The humans walked up to the small motel the xenos had led them to, it was derelict, obviously abandoned for years, they bashed the boarded up door down and dust and dirt blew into the air choking making them cough and spit. It was a dump inside, trash littered the floors and a smell hung in the air, Leo turned to his group and leaned back against the receptions desk, "You guys will need to decide which rooms you get between yourselves, I have things to so." Leo cleared his throat and spat on the floor, "I need to be going now so you guys do your own thing." Leo walked out of the motel and into the desolate city.
The unit each took some keys from behind the desk and made their way to the different rooms around the building, Saito walked alone down one of the hallways, he followed the stench and came to a door, the smell leaked from beneath the door, the door was open slightly and he pushed it a side slowly, two people lay dead on the bed in the middle of the room, both males holding hands together, they each held handguns in their other hands. He sighed deeply and covered their bodies with a bed sheet, hearing someone at the door he turned to see Vlad, he was eating a bag of peanuts, "It's cowardly isn't it?" he said after swallowing some, Saito frowned, "It's frowned upon in our culture to let yourself be taken by the enemy, whether it be by death or capture." he explained as he walked out the room and shut the door.
"Suicide is viewed as cowardly by some, but it is the probably the ultimate form of courage." Saito bowed his head and Vlad snorted and left Saito standing there, his heavy footsteps thumping down the halls, Leo walked through the abandoned streets, empty cars and rotting bodies lined the streets forming a grim outcome of earth in his mind, he stopped walking and remembered his family, the memory of them at dinner before he left for war hurt his heart but he kept on moving. Leo began to hear a separate set of footsteps walk beside him and he turned to see Mori in his usual attire, "Why do I see you? I mean I thought the coma thing was just me going crazy?" questioned the soldier, "Wasn't it? Aren't I just a part of your imagination?" they stopped walking and turned towards each other. Leo assessed the Japanese man, he had a shadow at the same angle of his, he definitely looked alive, a lot of other things showed him as being as living human being, but Leo wasn't convinced, "Yeah I'm fucking nuts." sighed Leo as he kept on walking, he turned back to see Mori had disappeared and Frace was moving quickly towards him, Who was that man you were with? inquired his "daughter".
Leos eyes went wide as shock formed on his face, "You saw him!?" asked Leo, Frace tilted her head it was obvious even without a face she was confused, Yes...Back at the motel Naomi and Tanya were sat together in a room with two beds the room was relatively unscathed, they were checking the drawers and min-fridge for anything and Tanya spied that Naomi kept on looking at her, "What?" she blurted out annoyed, "I was just wondering something." started Naomi, she sat on one of the beds and looked at Tanya sternly, "Why don't you care about people?" she asked suddenly. Tanya raised a brow, "I used to." was all she said and went back to searching the drawers, "What happened?" Tanya sighed "Nothing".
"Tell me please." whined Naomi, "Why?" wondered Tanya aloud, "Because I feel being the only girls here we need to you know, stick together." Tanya put her head in hands, she raised her head and turned to Naomi, "I used to care until I saw how fucked the Human race is, it's disgusting, we are hard wired to kill each other and that wasn't all, the icing on the cake is I was born with a sociopath for a mother, I had a brain scan many years ago and it revealed my ability to connect to humans was flawed, like that part of my brain is just black on the scan." said Tanya in a rush. "Did you hate your mother?" asked Naomi.
"No, she still cared for me but she just couldn't feel anything." Tanya leaned back against the drawers and crossed her arms, Raikov walked in holding a bottle of Cola, smiling strangely, "What?" asked Tanya "I just saw a Xenomorph die from hunger, it felt amazing to see." he said slowly as he sat next to Naomi who shifted away from him.
Vlad and Saito entered soon after, "The place is clear, nothing dangerous." reported Saito, "Why are always so up-tight?" asked Naomi, "Whats with the fucking questions!?" shouted Tanya exasperated, "Well we've never really sat down with each other, so, I duno..." Naomis sentence trailed of into nothing, Vlad sighed and looked at Saito, "I have a question." he said as he walked over to Tanya, "Why is Leo still in charge? We all know he's fucking nuts talking to Xenos and such." he asked the unit, Saito stretched his back and lit a cigarette, he opened his mouth after a drag to speak when something peculiar happened. Just outside the window, across form the motel atop one of the buildings a figure stood there cloaked watching them, they ran as soon as a loud rumbling sound from above and the boom of a ship flew over them signaling the arrival of the youngsters.