Aliens – Nerima Hive

Disclaimer: Still not mine.

Chapter 8

Ranma landed in a sticky substance next to a large number of alien eggs. The started to rip herself free of the substance and the eggs opened. Her arm with the predator claws came free in time and judicious use of the Amaguriken sliced every single one of the face hugging creatures into small bits. Taking a breath Ranma continued to free herself and stood up. When she stood she could saw Konatsu just beyond the eggs she had fallen next to. The young Kunoichi was almost mechanically slicing again and again at a depleting horde of aliens, but she could see that his technique was getting sloppy and the creatures were beginning to get the upper hand. She jumped to her feet and vowed that no more of her friends would die this day.

With a powerful jump Ranma landed next to Konatsu and started to assist him using her own speed and a few vacuum blades. Working together the two martial artists were able to thin the remaining horde of aliens down. The horde thinned, but now Ranma could see that it was concentrated around the center of the room keeping them from the alien Queen.

Ranma cursed and then looked at the room again. With a grin she said, "Konatsu, I have an idea. I need you to stay near the center of these aliens and fight them while generating a very angry and hot chi. Can you do that?

Konatsu looked at the red haired girl and said, "I can do that for mistress Ukyou I can generate a very large angry aura."

Ranma grinned and said, "Alright, when I come in you're gonna have to be prepared for the Hiryu Shouten Ha. You will need to immediately cool your aura and go with the winds or you will be torn apart. Understand?"

Konatsu nodded his recognition and Ranma began a large spiral around him as he fanned his anger. He fanned the flames of his anger and fought against the aliens around him. His twin swords were practically flaming with his angry chi as he remembered his mistress and then about his own demise that was sure to come. He fought on and watched as Ranma's ice cold aura came closer and closer. The spiral tightened and Konatsu decided that he would not allow himself to be killed by some parasitic creature.

Instead, he fanned his anger to even higher heights, and when Ranma came close Konatsu ignored his advice about cooling his aura. Instead he fanned it to its greatest extent even as Ranma shouted, "Hiryu Shoten Ha!"

The tornado came and Konatsu smiled as it took him and the rest of the alien horde in the room. He smiled knowing that with his help Ranma had created one of his biggest and most powerful Hiryu Shouten Ha ever and then he was consumed by its winds.

The predator was standing before the alien Queen pressing a button when the powerful winds knocked him to the ground and then started to pull him in the air. He slammed his claws into the ground and held on for dear life as the tornado raged all around him. He stared in astonishment as the powerful winds began to pick up the alien queen herself. The queen, however was able to hold on to the ground as well and was hissing in rage as the powerful winds crushed the black bodies of aliens all around them and send acidic blood all over the room.

When the destruction was over he landed on the ground with a loud thump and winced in pain. The red haired human girl was standing where the center of the tornado had been. She was standing there untouched in the eye of the storm, holding the body of one of her tribe mates, and he could tell that there was death in her eyes.

That was when the alien queen rose from her spot and started moving towards him. He tried to get up, but once again his knee failed him. A strong hand helped him up and then pushed him aside as a human voice growled, "This demon bitch is mine!"

Understanding the basic idea and realizing the extent of his own injuries the predator sat down and accepted the girls claim.

Ranma was beyond her usual norms. She was beyond anything other than the need to kill. She had pushed the alien predator aside saying something to him and was now standing in front of the demon queen. She stared at the creature and then said, "Time to die!"

The queen rose up and hissed at her, and then the black creature attacked. A sharp tail punched out, but Ranma avoided it. Large clawed hands swiped at her again and again, but they missed as well. While dodging Ranma hit the alien queen again and again with her predator claws, slicing away fingers and hacking into the Queen's side, but that seemed to have little affect. Ranma jumped into the air and came sailing down towards the Queen's head with her claws outstretched. The large black tail intercepted her and slammed directly into the claws breaking them and sending Ranma flying.

She landed on the ground and then dropped the wrist sheath. She immediately jumped back into combat with the alien queen. This time when she was close she shouted, "Kinjin Rashu Dan!"

A vacuum blade of energy slammed into the Queen's midsection. Her carapace was damaged, but she was quite alive when she swung her claws at Ranma. Ranma barely avoided the blow and had to deftly maneuver to avoid three more that came her way. She fired another vacuum blade and hurt the queen some more, but still the creature came on. Swinging its claws and slicing her arm. Then the queen was able to jab Ranma's side with its tail.

This creature was able to absorb tons of punishment and continue to attack. It was even starting to back her towards a wall when Ranma decided to go for more. She tapped into the Umi Sen Ken and blasted into the queen shouting, "Haku Dato Shin Shö". Energy translated throughout the Queens body and started to break her chitinous armor into pieces. Then Ranma started to literally steal pieces of chintinous armor right off the queen.

The queen roared in pain and agony and tried to get a bearing on Ranma. She swung madly and blindly, but she finally connected and sent Ranma hurtling towards a far wall. Ranma tucked and hit the wall with her feet bounding right back towards the alien queen and shouting, "Sai Dai Kyü Kijin Raishü Dan!"

The most powerful version of the vacuum blade slammed into the Queen and then she exploded in a geyser of acidic blood and black alien flesh. Ranma looked on and could not even smile triumphantly at his win. He walked over to the alien touched its arm and said to it, "I don't know who you are, but thanks for the help. I'm just going to go now and see, see…"

Ranma broke down in tears…

The predator was bewildered as it held Ranma in its arms thinking, "I do not understand these oomas. This one is more powerful than I have ever seen, even an ancient would not fare well against the abilities she has shown and yet now she is leaking from her eyes."

The predator swung its hair and green ties jangled and then picked Ranma up and limped with her over to what was left of the Queen. He put her down and then picked up a large piece of the tail and handed it to Ranma and tried to explain, "Look you have killed the alien queen. You have hunted an entire clan of them and we have killed them all. The hunt was successful."

The girl looked at him without comprehension and then took the black tail and smiled sadly. Then said something in her language and then walked over to her tribe mates and picked them up. With that she started walking out of the alien lair.

Ranma had been confused by his strange heart to heart with the alien, but she decided to wait as the creature collected some more pieces of the dead aliens and then picked up the dead one. He came to her and motioned out of the sewers and she said, "Yeah, let's go."

It was almost daylight when they exited the sewers. They reached the top and Ranma started to walk towards the Neko Hanten with the bodies of Ukyou and Konatsu when the predator grabbed her arm. The creature motioned and she followed it into s side alley.

Once in the alley the predator tapped a few buttons and a small ship suddenly appeared. He motioned to it and gestured to Ranma. The red haired girl looked back at him and said, "I think you want me to come huh?"

Ranma looked at her dead friends and depression filled her. "I don't suppose I can think about it?"

The predator just motioned again and she said, "I guess not."

Standing there next to the amazing ship with the bodies of her friends next to her Ranma made her decision….

Author's notes: That is the end. 1 comments before anyone says it I know manly men aren't supposed to cry, but it seems to me that sometimes that is what you need to do. AnywayI'm just not quite sure what Ranma's decision will be.

Will he stay in Nerima to protect what is left or will he go with the predator and give in to the seductive lure of a life steeped in battle. Really I'm just not sure, perhaps I will write two separate epilouges that might become stories that continue from this point.