Escape

Si’Yal rested an hour or so before the queen commanded him again. She wanted him to infiltrate the human base and then escape from it. He ran to exit of the hive and climbed up the wall with the wounds paining him for each step he took, it would heal but it would not heal fast. Actually the healingprocess had already started but he thought that some more time would not be whole wrong - but the queens command was the queens command and the queens command you obey and take follow to no matter how dumb it might seem to be. The queen always had right, even when she was wrong; That was the Xenomorphs most important law that they couldn’t disobey; It was impossible for them, not only because of that she controlled them - actually she did not need to control them because they would follow her anyways - but for the honor and for the hive.
Along the wall up to a secret passage he climbed and pushed the stone away uncovering a passage to the human installation. What he saw in there was a room with broken human furniture and a formation in the wall which he had learned was a door. Some kind of a ventilation shaft where in the room to, and that was the way to go. A human walked down there at the floor, holding something in his hands that did not look like a weapon. It beeped lightly and Si’Yal did recognize that sound, it was not dangerous; A bit dangerous maybe but not even as half as dangerous as the weapons that they used; That device was for sure some kind of a tracker that they used to scout, with bad senses and bad vision the humans needed such things. He knew that Xenomorphs would never need anything equalent to that, they were perfect in differance to humans.
What that human did not know was that he would have no use for his motion detector either his pulse rifle or even his clothes seconds from now - with a innerjaw of a Xenomorph in is backhead sucking pieces of his brain out.
He proceeded to the next hall and there he smelled lots of humans, pathetic and scared as they always were. A synthetic voice started talking, Si’Yal did as usually not understand it but it was longer than the regular speaks held from synthetic humans. There was a second level in this room which he used for his advance to hide on leading to another tunnel. Down there were lots of doors and tech-stuff. Chairs, computers, furniture, weapons and so forth - human stuff. He looked over the edge of the small second level bridge and saw three humans walking around down there. Two of them were talking about something.
Seconds later their voices went silent, the first one he headbited and the other one he slashed the head of with his right claws. Now was something bad going to happen he knew of small experience, he crouched down on the floor and bullets whined over him hitting the wall and exploded. A scream that he did not know if it meant something or if it just was a scream of emotions was heard from the human. Footsteps were walking against him as he was crouching behind a computer and waiting for the meat to come to him.
The meat came to him as well and he jumped to the roof then down behind the human who shoot hysterically at the place he just left milliseconds ago. Slashing with his claws against the human and totally decapitated him he heard more footsteps behind him, aproximately one human walking fast. The dead body dropped to the ground and the rifle to and he dropped to the roof and disappeared for a second. A second after that he was on the left side of the human with a small weapon in his hands. He slashed the head off and went to the little whole with glass surrounding it which the human came from.
Si’Yal’s tail penetrated the glass and it hurted, bulletproof and tailproof. He did not want to try that again so he went back. What now? None of the doors opened and when he slammed the tail in them it just hurted even more.
The ventilations of course. How could he forget that?
He climbed up and into it and ended up in a new room, smaller and with less human-stuff. One of the humans pushed a button on the door that he just had tried to smash open and it opened. That filled him with rage, how a human could be smarter than him. He killed it with a tailwhip straight into the head and down the chest. When he pulled the tail up the human came with it so he ripped it apart with ease and threw one part to the left and the other bodypart to the right. They hit the ground with a splashing thud and a scream was heard from the other human in the room. A door opened just as he switched side of the bridge leading to the tunnel. Now he was hanging on the underside of it and saw the human enter a new room through the door, in there was two other of them. One holding a fire-bottle (as he called it).
Si’Yal jumped across the room and landed on the wall all to near the one with the fire-bottle who threw it just beneath him. It exploded and he cried out a good hiss and ran up to roof avoiding the fire. He was hit several times and heard the whining sound of full-automatic fire with some higher blasts that appeared with some timespace between the shots. His torso was hit about three, four times and his left leg twice. It was not even near torn appart but he thought so with his lack of experience of getting shot - experience that he did not want to overload himself with.
Si’Yal was scared and climbed up to the bridge hanging from the roof and leading to a place with a light smell of human adrenaline and something else that he was not all to excited about. The human who held the napalm was just beneath him and he grabbed the human and threw him up knocking him unconscious against the floor he was standing on. Si’Yal ate a bit of him, the head and some more meat. These wounds were serious but did not ruin his skills to much. The queen promised him rest and prey when he got to the shuttle. What was a shuttle? When the time came he would be aware of what it was, she told him. Now he had to fight hard and ignore his wounds as well as he could. He was the hive’s hope now and he could not let his brood down. His own death did not mean much to him, but the brood meant a lot, and now it was time to defend it. At the opposite side that he got up he jumped down and jumped against the two humans who raised their weapons at him and started fire. Full-auto, he knew what that was alright. One bullet touched his arm and he did not know if he was hit any more than that. It was the weapon that did not have full-auto that shoot him and it seemed more dangerous in a specific way than the other weapon was in that way - while the automatic rifle was more dangerous in one way while the other one was useless. He smashed both their heads against the wall behind them and took a brainpiece from each of them - no time to feast on their bodies now. His acidic blood stopped spraying around him and coagulated a bit, but just a bit, not all that much thought.
After entering the tunnel on top of the wall he saw a human standing ready with a tiny weapons and waiting for something it looked like. His first thought was meat and the humans last thought was that they had to contain that damned Xenomorph now before it reached longer than it already had done. A door behind him opened and a half a second later an unarmed human lied dead in the opening of the door killed by Si’Yal’s lethal, natural weapons - the claws.
He ran across the room on the roof and saw a door open. In there was more meat. But one of the meatpieces had a mighty gun he felt, it looked like something he never have seen before but he could feel its power. A secondary level supposed for ventilation was under his feets and under that was the humans who hadn’t detected him yet - he thought. Si’Yal sneaked over the edge and saw the one with the mighty weapon move down there. He grabbed on him and he dropped the weapn. Si’Yal backed with the thought of that it would explode in a fire and killed the human with his mouth. When he looked carefully over the edge for more victims he saw two standing next to eachother in a locker-room. He ran down and killed them both then he ran up again and in to another room. The humans down there he killed of with ease, when he dropped down all of them was turned with their backs against him so it was just to kill them and enjoy the moment. They where three, two of them armed and one had only a backup-weapon.
It was a door here to as well, it did not brake after twenty hits so ha gave up and climbed up the airduct. It was a really short one and he came out seeing a marine standing with the back to him, dumb humans he thought and killed it. A door opened and the queen ordered him to go through the airducts and access med-labs.
He tried the door to the left but it did not open, in difference to the one to the right. He ran through it and came into a hall, kept running and came into another hall. A marine spotted him as he jumped to him and killed it with the tail and then he ate its brain.
Si’Yal was not fully capable of fighting but he thought, no he was sure, that he could make it to the shuttle. There he would rest and fead on humans.
There was an airduct in this room to, he climbed into it and took two turns ending up in the med-lab. The bridge hanging from the roof continued but he was told to not proceed but take the other way through the human installation. He looked down, one android and two civilians. Just as he with his injured body was to climb over the edge of the bridge a door opened. Si’Yal fastly got back and turned around. A marine with one of these automatic-weapons. Si’Yal jumped down on it and slashed its head off, he heard screams and a short desperate sentence combined with a scream from a male synthetic human. He crouched down behind a table with tubes that probably had contained face-huggers but did no more as a shotgun-blast flew over his head. One more hit would probably take him down so he had to be careful. He waited and grapped one of the civilians as the other one ran over to the android. The android screamed something and Si’Yal did not think that it would try to kill him if he had a living human in front of him. Si’Yal took the chance and popped up from his little hiding-place with a paralysed human in his hands in front of him. The human screamed something to the other two and one replied with a more calm voice. Seconds after the android had a human on top of him lying on the floor, our Xenomorph-hero jumped at them and with three tail-wips piercing both of them he killed them of. He got a live headbite from the crying civilian in the corner (now he saw old human blood and a broken tube on the floor) and headbited the dead one to ignoring the android.
The way out he knew, the door that have opened. He climbed along the wall into it and another door opened as he got next to it. A human shoot at him and missed every shoot (aproximately three) at the close distans. The human looked calm but smelled like he was full of adrenaline and fear - now his head was even full of brain, eyes, blood etcetera and even Si’Yal’s innerjaws for short moment.
Our Xenomorph entered the next door and it opened nicely to him and he saw eggs. He wanted to bring some of them and the queen agreed - she said that he could only take two and the left was needed back here. Entering the room he saw a marine who looked at a egg, he killed it off and took its head. Then he took two eggs holding them under the left arm clipped to the chest.
There was an airvent in here as well and a male voice started speaking from a screen on the wall as he got into the air-ventilation. It ended up on the other side of the locked door that he saw in the previous room, human could use never learn to seal of things orderly - they never learned to not experiment with things that was not good for themselfs. They were so self-confident and thought that they ruled the whole planet.
One more of these damned humans was in this room to, he jumped down at it and it dropped the automatic-rifle as he slashed him to pieces. Limbs flew in many directions in the room and blood sprayed in huge amounts. As a finishment he ate the brain of the pathetic creature and he felt a little better after all feeding he had. It greatly increased his rate of healing but this time was sure not enough.
The door to the right of him was the one leading to the previous room so he choosed the left one, a corridor turned to the left was shown and it contained much of human stuff like chairs and one table. A door was in the end of the hallway and he approached it, it opened and out there was a bigger hall used for transportation of something he thought. Now he was very near the shuttle the queen told him and his excitement grew. It were humans in here, two of them. One was civile and the other one had a weapon. With his now low capacity he jumped against the human who shoot against him. He could almoust count the number of bullets as they flew under his right arm (lucky it wasn’t the left, he thought, then the eggs would be splattered), he span around a bit so that the eggs was turned from the marine and the bulletrain; Now was the chance a lot lesser that the eggs would be hit. Bullets passed his head and his tubes on the back, one hit his tail in somewhere in the middle of it. As Si’Yal approach the human who filled the air with lead he turned his hurted tail against the middle of the human. More bullets flew with a uncontrolled full-automatic salve and two more hit him; One in a tube on his back and one hit his hand. Nothing seriously, he’d live. The tail penetrated deep into the humans chest and almost the whole tail passed throught. He took a headbite and watched for the other human who tried to run from him to a new door in the great hall. The door opened for the human and Si’Yal’s claws and innerjaws killed the civilian fastly.
In this room there was a elevator to the second level and two entrances to something. Behind the elevator a human popped up with a larger gun that he had not seen before. He jumped upwards and bullets from a gun that the human knew as smart-gun whined passed him and hit the wall behind him. Si’Yal got frightened and thought of that the eggs were on his left side, the side who was turned against the marine. He felt a bullet hit his shoulder and heard a plasking sound from when the bullets destroyed both eggs. The roof was on top of him and he dropped the eggs and took a grip to the roof. A splashing sound was heard when the eggs hit the floor, the other one landed a bit after the first one and was crushed against the cold steel. Si’Yal looked around, two humans more. One of them having another weapon again, he did not recognise this as well but it had a large calibre. A single shot was launched at him and flew passed him as he ducked. The automatic-fire started from the first floor again and he had to think fast. He jumped forwards to the right of the two humans. One of the launched another grenade that touched his tail and was redirected a bit but it still hit the wall. Ricochets was heard as the bullets exploded to the roof just behind him and one or another hit him - lucky for him it was just ricochets so they did not do especially much damage to him. Gun-shots was heard and he saw that the other human on level two was shooting against him, he moved to the left and climbed up on the wall. Another grenade exploded, but this time at the elevator on the second floor just behind him. The blastwave did damage him a little bit but he wasn’t particullay much disturbed of it. He did not se one airvent up here and not one place to flee to, except possibly the elevatorshaft. Si’Yal backed and he saw that weapon held by a marine round the corner and take a aim at him. The grenade flew against him and he jumped, knowing that he would be hit of it. He saw it almost in slow-motion when the projectile flew against his Xenomorph-head. It touched his neck but continued forward as he flew to the elevatorshaft. The blastwave from behind helped him a bit and he did just miss a swarm of bullets from the smart-gun below him thanks to that.
Now he was really injured and operated with only about a fifth of his capacity. Anyways he was able to take a grip to the wall, he saw that the elevator was closing up to him and that he either would be squeezed or that he would be shot by a grenade or a swarm of bullets from the feared smart-gun. It was just a matter of seconds before he would be wasted and then he saw the wires to the elevator that transported it around - they went throught the roof so it had to be a space in there. And yes, it could be, first now he notices four contoures in the roof that looked like a hatch or something. He slashed it as his final hope and there was a space large enough for him to crawl up in. In a matter of half seconds he was up there and the elevator stopped, the elevator-roof had a equal outline as the one he climbed up in. Human voices said something, they were obviously discussing something and he figured something out - his acidic blood would soon corrode through the floor and elevator-roof and then they would know that he was up there. Three little puddles had started to eat into the floor and they would soon be through it to. His panic grew and he could for the moment only hope for the best to happen. Seconds went and it felt like minutes, and his blood had by now corroded through the floor.
Suddenly the elevator started and it went down to the first floor, he looked out discretely and saw the marine with the grenade-launcher looking around with his back on him. As silently as he could (that was silent enough to) he climbed out of the whole and sent his innerjaws into the human’s head and the taste of blood now overwhelmed his fear. He looked around and saw the other human, the civilian with the handgun, turning around just as he aproached it. The human was about to cry out a scared scream as the angry Xenomorph killed him with a headbite followed by a bite in the chest that tasted a bit of his organs - Si’Yal did not for sure know which of the organs it was, he didn’t know the biology of a human so that information would have been worthless to him anyways.
The Xenomorph ran to the edge of the floor and looked down, the human with the smart-gun was just below him. He dropped down on it and killed it with the claws, limbs and blood were spraying all over the place as he torned it apart. Si’Yal turned hundred and eighty degress around and saw another of these humans. Sneaking up to it he got a live headbite.
The queen told him to get on the shuttle, to move on to the second level. He did so and saw that hall and two windows in it. He looked out from one of them and he saw the shuttle. It was a human space-craft which he was to infiltrate. Si’Yal was going to rest on the shuttle then he was going to infiltrate a whole floating base which the shuttle would dock on the queen said. The other window showed a room with a tunnel in it, and the cargo from the previous great hall he thought was transported from there to the shuttle by the gate below him. He jumped in to the tunnel and saw a human which tried to run away from him sreaming. The human did not make it to far and Si’Yal collected another live headbite.
Then he got on the shuttle hiding in the cargo-room. Resting so that his wounds would heal.
There was a window in there leading out to nowhere, which he used to look out from. After a kind of a long while he could se the base float to him. Now he was almost fully restored and after another while, not to long thought, the shuttle docked with Ferarco. Cargo and destination was unknown to him.