ALIENS: THE WOLF SOLDIER

Phase 2: The Betrayal

Chapter 31

"No, I won't allow these stupid grunts to ruin my plans after all this time. I've worked to hard to have it all come crashing down around me." Geraldy exclaimed. "It's time to get rid of the last of these pests." He added and then turned to the control panels in the room.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" He asked, watching the other marines on the security system. "I see we're missing one of them." He remarked. "Now where could that brazen wolf be now?" He pressed a button. "I think that this should take care of the ones in the hanger while I deal with Mr. McNealand personally."

.o.o.o.

"Come on girl, we gotta get the hell out of this place!" Jackson exclaimed, pulling Rita along by the wrist.

"Damnit, quite dragging me along like this!" she snapped back.

But suddenly, they heard a loud noise and the sound of pair of doors slowly opening up. Both of them turned to see a something entering the hanger through the entryway. The sound of machinery could be heard as it came out.

"Fuck!" Jackson swore.

.o.o.o.

Artorus made his way up the ladder in the ventilation system. His rifle was slung over his shoulder as he moved upwards. He then noticed that the atmosphere was beginning to stir. "Oh no." He began and he held on tightly to the rungs of the ladder and began pulling himself up.

The air was being sucked out, turned the place into a vacuum- Geraldy was trying to launch him out into space!

"Shit, I've got to get out of this place fast." He told himself. He then began making his way out, bit by bit.

.o.o.o.

"It's a goddamned robot!" Jackson exclaimed as we watched the large maintenance droid roll into the hanger on its large treds. It was very tall and had several long arms with various tools on them. However, in a pinch the tools made suitable weapons.

"How can he do that?" Rita asked. "How do you just rework the programming of one of those?"

"He must have downloaded the tactical information from something back in the complex and then encoded into the robot." Jackson reasoned. "Oh crap, it's coming this way!"

Jackson leapt down, taking Rita with him as a cutting laser fired over them. "If it keeps doing that, it's going to puncture the whole of the ship!"

Rita looked up at him. "Well, we just can't let him do that then." She replied and ran into the dropship.

.o.o.o.

The robot began making its way towards the dropship and stopped at the ramp. Suddenly, someone opened fire on it. Countless bullets sparked and ricocheted off of it.

Rita emptied the entire clip on the robot and then loaded another one into the rifle. She leapt off of the ramp and got onto the floor. The robot started to follow her.

"I'm not going to fail this time." She thought to herself. "It's time for me to pull my own wait around here!"

She rounded a corner and came up to a dead end, she then looked at the wall in front of her and noticed the panel covering it. She turned to see the robot rolling towards her. She backed up against the wall and fired at it non-stop, emptying another clip at it.

Just then, it raised one of its arms and plunged it towards her. She leapt out of the way at the last secant and the robotic arm became trapped in the wall. She ran around behind it and climbed up onto it and began prying the covering off of the back of it. She pulled her knife out and stuck it in-between the panels and strained to get the covering off.

But then, it finally tore its arm off part way to release itself just as she removed the cover.

It moved suddenly and threw her off of it. It then turned around and began rolling towards her. She quickly got up onto her feet and ran from it. It raised its laser arm and prepared to fire at her, when the arm was blown off.

Rita looked up to see that Hunter was holding a strange weapon. It was a long narrow cylinder resting on his shoulder. Jackson was behind him and loaded another round into it.

"It's called the Judas Gun- it's a 1.1 caliber anti-personnel weapon with 38mm exploding rounds!" Hunter exclaimed. "Get down; I'm going to blow the fucker's head off!"

The trigger was pulled and the round launched from its shell, the shell was fired straight out of the back- red hot. The 3 foot ventilated barrel shot out steam with a his as the bullet exited the weapon at inhuman speed.

Rita jumped down onto the ground as the robot's head and part of the upper body exploded in giant fireball and bits of scrap metal rained down.

Rita looked up at it, just to see one of its remaining arms start to move and watch begin to rumble towards her.

.o.o.o.

Geraldy turned suddenly to see the door to the control room slide open and Artorus walk into the room, pointing his pulse rifle at him.

"Well, Artorus, How nice to see you."

Artorus smiled and aimed the gun right at him. "No, the pleasure is all mine."

.o.o.o.

Rita then reached into her pocket and pulled out a grenade. She pressed the pin and rolled it under the robot. It exploded and launched the robot off the ground, destroying its treds and immobilizing it.

But it started trying to drag itself towards her with one arm while the other sported as spinning blade.

"Shit, don't you ever quit?"

"Rita, catch!" Shouted a voice.

She turned around in time to catch a strange weapon from Jackson.

She pointed it at the damaged robot and fired. She was shaken as a super-charged beam of plasma fired out the robot- blowing off the last of its arms and melting and shattering all of its circuits and wires.

She looked over at Jackson. "You gave a laser gun?"

.o.o.o.

Geraldy backed up. "Now, now, Artorus, violence it not the answer." He reasoned. "You should understand what I'm doing better then anyone."

"What?" Artorus replied in confusion.

Geraldy smiled. "Artorus, you were created in a lab, just as my xenomorphs were." He explained. "But you were expected to serve a pre-ordained purpose- just as my creatures were." He went on.

"These aliens have always been used as weapons for the benefit of the company, but I gave them the chance to choose their own destiny." Geraldy remarked. "All that they have done is follow their natural instincts- something that all living creatures do. They're doing everything they must to survive."

Artorus lowered his gun.

"Even if they threatened the life of others, they are still doing nothing more then what they know- they are just living, and I don't think that you have the right to decided what is good or bad."

"But everything I've ever fought for, they could destroy it!" Artorus exclaimed.

Geraldy smiled. "The people you fight for are liars and cheaters. Human society has gone on too long- all things must rise and fall- that is the way of the universe."

"All I see now is chaos and anarchy is you plan!" Artorus replied.

"The universe is at war, people die all the time by the hands of their own kind- name one planet of culture whose history is not littered with atrocities." He added. "This way, we can end that, we can stop the deaths and squabbles- the world that the xenomorphs will make will be a world of peace- they will never possess the flaws of humanoids."

Artorus was silent.

"Just think of it, a world untainted by wars and greed- they can make it happen- make worlds like they were always meant to be- they can put an end to the struggles of humans- through them, I have the power to remake worlds in the manner they should have been.

"No." Artorus replied. "I refuse to accept the idea that humanity is nothing more then a collection of atrocities- and I deny your vision of the way of life. You're not going to kill anyone else- never again."

Geraldy balked.

"Not on my watch." Artorus finished and opened fire on Geraldy, filling him with bullets-depleting the entire clip on him.

Geraldy fell back into a pool of his own blood. ". . .n-no, my dream. . .you've ruined it all. . ." He said and then slumped over.

Artorus walked over to the controls and turned the intercom on. "It's over, Geraldy is dead."

(- End of Chapter 31 -)

The next chapter will probably be the final one. See you all later.

-Bojack727