Chapter 16: Triple Race Warfare

Mac-11: I have returned with my new chapter. And I'd also like to thank those of you who reviewed my fic. It's the inspiration I need to update. You'll probably be enjoying you're Christmas too much to read this on Christmas day so I'm updating now. This chapter is my present to you. Merry Christmas everyone! God bless you all!

Several more spearhead shaped ships entered the atmosphere. These were carrying 4,000 more blooded Yautja warriors. Sentr'ck had heard the explanation and ordered more warriors. Once the Yautja got off the ships took off into space again.

The Marines from around the planet had just finished getting in formation to surround the ruins. They were in a circle that was about three miles in diameter. That meant every marine squad was about one and a half miles away from the ruins. The entrance was at the south end of the ruins and all five thousand Yautja were going to attack from the south along with all the humans on the base that was south of the ruins.

The Predators readied themselves and were extremely eager to spill acid blood. Every Predator was fully armed and would be able to take out dozens of insect Xenomorphs, but Merc'rk feared that even they would not be enough. It was more of how many numbers they had and when it came to numbers the aliens always won.

Jentr'ck showed them a flat path to the ruins. It was a road the Ancients used long ago that lead straight to the entrance of the ruins. The road was covered in grass with few trees on it and it was several yards wide. At its sides were walls of trees.

The Predators and marines walked on the path towards the ruins. Several marines set up sentry guns and activated them. The battle plan was that the predators advanced and the marines stayed behind and supported their fire to help start their advance then advance themselves.

Richard had divided the coffee in the trucks and humvees evenly among the predators and had been passing them out to them. It was plain to see he was good at math, but only for coffee's sake. Amazingly there was enough for every warrior to have one cup. None of the predators believed anything about what they had been told coffee could do, but they would soon find out.

Jason, Sean, and the gang began setting up sentry guns when Meagan ran up to them. To their surprise she was wearing a combat uniform and battle armor and she was carrying her dual pistols that she had taken from Sean and Jason and a belt with ammo clips. It was silent for a second...... then they all fell down laughing. "Hey just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't fight," she said.

Suddenly an earthquake started. Everyone braced themselves. Far off in the distance they could easily see what had caused it. The whole ancient civilization that was buried underground where the ancient predators were frozen was rising up from the ground. The ancient Predator king, who was standing next to Merc'rk on the frontline, looked extremely sad. It was their home for countless years and now they were to launch an attack on it for a mistake they had made. "We built the machines under it to make it rise automatically once the plasma ice was completely melted," he said. Moments after that a black cloud began to spread from out of the ruins.

The Insect Xenomorphs covered the ground like a black blanket of death. Several of the winged Xenomorphs flew out and filled the sky. Deep in the jungle next to the ruins the egg sac that the spiders were in began to hatch.

The Yautja began their charge down the path towards the ruins. During their charge their wrist computers popped open and began a count down. The Xenomorph army ran to attack their opponents. The battle was set, 5,000 coffee charged Predators and about 20,000 marines vs. millions of Insect Xenomorphs.

In the front of the charge was Merc'rk. He fired his plasma flechette and the beam of raw plasma energy tore through hundreds of aliens. An acid spitter pounced towards him, but before it could reach him Sentr'ck blew it away with his plasma caster. Merc'rk led the predator's assault hacking his way towards the ruin. Pulse rifle bullets began flying everywhere and the large battle broke out.

All around the ruins the insect aliens attempted their vast over spread, but it was halted by the other marine bases.

Sean, Jason, and the gang watched in amazement as the Predators began to hack their way through the alien army. Many of the predators had already lost their lives, but they kept going on strong. Steve was behind them manning a futuristic version of a howitzer. He shoved in the massive shell and aimed it towards the alien army. He fired and the large shell flew out of the barrel and directly into the black blanket of aliens. It tore through a huge portion of them and indeed had helped the predators advance.

Out on the battlefield Merc'rk realized this was going to take far too long to reach the ancient civilization where the queen was. If the queen could produce this many warriors in that short amount of time then it was still producing them and at this rate they would never win. He had yet to see what this queen looked like or what it could do. Surely if its spawn were this powerful it must be impressive.

Them an idea hit the clan leader as one of the butterfly-like Xenomorphs flew over him. He remembered that in his fight with the first one he encountered after he ripped the head off its body would glide through the air. If he could glide over the battlefield then he could get to the ancient civilization faster with less opposition. "Cover me!" he yelled to Sentr'ck. The royal Predator ran next to the clan leader and hacked away at any alien that attempted to take a swipe at the clan leader. Merc'rk waited for one of the butterflies to fly over him. When one finally did he used his powerful legs to launch himself in the air.

He flew at least fifty feet high when he grabbed onto its legs. He held onto its leg with one arm and with his other aimed his plasma flechette at its head. One clean shot and the beam practically vaporized its head. The wings went limp and its body began to glide through the air. He then aimed his plasma flechette at the ground and fired. It acted like a jet and pushed him higher in the air along with killing countless Xenomorphs.

He was now holding onto two of its legs and hanging under it just like a parachute. Merc'rk slightly shifted his weight and made the dead body turn its glide towards the ruins. He activated the walkie-talkie in his mask to tell the clan. "Everyone, I have an idea!" he said. "Right behind you!" came Reco'de's voice. He looked behind himself and saw his clan had also grabbed a butterfly and had sliced off the head and they were all now gliding to the ruins together.

Just when everything looked smooth one of the water striders flew up towards Merc'rk and attempted to slice of the wings of his butterfly. With everyone's hands holding onto the legs of their butterflies there was only one that could kill it with out using their hands and that was Reco'de. Both his plasma casters activated and aimed for the water strider, each fired a single shot the completely blew away the alien's body.

Surely with these powerful weapons the queen didn't stand a chance... or could it, Merc'rk thought to himself.

In the air their only defense was Reco'de. Both his plasma casters were automatically targeting any alien that few too close to one of his clan mates.

They finally reached the ancient civilization and had a clear view of everything from above. To their surprise absolutely all the aliens were out fighting and there were none in the ancient cities.

The cities were huge and they could spot several things that modern Yautja had. But nothing was as big or as old as the massive pyramid at the center of it all. The pyramid was one and a half times the size of the Egyptians kind and this one had markings carved on every brick. The queen must be in there, they all thought.

Their butterflies were now gliding slower and lower to the ground. They let go of their butterflies and landed out in the streets of the ancient city. As they hit the ground they pulled out their weapons and kept alerted. They walked through the streets towards the pyramid.

Meanwhile...

"Did you see that?" asked Steve. They had all seen the Predators grab onto the butterflies and use them as gliders to get to the ruins, but they wanted to help them some how. "We have to follow them," said Jason. "But we can't," Sean replied back. Just then and APC drove up behind. In the driver seat was Meagan. "Are you guys getting in or what?" she smartly said. They, at first, looked at each other, but they got in.

As soon as they were in Meagan punched the gas petal. She drove over to the side of the predator's charge and directly into a crowd of aliens. She headed towards the ruins as fast as she could and the APC was plowing through dozens of aliens. They tried to scratch them, but their claws could not pierce through the thick armor of the APC. The acid spitters began spitting at it, but by the time the acid had burned through they would already be at the ruins.

An acid spitter leaped on top of the armored personal carrier and spit on it. The acid had weakened the metal and his claws tore through it.

Jason saw a hole get ripped in the roof fired a single shot from his sniper rifle up through it. It hit the alien's arm and blew it off. The Xenomorph lost its grip and fell off.

"We're almost there!" yelled Meagan. Being only a mile and a half drive, they were finally getting free of the alien army when one last alien standing their way. It was a scorpion and it held it pincers wide open ready for the impact of the armored vehicle coming towards it. The APC smashed into it, but this only made the scorpion skid back a few feet. Its stinger rose up and sprayed acid all over the machine. Sean kicked the door open and they all jumped out. As soon as they were out Jason aim his rifle at the scorpion's head and pulled the trigger several times.

They ran towards the ruins with dozens of aliens in pursuit. Outside of the ruins was a large wall and the entrance to the wall was at the south, which is where they drove from. To their surprise the large doors at the front were made of stone and one was open. They headed for it.

As soon as they got in they all grabbed the door and struggled to close it. It wouldn't budge. That's when Jason noticed a lever next to the door. He walked over to it and pulled it down.

Not only did the door slam shut, but the top of the walls lit a blaze, preventing any alien from crawling over it. The very top of the tall walls that surrounded the ancient city was on fire. The aliens that tried to crawl over the wall fell down on the other side in their burnt and charcoal remains. The fire was green to their amazement, but they didn't have time to think about that. They ran thought the Ancient streets to find the clan and hoped they could help them.

Mac-11: There you have it the war has started, but there's more. Remember to review if you want me to update. And again I wish you a Merry Christmas.