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Chapter 21 - Chapter 20. The Betraying Queen

As the cultists work to undo the tranquilizers, they detach them one by one. As three work to pull off the cloth covering the huge... beast. The beast lays on a reinforced tungsten block. As arms of metal wrap around the massive creatures body. Folding its wings close to its body, as its beck is covered with a metal muzzle. It lays, unresponsive, breathing slowly. With air clearly being inhaled from its back. The beast is massive, utterly so. With them taking a few seconds to run from one side to the other. As its laying figure towers at twice a humans head over them. Its feathers are pure white, with rainbow iridescence making a pretty pattern. But wrought patches, and dirt, and grime mix with the feathers in ugly ways. Making it look like a mistreated massive bird thing. As its body has two sets of wings, one larger one, folded over one smaller one. While its head has 6 eyes, all closed, 3 sets of eyes. The bottom being smallest, the top being biggest. The largest pair of eyes being the size of watermelons. While the smallest ones the size of magic-8 balls. As it breaths, asleep.

As the final tubes are removed, cultists step back, while some move to fight the gunfights elsewhere. As the Evotorium prist watches. As he neals to a knea, looking up. "Oh great one... forgive me for releasing your mate... but... you would rather her be free then in those ants hands." He begins to pray silently. Then... eyes slowly flutter open on the beast's face. As they widen open suddenly, drowsy still, but they lock onto the priest. Then... a quite. Before, the breathing suddenly becomes much more rapid, several air holes along the back, breathing more air in thru the feathers. As the beast moves... or tries too. But can't due to restraints. As it suddenly screeches. Thru its closed beak, sealed with a mouth guard of metal. As high pitch vibration, vibrates the entire ship slightly. Within the room, and nearby hallways, a loud, obnoxious high pitch sound is heard. As the priest covers his ears, shaking, as they bleed. The creature struggles, shifting in the metal, like a very angry bird of prey. As it pushes with its lower set of smaller wings off the ground. Pushing harder, and harder. The sound of tungstun straps slowly bending in utter strain is heard, echoing.

As the metal budges, and she slowly gets more loose, and more loose. Until... 72 seconds of struggling passes, as one of the band snaps. Tungsten snaps with a loud sound. As another, and another, as she crawls out of the restraints. Her back talons, and walking on her front two, smaller wings. While the bigger ones, that cover her entire back, stay folded. As a long 8m tail feathers sit, dragging behind her. All feathers untamed, dirty, like a abused bird. As she looks at the priest in utter anger, as she reaches for him, with large hands integrated into her lower set of wings, grabbing the man before he can run, and throws him into a wall with a bloody splat. As her hands reach for the beck restraint, shaking with anger, as she pulls the metal, bending it, and eventually gets it off. As she opens her beck wide, as she breaths calm... seemingly... happy just for a second at being free. Then, screeches loudly, as she stands on her talons, all 4 wings stretched across the cargo bay. As the entire ship rattles, and shakes, and even the water waves due to the raw decibels of her screech. As ears across the ship ring.

Meanwhile, on the side of the ship where Alkar was blown up. A slithering tentacle of biomass climbs up the ship from the water, as a half-man-like form climbs up, visibly tired. Alkar, as he hears the scrache, he frowns deeply. His biomass is nearly exhausted, as his metal device sits exposed. He did get flug a km away from the ship after all. "S-Shit... she... she is out..." He looks around "I need BIOMASS now! Fuck fuck FUCK! Idiots! Fucking idiots!" As he begins to run, and begin to absorb biomass of nearby solders. Meanwhile, solders begin to report his survival, while at the same time, command is deeply confused about the ear breaching screeches. As they watch Alkar begin to reform a larger body in a seaming... panic? Meanwhile, the queen in the cargo hold looks around, as her largest pair of eyes have a transparent eyelid with a weird look to it cover the biggest eyes, as they look around. Seeing something humans can't. Before they turn to normal. As she shakes in anger, feathers puffing up. She looks up, as she spreads the wings in a X formation, aiming her beck upwords, as she begins to breath in and out... faster... faster... faster. Until... one solid stream of air begins to be funneled into her back, as... static... sparks of electricity cover her feathers. Slowly growing in arc length. Until... they are so large they fill the cargo hold. Then... *BOOM*, from outside the ship, helicopter pilots watch, as a sound is heard from the hull. As the hull visibly heats up at a section of the hull... growing hotter, and hotter, and hotter. Red hot. Until... with a powerful sound. A beam of red-orange air plasma jets out of the hull, 30m long, like a geyser. It... stops soon after. But... commanders are panicking. "What the fuck was that?" Is everyone's question, except Alkar's.

As soon... metal bending sounds begin to come from the hull. As slowly... climbing out like a parrot chewing thru a cardboard roof. With sparks still coming from its body, with arcs reaching 3m across. Comes the massive creature. As it slowly crawls, and pulls out of the hole in the hull. Ignoring the red hot steel, as if its not hot at all. As it walks onto the surface, its eyes look around separately at the helicopters, and things around it. Then it sees evotorium personal, and it screeches at them. As ears bleed in the direction of the screech, the massive creature runs at speed throwing evotorium men away, or tearing them apart with claws, as then, a biomass sluks over shipping contaors, as it approaches. The bird turns, backs away from it, as it slowly forms into a humanoid shape it took at the start of battle. He stands. "Queen. It was not my intention to see you escape from your punishment so easy! Your h-" *Screech*, the queen screeches so loud, no one can hear anything else. She... is pissed. "Shit!" Alkar says in a panic. As electric arcs grow larger, and air intake becomes more rapid, so rapid the flows are visible in the air, felt around, seen. As... then... she opens her beck wide, as Alkar looks in horror, moves to dodge. But... he is too slow. As instantly... a massive wide ploom of red-orange air plasma comes from her mouth, stays steady on him, as she walks forward, aiming it at him, keeping him to the ground with massive plasma beam, that bounces off the ship, and hits nearby containers, melting them. Hits the water, making steam. As... eventually... she stops, calming... tired? Breathing hard. As... all that is left of Alkar... is a molten hole in the hull.

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