Ryan walked down to the front entrance of the shopping centre, he was right. The entrance was covered in an alien substance, it looked like organic machinery. It was black and dripping with some translucent goo, it was immense in size and dwarfed Ryan where he stood. There was an immense heat billowing from within the terrifying darkness of the hive.
Ryan walked cautiously into the hive, his feet squelched on the soft floor. The heat hit him like a truck; he began to sweat extremely hard. But Ryan just walked on, further and further into the dark, hot haven of the aliens. He saw some features that this place used to be a shopping centre, there were tables fused into the walls by the organic material; also there were items like toys and kitchen appliances wedged into the walls. Ryan turned a corner and stopped, for what lay before him was a horrible sight.
He had reached the birth chamber. It looked a lot like the other areas but this one used different materials in the walls. People were wedged in the walls, men, women and children; their limbs were twisted in the wrong positions so they would fit. They all had a look of extreme pain on their faces, and they all had a hole in their chests. And lying around the room were empty facehugger eggs. Ryan looked horrified at what he saw; I'd better find Laura, and fast! he thought.
Ryan ran down the corridors of dead people, looking at their faces in case on of them was Fox. The masses of bodies seem to go on forever. Ryan looked at his watch; it was 1:05pm. He had fifty five minutes to get Fox and Hawk out of there and reach the evac point with the others. Suddenly he heard a voice.
"Wolf…" it said.
Ryan spun in its direction, it was Hawk. He was stuck in the wall with a look of sheer terror and urgency. Ryan ran over to him, Hawk was dripping with the translucent goo that dripped from the walls.
"Wolf…help me, it's moving…" Hawk winced.
"I'm going to get you out of here man, don't worry." Ryan said as he made to tear the alien goo holding him to the walls.
"No…you can't…kill me…" he pleaded.
Ryan looked at Hawk in sadness. He knew that all he could do for Hawk was to put him out of his misery. Hawk began to convulse.
"Kill me!...Kill me!" he wheezed.
He began to convulse more violently, a lump bulged under his armour. Ryan whipped out his sword and sliced Hawk across the throat. He was dead instantly, but that didn't stop the alien. It burst though his armour in a shower of blood that splattered onto Ryan's face. Ryan jumped back, the baby alien was hanging out of Hawk's chest; it was hissing loudly and trying to get to him. Ryan flicked an alien finger into its head and it dropped to the floor.
Fox woke with a start, her vision blurred. She moved her head to click her neck back into place, she tried to rub her face to get the feeling back but found she couldn't move her hand. Her eyes snapped into focus, she saw that her hands were glued to the walls by some sticky substance. She tried to tear her hands away but she couldn't. It was then that she saw the egg.
An unopened facehugger egg sat in front of her, she recognised it instantly. It was pulsing slowly, which meant that it was reacting to her presence. She tried harder to free herself, but it was no good. She heard a slippery, wet sound and looked back at the egg.
The egg opened to reveal a thin, organic ball that was pulsing slowly. Fox froze, the terror overwhelmed her. The organic skin on the ball began to break, some finger like legs protruded from within it. The facehugger crawled slowly onto the edge of the egg and over the top. Fox screamed as the facehugger came further and further out of the egg. It poised in a jumping position, ready to strike. What happened next seemed to happen in slow motion.
As the facehugger crouched a finger knife whistled through the air towards it. The second its legs left the egg, the finger hit it square through the brain and flung it across the chamber. It hit the wall opposite and was pinned by the finger. Fox looked to the source of the throw.
Ryan quickly walked out of the shadows to where Fox was held. He drew his sword, aimed carefully and then swung. He sliced her slimy bonds in three strokes. She fell into his arms, grabbed his face and kissed him. It was a passionate, intense kiss that seemed to last an eternity.
When she withdrew, she spoke.
"I knew you'd come." she said.
Ryan gazed into her eyes.
"I love you." he said.
"I love you too." she replied.
She kissed him again. But then they were interrupted by an alien scream down the corridor Ryan had appeared from. It was close, very close.
"Let's go." Ryan said.
With Fox in his arms, Ryan took off down the opposite corridor he had come through. Fox looked behind them but still couldn't see the aliens. Ryan turned a corner and stopped dead in his tracks. This was defiantly not where he wanted to be.
Ryan with Fox in his arms were standing in a field of facehugger eggs. There were hundreds of them, all scattered around the chamber. The chamber itself was the major department store of the shopping centre; it was huge, at least 200 metres in width. But in the centre of the room was the most horrifying thing in the whole nest.
It looked like a gigantic statue; it had a huge crest on its head that split like a trident at the end. It had six huge prongs coming out of its back, with four arms folded across its front. It also had a long, thick tube about two meters thick attached to its rear. Suddenly the thing raised its head, a set of jaws with huge teeth lowered from the front of the crest. It was the Queen Alien. She looked like a giant alien only with another set of arms and a huge crest.
The Queen let out a slow hiss\roar. Aliens began to close in on the entrances to the chamber. Damn it! Ryan thought; he looked around the room. There was no way that he could take them all out, but he guessed he had no choice.
Ryan put Fox down and drew his staff and his sword. The aliens readied themselves for the attack. They aliens leapt into the air, about five at once with others to follow. Ryan whacked three of them aside with his staff and sliced one in half with his sword. The fifth one he caught with his staff after flinging the other three aside. The two of them wrestled while the three discarded aliens got up and charged towards them. The rest of the alien force began to enter the egg chamber.
Ryan stabbed his alien through the head and kicked it off him. He leapt up to see the onrush of alien's stream towards him. He raised his weapons, though he knew this would be his end.
Then a shape landed in the middle of the alien hoard and swung a weapon and killed ten aliens in one stroke. Ryan looked amazed, the figure back flipped out of the alien hoard, striking a few down as he went, before landing next to Ryan and Fox. Light hit their face, it was Snake.
"Snake! What are you doing here?" Ryan said in disbelief.
"The others sent me to get you now go!" Snake shouted as he hacked three aliens down with his sword.
The Queen screamed in anger, she didn't want her prey to escape. She began to stand up, tearing at the tube's connection to her. It began to break.
"GO!" Snake shouted again.
"What about you?" Ryan yelled.
"Forget me just go!"
Ryan hesitated; Snake couldn't hold the aliens off forever. They would kill him. Ryan tried to help him but Snake pushed him away as he hacked two more aliens.
"Go! Or you won't make the evac on time!" he yelled.
Ryan did as he was told, he grabbed fox and ran out of the chamber. He followed the way he came in and soon enough he was out of the nest and into the daylight. He ran down the street to where the others were waiting with Fox in his arms.
Snake was spinning and twirling around at lightning speed back in the nest. He hacked aliens left and right, but there were just too many of them. The longer he fought the harder it got. Suddenly a shadow cast over him.
The Queen stood behind him, she towered above the battle. Snake reacted instantly. He jumped onto her knee and sliced through her thigh and flipped off and onto the ground. The Queen roared and swung her huge hand at him. She hit him square in the chest and flung him across the chamber. He got up slowly just as she reached him. He jumped away but she caught him in her hands. He sliced her hand with his sword and jumped straight up, but that was what the Queen was expecting. She fired out her giant inner mouth and punched it straight through Snake's entire torso. His bloodied corpse fell to the ground splattered all over the floor. The Queen roared in triumph and directed her aliens to help her chase the escaped humans.