Ellis looked around at the frightened faces of the men and women in the drop ship and couldn't help but wonder how many wouldn't be coming back. She looked at Jack who had taken off the tactical helmet and set it in his lap. He seemed to be looking at her through the corner of his eye but when she looked at him he looked strait ahead. Ellis smiled and continued looking around the room. Finally she looked into the corner of the ship and saw her "friend" plastered to his seat looking at her with fear in his eyes. When he saw she was looking at him he lowered his hand to his sidearm until he saw 3 laser dots on his chest.

'Shit.' He thought. 'Why me?'

Ellis suppressed a snicker as she turned off her sights and looked forward.

"Leave him alone." Sara whispered. "Or he's gonna piss himself again."

"I'm not doing anything." Ellis said. "He is just everywhere."

Sara leaned back in her seat and sighed and looked out the window as the ship entered the planets atmosphere. The windows were quickly covered by heat treated armor as the ship went through reentry. As soon as the ship was clear from the heat the shutters lowered and Sara say their objective. She saw the HQ crawling with Xenomorphs. They were all trying to get into the mess hall where the survivors were. The ship landed on the landing pad on the roof of the Mess hall and the ramp was lowered and the APC drove out and opened its doors. The Marines all ran out and ran to the side of the building and started firing at the ocean of Xenomorphs. Sara, Jack, Tim and Ellis ran to a hatch and threw it open. Several civilians burst from the hatch and crowded into the APC. The driver closed the door when it was full and drove into the ship and it lifted off to carry them to the main ship then return for more. Sara and Ellis jumped into the mess hall and ran to the CO.

"Sir the 127th and 128th will secure the room get yourself and you're wounded to the roof." Sara said.

"Thank you Sergeant." The CO said and ran to the latter leading to the roof.

Xenomorphs were breaking into the Mess Hall only to be met with a shower of 30mm bullets and some blaster shots that passed right through the Xenomorphs. The acidic blood from the Xenomorphs was eating through the walls letting more and more into the room. Sara and the others were back to back firing in all directions but the Xenomorphs just kept coming.

"Ok Jack, Tim get to the roof we'll follow." Sara yelled as she reloaded her rifle.

"Got it." Jack yelled shouldering his rifle and climbing the latter.  

"Ellis as soon as they are clear get yourself up the latter." Sara yelled.

"I won't leave you alone." Ellis said. "You go first I'll follow."

"Don't argue with me." Sara yelled firing at the nearest Xenomorph.

"Fine." Ellis said and grabbed the latter.

She started to climb then reached back and grabbed Sara by her vest and lifted her off her feet and tossed her above her head onto the latter.

"Whoa." Sara yelled as she grabbed the latter. "Ok so I'll go first."

Sara and Ellis climbed the latter as fast as they could and jumped out of the hatch. Once they were clear several Marines dropped grenades into the Mess Hall and slammed the hatch just as they exploded. The drop ship was just landing back on the roof and loading as many people as they could into the now empty ship. They left the APC on the ship for the room. Everyone crammed into the ship and it closed its door and lifted off clearing the way for another ship that had been launched. Ellis and the rest of the 127th and 128th backed up as the people loaded into the ship.

"We're over loading." The pilot said.

"Ok 128th get off." Sara said and jumped off the ship. 

The ship closed its doors and lifted off sending the call to the main ship that a platoon was left behind. Sara and her 8 man team with Ellis formed a perimeter around the roof and shot any Xenomorph that got to the roof.

"Well now we wait." Sara said.

All of a sudden the Xenomorphs all turned around and ran away as if they were afraid of something and Sara looked at her team and shrugged.

"What was that about?" She asked.

"I don't like this." One of the men said.

"This can't be good." The man that Ellis scars the shit out of said.

They were all looking around for what might have scared the Xenomorphs away when the ground in front of the mess hall caved in. Sara and her team wasted no time in throwing some grenades into the hole hoping to kill what whatever it was. After the explosions the team looked in the direction of the hole and saw no movement.

"Did we get it?" Tim asked.

Ellis looked at the hole closely then pulled her spear and unfolded it.

"Ellis what is it?" Sara asked.

"Big." Ellis said.

Everyone looked at the hole and saw something moving inside. A large hand emerged from the hole and grabbed holed of a tower and lifted the body out. It was about 30 feet long high and 10 feet long and looked like a worm.

"Is that a Xenomorph?" Jack asked.

"Shoot first ask questions later." Sara said as she started shooting at the large monster.

The whole team started shooting and throwing grenades at it but had no affect. The monster slowly made its way to them.

"Shit we're not stopping it." Sara yelled as she backed up.

"Its mine." Ellis said stepping forward and raising her spear.

"Your crazy." Jack said.

"Just stay out of my way." Ellis said taking a fighting stance.

The large Xenomorph slowly made its way to Ellis and the others but it was moving so slow that Ellis got tired of waiting and rushed the beast full speed. She jumped off of the building and hit the ground with a roll and was back on her feet and running. The thrill of battle filled Ellis's heart and she smiled from beneath her mask. The Xenomorph took a swipe at Ellis with a 10 foot arm but Ellis just ducked it and kept running. She let out a battle cry as she lunged with her spear but to her surprise it bounced off of the Xenomorphs armor. She took several steps back and fired at it with her blaster just to have it deflected back at her. She managed to jump clear of the blast then took her fighting stance again.

"Ellis its armor plated you can't win get out of there." Sara yelled.

Ellis ignored Sara and kept in her stance at least she would keep it away from the others. She was ducking blows from the monster and looking for a weakness.

'It's got to have one.' She thought. 'Everything does.'

The monster took another swing at her and she had to roll forward to avoid getting hit. She took the chance to stab at it again. But as before her spear just bounced off. The monster let out a roar and quickly picked her up with a powerful hand.

'Oh great.' She thought as she was raised to its mouth. 'It wants to eat me.'

Ellis got so close she could smell its breath. She was even starting to panic as she was shoved into its mouth. The jaws snapped shut with no way out.

"ELLIS!!" Sara yelled trying to jump off the building but Jack and Tim pulled her back.

The monster took another step forward before stopping. There was an expression of anguish on its face and one of the Marines laughed.

"It bit off more than it can chew." He laughed.

He laterally fell on his back with tears rolling down his face from laughing so hard. Some of the other Marines looked at him as he laughed but there attention quickly went back to the monster as it mad a groan without opening its mouth. It started stumbling then fell on its side. Acid blood was pouring from its nose and its eyes were glazed over. The whole team ran to the beast and looked on in amazement. No one said a word out of respect for Ellis except the one soldier that was still snickering as he walked up to the monsters mouth. He reached out his hand and knocked on the teeth.

"You in there?" He laughed.

"Get—Me—Out." Was the only reply from inside the monsters mouth.

This earned another fit of laughter from the soldier as the rest of the team started pulling on the bottom jaw of the monster. Soon Ellis stepped out of the mouth covered in slobber. She was dripping from her arms and face with drool. The marine had stopped laughing but had the dumbest look on his face as he tried to keep from bursting into laughter at the sight of Ellis covered in drool. She took one hand wan wiped her face and slung the slobber to the floor with a splat. That was the last straw. The marine completely fell apart. His rifle fell to the ground with him right beside it in absolute hysterics.

"Is it that funny?" Ellis asked.

The only reply was a deep breath from him followed by another round of laughing. Some of the others including Jack, Tim and Sara started snickering at the sight of him flopping around on the ground like a fish out of water. Ellis folded her spear up and slung it around her back and leaned over the solder and lifted him off the ground with both hands. He stopped laughing right away and looked on in fear again.

"Now listen." Ellis said. "First you slapped my butt in the shower and now your laughing at me?"

"I'm sorry." He said starting to shake.

Ellis dropped him and turned back to the monster that had just tried to eat her. The neck was lightly covered with armor so she pulled her spear out and started stabbing at it until the 4 foot long 2 foot high head was severed.

"This will make a nice trophy." She said as she used a mist that stripped all flesh and meat from the skull.

She looked at her newest trophy and smiled. She threw it over her shoulder just as the drop ship returned to pick them up. The whole way back Ellis was admiring her trophy. Once they were docked she headed right for the shower letting Sara take the trophy to her room that she shared with 10 other females on the ship. However there was one free bunk seeing as one of the girls had been in her unit when they met Ellis. Sara has watched as she was ripped apart and she hated the Xeno's for that. She was like a sister to Sara and the only one that knew she was pregnant before Tim and Jack found out. She walked to the bunk and unrolled the cushion and set the trophy on it then stretched out on her rack and quickly fell asleep.