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Predators Vs. Tremors

Chapter 4: the Enemy of my Enemy...

Bert paced restlessly on the roof of the store. He needed to get to his weapons, but with both Shriekers and Graboids on the ground, his chances were slim to none.

Suddenly, loud bangs echoed in the dry desert air. He raced over to one of the sides of the store and watched as the aliens shot at the Shriekers. The little buggers shrieked in anger and scattered as they were slaughtered.

"Well, at least they are prepared," Earl grumbled angrily. He was in this situation once before and he didn't like it then and, sure as hell, didn't like it now.

"Well excuse me! I didn't expect these aliens showing up, nor did I expect the Graboids to change this early. If I had my elephant gun, I'd be blowing those suckers away right now," Bert shot back, tired of Earl's constant grumbling.

Earl just glared angrily at Bert, and then continued to watch as one of the alien's threw a spear and killed yet another of the Shriekers.

An'tir'de and his group shot at their prey. These creatures were completely new, and the Yautja were unsure of their defenses; they would kill the creatures first, study them later.

The humans were not doing much on the structure they took shelter on. They knew about the worm-creature, and they probably knew about the small creatures as well.

At least they know what's going on.

An'tir'de had gotten over his surprise and was now angry. Why weren't we notified about these creatures? Have we been sent on a suicide mission? He didn't think that was the case, but he didn't completely dismiss the idea.

An'tir'de sighed and threw his spear at one of the two-legged creatures, killing it instantly. By the looks of the planet's sun, it would be nightfall very soon, and he didn't want to have to spend the night on top of the structure.

He watched as the creatures ran in circles, while his group shot at them. Why doesn't the worm creature attack them? The two creatures must be related in some way to coexist without destroying each other. An'tir'de fired at yet another creature that dared to approach. This may take awhile, he thought to himself.

-1 hour later-

It was dark now, but the night was occasionally lit up by the bright, electric blue, shot from the aliens. The group had managed to get some supplies out of the store and they were now hunkered down trying to figure out what to do next.

From the occasional puff of dirt from the ground the group knew that the Graboid was still present.

"I don't get it. Why doesn't the Graboid go after the Shriekers?" Earl asked watching the little creatures run around the building.

"Haven't you heard? The government did a study and found out that the Graboids are able to detect and recognize the Shriekers' screams, so it knows to leave them alone. The Ass-blaster Senor Blanco killed had my watch on it. That's probably the only reason the Graboid went after it," Bert replied, painfully remembering that particular battle.

"Uh, guys, you... might want to take a look at this!" Eliza shouted from one side of the building. Bert and Earl watched as the Shriekers began to hop on boxes stacked next to the convenience store to reach the roof.

"Damn! Does the convenience store have any shovels or pick-axes or something we could use to knock these things away?" Bert asked looking around.

"Yeah... yeah there are some shovels," one of the locals, Charley, replied. "Me and Jose can get them." The two men ran over to the side of the building and tried to get into the store.

An'tir'de and his group watched in amusement as the creatures began to get closer to the top of the structure the humans were on. The humans began to run frantically around, panicking.

I wonder how the humans will fare against these creatures?

Jose lowered Charley down to the window of the store. Charley got his footing and slid through the window, Jose right behind him. Once in the store, the two men climbed from counter to counter eventually coming to when three shovels were leaning against a wall. They headed back towards the window each carrying a shovel.

"Bert! Over here!" Charley shouted holding up the shovel.

"Thanks," Bert replied taking the shovel and reaching down to grab the second that Jose had handed to Charley. Suddenly, Charley screamed as two of the Graboid's tongues wrapped around his leg, pulled him off the window, and underground.

"No!" Jose screamed as Charley was pulled under. Jose screamed again as the Graboid's tongues tried to grab him next. He pushed himself into the store and fell of the counter onto the hard wood floor. The Graboid burst threw the floor as if it was made of tissue paper.

Miraculously, Jose managed to dodge the Graboid and race out of the store. Now not only was he on the ground, all the Shriekers saw him and were racing in his direction. The others on the building were screaming at him to run, but Jose knew he was already dead.

He glanced over and saw Bert's elephant gun and the car with the remote near Bert's truck. He raced over to the controller for the car and shouted, "Catch!" With that, he picked up the controller and threw it on the roof where Earl managed to catch it.

Then he picked up the elephant gun and began to shoot the approaching Shriekers. He took two down before one barreled into him and all he knew was darkness.

The Yautja heard a human scream and turned towards the settlement. They watched as one human raced out of the building, threw something to its fellows, and shot at the approaching creatures.

The Yautja bowed their heads as the human was killed. It had put up an honorable fight.

Now what? An'tir'de thought looking at the remaining humans.

At the cost of the lives of Charley and Jose, the remaining five humans down had a way to kill the Graboid and some defense against the Shriekers that were nearing the top of the convenience store.

"Hey Bert, we got the remote for the car; do you have the detonator?" Earl shouted as he ran over to Bert who was beating the Shriekers away with one of the shovels.

"Yeah, here," Bert handed Earl his hand-held detonator. Earl ran to the edge of the building and started Graboid fishing.

"Leader, you may want to see this," one of the students, Ani'de, called to him. An'tir'de walked over to where the student stood. The student pointed to a tiny machine moving across the ground around the building where the humans were on.

"What are they doing?" An'tir'de wondered aloud as the small car was taken under by the worm-creature. His question was quickly answered when an explosion underground went off and chunks of the worm creature flew through the air.

"They killed it... I can't believe the humans killed the creature," An'tir'de said in an awe-struck voice. Maybe they're not a stupid as we thought.

Well, that's chapter 4. I'm finally back from vacation, but I'll be going to school soon which means longer delays for my stories. I hoped you enjoyed it and REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!!!