*Everything happens for a reason. Fate, destiny and all things related will tell you the same thing - there's a design for everything.
Laying in a puddle of his own toxic blood, daveberg lived. But barely. His whole left ribcage had been vapourised and chances of any sort of recovery were grim. His body was on fire with incredible pain but still, he refused to be a spectator.
The royal chamber was totally decimated, huge rifts and holes littered the whole cavern as the unbearable heat of the sun poured through, iluminating the HIVE. The queen had been shackled, working with topdogg, deathdrop had managed to chain her up, the chains were hooked up to deathdrops pod outside. With a deafening roar the queen cried out, still defiant till the last.
The sound of hydraulics and metal on metal began to reverberate through the chamber. The aliens were on their last legs, for the hunters had come prepared this time, fully kitted out with heavy weaponry, it looked like the remaining warrior xenomorphs were about to become extinct. Still battling with members of the balatu clan, avpfreak, predkiller and dronewarrior refused to buckle, their talons slicing, teeth nashing, trying to take out another predator in hopes of demoralising the clan.
CCCUUUNNNCCCHHH!!! in one ugly motion, the queen was yanked off her feet and slammed into the wall, shattering the feeble foundations. The hydraulic sounds grew as the queen looked to be being hoisted outside by machinery in deathdrops pod, hunters moon were taking her, and there was going to be NO argument.
But that wasn't to be.
K20 span round, furiously eyeing deathdrop as he continued to crank the huge hoist and pull the queen kicking and screaming into the harsh sunlight of ZX2. The xenomorphs, enraged, looked to turn into a fever as they began to savagely tear away at the predators. The war was now at it's peak.
atop of the saftey of her small crevice, lseijin looked on, she was ready. Far from healed, she knew her presence was going to be a factor. Too many had fallen, Even the more experienced - bug-hunt and now their mighty leader was....wait! lseijin, on her way down to join the last of the xenomorphs, spotted something. Next to the bulky chains that had snared the queen lay the alpha alien, and he was still alive!!
Slowly, daveberg clasped onto the massive chains that held his mother, his inner jaw fully extended, drooling, almost a sign of pure defiance, he was the thoroughbred of the pack, the first born, the alpha, and wouldn't let death seep in, not yet.
Using his tail to pull him, daveberg wrapped it around one of the huge chains and pulled his broken exoskeleton onto it. Everything happens for a reason. The alpha alien took a shot with topdoggs plasma caster, and now the reason, even though not intentional, seemed apparent. He was going to free the queen.
With one last effort, another pull of his mighty tail, daveberg's body was atop of the chains. Now it was time to sit back and let his wounds do the talking.
A corrosive smell filled the chamber, like melting metal, lesijin looked on and saw what was happening - the two clans, Balatu and Hunters moon were at heads about who was taking the queen, they had no idea that behind them in the remaining shadows, daveberg had let his seeping wounds leak over the gigantic chains, the queen was about to give the predators, a very unwelcome lesson in pain......*
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