Chapter 1
Unearthed
Lilly roared wielding her SMG as she a Cryptid tried to leap at her and take her down. She and her teammates of her ghost squad were sent here to exterminate this alien threat. No one knew where they were from...only they came out from the ground and they attack immediately, it was intense.
At first there were a few sightings in this small Colorado town, some people spoke of this weird thing that seemed to lurk in the alleyways and the sewers, but those were just scouts. The hunters were the bulk of the bunch, they shifted into the cities putting down these weird plant-like organisms which had themselves rooted in the ground. Because of this the only way to kill them is with a drill. However their true connection with the plants was unknown, but the Ghosts didn't care.
Lilly couldn't possibly care, all she thought about was survival. The hunter fell a few feet behind her on the asphalt, leaving a trail of orange blood behind it. But the hunters weren't just the only ones, the scorpions had the ability to shoot acid from their tails...and the rhinos were just downright brutal.
That's what happened a few feet from her, a squad member, Ricky, was crushed into the side walk by a rhino's giant fist. Baxter, an African American on the team, fired his special minigun at the beast. It turned to him as he did, it's glowing eyes piercing through his soul. He gritted his teeth and continued to fire a it until it landed on the ground and slide up to him, dead.
He sighed as he looked at the remains of his fallen brother in arms. "Damn it Ricky...you had to get close and personal." He reached down and tore the dog tags from what appeared to be the remains of his head. Baxter was in his early 40s, he was a huge engineer specialist in his class. Although Baxter is the brute force in the group, he has heart, humor, and respect for other people. Lilly was a white female,medic class, late 30s, black hair, blue eyes, and a small necklace with a shark's tooth hanging on it. She grew up in Chicago with her parents before a Federation bombing blasted the building she lived in, her parents both dead left Lilly to join the Ghosts. Their Sargent was Richard, he was almost 50, real black hair with military cut, he had brown eyes. He was a rather skillful person, he meant business, never drank, never partied, never had sex.
Richard walked up to them, "Oh God...Ricky..." he bowed his head in a silent prayer and lifted his head. "We're almost there, Baxter got the bomb?" Baxter nodded shaking his back pack with one arm. "Good...crater's just up ahead...mind you're surroundings...there might be more of these things soon enough." Lilly reloaded and Baxter dropped his minigun and took out his shotgun, "Won't be needing this anymore," Lilly looked around at the surrounding cabins on this narrow neighborhood street, houses locked up, the weird plants growing everywhere, and the unmistakable smell of decomposing flesh.
Then down the street Lilly saw it, the giant crater where ODIN blasted missiles into. It had an eery orange glow to it, and plant like tendrils protruded out from the ground there. Richard grunted as he set his gun down and set the nuke's laptop into play. After giving Richard the bomb Baxter joined Lilly by the crater's edge, "Can't believe the Federation did this..."
"It wasn't their fault these things were around Lilly, we couldn't have known about it."
Lilly shook head kicking a rock down into the giant chasm, "It's just...they attacked innocent people...people who didn't deserve it...the Federation should pay dearly...but we wouldn't do the same to them."
"I know...but right now because of our ordeal we have a truce, we work together to stop this threat."
"OK I got it!" Richard spoke as he took out his detonator and a red light flashed. "Baxter...something appears to be wrong..." Baxter kneeled down to him and looked at the detonator, some of it was corroded by acid. "Shit...damn scorpions..." Richard looks at him, "Plan B?" Baxter gulps as he begins to type on the laptop, "We could manually set it, but the longest we have is five minutes." Richard grunted and looked to Lilly and Baxter. "Alright so we better set it-" he was cut off as a scorpion, hidden from view shot a blast on to his chest. Richard cried out in the havoc and stripped his military vest off. Lilly turned to it and killed it with her gun. She then turned around and kneeled beside Richard who was on the ground as the acid ate through his shirt and a little a his chest, his face was also his scared as it hissed and soon stopped.
Lilly began to treat him but she was interrupted, as she could hear the cries of the aliens coming. "L-Lilly?" Richard huffed as he grabbed her shoulder, he looked terrible, his eyes fluttered to stay open, he had slight bleeding on his face, chest, and arms, and the acid seemed to have paralyzed his legs. "Yes sir?"
He coughed and looked up at her, "Get out of here...g-get Baxter...and you head for that ETA...5 minutes remember..." Lilly shook her head, "No I can patch you up...I have medical supplies for acid burns. We-"
"Lilly!...Leave me...when I'm dead...you're commander."
Lilly gasped as he let go, "Now go...I'll give you guys a head start..." Baxter and Lilly tried to stay calm but they were having a hard time to cope, it was obvious. Before Baxter left, he kneeled beside Richard and removed his dog-tags, "It was an honor working with you sir."
Lilly was hyperventilating on the run back, the cries of the aliens were so close and near through the woods she could see their menacing glowing eyes through the tree line. Baxter right behind her as they burst into the small town, remnants of Ricky and the rhino were passed as they made their way up to the lodge.
Richard wheezed as he rolled on to his stomach, the soil hurt his burned chest now scared and bloody. He then used his hands to drag himself to the laptop and he supported himself to type the keys in, then the option came up, and he said yes to start countdown. In a split second a hunter jumped over a hill and broke the laptop chewing it to pieces. Richard only laughed, "You're too late you son of a bitch," it looked at him angrily and roared in his face, spitting it's drool at him. Richard only laughed, "Gosh...seems someone's pissed...hey...you think I don't know how you feel? All I have to say is," he got in closer and looked at it, eye to eye, "You had it coming." He grinned but then it jumped over him and sunk it's teeth into his leg and it dragged him into the woods.
Behind them their shrieks echoed past them and vibrated through the small lodge, it was a long run, Lilly had never been the fastest in track. She had to stop, and she got her wish as she tripped over some dead body. "LILLY!"
Baxter turned tail and aimed his shotgun at these beasts as he fired off rounds to keep them back. But then a meteorite came down and seekers jumped off of them. If he shot them to closely they would get hurt. He grabbed Lilly by the back of her vest and dragged her down the road, he couldn't cock the shotgun and fire it, not while dragging Lilly. But just in time the helicopter flew in and a gun man had fired his rail-gun scattering them away. The pilot hovered it to the ground and Baxter hoisted Lilly into the copter. Baxter hopped in as well as he looked to Lilly, "We made it,"
The timer counted down on the nuke, a mile away a group of hunters feasted on the remains of what appeared to be Richard's body. Soon as the ground rumbled the hunters raised their bloody muzzles and roared as the giant fire wiped them all out.
The explosion made the air shake, the helicopter shook as it flew away from all the rubble, Lilly and Baxter watched as the smoke rose into the night sky making it dark and desolate. Their job was done, now they had to go home.
Sorry I had typed this a long time ago and kinda put it off but I promise ill try to post more on this series which I want to edit on, I love the extinction mode's story, quite fascinating, please review and give me feed back.