Chapter 18:

Atop these Hill of Blood, my Brothers One with Me

"See...I told you that I would get to you." The lead scientists said with an evil grin. "Thank you Jolene that will be all. Take her to transport and have her shipped with the rest." Amun stopped moving.

"No...No! You...you said I...I could..stay with him!" This new queen quickly stated as she took a few steps towards him in protest.

"Jolene, you will go, or do I need to hurt your babies once more?" Amun heard that statement loud and clear. What horrors had this man done to her children already? Her daughters were not tools to be use as a threat to control her. Amun flexed his muscles once again to test the restraints that held him. He wa surprised when he felt the metal give a tiny bit.

"No...But I-" She started to protest.

"Enough! Out!" The man screamed. The queen said nothing more, she simply turned and made her way to the door. Looking over her shoulder one last time at Amun. She then looked to the two smaller drones in the room who quickly fell in behind her before they all disappeared. Amun watched the entire time as she left. "There you see, a queen can be controlled once you know how. But I have to thank you Amun, if it were not the personality traits that had been passed along from Jolene, I swear she would have killed us all long ago. Thankfully she is rather fragile and weak." Amun let loose a low growl.

"Do not talk about Jolene that way, she was stronger then you will ever know." He snapped back. The scientist began to laugh.

"O I'm sure she was, too bad that is doing nothing for this one. I broke her easily and have her trained like a good little pup." Every word from this man's mouth was like nails on a chalk board for Amun.

"Just shut up...shut the hell up you monster." Amun's words held little threat when he was still trapped. He silently prayed that Abby would pull through, that she would be able to help release him in some way.

"O I'm the monster you say? O no no my friend, it's you and that other dim witted Queen of yours that are. Everything was going so perfect before she fucked it all up and helped you escape the first time. No matter, we will have her soon enough. Her and the new litter that you two made." Amun let out another low growl. "O yes, we know where they are and know they are waiting for your other little one to help them in. It was a rather easy plan to see. You get taken, and let her loose to open the door for dear sweet mommy. Well just as soon as my other Xeno's track her down and kill her that will be the end of it and I will take back what is mine." Amun silently smiled knowing that he had no idea what was actually going to happen.

"You will never harm them, you are too slow and far too much of an idiot to out think my hive." Amun wanted to attempt to break this man, just as he had done to him. Taking shots at his intelligence might do the trick. "It probably wasn't even you who knew we were coming."

"I knew!" He snapped back quickly. "I was watching your every move from the last hive location. I always knew."

"Yet you let an army of Xeno's gather nearby? That seems rather idiotic if you ask me. Because it will be your downfall, a close Xeno is a deadly Xeno. Even a teenage nerd would know that!" Amun watched as the man's pheromones changed to reflect his anger.

"Shut up you simple worm! I let them get close so that they would be easily taken, nothing more. It is rather hard to be over taken by something when you know it is there don't you think? Besides I will never be out done by the likes of you! I made you what you are, what Emilia is! You will never out do me for I will always be one step ahead of you! I will mold your future as I see fit! I AM A GOD!" Just as the man's rant ended, alarms began to ring from every corner of the lab. Everyone began to scramble and fumble around, running into objects and tables. Amun realized that the lights must have shut off. "What is going on! Get the emergency power up and running!" The man yelled in terror.

"Sir we can't! The emergency lines are not getting power! The main lines are dead, we still have some smaller system working, but the building back-ups are dead!" Amun quickly thanked Abby and made his move. He began to press his body against ever edge of his restraints and could feel the metal begin to give way. The scientitst that had been talking to him, the one that took his family looked back to the king, listening to the metal of his restraints groan. The entire room seemed to fall silent as the all looked towards the monster in the room.

"You maybe god..." Amun said as a few giant plates of metal broke away from their position, crashing into the walls and floor. "But I...I AM KING!"

With a mighty roar Amun exploded upward as each restraint gave way to his power. Metal bent and broke into pieces under his strength as his exoskeleton tore through. As he gained his footing in the room he quickly noticed that every human in the lab was now scrambling for any door they could still find. Amun looked for the main scientists that had been talking but was meet with a sea of yellow mist and could not tell one human from the other.

"FUCK!" He yelled over the speakers. Now that he was free, he wanted to be rid of this contraption on his head. Amun reached up and felt the device that had been bolted to his crown and began to pull. The pain was beyond anything he had felt as a few probes began to make their way out of his skull. He felt every inch of them as they slowly appeared from within his head. But with one final jerk the device came free, and his acid blood flowed over his head. He threw the device to the ground and made his way towards the large metal door that Jolene had went through. A few humans were still scrambling around the lab in the dark but Amun did not care. He walked right past them as if they were dirt.

The door that was now holding him in was massive, quite a bit larger than he was. It did not matter, he had to get out, he had to find her. He found the seam of the doors and began to force his clawed fingers between them. When they began to move, he pushed harder and harder until they began to slide. He pushed more and more and the doors gave way under his great strength.

When he had opened it far enough to move through he quickly stepped through and found himself in a very large hallway. It felt as if it had almost been made for him, which was an eerie feeling. He did not stop to think on it for too long as something caught his attention. A scent.

"Jolene..." He took off down the large hall, following the scent trail easily with his superior vision. He ran for what felt like forever, going down hallway after hallway, passing door after door. The walls were covered with various sized entrances, some as large as himself and others more human sized. Amun did not stop to check each one for a way out, he was still searching for his current target. He kept following the trail of coloured mist before him that he knew was hers.

He came to another large, closed door that had Jolene's scent flowing from around its seal. His excitement and fear took over his body as his fingers made their way to the crease in the center of the large plates. His claws once again found a hold and began to pry open the barricade. Inch by inch it moved and more and more of the Queen's scent came through.

"Hold on Jolene, I'm coming!"

"Amun?" His hands nearly slipped off the door as the response filled his mind. "Amun where...where are you?"

"I'm at the blast door, you must be close! Where are you?"

"In... in a container, please...hurry, he has all of...of us!" She pleaded. Amun worked the door open enough to step through once again and was not happy at what he saw. Thousands upon thousands of cargo containers. Some big enough to fit a queen within, others no larger than a single car. His fear did not go unnoticed. "What...is it?"

"There are too many containers, it might take time to find you!" He wasted no time and focused his mind, mentally reaching out for her. The sonar like pin came up short with no other Xeno mind nearby. However, over top of the sirens going off, Amun heard something. Something was moving a cargo container! "Jolene! Are you moving?"

"Yes, yes we...we are! Hu-hurry!" Amun sprinted in the direction of the sound but could not see anything over the tall stacks of containers. He did not have time for this, he lowered his head and aimed strait for were the sound had come from, taking off in a full sprint. Containers and boxes went flying in every direction and the king plowed his way through the ware house. Nothing inside the containers had been heavy enough to stop the king.

He slowed when he heard a new sound, something that sounded much larger than the original. He stopped and looked up at the roof and saw that there were now large doors beginning to open. He also noticed the overly large container being lifted up and out of those doors by what looked like a helicopter. He took off once more, this time using the large crates as stepping stones to close the short distance to the opening.

Amun leapt from container to container, causing more than one to fall over once he pushed off of it. When he was upon one that was close enough, he leapt into the air, reaching for the one that he hoped contained Jolene. His claws dug in deep as the connected with the metal sides of the box.

"Jolene, I have you!" He said as he began to tear a hole in the side of the wall, making one large enough to see inside. He saw strange containers with a strange blue mist coming from behind the front door. It must have been a type of travelling pod. He noticed a pile of smaller ones with one large one on the far side. "Just hang on!"

"I...I see you, we...we are all in...separate boxes, you need to...stop...stop the box!" He looked from the box to the wires that were pulling up the box. He left the hole along and started to crawl along the outside of the box towards the wires, thinking that he could cut them with a little acid. He would save Jolene and anyone else in the container with one go.

As he neared the main cable, something else caught his attention, a familiar sound that was not good. He turned his crowned head just in time to see the missile before it struck him in the back. The explosion knocked him clear off the container and tossed him into the air like a rag doll.

"AMUN!" He could not respond to the cry of fear from the queen, his mind was to rattled. Free fall took over his body and it was all he could feel. Down and down the king fell until he was met with a sudden stop. Everything seemed to freeze as he laid upon the ground, body twisted into a strange position because of the pile of containers he was now upon. As he lay still, barley conscious, something else impacted his chest. Amun could not tell if it had been another missile, but it had been heavy enough to crack a few of his ribs.

"AMUN!" The queen's voice grew distance and soft as the container was taken away into the air through his blurry vision. As he once again listened to the last words of his passed lover disappear, Amun felt his mind beginning to go black. However it was another voice that brought him back.

"Father! Father stay awake!" Amun took in a deep breath to clear his mind. As he did, he watched as a small Xenomorph drone came into his view. He knew her scent, it was all to familiar to him as his own family.

"Abby...is that...is that you?" He asked as his head cleared a bit more.

"Yes, Father. You need to get up, Mother is almost here. Our sisters are about to fight and need our help!" The statement had Amun to his feet quickly, but it was then that the full extent of pain hit him. He placed a hand on his side, feeling the acid blood that was flowing from the large wound. He dropped to one knee from the pain. He felt Abby move quickly to his side to help close the wound with her resin. Amun had to take some shallow breaths from the pain, but stayed still to let his daughter work. It was then that he noticed something down by his feet.

He recognized the blue mist that was now flowing forth from a broken door of a pod that was laying upon the broken containers of the wear house. He watched as a small, wounded hand attempted to push the door open. Amun quickly reached over and helped to pry open the broken pod. He was shocked for inside was a pair of small Xeno drones, curled up inside the small interior space. They were cold and injured, he could see part of the pod being melted away from acid. He looked down on the poor souls and knew they were from Jolene's hive from their pheromones, just as Alex had been. Abby approached the two Xeno's and looked in at them.

"Who are they Father? They are not from our hive." She asked as she stroked one of their heads, attempting to wake them.

"It is a long story Abby. Do you think you could look after them, I must go help your mother." Abby nodded and curled her tail around the pod showing her father that she would protect them. "Good girl." Amun then stood, the pain in his side more manageable now, and made his way to the opening in the building's roof. He crouched low and with great force, jumped up and out of the opening. He flew through the air to a great height well over what he needed to, but it had been for a purpose.

As he went up through the air, he was able to get a lay of the facility they were now in. Noticing a good dozen or so buildings with roads between most of them. Large liquid containers to one side, a four story tower to his right, a helicopter pad on the left. It was something else that he had been looking for that caught his attention. On his way down he looked out past the large walls into what looked like a barren desert the surrounded the compound and noticed the army of Xeno's that were now sprinting towards his location. Amun mentally smiled.

As he landed on the roof of the ware house, he did so with a thunderous crash, creating a rather large crater in its frame. Once he recovered he took in a deep breath and let loose a might roar. One that only a King could make. He knew that his daughters would hear, that Emilia would hear and they would all know. Now was the time for revenge.