. I don't know why… but I feel pissed. Really, really pissed off, and I put it to good use as my infra-red vision allows me to see soldiers... guards… men with weapons, shall we say, skirting around one of the buildings.
Psycho is already moving. I can barely, barely make out his burly outline. I DO see the blood and guts fly as he starts taking out the dudes on the ground. Shit. There's men on the rooftops.
Alright, bastards. You wanna dance? Let's fucking dance.
I hurl myself into the air. I guess I wasn't as stealthy about it as I thought, cause they immediately fire at me.
Take THIS, you motherfuckers!
I inhale and blow fire at them.
Sweet revenge.
Some of them catch fire, others take a tumble. Yikes… that had to have hurt.
I land on the rooftop, growling as I knock one dude off the roof with a flick of my tail. I grab another and gut him with my claws, taking another's gun, I cock it back and unload it's contents at them. Forget stealth. They probably know we're here.
Why?
Cause there's reinforcements.
Damn…
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(Scar POV)
I pushed Lex against the wall as a stream of ooman soldiers ran through the warehouse, spreading out, they communicated amongst themselves.
"Damn, look at these tracks!"
"Where's team alpha two?"
"If we knew, we wouldn't be out here, now would we, smart ass?"
"Shut the fuck up and move your ass!"
I growl low as I move out, standing slightly in front of Lex as I ready both wrist blades. Suddenly, the opposite wall erupts in bullets, and Kha'bj-te makes a grand entrance by pitching forward, tripping over a piece of debris. Paya, how is he still alive with clumsiness like that?
Moving silently, as they begin to fire at my brother, I race forward, drawing their liquid blood as I slay two, six and then one more.
Kha'bj-te scrambles back to his feet as he turns and charges back outside. I hear screams and then roaring. My brother is victorious. I whirl around as Lex pulls on my shoulder pad. The elevator is coming back up. It is our turn.
"Kha'bj-te! We're going in!" I roar.
He roars in acknowledgement and Lex and I race into the elevator.
Paya be with him…
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(R'ka's POV)
Gunfire greets us, of course. I could smell them even as the elevator stopped. Rosy clings to her side of the wall, unharmed. I grimly wait, resisting the urge to purr. For I can hear them talking now, even as their line of fire is halted.
"There's nothing in the elevator!"
"What the hell, man!"
With a quick motion of my wrists, I send a razor disk out into the hall, which immediately cuts into the lights, leaving us in utter darkness. And as the lights go out, I grab Rosy and race lightly down the hall.
I hear Rosy's silent gasp of fear, and the sound of her heart rate picking up.
The gunfire once again starts, but they are shooting at the now empty elevator.
Pauk head amateurs.
Setting Rosy down, I begin to pick off the oomans, who are now out of their element.
The hall is now empty. I turn around…
Only to discover that Rosy has been watching my back. Figuratively, of course.
More security guards arrived as backup… and she killed them all. I look at her handiwork.
I… was not expecting this. Not at all… She did a good job. Amateur that she is, she did a very, very good job. I switch my gaze to her, observing her reactions.
She's breathing heavily, but there's a calmness about her aura now.
"What the hell are we waiting for?" She asks curtly, as her face snaps up to glare at me with chrome-covered eyes.
I send the elevator back up for the rest of our team.
And as we race down the hallway, emptying this place of security guards, I look out for ooman computers. The security guards most likely will not know the information I need now.
Either the computer… or an ooman scientist.
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(Lex's POV)
I stood real close to Scar as the elevator took us down. I couldn't help myself, somehow, as I reached over and took his hand.
"Scar?"
"What is wrong?"
"Did you understand what I said, when we were sitting in the star room? Before I fell asleep?"
"No… not very much."
"I need you to know that I love you. I don't know if we're going to die or not. And I need you to know how I feel about you."
I looked up at him. He was real quiet, and surprisingly still.
And suddenly, the lights flicker out. The power's still on, but the lights are out. I see his fiery outline through the infrared. And I feel him wrap his arms around me, hear him purr, vibrating my frame.
"Lex…" He pauses, as if unsure of what to say next. "I… I've never been able to forget you. You have been my goddess for a long, long time."
I feel suddenly speechless. But there's no need for me to speak.
Because the elevator door is opening to reveal a morgue of bodies.
He gently hugs me to him before letting me go.
There's no way I'm going to let myself be killed now. I have something to live for.
And it feels so good.
(Scar POV)
I huffed as I observed. "R'ka was here."
"Rosy too." Lex points to one man's slashed throat. It is clumsily done. Yes, Rosy was here too.
We follow the path of destruction. It is then, that the unexpected occurs.
Behind us, a door slams shut. The hallway is blocked off, behind us and in front. Twin doors open, and I feel my stomach tighten. Kiande Amedha have been released into this death trap with us…
And they are like none I have ever seen before.
There's two. One of them is larger then a normal Hard Meat, with a tail that drips acid. Paya…
the second has a pair of second jaws that are huge, almost too big for it's first set of jaws. It has feline eyes, far more spikes along it's spine and a huge mace at the end of it's tail.
Lex growls. "Let's teach these bitches a lesson, huh?"
The Kiande Amedha leap to attack us.
I roll to one side, as the larger one with the mace-like tail tries to bash me in. I growl as I fire up my cannon, using my spear to distract it before I blow a hole in it's head. it roars as it swipes at me.
C'jit my cannon barely knocked a hole in it.
Lex screams and I whirl, as I see the other Kiande Amedha impale itself trying to get to her.
I react, as it's tail moves to impale her, racing forward, I cut off it's tail. Grabbing the base of the severed tail, I use it like whip, smacking the one with the mace like tail before driving my spear into it's chest cavity.
The floor beneath us is weakening, and it gives way under our feet, landing us in a room full of security guards.
C'jit…
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(Lex POV)
GAH! WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS?
And WHY OH WHY WON'T THEY FUCKING BITE THE DUST ALREADY?
I growl as I yank the SMG from a stunned soldier and hastily squeezed the trigger.
A note to self for future references… Widen your stance next time.
I nearly blew myself into the wall. The recoil was THAT powerful. But it bought time for Scar, who immediately started firing his cannon again. I guess the soldiers decided that the two big Godzilla-like creatures were more harmful then me and Scar, whom they probably couldn't even see, since we were both cloaked. But they began to fire at the two big bitches.
The two monsters only stopped twitching when they had been literally flayed open and torn apart. Which took some doing. a lot of guys got splattered with that acid blood. Gods, I hate these things...
After that, the lights went out. Literally. The room got dark.
This didn't stop me and Scar from unloading an industrial sized can of whoop-ass on these guys.
I'm not sure why the lights are going out… but maybe it's for the best.
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(Kanani POV)
I fumed as the elevator finally came back up.
"HEY… PSYCHO!" I hollered," Our ride's here… HEY! Are you FUCKING LISTENING TO ME?"
The cuss word was random. But he understood it.
Standing slowly from his "trophy taking" He gave me a glare that went right through the mask.
I glared right back," Let's bust a move, you freak!"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT." His voice was pissed off.
But I'm about as pissed off as he is at this point.
"Then stop acting like one, you MOFO!"
He tilts his head at me, giving an "are you crazy or something look" I'm sure. After all, I can't exactly SEE his expression.
Gods, I can't believe this. As I step into the elevator, his scent hits me like a tidal wave.
Gad…
It's turning me on.
I shake my head, trying to clear it. No, no, I should not be feeling like this.
NO.
But does my body give a shit about how I feel? Noooo….
I find myself staring at him, drooling. Yep. I'm like a starving man at the sight of a steak and egg dinner.
Only this… this is much better looking then any sort of food. To me. At this moment.
He looks at me, backing away. Damn it, am I scaring him?
Hell, I guess so.
"Kanani, what is wrong with you?" He growls, sounding pissed. Oh man, that voice… it's sooooo haaaaaawwwwt.
"You're what's wrong with me." I reply. Damn, did I hit puberty? My voice is all low and gravelly… and growly.
He makes this huffing sound before going rigid. Uh-oh…
I think he knows now exactly what I'm thinking.
And he's not entirely adverse to it.
I find myself backed against the wall of the elevator, feeling his heat through his and my armor.
Oh hell, I didn't mean it!…
Actually, I did but-
The elevator door opens, interrupting this somewhat interesting moment.
And damn…
There's one of them big black dragony-bug-alieny things.
It screeches at us, and rushes forward.
With a growl, I shove Psycho off of me and race forward to meet this thing, using my digitigrade feet to launch off the ground. I spew my venom, hitting it in the face.
Damn it, forgot it doesn't affect these bitches.
The thing knocks me on my ass, and I scream as it's tail skewers my shoulder. My scream blends with the smell of fire as I spew that at the bastard as well, using my tail and wings to roll so I'm on top, sizzling the bastard.
Oh shit… there's about seven others. Psycho's already on the move, firing his cannon, using his spear and his arm blades when they get too close. His scent is still heavy in the air. I'm feeling a desperation I've never felt before.
I want him.
I want him.
"DAMN IT BITCH, YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM!" I scream as one of the things gets the drop on him and shoves him to the ground, getting ready to impale him.
before I know it, I've already torn into the thing. With my teeth, my claws and fire and ice, screaming the same thing over and over…
"HE'S MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE, DAMNIT!"
Well…
Damn.
THIS one's blood isn't acid. Good thing for me.
Tastes like battery acid though, which totally kills the heated passion I had brewing in me.
Bleh!
I look up as the next alien comes at me. Shit, it's tail is dripping acid… kinda like a manticore. DAMN. THEY… they DIN'T… THEY DID.
I roll to the ground as it tries to leap at me, grabbing hold of the base of it's tail, I brace myself and swing. I swing as hard as I can, using all my weight and height.
It's HARD AS WELL, but I manage to spin it around, hitting it against the wall before flinging it.
Wow. It hit a few others, knocking them over like dominoes! I take a breath and exhale fire, burning them to the ground.
YEAH!
TAKE THAT, BITCH!
Psycho grabs my arm and pulls me down the dark hall. Oh yeah… forgot to mention, the hall is dark as hell. Our visors though, allow us to see in infrared. So… we could see the things even though its dark.
Are we good?
Good.
Krr… Psycho… HAWT…
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(Jonathan Rigsby POV)
Oh my god…
The security guards were taken down. AS were the hybrids!
When the security started going down, I figured it was as good a time to test the hybrids and they're abilities. They FAILED.
So far at this point in time. They did manage to injure the dragon hybrid.
We don't even know how many intruders are actually in the base.
It may be safe to say that… all of them. All 6 are here.
There's nothing to do but warn the other bases… and then self-destruct this place.
I'm about to pick up the phone when I hear the screams.
And the next thing I know, the door to my office is blown wide open.
A huge frame, see-through but watery in appearance, strides through, and grabs me by my collar.
"Ooman…" It growls menacingly in heavily accented English. " You will tell me EVERYTHING. NOW. Or I will kill you."
Oh shit.
I don't think he's kidding.
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