Chapter: The Pyramid

Mac-11: I'm baaaack! I had the worst case of writers block EVER. Sorry for the long time to update, but I was trying to right a fic far another forum and I realized my sources were incorrect so I decided just to stick with AVP for now.

The clan continued through the ancient streets, but the place seemed more like a history museum. They found old disc shops, places where you could polish your plasma caster, and several other places that were on their home planet.

"This is very familiar," said Shou'nk.

Netak found an old spear shop and walked inside. The hunter looked around and saw spears every where. There were ones on racks that covered the walls, one leaning against the back of the room and even a "spear of the week" glass container. The glass was rusted and impossible to see through. He smashed his fist into the glass and grabbed a handle of some sort. He pulled out a shiny and brand new spear with a powerful-looking spearhead. The glass kept it from getting dirty. Of course, it was no match for the modern spears used by the warriors today, but it was interesting.

Merc'rk found a place that builds metal limbs for those who lost theirs so they could continue the hunt. None of them were as advanced or as powerful as his arm.

"Clan, lets not get distracted here, we still need to finish this hunt for the Queen," said the clan leader.

They continued walking down the path to the pyramid when suddenly Reco'de stopped.

"Movement," he said.

Something was coming straight for them. Essra jumped on top of a structure and began switching through vision modes. She found something in thermal vision. They were humans and they were coming from the south. She zoomed up on them with her mask and found it was Sean, Jason, and the rest of them.

"It's the humans!" she yelled back to her clan.

They were heading down another street that would intercept theirs soon. Merc'rk and the other predators walked forward to the spot where they would meet. They intercepted each other at, what appeared to be, the intersection of a street. Jason's face lit up when he saw his extra-terrestrial friends.

"It's good to see you guys. I don't know what's inside the pyramid, but you weren't thinking of going in without us were you?" asked Jason.

"Let us all hunt together," said Merc'rk stick up his metal arm.

Then both humans and predators headed through the streets to the pyramid. They soon reached the foot of the massive structure. They found no door or way inside.

"How do we open it?" asked Steve.

Merc'rk found another hole in the wall the size of his arm. He stuck his metal arm inside it and twisted his wrist. Suddenly a trap door under them snapped open and they all fell through it screaming and roaring on their way down.

They fell at least fifteen feet, which was nothing to a Yautja, but the humans had aches all over their bodies. The gang finally got on their feet and began to scan their surroundings. They were now at the beginning of a tunnel and it only went one way. Without any words spoken they started down the tunnel. It was pitch black and impossible to see, but the marines had night vision goggles planted in their helmets and the predators saw in thermal vision.

The tunnel just went straight and they only had a limited sixty feet of vision, but for all they knew it could go on for miles. Just then it was visible: A double door with writing on it. They came closer to the door and realized it was covered with warnings in Yautja writing, but to them it was more like an invitation. Merc'rk walked up to them and forced open the door.

On the other side was the most peculiar thing. A large wall with three pictures of humans on them. They looked at the first one and to their amazement it was a human with a crosshair for its right eye. The symbol represented sniper. The next one had a clan leader mask over his head which represented leader ship. They almost had a heart attack when the looked at the last one. There were no symbols and no parts of its body changed, but in its right hand was unmistakably a cup of fresh ground espresso coffee.

"What the?" asked Jason, but too surprised to finish. He looked at Sean and Richard they had the same expression on their faces. "Well, my left eye is normal, but my right eye does have 20/15 vision so I do make the perfect shot," said Jason. "This has to be unreal," said Sean almost not believing what he was seeing. However, it was the Predators who were the most surprised. "Jentr'ck said nothing of this," stated Merc'rk. The humans had a role to play in this after all, but it was only the humans who they met on Lv-1201.

Sean walked up to the door and it opened at his presence. Inside the ancient room was a unique weapon. It was obviously an assault rifle of some type, but it had human and predator technology blended together. It even had the grenade launcher mounted under the barrel. He picked it up and on the side of it in perfect English it read "automatic burner."

"What's a burner?" asked Sean. "'Burner' is the Yautja word for a hand held plasma caster," explained Merc'rk.

Jason walked up to his door and saw a slot that required a key of some sort. Under the slot were some words written in ancient Yautja. Shou'nk was the one who read them out loud. "Think back to when we first met." Jason thought hard and remembered the time they first met.

In the past...

Meanwhile Shou'nk had been the first to find an ooman, but he didn't know what it was and just sat there cloaked while staring at him on a nearby branch. The man was a sniper in a tree with green eyes and short black hair. The man, apparently, was also a nooby because he was too damn nervous to be experienced or "salty" as the marines call it. Shou'nk made the clicking sound with his mouth out of interest.

The man heard the clicking and slowly turned around and there he saw what looked like a distortion in space that formed a shape. He gave a yelp of fright and fell out of the tree. Shou'nk grabbed him by the leg before he hit the ground and pulled him up. The man was screaming and frantically flinging his arms in the air while Shou'nk was holding him upside-down by the leg.

After ten minutes of screaming the man stopped and was curious as to why he wasn't dead, not that he's complaining. Shou'nk decloaked and was staring at him interestingly. "Uh, could you put me down?" the man asked nervously. Shou'nk dropped him and he fell out of the tree and landed with a thud. When he looked up the hunter was gone. Then the young predator appeared right in front of him. He was now staring at something that was on his chest.

On his chest there was a necklace with a picture of two other humans. One was a female about one or two years younger than he was with blonde hair and blue eyes. The other looked a little like the man himself and he was a young boy.

The marine had noticed this and began to speak. "This is my family. That's my wife, Cindy, and that's my son, Jake." the soldier said proudly.

Back to present...

"That's it!" exclaimed Jason. He yanked off his necklace that held the picture of his family on it. He jammed it in the slot and twisted it like a key. The door opened and revealed another weapon of Predator-human technology blend. On its side in perfect English it read "laser rifle." The power supply was a micro fusion reactor and its life was longer Jason's.

Richard found a small tube under his door and he knew exactly what it was for. The caffeine-high marine took his water canteen, which was actually filled with coffee, and poured it down the tube. "Hey, Richard, exactly how much coffee do you drink in a week?" asked Steve as he watched. "Hmm," said Richard as he tried to do the math.

"About five," he answered.

"Cups?" asked Bebop.

"Liters,"

"What? Can't you die from that?"

"This is the 31st century. I got pills," he answered back.

The door waited a minute and then began to crack open. It opened up to revealed what appeared to be a jet pack. The jet pack was silver. It had two engines and twofold up wings. This was no ordinary jet pack though, it was fueled by caffeine and that coffee he had just poured in was powering it.

"Awesome! But it's too bad that there's only doors for us three," he said.

"Don't worry about me," said Meagan who seemed happy with her dualies. Bebop said nothing, but gave a wide smirk at his full option shotgun. Steve didn't seem to care either.

Richard put his back to it and metal straps came down and latched on to him. It was very light compared to what he thought it would weigh. As soon as the straps were on another trap door opened. The floor below them split in half and they fell through another fifteen feet. This time they weren't panicking on the way down and they landed on their feet.

To their surprise they were right in the middle of the hive. Then they saw how the queen was able to produce so many warriors in the short amount of time. It didn't produce face huggers, but instead they were larger eggs, bigger than a full grown male predator, with embryos inside them. The eggs were filled with insect goo and allowed the embryo to grow into mature aliens almost instantly. There was a long tunnel a few meters behind the gang that allowed the mature aliens to go out and began to battle as soon as they were grown. The tunnel was quickly gaining Xenomorph warriors and leading them to the battlefield.

"They will over run our forces if those tunnels stay open any longer," said Sean as he aimed the grenade launcher at the space above it, but Merc'rk stopped him.

"If you shut off that exit they will all turn on us and we will be exhausted before we even lay eyes on the queen," he advised.

Sean thought about it and decided he was right. "It's up to the guys outside to handle it," he said and slowly lowered his assault rifle. They searched around for where to go next, but the room was sealed other than the exit the other aliens were leaving from. The aliens were being called outside and, hopefully, hadn't noticed them yet. Their search continued, but the room was covered in eggs and it was near impossible to find anything.

"Guys over here!" called Meagan. They rushed to her to find that she was pointing to a spot under the egg where there was part of a hole, what looked like a sewage drain with a massive egg set right on it. Essra quickly scanned it with her equipment. "There's a tunnel under it," she said. Before they could gently push it out of the way a massive plasma bolt struck the egg and completely destroyed it. Everyone turned to Reco'de who had smoke coming from one of his plasma casters.

"What?" he asked.

"Reckless idiot!" shouted Netak.

Some of the Xenomorphs had heard the blast and a few scores headed into the egg field trying to comb them out. One by one they jumped into the tunnel. The tunnel began to lead them through several twists and turns until it finally came to a stop. They were thrown out of it into massive room. Merc'rk rolled over and off his back. There, on the ground before him were the words in Yautja "Queen's Layer."

Mac-11: That's all for now. Remember to review if you want me to update.