Chaos quickly took over as the soldiers began firing off at the aliens in pure fright. Trae was the only one who seemed to be in control of the situation, carefully taking aim before firing. Suddenly, an alien came out of nowhere and rammed him in the chest. He flew backward into a wall and started to raise his gun. Before he could fire, a long tail shot out and wacked the gun out of his hands. Scrambling to his feet, Trae took off running; concerned only for his life now and not even caring what happened to the other men.
He ran into a room and attempted to shut the door behind him. But something heavy rammed against it, pitching him away from the door and into the room. He crashed into desks and looked around quickly, noticing that he was in a class room. Trae spun around as the two aliens slowly stepped into the room. They had no need to hurry; there was no other way out. The aliens moved in closer, obviously enjoying the fact that they had Trae cornered.
"Stop!" a voice said near the door. The aliens turned around and Trae looked around them to see Ali standing alone in front of the door. The aliens hissed and continued to approach Trae. But Ali's eyes narrowed and she said, "Trae is mine. Get out!" The two aliens paused once again but this time they didn't continue forward. They turned and walked back to the door. As soon as they were cleared, Ali shut the door. She brought her hand up to her mouth and bit down hard, sinking her teeth into her wrist. As the black blood began to ooze out, Ali moved her hand over the door. The blood dripped on the door handle and Trae watched as the handle burned away. He was now locked inside the room with Ali.
Ali smiled darkly and she stepped forward. Trae could see her excitement reflecting in her eyes. But she stopped before she reached him. Her eyes scanned him up and down and her smile widened.
"I guess I did some damage," she said.
Trae reached over and touched his chest where Ali had slashed him with her blood soaked hand. He remembered how his body had felt like it was on fire as her blood began eating through his skin. Luckily, he was able to wipe the blood off and it hadn't managed to eat all the way through his skin. He looked up at Ali, standing over him and saw a thick scar on her neck. He smiled and said, "How's your neck doing? I hope it didn't give you too much trouble?"
Ali clenched her fist tightly and leapt at Trae. He rolled out of the way as her fingernails scraped into the ground, leaving long gouges on its surface. He scrambled to his feet and scurried away from Ali as quickly as he could.
She laughed and said, "Where are you going Trae? You can't leave yet, we aren't done playing!"
Trae stared at the child in disbelief. He asked, "What is the matter with you? How did you end up this way?"
"You mean your father," Ali spat out the word 'father' as though it were a swear word, "never told you what I was? Why it was extremely important that I wouldn't get my memories back?"
"I just thought you had somehow made an alliance with the aliens," Trae replied thinking of a way to distract the girl so he could get out. He saw a cracked window near Ali and he decided to try to get her away from the window so he could use it for his escape.
"An alliance?" Ali asked and she started laughing. But then she started coughing so she stopped laughing. She glared darkly at Trae and then continued, "No, that isn't the reason," Ali said, "I was born with an alien inside of me," Trae paused from his planning as he looked at the girl in shock. She had an alien inside of her? "That's right," Ali continued, "My mother was pregnant with me when she was attacked by a facehugger. I absorbed the baby alien inside my mother and was born instead with the alien's DNA," Ali's smile then faded a little as she continued, "But my mother died during my birth. My father blamed me and refused to speak to me. He treated me like I was something vile. I was all alone in the world, wondering why I was so different from all the other kids."
Trae looked back at Ali for a slight moment and almost felt himself being taken over with pity for her. But he forced those thoughts out of his mind, he had seen what this child was really like; she enjoyed making others suffer. And, before Ali could say anything else, Trae made his move; he ran straight toward Ali and then jumped straight at her, catching her off-guard. She took a step back as Trae came flying towards her but she was able to quickly recover. Trae saw her raise her hand up but was in mid-flight and couldn't control himself as he fell down on top of Ali. Ali fell hard to the ground but kept her hand straight up. Trae felt her sharp nails pierce through his shirt and come into contact with his skin. Her hand went right through where he was injured, where he had hardly any skin because of Ali's blood. He kept falling as Ali's hand stuck straight up, unmoving. Then he opened his mouth slowly and let out a terrible scream.