Betrayal

Emily P.O.V.

Reptilians swarm the whole building and more of them move quickly to the upper floors. I shouldn't be surprised that they managed to find us so fast. I mean they found me when I was simply roaming around at different markets. The one true question though is how did they find us so fast  and know just where to look? While they are smart beings and have a vast amount of technological advancements knowing just where to look for us raises a lot of suspicion. 

Z shifts into her Lycan, her magnificent black fur growing across her body flowing out in waves, her hands and fingers grow longer and wider, nails turning into sharp claws. Her teeth become long and sharp. Eyes turning into a blazing golden color. Fury consumes her, there is no mercy in those eyes. Z is out for blood and ready for the fight that the reptilians want to bring. 

"I won't let them take you again" 

Z twists out her fingers and holds her hands wide. As they approach closer and closer to the door the others rush off to the apartment to grab their blasters. I am left just staring at the tall Lycan before me, willing to fight and protect me. When did Z  become this protective of me? I knew she would always be there, Z had told me so, but this is a different type of protection not of duty but more so out of love? Either that or I am just reading way too much into this. 

The group returned from the apartment, blasters in hand, and aimed right at the door. Natasha hands me a spare she had brought, placing it in my hand and returning back to her position. I have never fired one of these before but I won't let that stop me from helping defend our research. 

We can hear their footsteps growing closer and closer as they mount their attack. The door begins to shake violently as they ram it one by one. You can see the door beginning to dent. Even though it has the encrypted lock on it they will get in eventually. Bang, bang, bang. They increase their impact on the door with every hit until finally the door is thrown inward and falls to the ground. 

Z growls and bares her teeth to the intruders, they don't heed her warning. Her fur stands upright the same way you would see a dog on guard do. Surrounding us in the room, the group of reptilians hiss back in response. The last one that enters is just as tall as our Lycan friend, his eyes are an orange sunset color, his scaly skin is dark brown with black stripes that make thorn-like shapes down his body. He has a sash across his bare chest with a silver-plated badge. On it is a snake-like symbol. He must be their leader or one of them because the others retreat away from us and they don't move. 

" Hand over the girl and everyone lives" the tall reptilian looks at me and back at Z. 

He must be about nine feet tall. He has his arms behind his back and blaster holstered on his hip. His tail whips back and forth as he waits for us to comply. 

"She won't be going anywhere with you" Z glares at him.

"This is not for debate, hand her over or die where you stand, that is your only option." He hisses.

Looking back at me and then to the others, Z draws in a deep breath. And the others charge their blasters ready to fire, following the group I do the same with mine as well, I won't be taken again I would rather die than let them use me to fuel their war on the galaxy. 

"Then I guess words are of no use now, J would die before you got your dirt scale fucking hands on her again!" Z shouts out as she takes a well rounded right hook towards the Reptilian leader. 

We open fire and they return the favor, all of us take cover wherever we can, behind desks, machines, walls wherever would be a good fit for us we hide.  The leader has yet to draw his weapon Z and he is going toe to toe with each other. Dodging another attack from Z he takes his tail and manages to smack Z across her abdomen so hard she is sent flying back into a wall. The wall falls apart on impact leaving a high hole. 

Not letting one good hit stop her she retaliates with a flurry of high-speed double punches and manages to bite down on his shoulder. He hisses in agony grilling her throat and spinning her around hurling her to yet another wall.  Come in Z is all I can think to myself. 

The room is filled with blaster fire from both sides. Roland and Nicole have managed to kill four of the enemy so far and we have yet to be hit. Neese keeps firing away but doesn't manage to hit a target, either his aim sucks that bad or he is somehow in on it. I can't rule him out as a traitor just yet. 

" I already told you, you can't have her!" Z spits out grabbing one of the leader's subordinates by the throat and twisting his head so fast I don't even see his neck break he just falls lifeless to the floor. 

" Dead or alive that's all we need her for, either way, we will get what we want, last chance stand down or die!" 

"Then I will die, as long as Emily is safe and away from your Reptilian bastards that is all that matters" Z counters hitting the leader again. 

Every punch connects and she returns the favor of being tossed into a wall back to him only he hits so hard he actually falls into it. 

The firing from the blasters ensues and one by one this small army of Reptilians falls dead to the ground of the lab. Realizing his force is slowly diminishing the Reptilian leader gathers his bearings and orders a retreat. Before he leaves the room however he looks at us all and offers one final warning.

"Solarious will rise and all of you will bow before him! Even you, you Lycan scum."

Checking surveillance they are indeed retreating, what was a small force of about forty is now maybe fifteen. We lower our weapons and breathe in relief. We won the day today and that's what mattered. But his threat was even more worrisome. 

"It appears we are running out of time, we must find a cure and quick" I look at everyone, they nod their heads in agreement. Well almost everyone, taking one last look around I notice someone is missing from our group.

"Hey, where is Roland?"  I ask. 

The others look around themselves and have a disturbing look flash in their faces. My heart drops to my stomach. It can't be, or I hope it's not. 

" Where the hell did he go?" Nicole walks away checking other areas of the lab.

Neese runs over to the computer and curses aloud.

"Dammit that traitor, he downloaded all of our files and left!" He punches the desk furiously. 

"Are you sure?" Natasha rushes over and begins typing in something and screens pop up. 

Green bars appear and they all say the same thing: download complete. How could we have missed this? How is it that through it all we didn't even once notice him downloading files?

" He downloaded everything, every detail, every file, all of it. Based on this information alone he just handed them a whole puzzle with just a few missing pieces." Natasha is in disbelief.

" He hasn't gotten everything so that's good," I reply. 

" No it's not Roland knows your genetics, your scans and knows your immortal, they don't need you anymore, they have Roland and all the research we developed. They can just recreate Specimen X now." Z's words ring in my ears.

"What do we do now then?"  I murmur. 

" We need to warn as many planets that we can and talk with F.O.G" Nicole speaks quickly.

"F.O.G.?" 

" Forces of Galaxies, they are an elite group that come together from all different parts and help keep the peace and balance between all the beings" Z replies crossing her arms. 

Nicole and Natasha get on the computers and start relating as many messages as they can to spread the word for planets to begin preparing for a bioweapon to be released. What had seemed like a glimmer of hope that good was coming to all life has now vanished in a deep dense mist. Z shifts back into her normal "human" look and places a hand in my shoulder.

" It will be okay, come hell or high water, we will fight and we will win, " her smile eases me a bit and I nod to her in approval. 

While Natasha and Nicole are busy on the computers I help Z and Neese with clean up duty. Reptilian bodies still lay scattered all across the lab, and much of the equipment is destroyed. Still we keep pushing on dragging their bodies to the hallway as the rest of the lab staff come to transport them away. This will be a long road for sure. And I am mostly frightened by what the outcome of our future holds.