First Chapter in new story I'm writing. Hope you like it. Oh yeah, I don't own gunslinger girl or predator. Just so we're clear.
Hunters
Humans refer to us as "Predators". It is true, we travel from planet to planet, hunting different species and keeping their bones as trophies. We're hunters, it's what we do. Many species fear us, for we are among the most technologically advanced beings in the universe. That and we're absolutely ruthless. But, out of all the creatures in the galaxy, there is one that we fear as much as they fear us. No, not the Xenomorphs. Xenomorphs fear nothing, and they're pretty easy to kill, as long as you're careful. Who do we fear? You. You humans have truly perfected the art of killing, and on our planet, to kill a human in battle is a great honor.
My hunting party had arrived on Earth three days ago. We had set up our main camp in an abandoned subway station, and several of our numbers, including me, had set up makeshift camps in sewers and abandoned building (I in the former). I had finished setting up camp and was eager to get some killing done. Hey, what can I say, I'm a hunter. I also wanted to try out my new helmet. Years of studying human retinal activity had allowed us to create a helmet that allowed us to see like they did. No more infra-red scanning, we could see just like humans now. All the better to kill you with. Anyway, I was running along the rooftops, searching for a good place to make my first kill. I had to be careful not to enter a public area, or else my cover would be blown. Someplace like an alleyway would be a great place to start. Or an abandoned hotel. I spotted it as I was just about to leap into a dark alleyway. The lights were only turned on in one room, and there were a group of people talking in it. I crouched low and turned on my invisibility cloak. The cloak is much more effective during the night than the day because there's less light, so I wasn't worried about being seen. I stood there for several minutes, watching the humans, wondering what they were talking about and why it needed to be discussed in an abandoned building. Then I made up my mind to attack. I picked up my grappling gun and launched it at the window. It shattered, startling the humans inside. I then reeled myself into the room and commenced my attack. My first victim was a human standing right in front of me; I impaled my wrist blades into his gut. Second was a human to my left, whom I took out with my trusty spear gun. A human on my right tried to shoot me with a primitive machine gun, but I used the first human (still impaled on my blades) as a meat shield, and then shot a spear straight into his left eye. The remaining human tried to hide from me behind a chair; I tossed my combi stick through it and into his chest.
And so, with my first act of violence successfully completed, I proceeded to gather up the humans and rip their bones out to add to my trophy collection. However, I had only gone through one when I heard footsteps coming from down the hall. I quickly got to my feet and readied my plasma caster, aiming it at the door, preparing to blow away whoever dared step through it. I was expecting another man like the four I just killed to appear, but the door opened to reveal one big surprise. Standing in the doorway was a small human child, no older than ten years. She was a girl, and had short blonde hair with very blue eyes (details I wouldn't have noticed with a normal infra-red mask on). But the part that surprised me most was that in her hands, she carried an enormous machine gun. It was bigger than she was. And it was real. We just stood there, staring at each other. I'm not sure whether one minute or one second passed before I knew one of us would have to make the first move.
And it was me.
Before she could properly aim that big fucking gun at me, I launched a plasma beam at her. To my increasing surprise, she dodged it and jumped to the left, behind the doorway. I quickly aimed my plasma caster at the wall she had jumped behind and fired. The beam tore a huge hole in the wall, but she dodged it again, leaping to the other side. Before I could fire again, she took her first shot at me with that huge gun of hers. Ducking low to avoid the hail of bullets, I leaped into the hallway through the hole I just made and fired at her again. Once again, she slipped past my attack, this time leaping into the room. I ran to the doorway, preparing to open fire, but when I got there, she pulled out a handgun and fired two bullets into my chest, throwing off my aim. So, the beam that was meant for her head just grazed he shoulder. It slammed into the ground behind her, blowing her a few feet towards me. I immediately deployed my wrist blades and rushed toward her just as she was getting to her feet. I easily smacked both her guns out of her hands and was about to slash her head with my blades, when she grabbed my hand in mid-air and landed a powerful punch to my chest. It was incredibly strong, stronger than an adult human's punch. I moved back a few steps, still recoiling from her massive punch, when she charged me. Before she could attack, I grabbed hold of her shoulders and kneed her right in the ribs. She stepped back some, allowing me to plant a punch directly on her face. She fell to the ground, and I attacked with my wrist blades. She lifted her arm up to block the attack, and I slashed them. Then, I heard a voice coming from a device in her ear. It said "Rico, what's happening"? The girl responded "Jean, hel…", but I didn't let her finish. I kicked her in the face and knocked her out cold on the ground.
With her down, I was able to relax. I kneeled down and examined her. She was very youngm like I said, but she was also extremely strong and proficient in firearms, attributes not common in human children. There was something not right about her. I decided to take her back to my camp and figure out what it was. Before I could, I became aware of more footsteps coming from the hall. I stood up. Had another killer child come for me. I readied my smart disc and peaked outside. Indeed, another young girl was coming down the hall. This one was significantly older, though, and had dark skin and long hair wrapped up in two pony tails (I think that's what their called). She was also carrying an enormous shotgun, which told me everything I needed to know. I leaped out and threw my smart disc at her. It flew threw the hall, and although she dodged it by sliding to the right, it chopped her gun in half. She took a split second to stare at it in amazement, which was all the time I needed to launch a plasma beam at her. She dodged it by moving to the left, but the explosion knocked her off her feet into the next room. Knowing she'd be up in a few seconds, I ran back into the room, picked up the still unconscious young girl, and leaped out the window into the alley below. I entered the nearest manhole and proceeded back to my camp.
And that was the beginning…