Obsidian Mystery
Outsider tried to get her left hand out of the metal clamp; they had her strapped down fairly tight which caused her some pain. Both her arms and legs were clamped down as well as her hip and neck. She struggles to get loose, she hissed loudly at this moment of weakness.
'Curse them! When I get lose they would be wishing that they left me alone!'
Six men dressed in operation gowns came into the room with Bur, he stood there smiling at her. She hissed at them and jerked at the clamps. Bur chuckled at her persistence but he knew that she can't get out of them, not the condition she was in. She snaps at him taunting him to try and touch her.
He walks over to her pushing the workers out of his way; he stood beside her and placed his hand gently on her face caressing it, she tries to bite him only to miss. He then took one finger and zigzagged it down Outsider's body, she hated that and she growled at him. When he came back to her face she spat at him only to make him grin.
The workers write down how the sparks between the two are doing, one man walked in. They all look at him and move away from Bur and Outsider. Bur steps aside and left the man see Outsider; she growls at him, she knew he wasn't human.
"Hello Outsider, I'm Charles Bishop Weyland, founder of Weyland Enterprise."
- - - - -
Snake-Eater and the others could hear the gun fire clearly and well. To them it sounded like it came from the next hall over. Snake-Eater pulls at the bars again but it was useless, even the others gave up trying to open their cells. The sliding doors open and Bali walks in. He closes the doors tight and looks at the cameras.
"3, 2, 1, now."
In the monitor room all they see is a replay of Bali feeding their 'guests'. A trick Bali learned from a hit TV show he watched called NCIS. He walks over to Snake-Eater and gestures that he was friendly.
"Hey, we can talk now. The cameras are only playing re-runs. I have news for you, your friends are here to help you guys get out."
Snake-Eater speaks as best as he could in the human tongue.
"Bali? How do we know that we can trust you?"
Bali pulls out his radio and talks to it.
"Hey Josh, you there? Your Elder friend wants to talk to you."
- - - - Hitachi POV
"Elder frien-?"
Then I remembered that's what Bali calls him.
"Snakey!" I said happily. He's the only one who makes me act like I'm twenty again, that's really young.
"Hitachi?" He asked over the radio, I grabbed it and said it again.
"Snakey! Are you alright?" I asked in the human tongue, of course Yautja language was a bit confusion, but I'm worried for him.
"Fine... For now, where are you?" He asked as best as he could.
"Ugh... Sewers." I said shivering yet again.
"Sewers? I thought you hate-"
"I do!" I interrupted him. "I'm so glad to hear your voice!" I said, wait a minute, Bur. "What did he do to you? Did he threaten you!?" I said angrily over the radio. I could hear him laugh and Knight was looking at me with that sweet face of his.
"Do not worry so, how are you?" He asked.
"I smell like a two month old carcass and I've been electrocuted, how's that?" We then laughed together.
"Excuse me, but if I may ask, since this is rather odd to have a Yautja Elder and a Queen Xenomorph talking together without killing each other, how do you know each other?" Bali asked.
"Ah. Snake and I have been friends for quite some time; I'm forgetting how we met." I said, I did forget exactly how we met.
"Back in Africa, Hitachi, when Vi'Ti was burned, I was on a hunt and you just so happened to be there, by the way, you never did tell me about Vi'Ti, you just said it was your home." He said, years ago he had asked that when we were inside the Bad Blood base. I never did answer.
"Some other time perhaps, at this moment I want to find you, Snake! I am terribly worried!" I said.
"I know you are my friend, I know you are." He answered with a soft click at the end.
"Oh! Wait 'til I get my hands on Bur!" I said.
"Wait just a minute there, before getting to me you must help rescue Outsider." He said.
"But I-"
"No, she's more important at this moment then I am, if they find a way to make another Triple-Breed there's no telling what they could use it for." He cut me off.
"Snake I-"
"You know how important Outsider is to me, do it for me?"
I sighed, I wanted to see him, I really did. But I also knew that he cared a great deal for her, Snake wouldn't want anything to happen to her.
"Knight went to go get her." I said.
"Help him, please?" He asked.
"For you... but don't think that means you're out of trouble yet! You owe me!" I said playfully.
"Thank you, Hitachi, thank you very much." He said. It broke my heart to hear him like this.
"Hitachi? That's your-" Bali was getting ready to ask.
"Don't you start either!" I said smiling, Bali silenced.
"From the sound of it, you two are real friends." He said.
"Yes, we are, best friends." I answered.
"Time's almost up." He said.
"Snake, I promise I'll help as much as I can, but excuse me if I don't do to much, I am very big now and I-"
"Enough excuses Tachi, get out there and give it what you got." He said happily, making me smile.
"Your right, I'll see you soon."
- - - - End POV
Bali puts the radio away, and looks at the cameras then his watch, he looks around with a worried look.
"They should have been here by now."
"Who?" Snake-Eater asked.
"My squad. We're going to bring this facility down for what they've been doing. Kidnaping people off the streets and doing illegal experiments."
"Sounds a lot like Jihloks." Snake-Eater said in disgust. "Foul Yautja, a bastard." Snake-Eater clicked.
"Jihloks?" Bali asked.
"He is the one that made Outsider a Triple-Breed." Snake-Eater snarled.
"Oh, no wonder they are having problems." Bali looked around again. "Listen I have no clue when my team will get here, but I'm busting you guys out if you promise me that you guys won't skin my hide."
"Promise, now get us the hell out of here." Snake-Eater chuckled.
Bali ran to the levers and pulled them down, all the Yautja cells open. Snake-Eater cracks his knuckles and grins at the others. They look at Bali and nod their heads, Bali felt a bit uneasy when they walked over, he kept thinking they might grab him.
"This way, I'll lead to the weapons room but I don't know where your stuff is, they might have took it to another facility. Hurry."
The xenos and hybrids hiss and growl at the Predators, Bali opened the doors and looked around the room. He motioned the Predators to stay close and follow, he opened another door, and guards patrolled this hallway.
"Shit."
He closed the door quietly and pulled out a small white mouse. Snake and the others look at it then Bali, confused by the little creature. Bali stroked the little mouse head and looked at them.
"They will chase this little guy down, rats and mice are used in the experiments and if one got out they chase them down."
Bali opens the door and pushes the mouse into the hall, the guards see it.
"There's a mouse!"
The mouse takes off down the hall with the guards chasing it; Bali walked out into the hall and motioned the Predators to follow. They made haste down the other way and around a few corners; Bali left a few mice out to make the guards leave the halls. More guards behind the next door.
"They are guarding the weapons locker, no worries there."
Bali pulled out a rat out of the pouch on his belt, it tries to bite him and he quickly slid it toward the guards and of course they chased it. Bali and the Predators ran to the door, Bali opened it and they walked in.
"Feast you eyes on the weapons of man!"
Snake and the others couldn't believe how many different guns were in this room, one of the Unblooded fingers the guns.
"Take your pick."
They took their time looking at each gun, from handguns to rifles, to grenade launchers to electro-guns. There is a loud explosion which rocked the building and the power goes out. All the Predators quickly get down, so dark Bali tripped over someone, he lands on someone.
"Damn, I can't see! You guys ok?"
"Yes, we can see fine Bali." Snake-Eater said.
"You mind getting off of me?" Zombie said with some ease.
Bali staggers off Zombie and feels for him, Zombie stands up.
"Sorry, I can't see. The generator blew."
- - - -
Outsider looked around in the dark; everyone was trying to feel their way to the door, she loved the dark for her prey won't be able to see her. They had taken samples from here already; she could barely stand the pain on and in her chest and arms, even as they sewed her up. Bur kept staring at her, he bends down to her and whispers into her ear.
"You're friends are not safe..."
She knew what he meant, Snake-Eater and the others.
'Snake-Eater...'
Outsider growls and tries to get free but stopped to let herself heal, it hurt to move.
- - - -
Knight and Hitachi managed in the dark, now they were able to sneak without being spotted. Knight knew exactly where to go, the halls were the right size for Hitachi for some odd reason, she fit perfectly in them.
Knight glanced around the corner to see five Marines and three guards. They were armed with shotguns, handguns, pulse rifles and were equipped with flashlights and stun grenades.
"What the hell is going on?!" Shouted a guard.
"We're under attack!" Yelled another in panic.
One Marines punches that guard.
"Shut the fuck up! The generator must have blown, power we get from the city should have kicked on."
"We should activate the gun ciphers to patrol inside the facility." Said a Marine.
"We should." Said another.
Their radios came on, they all listen.
"Attention all armed personnel! Lighting has taken out the transformer and power lines to the city and the generator has been destroyed by explosives. There is a spy in the facility find him and kill him! Be on guard, the doors that lead to the hive have opened and all doors have been unlocked. Stay alert!"
Knight looks at Hitachi and grins, he whispers to her.
"Now is our chance to get them out. Since the hive they have here will be active they will surely be busy trying to kill them off."
Hitachi grins in a sneaky way; she knew what Knight was planning on what to do with these Marines and guards.
- - - - Hitachi POV
I saw the marine humans, they looked terrified.
"Knight... Why is there a hive here, again?" I asked, but instantly regretted it when noticing that I wasn't going to get a response because Knight was already at work. "Right... them." I pointed to the humans and began a quick plan in my head, but changed it, I was saving that for anyone who even thought of harming Snake.
I wanted to tear Bur limb from limb because he threatened Snake, 'No! No! Think not such thoughts! They lead to Mother's condition!' I shouted in my head, but if given the chance I would say I never heard my common sense and just went along with instinct.
- - - - End POV
The Marines and guards look around the hall with the flashlights; they each swore to each other that they heard someone or something. Knight threw an empty magazine he found over the human's heads, they look in the direction of the noise.
"What the hell was that?" Asked a Marine.
One of the Marines pushed one of the guards in the direction.
"Go and investigate."
As the humans watched the guard investigate, Knight crept up on them and grabbed two Marines, muffling out their yells he pulled them back and around the corner.
"Hey Jack. Jack?"
One Marine looks beside him.
"Where did you go?"
They all look and shine their flashlights down the hall to see a small stream of blood flowing toward them.
"What the hell?"
One Marine walks to the corner and shines his light, he sees the torn remains of his fellow Marines, and he slowly shines his light up revealing Hitachi looking at him. He quickly looks at the others.
"Ru--!"
Hitachi thrusts her tail through his chest before he could give the command the two remaining Marines and the two guards slowly back away as Hitachi showed herself to their flashlights hissing at them, Knight lowers his tail thrusting it into the two guards. The last guard, who went to investigate the noise screams in terror, the one Marine aims his Assault Rifle at Hitachi the other aims his Pulse Rifle at Knight as he descends to the ground.
The Marine fires his Pulse Rifle at Knight; Knight doesn't react to the hit but hisses in anger and hunger. Hitachi hisses loudly at the Marine that faced her, while the guard falls to the ground not able to move, he was petrified.
Knight pounces onto the Marine as Hitachi charged her Marine, she bit his head off while Knight killed his slowly savoring the flesh in his mouth. Hitachi is a bit disgusted of Knight's hunger but one has to eat, they look at the frightened guard he screams in terror as Knight slowly walked toward him with Hitachi following close behind. Knight and Hitachi could see that the human peed himself and wasn't able to move, Knight gets close to the guard's face.
"Your life will be spared if you help us." Knight said calmly.
The guard drops his handgun and whimpers in fear and terror, absolute terror.
"Merciful God, help me!"
Knight walks behind the guard and Hitachi watches as Knight slowly rubs his tail on the guard's arm.
"You want to live and I'm giving you that chance. Will you submit?"
The guard shook violently and reached for his gun only to have Knight weep it away.
"You will spare my life?" The guard finally said with terror in his voice.
"Of course, we're reasonable."
"But how the fuck can you talk?! You're not from our hive, what the hell are you?"
Knight got close to the guard's ear.
"A new kind of xeno and what have you humans been doing to the xenos, hybrids and the Yautja here?"
The guard flinches.
"We do experiments, making new kinds of xenos, hybrids and Yautja to obey us. We have one success, Bur. His mother is the Queen of the hive here, she's been altered too so have her offspring."
Knight looks at Hitachi and grins.
"Looks like we got more than we asked for, if all the doors that lead to the hive have opened."
"The Queen will be seeking her revenge for what we did." The guard said looking at the floor.
Hitachi and Knight look at the guard, he slowly stood up. The guard grabs his flashlight as Knight pressed the point of his tail onto the guards back.
"Lead us to Outsider."
"Knight, you were hit by a ball of electricity and you didn't show any pain."
Knight smiles at Hitachi.
"I got used to it."
- - - -
Outsider could feel the Queen that lived under the facility in anger plus she could hear the Queen's children scurrying around the vents. Suddenly the workers in the room outside of her glass room scream in terror shining their flashlights all over the room. Outsider could see Face-huggers and xeno warriors. A worker runs into the glass and was killed there, the Warrior Xeno's gaze at Outsider hissing and growling. They begin to pound on the glass. Outsider struggles to brake from the table; the effects of what they gave her slowly wares off, she frees her left arm by jerking up to the ceiling, she then grabs the clamp around her neck and rips it off.
The Warriors pound even more on the glass, Outsider frees her right arm but something was still wrong it didn't hurt as bad as it did and it wasn't broken. She quickly put that thought aside and frees herself from the table just as the Warriors broke through the glass.
"Bring it."
They leap toward her…