Hi everyone. This is my first Alien vs. Predator fic. and is very excided to see what people out there think about it… Not that it matters as it is written for my brother who dared me to write it. I apologize for any errors; English is not my native language.
Anyway; you've all read the summary, let the show begin.
Chapter 1: The temple.
"The newly found writings indicate that the temple was indeed built to serve a type of gods we never have encountered before. They seem more violent than all other known gods that we else have encountered in this area." Max said into a digital recorder for further use. She sat with her laptop on her crossed legs and with a table full of books, a couple of tablets and a lot of paper with notes and translations she worked on her newest work from the field. For the third time that month there was a power cut and all she could do was sit tight and wait. Luckily her laptop was self-sufficient on power; one of her small trinkets that she required from her past. She smiled at her new discovery, she had found out during one of her solo excavations that these gods might have been from another world; from space.
Her satellite phone brought her attention with a clear beep. Frowning, knowing that must be her team wanting her to do something for them. Not that she had any liking for the 10 men who only wanted her for two things; her brain and her look.
"Yes?" She said a little more annoyed than she had meant into the phone.
"Maxine, we need you at the temple; the fat man has ordered us all to find everything we can on your new little discovery. So I'll like to see your beautiful ass as soon as possible." George said in the other end.
"Right now; it's about 1 in the morning." She frowned.
"Now! It's very important and we need your translating skills to help us." Her colleague answered.
"Alright." She sighed.
"Don't worry, you'll get your beauty sleep soon enough." He laughed before hanging up.
"Jerk!" Max blurted before packing her things to leave.
The ride was fairly long and the only thing that she enjoyed by the trip was the power she always felt when she drove her Harley.
"Okay what's so important that you needed me to come in the middle of the night?" She spoke as she parked at the entrance, but no answer. "Hallo, guys?" She called not liking the silence one bit.
Walking further into the temple she found fresh footprint but what made her worry a little was that beside her team she found footprint from at least 3 more. They had to be males as they were too big to come from a woman. Following the same direction that her team went she moved further into the stone structure. She pasted the main hall and walked further into a side room for the scarification chamber where they had found the tablet.
Something was not right; call it an instinct but it was way off. A sound behind her; she focused her attention toward the sound, not moving a muscle. Sensing that it wasn't one on her team members she turned around to face him. "Well that is a way to make people jumpy." She said annoyed.
The not so tall man stood perfectly still ready to attack any moment and instantly she knew the gesture. He was hostile but why?
Waiting for him to make the first move she sensed others nearby, was it her team ready to help her or was it people that was with this unknown man? She held her eyes with the man but something else begged for her attention. It was George, the leader of her team and he too was holding a gun and was not, as she had hoped, aiming at the stranger but at her.
The remaining 9 of her team showed themselves all holding guns at her. Turning that she now was facing the man she had worked with the last 2 months, she showed her teeth in anger.
"Maxine." George said with a fake smile.
"George what the hell are you doing, have you gone mad?" Max said ready to attack if it came to that. He let the gun rest by his side walking a little closer to her, but she backed away.
"I'm only following orders as you should have done Maxine, and now we have no other choice." He answered pointing the gun at her once more. Seeing the gun directed at her once again, Max narrowed her eyes. How dare he thread me like this? She thought.
"You are the most unbelievable stubborn, thick-headed, incredible hot woman I've ever met. It's almost a shame that I have to kill you. I would have loved to have you at least one time, but that is too late now. Goodbye Maxine." George said with a smirk on his face.
"I don't think so shit-face!" Max said and without hesitation she cart-wheeled from the rain of bullets that came for her. She found her knife from her side holster and threw it right between the eyes of one of the shooters. Using one of the others as a shield he was penetrated by the others assault. Then with a quick sprint she was out of the room and toward a place where she could create a plan against her former team mates.
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What she didn't know was that inside the temple was there someone that had waited for their victims to come. Pl'as, Denth'onck and gan'tl had placed the eggs and only waited for them to hatch so they could infest the pitiful oomans. They had been lucky that they had been there this night or the 3 bad bloods had been forced to use animals from the forest for their stolen chiva. Pl'as watched as an ooman female ran down the corridors and a group of males going after her, weapons drawn. He chuckled by himself as he witnessed them all heading directly for the room where they had placed the eggs and was pleased that the hunt now soon would begin.
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The honored hunter; Toh'el'ach, landed not far from the bad bloods ship, he had a perfect image of where everyone were. He saw all 3 bad bloods along with 10 oomans all running toward the chamber where the eggs was located. Stupid oomans. He thought as he secured his ship, cloaked it, then himself and ran to the other ship. He would not give the bad blood the chance of get away from this planet, so therefore he activated a small bomb he had brought along: attaching it on the ship, he too started his hunt. A hunt for the criminals that had stolen 7 eggs from the Kainde Amedha queen that his clan had for the young bloods chiva. Starting his recorder of his helmet to show the council his future victory when he returned, he was off.
He entered the ruins of the ancient temple which once had been where this world's people had worshiped his race; the yautja. The eggs was about to hatch and that was not a good thing as once the face huggers found a host it would be a much dangerous game.
He ran toward the beacon signal that all 3 bad bloods transmitted with there transmitter. As he ran he passed a group of 3 ooman males all lying on the floor with a whole in there chest. He was too late, the face huggers had already found their first victims and now there was 3 hard meats running around. This was not what he had wished for, but he was not to complain as it only would make it all much more interesting.
Following the beacon once more he was lead to an isolated room and saw the 3 transmitters on the floor; the bad bloods must had disposed themselves off them when they realized they could be tracked. First he thought the room was empty but then he saw her; an ooman female, she was standing in the furthest corner looking like she was ready to strike the first and the best that would enter. Watching the ooman hold a knife ready to defend herself, a face hugger attacked her from behind, forcing itself over her face. At first glint it seamed like she was trying to slice the beast of her, but to Toh'el'ach's surprise she tore it off of her with her bare hand. He watched the scene in awe as the female held the bug in her hand studying it, then with a very hard throw she let it fly through the air only to be pierced by her knife. Walking up to the now dead bug she swore as she saw her knife almost disintegrated by the acid blood. Finding another knife from her boot she walked up to the door peeking out for any other hostiles.
Toh'el'ach was impressed and decided to claim this ooman as a trophy of his own and was ready to jump down for her as a group of 3 males emerged from the opening; holding projectile weapons at the female. Wanting to see what would happen next, the hunter watched from above the oomans.
"Maxine, what a surprise to find you here." The leader male said, clearly not meaning a word of it.
"Just skip the bullshit and cut to the case. You want to kill me, why I haven't found out yet but I will. You think you can kill me by bringing a team of 9 with you, don't insult me." The female hissed, mocking him at the same time. The hunter defiantly liked this ooman and she would be a prized trophy if she proved to survive the fight with the other oomans.
George pointed the gun at her head with his finger ready to blow it off. "You will regret killing my men bitch." He said hateful.
Max grinned. "And how will you do that?" She asked holding the knife ready when she saw his two goons flanking her.
"I will shoot you myself bitch!" The man yelled.
"You are really good at name giving people aren't you?"
She was mocking the clearly bigger male though she was surrounded by all 3 of them all holding weapons at her but why. This female will not have a chance against them. Toh'el'ach thought as he watched the scene. Then, in a heart beat the ooman girl was charging, without warning. She had dodged the bullets from the 2 younger males and went directly at the leader. She knocked himunconscious. She threw her knife at one of the men and hit him in the leg. He fell in a cry of pain but kept shooting at her. She ran, flipped and dodged the bullets, and then in her flight she hit the third male hard on. He fell, landing on top of the other who was knocked into the world of sleep. Now with the only conscious man tried to untangle himself from the other, she walked toward them not worrying about that he still held a weapon in his hand. He shot at her once again and she kept moving like nothing was happening. Picking up a rock from the floor she sized it in her hand before throwing it hard enough to knock the weapon out of the man's hand. The man whined a bit as she walked up close to the 2 men as the other had chosen to wake up once again, both looking terrified at her.
Toh'el'ach was more than impressed by the ooman girl, he couldn't wait to match her abilities and she would be a fine pray who would give him much honor.
"You tried to kill me, why?" She asked as she hoisted one of the males up by his collar. He whimpered by her penetrating eyes that seemed like they saw right into his soul.
"I… I…Don't know, the boss just told us to… to kill you." He answered petrified of the woman.
"Pity, I…" She didn't get the chance to finish the sentence as the leader, who had wakened from his blow, just shot his own man. Max looked at George furious. Dropping the now dead man she retrieved her knife from the still lying man.
"So it will be you who will tell me what I want to know." She said in a low voice but George just smiled by her comment. He started to shoot, not at Max but at the ceiling right above her, and then ran to get away from the crumbling building. The hunter was in the other end of the room on a platform so he was protected from the danger but Max was not that lucky as she stood right below.
Max tried to protect her head with her arms but Toh'el'ach was almost sure that the debris would crush the fragile girl with its masses, however using her immense speed she dodged the falling pieces of roof and using the dead body as a shield; she was buried. Toh'el'ach was positive that she never would have that kind of strength to support the weight of the rubbles. It's a shame; she would have been a prime of a trophy. The yautja thought leaving the room, not even bothering scanning for life signs.
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Pushing the corpse away along with the remaining rubbles of the roof, Max dusted herself off. She had almost lost the battle with the continuing of the falling stones but she had survived only with a couple of small cuts and bruises and a couple of aching arms. Looking over the floor she saw the guy she had thrown her knife hadn't been that lucky, not that she complained but that meant that her answers would come from George no matter if he liked it or not. She didn't get minutes peace before something back in her mind told her something was way off and with that she heard a scream. It came from one of her former team mates but why would he scream like that? Max eased her way to the remaining whole in the wall and started her way out. She needed to find those bastards so she could come home and get some sleep; it was now 48 hours since she last slept and she could feel it through out her whole body. But that wouldn't stop her.
Running toward the sound she soon found a body of the same man she had heard only minutes ago. He had a large gab in his stomach and chest, which explained why he was dead. Hearing one more scream she ran toward the sound once more and this time she didn't find a dead body but one of her former team members holding in the air by something she even couldn't start to reason for herself what was. It was large, seamed human; however in the dim light she wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. She had seen many things in her time but this has just beaten it all. The creature looked at her with big hollow eyes. No it was not its eyes it was some kind of mask that covered its face. The man in agony screamed one more time before he was silences by the creature; it tore his head off.
Max was not sure what to expect from this man-looking creature and then 2 other creatures materialized right before her, weapon raised; she knew she would have to fight. Going into a fighting position she just waited for the dance to begin but the first creature who now had deposed its self from the body cocked its head to the side and looked almost like it was laughing at her. Seeing this Max started to become angry; it had been only a fight in her eyes until now. Just laugh it up boys. She thought; now it was time for her to show them that you wouldn't laugh at her without regretting it.
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Toh'el'ach had finally located the 3 bad bloods and to his shock the female was with them. He had been sure she had died in the other room, but here she was standing before the mocking bad bloods ready to fight for her life. Why don't she just run, get away from them while she still has a chance? The honored hunter wondered for himself but decided once more that this would be a perfect chance to see how good her skills were. Denth'onck then suddenly stopped his taunting and looked at the ooman as if she had said something insulting. Drawing his combo staff he charged against her without a warning, in the same second he would had rampaged her with the pointy edge the female used her speed once again and dodged as she rolled onto the floor and again there was a gap between the two. She had only her knife as weapon and Toh'el'ach hoped that it would be enough for her to make an honorable fight before she died.
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Max held her knife ready for impact as she charged toward the massive creature. She aimed low and with a precisely measured cute she cut it across its inner leg. Scoffing in pain the creature took a hold of her foot before she had a chance to get away, but that didn't stop her. Max let her other foot fly to the creatures head and delivered a good blow. If it had been a normal human he would have been lying on the floor now: most likely out cold, but the kick had only managed for this creature to turn its head before it with a roar flung her across the room letting her hit the wall, hard. She could taste blood in her mouth. Spitting a merge of blood and spit, she knew that this one would not get away. She had lost her knife under her little flying lesson and she had not thought about hiding more than 4 knifes on her this night. Cursing herself for her stupidity she waited for the creature to come to her, use its own strength and weight against itself.
Slamming the creature into the stone floor hard Max took its spear; pointing at its former owner. The creature didn't stay down long and with a speed almost equal to Max's speed it launched itself on her making them both fall to the ground. The creature drew a wrist blade but Max failed to block the blow and her right arm was truck. Hissing in pain she trusted the spear into its abdomen. With a loud cry it clustered the wound as neon green blood flowed freely between its fingers.
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The hunter had never seen anything like it, the battle had been against her all along but the way she moved made him doubt if this was just an ordinary ooman after all. Denth'onck fell and Toh'el'ach saw that the combo staff had not only been trusted through his fellow yautja's skin but it had been forced so far inside that he was beyond saving at this point. The 2 remaining bad bloods started to roar at the female as they saw their companion fall. Both Pl'as and Gan'tl attacked the ooman in anger, this was about this time Toh'el'ach decided to take out his own agenda as he really didn't wanted the 2 kill this ooman, she was his and if she would fall, it would be by his hand. Uncloaking himself he dropped from the upper platform he had been sitting on, but in the very same minute various screeches sounded not far from the entrance. All in the room turned their attention toward the sound and in came 3 hard meats not all too happy. The first charged Toh'el'ach and another charged Pl'as, the third bad blood froze as he saw the 3 black devils.
"Get yourself together this is the moment you have waited for Gan'tl, this is the entire reason why we did what we did, now show that you are a predator and not a fool." Pl'as screamed after he threw the hard meat off of him but the bad blood just stood there looking at the third hard meat in fright; then ran. Pl'as snorted at the coward of a yautja. Continuing his fight with the hard meat he promised himself that if he ever found Gan'tl again, he would kill him for his cowardly act. The third hard meat, whose opponent now had fled, turned its attention toward the ooman hissing seeing the apparently weaker being.
Max looked at the beast before her in horror; her mind racing with all kind of questions. First the attack from her own team mates, the attack from the weird bug that wanted to suffocate her then the creatures and now beast? This is really not my lucky night. She thought preparing herself for hell of a fight. The fight with it was hard and she lost her last weapon as she tried to cut a limb, her last knife dissolved in the beast's blood. Acid, what the hell is it, some kind of a demon? Max was oblivious of the battles around her and didn't notice the fourth creature killing on of the same beasts that she battled with, only by breaking its neck.
Toh'el'ach felt so alive, he could feel the life disappear as he broke the neck of the hard meat. He had fought many Kainde Amedha during his time and knew how to defeat them even if it was by hand. Watching the others battle their own hard meats he saw the ooman, still alive, dancing with a Kainde Amedha of her own. He saw her loose her knife as she tried to cut its leg as she had done with Denth'onck, but the acid blood dissolved the blade and now she was unarmed. She stood ready and feisty even without her weapon and then in the attack of the kainde amedha she swilled around, took a hold of its tale and with one powerful thrust; she jammed the spear like tail directly into its own head, letting it scramble on the floor in pain a little before it died. Without looking at anything else she obtained Denth'onck's combo stick from the floor; ran out of the room and out of his sight.
Something inside of him made him want the female even more, she would be a trophy worth to his finest collection and he would gain much honor when he had her head and with that needing feeling he then scanned the room for the bad bloods. As soon they were taking care of them he would be able to hunt the female, this yautja and kainda Amedha killer and a strange feeling emerge inside of him that he hadn't felt before and couldn't explain.
Pl'as stood beside his falling hard meat staring at the hunter. "So they have sent you, not even an arbitrator yet, I don't know if I should be thankful or be offended that the elders don't see me a big enough of a threat to send you." Pl'as spoke with disgust.
"Don't waist your breath bad blood, you will need it." Toh'el'ach said returning the stare, ready to take down this scum.
Pl'as just laughed. "I will enjoy this cosine, die well." He attacked and soon both was without weapon and stood in a fight hand to hand. Pl'as soon knew that this yautja wasn't as weak as he had thought and feared loosing. Tripping the larger male he started to run the same direction Gan'lt had.
The hunter picked himself up with a light headache seeing the bad blood cowardly run out of the room. So this is how he wants it; then let the hunt continue bad blood. He thought as he scrambled his weapon from the floor and started to track his kin through the temple. After some time he succeeded tracking one of the bad bloods down. It was Gan'lt ad he was terrified when he saw the older honored hunter enter the room. It hadn't helped cloaking himself but he had and was hiding between two large piles of stone.
"Show yourself bad blood; gain the little honor you have left by accepting your punishment." Toh'el'ach said out loud to the young man. Gan'lt sighed, turning off his cloak he stepped into view for the hunter to see.
"I am ready." The younger man stated readied himself for his final battle.
It didn't take the older yautja long before the bad blood lay on the floor dead by the honored hunter's wrist blade. At least he did welcome his punishment in the end. He thought, before spreading the acid-like powder over the body where after it started too dissolved until nothing but a black spot was left for others to see. Toh'el'ach turned away from the former bad blood and started his final hunt; Pl'as. And then it would be the ooman. He thought; a shiver ran down his back by the thought.
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Max ran as fast as she could, not in a million years did she want to be near all those unknown creatures. She had already killed one, but her wound on her shoulder would not help her, they were outnumbering her and that was what she disliked. Then her luck finely came to her when she saw the tail of George. Speeding up she gain in on him fast. The man saw her too late as she extended the creature's weapon and tripped him. He fell hard head on.
"Did you really think you could get away from this scumbag?" She said in a low voice, she was starting to get tired of this game of sudden death all night and just wanted to get as much out of this insect before she would kill him.
He smiled a frightened smile, standing up. "you will not get anything from me Maxine, so just let me go and I will make sure no one will get in your way again." He said.
Does he really think that would help? She thought for herself snarling at the man before her. "You know I can't just let you go like that. Besides; you know something I wants to know, so spill." She replied.
He was shacking by her eyes telling him that she meant business. The only thing that when through his head was to get away from this woman as quickly as possible, so that was what he did, ran as fast as he could. But he didn't get long before he was on the floor again; looking up at the woman who he had been hired to kill, but had killed all his men instead.
"Wrong move." Max said annoyed of this man. Taking him by his throat she hoisted him up in the air. "Now tell me; who sent you and why?" She said in an even lower voice.
George who had snapped for air suddenly said in a hateful voice. "You couldn't just let it go, needed to push and that is why he wants your head. He can't use someone who can't follow orders."
Max frowned. "What do you mean?" She asked but her grip had been too tight and he snapped for the last straw of air before falling limp. She threw the body to the ground. Who had he meant? It couldn't be; the fat man? He wouldn't dare do this to me. I'm the only one who can translate all this and my latest discovery; well what I have seen today will make me the only one with the knowledge and tell people. But that's it. He told me not tell the public and for the time being only be at the temple when her team was with me. He knew I would tell the people of my discovery but he wanted the find for himself, he wanted to hold the information until he had found something of value. My boss sent my team to kill me because I had gone back to the temple and because he knew I wouldn't follow his orders. She thought becoming furious at her boss. He will know not to mess around with me. She promised herself, heading for the exit.
Running she sensed someone or something chasing her. She looked back and saw nothing. She reached the main hall and there stood one of the creatures; well she hadn't met this one before, but it was the same as the others though even bigger if that could be possible. Then both just stood there waiting for the other to take the first move but neither moved a muscle. Man this guy is good. Max thought as she tried to think of a way to either fight or outrun it, but all solutions ended with her dead.
Toh'el'ach was starting to get tiered of this never ending stare game and decided to make this meeting a little more interesting. Extending his wrist blade he would tell the ooman that he wanted to fight her, and yes how he had longed to fight this female. She was almost as if she possessed the same fighter spirit as one of his own and that made him want her head even more.
Max instantly moved to a fighting position when she saw the wicked wrist blade extend from its right wrist as to tell her that it was ready. She raised the spear-like weapon swirling it a couple of times in the air in front of her to distract it as she found her footing to make her actual attack. Her distraction worked as it cocked its head slightly. She let the weapon fly in a big soft bow up in the air toward it; betting on that it would follow the object instead of her and that too worked as she ran with all her force kicking it right in its stomach before she caught the weapon again.
The hunter couldn't believe he fell for her trick, she made him follow her weapon instead of her and he had been paid by a hard kick and a time on the floor. He looked at her and saw her smile a crooked smile. Not this easy my pray. He thought as he launched himself on her and in the process knocking her weapon out of her grasp. He could hear her make a small sound as she hit the floor with him on top of her, he could feel the enormous amount of strength beneath him as the girl threw him off of her and landed on him instead. Pinning his limbs to the floor, she tried to strangle him by forcing an arm in his neck, but as he was starting to wondering if there was a slight possibility for him to lose, she gasped and focused her eyes up and behind him. Focusing on the surrounding her too felt the hard meat and it was not far from them. The ooman had refocused her attention on the hunter and by using his own size against him she threw him off of her before she scrambled herself up from the floor.
The creature had done a well done work on her shoulder and now it was almost as numb as it could be, but that didn't stop her. This beast was far bigger and looked stronger too. It would take her and tear her apart if she didn't get a weapon soon. It hissed and then to her surprise launched itself on to the creature who had only just managed to stand up from his throw off. He raised his wrist blade and made a pretty three cuts along its eyeless head. It snarled as it howled as if it called for something. Or someone. Max was just able to think as 2 beasts more came from nowhere. For the first time in her life she found the odds too bad for her to dare bet on herself as the winner. The two beasts came up on either side of her. Max with a quick move jumped and received the foreign weapon attacking one of the two. If fell quick but didn't stay down long as it broke the weapon that now was sticking into its chest. It's screamed in a painful way before attacking the female. Max stood now only with a half of a weapon with one of the beasts ready to take her down as she were. It jumped at her and miraculous she managed to jam the remaining piece of the spear into its neck. And hold it as far from her as she could. It started to grow weaker by the blood loss; which started to etch itself into the stone floor. In it's finally struggles it launched the most disgusted she had ever seen as it sent an inner mouth toward her face. She, with all her force threw it away from her and of the broken spear; which she still held in her hand ready to defend herself. She knew that there was one more that she hadn't seen since the second attacked her. Then she saw it. The creature was pinned by the first beast and the other stood ready to jam its ugly inner mouth into the creatures head. No matter how much she would like to see them all gone, something inside of her told her that she couldn't just let the creature die, she wouldn't let it. Therefore after a couple of flip flops, she threw herself on top the one who held the big creature, who now was free. She could feel the sticky slime from the beast that she now wrestled with, but by strength and intelligent she won over it and it fell dead along with the one that the creature had with his bare hands. However she didn't win without wounds and looking down at herself she saw the wound that the other creature had made on her shoulder was now double as big as it had been and was bleeding too fast for her to do anything else than feel it flow out of her as if it was her own life-energy that exited her body and with a weak step without knowing where she went she fell, unconscious.
Here you have it, the first chapter, please review and tell what you think. Happy New year to you all.