So who saw the new Predator movie? I personally liked it but the CGI kinda ruined it for me in regards to a certain character in the movie.

Summary: Lex thought she would never see the Predator that marked her with a mysterious symbol ever since the battle in Antartica. While leading yet another expedition, this time in the jungles of the Amazon, she runs into the very same alien that had been on her mind since. How will Scar react to seeing her after recovering from his near fatal wound?

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Acceptance

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Chapter XXII

Keera's screams reverberated throughout the entire ventilation system as Echo followed after her voice. The hard meats were fast when it came to crawling, even Echo was having a hard time pinpointing her location. It seemed whichever hard meat took Keera was hell-bent on not letting him get to her, because the place was suddenly swarming with more of them.

His wrist-comp suddenly started beeping and Echo hissed in frustration, pressing several buttons on the machine.

Two heat signatures were detected near his vicinity and scans of his mask indicated they were his fellow clan members.

"Echo!"

Screeches and hisses from hard meat sounded in the air as they were blasted apart by the plasma-casters from his allies.

"Strike! Crusade!"

"We came to get you. This place is overrun with kiande amedha, we have to set the bombs to self-destruct and get out of here!" Crusade threw his spear at another hard meat that tried to sneak up on them.

"No! I'm not leaving until I save her," Echo fixed the plasma-caster to his shoulder plate and began running towards the reactor.

"Save who?"

"Keera."

With no other choice but to follow their comrade through to the reactor, Strike and Crusade activated their cloaking, disappearing from view. Echo did the same and scanned the surrounding area with his mask. They had to be close to the location by now, judging from the sticky substance covering the walls and the damp temperatures. Quietly taking down any hard meats they came across, the trio eventually found themselves at the nesting area where all the colonists were taken.

"Keera!" Echo searched for signs of his companion.

"Echo?! I'm here!" Keera screamed from one corner of the room.

"That's a ooman you're going after? Are you insane!?" Crusade grabbed Echo by the shoulder before the latter could run towards her.

Echo knocked his friend's hand away and snarled angrily at the two.

"She saved my life! I will not abandon her!"

He ran towards where Keera was and realized she was cocooned to the wall like the rest of the colonists, beside her feet laid one of them, and Echo knew right away what had happened.

"It's in me, one of them. You have to kill me! Please Echo!" Keera begged, tears streaming down her face.

Using the scanner in his mask, Echo could see the parasite growing within her body, forcing its way out through her rib cage. Keera coughed violently as the hard meat began breaking free.

"Kill her before the parasite breaks free," Strike said.

"We can't stay here forever. Lay down the bombs and move," Crusade ordered as he threw his shuriken at another hard meat.

Torn between the desire to save his companion and destroying the nest, Echo knew he had no other choice if he wanted to prevent the serpents from running rampant. Flexing his arm to release his wrist blades, he impaled Keera the moment the parasite broke free of her chest, while secretly saving it from death. For some strange reason he couldn't fathom, Echo had a feeling the parasite in his hand would never harm him.

"We leave now!" he said, pushing several buttons on his wrist-comp while the other two did the same.

Once the bombs were thrown inside the nest, the trio took off running towards the exit before the bombs exploded.

Echo woke from his sleep after dreaming of the times he spent with Keera. After the planet was destroyed thanks to the force of the bombs, the mothership picked him, Crusade and Strike up from space. Upon discovering Echo had an infant hard meat queen with him, the Elders forced him to hand it over to the researchers. The moment Keera left his side, she began going feral and attacking everyone in sight, even managing to injure several of his kin as she grew to a rapid size. Only when he managed to break free and calm her down did everyone realize he was the key to making her cooperate.

She was kept in a cage since that day.

No.

No more of this.

Soon he'll free her and the two of them will make the others pay for what they have done.

Lex was positive of what she had seen at the eating hall earlier.

A Predator was definitely glaring at her.

Yet when Scar looked up, the Predator was gone from sight.

It couldn't just be her imagination could it?

Still unable to comprehend what had just happened, Lex trailed after Storm and Scar as they made their way to the training hall, or keh'rite in their language. She definitely wasn't looking forward to training today. Scar was a tough opponent but to have to fight Storm together? She might as well just offer herself up as a trophy to the two Yautja.

"We train," Scar said as they stood in front of the room.

"Against you and Storm? You're kidding right?" Lex asked incredulously, stepping back nervously from the duo.

"I train Storm first, you watch."

"That changes things," Lex plopped herself down in a corner of the room and began observing.

Immediately the two Predators went at each other and even if it was just training, the fight was still rather brutal and not something Lex was used to seeing. Despite sparring without the use of weapons (deadly in any case), the two Predators were still more than a match for one another. Whenever Scar managed to land a blow, Storm would block and parry right back. Scar would do the same for blows aimed at his own body, only he would retaliate in a stronger fashion compared to Storm.

Lex was mesmerized by their fight.

-Three hours later-

"Oh my god...I'm sore everywhere..." Lex moaned, throwing herself onto her bed.

The team that the Elders sent to search her room finally gave her the all clear to move back in and Lex couldn't be happier. Not that she didn't like staying in Scar's room, just the trophies decorating the interior was enough to give her the heebie jeebies for the entire night. Not to mention the lack of a shower in his room, which Lex immediately hopped into the moment she was back in her own.

Training with Scar was definitely up there on her list, and Lex was actually proud of herself for doing much better than she did the very first time she trained with him. He kicked her ass so badly that time, it took forever for her to work out the kinks in her muscles. Now that she was improving in her hand-to-hand combat and weapon usage, Scar told her it was time to up the training and teach her how to use some of the more dangerous weapons they had at their disposal.

Ever since she first saw Scar use the gun they had taken at Bouvetoya Island, secretly she wanted to use one of her own.

Her killing an Alien and a Queen earned her the right to use one.

"Here's to tomorrow," she said as hot water ran down her body.

Things were finally starting to look up for her.

To be continued...

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Unleash the Xenomorph Queen! Coming next chapter!

How will the ship react to this?

How will Scar and Lex react to this? XD

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