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Disclaimers: Okay, I know I forgot something in the last chapter. I do not own Alien or Predators or anything, only my own characters is mine.
Chapter 2 – Blowing up a spaceship or two.
Looking around Max saw all kinds of strange objects. If her body didn't ache as it did, she would have thought it was some weird dream. She saw symbols all around the walls and a panel not far from where she lay. Her shoulder had been cleaned and bandaged. Why? Then she remembered; remembered the strange creatures, the beasts and the killing. They all had tried to kill her, even her own team. Her boss would pay when she came back to the civilization. The young woman jumped from the cold table. The floor was cold as well and it was first now Max noticed her jacket, pants, boots and outer-shirt was gone. "What the..?" She said almost in a whisper.
The soldier immediately came up in her. If she had been kidnapped for some reason, they would regret they even knew she existed. Taking one more look at the room something seamed familiar, then it hit her. The symbols; they were almost the same as those she had been working on the last year. Reading what little she could, she soon found that she was in a medical lab of some kind. By reading further she found one of the words she was searching for: storage. Pressing the symbol, a deep drawer opened and in it laid her cloth but not her weapons. Clothing herself she headed for the door. Pressing the bottom, which said open she instantly looked for movement. None came. I need to get out of here, she thought; walking down the hall.
She passed a couple of doors. One read storage, one kitchen area, one fighting area and one read common area. Last was two doors; neither words could she translate. Guessing, she choice the door right in front of her instead of the one to the left and hoped that it wasn't were the creature was. Peeking in as the door opened, the first thing she saw was a huge chair in front of a dashboard of some kind. After making sure that the creature wasn't in the room she walked closer to have a better look. I was defiantly alien; but that meant that the temple was from these guys and they must have been on Earth all that time. It must be a ship of some kind, she thought as she started to read and understand as much as she could.
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After Toh'el'ach had placed the young ooman girl in the infirmary and patched himself up, he headed for the bedroom. Some sleep would do him good and the female would not wake up in many hours. He drifted to sleep. Only to be waken again not more than 2 hours later. Growling at the alarm he rose from the massive bed. Checking he held an oath as the small screen showed him the ooman sneaking around in the cockpit. "C'jit!" He burst once again before he cloaked himself and off to making sure the female wouldn't escape.
The female didn't even notice the door open when he drifted inside the room. Toh'el'ach held his extended wrist blade ready if she would do something stupid. It was not like he wanted to fight the young girl, he had after all just healed her wounds, but he would not take the chance of being exposed to the rest the world by her actions. He saw the female standing over the panel to the space ship and it looked like she was reading. Shaking his head in disbelieve as he knew that the oomans didn't have the knowledge to do so, he approached the girl with a low growl to let her know that he was there.
Max had never seen anything like it. She had a lot more difficulties with reading these symbols than she had had in the medical facility. Wrapped up in her own little world of bliss she barely noticed the low rumble behind her, however when she heard it, she snapped back to the real world. Slowly turning she saw the outline of the cloaked creature standing right behind her. She wasn't as afraid of it as she had been before. If it was because she now knew what it could do or knowing that it actually had helped her even if it had kidnapped her first she couldn't tell at this time. Though she wasn't afraid she had her guards up; who knew what could happen, she thought.
The creature said something but it was extremely difficult for her to understand the words as they sounded like they all were forced out. "Ooman… Hold…" Out of the many growls and clicks that came along the words, was that what she got.
"Sorry?" She asked, not sure if she understood any of it. Or if it just were her imagination that made her think she had heard him talk; if you could call that talk.
He just shocked his head. "Not touch." He said, pointing at the panel. Max looked from to the dashboard, then back to him once again.
He didn't want her to touch the dashboard, why? Then she smiled at her own question; if she was in his possession she wouldn't have him touch her things either. Removing her hand from the black console she looked at him trying to take in all of him. She had had a good look at his form down in the temple, but it had still been dark and all she had seen was the outline of his body. In the light he looked really more different than she had expected. He was tall, almost 8'7 by her estimate. He still wore his mask, but most of his amour was removed and she could now see the dark yellowish molted skin underneath a mesh of some kind. The dreadlocks lay perfect down his back, right pass his shoulder blades.
"Who are you?" It came out of her mouth before she could stop herself. "Sorry that was rude; but why?" She asked and couldn't help a little smile appear as he tilted he head slightly and the blades at his wrist slid back into place. Then it hit her, she was starting to call it, him again. Yes he was clearly male, but still. He was a creature that tried to kill her not long ago. Then again, he had taken her after knocking her out and treated her wounds. That was what she wanted to know; why?
The creature clicked a couple of time before he took a step toward Max. She was startled, but stood her ground. He looked directly down at her. "Ooman… know…" Was what he could manage to get out for her to understand.
"I don't understand, what is ooman…?" She asked however an alarm cut them off as it sounded all around them.
Toh'el'ach was just about to answer the girls question, no matter how annoying they were, when the alarm brought him back to the known threat of the last bad blood. He growled once and then scooted the ooman aside so he could use the control panel. Growling deep in his throat he saw the bad blood already inside the ship. How could he have overridden my code? He thought, but decided to get the answer from the bad blood just before he would kill him.
Gazing to the ooman he sighed. He needed to get the bad blood before he started anything, but what about the girl. He couldn't just leave her here.
"Is this, the one you were chasing?" She suddenly asked; her eyes still on the screen. He nodded, not feeling like producing any more of the ooman words than necessary. She just nodded back in reply. Sizing the girl, he knew that he properly would regret it, but he couldn't leave her. Locking her up would only make her hostile against him and he really wanted to learn a little more about her before he decided what to do about her.
Max saw the creature on the screen and remembered how furies the creature at her side had been at it. I really need to find out what to call him, this is just too confusing, she thought, shaking her head slightly. She felt a light tap on her shoulder and looked up. The creature motioned for her to follow him as he walked toward the door. She quickly followed not sure if it would be a good idea, but something in her said that it was. She followed him into the last room she hadn't been able to figure out what was for. It was a bedroom. It contained a huge bed a smaller bed stand, a door lead to somewhere she figured must be a bathroom. Watching the creature she saw him replacing his amour he had had on first time she met him. He looked at her the opened a drawer and gave her, her knife.
With a nod she took the knife. Toh'el'ach led the girl to the cargo bay, were he had seen the bad blood. Giving her a knife would maybe not be the best idea, but he wouldn't take her with him without a weapon to defend herself. He motioned for her to stop as they entered the bay. It was far the biggest room on the ship. Toh'el'ach scanned the room with his mask and there, far in the other end of the room stood the bad blood. He looked like he was injured as he limped toward a control console. He then motioned for the girl to follow him once again before he sneaked to the bad blood.
The criminal stopped what he was doing as he saw the honored hunter and started to laugh when he saw the ooman girl following the bigger hunter. "I didn't know you liked ooman pets." He chuckled at Toh'el'ach. The honored hunter just growled at the other.
"You know your crimes bad blood and your judgment will now put upon you." Toh'el'ach said with bloodlust in his voice. The bad blood stopped laughing.
"You is no match for me hunter, I will kill you and your pet. Take your ship and get away from this pathetic planet." The bad blood said with hate in his voice.
"As you wish pl'as, however it will be you who will be killed bad blood." Toh'el'ach replied. He had hoped that his cousin would have had enough honor to accept his punishment at least to regain the little honor he had left for his family, but that would not happen now and he would be the one who would end the bad bloods life.
Extracting his spear he showed the ooman away from the battleground soon to be. This was between him and the bad blood.
Pl'as took out his own spear and the fight begun. The bad blood attacked the honored hunter but he ducked the trust of the spear. He attacked again and Toh'el'ach ducked again, giving a punch back as he did so. Pl'as was furious now, how dared he? He attacked once again.
Toh'el'ach didn't even find this a challenge then he swathe bad blood attack once more. He just waited for his attacker to come to him; wearing him out, but the bad blood had other ideas. Instead of attacking him, he went directly for the little ooman. She whelped a little, but held her ground, waited to protect herself with her small knife. Toh'el'ach saw this and hurried for protect the girl, he had helped her and now he was obligated to protect her while she was in his care.
The creature ran for her, Max at first was paralyzed by fear, but quickly snapped out of it and held the knife ready for impact. She was not at her full strength, but damn anyone to think that it would make her easy victim. She leaped away from the creatures grasp just in time to avoid the long spear. He span around; attacked her again and she again steered clear from the weapon. Third time the creature attacked, obvious getting angrier at the playing cat and mouse, her 'friend' made contact with the weapon with his own. She looked up and saw him standing right in front of her, shielding her with his massive frame. He forced the creature back and into a wall with a loud clunk.
The creature roar in anger and launched himself at her 'friend' again and this time succeeded in his thrust as her 'friend' had briefly looked at Max to be sure she was alright.
"No!" Ranged the female's voice as the bad blood pushed the tip further into the upper thigh and soon the whole room trembled at the pained roar from the bad blood, along with the cry from the girl as she unknowing attacked the creature with her knife. She had aimed at his neck and it was now sitting perfectly all the way in the left side of its neck. The bad blood had already fallen to the ground; forcing the spear with him, but was not finished.
Max paid no attention to the bad blood but to the huge wound on her 'friend's' thigh which bled terribly. He hissed in pain, but the sight of the bad blood raising the spear; sending it toward the girl's exposed back. Seeing this, Toh'el'ach quickly grabbed the ooman, turned them around to shield her from the projectile. Instead the spear once again made contact with his body as it grazed his upper left shoulder. Turning, Toh'el'ach took a hold on the knife, still attached to the bad blood's neck and slide it across his troth letting the bad blood die his own blood. Proved that he had done it, that he had finished his first hunt for bad bloods alone, he could now feel the loss of blood as he felt light headed and dizzy. This is it, may paya bring honor to my family. He thought at he fell to the ground, but the light didn't end. He didn't feel being lifted away, but he did feel the light touch of delicate hands, he felt the pressure on his shoulder, then one on his thigh. He opened his eyes at the voice of what he could only think was an angle. It all hit him, all the pain came into his mind once again and he used all his will to suppress to roar as it felt like he was loosing his leg. He couldn't focus but something said that he should stand, so he did with much difficulties, everything was blurry and when he felt like something pulled him along he followed, not sure of anything else than if he did what the voice said he would be okay.
The wounds were bleeding dangerous and Max had only little time to get them treated or he would die. After tiding a cloth tightly around his wound on the thigh she made him stand, and walk with her toward the medical room. She had no idea what to do when she had him there but anything was better than nothing. Fumbling inside the bay she laid him on the metal bed examine the many words for something useful, she was lost. Holding pressure on the wound she found some dressing materials and patched him up the best she could with the little she had. She knew the wound would be need stitches but she just couldn't find any tread or needles to do so. Inspecting her work she decided it would do until they came to her house. Thinking she ever would take an alien with her home, made her giggle a little. Returning to what she only could guess was a computer she started to search for a plan or anything that might tell her where the exit was, but a low clicking made her stop and look at her patient, he was semi awake and seemed being in a lot of pain. She walked over to him trying to sooth him, as he started to get up but that only made him push her aside. She stumbled a few steppes back but succeeded catching herself before making contact with the wall or the floor. Seeing him about to stand she ran to him once again, but the second push was more forceful and she stumbled into the dashboard behind her which made the screen flash black with red symbols. Turning her attention to the injured creature which now was on the floor only half awake she helped him up, but the sound of an artificial voice talking the same langue as the others, she turned to the screen and this time noticed what was happening. It was not only symbols it displayed it was numbers and it was counting down.
"Shit!" She burst. She must have pushed something when she fell and this looked just too much like a countdown for something and she wasn't in mood to see what. Grabbing the very heavy man she almost dragged him along with her. The countdown had said 100 and it looked like it descended per second so she would have a little more less than 2 minutes to find a way out and get the hell out of there. Heading back to the cargo bay she found a hatch. It took he a couple of tries before it would open but it did and she managed to get both her and her friend out of the ship and a safe distant before it blew from the inside and out. Within the first wave the creature started to make contact with the living world again but the only thing she got from him was a loud and def hearing roar when the second blast came. He tried to stand but fell as soon he did and fell back to unconsciousness.
"Good no one live around here." Max said to herself as she first now remembered that she came here by bike. "Great what now? We can't for sure fit on it together and…" Then she saw the truck. It must have been her teams but they were not here anymore so that made it easy for her to load her 'friend' along with her bike on the bed of the truck and got in, high wire the car and headed toward the only place she could think of; home.
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Toh'el'ach started to awake, slowly feeling the pressure and dull throbbing various places. His head, his thigh and his shoulder ached. Slowly he started to remember what had happened, why he was like this and then it all came back. The bad bloods, the oomans, the girl he had helped, Pl'as and how the ooman had saved him from being killed and he did the same for her. He remembered the voice; her voice telling him what to do. He remembered being afraid from something, it was hard meats. His nightmare and he had tried to push them away and then her voice came back, chased the beasts away with the sweet voice of hers. Then the vision of his ship in flames and the explosion.
"Mo!" He said out loud as he opened his eyes and tried to sit only to lie back down during to the pain.
"Welcome back to the living big fellow." He heard the ooman female's voice say. He looked at her; she was sitting in a comfy chair not far from him with a cup in her hand watching him. Then looked at the room; it was not big, only having the chair, the double size bed and a table; with the biggest mess of paper and things he didn't even knew what was, he had ever seen.
"How are you feeling?" She asked, placing the cup on a stable of papers on the table.
He just nodded to answer the question, he didn't know any other way else to do it so she would understand and it seemed like she understood as she shifted to make herself more comfortable.
"You understand me right?" Stupid question, she knew it, but just wanted to make sure.
He nodded.
"Will I be able to understand you?"
A shake of no.
"I didn't think so, or you have already tried." She said more to herself then anything else.
"Why?" he asked. He was wondering why she had saved him, why she had helped him treated his wounds like she had.
"Funny, I was about to ask you the same question." She smiled. "Because it was the right thing to do. Beside you saved my life and I won't forget that." She answered.
He just looked at her for a moment then said. "Same." She just nodded back; still smiling. For a giant alien he seamed nice in his own 'I like to kill everything around me' way.
The both sat there in silent for one more moment.
"By the way, my name is Maxine; but just call me Max." She offered.
"Toh'el'ach. My name."
"Okay please repeat the first; I don't think I got that." She said looking serious; thinking that she didn't hear him right.
He did and Max smiled again and tried to repeat what he just said. By the third try he began to chuckle at her failing attempts. "Okay, is it alright I just call you Toh, that will make it a lot easier?" She asked feeling quiet comfortable around him even though she hadn't even seen his face yet. She didn't dare to remove much of his armor thinking not to offend him and seeing the tubes from the mask, she thought he might needed it to breath and the last thing she wanted was to kill him.
"You are at my house. Do you remember the night we first met? It is now 3 days since and you received some pretty nasty wounds but they are healing well now." She looked at him with concerned eyes.
He nodded. "Bad blood. Kainde Amedha. Ship." He said with his forced words and Max just nodded though she didn't know what he meant by Kainde Amedha, but that didn't matter.
"I'm sorry by your ship." She bowed her head.
"How?" Toh asked.
"Well. Technical was it my fault but it was an accident, I'm really sorry." She said genuine.
It was unfortunate that it had happed but he couldn't blame her all together, she had helped him, not only from the bad blood but helped him out of the ship and tended to his wounds.
He felt a slight uncomfortable as his wounds started to hurt more than they had done before. He tried to shift a little but that only made it worse.
Seeing this Max was instantly at his side. "Are you in pain?" She asked starring into those hollow eyes of his mask.
Not really wanting to seam weak he shocked his head no, but she looked at him as she didn't believe him. She removed the cover that lay over him and inspected his wounds; first the one on the shoulder, then the one on the thigh. Pleased with what she saw she replaced the cover, walked out of a door and came back with a needle containing a transparent liquid.
"What?" Toh asked as she came closer to him, eyeing the needle.
"Something to take the pain and help you sleep." She answered, pricking the needle in one of his veins, injecting the sedative into his system. Toh' could already feel the effect as it soothed his pain and made him feel more tired.
Staying by his side until he drifted into sleep once again Max sat in the chair watching over the creature whose she now knew as Toh.
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Toh woke early and saw Max sitting in the chair sleeping with her arms curled up under her and used one of her arms as a pillow. He smiled at her sleeping form. It was now 5 days since their meeting and his wounds was almost healed. She had been a good medic and remembering the day when he had seen the wound for the first time and saw it would scar perfectly, he had approved though the ooman woman had just looked at him as if he was made. Yes he had now realize she wasn't as young as he thought her to be, seeing her she had the same size of a 25 year old pup; nearly at the age of there first chiva but still too young.
He sat with little effort hoping she would wake soon as he started to get hungry and he had could smell the sweet fruits in the other room from where he sat. Waiting a moment longer, he found it to much and started to make it up from the bed and walked with only a slight limp toward the kitchen area. Max had told him to stay in bed for a couple of days more but it made him restless to just stay put, not able to do anything than watch her work on something she had called a computer. She had apologized for lack of power and wished she at least could let him watch TV, but there were currently a 'power cut' and the TV apparently needed power to work.
"Toh, what are you doing out of bed?" He heard Max's stern but sweet voice say behind him as he grabbed a fruit she had called peach. Showing her the fruit, he returned to bed, not wanting her to harangue about him not doing what she had told him. Smirking he unhooked the hoses to his mask and laid it by his side. Max came in with a piece of fruit in her hand herself, smiling at the now unmasked alien before her.
If it had been a shock for her she didn't show it, when Toh first time did the very same to eat after 4 days without food. His whole being cried for food therefore he decided it was okay for her to se him as he was. She didn't even flinch or anything that he knew oomans liked to do when they saw their faces. But this one; she just saw him right in the eyes and smiled.
He liked her smiles; they were so warm and made him feel honored every time she did so.
"Did you sleep well?" She asked, sitting in her chair; chewing on the food.
He nodded yes in reply.
"Good. Listen I need to go to the town to buy food. Can I trust you to be alone for the time I'm gone?" She asked a little unsure if she left she would come back to a burning house.
Again he nodded in reply along with an approval trilling.
She smiled and Toh was spellbound. "Good, I will probably be back some time this afternoon; feel free to eat what you want and if you must be out of bed don't try to support to much of your weight on the leg, you know what will happen if you do." She said with a smirk. Not 2 days ago he had tried to walk by himself for the first time and it had only made him plunge to the floor at the first couple of steps. He made a sound as if he was offended but both knew other wise.
"Promise." He said; licking the juice from the now consumed fruit.
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