New Species chapter 2

"Can you fly this crate?"

"Sure thing cap" replied Derk.

"Good land us then and I'll tell the crew what just happened. We fight better on the ground than we can up here." With that he left Derk to fly the ship, and went to brief the crew on what had just happened.

"Shit" said KC

"Great, that's just great, no longer a bug hunt, ah KC?" said Bob

"You all know what this means don't you?" said Jones. He was rewarded with blank faces. "It means that if there is a new species then it wont be long before the predators get here, for the trophies…"

"er sir…" said Carl, a young new soldier. Apart from Jones, KC, Derk, Bob and the now deceased John the crew was all brand new and only new one thing. They were here to kill some bugs and maybe gain some credibility.

"Yes what is it?"

"Well what do you mean exactly by predators?"

"Right. They hunt on their own searching for trophies. The bigger the trophy the more credibility they get, however the targets must be armed and present a good challenge to the predator."

"Sir what exactly are the trophies?"

"Skulls. They remove them before you die, while your alive. Once they have you head they skin it and clean the skull mounting on a spike in their ship, with the rest of their trophies. Their technology is far in advance of our own. They have a cloak device that bends light and makes them 90% invisible, and an amazing array of weapons. They are about 7-8 feet tall and from birth are very lethal. So lethal I have seen one take out a queen with out the use of weapons. But be warned they see us as good trophies as well."

"How long before they arrive?" said Carl.

"Any time. It all depends when they here about the new breeds of aliens. They could already be there on a routine hunt…"

"Hang on, just one f**king minute, you mean to say that these things might be there and you weren't going to tell us?"

"We would have told you…"

"Bullshit, if that thing hadn't eaten John we wouldn't have been told would we? Well, would we?"

"No because there was no reason to think that they would be here. We don't even know if they are." Said Jones "so calm the f**k down now!! That's an order!" with that they fell silent.