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Chapter 28: Treasure hunt
Location: Engineers ship, suspended in space.
Date: 25th of March 2272
Time: 0720
(No ones P.O.V)
Two men in Krista's army scoured the ship looking for anything of use along with ten of the new breeds of Xenomorphs. They searched the place from top to bottom looking for one thing of particular interest, they had been tracking any and all Engineer ships and they believed this one had the thing they were looking for.
"We've nearly searched this entire ship do you think it's even here?" one man asked.
"Can't tell yet, let's search the final part of the ship then we'll get out of here." The man listening nodded. Suddenly his leg got caught tripping him over and falling on a pipe, then what must be three-thousand-year-old pipe broke open spraying the two men in liquid nitrogen freezing them solid along with their cries of pain.
Doing so brought the ships freezer system offline and in the bottom of the ship, a fleshy oval was stored. When this came out of its millennia-long hibernation it began to stir to the point when the top opened up. Out came a spider-like creature, to no one watching they would tell you it's a face hugger, but how many are red.
(Jakes P.O.V)
Ok, so we had begun our search for an artefact that would complete a superweapon designed by the Engineers the people rumour to be the creators of humanity and the aliens. If these rumours were true then humans aren't gonna get much liking in the future.
Anyway, when we told to see this weapon I was shocked to see a skyscraper-sized tower that looked like it fired in all directions, and it does. This thing if working and powered by the batteries my dad makes will be able to purge a certain part of the galaxy of a certain lifeform. All that's needed to get it to work is a cube that is pretty much the piston of the weapon.
A few days ago one of the communicators picked up a rogue SOS signal that didn't match any known frequency. However, after some description, they were able to link it to a engineers ship. The mission didn't sound too dangerous as we're under the impression that it was just another resource collection mission but the fact that they trust us out of all the teams they have is pretty big. We're talking a Xenomorph hybrid, a custodian and her human sister, a newly made captain and the man that could be considered the glue that kept us together. We were given this mission and plasma weapons because we survived what most would consider a lost cause.
I was currently staring at the C shaped ship wondering why someone would make such a shape on a ship, I looked very fragile. Charlotte came and stood next to me as I observed. "You ok Jake?" I turned to her seeing the worried look in her eye.
"Yeah, I'm alright, just questioning the shape of the ship I mean a C-shape of all things." She smiled at that. "I missed seeing you smile." She looked at me thoughtfully.
"I missed your talks about architecture. The way you always have so much energy, how protective you are, but most of all… I missed your presence." She placed a hand over my heart making me take a step back. She sighed at that.
"Sorry, but even if I missed you every day you still hurt me, something like that doesn't just go away no matter how good it is seeing you again." She looked at the ground and nodded silently.
"I understand, but I wanna make it up to you." I turned to her. "Would you mind if I helped you make a home….Out of your….material." My eyes widened at that.
"You want me to make a house out of that?" She nodded.
"Well we were talking about getting you your own room and by your story, you sounded like you wanted to try again. So do you think I could help?" I pondered for a moment.
"I would love if you did that with me Charlotte." I declared, trying to make myself more comfortable I placed one arm around her and pulled her in. She wrapped one arm around my back but unfortunately, we were interpreted.
"Alright everyone listen up." We split apart as soon as Mike spoke up. "Well be boarding soon and according to scans we have several hostels aboard as well so I want everyone geared up and ready." Any other day Kayleb might have made a sly comment but not after almost dying. So we got ready.
Kayleb placed all his gear on and picked up a plasma assault rifle. Charlotte picked up her compact sniper rifle with a few medical kits. I made sure I had all my equipment and clothes on as well as an automatic shotgun on my back. I saw Michael pick up a smart gun styled plasma gun that seemed to be the size of his ego.
I then turned to Ruby who was coating herself with a gell. "Hey, Ruby what's that stuff your coating yourself in?"
"It's stuff to prevent me getting burned my Xeno blood, all marines are required to wear it but I wear an extra layer." She extends her claws. "In case things get too tight." She then put two pistols in her back pocket.
We entered the bay of the ship and began to search the corridors. "Ok everyone listen up were looking for an orb-like structure that is roughly the size of a horse, with the threat of hostiles I'm not about to split this team up. So we're gonna start in the main hall see where that gets us." We annoyingly agreed with Mike and began walking, he then stopped me. "A moment of your time Jake." The others looked back at us and Mike told them to keep walking.
"You seem to have a deep relationship with Charlotte by what I can gather."
"We have a winner everyone, yes it is a very deep relationship."
"Fine, but I'm gonna tell you this right now. Charlotte's my girl so I'd back off if I were you otherwise things are gonna get ugly around here."
"OOO scary, I'll have you know these are my friends and I decide whether I talk to them or not."
"Not anymore, I'm the captain now you wanna survive you listen to me. Got it." I glared as he turned around before following him ready to see my captain in action.
We walked on for a moment until we heard the familiar beeps of a radar detecting other species. "Alright everyone gets ready." We formed a circle looking in every direction.
"You guys see anything?" Ruby asked a group of no's sounded. The ground began to rubble as we felt something get closer to us. In an instant, the ground beneath us exploded and a black blur jumped kicked us all away and pounce on Mike.
I turned to see a Xeno, unlike anything I've ever seen. Reinforced plating cover its body and a very ripped build gave it a menacing appearance. We tried to fire at it but it suddenly move so fast that only I could see it knock the guns out of our hands, it moved as fast as I did in my speed state.
Copying him I aimed my shotgun and fired at it right in the chest. It only staggers it for a moment and made it bleed, angered it knock the gun out of my arms and whipped its tail around knocking my teammates over and jumped on me.
Its savagery combined with its weapons made it formidable even more than the praetorian. But I was a quick learner when it came to fights, punching it in the wound I lifted it over my head and threw it at a wall. Using my tail I quickly decapitated it.
Looking over everyone climbed to there feet. "Well, that was new." Everyone gathered around looking at the strange breed. "You think they've been experimenting too?" Kayleb asked.
"Possibly, and if they're strong enough to take hits from plasma guns then we need to be more cautious," I suggested.
"Yeah, thanks for saving us, Jake," Ruby spoke up.
"No problem."
"Yeah while we're all very thankful we've got a mission to complete so let's get to it," Michael told us walking off, I just sighed and followed.
Ruby and I walked at the front checking for anything that might charge at us. Soon we arrived at the control room, the only way I could describe it was the most complicated office room ever. Curiously I pushed a button, nothing happened.
We continued searching, until. "Woah!" We all turned to were Kayleb was what he found was not exactly appealing. Two men were frozen solid with liquid nitrogen or something.
"Guess that someone is looking for the same thing we were looking for," Ruby said.
"Or rather 'she' was looking for the same thing." Mike pointed at a symbol on their shirts that was undoubtedly Vera Pax's symbol.
"Why would she be looking for the same thing as us?" Charlotte asked.
"Unless she has a similar weapon?" Mike wondered. "Or maybe she has someone on the inside." He turned to me.
"What are you looking at me for."
"Should be fairly obvious, you show up out of nowhere claim you're the lost grandson of the admirable then want to know everything that we've been doing over the years you were 'gone'." He made exaggerated signs with his hands. "Plus there's also the fact you look like our main ad…"
"You hold your tongue unless you want it cut out of your head." Ruby threatened.
"Jakes has been our friend for as long as I can remember there is no way he's a spy." Kayleb defended.
"If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to stand on my own feet for my life," Charlotte spoke in the angriest voice I've heard her speak in.
"Don't let your feelings cloud your judgement, I'm only laying down facts."
"Facts? FACTS! I'm starting to think that whatever your 'facts' are, is just an excuse to express why you don't like me."
"Of course I don't like you. Where I kill aliens and you fall right into that category, plus you torment Charlotte and seem to enjoy fooling everyone with your innocent act, well I'm not falling for it." I growled but before I could do anything else we were suddenly jumped.
Knocked to the ground I turned my head to see Michael getting dragged off while we were left with three Aliens on steroids one jumped at Ruby and me, she wasn't having any of it and extended her claws and began swiping left and right at it tearing large chunks out of it. However, it began to fight blocking and countering her attacks. I quickly jumped in and held it steady as Ruby ripped it a new asshole. It was really cool seeing how furious she can be when fighting, to ensure the job was done I snapped its neck.
I turned to see another jumping at me. I could hardly react but it turns out I didn't need to as a blue blast penetrated its head making it fall limp on the floor. I turned to see Charlotte with her sniper rifle and then Kayleb walking away from an alien with no head and these were the new ones that almost killed us earlier.
"Well, that was exciting. Any chance that what we're looking for is in this room?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Nah, I don't see any spheres around here. Let's go save our oh so great captain." We smirked at Kaylebs statement.
As we walked off I spoke to Charlotte. "Hey, I just wanna say thanks." She looked at me.
"For what?"
"For saving me back there." She blushed at that.
"Well, I'm sure you could have beaten it anyway so there's no reason to thank me." She spoke quickly and walked ahead making me smile at her.
We walked around looking for any traces of Mike coming across and killing a Steroid Xeno every now and then, I'm calling them that until I can think of a better name. But still, we haven't found what we're looking for.
We finally came to the main hall, a wide open space with nothing of particular interest. That's when we saw it a giant globe perfectly round and the size of a horse like the description. What wasn't described was the magnitude of symbols covering it. Right next to it was our captain sitting on the floor on the urge of passing out by the looks of it, suddenly a figure walked out from behind the globe.
"Children? The UNCM must really be getting desperate." This man has a strange smell.
"Yea, and you're any better?" Ruby quipped.
"I am infinitely better than any humanoid creature, they really are below me." That's when I clicked.
"You're an android."
"Right you are….whatever you are, I must say you look a lot like my leader. So like her, you have ascended above humanity good for you." I growled at that.
"Ascended? I feel less than human because of what I am. It may seem like weakness to you but being human gave me a sense of life, not just the feeling to tear everything I come across to pieces."
"Well then I guess you're no better than the rest, So I suppose eternal silence is an order." The moment he finished Aliens began to climb down the walls a quick estimate told me there was at least thirty of them. "So if you'd be so kind as to…"
BBBZZZTTTUU! Splat.
Its head exploded sending white liquid everywhere. We turned to Ruby holding her pistol. "What? Don't tell me you were thinking the same thing." Our playful attitude ended once we realised the situation we were in.
Michael got to his feet as we began to form a circle. Waiting for any sign of movement, suddenly all of them ponced at once making us fire in every direction. They either dodged, died or didn't slow down as they got closer and closer.
One punched me to the ground giving me a glimpse as the others were cut from slashes and tail whips. I tried to get up but this only served the aliens in throwing me across the room. "AAAAHHHH!" When I hit the ground I was punched, scratched, stabbed and bitten as they furiously tore me apart.
I held back tears as I saw the others, Ruby was being overwhelmed, Kayleb was knocked to the ground, Charlotte was hunched over gasping for breath and Mike was pushed up against the wall.
This made me so angry that I started to lose I couldn't do that, I might kill everything including them. I was beaten down again, I felt my rage consume me as I lost myself in animalistic rage like those times on Uproar.
Blood….Pain….death.
"HHHHHIIISSSSRRAAAAA!" the weak pieces of meat were pushed off me as I examined my prey. They had the nerve to challenge me. I wiped my body around claws extended tearing the useless flesh away from me.
This prey was persistent as they did not back away from my warning. On all fours, I charged at the lower being hacking away at the pathetic excuse of warriors.
Cut, cut, cut they would fall down slash, slash, slash they would open up. There was still so many, time to speed this up. The world moved slower as I tore into the prey. They seemed to copy my speed making this more interesting I smirked at the challenge.
They may have landed a couple good hits but I returned them tenfold, soon there was only two me and the toughest looking one. He charged but I blocked its attack countering by staggering it, acting quickly I sunk my teeth into his neck tearing a chunk out and stabbing it with my tail.
It responded by pouncing on me and scratching me, biting me for extra effect. My last straw of patience snapped and I severed its legs at the knees. I stared down at my enemy. Hissing one last time before stabbing through the head with my tail.
This type of enemy was gone from the area I turned to new prey. I saw four blurred figures standing together one was standing closer than the others. She smelled different, should I kill her to find out?
No this was a different smell.
She was….precious, I walked up to her and the smell became irresistible. I pulled her in close and my anger began to fade.
I blinked once the twice, I looked to see I was….Hugging Charlotte?! I pushed her back to see tears in her eyes.
"You're back." The realisation hit me like a truck along with the pain. My instincts had taken over again.
"Ahh!" I held my wounded chest.
"Jake, hold on." In what must have been a second she was patching me.
"Jake, what the hell was that?" Kayleb asked worriedly. "We were what must have been a game over the situation and you suddenly jumped up and killed everything around you."
"Sorry I guess I should have told you guys, you see back on Uproar there were three times when I became overwhelmed with my enemies, they would beat me to what I thought was death only to wake up later with a faded memory of me killing everything as viscously as I could. I'm sorry I didn't warn you guys."
"Sorry? Jake you just saved us, again so don't worry about it. What's the real problem is getting this thing on the ship." I turned to the sphere.
"We'll think of something." I turned to Charlotte. "At this rate, I might have to become your servant with everything you're doing for me." She giggled.
"I don't think that's necessary." She said finishing my bandage. "You're the reason I'm still alive." For whatever reason, I get the feeling those words have a deeper meaning. What confused me the most was that she managed to calm me down in my raged state something I didn't think was possible.
After a while, we got the sphere on board and got ready to take off. Some of the guys slapped me on the back as a sign of thanks, Charlotte actually thanked me. Soon it was just me and I began to walk onto the ship as I was approaching the ship I felt a slap on my back. I turned expecting to see Kayleb or Ruby, But I saw no one.
I was confused as everyone was already on the ship, then what slapped me. I must be getting tired and just shrugged it off and walked into the ship.
Completely oblivious to the facehugger on my back.
AN: God I need to find a way how to not end a chapter on a cliffhanger….Said no writer ever. Please Review.
