I NEED YOU
Annie and Elli struggled in their hands, but they were too strong for them.
''Girls, girls, you have a spirit of a true warriors. You could entertain us very well till we get to base'', they mocked and laugh at them. They dragged them into a black van.
Annie and Elli started to feel sick of their comments. Elli screamed in agony: "Sinai!"
''Shut up, bitch!'' one of them yelled.
Suddenly, she felt like something stabbed her beneath the ribs. After that everything went black. The van disappeared behind the building, and left the city behind.
Sinai seemed to hear the voice. Wind was blowing loudly, but he heard it, a calling, her calling.
"Elli." He growled loudly.
He has to hurry. He didn't know how much time he needs to get to that facility. Then he remembered. Keishe was in search for their stolen technology, he probably went there. Sinai's father ordered him to return what human army had stolen from them.
He tried to call him with his hand device, but he couldn't reach his signal. He was still unavailable. Probably is something disturbing the signal.''You picked the right time for not answering Keishe!'' He growled frustrated at all this.
If he could just let him know about the girls, but it seems that this night isn't on his side. Impatience had grown in him. Just to arrive on time. ''There are always troubles with humans'', he thought.
He knew he was going to an ambush. For a long time, people have been trying to lure them so they could steal their technology. He laughed loudly at that thought. It will take them long time to understand how it works.
Still, they did a big progress in the last hundred years. Their stolen technology helped them to accomplish that too. But they barely scratched the surface.
In all of his hunts he hasn't yet encountered any other species that violent as humans. Towards their own kind, and everyone else. It was like some human characteristic.
Members of other species, who knew humans too, also classified them so. Nobody wanted anything with the human race nor aid them in their development, because of that tendency to aggressiveness. Everybody feared they would turn against them one day.
But there were exceptions too. One of them was Elli. And now he has members of his family on Earth too. He assumed that, but he could not find them, till now.
Sinai slowly progressed. The city began to disappear from his viewpoint. He approached the hill like the old man said. He hoped he was not far behind them.
Black van was slowly approaching to the secret military base. It was still night, morning was far away. One soldier waited for their arrival. He gave command to let them in.
While walking, no one would notice that there is something below them. Like everything else, ground was covered with sand and stones. Just their government knew that there is a military base near the city, and few locals, who lived around there before. But they were hushed up.
Suddenly, ground began to move and show the opening. Something was lifting up, like a ramp. The van drove to the entrance and onto to the ramp. It quickly disappeared beneath. Than everything came back to place like there was nothing there before.
Annie and Elli were still under the influence of drug they gave them, so they had to drag them along with them. "We have to be fast." One of those men who drove them said. ''The drug we gave them won't work too long.''
Base commander, Lionel, was waiting them inside: "Finally! Is everything ready? We still need to wait for other hunters to come in. It won't be long, I think. Put them in the cell with the acid queen! It will be an interesting meeting. But before that, let them see what we did to one of them.''
Annie and Elli were getting back from drug effect. Around them human voices, but they still couldn't identify whose. Slowly it all started to get back. Elli remembered what had happened. She felt strong hands around herself. Someone was holding her and leading them inside of long white corridor. Where are they? Elli asked herself.
Annie looked at Elli, she felt so scared. She punched the soldier who was holding her.
'' Let me go!'' She shouted.
She managed to shake him off and hit him in the crotch with her foot. He felt on his knees in pain, cursing. The other soldier, who held Elli, started to laugh at him.
''You're one filthy bitch!'' soldier shouted in pain. ''Don't let her get away!'' , then he slowly got up, still in pain.
Annie tried to help Elli, but, other two, who appeared in the corridor, quickly overcame them. Finally, they overpowered Annie again and the one she had hit whispered in her ear: ''I'll play with you later! That's the promise!''
Annie struggled in his hands but couldn't escape from his grip.
Still under the slight influence of drug they gave them, Elli said: ''Sinai will come, don't you worry. "
Annie still didn't understand what was happening. She didn't know who Sinai is till they came to the large, translucent room in which lay huge humanoid being.
''What is that thing?'' Annie asked. The sight of him scared her.
Elli looked upset when she saw that being. ''It's one of them. They took me few days ago. Sinai is one of them too. I was with them till I got to your place this night.''
Annie looked at her in disbelief. "You were with them? They didn't do anything to you?"
One of the soldiers quickly silenced her with a powerful blow to her back. Annie felt like there was no air left in her lungs. Her body was in great pain.
Elli watched Annie and the creature with fear. Will Sinai come and help them? He will, surely, come and help at least to a member of his kind, if not them.
It was no longer important if she manages to run away from him. Now, she needs his help. They both need his help.
"What will happen when he comes? Will they catch him…? I don't think so, but still, one of them lies here, alive, but immobile. What did they do to him?" She didn't want anything happen to Sinai.
''What did you do to him?'' she asked.
''The same we'll do to your boyfriend, maybe to you too!'' one soldier said.
Coldness went thought her body. ''He is stronger than them'', she hoped.
Keishe has been pretending to be unconscious the whole time. The drug that they gave him stopped working long ago. It is going the way he planned. He heard human voices in the room so he suddenly got up, and pulled out the tubes stuck into his body. He growled at soldiers and medics inside. Blades came out of his metal devices on his hands. He headed towards the two soldiers holding Elli and Annie.
They quickly released them and tried to get out, but door were closed. They started to shoot at door and windows of the room but it did nothing. They couldn't escape. Lionel watched it all from his office.
Keishe was fast. One by one he stab them with blades on his hands. Blood was everywhere. His hand device opened the door of the room. He turned to Elli and Annie, looked at them and walked out.
They were terrified. Annie began to shake and cry uncontrollably. She screamed with all her voice. Elli knew he didn't do anything to them because they were not armed, she saw that when she touched Sinai's mask, but despite that she almost died out of fear.
Elli tried to calm down. She knew if they want to get out of here they'd have to convince him somehow to help them. She didn't know whether Sinai would come or not, nor when.
She managed to clam Annie, and tell her they would have to find that creature. Annie couldn't believe what she is asking her. That creature killed that people in cold blood.
''We have no choice. This people will kill us if we don't get away from here. His kind didn't do anything to me when they took me. They even took care for me.'' Elli tried to convince her.
''No! I can't!'' Annie started to shout. ''You're out of your mind!''
''It's our only chance'', Elli said and started to cry. ''I'm afraid too, but I don't know what else to do. He can protect us from this people.''
Annie was not convinced yet, but maybe she was right. She has to put herself together and try.
''Ok'', she said.
They went to the corridor looking for Keishe. Suddenly, the lights went off, the computers in the hallway they were in, crashed down.
''Sinai is here!'' Elli said.
She knew he would come back for her, but she was afraid it won't be happy encounter. Probably he'll be furious. Maybe even try to kill her for running away. But she felt he wouldn't do that to her. Ever.
The base went to chaos. Medics and other employees started to run to the exit. The commander ordered everyone to stay at their place. That's what they were waiting for. Just to bring back the power and main computer and everything will go as they planned.
Hunters weren't the only creatures that were dangerous in here. There was even more dangerous one. The queen. But her cell was still firmly locked. They failed to break all their codes.
They knew that the hunters were extremely advanced, but they had learned a lot from them in the last century.
Keishe was walking through a long empty hallway. Humans seem to have disappeared. They were in fear of him. He haven't encountered any of the soldiers yet, but he knew they would soon appear.
He was searching rooms where they stored parts of their equipment. This base was huge. Several floors below the surface. His hand device was scanning the base structure, but it wasn't finished yet. It will take time to do that.
Humans didn't take his hand devices, just mask. Big mistake.
Walking in the opposite direction of the hallway they were in, Annie and Elli ran to Keishe. The light was still down, so they have not immediately see who was in front of them. They stopped and watched for a moment before they realized who was in the corridor. Elli was in complete fear, but she was determined.
He was approaching them. He looked at them, but he didn't stop. He passed them like they weren't there.
Elli couldn't believe he ignored them. She shouted at him as loud as she could.
Keishe turned, angry that someone interrupted him in such important search. He walked fast toward them. Elli and Annie began to walk backward in fear, just to feel the coldness of the wall.
Keishe quickly closed the distance between them and caught them around their throat. He tightened his fingers firmly. Annie and Elli were kicking him with their hands and feet. They started to choke.
He watched them with smirk. ''You're brave little fighters. '' He laughed at them.
He watched both of them shaking in his hands. He released the squeeze a little, but still kept them tight in place.
''Sinai '', Elli said suddenly, trying to catch her breath.
Keishe was surprised, but then he realized. He lowered his head and smelled her hair. "You smell like Sinai's trophy." He spoke human language too.
She looked at him with fear. '' I'm not a trophy.'' She said.
He just laughed at it. Then, he looked Annie. "An interesting piece of meat," he told her, "you could be great trophy in my room."
He looked at her body. Hi observed her chest and abdomen. "I see why Sinai wanted to have fun with human."
Annie was horrified. She couldn't believe what she saw and heard. She wanted to get out from her body. She was still fighting in his hands.
''I could play with you right now, but I have more important thing to do right now.'' He seemed little bit disappointed. Keishe moved his hand away from their throats. "What do you want?" He growled.
Annie caught little bit of courage she had left and said: "to help us get out."
"Why would I help you?" He asked with a smirk.
''Because Sinai would have been angry if you didn't help us!'' Elli said firmly, hoping to make him think.
Keishe growled in Elli's face, "Can't Sinai take care of his trophy?"
"I ran away."
''That looks like him." He replied. He kept watching Annie for a few moments. She did not like his attention toward her.
He just smiled at her angry face and turned. ''Get behind me! '' He ordered them loudly. '' But, if you make any trouble, I'll leave you to Sinai wherever he is, and let him save your pretty ass. ''
With hesitation they started to go after him. This time was better to have a furious alien than human by their side.
Soldiers have gathered in the second part of the facility, on the same floor where they held Keishe in captivity.
Lionel, their commander, ordered to lock all exits from which hunters, predators, as they called them, could get out.
The electricity was not yet back. They planned to catch them and take them all technology they have brought with them.
If only they would find their capsules. They must be near the city.