Mac-11CQB: There, now I won't update until I get more reviews. This chapter has a major showdown between a Predator and Predalien. Enjoy.
The strange looking chest-burster slithered across the extension to a pod labeled "Food Storage." It saw a small air vent opening and slithered inside out of sight. Netak didn't care what it was. If he left quickly enough the humans would need to deal with it. He sat down and began to skin and decorate his new trophy (Predators decorate their trophies that were considered extremely worthy hunts).
Mean while inside the pod the chest-burster crawled to a big box labeled "MEAT." It slipped inside and had a "little snack." Then it began molting right in the box. The molting was finished in a matter of minutes. Two men came to the box and began pushing it towards a door in the front of the storage room. This movement woke up the new creature.
Out side of the pod Netak could hear screaming. He thought it was his clan that came to "rescue" him. He looked at his wrist computer. Yes, it did identify one of his own close by. All this hunting made him hungry. He quickly finished carving in some Yautja insignia and symbols on his trophy with his wrist blades (that's how predators decorate their favorite trophies), strapped it to his back, and went to the food storage pod.
When he got inside he saw two dead men lying on the floor. He knew his clan could not have done this. These men were completely mutilated, their faces were clawed out, their limbs were everywhere, their bones were showing, and the only way he could tell they were human was with his thermal vision. This was far beyond what any of his clan's weapons could do. He looked at his wrist computer again. It read one of his clan nearby.
He used his wrist blades to rip open a box nearby with meat in it. The hunter grabbed a chunk of raw steak and pulled off his mask. Netak took a bite and started chewing it. It tasted pretty good to him. He swallowed the large piece and grabbed another one. The Yautja Hunter ate till he was satisfied, but wasn't full (He didn't want to hunt on a bloated stomach). He put his mask back on and walked to the door. It opened automatically and he entered a long hallway.
Netak was very cautious since he didn't have his cloaking device working. He noticed the halls were quiet, too quiet. So quiet it was impossible for there to be any human activity anywhere. He continued down the hallway. It came to a turn and He saw more mutilated bodies. The hunter walked over them. The hall way now came to an intersection. He heard something down the right side. He stepped over to look and there he saw it.
It was about three inches taller than Netak. Its light brown skin was that of his species. It stood on two legs and had two arms with razor sharp claws at the end of its large three fingered hands. It had a lizard-like tail with a poisonous stinger at the tip. Its body was more muscular than his. At the joints of its body the bones stood out like spikes. Its head was shaped like his, but slightly larger and it had dreadlocks at the back of its head. It had mandibles around its mouth like his species and a mouth inside of that mouth like the Xenomorph species. It had no eyes, but a face based on the same principles of a Yautja. Behold the Predalien.
It looked straight at Netak. Netak was thinking two things at that very moment and they were Ôoh crap' and Ôthat would make an excellent addition to my trophy collection'. Unfortunately his mind was more focused on the Ôoh crap' part.
It roared at him and slowly began to approach him. Netak knew that by the time he could grab any of his weapons it would pounce on him and by the size of the claws and its brute strength he knew he'd be dead in a matter of seconds. The hunter dashed back to the storage room. Behind him he could hear the Predalien trailing him.
Instead of letting the automatic doors open he shoulder bashed them open with out losing any speed at all. The hunter jumped on a box and leaped from box to box heading to the air vent he had come from. Suddenly the creature flew right by him and scratched his side. There was a deep gash left from the claws. The Predalien had missed him that time and landed on a box far in front of him. Netak pulled out his disc. Just then it pounced at him again. Netak timed his jump to the next box and jumped over it. While he was still in the air he threw the disc at the Predalien, which landed on a box behind him. The Predalien, with amazingly strong legs, pounced away and dodged the disc. Netak was surprised to see any species do this.
He reached the air vent and climbed inside. When he got outside his disc flew out of the vent and back into his grip. It was night and there was a full moon. He ran across the extension and back to the armory pod. He looked back and saw the Predalien just crawling out of the vent. He quickly looked for an entrance, but found none. The hunter looked down the side and saw a light armored patch next to a platform that looked like he could blast through. He jumped down and switched to the plasma caster. It blew though the patch and he slipped inside.
The tunnel he was in was connected to an air vent. He blasted through that too. When he got out he realized he was in the armory. There were guns, explosives, missiles, grenades, and all sorts of weaponry. He dashed for the door. Before he got to it; it opened. Someone on the other side had opened it. Thinking it was a human Netak pulled out his spear and got ready to stab the person on the other side.
When he reached the doors they fully opened and he found himself face to face with Essra. They were so close it appeared as if they were about to kiss. Netak stepped back and saw his clan behind her. "What are you doing here?!" asked Netak. "We came here to recover you." answered Merc'rk. You look tired from running. How did that cut get on your mask?" asked Shou'nk referring to the cut over the eye of his mask from Rykov. It's a souvenir." answered Netak sarcastically. "We hunted our way here and this structure has very few soft meat left in it." said Reco'de. I can handle myself on my own. Your rescue was a waist of time." said Netak.
Just then the Predalien crawled out of the air vent and moved towards them. "What is that?" asked Essra. "I'll get it." said Reco'de activating his plasma caster and taking aim. "No, wait-" called Merc'rk, but it was too late. Reco'de fired and missed. He hit a box full of explosives and the explosions began to cause the boxes next to it to explode.
A chain reaction began. "It is my prey." said Netak pulling out his spear. "How come you get to hunt it?" asked Reco'de who was jealous. "Because I have been captured and I need as much honor as possible to get accepted back into our society. When I come back and the leaders realize I've been captured, by using the camera in my mask, they will either spare me with honor or execute me for being weak enough to be caught. That hard-meat would be enough honor for them to spare me. They all understood. The structure will explode by the time you kill the creature." said Essra. "Better I die here than at execution. replied Netak. He would get that trophy or die trying for his honor.
Merc'rk made a motion with his hand for his clan to follow him. The clan left to the lifts. Netak pulled out his spear. The Predalien was right in the doorway staring at him. The explosions and fire behind it made it all the more fearsome looking. Netak measured the distance between them. He would have to run for some distance. He began to step back. The Predalien followed him with every step. The hunter looked down the corridor behind him to see how much distance he could get in the limited time. Then the Predalien started its assault.
It slashed at him from several different angles. Netak started blocking them with his spear, while stepping back. He still needed some distance. He tripped the creature. While it was on its back he held his spear high with the point facing downward. Netak thrust his spear at the creature, but it knocked it away with its claws. While it was getting up its tail swung around and tripped Netak. The Predalien stood over him and was ready to make the finishing blow. Just then a big explosion came for the armory and went into the corridor. It knocked the Predalien forward into a wall where the corridor turned. The Predator watched the Predalien fly over him. Netak got up and ran down the corridor. He ran down the turn and through a door. Passed the door was the center of the pod.
The center was hollow and tube like. It was large and looked like it had half as much room as it was big on the outside. There were several platforms on the walls. He turned around and saw the Predalien running towards him. He noticed it was much slower than the drones, but when it pounced it was fast enough to dodge a disc. The Predator jumped to a platform at his right. He landed and jumped to the next one closely followed by the Predalien. The warrior turned around and saw the Predalien right in front of him. He felt claws run across his chest and rip off some skin. Netak fell to the ground with three deep cuts across his chest.
The Predalien gave a loud roar, but the Predator wasn't down yet. Netak kicked the Predalien's legs and tripped it. He got up and jumped on a lower platform. He had to get to the bottom and escape the pod before it blew up. Netak looked up and could see the explosions making their way down to him and the Predalien. The Predalien jumped next to Netak.
The fearless hunter grabbed his spear and attacked the Predalien. It batted away every strike with its claws and then attacked him. Netak blocked every attack the creature made at him. Then he saw an open spot to attack and took it. He slashed at its chest and gave a large deep cut across its chest. Acid blood dripped from the wound. The Predalien howled in pain. It attacked him again, but Netak ducked and dodged it. While he was getting up he gave another slash with the spear. This time he did it so fast acid blood sprayed out and got on Netak's right hip and thigh. The acid began to burn his skin and he fell off the platform. He fell about twenty feet onto another platform.
Netak was on his back looking up. He saw the explosions still coming down to him and the Predalien crawling along the walls to pounce. It pounced and landed on the platform he was on. The warrior grabbed his spear with his right hand and with his left grabbed hold of the rail to hold himself up. He could still feel the acid eating at his skin. The Predalien's wound was still dripping acid on the platform. Then the creature attacked him. The hunter was barley able to defend himself without the use of his right leg. He blocked every slash with his spear. Just then the tail came over and pierced his left biceps. This left it open and Netak plunged his spear into its thigh. Acid was now dripping allover the platform and it began to shake. The Predalien ripped its tail out of the hunter with some of his blood and flesh on it. The acid finally ate through it and it broke off.
The Predator and Predalien were both falling down the large tubic center off the pod, but this did not stop them from fighting. They were both dueling on their way down. Netak blocked any strike he could make out and the Predalien was making all the strikes it could at him.
Netak saw the floor coming up. He had only one thought in mind. The Predalien clawed at him again, but he grabbed its arm. Netak pulled it forward and let go. It was now under him and he was standing on its belly. He could not gather enough momentum to strike at the speed they were falling at. Netak moved the end of his spear to the front of the creature's neck. Moments after it touched its neck they hit the floor. The force of landing made the spear come down a cut right through the Predalien's neck, instant death.
Netak bent his legs ready for the impact, but his leg was damage from the acid, which now stopped its effects. The impact made more blood spill and ooze from the wound. He looked up and saw the explosions were getting closer. He was nearly dying from the blood loss. The hunter could barely stay awake.
There was a door to his right. In the door he saw his clan starring at him. Netak couldn't hold it any longer. He collapsed on the ground and fainted. Essra ran to him and pulled him to the door. He was somehow holding the Predalien's head by the dreadlocks in his sleep. They came outside and looked down. The pods weren't attached to the ground. They were held up in a canyon by extension. The pod was exploding and they had no way of getting down the 500 ft. left to the ground. They had all lost hope. The clan looked at their leader. Merc'rk looked at them. "We die together with honor." he said.
Suddenly a drop ship flew by in attack mode. The pilot was really clumsy because it kept wobbling. It stopped by the edge of the pod and started to hover as if waiting for them to jump on. Essra jumped first. Reco'de jumped second. Merc'rk with his big strong arms picked up Netak, who was still somehow managing to hold the Predalien head, and jumped on the drop ship. Shou'nk got on last.
As soon as they were on it flew away and let the pod explode behind them. A hatch opened up on top and Jason came out. "Hey guys. Glad you came to drop in. Get inside before you fall off." The clan climbed inside.
Mac-11CQB: There you go. I changed that part about the Predator decorating his trophy because of that review from Centanu, you Austin Powers maniac. Remember to review or the Predator will come to get you!