Loki had taken the weapon without asking a question just what I really needed from him at the time. No questions asked. My body is still reeling back from the attack made by the attempted chestbuster that instead was puked out of the body through healthy lungs.I feel weak but a little bit stronger to walk using guidance.

My neck feels a whole lot better.

But I still needed to eat a few rocks here and there.

I rest alongside a wall.

___________ ________

"Climb the ladder!" I shout back to Loki.

"Not unless you're coming." Loki said.

"I'M COMING, LITTLE BEAR!" I shout.

There is an awkward silence between us. I could definitely picture that Loki had turned to the left looking down towards me making a 'what the hell?' kind of expression in my mind.I could hear the ladder rattle because of his unexpected movements that didn't go well to the age old ladder in the middle of a freezing climate.

"I am not a little bear." Loki said.

Too bad Loki is going to be watching Nick Junior after this.

"Damn, that adds to my list of 'to dos'." I said,taking out the grenade. "Just climb."

"Not unless--" Loki starts.

"Itzy bitzy Frost Giant was sent tumbling down by a fireball, down came the frost giant, and up came the flames followed by the smoke." I did the worst, ever, and terrible rendition of itzy bitzy spider in my most bad singing voice. "Down came the heated coal."

"Fine!" Loki said as I heard a high pitch metal swing-like-spring echo down the tunnel.

Loki just opened the hatch.

"I'm going on my own pace." I said, climbing up the ladder ever so slowly.

I could hear Loki's boots clang against the ladder. I look over my shoulder briefly to see the Xenomorph's headed this way.I look straight up to see a small dotting light nearly shadowed out by the shape of a teenager's head.

"Climb, faster!" Loki shouts down.

"Damn, you're fast." I said.

"I did a lot of climbing as a adolescent." Loki said. "And climbing slowly when there's deadly aliens catching up is a serious red flag about your current mind on 'fleeing for your life', don't you think?"

I feel a strong pull from my foot.

"Loki, get out, and close the hatch." I said. "There's a hole,I'll get in, and grenade the deadly son of a bitter dark raves!"

I saw Loki's figure disappear into the light.

Sss---swing went the hatch closing over the entrance. I took off the metal circle springer off the grenade hearing the fierce growl belonging to those nasty aliens beside my face. First came extensive powerful heat, next came destruction, and most of my rocky parts flew into the hole.Lying to Loki is easy when there is conveniently a shred of honesty to it.All I could see, after being reassembled, was dark smoke.

I feel pain traveling up my left shoulder.

Damn, should have expected that.

I lean halfway out of the hole and saw a bright circle of light above.

"Emily?" Loki calls, sounding concerned.

"Right here!" I shout back, waving my arm that wasn't burnt.

"Fire Giant?" Loki asks.

I laugh, feeling my stomach twist up at his honestly pathetic question.

"No!" I shout back.

I get back to climbing up the ladder.

The bomb is going to be set off in a couple minutes.

Come on Emily, I thought, you can do this!

I cringe recalling the cacooned sacrificial chamber, Wilson's body with a hole inside his chest and a gun shot at his forehead, I recall seeing the shape of Fred's necklace sticking out a nearly submerged body becoming part of an egg covered in all sort of slime. This necklace has a shark tooth wrapped around it. I took it because someone had to tell Fred's family.

If he does have a family that is.

I need to do some checking and do some favors to have a inside source on the employ side of Weyland-Yutani corporation to find out Fred's background.

I climb up the ladder.

The cold breeze made my skin feel chilly.

"What's you staring at?" I ask, glaring at Loki.

"Don't." Loki said,pointing up.

I look up.

A long black spiky tail slapped me into the snow.

After landing in the snow I had a black out, an actual black out for once, losing consciousness. I thought I heard Loki call my name but why would he care? It is not as if we spent an entire year together. I can't ditch Loki because of reasons relating to the foster system and until Loki is an adult he's going to be living in a house set in the boiling pot part of The United States of America.

I came to then lift my head out of the snow.

Loki is several feet away from me standing more feet away from a lowered platform with a bright inside and smoke drifting out. Holy crap it is a huge mothership with lights on the sides slowly going by so much it gave me a little idea that certain parts to the ship rotates in a circle. The platform rises up into the ship.The mothership parts ways from the snow then flew off into the sky turning invisible.

Brr I feel cold.

I get up but when I did a ton of snow fell down behind me.

I look to my shoulders seeing a large pile of snow. I wipe it off then notice the whaling station is destroyed. How long was I out?, I thought, this is not making sense. I approach Loki seeing something the same weapon I gave him earlier in the pyramid is extended and out.

"Loki, what just happened?"

Loki shifts himself towards me.

"Scar and I killed the Exenomorph's queen," Loki said. A scar is on the right side of his cheek. "Scar was tossed around by her and may have received some 'honorable' wounds." Loki shrugs. "I swear the Yautja have a strange view on wounds."

"I have no idea what the Yautja is." I said.

"They're who you call 'The Predator'," Loki said. "They are huge followers of the grim reaper."

"They're called the Yautja." I said.

Looks like someone needs to do major editing on the document.

"Yes," Loki said. "It is plural and singular."

I look over towards the destroyed site then back to Loki.

"Scar placed a bomb in a chamber near to the center," Loki said. "Before you caught up with Scar and I."

So I used a grenade on some Exenomorphs while a bomb was set to go off.

"The part with the bomb would have been nice to know." I said.

"What would you have done?" Loki asks.

"Run," I said. "I would climbed the ladder before you and before the Exenomorphs." I trudge my boots in the snow walking in the opposite direction back to the main base. "I don't just stand around and try to stop a bomb meant to do something very important!"

Truth to be told; I am angry at Loki.

Unlike what people think about preserving a ancient building and stopping the bomb that is not the right choice. My choice would have been to run. Even though I find any items from the ancient times to be preserved or be shown in a museum I have a fine line between life and death.