The review count for this story has just passed the 100 review mark as of the time of I am writing this. In the past, when one of my stories reach 50 reviews, I made a special- but pointless- variety chapter/party.

In the case of this story, which is much more serious, that would not be appropriate. However, it's not often that a story gets a change to celebrate Centennial Review. This chapter will be longer, more in-depth and offer more bang for your buck!

Bojack727

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THE WOLF SOLDIER

Phase 2: "The Betrayal"

Chapter 23 (100th Review Chapter)

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Artorus stepped back as the imposing beast loomed over him. It was so much like the other xenomorphs, and yet it was what could best be considered a 'super alien'.

"Der Oberste Ausländer!" He thought. He pulled out his rifle and fired on it, but the round simply bounced off of it and flew off in all directions. "Not only large, but resistant to bullets!" He remarked uneasily.

By now, it had opened its mouth and was showing off its rows of menacing teeth. Artorus looked over at the fallen cable and thought of something. He backed up and fired on the nearby cooling tank.

Liquid sprayed out and onto the floor, the pooling water spread out and advanced towards the towering silver beast. And then, it happened, the watcher reached its feat and then came into contact with cable.

Artorus jumped up into the air and gripped a beam above him and hooked his legs around it. He looked down as a powerful electric current surged through the creature and began viciously electrocuting it.

The Hybrid Marine kicked a ventilation panel off of the ceiling and climbed into it, seeking sanctuary from the imminent chaos.

Artorus narrowly avoided the massive acidic explosion!

.o.o.o.

Jackson and the others were busy making their way down to the lower level to access the generator room.

"Holly shit!" McKenzie exclaimed, it sounds like a fucking war up there!" He remarked.

"We don't have time for this!" Einrich yelled.

Rita looked up. "Artorus?" She whispered. "I hope you're alright."

.o.o.o.

Artorus squeezed through the cramped ventilation shaft, slowing making his way to his desired goal. By this point, the air was rapidly growing thinner from the heat. He was having trouble focusing on the end of the tunnel. "Have to keep going." He spoke. "I must keep going." He went on. "I can't stop!" He yelled between halfhearted gasps.

He kicked out the panel below him and fell through it when he lost his grip. He landed on his back. He pulled himself up and his feet and looked around.

"There he is!" A voice yelled.

Artorus turned to see what it was. He spotted a patrol of troopers and swore silently to himself. "Not enough time." He gasped. "I need more time." He thought out loud as he began to run from them.

"Fire with everything, use the incendiary rounds!"

He held his rifle in one hand and fired at them as he began evading their pursuit. Soon the gun simply clicked and he threw it aside when he could see that it now longer had any ammunition in it.

Thing began exploding just behind him, jets of flame barley missed him as he ran. He turned a corner and looked at a covered panel on the wall. He punched it- swearing as he drew blood on his knuckles. He dug his hands into the panel and pried it open. He looked around and realized that the device he needed was no where to be seen. He then tore a couple of wires loose from their grids.

"I'll have to do it manually!" He snapped as he pressed the frayed ends of the wires together. A spark of electricity and a flash of light burst forth and he flung himself back. "Gahhhh!" He exclaimed, in recoil from the power surge that had hit him.

An explosion knocked him back and he could feel his right shoulder was burnt. He looked up to see a barricade descend from the roof and block the path between himself and the troopers.

.o.o.o.

Artorus looked around. "I can't take much more of this." He thought. "This is it, the eleventh hour. . ."

He snapped to alertness and rolled out of the way as something struck the wall on the spot where he had just been sitting.

Artorus got to his feet and looked forward as a man in black and red armor appeared from out of nowhere. "You!" He yelled.

The strange man approached him. "At last we meet, face to face." He remarked. "I am called 'Black Fox'." He said, introducing himself. "How fitting it now seems, considering that you are a wolf!" He yelled and raised his electrified staff at Artorus, pointing it at him challengingly.

"This mission has gotten out of control, people like myself are often required to come in an quell these problematic situations." He explained. "My training allows me to do what others cannot, and in this case," he paused. "It is to kill you!" He finished.

Artorus straightened himself up and looked straight into the red lenses of the helmet that the man was wearing. "You snuck up on me last time." Artorus replied. "I'm only going to warn to once- step down or else." He threatened

"Or else what?" Fox asked, his voice rising slightly in amusement.

The wolf smiled back at his words. "I'll kill you!" Artorus replied simply, standing up straight and staring defiantly at his attacker. "You're standing on a razor's edge, do you know that?" He asked him oddly as a strange glint appeared in his eyes and they seemed to darken slightly.

Fox shook his head. "Such words are meaningless now." He then pulled out a large knife and swung at Artorus, who stepped out of the way. He then jabbed at the Hybrid with his baton.

Artorus side-stepped his attack and then dodged another swipe from the blade. Fox suddenly became invisible and Artorus felt himself being kicked squarely in the chest. He went crashing through a wall and slid across a floor on his back.

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He was barley back on his feet when he was kicked in the side and jabbed with the baton- sending a surge of electricity into his body.

"Where's all your tough talk now?" Fox exclaimed. "You said you were going to kill me, but all I see is a pathetic flawing creature unwilling to accept his inevitable death!" He yelled.

Artorus then took a kick in the side of the head and crashed through a glass wall.

"Even if you could summon up that inhuman power of yours, you'd still lose, because I can become invisible whenever I like!" Fox yelled confidently. "Well, aren't you at least going to say something?" He asked arrogantly.

He leaned in and looked into the darkened corner of the office. He saw the desk that was flying towards him until it was right before him.

The oak office piece exploded into hundred of pieces when it hit him and sent him flying into another desk, that he toppled over and flipped across and onto the floor. He did, however, notice that his cloaking device was split in half.

He stood up, but only to have the desk pushed into him at an inhuman speed and pin him between it and the wall. "What the hell are you?" He gasped.

Artorus looked at him with a dangerous glint in his canine eyes. "I'm the guy that's going to murder you so viciously; they'll never recognize you amongst the hundreds of little pieces of you that I'll leave behind!" Artorus screamed.

Fox jammed the baton into his chest and sent surge after surge into Artorus, but the hybrid only smiled and grabbed the baton in his hand. Electricity jolted into his arm but he never flinched, he just smiled and snapped it in half. "Sorry." He said, looking at the piece in his hand. "I guess I broke your toy." He stepped back and placed his foot against the desk.

Then, a long thin blade appeared out of one of Fox's gloves and he chopped the desk in half with it and began swiping at the marine with the long blade.

Artorus fluidly dodged every kick and punch and stab. He then caught one of Fox's feet in mid-kick and flipped him over.

Fox go back up and swung at Artorus with inhuman speed, but still missed him. Artorus reclined back and leaned in and grabbed Fox arm and twisted it viciously. "Wait!" Artorus yelled. "I'm not done- YET!" He yelled as he brought his elbow down on his opponent and snapping his arm at the joint.

Fox screamed as his arm bent at 90 degrees in the opposite direction. Artorus grabbed him by the neck and punched him square in the face, shattering his red visor.

"Oh god!" Fox screamed as his head was plowed into a wall.

Artorus effortlessly kicked Fox's own blade up into the air with his foot and caught it with one hand while the other held Fox against the wall.

"No, wait! I—"

Artorus frowned. "You said you wanted to see my real power, well now you got your wish and you can't back out!" He yelled as he drove the blade into Fox's neck- passing through his flesh and into the wall. Artorus then swiped the long blade to the side in one motion.

Fox's head topped off his body and rolled across the floor. The hybrid watched it role across the floor.

Artorus looked around and smiled. He slowly began to laugh in delight as he surveyed the area around him.

He stumbled around madly as laughed, but then he stopped and noticed his reflection. He took in the expression of delight in his eyes and grew quiet. "AHHHHHHH!" He screamed as he threw his hands over his eyes and staggered back. "Ahhhhh!" He yelled again. "Ahhhh-ahhhh-AHHHH!" He screamed.

"I'm a monster!" He yelled.

He then began to recall things-images of the past.

. . .His mother and father walking with him in the park.

. . .Crying when he saw a bird die- the first time he'd ever seen death.

. . .Laughing with friends in school.

. . .Graduating from his University.

. . .Partying with Swanson and the others.

. . .Smiling as he saw Rita for the first time.

. . .Fighting for the others as they struggled against all odds to stay alive.

. . .Kissing her in the dark room, realizing how powerful his feelings for her were.

He fell onto his back and looked up at the ceiling. "Goodbye yellow brick road, I'm going back to my cloud. . ."

He sat up and looked around and smiled. "No, I'm not a monster- I'm a person." He spoke. He then looked at the door. "It's time I got going." He remarked and stood up. "Somewhere, out there, I'm needed." He said with a smile.

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Abel stopped when his communicator beeped. "Yes, this Abel, what now?"

"Sir, this is Green Squad, we've lost visual confirmation of MacNealand, he somehow jimmied an emergency blast door to block our path."

"I certainly hope you have some good news to tell me, soldier." Abel remarked dryly.

"Actually, sir, I'm afraid not."

"What are you getting at you idiot!" Abel demanded.

"We just got word from the team back at command that Agent Black Fox's life-signs have all flat-lined." He paused. "Sir, Fox is dead- that hybrid must have killed him."

There was a pause, and a sound of people moving around.

"Sir, the body has been found- his fucking head's been cut off!"

"Thank you, soldier." Abel turned off the communicator and smiled. "McNealand, it seems that you've proven TOO efficient for your own good." He remarked then proceeded to make his way down the hall, towards his final goal.

End of Chapter 23-

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I've decided to include a bit about the next story with Artorus in the next chapter.

Anyway, I really don't think there's much I can say about this one that you all probably haven't already said. This one was one of the most insane and intense chapter in whole story. In fact, it may have be the most adrenaline packed chapter yet.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this extra long chapter, because it almost wrote itself. You'll probably see more of the others in the next one. Well, see guys around.

Thenext chapter will include information on the next story to feature Artorus in it- "USCM Files: The Visitation"

Bojack727

Ps. What about Fox, that was something, don't you all think?

Oh, and thanks to Zinic, Warrior, Rjektd89, BlackDawn, SPECIALGUY, Stormseer88, the CynicalCountess, and everyone else.

Later!