Look at that another chapter yay! Sorry if things in this chapter seemed rushed or anything. I want to move the action along. Anyways enjoy!
Chapter 18
The queen watched as the machines moved the new equipment around here prison. It has been days since she lost contact with her child that the machines had tortured and tried to make in to one of them. Ever since that day the queen has been planning an escape, a way for her and her children to take revenge on the machines for imprisoning them here and experimenting on them. That day was near; for the machines have finished building the device they plan on using to retrieve the eggs she has been laying. The queen watched as they moved the device into position, for her plan to work everything had to be timed out perfectly and executed so, in order for it to work.
Captain Emotion sat in his private quarters, his feet resting on his desk as he reclined in his chair and polished a clone trooper helmet from his collection.
"James, the team is about to extract an egg from the queens chamber" the computer informed the captain
"Excellent, tell them to move forward with the extraction when they are ready and let me know when the task is accomplished," Emotion replied, wiping of some smudge from the helmet.
"Also, you are receiving a call from-"
"Put it through" Emotion said, interrupting the computer before it could finish.
The computer answered by putting the call through while Emotion continued to polish the helmet.
"Hello, you've reached Captain James Emotion's 2.0 Program's Felucia operations base. I am Captain Emotion and how can help you be a better organic today?" Emotion said without looking up from the helmet.
"I'm glad that things are going so well with your task that you have the time to slack off, Captain" said a cold and curl voice.
Emotion immediately recognized the voice and fell out of his chair onto the floor. He quickly hopped right back up to see a holographic image of General Grievous.
"General, why what a pleasant surprise, I wasn't expecting you to check up on me until tomorrow" Emotion said, both surprised and embarrassed.
"I'll be going to battle against the Republic soon, I wanted to check up on things before I left," Grievous said
"Well I can assure you, general, everything is going perfectly here. Nothing new to report and Count Dooku should have his first Xenomorph 2.0 unit delivered to him in a matter of days. I'm still working out a few bugs, but I believe I have come up with an answer to the obedience problem," Emotion informed the general
"Good I was being to think this project would fail like all the others," Grievous said, testing Emotion's tolerance
"Well, you have no need to worry, general, everything is under control," Emotion said calmly.
Right after Emotion spoke that last word; the communicator in his armor began to beep.
Emotion quickly flipped open his armor panel and said "This better be important Number 1, I'm in the middle of something right now"
"My apologize, Captain, but we've received word from security that Xenomorph 13 among several others are acting strangely" said Number 1's voice
"How strangely" Emotion asked
"They seem to be in pain or something sir" Number 1 answered.
"Tell security to stand by and have Fetch-X secure X-13, I'll be down there shortly,"
With that Emotion closed the panel and turned to face the general
"It seems you've spoken to soon" Grievous commented.
"Yes it seems we have. Well general good luck to you in your battles and I will contact you once this problem is resolved," Emotion said walking past the hologram.
The image of Grievous disappeared and Emotion stepped out of his office into the main control station in the center of the base and at the top of the tower. Emotion walked into the center of the room and sat at the control chair there. He imputed some commands into the counsel in the arms of the chair and the screen in front of him lit up. The screen showed the Xenomorph cells as Fetch-X and a group of grappler droids approached the cell containing X-13.
Emotion pressed another button on the counsel and said "Fetch-X, begin with the operation"
Fetch-X and the grappled droids stood outside the cell containing X-13. X-13 and the other xenomorphs were either curled up in balls screeching or lying in a corner unmoving or vise versa. X-13 was curled up in a ball unmoving in the center of his cell.
"Fetch-X, begin with the operation" came Captain Emotion's voice over the speakers.
Fetch-X looked to make sure that grappler droids were in position and then moved to a console next to the cell door. Any of the holding cells could be opened from the control tower, to make things more convenient for the operations, Captain Emotion installed separate control consoles for each cell so they didn't have to wait for the control tower to open the cell for them. Each console on the cell could only be used if they had the pass code, 999, Fetch-X and Captain Emotion were the only ones that had the pass code.
Fetch-X looked back to the grappler droids, nodded his head to them and then entered the pass code into the console. The energy field door of the cell disappeared, X-13 remained unmoving. Fetch-X moved into the cell slowly, he had his electro-net launcher ready and another hand on his vibroblade. As he approached the unmoving xenomorph, he checked its vitals using his scanners and saw that xenomorph was healthy.
Fetch-X continued his cautious approach to the xenomorph. When he reached it he nudged it with his foot and got no response. He squatted down and removed an electro collar from his side and was about to fasten it to the xenomorphs neck when suddenly, X-13 jumped up, leapt over Fetch-X and made a beeline for the exit.
Fetch-X was quick to spin around and launch an electro-net from his gun. X-13, however, was ready for this and leaped to the side, barely dodging the net as it flew by. The grappler droids were quick to spring into action as the xenomorph approached them. X-13 was much quicker and more agile than the droid were and pounced onto one before any of others could react.
X-13 knocked the droid into the control panel for the cell across from his. The other xenomorphs had sprung into action as well and waited at the doors of their cells as X-13 sent his tail through the midsection of the droid and right into the control panel of the cell. The cell door opened and the xenomorph quickly jumped at the next droid.
"Back away from the control panels!" Fetch-X shouted as he made a run at X-13.
The grappler droids were quick to obey as they worked on dealing with the other fast footed xenomorph. X-13 jumped off the grappler droid it had just killed only to be tackled by Fetch-X.
As Fetch-X and X-13 wrestled on the ground the grappler droid were having very little success in capturing the other escaped xenomorph. The other xenomorph was too fast for the droids and it was also smarter. The queen had told it and it's sibling exactly what to do and how to do it, using its speed to its advantage the other xenomorph managed to get a grappler droid to destroy the control panel for yet another cell, releasing another xenomorph.
Fetch-X and X-13 were in heated battle, both knew exactly what to expect from the other and as the grappler droid attempted to keep things under control, more and more xenomorphs were being released. Fetch-X managed to throw X-13 off of him as the alarm went off and turrets deployed from the ceiling. A force field appeared over the ramps leading to the other levels as the building went to lock down.
The automated turrets began firing down into the room in hopes of hitting the several xenomorphs that ran wild. They managed to get a few lucky shots, taking out a xenomorph or two, but the xenomorphs were using the already chaotic situation to their benefit by jumping from wall to wall to the floor and to the ceiling, causing blaster fire to be shot at every direction. The grappler droid, focused solely on the xenomorphs were oblivious to the wild turret fire and were often destroyed by the turrets
Fetch-X expertly dodged the turret fire, threw a vibroblade dagger at a xenomorph, impaling it in the head, before once again tackling X-13 to the floor. All of the grappler droids had been destroyed and the xenomorphs turned their attention to both the turrets and finding a way out.
Fetch-X had X-13 pinned. All he cared about was making sure that X-13, the abomination that it was, didn't make it out of the cells alive. The others could deal with the other xenomorphs, but X-13 had to die. X-13 however had other plans and impaled Fetch-X threw the back with it's tail, the bladed end went clean through the droid. Fetch-X didn't care, he grabbed the bladed end of the tail and using all the energy he had, brought it down and into the xenomorph itself. X-13 let out a scream of pain as it was impaled with its own weapon and tried to throw the droid off but the two were impaled together and Fetch-X wasn't letting go. In the last few moment of his life Fetch-X brought his vibroblade down into the skull of X-13, killing the xenomorph. Fetch-X then collapsed onto the dead xenomorph and watched in fear for the others, as xenomorphs scurried about the ceiling and the floor.
"Captain…I…I have failed you…activate the building's fail safe, incinerate them all," Fetch-X said to Emotion, before going offline.
999 and the battle droid were moving the claw into place to retrieve the eggs when the alarms went off. 999 and the other droids stopped what they were doing as they looked around for any sign of distress or danger.
That was when one of the xenomorphs with the queen pushed the claw out of the hole in the barrier that had been made so they could retrieve the eggs and squired out while the droids were distracted, the other xenomorphs followed quickly behind it.
999 was shocked back into reality when he heard blaster fire. He turned to see a destroyed battle droid thrown from the control panel of the crane as two other xenomorphs jumped over and headed for the other battle droids and 999.
The battle droids immediately opened fire on the xenomorphs but had little luck taking care of them. As one was dismembering a battle droid, 999 opened fire and managed to kill the xenomorph before being tackled by another. 999 tried to throw the xenomorph off but it was useless. The xenomorph opened its jaw mouth wide and its inner mouth was propelled forward and went into the organic part of 999's head.
The xenomorph leapt off the dead cyborg and made a run for the tunnel, only to be crushed as the large, heavy, metal door to the tunnel closed. The reaming xenomorph was less worried about escaping and more worried about freeing the queen. It searched the room for a control panel like the ones for the other cells. Emotion had been extra cautious with queen however and they only way to open her cell was from the control tower. Two turrets dropped from the ceiling and made quick work of the xenomorphs. The queen hissed angrily at the two turrets, safe behind the force field but imprisoned until her children could make it to the main building.
Emotion watched in terror as the action on the screen in front of him unfolded. Fetch-X's last words had barely reached him before he activated the bases lock down and ordered Sniffles, Number 1 and Number 2 to gather all of their forces to destroy the oncoming wave of escaped xenomorphs.
The only fail safe Emotion had was the bases self-destruct and lockdown. The xenomorphs were smart enough to use the automated turrets against themselves and they had found the services tunnels in the flooring and ceiling of the bases that maintenance droids used and were freeing the other xenomorphs before making their way to the main building. Luckily the queen was still imprisoned but it would only be a matter of time until she was free.
"All droids report to your battle stations, the base is entering lockdown mode and the xenomorphs have escaped," Emotion ordered through the speakers.
The droids in the control were quick to leave their posts and marched to the elevator. They would then ride the elevator to the main floor before taking up positions in the room with the elevator, the main hanger bay or the other access tunnel that lead to the research building.
Emotion was now alone as he watched the monitors. "Number 1, report" Emotion ordered.
"Number 1 do you read me?" came Emotions voice through his communicator.
Number 1 watched as battle droids and super battle droids moved to their positions and as barricades were created against the door to the access tunnel of the research lab.
"Number 1 if you can hear me the xenomorphs are traveling by the maintenance tunnels so watch the walls, the floors and the ceiling," Emotion warned Number 1
"Rodger, Rodger, Captain. All droids are in position and ready to fire when ordered," Number 1 replied
"Forget about waiting for an order as soon as they show up open fire!" Emotion ordered.
"Understood" Number 1 replied back.
Number 1 was nervous, he had seen the xenomorphs in action and wasn't quite ready to face them. Number 2 moved a Gatling gun into place and stood behind it, ready to face the horde. Sniffles approached Number 1.
"What is the captain's plan if they get through us?" Sniffles asked
"I don't know, but I am sure the captain would rather destroy the entire facility before letting one of them out into the wild," Number 1 answered.
The room got quite as all the droids settled into their positions. The tension could be felt in the air. All the droid were mechanical and knew they would die in battle for the Separatists cause, they were nervous because they weren't programmed to face the monsters that were approaching.
Beeeeep…Beep.. Beep beep beep beep beepbeepbeep
The beeping of the motion tracker quickly gained in speed as the movement of xenomorphs got closer and closer until they were right on top of the droids.
Xenomorphs burst from the floor and the ceiling and descended onto the droids. Although the droid outnumbered the xenomorphs, the xenomorphs were much faster than the droids however and the first few minutes of blaster fire, the xenomorphs had taken down more than enough droids.
Number 2 opened fire with the Gatling gun as Sniffles and Number 1 opened fire as well. Blaster fire was all over the place as the droids tried to shoot down the xenomorphs that jumped from the top of the few ships in the hanger to the walls.
"Short, controlled bursts!" Number 1 shouted
A xenomorph dropped from the ceiling on top of Sniffles and quickly clawed at the spider droid. Number 1 turned and opened fire. The xenomorph was blasted of the spider droid and hit the floor. Number 1 quickly moved and emptied the power pack into the xenomorph, making sure it was dead.
"Sniffles are you alright?" Number 1 asked as he moved over to the spider droid, replacing the power pack he had just used up.
Sniffles was badly damaged and the acid from the xenomorph was eating away at the droid's armor. Although Sniffles was still shooting at the xenomorphs, it was clear that he wouldn't make it.
There was an explosion as a miss placed blaster shot hit some of the fuel cells and Number 1 ducked beside the spider droid. Number 2 came running and got down beside Number 1.
"Things are getting out of hand these things are too fast and they've taken down most of our forces" Number 2 said over the sound of yet another explosion.
"You two have to get to the Captain, take him to the weapons and droid factory building and then get off the planet," Sniffles urged the two, doing his best to stay online.
"We aren't going to leave you, we have to make sure these things are taken care of," Number 1 said.
A xenomorph appeared in front of the two battle droid commanders and the both opened fire on it. The xenomorph dropped dead.
"It's no use, we'll cover you just save the captain," Sniffles said, this time more as an order than a plead.
Number 1 was about to argue, when Captain Emotions voice came over his communicator.
"Number 1, Number 2, get out of there this a lost battle. Meet me at the teleporter for the other building," Emotion ordered.
Number 1 looked at Number 2 before Sniffles shouted at them to go. Number 1 and Number 2 got up and ran for the door. The two made it to the door and Number 2 ran through, heading for the main room. Number 1 stopped and looked back to see Sniffles get over ran by two xenomorphs. There was then suddenly an explosion as Sniffles activated his self-destruct function, killing himself and taking the two xenomorphs with him. Number 1 then turned into the hallway, closed the door and locked it behind before running to catch up to his brother.
Number 1 made it into the main room to see Number 2 and Captain Emotion.
"Hurry Number 1! We have to make it to the teleporter before they get through!" Emotion ordered waving the droid towards him.
Number 1 hurried over to them and the three exited through one of the extra doors and then hurried down the seven shaped hallway to the teleporter.
"Before I headed to the elevator I managed to send a distress signal along with a recorded message that tells them to destroy this base" Emotion told the two as the ran down the hall. "Once this base is destroyed the other two will self-destruct,"
"What if they don't destroy the base or nobody picks up the distress beacon?" Number 1 asked
"Then the fail safe will activate. I set it to activate in six standard months, that way someone is bound to find out what happened here and agree to destroy the base," Emotion answered as they turned a corner.
"What does the fail safe actually do?" Number 2 asked
"The reactor will reach critical mass and explode destroying the base, resulting in the destruction of the other to facilities and a crater of about half the size of a good sized moon," Emotion answered as they reached the teleporter at the end of the hall way.
"Why such a large explosion?" Number 1 asked, a little surprised.
"If this base was ever discover I wanted to make sure that it couldn't be taken by the enemy and that if it ever was the base could destroy itself and take everything else with it. Besides it the only way to make sure we kill every last one of those thing," Emotion answered, with such hatred you would be surprised that he was actually fascinated with the creatures.
"Now then enough talk get on the teleporter pad" Emotion ordered.
"What about the research and the 2.0 unit" Number 2 asked
"After everything happened here, I couldn't wish these creatures on anyone, as for X-2.0 1 I activated him before I left he should be able to take care of himself now come let's hurry before they catch up to us," Emotion answered quickly
Number 1 and 2 nodded and were about to step on to the pad when the floor gave way under Number 1. A xenomorph popped out of the hole it made and impaled Number 1 through the chest Number 2 turned to fire on it only have the tail go through his chest as well.
Emotion let out an angry no and shot the creature with his zap cannon, completing destroying most of its upper body. Emotion grabbed both bodies of his two commanders and stepped on the teleporter pad. In a flash of light he was gone, only to appear in another flash of light in the weapons and droid factory building.
Frightened, Emotion carried the bodies of Number 1 and Number 2 over to a corner next to some heavy weapons. Emotion sat down in the corner, clinging to the bodies of his two closest friends. There he sat waiting and hoping that someone would pick up his distress beacon, heed his warning and destroy the base.