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The light was helping him see the monsters and shoot more accurately. And now there was gunfire from above. "Thank God for you, Rook!" Fawn hissed under his breath. He mowed the creatures down. |
Lane lowered the wheels on her boots. Tears streamed from her eyes, but she ignored them. Her fingers tensed, the nails ready. "You bastard," she whispered. "See what you get for killing Dirk. Just see what you get." |
She kicked off and rolled forward. She went faster and faster, gathering momentum. She sped toward the dueling beasts, her heart pounding in her chest and her jaw firmly set with anger. Then when she was close enough, she leaped! |
Her wheels retracted and her steel spikes extended, digging into the monster's back. It howled, and she raked her nails along the armor, splitting it and reaching the soft flesh beneath. "How do you like MY claws?" she demanded. "I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'LL KILL YOU!" |
The monster yowled and screeched with pain. It was attacked in the front by Sariss, in the back by Lane. It couldn't stand to fight anymore. It sank to the ground, curling up in a ball as Lane and Sariss hacked away at it. |
Then Lane jumped off of the broken beast. Sariss gripped it by the neck and forced its head up. The monster did not protest. Sariss opened her monster jaws and crushed the beast's skull between her teeth. The monster was dead. |
Rook ran up to them as Sariss changed back into her human form. "Sariss!" he said. "Are you alright?" |
"Fine," said Sariss. "Just fine." |
"You're not," said Lane. "Look at you." |
Sariss was covered with wounds. Her shoulder was covered with blood, and it looked as though that arm was useless. She put her other hand over the large rip in her side. "Let's go," Sariss said. |
"Wait!" Rook said. "We have to get Fawn out of the nest!" |
"He's still in there?" Lane demanded. She and Rook rushed over to the edge of the nest. "Fawn!" |
"I'm here!" Fawn called up to them, waving his hand and wincing. He was covered with blood, both his and the monsters'. Carcasses littered the ground around him. He grinned at them. "Hey, Lane's back! Can you help me out of here?" |
Lane tied her belt to her gun strap to her other gun strap and lowered her wheels to roll down the edge of the nest. She held out her hands, and Fawn held tightly onto them. "Pull us up, Rook!" Lane called. |
"No, wait!" Fawn called. "Rook! Shine the light over there, at the far wall." |
Rook did as he was told. Fawn and Lane peered into the gloom and saw that there was a tunnel there. Lane heard the heavy breathing coming from it. Then the light fell upon a baby monster as it moved. "Missed one," Fawn said, raising the gun. |
"Wait," said Lane. There was a rumbling coming from the tunnel. "Rook!" she cried. "Rook! Pull us up now!" |
Rook pulled them up from the nest and the three of them ran over to Sariss. "We have to get back to the pod!" Fawn yelled as Rook pulled Sariss's arm around his shoulders. "Right now! Run!" |
The nest erupted. A swarm of the baby monsters poured out of the mouth of the nest. "Go!" Lane yelled. They ran, Rook supporting Sariss and Fawn leading the way with Lane blasting her guns behind them. |
"We have to kill them!" Sariss shouted. "We have to kill them, or they'll-" |
"I know, I know!" Lane hissed. "I have a plan!" |
She punched a button on her boots. Metal slats reached from her breastplate to her arm guards to her boots, connecting them and making a temporary space suit. The metal slats reached her head and closed over, making a helmet with a sheenglas mask. She fired up at the ceiling, causing a large chunk of it to fall in fron... |
"When I blow the ship," she told Rook, lifting her mask. "Push the green button so I can get back in!" |
Fawn took Sariss inside the pod and laid her down on the couch. "Wait!" Rook said. "What do you mean, 'blow the ship'? What are you-?" |
"You can't do it, Lane." The three of them turned to look at Sariss, who was limping forward. "This pod doesn't have a pressure chamber. You won't be able to get back in." She leaned against the hatch and gripped her side. "Let me do it." |
"But, Sariss, you'll die!" Rook told her. |
"I'll be dead in a few minutes anyway!" she snarled, batting the boy away. "Better me than Lane." |
"But Sariss-" Lane protested. |
"Just do it!" Sariss hissed. "I've wanted to kill these bastards since the first day. Let me go out with glory!" |
"Let her do it," said Fawn. He put his hand on Rook's shoulder. "Let her go." |
He handed Sariss the bomb he had taken from his ship. "Blow them to all Hells, Sariss," he said, winking at her. |
"Shut up, you," Sariss said, taking the bomb. "Now get inside, Lane. You're not going to die with me." |
Lane glanced over her shoulder. Somewhere back there was her husband's body. Somewhere back there was her sister's body. Somewhere back there were her friends and her co-workers and her life. Then she looked at Fawn and Rook and Sariss. She shook her head and smiled at Sariss. "Right," she said, walking past her into t... |
"But Sariss!" Rook shouted. He reached out to her, but she closed the hatch. "Sariss!" he cried, pounding on the hatch. "No! You'll die!" |
"Come on, Rook!" Fawn said, grabbing his arm. "She knows what she's doing. This is how it goes." |
"No!" Rook said, fighting out of Fawn's grip. "She'll kill herself! Sariss!" |
He peered through the window in the hatch. Sariss was slumped in the floor before the pod, clutching the bomb in her arms. As Rook watched, the monsters pushed through the rubble and swarmed toward her. In their midst, the lumbering female thundered forward, Lane's nails still imbedded inside her. |
"Launch!" Lane said, punching the button. The pod rocketed away from the ship. |
"Sariss!" Rook screamed. "NOOOOO!" |
He slid onto the floor before the hatch. Fawn ran up to him and knelt beside him. "It's okay, Rook," he said, putting his arm around the boy. "There's nothing we can do now! It's okay." Rook buried his head in his hands. "It's okay," Fawn said. "This is how she wanted it." |
The three of them felt the shockwave as the ship blew. Lane peered out of the window. There was no sound as the orange flames engulfed the ship, eating their way to the fuel chambers. Within minutes, the ship was reduced to nothing but smoldering wreckage. |
"Damn it," Rook said. "All of them. All those people. Cale and Jaerel and Lore and Birch and-" |
"Stop," Fawn said. "Don't think about that now. There's nothing we can do about it. Their gone." |
"Shut up, Fawn," Lane said. She sat down next to Rook and put her arm around him. "You didn't lose anyone, so just shut up." |
The three of them sat there in silence as the pod drifted toward the Earth below them. |
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Artist: Q-Tip |
Album: The Renaissance |
Song: Shaka |
Typed by: |
Uh, ah, uh... |
My brother Shaka would have wanted me to do it like this |
So raise your glasses for the lost ones in your life... |
Dilla Dawg and Master Wel would have wanted me, as well |
to propel with the spirit of the mic... |
Even if you had one person with you and it's hard |
They make it easy, celebrate them, let them just who they are... |
Because of these experiences I have some control |
on the microphone, I'm bold elevating to the stars... |
Here's a demonstration, with the excellence |
Reverse the pandemic that's filled with pestilence |
Serving fiends with the stream of a d-boy |
Who's well connected, you must respect it |
I'm driven with the spirits mentioned in this record |
Hopefully this serves as motivation |
The never sayin ?doc? kind of sensation |
Put my stamp on it, the mic clamps on it |
Mama I know, let me put lil' thamp on it |
Blade runnin through the day with agility |
stay gunnin, make way for possibilities |
It's the capital Q, rap it'll do |
what I want it to, it's like tamin a shrew, uh |
Livin life, the Shakespearean proportions |
Knowin better, I've experienced distortions |
And through the in and outs, of life's revolvin doors |
I'ma see that, I'm still gettin more |
Yeah I'm comin in, I'm gon' see my friends |
to the top floor, it seems it never ends |
Heaven never ends, yeah it never ends |
It be goin on, it's phenomenon |
like a new born, or a Stevie song |
It be going on, do ya feel it? |
(Do ya feel it? Do ya feel it?...) |
The snare drum go... |
My brother Shaka would've wanted me to say this to y'all |
Don't lose sight y'all without giving a fight... |
I'm channeling Weldon Irvine - Mr. Clean |
He would've wanted me to say what I mean, and mean give it right... |
Dilla, havin you in my past has been a blast |
You've inspired so many and forever will you last... |
And to my father, yo your spirit is drapin me |
Never escapin me, I'm happy that I had you in my past... |
Uh, uh, let's go... |
A-let's go... |
Let's go... |
Let's go...uh.. |
Tka, uh.... |
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