Chapter 2
The way things go, with a gun in hand.
A\N- I just want to say I love this game, and I'll continue the story till the end, but the release time of the chapters depends on the amount of reviews. By the way I finally got a real word processor, not just note pad so I can use a Spell checker (YAAHH).
The ships door opens and the ramp hits the ground. It was still dark out, but the skyranger's flood lights lit up a lot of the ground around it. No words were spoken, no one even breathed, while the ramp set down. Then James yelled "We sweep in groups of 2. Who ever is beside you, is depending on you to know that their life and your life is on the line. Your only hope of survival is to work together. So take care of them, and don't get yourself killed". I looked over I was partnered with Steven. We were the Second group out. In front of us were James and Kerri. Behind us were Nik and Andrew, Sam and Nathan, Angus and Sarah, then Carl and Kevin. Carl and Kevin would stay at the ship and Keep it covered. Lucky Bastards, I don't want the job but I wish that..." My thoughts were shattered when James finally said Move out. James took two steps down the ramp, and then everyone else was covered in bits of him. Kerri dived off the ramp on the left side, using the ramp as a shield. As 2 more balls of green fire hit where she had been standing. "Sniper!! He's on the roof of the farm house!!" Kerri screamed as she fired of a few shoots in that direction. Steven paled next to be. "Ok, we'll still go in groups of two. A new group goes every 15 seconds. When it's your turn run for all your worth to...Kerri what can we use as cover?" "There's a group of trees and a hedge wall behind me. But I have no idea what else is there" she called back. "Ok that's where we going me and Steven here will secure the trees. As you arrive, help to make sure it's safe for every one. On three. ready?" Steven paled even more. "One. Two. Three!" I yelled and took off running out of the ship off the ramp and towards the hedge and trees. I didn't notice that Steve had frozen in panic and hadn't moved at all. I had more important things on my mind, like the fact that there were balls of green fire landing all around me. I rolled through the hedges and dove behind a tree. "Shit" I thought as I pulled my rifle to my chest. Steven hadn't moved a step instead he stood like a statue holding his gun, looking at the remains of James that covered the ramp. Kerri was now firing steadily at the farm house roof, screaming at him to move. For Steven it was like a fuse had blown in his brain he wanted to move but he couldn't, although he did want to move out there, All he wanted was a hole, a very deep hole to hide in, where no one would ever find him. But the 15 seconds had pasted and Nik, with Andrews help, grab him and Ran off the ship. Seconds later Steven realized if he didn't run he was going to die, but the mad panic he was feeling didn't help him. So he started to run, then he suddenly turned and ran towards the Farm house. His only thought was get to cover, get to cover. Nik and Andrew both made it to cover with no problems, and the next group was underway. "Ok, Ben here is where we are and this is our search grid" Nik said and tossed a small map to me. There were three fields, two small stables, and the farm house, with a barren area behind it. Ok You two search around here for "Our friends" and I'll go get Kerri. We'll search the House, and closest stable. Once you're done here, move in to the fields." At that moment Sam and Nathan came running in. "Angus got hit coming out, he's gone. I Sarah took off a different way." Nathan rambled. "Fine, you two go start on the far stable, then go check out these fields" I said and pointed to the map. "When your there meet up with these two and come help find that ship. My guess is that it's behind the farm house, any questions?" I stared at them, waiting for a complaint or some form of a different and better idea. "Ok then move it". I got up and started to run to Kerri. That's when I first saw one, a real, live alien. It was on the roof point some kind of gun at the ramp Kerri was behind and firing repeatedly. Kerri had stopped and was reloading, but I could see that the ramp was starting to heat up. I quickly wonder if it could it melt the ramp or something? I know Kerri was feeling the heat. I kneeled on one knee to steady my self and I aimed my rifle at the Alien sniper. I could see its huge head and overly large eyes through the scope; I could see its long fingers on its gun trying to kill Kerri. I pulled the trigger, and the rifle jumped to life. It quickly sprayed 3 bullets towards the Alien then three more, and three more. The first four missed, but the others hit. I could see the thing jerking around like some puppet that suddenly had a little kid pulling on its strings. It let out a strange screamed of pain and its grey body crossed the setting moon as it toppled off the roof. 1 to 1, was all I could think. I got up and ran over to Kerri, who was still hiding behind the now cooling ramp. "I got the sniper Kerri. It's safe" I called over to her. "We need to go secure the house" Kerri quickly got up and away from the ramp, which was still warm. She joined me in my run for the house. We found the door wide open. "That's never a good sign" Kerri muttered. I carefully looked in; the Farmer was lying dead on the floor. His dog lay dead on about half way up a set of stairs. Its blood was dripping down in to a small pool at the bottom. The place would have looked very nice in a different situation. The room had hard wood floors and a fire place with pictures across its mantle. On the mantle there were pictures of a Man with his dog, and his Wife and 2 small children. One child looked about 8 and other about 6. On the far side of the room there were 2 polished brass doors.
They must have killed him as he went to find out what the sound of the UFO crashing was." Kerri said suddenly. Grimacing at idea of how his man was killed. "All right, Kerri, check those rooms I'll go upstairs." I quickly moved up the stairs stepping over the body of the dog, and looked around, It looked like a child's bedroom was there but there was no wall separating it from these stairs. A fearful thought crossed my mind, and I quickly looked around, but he children weren't here, bodies or otherwise. There were two beds next to a window, and outside I could see flashes of white and green lights in the fields that cut the darkness. There was another door about in the middle of the far wall. I went to it and gathered my courage then rushed in to the room. It was the Parents bedroom; there were two dressers with a night stand. There was a pull down stair case to the roof that was already down and a bed with the body of a woman in a night gown lying in it. The white bedspread was now a dark red. But that's not what had my attention. What did have it, was the Spectoid that I was now standing in front of. I was staring it right in its eyes; my look of shock was echoed across its face. Its skin was a horrible grey, and its head was twice the size of a humans. It was a lot shorter then I expected, only about 5 feet. Maybe because I was looking up, at the last one, made it seem taller. For a long second neither it nor I moved. We just looked at each other. The silence was broken only by the small whisper of gun fire in the distance. Then there was a noise down stairs, that broke our magically truce. Its disgusting body, which looked way to small for its head, suddenly jumped towards one of the dressers. I opened fire. I could hear the shoots coming from my gun, this time I held the trigger down. My vision became a black tunnel, focused on the alien. I couldn't see anything else, I just held down the trigger, and moved my hand in the direction that it was going. Then my gun ran dry. I looked at the thing that was now on the floor with about 7 holes in it. It was still moving, desperately it try to get to its gun, which rested on the dresser mere strides away. I looked in freezing panic, as it dragged itself towards the dresser, a trailing pool of light green blood behind it. Then in its dark eyes I saw the light start to slowly fade. It shuttered once, then twice, then stopped moving altogether. I tell out a breath I didn't really know I was holding, and stared at it. A sudden thump of something behind made me turn quickly, once again pulling the trigger as hard as possible, as I turned. Kerri was standing there looking shocked at me. A steady Clicking noise coming from my gun, reminding I had no ammo left in this clip. She stuttered as her mind was going over what would have happened if I still had ammo left, then said "The downstairs is clear". Without another word we left back down stairs. Then a thought hit me, one that I had lost when I went in to the master bedroom. What happened to the children?? "The door on the left is sort of a small kitchen\pantry, the one the right leads to a small sort of coat room and then to the out side, it also has a window.... the UFO is on the other side, it doesn't look that damaged. They may be able to leave soon." Just then Kerri information was interrupted by Nik, and Sam entering the House. "Ben, we've lost Nathan. Andrew is injured, but we dragged him back to the Skyranger." Sam said quietly. "We also checked the other Stable for you." Nik said as if determined to move on. "Damn, 2.5 to 2. We need points" my mind thought. "So every where behind this house is cleared? How many did were there?" "There were 3 of them, we killed them all, and there's no stone that's not upturned behind us." Sam piped in. He looked more somber then his usual self...also a little bloodier then I last saw him. "You guys Ok?" I asked. Sam looked confused then looked at himself and Nik; they both had a fair amount of red blood on them. "We're fine, it's not ours." "Ok. We need to take that ship. Sam you take point and circle left with Kerri, I'll go right with Nik. Let's go" We moved quickly and quietly through the coat room, and out side. The ship was about 10 feet height, and the whole thin looked smooth and some what shiny. Nik and I went around the ship. It seemed to be in the shape of a plus symbol or a cross. We quickly circled it. It was about 45 feet from end to end. But there didn't seem to be a door. "Where's the way in?" Nik started "Is it like the movies with those beams of light that suck you in to it?" "Start feeling for a lever or some....." Suddenly the ship started to rise. Its own lights blinked in to existence and cover us in light. It started to move, towards the house. But it was only about one level high; at this rate it would hit the house. "Get down!!!!" I screamed, as the ship smashed through the house and splinters of wood, and bits of things showered us. Then there was a blinding flash of green light. Then there was one of blue which threw all of us about 30 feet away. We looked and ship was gone.
"Is everyone Ok?" Nik choked out.
"I'm good" Said a male voice from behind a tree
"Bumps and bruises" said a female bush that was shaking.
"I'm good, let's get to the Skyranger there's nothing more we can do." We all started our trek to the Skyranger, which took us through a some what standing house with was missing its top floor then in to a field, where we all saw it. The Skyranger was half melted. There was a giant silver puddle that was the rear half of the Skyranger. 5 people were looking at it. We ran to them. It was an injured Andrew supported by Carl and Kevin, and the two other people were staring at the ruined ship. "What happened?" I called.
"That Ship fired at us once and took off. Were lucky, we came out here because we need to make room for Andrew, to ride more comfortable, so Carl and I had just moved him out. The pilots weren't touched because they were in the front. Sarah wasn't so lucky. She had just got back and was moving things around when it happened." Kevin said.
"Look. We're Ok, we had just called for the retrieval squad to come before the ship was totaled." said the Female pilot.
"What do you mean retrieval squad?" Nik asked, some what sternly.
"They come and get all the alien bodies and artifacts from a successfully cleared site." The other pilot supplied.
"How'd you know we'd be successfully" Sam asked
"I didn't, we just guessed, Ok. That's Ok for you isn't it!" growled the male pilot.
"Stop it Bill, were going to be here for 4 hours I don't want to hear you arguing the whole time. I'm Jessica and this is Bill."
"Look the retrieval squad will be here in 3 hours, they normally take a few hours to search a site. So if we start to find all that we can, we won't have to wait around as long."
With that every one began to wander around, too tired to think they just sorted though the wreckage.
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Steven awoke. His head was a dull throb; everything was very bright and fuzzy. There was a constant dripping noise, like water, that wasn't helping his head at all. "What the hell? Where am I?"
Then his memories flooded back, James being nearly liquefied all over him. The fear as he ran. Not really knowing what was happening, just running, making it in to the house. Then out the back and straight in to......
He blinked, the room focused. It was metal, and smooth, but it wasn't a normal metal. He tried to move his arms and legs. He was strapped to a metal table. He couldn't fight; he could move anything but his head.
He looked to his left, there were 2 empty tables, like the one he must be on. He looked right, there were 2 children strapped to similar tables. Neither were moving the far one's table seemed to be dripping something on to the floor. He couldn't see it, but something in the pit of his gut said that the child was dead, and his number was coming up fast.
There was a swish noise behind him. Then the sound of light foot steps. A large grey head came in to view, then another. They weren't talking but one looked like he was nodding at something the other had said. They went over to the children, looked and poked. Then soon they were at him. His breathe wouldn't come to him, nor his voice, as one of them pulled a long silver tube from its pocket, and pointed it at him. There was a purple flash of light from the tube. Then Steven's world went black.
The way things go, with a gun in hand.
A\N- I just want to say I love this game, and I'll continue the story till the end, but the release time of the chapters depends on the amount of reviews. By the way I finally got a real word processor, not just note pad so I can use a Spell checker (YAAHH).
The ships door opens and the ramp hits the ground. It was still dark out, but the skyranger's flood lights lit up a lot of the ground around it. No words were spoken, no one even breathed, while the ramp set down. Then James yelled "We sweep in groups of 2. Who ever is beside you, is depending on you to know that their life and your life is on the line. Your only hope of survival is to work together. So take care of them, and don't get yourself killed". I looked over I was partnered with Steven. We were the Second group out. In front of us were James and Kerri. Behind us were Nik and Andrew, Sam and Nathan, Angus and Sarah, then Carl and Kevin. Carl and Kevin would stay at the ship and Keep it covered. Lucky Bastards, I don't want the job but I wish that..." My thoughts were shattered when James finally said Move out. James took two steps down the ramp, and then everyone else was covered in bits of him. Kerri dived off the ramp on the left side, using the ramp as a shield. As 2 more balls of green fire hit where she had been standing. "Sniper!! He's on the roof of the farm house!!" Kerri screamed as she fired of a few shoots in that direction. Steven paled next to be. "Ok, we'll still go in groups of two. A new group goes every 15 seconds. When it's your turn run for all your worth to...Kerri what can we use as cover?" "There's a group of trees and a hedge wall behind me. But I have no idea what else is there" she called back. "Ok that's where we going me and Steven here will secure the trees. As you arrive, help to make sure it's safe for every one. On three. ready?" Steven paled even more. "One. Two. Three!" I yelled and took off running out of the ship off the ramp and towards the hedge and trees. I didn't notice that Steve had frozen in panic and hadn't moved at all. I had more important things on my mind, like the fact that there were balls of green fire landing all around me. I rolled through the hedges and dove behind a tree. "Shit" I thought as I pulled my rifle to my chest. Steven hadn't moved a step instead he stood like a statue holding his gun, looking at the remains of James that covered the ramp. Kerri was now firing steadily at the farm house roof, screaming at him to move. For Steven it was like a fuse had blown in his brain he wanted to move but he couldn't, although he did want to move out there, All he wanted was a hole, a very deep hole to hide in, where no one would ever find him. But the 15 seconds had pasted and Nik, with Andrews help, grab him and Ran off the ship. Seconds later Steven realized if he didn't run he was going to die, but the mad panic he was feeling didn't help him. So he started to run, then he suddenly turned and ran towards the Farm house. His only thought was get to cover, get to cover. Nik and Andrew both made it to cover with no problems, and the next group was underway. "Ok, Ben here is where we are and this is our search grid" Nik said and tossed a small map to me. There were three fields, two small stables, and the farm house, with a barren area behind it. Ok You two search around here for "Our friends" and I'll go get Kerri. We'll search the House, and closest stable. Once you're done here, move in to the fields." At that moment Sam and Nathan came running in. "Angus got hit coming out, he's gone. I Sarah took off a different way." Nathan rambled. "Fine, you two go start on the far stable, then go check out these fields" I said and pointed to the map. "When your there meet up with these two and come help find that ship. My guess is that it's behind the farm house, any questions?" I stared at them, waiting for a complaint or some form of a different and better idea. "Ok then move it". I got up and started to run to Kerri. That's when I first saw one, a real, live alien. It was on the roof point some kind of gun at the ramp Kerri was behind and firing repeatedly. Kerri had stopped and was reloading, but I could see that the ramp was starting to heat up. I quickly wonder if it could it melt the ramp or something? I know Kerri was feeling the heat. I kneeled on one knee to steady my self and I aimed my rifle at the Alien sniper. I could see its huge head and overly large eyes through the scope; I could see its long fingers on its gun trying to kill Kerri. I pulled the trigger, and the rifle jumped to life. It quickly sprayed 3 bullets towards the Alien then three more, and three more. The first four missed, but the others hit. I could see the thing jerking around like some puppet that suddenly had a little kid pulling on its strings. It let out a strange screamed of pain and its grey body crossed the setting moon as it toppled off the roof. 1 to 1, was all I could think. I got up and ran over to Kerri, who was still hiding behind the now cooling ramp. "I got the sniper Kerri. It's safe" I called over to her. "We need to go secure the house" Kerri quickly got up and away from the ramp, which was still warm. She joined me in my run for the house. We found the door wide open. "That's never a good sign" Kerri muttered. I carefully looked in; the Farmer was lying dead on the floor. His dog lay dead on about half way up a set of stairs. Its blood was dripping down in to a small pool at the bottom. The place would have looked very nice in a different situation. The room had hard wood floors and a fire place with pictures across its mantle. On the mantle there were pictures of a Man with his dog, and his Wife and 2 small children. One child looked about 8 and other about 6. On the far side of the room there were 2 polished brass doors.
They must have killed him as he went to find out what the sound of the UFO crashing was." Kerri said suddenly. Grimacing at idea of how his man was killed. "All right, Kerri, check those rooms I'll go upstairs." I quickly moved up the stairs stepping over the body of the dog, and looked around, It looked like a child's bedroom was there but there was no wall separating it from these stairs. A fearful thought crossed my mind, and I quickly looked around, but he children weren't here, bodies or otherwise. There were two beds next to a window, and outside I could see flashes of white and green lights in the fields that cut the darkness. There was another door about in the middle of the far wall. I went to it and gathered my courage then rushed in to the room. It was the Parents bedroom; there were two dressers with a night stand. There was a pull down stair case to the roof that was already down and a bed with the body of a woman in a night gown lying in it. The white bedspread was now a dark red. But that's not what had my attention. What did have it, was the Spectoid that I was now standing in front of. I was staring it right in its eyes; my look of shock was echoed across its face. Its skin was a horrible grey, and its head was twice the size of a humans. It was a lot shorter then I expected, only about 5 feet. Maybe because I was looking up, at the last one, made it seem taller. For a long second neither it nor I moved. We just looked at each other. The silence was broken only by the small whisper of gun fire in the distance. Then there was a noise down stairs, that broke our magically truce. Its disgusting body, which looked way to small for its head, suddenly jumped towards one of the dressers. I opened fire. I could hear the shoots coming from my gun, this time I held the trigger down. My vision became a black tunnel, focused on the alien. I couldn't see anything else, I just held down the trigger, and moved my hand in the direction that it was going. Then my gun ran dry. I looked at the thing that was now on the floor with about 7 holes in it. It was still moving, desperately it try to get to its gun, which rested on the dresser mere strides away. I looked in freezing panic, as it dragged itself towards the dresser, a trailing pool of light green blood behind it. Then in its dark eyes I saw the light start to slowly fade. It shuttered once, then twice, then stopped moving altogether. I tell out a breath I didn't really know I was holding, and stared at it. A sudden thump of something behind made me turn quickly, once again pulling the trigger as hard as possible, as I turned. Kerri was standing there looking shocked at me. A steady Clicking noise coming from my gun, reminding I had no ammo left in this clip. She stuttered as her mind was going over what would have happened if I still had ammo left, then said "The downstairs is clear". Without another word we left back down stairs. Then a thought hit me, one that I had lost when I went in to the master bedroom. What happened to the children?? "The door on the left is sort of a small kitchen\pantry, the one the right leads to a small sort of coat room and then to the out side, it also has a window.... the UFO is on the other side, it doesn't look that damaged. They may be able to leave soon." Just then Kerri information was interrupted by Nik, and Sam entering the House. "Ben, we've lost Nathan. Andrew is injured, but we dragged him back to the Skyranger." Sam said quietly. "We also checked the other Stable for you." Nik said as if determined to move on. "Damn, 2.5 to 2. We need points" my mind thought. "So every where behind this house is cleared? How many did were there?" "There were 3 of them, we killed them all, and there's no stone that's not upturned behind us." Sam piped in. He looked more somber then his usual self...also a little bloodier then I last saw him. "You guys Ok?" I asked. Sam looked confused then looked at himself and Nik; they both had a fair amount of red blood on them. "We're fine, it's not ours." "Ok. We need to take that ship. Sam you take point and circle left with Kerri, I'll go right with Nik. Let's go" We moved quickly and quietly through the coat room, and out side. The ship was about 10 feet height, and the whole thin looked smooth and some what shiny. Nik and I went around the ship. It seemed to be in the shape of a plus symbol or a cross. We quickly circled it. It was about 45 feet from end to end. But there didn't seem to be a door. "Where's the way in?" Nik started "Is it like the movies with those beams of light that suck you in to it?" "Start feeling for a lever or some....." Suddenly the ship started to rise. Its own lights blinked in to existence and cover us in light. It started to move, towards the house. But it was only about one level high; at this rate it would hit the house. "Get down!!!!" I screamed, as the ship smashed through the house and splinters of wood, and bits of things showered us. Then there was a blinding flash of green light. Then there was one of blue which threw all of us about 30 feet away. We looked and ship was gone.
"Is everyone Ok?" Nik choked out.
"I'm good" Said a male voice from behind a tree
"Bumps and bruises" said a female bush that was shaking.
"I'm good, let's get to the Skyranger there's nothing more we can do." We all started our trek to the Skyranger, which took us through a some what standing house with was missing its top floor then in to a field, where we all saw it. The Skyranger was half melted. There was a giant silver puddle that was the rear half of the Skyranger. 5 people were looking at it. We ran to them. It was an injured Andrew supported by Carl and Kevin, and the two other people were staring at the ruined ship. "What happened?" I called.
"That Ship fired at us once and took off. Were lucky, we came out here because we need to make room for Andrew, to ride more comfortable, so Carl and I had just moved him out. The pilots weren't touched because they were in the front. Sarah wasn't so lucky. She had just got back and was moving things around when it happened." Kevin said.
"Look. We're Ok, we had just called for the retrieval squad to come before the ship was totaled." said the Female pilot.
"What do you mean retrieval squad?" Nik asked, some what sternly.
"They come and get all the alien bodies and artifacts from a successfully cleared site." The other pilot supplied.
"How'd you know we'd be successfully" Sam asked
"I didn't, we just guessed, Ok. That's Ok for you isn't it!" growled the male pilot.
"Stop it Bill, were going to be here for 4 hours I don't want to hear you arguing the whole time. I'm Jessica and this is Bill."
"Look the retrieval squad will be here in 3 hours, they normally take a few hours to search a site. So if we start to find all that we can, we won't have to wait around as long."
With that every one began to wander around, too tired to think they just sorted though the wreckage.
xxx
Steven awoke. His head was a dull throb; everything was very bright and fuzzy. There was a constant dripping noise, like water, that wasn't helping his head at all. "What the hell? Where am I?"
Then his memories flooded back, James being nearly liquefied all over him. The fear as he ran. Not really knowing what was happening, just running, making it in to the house. Then out the back and straight in to......
He blinked, the room focused. It was metal, and smooth, but it wasn't a normal metal. He tried to move his arms and legs. He was strapped to a metal table. He couldn't fight; he could move anything but his head.
He looked to his left, there were 2 empty tables, like the one he must be on. He looked right, there were 2 children strapped to similar tables. Neither were moving the far one's table seemed to be dripping something on to the floor. He couldn't see it, but something in the pit of his gut said that the child was dead, and his number was coming up fast.
There was a swish noise behind him. Then the sound of light foot steps. A large grey head came in to view, then another. They weren't talking but one looked like he was nodding at something the other had said. They went over to the children, looked and poked. Then soon they were at him. His breathe wouldn't come to him, nor his voice, as one of them pulled a long silver tube from its pocket, and pointed it at him. There was a purple flash of light from the tube. Then Steven's world went black.
