Radiance Ch. 61

Chapter 61: Secrets of the Universe.

As the cylinder drained of its glowing blue fluid Seven felt an odd sense of apprehension, he was looking at a being from another world from across the stars, this being was an alien to this world but he was as alien to her as she was to him.

As the fluid finished draining Seven couldn't help but look up and down the naked body of the slender and rather short creature before him, now that the fluid was gone he could see that her skin had a vivid green tint to it but there seemed to be a few flashes of yellow swirled in patches over her.

His eyes travelled up from her dainty three-toed feet to her small and slender calves which led into her thin but firm looking thighs which seemed to curve outwards into her very curved hips which were shaped kinda like an arch, nestling between these curved thighs a small pair of lips were nestled hiding in the shadows cast by those smooth cylinders of feminine flesh.

Moving up from her hips his eyes roamed onto her flat little toned belly which hid her abdominal muscles, unlike most of the females on the team her abdominals were not obvious in a six-pack form but they were there, sitting on her chest two little teardrop-shaped breasts sat and shimmied slightly as she moved and stretched her obviously aching muscles, two little golden yellow nipples reacted to her rapidly cooling skin by hardening and pointing towards Seven.

Finally, his eyes travelled up her very thin and fragile-looking neck and onto her alien but not unattractive face, though Seven had to admit there was a distinct difference between her features and those of what must be her dead male counterparts back in the other room, hers were far softer and far more pleasing to the eyes despite being so very alien compared to his own.

That's when his eyes found themselves looking into her purely jet black ones, somehow despite being completely black they seemed to be rather expressive, as the glass of the tube retracted she stepped forwards and out standing directly in front of Seven and it was only now he realised that she only came up to his lower rib cage as she looked up at him with her large black eyes.

"Thank you for freeing me anomaly and for the strange albeit pleasant observations your inner mind made of my body I must say I did always wonder if humans capable of looking beyond their own existed but after having spent so much time in the company of the bigoted and conceited members of your species posing as scientists I had begun to lose hope in your race that I might ever find someone with compassion that goes beyond those that look like them, but I can see from the composition of this group and from what I have seen from your mind I know you to be different," she said directly into his mind.

Seven felt a flush of embarrassment as he realised that she had heard his inner mind compliments of her very naked body, "Umm yes ok thank you, umm can you speak our language verbally or is it only telepathic?" Seven asked.

"Both, but my species prefer to use our telepathy as it is far easier for us, we tend only to use our larynx as a last resort, it is not as developed as yours but the area of our brains that allow for the development of telepathic ability as well as psionic abilities is far more advanced than most humans, though this is something you should know," she said in a surprisingly sweet-sounding and high pitched voice.

Seven cocked his head curiously, "Oh? And why is that?' he asked.

"Because it is our DNA that gave you your abilities," she said and Seven felt like he'd just been punched clean in the face.

"A-A-Alien DNA? H-H-How could you possibly know that!? I've never met you before and I have no memories for you to look at!?" he exclaimed as every one of the group turned to look at him with surprise upon their faces.

"I am sorry if my words have upset you anomaly that was not my intention but I can sense it within you, it is one of the reasons why I refer to you as anomaly, the DNA of my people has been woven into your own and I can feel it," she said.

"How the hell can someone feel DNA?" Shauna exclaimed suddenly and the little alien woman turned and looked up at the gargantuan super mutant woman towering over her though her expression didn't betray whether her size intimidated her or not.

"It is hard to explain but it is a kind of resonance and affinity that I feel with him like I would with one of my own, the best way to describe it would be the sense you would always get when you are with one of your own race that is lacking when you are with a member of another, no matter how close you are or on how good terms there will always be a feeling of difference even between lovers, now I'm not saying for a second that that is a bad thing it simply is a thing, it's like your heart, your body and your soul always knows that that person is different from you, even if you were blind you would feel it, but when it is one of your own kind it simply isn't there, it could be described as a sense of kinship I guess, though the proof of this claim is a simple one for me to establish, I would simply need a moment of skin to skin contact," the little alien said.

Visa snarled and swished her long tail sending a little metal bin flying in the process, "And why exactly would you need skin to skin contact with MY male!?" she snarled angrily.

The little alien turned and looked up at the massive claw female, "Please do not mistake my intentions my good lady claw, I have no designs upon your beloved male trust me when I say I know exactly what the pair of you mean to one another infact your love for one another has warmed my heart as well as filled my mind with possibilities since I sensed the presence of the anomaly within my range, not that I would not entertain the possibility if he were a single and unattached male but he is not and I am not stupid, suicidal or inclined to attempt to take another female's male, no all I need is a moment of touch to be able to sense the markers in his sweat, my kind are incredibly sensitive to such things" she said and Visa looked thoughtful for a moment but then rose to her height.

"Your words are honourable so I will allow it," she said.

Seven was a little sceptical but still decided to go through with it, he stepped out of his power armour and the little still naked alien girl looked up at him and smiled, she reached out her hand to him and he reached out and took it.

Her skin was incredibly soft and very warm as well as smooth, she looked at him for a long hard moment before she smiled and nodded, "Yes it is there as clear as day to me, the markers are all there, I had always known that they were using our DNA to create a hybrid program but until I felt you I did not know that it had actually worked, now I know and from your memories, I can see there are even more, at least I know where the DNA that they took from me and my dead crew mates two hundred of your years ago, I have been in that stasis pod even since the military captured me after our ship crashed after our engines got hit by a stray micro meteor and we lost control, I was the only one that survived the crash and I was barely conscious when they arrived and they sedated me, I have been in there in a kind of metabolic status but my mind was still active" the little alien said.

Seven suddenly felt a wave of sorrow for her, he reached up and removed the jacket he was wearing and placed it over her small frame which made her look at him in surprise, "I am sorry that happened to you" he said softly.

"Why? It was not your fault or anything to do with your actions?" she said obviously confused.

"I know but that does not mean I cannot feel empathy for your situation or the injustices done to you by my species," he said and she looked thoughtful for a moment.

"If I am honest I do not blame them, my species have come to your planet before and I know that our scientists have taken members of your race for examination so it is not exactly unexpected that you would do the same to mine given the chance, but we were not scientists or military, we were just civilian contractors on a mining mission trying to collect minerals from the asteroids in your system, but either way I do not hold you or any unrelated member of your species accountable for it, especially not you as from what I have seen you have suffered greatly because of what was done to your by your own people after our DNA took to you, but either way I know, not all humans are bad as I have spent the last over two hundred of your years listening on the minds of your people and I have seen some wonderful things," she said.

Suddenly her whole demeanour changed and a look of both alarm and seriousness appeared on her oddly pretty face, "Wel must leave as soon as possible, the ones you call the Brotherhood are coming, but we must destroy this place before we leave, they cannot be allowed to unleash the hell that has been developed here if those missiles they have created are allowed to be launched or even analysed it could cause true calamity for not only your race but all races everywhere!!" she exclaimed.

"What missiles? What's in them?" Shauna asked curiously.

"The humans you call the Enclave have been experimenting with the captive samples of DNA they had from my species as I have said but one of the projects they have been working on involves the substance you call the FEV the mixture is incredibly potent and unpredictable, imagine a feral super mutant with telepathy or telekinesis and those are the good outcomes," the little alien said and Seven's mouth dropped open as that reality hit him like a cold hard slap, with a weapon like that they could hold the entire human race to ransom let alone the country.

The revelation that he as in possession of alien DNA and it was responsible for his current abilities shook Seven to his core but right now he really didn't have time to think about it as not only did they have weapons of mass destruction that made nukes look like fucking pop caps for their sheer destructive power as, unlike a nuclear blast which only devastated a singular area these things were like concentrated fallout, they were designed to spread their poison over as wide an area as possible and to take out as many people as possible in as wide an area as possible, so just one missile or drone bomb could if the winds were just right to make half the country unlivable.

Seven turned to Shauna, "We cannot let this technology fall into the Brotherhood or anyone else's hands, it has to be destroyed, we thought it was bad before but now we have confirmation that it's even fucking worse than we ever imagined" he said and she nodded.

Seven turned back to the little alien woman who was now hugging the jacket he had given her around herself covering up her nudity, he would have to get Malakai on helping her out when they were safely away from this place.

"Umm what is your name?" he asked.

"Zixxy, Zixxy Velesan and you are called Seven," she said and he nodded.

"Well Zixxy we're going to take your advice, we're going to take this place down to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and to ensure this tech is never used, by anyone, ever, but I'd like you to come with us and to offer you a place among us, but the choice is yours, you are free now and you can do as you please so the choice is yours," Seven said.

Zixxy gave him a rather warm smile, "I am glad that you are what I believed you to be Seven and I thank you for your kind offer, I will take you up on it as I do not believe I would last long in this hostile world without allies, so I thank you for your offer and I humbly accept it" she said.

Seven looked around the laboratory as the others headed to the elevator, he needed something to allow him to destroy the place and everything within it, Zixxy seemed to sense his thoughts and she pointed one of her long slender fingers at a load of cylinders that were stacked against the far wall.

"Those are all still full, if you combine them with some plasma the blast should be sufficient to start a chain reaction that will set off all the remaining chemicals still stored in here, the resulting blast and firestorm should incinerate everything in this lab rendering it completely unusable especially as all of those embalming fluids they have used to preserve my comrades are highly combustible," she said.

Seven thought for a moment and then a smile crossed his face, "Well I don't have any plasma but I do have something a little better but we are going to have to get out of here pretty fucking quickly" he said and Zixxy cocked her head curiously until she saw what he'd extracted from the backpack he was wearing and the same smile crossed her face.

"That is indeed better," she said.

The doors to the elevator had just opened to release them back out on the floor where the other teams were when the detonation below them shook the whole place despite being far below them.

"Holy shit those fusion cores pack one hell of a punch I suddenly find myself worried about you running around with one of those plugged into your back my male," Visa said looking back at the elevator doors which had suddenly begun to leak smoke.

Seven grinned under his mask, "Gotta love the Enclave giving us the tools to destroy with, that was one of the spares I took from the busted armour outside, so it wasn't even a full one" he said.

"Got any more of them?" Visa asked and Seven patted the bag he was carrying on his back.

"One or two," he said with an evil grin.

The next stop was the medical bay where they found Vess and her pack along with Chris who was sitting upon a bed and by the look of the empty stimpacks as well as the other medical tools laid around he was fully stitched up and treated now and it appeared that Vess was trying to feed him some food that she'd found.

While Seven did not agree with or condone her actions in the corridor where she had taken him as her attendant he couldn't argue with the results, infact given they were pretty pressed for time and really didn't have any reason to trust a word the young man said he'd been surprised she'd actually taken the time to hear him out let alone shown him mercy and while granted while some would say swapping one master who held your family to ransom for one who had threatened your life really wasn't a mercy you had to take into account she really could have just killed him the moment she'd seen him or given how wounded he was she could have just left him to die a long drawn out and painful death without a single care as the result would have been the same, at least now with the help of their new friend they might be able to get to the truth, either way, he would be having words with Vess in private the first chance he got.

The big claw matriarch turned as they approached and her eyes instantly went to Zixxy and widened, "Who are you?" she asked instantly.

"I am Zixxy Velesan it is very good to meet you Vess Alpha Matriarch of the Northern Pack," Zixxy said making Vess's eyes widen further.

"How do you know who I am little one?" the big claw asked stomping over to them and absolutely towering over the little alien who had to crane her very slender little neck to look up at her.

"She's the empath who was speaking to me in my mind this whole time, no real-time to explain everything here, we need to get out of here as the Brotherhood is on the way here right now so we need to blow this place and leave," Seven said.

Vess made a huffing noise but nodded and then walked over to Chris before turning and lowering herself down, "Fasten him to my back again my daughters" she said and both Lia and Lemet both moved alongside her and hoisted him up and placed him into the makeshift harness that Malakai had made to hold him on her back, once he was secure the big Claws fell in with Seven and they began to make their way to the hanger but Seven stopped for a moment.

"We need to take care of the launchers, if they have any virus bombs or warheads they need to be destroyed down here where it's safe, some nuclear fire should be able to do the trick and I have a few spare fusion cores that I can modify to give the bombs some kick and with the fuel tanks they have to launch any missiles they have here should give us all the firepower we need to turn this place inside out," Seven said.

"We should double-time it to the hanger, they'll have some work benches there for repair there and between me and Gregory we'll have no problems rigging those things into nuclear time bombs," Timothy said and Seven nodded his agreement.

The hanger was clear of scientists thanks to Ven's team though by the bodies that were scattered about there had been a few of them in here, the place was littered with little micro Vertibirds some of which were parked on little pads ready for launch, others were scattered about in various states of assembly and repair, but the real star of the show was sat dead centre of the hangar bay.

Ven came down the ramp of the quad roatered cargo Vertibird, the thing was kinda shaped like a bus but in Vertibird form, "Ahh welcome Seven, we cleared the place out and look what we found, according to my sexy little human it's in perfect working order, so if we want we can use it to get the fuck out of this place, this could be our ticket out of DC all together........Ummm who is that?" Ven said stopping mid-sentence as he spotted Zixxy standing there in Seven's oversized jacket.

"I'm Zixxy Velesan, it is good to meet you Ven brother of Visa," the little alien said politely.

"Wow she's a polite one, well it is good to meet you as well Zixxy" Ven said.

'Timothy grab Gregory and the two of you get to work, make as many changes as you can, we'll take this new toy and blow this fucking place, then we'll swing by grab Wisp and Riss and anything we need from the safe house including Passa and then we are getting the fuck out of DC, because something tells me we are about to become public enemy number one around here," Seven said.

The team got rapidly to work including Malakai who spotted the near-naked little alien and made a beeline for her, only moments later he was measuring her up obviously planning a whole wardrobe of alien chique summer wear for her.

It didn't take Timothy and Gregory long to rig up some nuclear demo charges using some of the warheads from the missiles scattered around the place along with some of the liberated fusion cores that Seven had given them, once everything was ready Seven, Timothy and Gregory went down to the launch silo which turned out to be a large cylinder that ran right down the centre of the facility.

"Holy shit to be face to face with one of the things that are responsible for the world being the way it is is kinda humbling," Gregory said as the three of them stood looking up at the huge ICBM that was sat in the centre of the silo.

"Technically that was humans but yeah I get what you mean," Seven said.

"Just be glad this isn't nuclear-tipped or we'd make half of DC disappear with this little stunt," Timothy said as affixed one of the charges to a large fuel tank at the base of the silo.

"Honestly if they'd managed to make and fix up a warhead full of the stuff that this thing was intended to carry it would be a million times worse than a nuclear-tipped one," Seven said.

"I'm going to assume that's got something to do without the new little friend that Malakai was fussing over?" Gregory said and Seven nodded.

"Yup, she's been stuck in a stasis pod here for about two hundred years, the military captured her after she and her shipmates crashed here, all of them died and they picked up the bodies and her as the only survivor and they were using her DNA to try and modify the FEV but it's been used in a whole host of other experiments lately picked up b out favourite power-hungry megalomaniacs the Enclave and also resulting in yours truly being the way I am," Seven said.