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Of Hunt and Change : 6

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THE RESCUES  

The special forces broke through the fake hive walls and reached the lower area of the hive. They found lots of normal concrete rooms deep inside the hive, none of the room has doors or windows of any sort. Though most of them are relatively clean, compared to the rest of the place. They have a normal bed with a cardboard or a bookcase, sometimes with connected toilet. There are even ten rooms with, surprisingly, working computers completed with Wi-Fi network. They also rescued a dozen captives which were immediately be quarantined, scanned, and interrogated. All of them found clean of alien substances of any kind.  

It had been confirmed that the computers were the ones that they had used to call for help. All of the survivors confirmed none of the aliens had harmed them in anyway, other than kept them captive. They were well fed, allowed the use of proper bathrooms and toilets, as well as random entertainments. The entertainments were varied. Some got books to read, a few who had enough luck to be in the rooms with a TV were allowed to watch them, and a few even claimed they know there were some captives who had got Gameboys and even Play Station. But most of them were separated and say they didn’t see other captives until they are rescued, so they could not tell how many there were.  

What’s more mysterious is about the computers. All of the 7 survivors who had computer in their room said the same about its mysterious arrival. They say there had been no way to contact the outside before. Until they woke up one day, and found a computer already sit neatly in their rooms. As if the aliens had actually wanted them to call for help.  

The commanders are baffled. They had thought the survivors, if any, would be heavily tortured or injured, not the opposite.  

The scans show there are much more tunnels hidden beneath surface that they hasn’t found, but no other survivors are found so far. There are also surprisingly little resistant recently. True, there have been a lots of attacks and mysterious disappearances of entire squads. But considering these aliens could take down entire tank squadrons with ease, their ground force casualties have been much less than what were expected. They speculate that perhaps they think they won’t win this war against human and have already escaped, abandoned the hive and the captives.  

If that is the case, then perhaps they don’t need to use the energy bomb after all. They all had feared that if the situation become serious enough, they would have to evac all the nearby towns and cities and drop the horror in the middle of a lush forest…and practically destroy the whole forest in the process. And everyone know that could have even worse effect to the world in the long run.  

For now though, all the commanders are satisfied with the progress, and the successful rescues give them hope of more survivors held captive deeper within the underground tunnels. There is certain no need for the grandpa bomb yet.

* * *  

He find himself woke up, but he still can’t see and can’t move much. His mind reach out, feeling the presence of a warrior nearby, an alien’s warrior.  

‘That’s it. My life is done for now.’ Chris rumble in his mind, ‘I’ve just given up my own humanity to Mo…the queen… become part of the alien hive his friends had died for…and now I probably never be able to see her again…’  

‘Are you sure of that, Chris?’ A feminine thought-voice come to him, interrupt his thought. He recognize it immediately.  

‘C…Clara?’ His thought freeze, ‘Is that you? H…how could you be here?!?’  

‘Why don’t you just come out and see for yourself?’  

The voice reply. And he couldn’t wait anymore. Quickly striking at the hard cocoon shell with his new inner jaw and claws at the material until it parted. He literally leap out of his cocoon, and turn around, looking for his girl friend. But there is no one there but him and the warrior and other cocoons…  

‘I’m here, silly.’ Her voice call from behide him. His heart leaping to his throat in happiness – not only she still remember him, she has accepted him as well! Even with him as an alien! – He spun around, expecting to see the bronze-hair girl he love… only to have his mental eyes widen in shock.  

Standing there is nothing but the alien warrior he had sensed earlier.  

‘Yes, Chris. It’s just me, Clara. I have been waiting you for so long.’ He sense her smile, mentally, at him. And he stutter, don’t know what to say.  

His girl friend, Clara, who he thought was held captive, or even dead, is now an alien warrior, part of the hive he had been fighting with. The warrior before is his Clara for sure, he could sense it. He just stare at her for a long time, trying to sort out his thought and confusion.  

‘C…Clara…you have changed…’ He gulp, suddenly feel stupid saying the obvious, he can’t think of anything else to say. She hisses in amusement.  

‘Well…so do you, Chris,’ She look up and down at him, ‘thought you’re quite cute as a drone, I must say.’  

He feel himself brushes, ‘T…Thanks. You’re quite beautiful too, as an alien.’ He say the truth. His new alien mind seem to register her sharp dangerous spikes, her smooth eyeless dome head and her wicked bony tail as the alien’s version of beautiful. Actually…he feel her look even more perfect than before. She do indeed beautiful, and lovely…  

She hisses quietly, seemingly amused at his look, ‘Xenomorph, it is.’  

‘Xenomorph?’ He tilt head before he know it.  

‘Yes, Xenomorph. That’s what we are called. Haven’t you ever watched the Alien movies?’  

‘Well…you know I don’t watch horror movies.’  

She hiss again, ‘Too bad for you, you would have lasted longer in that fight back in that chamber, had you have seen the movie. But anyhow, I’m glad you finally come. I thought I would never see you again.’  

She look at him, he could feel her mind reach out to him, and he accept it. Return her embrace a little, still not very comfortable at using his new alien abilities.  

‘S…So did I. I thought the alien have already got you…well in a sense you they do…but…’ He stop and tilt head at her, ‘What do you mean about my fight in the chamber? How do you know it?’  

‘Why, I was there of course. Who do you think bring you back here and cocoon you?’ She hiss in amusement, say as if it is the most obvious thing in the world.  

‘B…But…Why?? Why did you capture me and changed me, against my will?!? Why did you force me to join the hive…to join the queen?’ He feel a bit like he has been betrayed. His beloved girl was the one that bring him into this situation.  

‘Why, Chris? Because I love you.’ She say, approach him, her mind reach out to him and trying to pull him into her mental embrace. He resist it only for a swift moment, and let go. Her mind embrace his, her familiar presence warm him, her body leaning closer to him. ‘I can’t life without you…the Mother’s presence help, but it still not as good as yours. Please let those doubt goes from your mind, Chris. We are together again, we are all family now.’  

He return her embrace slightly, feeling her mind comfort him, ‘But…what about them…my squads, everyone…I am part of the hive now, and would be willing to do whatever the queen say…but still…I’m not sure I can bring myself to harm my former friends…’  

She hiss softly, ‘Don’t worry, Chris. We prefer capturing over killing anyway. And your entire squad is now here too. Probably going to hatch soon.’ A hiss is heard from a nearby cocoon, follow by a crack sound that indicate its inhabitant is trying to break out off the cocoon shell. ‘Why don’t we wait here and greet them?’  

He hiss softly in relieve. But there is still one thing bothering him that he know he wouldn’t live in peace until he know the answer.

‘But Clara…why are you a warrior and I am just drone?!?’  

She hiss in amusement, ‘Why, because I’m here far longer than you of course. You may become a warrior too, when the time’s come.’  

And their mind embrace each other, deeply, in a Xenomorph’s equivalent of human’s kiss.  

Their embrace then suddenly interrupted by an frustrated hiss of a newly hatched xenomorph as he try to get out of his cocoon shell.
Chapter 6 of Hunt and Changes. Got a sudden inspiration, so this one should be better than the last, I hope! At least I do enjoy the hatching scene this time, as well as the description of the captive's life within the hive. Even if the hatch scene is a bit repeated...
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