Chapter 3: Overrun and an Alliance
Jason ran back to his base and found the worst. There were dead marines and dead xenomorphs (the aliens real name) everywhere. Guns were laying everywhere and he wasn't sure if he could take a single step without walking in blood or worse acid blood. The place was thrashed and the bunkers were covered with claw marks and bullet holes. A tear slipped from his eye. He wasn't even there to help or die with them. He picked up a pulse rifle, a pistol, a knife, and as much ammo as he could carry. He got on one knee and said a prayer. He found a map that was mostly stained in blood, but read that the next base was three miles away. Then the lone survivor got in an APC (Armored Personal Carrier) and drove his way there.
When the Predators came back to their ship they found something similar. The ship was trashed and had claw marks all over it. The hull was nearly about to collapse. They walked inside and found that the inside was more trashed than the outside. They looked at Doun'ch as if asking what to do. "Grab your medicomps and all your weapons. Merc'rk, can you fix it?" "There's nothing I can do." answered Merc'rk. "Then set it to self destruct on remote. Let's move out and once were in a safe place set up a homing beacon." commanded Doun'ch. They obeyed his orders just like good clan mates. Essra walked up to Doun'ch with her computer and showed him a layout of the planet territories. They were in the Xenomorph territory and there were two safe places. One was in the human civilization ruins to their west and the other was the nearest human base out in the jungle two miles away. In fact the Xenomorphs now covered the planet. "There's no way we could set up a beacon on this planet without being under attack or dead." said Essra. "Maybe the oomans will help." said Doun'ch. Suddenly they heard a xeno roar that sounded like it was close. They all cloaked and left the ship to go to the human base.
Meanwhile Jason was arriving at the human base in the jungle. Everyone there was all spooked, but they were "salty". The man in charge walked up to him and asked him a question. "Who are you?" "I'm Jason Stoneman of the base 881E." "This is base 881S. You're in the wrong place." "Sir, base 881E has been taken over by a swarm of xenos." The man in charge frowned at this. "Any survivors?" Jason pointed to himself, which said everything. The commander said "Your welcome to stay here." He left and went to warn the other bases. Jason just settled in.
Outside the base there was a daily patrol cruising through the area. All four of them had pulse rifles. Suddenly a laser tracker showed up on the man in the front's head. The one behind him saw this and where they were coming from. He shot at the cloaked predator and this caused the predator to fire back. The bullets diffused his cloaking and hit him, while getting knocked out of the tree he fired and hit the marine's gun. The whole patrol began shooting every where.
Then a voice was yelling at them to hold their fire. It was Doun'ch who decloaked and raised his arms. The marines stopped and lowered their weapons. Doun'ch walked up to the leader and spoke. "I wish for an alliance. Who's the man in charge." The man who got his gun blown in half was pissed off. "What?! First you attack us and then you want to be friends." Netak then decloaked and walked up to him with bullet wounds. "Netak, did you attack them?" "Sorry, I had my plasma caster on motion tracking." The rest of the clan decloaked behind them and approached the others. "Take me to your leader." said Doun'ch. Some marines laughed at that line, but the man saw the six predators and knew that his patrol had no chance against fighting them and decided to agree.
Jason was sitting down eating his C rations when he heard a lot of commotion going on. People were talking and whispering things as something came by. He looked up and saw the patrol with the clan walking to the commander's bunker. When they reached it Doun'ch went in alone and the clan watched as they saw their leader talk to the lead human. Jason got up and walked over to his friend Shou'nk. "Hey, how's it going." he welcomed. "Greetings Jason." "What are you doing here?" "Our ship was destroyed and we can't get off the planet. The hardmeat cover the planet and we won't survive alone so Doun'ch is attempting to make an alliance with you oomans." Jason nodded and assumed Doun'ch was the leader that was talking with his commander. About twenty minutes later Doun'ch and the commander came out of the bunker and announced they are allied as long as they stay on the planet. Then they shook hands. The clan approached Doun'ch and the commander. Doun'ch said he was going to spend most of his time in the bunker talking to the commander and making battle plans. The hunters just like Jason settled in.
Merc'rk was making friends with all the humans who seemed to like having a predator for a friend (not to mention they felt much safer). Reco'de was bragging about how good a hunter he was to everyone. Netak was sitting in a tree sharpening his spear. Essra had a Yautja laptop and was typing on it. Shou'nk was talking to Jason.
"Jason, what is this box called again?" "A TV." Just then Merc'rk and some of him friends came over. One grabbed the remote and asked if it was okay to change the channel. Jason nodded. One looked at Merc'rk "Let me introduce you to the sport of foot ball." he said while changing the channel. On the TV the Steelers were up against the Panthers. Another one saw the game and said, "Steelers got this one in the bag." Merc'rk seemed interested in the sport (He liked watching people hit each other). "So Predator, what's your name?" "I'm Merc'rk. That's Shou'nk. (points to the predator on the couch) That's Essra. (points to the pred on the computer) That's Reco'de (points to a pred walking to a table with food) and I believe you already met Netak and Doun'ch." "Like hell we have." replied the marine. "My name's Sean. Hmm, your name's too long. How about we call you Merc."
Reco'de had his wrist blades out and was using them like a knife to cut some chicken he got from a marine. He took off his mask and began to eat the cooked bird. It tasted good to him. A marine walking by and sat down across from him with a cup of coffee. It looked like dirty water to Reco'de, but it didn't smell like it at all. "What is that beverage you're drinking?" asked the curious hunter. A mischievous smirk crept upon the marine's face. "This is coffee." he said. (A note to all of you readers out there: NEVER DRINK A MARINE'S COFFEE!) "Smells funny." "Would like to try some?" "Sure. My wrist computer will scan the ingredients." The Predator took the cup and looked at it with a curious expression on his face. He slowly pulled it to his face and took a slow, but long sip. Then he put it down and had a look on his face like he had just seen a ghost. He did not move and had the same look on his face for about 10 seconds. Suddenly his wrist computer popped open and had several readings on it. They went on and on when suddenly they stopped and the computer switched to a count down. It read 5…4…3…2…1…0. Suddenly Reco'de jumped off the bench and about 45 feet into the air. He did a back flip and landed on the tree branch Netak was sitting on. The branch bent over under the weight of Reco'de then launched him and Netak like a catapult into the air. Netak landed on top of the bunker that Doun'ch and the commander were discussing plans while Reco'de kept bouncing from place to place.
Meanwhile the marine's were introducing Merc'rk to the Bar. "This a food bar. We get to order food here and hit on any hot chicks that pass by." said Sean with a grin. Merc'rk looked at menu and said "So oomans do have different tastes." A girl walked by and asked "My I have your order?" Sean made his order with a smug look. "I'll have some chicken, some salad, and your phone number." The girl wrote down the order and her phone number (Wo ho!). She looked at Merc'rk.. "And you?" Suddenly a hyperactive Reco'de bounced by from table to table. "I'll have whatever he's having!"
At the bunker Doun'ch and the commander heard a thump inside the bunker. They ran out side expecting to see Xenomorphs, but saw it was Netak who had smashed on the roof of the bunker face down and Reco'de bouncing around. Netak, who was angry with Reco'de disturbing him, pulled out his disc and was about to throw it at the hyperactive clan mate. "Netak, put it away!" he ordered. The furious hunter did as he was told. Doun'ch pulled out a net gun and netted Reco'de to the ground. Lucky for his tough skin the net didn't cut him. "Reco'de no more human beverages for you!" "Just one more cup?" "No."
Doun'ch then went back in the bunker to discuss more plans with the commander. Netak got off the bunker and went over to Essra. "What are you doing?" Essra looked up from her computer and found Netak. "I'm trying to make up a plan to get us off the planet." she said. Netak sat down next to her and decided to help think of a plan (it's better than sitting around doing nothing). "So we got to go to the city and set up the beacon, but the problem is that by the time the ship gets here the hardmeat's antenna will pick up the signal, the place will be crawling with them, and we will all be dead." Netak looked at the computer and began to think of a plan of his own.
Suddenly they heard a xenomorph roar and some stomping. The aliens were coming. They all got armed and geared up. Suddenly an alien pounced out of the bushes on a marine. It clawed him to death and was then shot by Sean. The whole platoon began shooting in all directions. An alien army began coming out of the jungle in different places all around them and attacking the marines as they began ferociously fighting back.
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