Chapter 3: Xenomorphs
Hudson, Tofu and Hazel have traveled long and quietly through the corridors until they came across a huge cafeteria.
Each row had long stretches of tables lined up. However, the tables were all in a mess, the chairs were all over the place and the entire area was stained with blood, like a huge massacre just took place.
"So much blood." Tofu whispered.
"Yeah, lots of blood, but where are all the bodies?" Hazel asked.
The lights started to flicker and soon, they were facing bright against darkness as the whole cafeteria lights started to die out.
"Shit man." Hudson mumbled impatiently.
"The three marines decided to turn on their torch lights. As they did, they surveyed the area, not knowing that there was something lurking within the area.
The marines stayed close together, scanning much of the area when suddenly, their trackers picked up movement.
"We got company." Hazel warned.
Hudson tapped against the tiny communicator in his left ear.
"Captain, we're picking up movement within our area."
"Color signal?" the Captain's voice transmitted through the earpiece.
"Yellow." Hudson replied. "I can't tell if it's the staff on this facility or not."
"Explain." The voice crackled through.
"Sir, I'm picking out a huge number of yellow signals, a little too large. They are moving to our direction at a slow pace." Hudson explained.
"It could be civilians." Tofu whispered loudly to Hudson.
Hazel aimed at the direction of where the yellow signals were coming from. The lights revealed a door that was sealed up.
"They are coming toward this direction." Hazel said.
"Listen Hudson, get out of there." The Captain's voice crackled through the com again. "It's too large a number to be civilians. Get out of there."
Suddenly, the three marines started to hear a loud screech beyond the door and suddenly, a loud thump slammed against the door, leaving a huge bump on it.
"Whoa, what the heck?" Tofu yelled.
"I never knew the staff here had that much muscle to muscle down a steel door." Hazel commented.
"Those…aren't humans." Hudson said nervously.
Everyone started to move back slowly toward the other end of the cafeteria where a locked steel door awaits them.
Tofu went toward the door and saw the control panel that required a combination of numbers to open.
"SHIT!" he yelled.
"Just start jamming the damn thing." Hudson spoke quickly.
The door at the other end suddenly slammed open and to the marines' horror, a black creature stood forth, hissing silently. "What the hell is that?"
The black human shape creature with a long curve head silently looked at the three marines shining their lights at it.
"God I can see it's freaking exoskeletons." Tofu spoke in a disgusted tone.
"That must be…the Xenomorph." Hazel whispered to the group.
Tofu started to take out powder from his pocket, sprinkling some down onto the control panel to quickly find the finger prints.
The creature hissed once more and started charging towards the marines, following by a huge chunk of aliens that are slipping through the door in huge numbers.
Hudson and Hazel started to squeeze their trigger, spraying a barrage of rounds at the black creatures that started attacking.
"I THOUGHT THERE'S NOT MORE THEN TEN, WHY ARE THERE HUNDREDS?" Tofu screamed as he found the finger prints on the right panels and had to randomly key the right combination of the specific numbers.
"I don't know." Hudson screamed back as he simply just continued blasting the aliens with his sub machine guns.
"Hurry up with the control panel, Tofu." Hazel yelled and she pumped a creature full of lead right in its torso.
"You don't have to tell me twice." Tofu yelled back.
"Suddenly, a spit of acid spray across and struck the wall near the panel Tofu was tapping.
"Hey, watch where you blast those fucks." Tofu shouted angrily.
The door continued to have more aliens pouring in and the whole cafeteria was soon flooded with black creatures of the dark.
Hudson took out a grenade, removed its pin and threw it right at the door. Then, the door erupted and aliens flew into the ceiling, crashing into it. Some flew right through the kitchen and others splattered across the cafeteria in puddles of acid.
"Hazel quickly reloaded as Tofu and Hudson took over to fire. Right after Hazel loaded hers; Hudson emptied his weapon and slapped a new magazine inside. Hazel and Hudson continued and Tofu went back to keying the panels.
Just as the aliens closed in, Tofu got the key code right and the door opened, revealing a long passage deeper into the facility.
"Come on!" Tofu screamed.
Hudson and Hazel rushed in with Tofu and the Chinese marine locked the doors with the control panel opposite the doors, locking themselves away from the aliens.
Hudson, Hazel and Tofu started running as far as they can from where the aliens were coming from.
Hudson pressed tapped the com by his ear. "To all, yellow signals the Xenomorphs. Take precaution, they move in huge numbers, and I mean huge."
"Are you kidding?" Forest's voice spoke through the com.
"Me running from terror can speak for itself." Hudson spoke calmly.
"Your location?" Captain asked.
"I don't know. We are in a long corridor heading to the lower levels. We might be getting close to the Central. If we do, we'll let you know." Hudson said.
"You're kidding. What if the central is infested with those things?" Tofu asked.
"We can't go back to where we are now. We find the central and meet with the rest and better than increase our strength in numbers.
Meanwhile, Remington and Linda had heard everything. But now they were in some store house where huge amount of food were kept. The lights were extremely dim and they could hardly see where they were.
Linda looked at Remington who seemed to be on guard every single second.
"I hope the rest are ok." Linda suddenly said.
"They will be." Remington answered.
'This is so like the movies where nothing ever comes out good in situation like this." Linda sadly spoke.
"Hudson and the rest sound fine. I believe they'll pull through as long as they stay calm and think straight."
"You face such dangers before?" Linda asked.
"Depends on the danger you want to compare." Remington answered as he peeped through the corner of a huge crate.
"Something's on the tracker." Linda said suddenly.
Remington looked at his tracker and found two yellow signals heading their direction.
One was coming from their front, and the other was coming from the back.
"Careful, you take the back, I'll take the front." Remington whispered.
Linda nodded and they slowly approach the two figures that were moving quickly toward their direction.
Remington estimated a full 2 meters, but all he could see was crates and nothing more.
As Remington moved through a corner, losing sight of Linda, looking at the tracker, the yellow spot was right where he stood, and yet he saw nothing.
A drop of unknown liquid started to drip from above, and Remington saw that in front of him. The very first thing that came into his mind was Linda when she always said things happening like the movies.
Remington quickly aimed his weapon above, but was too late; a tail swept across and knocked his shotgun off his hands. The black creature dropped itself onto Remington and attempted to bite him with its tongue which had a tiny mouth crunching hungrily for his flesh.
Remington screamed and kicked the alien off of him. Remington jumped up and ran across among the crates in an attempt to find his shotgun.
To his relieve, he found his shotgun, but to add the challenge, he saw Linda struggling against an Alien at the other end.
"Linda." Remington called.
"Robert, help." Linda screamed.
Linda was her back pressed against the wall.
The alien had both it's hands tied by Linda's right hand, and her left hand, pressing against the alien's neck, as it tried to take a piece of flesh from her face with its tongue.
She struggled hard but the alien was simply too strong and its face got closer every single second.
Remington was about to make a run to save Linda when the alien pounce from the back. Remington fell and the Alien got on top of him, but Remington this time punched the Xenomorph right in the face. The creature flew off, and Remington grabbed his shotgun. As the Alien tried to get up, Remington squeezed the trigger and blew the alien's head right off it's body, bursting it apart. Acid flew all over the place and soon, it was wiggling around without a head.
Remington remembered the acid blood and couldn't afford the shot the alien that was about to kill Linda.
Linda however used her knees to whack the ribs of the alien, but it didn't even budge. Remington ran to the alien and grabbed its rough scale tail and pulled the alien off Linda with his incredible strength.
The alien screeched loudly and turned to Remington but he only jerked the tail even harder. Linda grabbed her rifle and took a blow in the alien's chest. The round pierce through the aliens ribs and acid blood gushed out. It fell and lay died.
"Wow…really like the movies." Remington said.
Linda looked at Remington with a smile on her face.
"I didn't know you were that strong." Linda added, taking a deep breath.
"Well, I guess I don't know my own strength." Remington laughed.
Linda walked up to the body and found her tracker device. As she picked it up, she saw an extremely fast yellow signal flash across the screen.
"Robert, there is still one more here."
"What? I don't see anything?" Remington said.
"It's too fast. It zipped across the screen." Linda explained.
"No kidding." Remington replied and he aimed his shotgun around. Lind did the same. The both had their backs together, silently scanning the area for any movement.
Somewhere beneath the facility, lay a huge square prison with hundreds of chains tied to a single steel chair; however, nothing was on the chair. Whatever was there seems to have broken free.
Jackson, Errol and Adio found themselves in a huge dark dreary area. The walls were covered with an odd substance. "Where the hell is this place " Adio wondered.
As they further their search in a new area, they soon came across a huge empty area and what lay in wait were a row of round objects.
"I think this is an office right?" Errol asked.
"Looks like only now that it turned into a freak show." Jackson sarcastically commented.
"What's those round shit there anyway?" Errol asked nervously.
The three marines saw ten round objects neatly placed at the end of the once so-called office. The whole room was empty except for the round objects.
Adio walked toward it and took a closer look, only to realize they took shape of eggs.
"Guys this looks like…eggs."
"What?" the other two yelled.
Just then, they received one yellow signal in their screen.
"Hey, one of those black bastards is here." Errol laughed in a panic. "I think we all could take it down."
"Yeah, and screamed for you momma when there's an army." Adio thought.
Errol back himself near the eggs. Just as everyone had concentrated themselves where the yellow signal was coming, one of the eggs opened up like a flower. Errol nervously aimed where the yellow signal would come from when he slightly turned his attention to the egg. "What the hell?"
"What?" Jackson asked.
Suddenly, a creature jumped right out of the egg and grabbed Jackson right in the face.
"Jackson!" Adio screamed.
Adio ran to help Jackson, as he face was wrapped by a eight fingered creature with a meter long tail that strangled his neck.
Adio tried to pull the creature out of Jackson's face.
As Errol backed away in fear, another egg opened.
Errol saw that coming and started blasting the eggs with his weapons.
"Take that, you fucking spider freaks!" Errol screamed menacingly.
The eggs were soon all blown apart by Errol's pulse rifle.
"HELP Jackson will you!" Adio screamed.
Errol kept his weapon and ran up to Adio.
Jackson slowly started to struggle lesser, and Adio did everything he could to remove the creature, trying to slide his fingers between the face of Jackson and the spider creature.
"We shot the damn thing!" Errol recommended.
"Are you crazy? These things have acid blood!" Adio yelled.
"One way or the other, I'm doing it." Errol stubbornly said and took a few steps back.
Adio back away and slowly, his eyes started to widen in fear. As Errol was about to shot the creature that was strangling Jackson, who was no longer struggling, he paused, looking at the feared eyes of Adio.
"What's…wrong.?" Errol asked nervously again.
Adio shake his head in fear, sweating like a madman.
Errol quickly turned and squeezed the trigger, blasting away a huge figure that stood behind him, but his pulse rifle only bounced off the hard skin of the creature and struck his leg.
Errol screamed in pain and got to his knees. Holding the weapon in one hand, he looked before him, a Xenomorph that was not described by Specs.
It was two times the size of Errol, tainted blue and black and it had huge body mass and huge arms in resemblance to a gorilla size body. Yet it was no gorilla, it was a huge Xenomorph.
It wasn't human size, nor was it pure black. It was growling fiercely at the frightened marine.
"Oh my…god." Errol whispered.
A tail lash out and grabbed Errol on the face with three finger tips unlike any other ordinary Xenomorphs that had sharp pointed tails.
"Argh, help me! Help me help me help me!" Errol screamed in panic
Adio was too frightened as he watched. The huge Xenomorph punched Errol right in the stomach, silencing him as he coughed out a huge amount of blood. It grabbed Errol in the head with three fingers and slowly ripped it off. Blood sprayed out of the neck and the gorilla alien threw the head near Adio, who was about to break down. The roared loudly like an animal and ripped the body of the marine to half. The sounds of bones shattered as it crushed the body in its hands and blood poured out like a waterfall between its fingers. The heart, intestines and livers slide out of the aliens hands and landed on the ground with a slippery sound. Adio screamed and started running into a door near him as fast as he could. The Xenomorph roared loudly, and then it slammed the crushed body of the dead marine against the ground. It wanted to pursue to last marine, nut it sense a presence of another alien, and so it focus on the one marine who had his face hugged by the face hugger alien.
Adio ran down the corridor as fast as he could to the lower levels. He heard a screech no far behind and he turned. To much of his fear, a large amount of normal Xenomorphs were giving chase. Adio started running even faster, trying to find a way out of this mad house.
As for Jack and Punk, they had moved on to a huge long corridor that was fully lit.
"This place must lead to somewhere." Punk said.
Jack kept silent, staying on guard. Jack looked at the tracking device and saw a red dot just up ahead. But despite the brightness, Jack didn't see a single soul ahead.
Punk came across a yellow dot moving just right where they were.
"Ok, we have Xenomorphs here but…they're not anywhere?" Punk said impatiently.
Jack tapped Punk on the soldier and pointed above.
Punk looked up the ceiling without making a sound.
"No way." Punk whispered.
Suddenly, Jack sense it and he grabbed Punk and dragged him away from where he is. The ceiling above where they last stood suddenly exploded and a few Xenomorphs fell down. One died and three more struggled up.
"Yuck, this pieces of black dick heads are uglier then a dick in ta-ta sauce." Punk spoke without thinking.
Jack looked at him with utter disgust and looked at the aliens that were new hissing at them. However, Jack was puzzled as to why one of the three aliens were facing the other direction where no one was there, and why did the ceiling explode, causing the death of one Xenomorph.
But that was soon to become an answer for Jack himself as beyond the view of the alien, Jack and Punk saw a invisible figure walking toward the alien group. Electrical current surged through the figure and revealed itself not as a Xenomorph but a being that was fully geared up by unknown weaponry. It wore a mask, and its left arm was fixed with some sort of gadget. It had long sharp nails and it held a long spear. Most of the gadgets, weaponry and its spear were all of the same color, silver.
Punk readied himself with his rifle.
Jack held the handle of his sword and the intruder which has finally revealed itself all started to engage the Xenomorphs and each other.