"Spartans II's will be droppend on LV-426 in a day or two." said the commander. "Until then the police force here must keep Order. When the spartans arive they will have the command here. The'll be our local police force as well and to make sure no one get out of order." said the captain of the police force David Blake. Blake took a look at the people sitting down below. "Alright marines." he said. "Lasky I want you and Jefferson to go monitor the left half of the colony. Take 4 officers of your choice with you. Make sure you have weapons we don't want anything happening." Lasky nodded and retrieved an assult rifle and pistol. He got the other marines and there group left after retrieving some weapons. Blake went to the moniters and took a look around. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. His soldiers were fine and nothing had seemed out of order. Lieutenant Burk walked up.
"Blake someones missing." he said.
"What? Who?" he asked.
"A young man sir. He was alone and he didn't come back. His girlfriend went searching for him. She said that there was his foot prints leading to a cave. She went in but couldn't find a thing. His tracks just ended." Burk said.
"Hmmm..." he said. "Any chance foul play was involved? A murder?" Blake asked.
"There was no sign of a struggle sir. She found a small hole in the floor but she couldn't see down and if she went down there was not coming out. Down there she said was a fog. But to thick to see through. She called his name but no reply. His names Stephan Hawkus."
"Well I'll send a team as soon as Lasky gets back. I'll go with them. We'll go there and take a look around and check below. Make sure theres nothing there. We'll see if we can find the kid and bring him back. She'll have to lead us there though." the lieutenant nodded. He walked off and went around. "Norman." He called. Pvt. Norman Kawalski walked up. "Yes sir?" he asked.
"Later were going on a mission. Lasky and his six will come with us. Were going to search for a missing person. I want you to get Jayden, Victoria, Daniel, Jack, and Royce. The 13 of us will go and find that kid. Make sure there ready we'll leave as soon as they get back. Dismissed." Blake said. He walked over to his office. He went under the desk and opened his cabinet. Inside was a few of his medals, a pistol, several clips of ammo, and his military dogtags. He put his dogtags on and cleaned his pistol. He walked back outside and retreived his helmet after locking his desk. He put his pistol in his belt and walked over to the racks. He grabbed a battle rifle as well as a few megs of ammo. He checked Lasky's black box. He was still out and looked like he had no intention of returning soon. Several officers looked at him as he passed and nodded to him. He looked towards his warthog and shook his head. He checked Laskys blackbox again and it was nearing the station. Blake walked towards the garage and opened it. Lasky and his six men in a single warthog pulled up. "Norman!" Blake called. "You and your men get here now! Were heading out." Blake said. He walked towards Lasky. "Lasky you and your group are going back out with me and Norman. Our groups gonna travel in this warthog. Burk watch the place while were gone." he said. Burk nodded. "Load up soldiers. Sgt Victoria, make sure they all get loaded in our vehicle and come and get me. I'll go and check with Lasky." She nodded and he walked towards Lasky. "Report soldier." he said.
"It's empty. No sign of any fights or anything here. Just buisness as usual." he said.
"Good. Follow us to the lady who lost her boyfriend. I'll explain on the way." As they traveled after getting loaded up into there trucks Blake explained over the comm.
They continued in silence not stopping. As Norman drove Blake loaded his weapon. The others did similar and they all had different weapons. They reached the house and it was all silent. Blake walked inside. A young women no older than 20 was waiting inside. She looked up at him with red eyes and a stuffy nose.
"Hi miss. I'm Captain David Blake of the colonial marines. I'm here to investigate your boyfriends dissapearence. Can you take us to where he dissapeared?" she nodded snuffling. "Whats your name?" he asked.
"Madeline." "Well ok Madeline. Take us to where he dissapeared?" she nodded and waved her hand to follow. They walked along until they found some foot prints. Blake bent down and looked at them. The mud was still relatively fresh as it had happened early this morning. "Follow these tracks soldiers. Madeline I want you to go back home." Blake ordered.
"No he's my boyfriend. I want to know what happened to him." "Madeline I don't think-" "What? Think I can't take care of myself? I'm coming whether you want me to or not."
"Fuck. Fine you can come with. Just be careful and if I tell you to leave, leave. Boyfriend or not. If this all goes to hell get out of there. Clear?" he asked.
"Alright." she said. They walked along the path with his soldiers. "Jack take point. Everyone else come with me back here. Careful though. Jack nodded and walked ahead of the rest of the group following the footprints. A rock tumbled off a nearby cliff. Blake aimed his weapon. He saw nothing. He scanned the cliff and saw still nothing. But he had a strange sense that they were being watched. But he didn't know what was watching them. He looked harder and thought that he saw an outline standing there watching them. But he though it was imagination and dismissed it.
A few of the soldiers whispered behind him.
"What is it?"
"Nothing sir." said Jayden. "Then shut up and keep moving." Blake said. They continued on until a small cave came into view. It was dark but with there flashlights they could see inside. "Move in people. But be careful." He raised his weapon and followed Jack inside. It was dark and nothing was to visible. All they could see was rocks. And the tunnel that was at every postion possible. They neared the inside of the cave. It was a circular room. It stretched nearly 60 feet high. And was large enough to support a zoo. Near the center of the room was a hole. And near that was the body of something. It was about 12 feet tall and definately not human. A hole was inside of its chest spreading its ribs outwards. Its skelatal form looked like it had merged with a suit of somekind as it died. The footprints left by Madelines boyfriend led into the hole. It looked as if he slipped on something and fell in. "Lower the rope." He ordered to Norman. As he lowered the rope he took a glance around the cave. It appeared as if they were in some kind of long crashed ship that was hit by something. "Maybe we should've waited for the Spartans." Lasky said. "By then our missing friend could be dead. No were doing this now and here." he said. Lasky nodded and backed off. "Jack go first. Your point. The rest of us and I will follow you down. Be careful and make sure to look before you shoot." Jack nodded and lowered himself down.
"It looks clear Captain." "Alright." Blake said. "I'll go next and come down after me." they nodded. "Madeline stay here. I'll tell you if we find him." she nodded and sat there. "Victoria stay with her." Victoria nodded and stood near her with an SMG. Victoria looked around the cavern as David lowered himself into the cave. As he dropped down he aimed his gun around to make sure nothing was there. "What the hell are these?" He said. Everywhere, hundreds upon hundreds of large pod shaped objects dotted the small cavern. On the top of the pods was an x. One of the pods top split open as the last of the soldiers came down. A slick and slippery sound followed as well as something moving in the small pods. Blake aimed his gun for the pod. Slowly climbing out of the thing was a small spider-like creature. It had 8 legs and no recognizable face. It was white and yellow. It had a tail and was about the size of his face. It slowly settled upon the top of what was apparently an egg. His mind rushed to something that he could not place. It had something to do with a women named Ellen Ripley 12 years ago. Something about an alien life form. It hit him just as the alien creature lept through the air and landed on Jacks face. The soldier fired and shot at several eggs that fell over with bullet holes in them. Blake ran over to Jack and pulled the creature that was latched to Jacks face. It refused to let go and tied it's tail around the mans neck. Blake took out a knife and cut the tail. Acid spilled onto the knife and dissolved half of the metal then poured onto Jacks neck. He could hear Jack scream with pain and finally after several minutes slipped into the void. David got up and looked around the room. Several other eggs were opening and he could hear the slip of the tail as it slid down and the creature started to crawl out. "Go get outta here!" he screamed.
"What about you?" Lasky said.
"I'll go last! Just get the fuck outta here!" Blake screamed. He opened fire on the eggs with his assult rifle. He threw two grenades around. They destroyed several of the eggs each but there were still more. He continued to destroy the eggs and throw grenades when he saw him. A man was tied to the wall in some kind of webbing. Still shooting the eggs and his soldiers still escaping he cut down the man, even with the facehugger on him. He dragged the man up the rope when Lasky had gone and got out of the pit. He threw one final grenade down. "Well don't just stand there!" he screamed. "Get outta here!" They ran towards the exit not even heeding if they were going the right way or not. Then he heard it. He heard something chasing them. He glanced backwards to see a large figure running towards them. Towards the warthogs. Towards the city. The managed to get outside and he and his companions ran towards the warthogs. He looked out and got a breif glance at the creature. It was about 12 feet tall and obviously fully grown. Its head was so enourmous. From it sprouted a large mouth and inside was a tounge that contained another mouth and lead to the throat. It had no eyes was completly black. Its head was huge and had the feel of a crown. Rows of sharp teeth lined the mouth. It had a long exoskelaton like body. Ribs jutted out of its chest. Its elbows pointed upwards like spikes. It had large feet like that of a dinosaur. It had a large tail with a spear like tip on the end of it. Shoulders jutted out of it's back and moved with it as it chased them. Blake took a few shots at it. It confirmed that it to had acid for blood. It screamed at this and continued to chase them. They loaded into each of the cars and began to drive away back into the city. The alien looked around and ran off, away from them. Blake looked back to where the alien had been a second before.
He couldn't see a thing. How could they lose something that big? He ran towards the spot despite the arguing of the others and searched around from them. "What the hell was that?" Lasky said.
"I don't know. Some kind of alien. We need to find it. If we haven't found it by the time the spartans get here we'll let them deal with it. We gotta be much, much more careful." said Blake. As they neared the base David thought he saw the outline of something yet again. He squinted and was almost completly certain that it ran away as soon as he took one glance at it. Something was not right with this planet.
"Blake someones missing." he said.
"What? Who?" he asked.
"A young man sir. He was alone and he didn't come back. His girlfriend went searching for him. She said that there was his foot prints leading to a cave. She went in but couldn't find a thing. His tracks just ended." Burk said.
"Hmmm..." he said. "Any chance foul play was involved? A murder?" Blake asked.
"There was no sign of a struggle sir. She found a small hole in the floor but she couldn't see down and if she went down there was not coming out. Down there she said was a fog. But to thick to see through. She called his name but no reply. His names Stephan Hawkus."
"Well I'll send a team as soon as Lasky gets back. I'll go with them. We'll go there and take a look around and check below. Make sure theres nothing there. We'll see if we can find the kid and bring him back. She'll have to lead us there though." the lieutenant nodded. He walked off and went around. "Norman." He called. Pvt. Norman Kawalski walked up. "Yes sir?" he asked.
"Later were going on a mission. Lasky and his six will come with us. Were going to search for a missing person. I want you to get Jayden, Victoria, Daniel, Jack, and Royce. The 13 of us will go and find that kid. Make sure there ready we'll leave as soon as they get back. Dismissed." Blake said. He walked over to his office. He went under the desk and opened his cabinet. Inside was a few of his medals, a pistol, several clips of ammo, and his military dogtags. He put his dogtags on and cleaned his pistol. He walked back outside and retreived his helmet after locking his desk. He put his pistol in his belt and walked over to the racks. He grabbed a battle rifle as well as a few megs of ammo. He checked Lasky's black box. He was still out and looked like he had no intention of returning soon. Several officers looked at him as he passed and nodded to him. He looked towards his warthog and shook his head. He checked Laskys blackbox again and it was nearing the station. Blake walked towards the garage and opened it. Lasky and his six men in a single warthog pulled up. "Norman!" Blake called. "You and your men get here now! Were heading out." Blake said. He walked towards Lasky. "Lasky you and your group are going back out with me and Norman. Our groups gonna travel in this warthog. Burk watch the place while were gone." he said. Burk nodded. "Load up soldiers. Sgt Victoria, make sure they all get loaded in our vehicle and come and get me. I'll go and check with Lasky." She nodded and he walked towards Lasky. "Report soldier." he said.
"It's empty. No sign of any fights or anything here. Just buisness as usual." he said.
"Good. Follow us to the lady who lost her boyfriend. I'll explain on the way." As they traveled after getting loaded up into there trucks Blake explained over the comm.
They continued in silence not stopping. As Norman drove Blake loaded his weapon. The others did similar and they all had different weapons. They reached the house and it was all silent. Blake walked inside. A young women no older than 20 was waiting inside. She looked up at him with red eyes and a stuffy nose.
"Hi miss. I'm Captain David Blake of the colonial marines. I'm here to investigate your boyfriends dissapearence. Can you take us to where he dissapeared?" she nodded snuffling. "Whats your name?" he asked.
"Madeline." "Well ok Madeline. Take us to where he dissapeared?" she nodded and waved her hand to follow. They walked along until they found some foot prints. Blake bent down and looked at them. The mud was still relatively fresh as it had happened early this morning. "Follow these tracks soldiers. Madeline I want you to go back home." Blake ordered.
"No he's my boyfriend. I want to know what happened to him." "Madeline I don't think-" "What? Think I can't take care of myself? I'm coming whether you want me to or not."
"Fuck. Fine you can come with. Just be careful and if I tell you to leave, leave. Boyfriend or not. If this all goes to hell get out of there. Clear?" he asked.
"Alright." she said. They walked along the path with his soldiers. "Jack take point. Everyone else come with me back here. Careful though. Jack nodded and walked ahead of the rest of the group following the footprints. A rock tumbled off a nearby cliff. Blake aimed his weapon. He saw nothing. He scanned the cliff and saw still nothing. But he had a strange sense that they were being watched. But he didn't know what was watching them. He looked harder and thought that he saw an outline standing there watching them. But he though it was imagination and dismissed it.
A few of the soldiers whispered behind him.
"What is it?"
"Nothing sir." said Jayden. "Then shut up and keep moving." Blake said. They continued on until a small cave came into view. It was dark but with there flashlights they could see inside. "Move in people. But be careful." He raised his weapon and followed Jack inside. It was dark and nothing was to visible. All they could see was rocks. And the tunnel that was at every postion possible. They neared the inside of the cave. It was a circular room. It stretched nearly 60 feet high. And was large enough to support a zoo. Near the center of the room was a hole. And near that was the body of something. It was about 12 feet tall and definately not human. A hole was inside of its chest spreading its ribs outwards. Its skelatal form looked like it had merged with a suit of somekind as it died. The footprints left by Madelines boyfriend led into the hole. It looked as if he slipped on something and fell in. "Lower the rope." He ordered to Norman. As he lowered the rope he took a glance around the cave. It appeared as if they were in some kind of long crashed ship that was hit by something. "Maybe we should've waited for the Spartans." Lasky said. "By then our missing friend could be dead. No were doing this now and here." he said. Lasky nodded and backed off. "Jack go first. Your point. The rest of us and I will follow you down. Be careful and make sure to look before you shoot." Jack nodded and lowered himself down.
"It looks clear Captain." "Alright." Blake said. "I'll go next and come down after me." they nodded. "Madeline stay here. I'll tell you if we find him." she nodded and sat there. "Victoria stay with her." Victoria nodded and stood near her with an SMG. Victoria looked around the cavern as David lowered himself into the cave. As he dropped down he aimed his gun around to make sure nothing was there. "What the hell are these?" He said. Everywhere, hundreds upon hundreds of large pod shaped objects dotted the small cavern. On the top of the pods was an x. One of the pods top split open as the last of the soldiers came down. A slick and slippery sound followed as well as something moving in the small pods. Blake aimed his gun for the pod. Slowly climbing out of the thing was a small spider-like creature. It had 8 legs and no recognizable face. It was white and yellow. It had a tail and was about the size of his face. It slowly settled upon the top of what was apparently an egg. His mind rushed to something that he could not place. It had something to do with a women named Ellen Ripley 12 years ago. Something about an alien life form. It hit him just as the alien creature lept through the air and landed on Jacks face. The soldier fired and shot at several eggs that fell over with bullet holes in them. Blake ran over to Jack and pulled the creature that was latched to Jacks face. It refused to let go and tied it's tail around the mans neck. Blake took out a knife and cut the tail. Acid spilled onto the knife and dissolved half of the metal then poured onto Jacks neck. He could hear Jack scream with pain and finally after several minutes slipped into the void. David got up and looked around the room. Several other eggs were opening and he could hear the slip of the tail as it slid down and the creature started to crawl out. "Go get outta here!" he screamed.
"What about you?" Lasky said.
"I'll go last! Just get the fuck outta here!" Blake screamed. He opened fire on the eggs with his assult rifle. He threw two grenades around. They destroyed several of the eggs each but there were still more. He continued to destroy the eggs and throw grenades when he saw him. A man was tied to the wall in some kind of webbing. Still shooting the eggs and his soldiers still escaping he cut down the man, even with the facehugger on him. He dragged the man up the rope when Lasky had gone and got out of the pit. He threw one final grenade down. "Well don't just stand there!" he screamed. "Get outta here!" They ran towards the exit not even heeding if they were going the right way or not. Then he heard it. He heard something chasing them. He glanced backwards to see a large figure running towards them. Towards the warthogs. Towards the city. The managed to get outside and he and his companions ran towards the warthogs. He looked out and got a breif glance at the creature. It was about 12 feet tall and obviously fully grown. Its head was so enourmous. From it sprouted a large mouth and inside was a tounge that contained another mouth and lead to the throat. It had no eyes was completly black. Its head was huge and had the feel of a crown. Rows of sharp teeth lined the mouth. It had a long exoskelaton like body. Ribs jutted out of its chest. Its elbows pointed upwards like spikes. It had large feet like that of a dinosaur. It had a large tail with a spear like tip on the end of it. Shoulders jutted out of it's back and moved with it as it chased them. Blake took a few shots at it. It confirmed that it to had acid for blood. It screamed at this and continued to chase them. They loaded into each of the cars and began to drive away back into the city. The alien looked around and ran off, away from them. Blake looked back to where the alien had been a second before.
He couldn't see a thing. How could they lose something that big? He ran towards the spot despite the arguing of the others and searched around from them. "What the hell was that?" Lasky said.
"I don't know. Some kind of alien. We need to find it. If we haven't found it by the time the spartans get here we'll let them deal with it. We gotta be much, much more careful." said Blake. As they neared the base David thought he saw the outline of something yet again. He squinted and was almost completly certain that it ran away as soon as he took one glance at it. Something was not right with this planet.