I' back with chapter 5! I'd like to take this moment to thank EVERYONE who has reviewed so far. Blackdawn brought my attention to the fact that I have 40 reviews for this story, with only four chapters. Although I have read each review numerous times, I never would have dreamed that I would get so much support for my story. Thanks everybody! Now on to chapter 5! (BTW I got the titles for chapter 4 and 5 from the AVP movie.)
Predator Vs. Tremors
Chapter 5: ...is my Friend
"Wahoo!" All of the humans shouted with the death of the Graboid. Now the only thing they had to do was get rid of the Shriekers.
"Hey guys! The Shriekers are running off!" Kate yelled over to Bert and Earl, who at the moment were jumping up and down celebrating.
"What? They're running off? I don't like the sound of that..." Bert said running over to where the Shriekers used to be. "I think their going somewhere to mutate into Ass-Blasters. Let's go downstairs and check the seismograph."
The five humans ran back down into the store and checked the monitor.
"There! See it; that one...but where's the other one?" Eliza said pointing to a red dot.
"Our buddy probably already changed to Shrieker form," Bert said with a sigh. "Great; not only do we have a Graboid and a couple Ass-blasters to deal with, who knows how many Shriekers are out there?"
"Don't forget out old invisible-buddies over on the water tower," Earl reminded everyone.
"Yeah, are they still there?" Kate asked.
The five people ran to the doorway. By the looks of things, the aliens were long gone.
"Well, it looks like they left... Either way, I'm heading over to my place to get more bombs and a lot more guns," Bert said grabbing his keys off the counter.
"I'm coming with you." Earl said. Looking at the two girls and remaining guy, James, Earl said, "Stay inside by the monitors. If you see or hear anything coming your way, hide in the freezer."
"Take my Elephant gun," Bert said gesturing for the others to come outside.
Once they were ready, Bert and Earl set off towards Bert's place.
As soon as the two-legged creatures ran off, the Yautja climbed down from the structure they were on and headed off in the direction of their ship; it would probably only take an hour or two to get there.
Half-way there they passed a large human compound. It seemed a lot like a human military base. Before An'tir'de told the group to continue on, Treken walked up to An'tir'de and show him a scanner of the ship.
"Leader, we may have a problem."
The ship's scanner had access to the ship main computer data base and could receive pictures from monitors; the picture showed that over a dozen of the two-legged creatures gathered around the ship; probably attracted by the excess heat in the area from the landing.
"We shall kill them when we reach the ship," An'tir'de replied quickly.
"We do not have that many shots left with our weapons. Combined the students and I only have three shots left, and you have two. Plus the students are tired, and it will greatly affect their efficiency in fighting. We alone could not take down that many creatures."
An'tir'de sighed at this news. These creatures did indeed pose a large problem; they were just going to have to improvise.
"We will take shelter in those rock hills and head out for the ship tomorrow," An'tir'de said standing up and rallying his group.
The attack came unexpectedly. Bert was just ahead of Earl when he saw dust coming up from under the ground. Bert stuck his head out his window and yelled back to Earl, "Graboid at Eight o'clock!"
"I see him!" Earl shouted back. There was a small pause, and then Earl screamed, "Bert! Above you!"
Bert looked up just in time to see an Ass-blaster come crashing down on the hood of his car. Bert jerked the steering wheel to the right and came skidding to a stop. As the Ass-blaster was busying itself with Bert's car, Bert raced over to a ten foot tall, rock hill. He had to get off the ground before the Graboid went after him.
As he approached the hill, he saw the ground behind him shift as the Graboid came in for the kill. Bert made it to the rock hill and began to climb as the Graboid erupted from the ground. Unfortunately, Bert grabbed a loose rock and began to fall backwards into the Graboid's grasp.
Suddenly, Bert stopped falling and instead was pulled up by his foot and tossed onto the rock ledge. Bert heard Earl drive by making a commotion, and then he heard the Graboid racing away to hunt its new meal.
"What on Earth?" Bert asked sitting up. Bert's eyes widened as five aliens appeared right all around him.
An'tir'de heard the commotion and raced over to the ledge to watch. There seemed to be some sort of being flying through the air. 'Yet another strange creature?' An'tir'de thought to himself; soon nothing would be able to surprise him.
He saw the human stop its' transport and race over to the rock hill they were residing on. They were cloaked so the creature couldn't see them, but An'tir'de ordered his group back anyway. The human began to climb as another worm creature erupted from the ground.
An'tir'de reached out and caught the human as it fell, and threw it up on the rock. He watched as another human transport went by, causing the flying and worm creature to follow it.
An'tir'de and his group uncloaked and stared at the human which held completely still.
"What should we do with it?" Treken asked.
"Kill it?" one of the unblooded, Vir'nde proposed.
"It's unarmed, we can't kill it," Ani'de said.
"You are right Ani'de; the code says we can't kill it," An'tir'de said to the student. Suddenly an idea exploded into An'tir'de's head. An'tir'de smile and kneeled down close to the human.
"I think I have a use for you."
Woohoo! I've finally gotten over this writers-block thing that has caused many problems with this story! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and don't forget to review or I won't update! (Evil music plays in background while Bastet laughs evilly, "Muahahahaha!")