"Just breath and relax, Just breath and relax, Just breath and"Sera was whispering as she held on to the seats bars as the drop ship she was riding in dove through the atmosphere of the jungle planet BG-134, or as it was commonly called because of its dense forests of different types Amazonia. She was dropping with Kilo 7 squad. All she knew was that there had been a xenomorph outbreak that had originated in the planets only city. Amazonia was a scientific jackpot but companies like Weyland-Yutani cared only about mining every penny they could out of it. Sera looked towards Samuel the medic of the squad. She was wishing that she had taken those flight sickness or, stomach sealer pills as most marines called them,. Samuel looked back at her with a nervous smile but immediately grimaced as a large shudder ran trough the ship. Sergeant Johnson a man with 8 bug that he had offered her hunts under his belt didn't strap in he just rode the whole thing standing up in the doorway to the cockpit chatting with the pilot. Nikki Litonning equipped with the squads smartgun just looked angry as always. She was nicknamed the Russian witch because of her heritage and her attitude. then there was Drake Mcgunnin, a Irish american and the third new recruit in the squad.
There were a few others she didn't really know and most of them called her the little fish because she was the smallest person in the squad and she came from a family of fisherman. Even now she could see a few point at her and call her that name saying the fish couldn't handle a little current. Sergeant Johnson came down from the cockpit and everybody but a few careless marines shut up. Johnson just stared at the three marines until they released He was looking at them then they immediately shut up with scared expressions on their faces that made almost everyone else laugh Johnson then walked to the bay door and announced " listen up Marines ETA is in 2 minutes I want all weapons loaded grenades properly stowed, motion trackers on and please for the love of god Mcman don't set yourself on fire by using too much fuel in your flamethrower again." With that he yelled out loud" lets go Bug hunting" which got a loud Hoo Rah all around.
The drop ship among the 5 others carrying 14 marines each did not go unnoticed as it zoomed across the sky looking for a place to land. Both survivors looking out barricaded windows and holes in walls saw the ships and they were filled with joy at the thought of rescue. The xenos noticed too and screeched at the screaming metal buckets that went overhead. Something deeper inside the earth something that had been here for hundreds of years noticed too...and it was waiting.
Sera took several deep breaths while Samuel offered her a breathing apparatus. Amazonia's atmosphere was much more oxygen rich then most planets because of the large forests. It often took a few hours to get use to the environment. As she handed the apparatus back to the medic Johnson called for the marines to move off the landing pad and into the city. According to radio broadcasts from a few survivors the largest concentration of buggers was in the research facility where Wey-Yu were developing new medicines and inventions. Everbody grouped together and moved through the deserted streets. The 14 soldiers most never having hunted bugs before were filled with a nervous excitement. They came around a street corner when a man in ragged clothes looking like a skeleton walked towards them holding a old pump shotgun. He looked at them like they were the fucking gates of heaven complete with the choir of angels. Johnson had two marines escort the civvie back to the ship.
After an hour of hiking Sera was walking besides the sergeant when he muttered.. to her she suspected" Something's wrong. We haven't seen a single xeno since we landed. On all my other hunts we would be eyeballs deep in the bastards fighting for our lives." The sarge looked at the rooftops of the buildings looking like he was expecting a horde of living killing machines to come flooding over them. That was when some shouts came from the back. A few of the marines Sera didn't know started running across the street yelling "theres one" and " kill the bastard". Johnson ordered them back in formation but they were already entering a alley. the sarge cursed" Samuel, Sera, Will, Chin you go get those dumb asses so I can shove my foot up their asses now!" With that the four followed behind the three marines who had ran off. That left 5 people on the street.
Sera led the way as they searched for the lost marines. When they finally found them after 10 minutes of searching They found the three arguing with each other over where the xeno went. Chin the most experienced out of the four started berating them for leaving the group. getting lost and risking themselves and possibly the whole squad to chase one bug. They all looked pissed but they didn't say anything. They started looking for the way back but these alley ways were a maze. They were still trying to decide which way to go when Will started yelling about his motion detector."Guys Guys I'm getting lit up here." Sera looked over and looked at his motion detectors screen. What she saw made her grasp. They were being surrounded. That's when they heard gunfire from the direction they had come.
The 7 of them rushed through the alley ways hoping to find the street. They cam around one turn and saw the street they had left earlier. At the sight of it they were filled with the thoughts of reuniting with the squad. That's when a bug grabbed the rearmost member of the group a guy named Dylan back around the corner. Sera grabbed his arm and pulled back as hard as she could. Dylan fired his Pulse rifle at his attacker. Screeching could be heard then the fire stopped. The resistance stopped and Sera pulled her comrade back around the corner. What she saw shocked her. He had been stabbed in the stomach by the tail blade and the bugs acid blood had turned his legs into basically hunks of meat and bone. Samuel came over and started administering Morphine and blood clotters. Dylan held on to Sera's hand" I can't feel my legs are my legs." She looked back to his legs and then reassured him" yeah your legs are fine their still their." The tail blade had severed his spinal cord when he was stabbed just above his waste. Dylan passed out from the mix of pain and morphine. Samuel applied a bandage to his stomach and legs. His two friends picked him up by the shoulders and dragged him to the street. The others surrounded the three with Sera in the back looking back down the alley. She backed up following the others leaving behind the body of the xeno. Of course they had attracted the attention of something else
As they neared the others Sera saw that only three of the 8 people who were grouped together on the street trying to retreat into a building were marines and the other 5 people were civvies of whom only two were armed. The left over marines were Nikki, Mcgunnin, and Sergeant Johnson. There were a few xeno bodies in the street but no sign of the other two marines. The street was empty so they quickly crossed it to the saw them"Marines fall in." Sera approached" Sera what the hell happened to Foster." Sera assumed he was talking about Dylan and reported what had happened. Johnson didn't look happy" Were running out of ammo for the smart gun I'm down to half and I've gotten reports from all over that all the squads have taken heavy causalities. We are taking these civvies getting off world and then dropping the bombs. We have 1 hour to get to the drop ship till it takes off and they make this city a crater. Lets move people."
The group moved through the building moving cautiously. Because of the tight spaces the xenos would have the advantage. Not only that they had plenty of places to ambush them. The civvies carried Dylan while the other marines were at the front and end of the line. Sera at first had thought it would be a bad idea to go through the buildings to the launchpad but then Johnson told of how on another of his extermination ops he and his men had been swarmed in the street. Only him and two others had survived. In the buildings the bugs could only come at them with limited numbers. At the front of the line was Johnson, Nikki, Chin and Sera. Samuel stayed in the middle to keep an eye on Dylan an the others were at the back of the line with Mcgunnin. Sera kept looking ahead where the buildings lights kept flickering. She kept thinking one of the monsters was gonna come through the roof at any point and it would pull her into the ceiling or would chomp through her head. This thoughts kept moving through her mind as she continued on. She didn't even stop when Johnson called a halt until he grabbed her arm and pulled her back. He could tell by the look on her face she was scared."Don't worry Sera long as we stick together and keep our heads we'll make it." He smiled at her the first time he had ever done so. Johnson looked at the flickering lights that lit the hallways about 15 feet ahead. "I don't like it. Why are all the other lights working fine but these are flickering. I smell a trap." Screeches and sounds of the flamethrower came from the back and the two civilians who were armed with standard planetary Militia Pulse rifle ran to the back. Johnson looked back there then to the front. "I just had to open my mouth didn't I." With that he cocked his 10 Gauge Pump shotgun and aimed down the hallway to his front. Sera looked down the sights and saw the running shapes of the incoming xenomorphs. They suddenly stopped 20 feet down the hallway. Usually the marines would have shot at them but this was odd. they usually didn't stop until they were right in your face. The mystery as to why they stopped was solved immediately as a huge shape burst through the drywall to their right and grabbed both Johnson and Sera while slashing Chin across the throat with its tail. Their attacker burst through the next wall into a abandoned playground carrying the two with them. It threw them and Sera landed in a pile of dirt her helmet coming off and her brown hair going wild. Johnson was thrown against the monkey bars. He looked up and he said maybe his last two words" Ohhhhh Shit" Those two words were answered by their attacker a 12 foot who let out a loud hiss and a fear causing screech from its head that was topped with a flat crest.
It turned to Sera and hissed. Then its lips made a smile like expression.
The man in the suit raced through the hallways and dodged other people who were buzzing through the building. He opened the door to a well decorated office full of pictures and awards. The man stood in place waiting for the swivel chair at the to turn around." Sir the marines were deployed but there leaving the planet now. The chair turned and the middle aged man that occupied it. The middle aged man simply looked at his subordinate." Send in the combat androids, find where the Queen put the hive and bring back some samples before the hammer drops." The younger man turned to the door replying with "Yes Mr. Weyland.
So tell me how you guys liked my first original Aliens story. I'll try to put a new longer chapter up in a few weeks this was just the appetizer.