Chapter 20: End Game
Mac-11: I am back again with another new chapter. I finally got away from my teachers to work on this chapter. Well, enjoy.
They calmly waited for the queen to come out of the darkness and make its next attack. Her breathing was the only sound heard in the chamber.
Merc'rk just finished using his medi-comp on the wounds from the queen's tail. His plasma fletchette was activated and he too waited for the queen to come out of its hiding place.
At that moment Netak and a caffeine charged Reco'de fell from the hole that Metal had shown them. Both of the Predators had used the medi-comps they had to prepare them for this fight.
"So, where's the queen?" asked Netak.
"We don't know, but it got Steve," answered Essra pointing to the remains of the marine.
"I can hear its breathing," said Reco'de. The caffeine had apparently heightened his senses. He quickly tried tracing in his mind and activated his plasma casters. "He should be right about…"he said while tracing where his senses lead him with his plasma casters. "There!" he shouted and fired a duel shot into a certain point in the darkness.
A loud roar came from the spot where they heard the impact. The queen flew out and headed straight towards Reco'de. At that moment a disc flew by and sliced of the Xenomorph's wings. Netak jumped in the air towards the queen with his spear drawn and met it with a slash. He landed on his feet several yards away from the queen. The queen's head and her decapitated body feel right next to the gang.
"Don't tell me you guys couldn't handle this by yourselves," said Netak catching his disc.
Just then the arms of the queen's body reached over and grabbed the head. It slammed it back on it shoulders and grew its wings back out. It jumped back in the air and flew towards Netak. As it was flying over him of sprayed raw plasma out of its mouth at him. Netak leaped behind a pillar and dodged it.
Essra fired her spear gun at the queen, but the queen landed on the backside of a pillar. The female predator's clip ran empty. Essra tossed away the use clip and just as she was putting in the fresh one, the queen leaped off the pillar and flew towards her. She quickly snatched the huntress right off the ground and flew away, dodging the gunfire from the humans. She smashed Essra into a pillar and pressed her up against it with her claw. Her whole upper body was stuck in the claw's grasp and her spear gun was caught with her. The Xenomorph Queen opened her mouth wide and bared its fangs. The alien's intention was clear: bite her head off.
In a split second the queen's head lunged forward. At the same time Essra activated her wrist blades and let them dig into the flesh on the queen's hand. The claws retracted freeing Essra and her spear gun. The huntress swooped up her weapon and set her focus of the on coming alien teeth. She held her gun at the queen's head and just as the smaller jaws extended out of the mouth they landed on the barrel of her weapon. It tried to chew through her spear gun, but the metal was just too strong. The gun was now the only thing keeping herself from the large jaws of her enemy. Essra squeezed the trigger and unloaded the full clip down the creature's throat, but the alien didn't budge and endured the pain.
Suddenly the alien was pulled away from her. Essra watch, startled, as her clan leader grabbed the queen by the tail and swung it into a pillar. The pillar collapsed and massive rocks fell on the alien queen's body.
The Xenomorph herself was surprised, but not fazed by the attack. She swung her tail at the clan leader, but he was ready for it. He held his metal hand out front as if he were to catch a baseball. When the impact came all the barbs were away from his body and they didn't affect his mechanized arm. Merc'rk yanked on the tail and swung the queen over him and threw her. She was crushed into the ground with a force that could knock down a brick house.
Merc'rk leaped onto the top of the queen's head and began repeatedly smashing his fist into her face. The queen, not knowing what else to do, spit out her stream of plasma. The deadly liquid was no where near to the predator on her head though. Merc'rk activated his plasma fletchette and as he punched a hole in her skull fired the weapon. The beam of plasma energy had burned straight through her in an instant.
The queen, now growing desperate, smashed her head into ground and finally rid herself of the hunter. As they were about to continue the battle something clicked in the queen's mind. It was visible to the humans and predators too. The alien ran away from them and leaped back into the air.
Surprisingly the queen flew straight up and sprayed plasma at the ceiling. The floor above them was burned away and left a large exit big enough for the queen to escape. She flew out the hole and left a very confused clan of predators and gang of humans.
Meanwhile...
Outside the sun had set and the battle continued to rage. Blood was being spilled everywhere and maimed dead bodies lie on the ground. However, since the queen had gotten of her nest and was interrupted by the clan and humans she could not make reinforcements for her army and the humans and predators had gained the upper hand.
The marines around the ruins had begun to advance and now the battlefield was a small circle around the ruins. The predators had found the tunnels around the ruins that were leading the aliens from the nest to the battle. They charged down into them and now the battle raged inside the tunnels under the ruins.
The queen gave a loud cry out to her spawn. The aliens understood it, but the humans and predators didn't. Just then the aliens scurried deeper into the tunnels and straight back to the ruins. This action confused the humans and predators. Aliens never retreat.
Back Inside...
One by one Richard had to use his backpack and fly his friends out of the queen's chamber and back up to the level with the statues. He was just carrying Jason, the last of them, up and landed him gently of the ground.
It wasn't hard to find out where the queen went next due to a massive hole that was burned into the wall.
"Any of this seem suspicious to you guys?" asked Meagan.
"Either she's in a hurry or it's a trap," suggested Jason.
"There's only one way to find out," said Shou'nk.
The young predator stepped through the hole and found a small room with hieroglyphics covering the walls. They simply talked about how the ruins were built. There was also another hole that was burnt into the room.
The clan and humans walked into the room and inspected their surroundings. Shou'nk headed for the second hole burned into the room, but just as he took a step towards it, a huge stampede of aliens ran across it.
The humans and predators aimed their weapons at the hole, expecting an alien to jump through and attack, but none did. Once the aliens were gone the gang walked through the hole and found that it was a tunnel. They followed the tunnels what was apparently the direct center of the ruins.
They found another large chamber and in it was a field of the bugs with large abdomens. At the tip of their abdomens was a hole that the aliens crawled into. Above them the chamber had no ceiling so the night sky was in view.
That's when predators remembered what Jentr'ck had told them about the large abdomens being able to launch them into space and onto another planet. The bugs weren't retreating, just migrating.
"Destroy them!" yelled Shou'nk, throwing his shuriken into the field of bugs.
The humans had no idea of what was going on since they didn't see Jentr'ck talk about it, but they obliged and opened fire on the field. The Predators began using their weapons and destroying as many of them as they could possible.
The last of the aliens had been collected into the launcher bugs. The launcher bugs raised their abdomens so that the hole was facing the sky. They noticed they were all aimed at the exact same star. A lot of the bugs had been destroyed and the predators along with the humans had continued to try and stop them, but at that moment they launched.
The abdomen of the bug contracted and extended as the alien was shot into space. The Aliens, along with the queen looked like black blurs that formed a cloud and all disappeared into the same star of the night.
Merc'rk smashed his metal fist into the ground out of frustration. The queen had slipped out of his grasp. They had failed what they were destined to do.
What he found peculiar was that the ground didn't shatter at his fist's impact. He looked at where his fist landed and found a small plate made out of Yautja steel. The plate stood out from all the bricks and was shaped like his fist now after he hit it. That meant he was supposed to hit that spot and who ever put that there meant for him to see it. Next to the plate was the drawing of a damaged and half destroyed Yautja ship and it was circled with the words "This is the answer."
"Clan, look here!" he said.
They looked down at the drawing and the words written in a circle around it.
"'This is the answer.' That really narrowed it down," said a sarcastic Reco'de.
"Let's see, the problem is that the aliens are still alive and the solution would be to kill them off," said Essra.
"How could a ship kill them all?" asked Jason.
"Self destruct," answered Bebop.
"What about your old ship, Merc?" said Sean.
"Old ship?" he asked. Apparently he had forgotten.
"Yeah, the old ship, the same one you had on Lv-1201," suggested Sean.
"The power was all diverted to self destruct after it was damaged. I set it to self destruct, but I never actually destroyed it. If the power is still on it could destroy a planet,"
"What if that star's Lv-1201?" asked Richard.
"If it is our problem is solved," said Shou'nk.
Jason looked forward on the ground for more hieroglyphic drawings and found some a few feet in front of the ship's symbol. It was a large arrow pointing at, what seemed to be, the star. Under the arrow was the drawing of the human with the clan leader mask, the human with the cross hair for an eye, and the human holding the coffee cup. Richard, Sean, and himself were what they represented.
They were the one's they met on Lv-1201. This had to mean that the star was Lv-1201.
"Hey, guys, I think it is Lv-1201. Look at this right here," he said.
His friends looked at the symbol, then at each other. Without a word Merc'rk opened up his wrist computer and punched in the ID numbers of his old ship. He got a reading.
"Clan, the ship still breaths," said the clan leader and he began to punch in the self destruct code.
Meanwhile...
In the atmosphere of the planet Lv-1201, the aliens are entering into a new and fresh breeding ground. This place wasn't as good as the ruins, but would surface until the queen could make more launcher bugs and get another hive made.
They were now getting the atmospheric entry friction and would have burned up if it were not for the green ooze that the launcher bugs covered them with as soon as they got inside them. They soon hit the ground and created large craters in to the surface of the planet. The ooze also protected them then. The aliens slithered out of the ooze and approached their queen.
This was perfect for them, having escaped the grasp of the humans and predators. Now was the time start building a new nest.
Before they could even start digging a blinding flash lit up off the horizon. The light seemed to spread around the whole planet and soon came up to them and engulfed the whole alien race.
With the Clan...
All they saw was the bright star that was Lv-1201 give a bright flash and then disappear out of the sky in the night.
Mac-11: Well, there you have it. The alien's defeat. One more chapter to go. I'm sorry to say this, but this is the last story of the H&Pvs.A series. By the way in the next chapter I will mention something about the next fic I have planned to write. I would like to ask you reviewers to choose the one you would like me to start with. And please review this chapter.