Chapter Two: Escape
Hudson slowly made his way through the sewage tunnels not wanting to attract too much unwanted attention. He hoped that the remainder of his squad was still alive, but he was sure they were fine in Hick's hands. He didn't have a schematic of the building with him so he didn't know where he was going; the other probably assumed he died so they were probably off the planet, so he needed to find an alternate route of exit, like a shuttle or something.
The sewers were damp and smelled, of well, shit. He didn't know if they went anywhere or if they ended because all he could see was darkness ahead of him. He just kept moving, not looking back but keeping all of his senses aware. He heard footsteps coming from above him; he looked up and saw Hicks and Ripley running down the corridor.
"Hicks!" He screamed, but they were too far away now, with the alarms blazing they probably couldn't hear him anyway.
He didn't see anyone else follow Hicks and Ripley so he guessed Vasquez and Gorman must have been wasted, too bad for Vasquez, she was a good soldier.
He ran with new motivation now, knowing he wasn't the last one alive, he saw a sparks way up the tunnel, probably from a cutter, maybe they had hear him!
He now sprinted as fast as he could to where someone was cutting the floor but he got their too late, why would they cut a piece out of the ground then leave?
Anyway, he could get out now. Hudson pulled himself out of the sewers and looked at his surroundings; he looked down the opposite way and saw them. Hordes of aliens were coming straight at them.
"Fuck man, not again." He moaned, he pulled the trigger, there weren't as many as he had thought because after he saw 6 drop, nothing moved but him. He ran down the corridor and found an elevator to the left, with a dead alien right in front of it, they must of come this way. He pressed the call button and the "elevator damaged" sign illuminated; this must happened a lot for there to be a fucking sign for it.
He turned and ran down the corridor in front of the elevator, to the right of where he had come from. He went down that corridor for half an hour before he saw a sign that said: "Outdoor Docking Bay" so he followed it.
It lead him outside but as he suspected, they had already left, the ship and Bishop were nowhere in sight.
"Fucking beautiful, what the fuck am I supposed to do now?" he said to himself. He looked around for anything and that's when he saw it. There was a sign a few meters near the sign that said "Bar" was another sign that said "Lunar Space Shuttles" and pointed to the left.
"Some fucking luck, at last." He said to himself, he ran down the alleyway the sing pointed to.
An alien burst out of one of the doors in his path, and Hudson shot one round right into its long, ugly head. He kept running, to the end of the alleyway and entered the door. It was a massive docking bay, with at least ten shuttle crafts. He knew they didn't go very far but all he had to do was get into view of the ship in orbit.
He looked at his watched and estimated that he had about ten minutes until the detonation of the complex.
He ran to the closest shuttle and climbed inside.
It was a simple shuttle craft, only four seats plus the pilot's chair; he sat down in the pilots chair and strapped himself in. He ignited the engines and pressed the "Lunar Run" button, it would take him to Lv-426's moon but he was going there anyway, he just wanted to get in orbit. He looked at his watch, thirty seconds? He didn't know he had wasted that much time. He launched into the sky as the complex exploded, the shockwave hit the ship before he was 100 meters from the ground, he saw the ground rush up at him and then everything went black.