Chapter 10: Back to fighting Aliens

There was a lot of weapons and equipment inside. In the pilot seat they found Sean. Merc'rk approached the pilot seat and sat down in the co pilot's chair. "So you came back." "Yeah, did you get your clan mate." "Yep. He's unconscious at the moment. Do you have anything that will suppress sound?" "Um. Earmuffs." He said handing the Predator a pair of earmuffs. Merc'rk handed them back. "For you. Put them on." Sean put them on and a loud roar came from behind him.

They were using the medicomp on Netak's acid wound. It was working painfully. Essra had a spoon and was using it to put a blue jelly-like substance on his burnt thigh. Netak, now awake without his mask, was lying down on the floor. Essra pulled out a large needle and shot it into his hip. He gave another loud roar of pain. "That's it." she said. A few seconds later the wound was completely healed. Netak got up and was able to walk just fine now.

Essra was now at a desk with some Pred equipment. She had what looked like a blowtorch and had it aimed at Netak's mask on the desk. She was about to seal up the scar damage down the eye from Rykov, but Netak stopped her. "Leave that there. It is a battle scar from honorable prey." he said as he grabbed his mask and put it on. "Well at least let me fix your cloaking device." she said.

Sean pulled off the earmuffs and set them away. "How did you get this ship? Only the other oomans have it." asked Merc'rk. "We stole it from some corps." answered Sean. "Thanks." "Your welcome."

Things went normal for the rest of the flight. Reco'de was sharpening his weapons. Essra was typing on her Yautja labtop. Netak was skinning the Predalien's head and admiring the trophy of Rykov. Merc'rk was talking with Sean and Shou'nk was talking with Jason.

They got to the base pretty fast. They landed and walked outside. There were fewer men than before. "What happened?!" asked Shou'nk in surprise. "We were attacked by bugs after you left." answered Jason. Sean got up on an APC and began to speak. "All right men. The last thing we need to do to get out of here is go through the hive and get to the Drop zone. Since the ship is on a different part of the planet we need to get to a point where we they can land and pick us up. I'm not gonna give you a pep talk, because I'm no good at that stuff, but, hey, we made it this far. All I can say is good luck. You're all brave men." Then he got off the APC. That must have done something to the marines.

They all had a look of determination on their faces. The marines and the Predators walked to the hive entrance. It looked like the creepiest cave you ever seen. "Funny." said Essra. "What! We're heading into a hive with a slim chance of survival, lost our clan leader, and are probably going to be disgraced for siding with humans and you find humor in that!" yelled Reco'de in a rage. "No, this is the only hive on the planet and one queen can't make enough hardmeat to cover the planet." This sorta spooked everybody out.

They entered the hive. Jason was nervous again, just as he was when Shou'nk found him in the tree. Sean was pretty cool about it. The Predators had been in dangerous situations and were used to it (minus Shou'nk).

It was dark. The marines had their shoulder lights on and the Predators didn't need it because of their thermal vision. Sean made a motion with his hand at something behind him. The APCs began moving in and they turned on their lights. The automatic cannon switched on and started turning around. Jason clenched his pulse rifle. They went deeper and deeper.

A sound filled the air. It sounded like low static. The Predators pulled out their favorite weapons. A herd of bugs came running from the direction they were heading. The Marines started firing at them.

In all the chaos it was hard to see what was going on. Merc'rk was firing his pistol wildly. He blew away another enemy. Just then a tail hit him. He flew back and landed on an APC. The APC was also firing at the aliens. Merc'rk got up and the alien pounced on him. His wrist blades came out and with his super strength he stabbed the alien and ripped it in half. Small drops of acid fell on his stomach, but it wasn't enough to keep him down.

Reco'de fired his plasma caster at several enemies. The burst burned them and they lit on fire. A drone pounced towards him. The young hunter pulled out his spear and blocked its claws or more accurately cut them off as it tried to claw him. Its tail zoomed at him to stab him. Reco'de jumped over it and came down with his spear aimed at the drone's head.

Netak threw his disc and pulled out his spear. While the disc was killing the aliens one pounced at him. He moved aside and stabbed it in the ribs. Another drone attacked him. He dodged the attack and then pierced its head with the spear. An alien pounced at him. Just then the disc came right through it, cut it in half, and went into Netak's hands.

Essra was firing her spear gun at the creatures attacking her. She shot another in the mouth. Shou'nk ran next to her and held up a shurken. "Do you think a queen could make this many hard meat?" he asked while throwing a shurken. "No. This is an enormous amount. It's too many to come from a queen."

Suddenly the bugs stopped coming and all left. Jason approached the clan. "Well, that was weird." They kept going deeper into and found something amazing.

The queen was on a triple nest. The nests looked like long tubes made of gunk with eggs in them. Not only that, this queen was larger than normal. It had four arms. It had a longer tail than normal and its mouth was dripping acid.

"What the hell is that?!" asked Sean. Merc'rk scanned it with his mask. "It's a king hard meat." "What!" yelled Jason. "My scanner reads a male." Essra seemed quite calm. "Well, the queens have to have come from somewhere." she said. Apparently the king was asleep. It slowly woke up and stared at them. It roared the loudest roar that they have ever heard before. Then it slowly got off its nest.

"Oh shit." quoted Jason.

Mac-11 CQB: Well that's where I'll stop for now. Cliffhanger for ya. Remember to review or I won't update. That's the best threat I'll ever made so far.