Chapter 6: Colony Battle
Mac-11 CQB: I'm sorry about the last chapter. I had some computer problems, but I reloaded the 5th chapter so you can read it now and to make it up here's another chapter.
Netak and Doun'ch had returned to the base. Netak went training for hours and was acting strange.
Doun'ch went back to the general and conversed with him. Shou'nk sat next to Jason after calming down with the coffee. Jason was writing a letter to his wife. "What are you doing?" "I'm writing to my wife. She'll get worried and start sending all these letters asking if I'm alive. Onetime I didn't write back and she sent a letter to Commander Jack, cussing him out cause she thought he sent me on a suicide mission. So, how do you keep in touch with your wife." "I send a her what you oomans call an email." Jason finished writing his letter, walked over to a large box full of mail, and put it in.
Shou'nk read the top of the letter that said "from Jason Stoneman". Predators don't have a last name so he was curious as to whom Stoneman' was. "Jason, who is Stoneman?" "That's my last man." "Last name?" "Humans have two names. Your first name is just your name. Your last name has been past down from generations. If two people get married then the girl takes up the boy's last name." explained Jason. "Yautja have something similar to that. Whenever two Yautja become mates their name gets a comma before the last two letters and the female's last two letters are replaced with the male's last two letters." "So that means that Essra and Netak aren't married." said Jason with a smirk.
An Idea was forming in his head. "What say we hook them up?" Shou'nk had no clue as to what that means and looked at his marine friend with a curious look. "You know, get them together." "What?! No! Netak would kill me!" "Yeah, your probably right. Fine, I won't try."
Merc'rk was sitting with some marines and laughing at a joke someone told. He was holding an unopened beer bottle in his hand, but all the other marines were open. "Hey, Merc, why don't you take a drink?" asked a marine. "I don't know. I saw the way Reco'de reacted to that other beverage." The marines laughed a little remembering the hyper Predator. "Don't worry. This doesn't have caffeine." coaxed another marine. The Yautja looked at it he opened it and everyone thought he was going to take a sip. Instead his computer opened and he poured some in. It was scanned and found the large amounts of alcohol. He put it down, but continued to talk to them.
Reco'de was talking with Doun'ch on his way to through a corridor. "Aw come on. It's good for the hunt." pleaded Reco'de. "No." answered his clan leader. "It would be good for fighting hardmeat." "No, it's bad for your system." "So. Fighting hardmeat is bad for your system." "Listen when were fighting them I'll tell you "execute plan Delta" and that means to do it, okay. Now I need to discuss some matters with the general." "Okay. Trust me it will work well." Reco'de walked off to tell his clan they had a new tactic.
Doun'ch walked to the general's office and opened the door. Just as he opened the door a face-hugger jumped out and attached it self to his face. He felt it insert the embryo down his throat. The Yautja warrior ripped it off with great strength, but he was too late. He looked around and saw the general had a face-hugger on him. The air vent was open and it looked like it was chewed through. His chest was slightly moving. Doun'ch quickly stabbed him with the wrist blades and left to warn the others.
When Doun'ch got to the supply dock everyone was still oblivious to the alien's presence. The leader could not find his clan. He gave out a loud roar, which was a clan call. They came all armed and ready including Jason. "The hardmeat are here. One has implanted me." All the clan was saddened by this. Jason however wasn't. "Don't worry. I can fix that." said the human as he smashed the butt of his gun into Doun'ch's stomach. The hunter fell over and threw up. Netak and Reco'de almost as a reflex pulled out their spears and aimed them at Jason. "No! Look!" cried Essra. She was pointing to a small black embryo that had been thrown out of her clan leader. It was covered in Yautja blood and it looked as if it was soaking it up. The clan looked at Jason amazed. "Thank you, Jason." panted Doun'ch.
Suddenly a drone came out of an air vent and ripped off a marine's head. Another marine was behind it and it stabbed him with its tail. Jason shot a single bullet that went into its mouth down that little mouth inside. It fell to the ground, twitched a little, then died. They all could hear a banging sound behind the thick front doors. With each bang came a large dent. The Marines set up a few sentry guns and the commander manned a mini gun turret. All the marines geared up and armed them selves. A loud bang came and the doors fell to the ground. Where the doors were stood a pair of praetorians. The marines quickly gunned them down.
An alien army crawled through the doors. A shower of bullets began to rain on them as they attempted to overpower the marines. The Predators each took out their favorite weapon and went to their aid.
Reco'de blew away the alien that was closest to him. Another came out of the air vent behind him while he was blowing away more xenomorphs. With his advanced senses he heard it behind him. Just as it pounced at him he turned around and stabbed it in the jaw with his wrist blades. It staggered back and held its jaw. The Yautja hunter cut at the creature's neck, ripping off its head.
Merc'rk blew away another one of his prey with the plasma pistol. A drone pounced at him, but he stepped to the side and dodged it. The bough Yautja turned around and saw the creature running at him. It clawed at him. Merc'rk caught the creatures claw and used his other arm to grab its head. Then with sheer strength he crushed the head (big mistake). Acid blood began to ooze on to his hand. The hunter's hand was burning up and he let out a roar of pain.
Netak threw the disc into the stampede of aliens. As it flew through it killed all the aliens in its path or ripped off one of their limbs, which was who knows how many and it killed more on its way back to the warrior. Netak was ready to catch his disc, but when he saw it he jumped to the side and lets it get stuck in the wall behind. It was covered in acid blood. The disc is acid proof, but their skin is not. His wrist computer popped open and he pushed a button. The disc quickly flew back into the disc holder on Netak's side. He pulled out the spear, which was still folded up. As soon as he turned around he was face to face with a drone. He pushed a button and the spear unfolded into the creature, spraying acid blood everywhere behind it.
Essra shot another opponent. The spear went through its head. An alien pounced at her. She jumped into the air. The alien landed where she was standing. When she came down she used the sharp barrel of her spear gun like a bayonet and stabbed the xenomorph. A drone came up from her side and clawed at her. She ducked and as she was getting up smashed the butt of her gun into its head. The alien stepped back a few feet in a daze. The huntress shot it three times in the ribs. The spears pierced the ribs and went straight for the heart.
Doun'ch and Shou'nk were standing with a bunch of marines, including Jason and Sean, which had the most aliens attacking them. Doun'ch was using the energy flechette and shot any alien that was close enough to stab him with their tail. Shou'nk was using his favorite weapon, a ring looking weapon with a small button on the side and some alien alloy on the top. When he pushed the button it unfolded into a shurkin or called a throwing star. He had several of them on his belt. They wouldn't come back to him like the disc, but they were lighter, faster, and just as sharp. He threw one at the alien coming at him. It cut him in half and then killed an alien behind it. It continued to fly and went out of site.
Doun'ch pushed a button on his mask. It was a built in walkie-talkie. "Reco'de, execute plan delta." The commander made a motion with his hand to for Doun'ch to come talk to him. The hunter ran to him. "We need to move back to the surface. My men and I will take the west exit. You take your clan up to the lifting elevators."
Reco'de was busy executing plan delta. He ran to the café. When the hunter got there it was deserted. He dashed for the counter. On the counter was a coffee maker full of triple espresso. He poured them into six bottles and carried them to the battlefield. Unknown to him a face-hugger crawled to the small embryo on the floor, which Doun'ch had thrown up. It had sucked up all the blood and DNA to get it needed to grow, but had no life supply. The parasite grabbed the embryo and crawled away into an air vent.
When Reco'de arrived the battle was still going on and his clan was behind a couple of supply boxes taking cover. Merc'rk was using the medicomp on his burned hand and the skin was slowly regenerating. Netak had just finished cleaning his disc. Essra was reloading her spear gun. Doun'ch and Shou'nk were just taking cover. He approached them and handed each one a bottle. "Drink it! It's good for you!" he said while opening his. Shou'nk knew exactly what it was and lifted his mask and chugged down the whole thing in no time. The rest didn't have a clue, but once they saw their clan leader drink it they did too.
They found a sudden rush of energy. After putting their masks back on they got out of the supply boxes and ran to the exit with Doun'ch in the lead. Netak threw his disc at few aliens that were pursuing them. The coffee must have worked cause he threw it so hard that it split them all in half and it was moving so fast that when he caught it all the acid had fallen off.
The clan entered a narrow corridor with many doors on the walls. As they went deeper down the sounds of machine guns and roars of xenomorphs faded. It was all quiet and this made the hunters nervous.
They continued to walk down the corridor and had their weapons ready. Suddenly a marine flew through one of the doors close to them. He landed smack into the ground and began shooting in the door he had been thrown from. The man stopped shooting and stood up revealing himself to be "Jason! Your alive!!!" yelled Shou'nk.
Jason saw the clan and smiled. "What are you doing here? The battle's that way." said Jason pointing down the direction, which they came from. "There are too many hardmeat to fight." answered Merc'rk. They looked in the room that Jason was firing in and saw a dead runner inside. Doun'ch looked back at his soldier friend. "You can come with us. We were just heading to the elevator lifts." They all began running down the corridor together.
Then a strange sound came from behind them. It was the stampede of bugs that were coming after them. They all turned around and saw far behind them a swarm of xenos that were crawling all over the walls and over each other to get to them. The clan and their marine companion continued to dash to the lifts.
The corridor ended and they reached the lifts. They saw a lot of elevators all lined up and waiting. The problem was that when the get in the bugs would all be there and ready to claw the elevator doors open. They all got in the elevator, all except for Doun'ch. "Wait! What are you doing, Leader!" called Essra. Doun'ch looked at his clan "You all make me proud. Merc'rk, your leader now." Merc'rk just nodded. "You must go. I'll hold them off."
The doors closed and the elevator rose to the surface. Doun'ch turned to face the alien threat that was approaching. The clan leader activated his self-destruct device. He pulled out the spear gun and fired his last spears at the enemies in front. He switched to the plasma caster as they got closer taking out more bugs. Then they were so close he switched to the energy flechette. When the energy flechette ran out he switched to his last remaining weapon, the spear. One came to him and he struck it down. Another approached and he stabbed that one. A drone pounced at him, but he cut it in half. Another bug clawed at him. The mighty hunter blocked it and struck it down as well. Another attacker tried to stab him with its tail. He narrowly dodged it and cut off its tail. The xenomorph clawed at him and gave him scratches across his chest. He cut off both its claws and struck it down.
In the elevator they had almost reached the top when they heard a loud explosion and small earthquake followed, which they all knew was their leaders self-destruct. The clan was saddened, but this wouldn't stop them from fighting.