*So the first thing I need to say is that I don't own the characters or the locations. I have just been playing a lot of Evolve lately, so I decided to write a story for the evacuation mode.*
Shear, a planet on the far edge of space, had 10,000 men and women sign up to become colonists. Two months after they arrived giant monsters began attacking the settlers. No matter what they tried, the monsters were victorious. Finally, the government agreed to abandon the planet. It would take five days to prepare, so they hired the galaxy's 12 most dangerous hunters to buy them time. 12 hunters, five days, this is their story.
Day 1: Weather Tower
Shear's climate caused massive storms to rage constantly, so the government set up multiple weather control towers all around the world. When tower 23-B stopped responding to communications, they knew something was wrong. Turns out that a Goliath, a giant red ape-like monster, had decided to make the crew of 23-B its lunch. Well before they could send in a replacement crew, someone had to kill the beast. Griffin sat in a corner of the shuttle checking his harpoon gun. He was one of the first hunters hired for this job. Most people knew him from the multiple movies that had been made about his hunting career. He was told that he would be the leader of Team 1, so he made sure to read about his teammates. His support, Hank, had been born on Mercury, and was licensed for both mining and demolitions. Markov, had been a welder before coming to Shear. Now he walked around in a metal suit, carrying around his big arc-welder gun. Lastly, there was Valerie, the team's medic. Val loved her armor piercing sniper rifle, but was obsessed with her Salver on med-gun, that fired a healing beam instead of bullets. "Hunters, we're nearing the drop zone," the shuttle pilot said over the intercom. So they all got up and held onto the safety rails while the drop door opened. "Hey Val, can you give me some 'juice' before we drop," Markov asked. "Caira is the one with the adrenaline booster. I'm the one that can shoot you up with enough tranquilizer darts that you won't wake up for a week," she answered. Markov was beginning to form a response when the jump light turned green. The four hunters remained in free fall for 500 feet, before activating their jet packs to slow their descent. The second his feet touched the ground, Griffin grabbed one of the sound spikes, from his belt. He took half a second to make sure all of the systems were green before stabbing it into the ground. Instantly, a yellow appeared on the hunters' mini maps. Now if the monster stepped any where within a 75 meter radius of the sound spike, they would know. Griffin had brought a total of ten spikes with him, but only five could be active at a time. "I have tracks over here, definitely Goliath," Val shouted. The other three quickly came over to inspect the trail that led off into the jungle. "Hold up," Griffin said, as he plugged data into a device. Once he was finished the tracks became outlined by a blue light on their heads-up-display. They followed the tracks till they disappeared. They then walked around aimlessly and ended up in a huge cavern after going through a cave. On the back wall was a giant building with turbines inside. Griffin set up another sound spike, and they were about to leave when their mini map buzzed. Everyone froze, but Val quickly snapped out of it. She started using hand signals to tell everyone to spread out and hide. The 15 foot tall, one ton Goliath easily leapt the forty meters from the mouth of the cave to the middle of the cavern. The Goliath sniffed the air, looking for something to eat. Markov came out from behind his hiding spot, and shot four rounds at the monster's back. "Hey ugly. If you look that bad, then your mom must have been uglier than Griffin, and he even terrifies Daisy," he said. The Goliath began to run straight at him. Markov waited till the last second before using his jet pack to leap backwards twenty feet. When the Goliath stepped onto the spot Markov had vacated, there were three quick beeps, before the landmines exploded launching the creature backwards. Markov chuckled, but his heart plummeted as the monster picked up a giant boulder. Just as it was getting ready to throw the rock, a giant three foot long harpoon, speared the Goliath's shoulder. "Markov run!" Griffin shouted as a beam of energy connected his gun to the harpoon. Orange lasers began to light up the Goliath as Hank opened fire with his giant laser drill. The monster spun around, and slashed at the tether, causing it to break. The creature then unleashed a stream of fire breath, before it leapt to the mouth of the cave, and ran away. "Quick, after it," Val shouted. They chased after the monster for ten minutes with no prevail. They stopped for a moment to take a breath, when one of the sound spikes was tripped. "Sensor 3 has detected the monster. It's headed for the beach," Griffin said. The four hunters arrived at the beach just as the Goliath was finishing up a meal. "Dome going up," Griffin yelled as he reached for a foot and a half long cylinder and threw it. The bottom half of the cylinder opened up to reveal a propeller that kept it in the air. Then the cylinder emitted a giant blue dome that was 100 feet in diameter, and prevented objects from passing through it. The four hunters did their best to avoid rocks and fire. Markov unloaded with his assault rifle into the monster. The Goliath unleashed a stream of flames at him. The other three hunters were certain that their friend had perished, but when the flames died down, Markov stood there surrounded by a small blue force field. As the field turned off, Markov said, "Silly monster. Nothing can penetrate Markov's shield. The Goliath charged and hit Markov, slamming him into the side of a cliff. " Markov is in trouble. Val get in there'" Hank yelled. Hank and Griffin both increased their fire on the monster. Val waited until the Goliath turned towards them before racing to aid Markov. "Don't die on me Markov," she said as she unhooked her healing pistol. "Val move!" Griffin shouted. She barely had enough time to turn around before the boulder hit her, and made her pass out. Griffin holstered his Gauss SMG, and pulled out his harpoon gun. The harpoon hit the Goliath in the middle of its back, preventing it from advancing on Val and Markov. "Hank I can't hold him long. Hit him with the Dawn, now," Griffin yelled. 'Dawn' is what some of the other hunters called the binoculars that Hank used to call in missile strikes. It took two seconds to send the coordinates to their shuttle. A moment later, 15 Archer missiles dropped from the sky and slammed into the Goliath. The missiles broke the harpoon tether, but it was already to late. The Goliath roared one last time before it collapsed. Griffin raced towards his fallen teammates, while Hank activated his radio. "Laurie-Anne, this is Support 1, we need medevac." "Support 1, I can't do anything, unless you can confirm the monster has been defeated," the shuttle pilot said. "Bucket it's dead, now get your mechanical arse down here! Markov and Val are down," Griffin yelled with a hint of anger in his voice.