“They are almost on us!” Agent Omega-01 yelled as he threw another explosive out the car window as Jennifer Ward was trying to evade their attackers. When tracking the last known signal of the missing EMIA agent, they had apparently found the headquarters of the SLA.
“I know, I know. We’re gonna have to ditch the car. We’re almost like setting targets!” she yelled as another explosive was launched at the car and she slammed on the breaks then promptly accelerated after it went off. Up ahead she seen a fork in the road but only the road to the left was clear because she would see that they chopped down trees. It looked to be pretty straight and she knew it was there chance to ditch the car.
She pushed the car to its maximum, she could see it was overheating a little, which she suspected was from being hit a few times. After less than a minute, she pulled the car into the ditch, which she and Omega-01 jumped out of the car and grabbed their weapons and supplies from the trunk then ran into the forest. They would hear the enemy forces approaching them and the gunfire that was pointed in their direction. They fired their energy weapons back as they tried to evade then, which they were not looking a head since their scanners said no one was in that direction until they realized the ground started to slant which at that point they tried to stopped because she forest shouldn’t have a sudden drop but it was too late, they started to slide until they hit the bottom of what they figured was just a cave or put. Luckily it looked like they were no longer being followed it seemed and they looked at each other for a moment.
“What the hell,” Jennifer started, “and what is that godforsaken smell?” as she collected her scanner from the ground. It was very dim where they fell but she was able to adapt pretty quickly.
Agent Omega-01 was doing the same and seen the body and started to scan it. “Ward.”
“Wha… no,” she said as she dropped to her knees when she seen what was left of Julian Moore but regained herself and they started to scan the body. “The body is preserved better than what I would have expected. It could be because of pit.” She moved closer to the body to get a better look. “His throat is cut. He didn’t get here on his own… but it almost looks as if all the energy was drained from his…” She stopped and looked at Omega-01 and she would see he was giving her a knowing look and she started to scan above them and she slowly stood and reached for her energy weapon and knives.
“We need to get out of here,” he whispered to her and showed her his readings. They were not alone and they had life signs above them in the pit that was clearly dug out and trees were used to construct a dome to make it so dark.
“Agreed. But there is only one way out of here and I’m shocked we didn’t wake…” she heard the movement with a roar and she with Omega-01 dropped to the ground, both holding their heads in pain.
The children could sense the Malay that fell into their hive-pit. They hungered for their energy, they tried to hold their urges as mother slept but it was futile and they roared and the hive mind come to full force and they dropped from the top of the dome to the floor surrounded their prey. ‘Hunger. We must eat. No mother does not allow. We must eat. Hunger. No. Yes.’ The hive mind kept going back and forth as their prey had partially recovered from being overcome by their telepathy.
‘No!’ Mother roared to the hive mind and dropped from her perch and protected the Malay. It was a battle between her and the rest of her hive, a few of her children tried to move forward but she hissed and clawed them. ‘YOU WILL OBEY ME!’ She screamed in the hive mind and roared. Slowly her children crawled up the walls and she “looked” at the two souls as she walked around them in a protective fashion as they were recovering from the effects of being so close to her hive’s mind.
Omega-01 was the first to recover, slowly setting up, checking on Jennifer and helped her up to a seated position. They both looked around and realized only one Harbinger was there but it was circling around them. “This one is different. It is so much larger than any we have seen before. Has to be 7 feet if it stood up but they always crouch.”
Rubbing the sides of her head, “Maybe it is like an alpha male, you know…”
‘I am no male. How dare you child. Don’t you know your mother when you see her? I am of the first queen.’ Mother “said” with a growl as she stopped circling them.
“Wait. You can understand us? Speak to us, in our mind?” Omega-01 said with a shocked look at Jennifer.
‘Yes. We tried a long time ago but we are suffering from a virus. We need the cure so we can get off this forsaken world.’
“If you let us go, I can speak with Empress Jung to see if we can do that,” Jennifer said trying to see if she could get a foothold over the creature.
‘Do not mistake me for a fool, child. I must ensure the survival of our race.’
“Our race?” she asked.
‘It would be impossible for you to understand but I will tell you. We are an ancient, a term from known original races and Malay are simply evolved versions of us, the third to be exact. I carry the mind of the first queen that is stored in the hive. I know all that has happened and all that could happen.’ mother “said” as she resumed her circling of them.
Clearing his throat Omega-01 spoke, “why do you need the cure?”
‘We suffer from the same virus that altered the genetic structure of Malay DNA. The second race poisoned us because they are… devious. I am able to control my urges because of my age but my children can’t. If we get cured then we will be able to leave this place and connected with Azahata once again.’
“You know of her?” Jennifer asked, starting to feel very confused.
‘Yes, she is the other half of me. I am of the dark and she is of the light. We are destined to unite together as she foretold. She has become the fourth and another will follow her steps to naturally evolve. She will united our people,’ mother paused for moment “looking” up at her children then back at the two souls.
“We can’t get the cure if we are here. There is a research facility, do you know of it?” Jennifer asked.
‘Research. If that is what you wish to call it. Yes.’
“They should have the cure there but humans have taken over this area. If we could go to that and get…” she tired to explain what she could do but was promptly interrupted.
‘I will send children to get what your were thinking of then you will give us the cure. Afterwards I will allow you to leave but we will meet again at The Straits for the treaty.’
“What treaty?” Omega-01 asked with an arched eyebrow.
‘No more questions,’ was all she replied and the three of them waited for the children to come back with the needed containers. As they returned, Jennifer and Omega-01 put the needed material together to be able to manufacture the cure. They injected all the “children” of the hive and the queen and seen the immediate change in the creatures behavior as the queen explained that she will have full control over them to rehabilitate them and allowed the two of them go.
Jennifer decided not to retrieve the body of Julian Moore after going over the feasibility with Omega-01 with the daunting task they had in the next several hours getting back to the SLA headquarters. They had already wasted a lot more time than they expected and needed to take care of all the SLA infiltrators. It very early in the morning as they trekked back to start taking care of the guards. She pulled out her favorite weapons to work with, hira-shuriken and smiled.
Between her and Agent Omega-01, they slowly started taking down targets. With Jennifer’s class she rarely ever missed a target and always retrieved her hira-shuriken or any type of weapon she threw. Agent Omega-01 was better at using a traditional sniper rifle when he was in human territories. It was late in the morning by the time they reached the headquarters and bypassed the security systems to enter the old looking warehouse but once they were inside they were shocked to find it had been retrofitted with East Malaysian technology.
“It looks like everyone had packed up and gone,” Omega-01 mentioned as they slowly searched the complex until they reached a what they assumed to be the security/interrogation room and found two unexpected people in different cells, clearly they had been beat on a little.
Jennifer sighed as she entered behind Omega-01, “Jane, what are you and your son doing here?” as she moved to the security system console to see if she could unlock the cells.
Jane stood soon as she seen who entered the room. “We have to get out of here! He said he has this place rigged. It’s Christopher. He’s insane. He kidnapped us. We have to stop him!”
“Where is he?” Omega-01 asked, scanning the room, as Jennifer was trying to get the cells to open.
“No clue. When his men started dropping like flies, he told us that he would see us in hell and left. Whatever he has planned, I think it is going to happen soon from the way he was talking.”
Nik Aker was listening to the conversation, wondering who these people were since they seemed so familiar to him. He felt so confused after he discovered his mom was actually alive. He still felt a little groggy after waking up several hours earlier after being drugged, hoping it was a bad dream and wishing he could kill Christopher; he didn’t care if they were related or not.
“We have less than five minuets Jennifer. I am detected a plasma overload,” as he continued to scan the whole complex.
“Damn it. I need more time to get both cells open,” but she froze when Jane interrupted.
“Get Nik out of here,” she held her hand up before Nik could protest. “I’m sorry son but you must live,” Jane said giving a reassuring smile to him but looked to Omega-01 and nodded.
By the time Jennifer got Nik’s cell opened, they had less than 2 minuets to get out of there. He went to his mom and give her a hug through the cell but Jennifer grabbed him and started to drag him out of the room with Omega-01’s help. “You take care of him Jennifer!” was the last thing any of them heard from her.
They got as far from the building as they could before the building exploded. Tears were flowing down Nik’s face and Jennifer was shedding a few tears herself as they looked at was was left of the building. Nik dropped to his knees crying but suddenly something inside of him snapped and he screamed in rage.
Jennifer was very concerned by what just happened to him because she had never seen any East Malaysian or Hybrid ever go into such rage and loose complete control of their emotions. She didn’t like the feelings Nik was giving off and grabbed him into a standing position to try and read his East Malaysian half but she stepped back when she looked into Nik’s eyes because they were solid black and she couldn’t sense anything. Omega-01 came around and seen the same thing but before anyone could speak Nik passed out into Jennifer’s arms. “Great,” she mumbled, “we will just figure this bit out later. What data were you able to get?”
“Good question…” he pulled his scanner out again and started to go through the data. “Well this isn’t good. She was right… something is going to happen very soon, maybe the next few days. Some sort of attack? The data is corrupted pretty bad. Could be embassy related but we need something more powerful to process the data to see if we can refine it more but we need to get to the research facility. Maybe we can get a message out also. I can’t even connected to AGC servers here.”
Jennifer agreed with him that they needed to make it to the facility, which could take them a day or so depending on if they run into any resistance walking to it. They both carried Nik until he became conscious again but his eyes were still beyond fully dilated and needed some assistance walking with it being light outside. Jennifer was worried about him and couldn’t wait to get him under a medical scanner.
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I’ve stalled this post to leave room to have people show up.
Nonetheless 
buckle up.