One by one, Nate, Katie, Rigby, Jerry, Lian, Alyssa, Kevin and Lieutenant Andrew exited the A.P.C, and walked towards the military complex, which was a few feet away. As they walked closer they heard the mini-flyer take off, going back to theAphrodite.
Lian walked up next to Rigby.
"What do you think we're gonna see when we go in there?" she asked Rigby. Rigby shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know," she said. Lian nodded. She hoped everything was fine, she had been friends with almost everyone that was here, like Holden and Knepper. If something bad had happened…
They walked in. They were in the hallway, and everything looked okay. Andrew stopped, and they all stopped too.
"Okay people, in this complex there are several rooms, there's the science room, the med room, the barracks, the armory, the basement areas, the main room, and the showers. I want each area checked out, and if anything's wrong you radio me or the closest soldier to you, you got me?" he told. They all nodded.
"We get you sir!" they shouted. He smiled.
"Okay, move it out!"
Alyssa walked down the stairs, towards the extremely large "basement". Really, it was a room which led to a tunnel the company Weyland-Yutani, that they all worked for, wanted dug. The company had found something underground that they wanted, but nobody had found it yet. Alyssa figured she would look; maybe find some of her friends down here.
As she reached the bottom of the stairs, she walked towards the start of the tunnel. She immediately noticed how the walls of the tunnels weren't covered in dirt, but a shiny, plastic type of material. She felt it, and noticed it was slippery and slimy. She didn't know what it was, and really didn't care. She just wanted to check the tunnel, and go back to the complex. She didn't like being alone.
She hit a button on the side of her helmet, and began talking into the microphone attached to her helmet, like a headset for a computer.
"Anyone hear me?" she asked. She heard nothing for a few seconds, and then heard Kevin's voice.
"I do, you sexy piece of meat," he laughed. She let out a laugh. He would never give up.
"Okay," she said. She liked hearing his voice, not because it was him, but because she needed someone to talk to her.
"What do you want, tits?" he asked. She didn't like being called tits, but didn't want him to stop talking.
"Nothing, fuck face, I just don't like being alone," she said. She kept walking. The tunnel was getting wider now, which made her feel a little bit better, if it was wider she was getting somewhere.
"Well, if you come back up here with me, you'd really not be alone," he laughed. She scoffed. He was a pig, but something about that charmed her.
"Kevin, we'll you ever stop?" she laughed. The tunnel was huge now; she figured she was almost where they had stopped the tunnel. Her shoulder-light was on, so she could see.
"Never," he said. She smiled. Maybe once they got back to Earth, she would go out with him. Now she was in a room of sorts, a huge room, the walls covered in that sticky substance. But she didn't see anything. She kept walking forward, and finally, she saw.
"Kevin, I've gotta go," she said. She hit the button on her helmet, so he wouldn't talk. In the room, on the floor, were hundreds of what looked liked eggs. They were each about two feet tall, brown and leathery. She walked up to one, and bent next it. What the hell were they?
She looked at the top of the egg. There were four parts, like petals. As she moved closer, they opened like flower petals. She backed up a little, but was intrigued by the eggs. What was in them? She stood up and leaned over the egg. She could see lots of sticky liquid. Something suddenly jumped at her from within the egg, and everything went black.
Kevin looked around; he was in the barracks, where everyone had slept. He had just stopped talking to Alyssa. He didn't know why, but she needed to stop talking. Maybe she had found somebody. He kind of hoped so, since he was good friends with Holden and Jared.
He looked through the bunks and lockers, trying to find anything interesting. He walked over to one bunk, and was sickened when he saw a pile of used rubbers underneath. He assumed it was Jared's, since he knew Jared masturbated a lot. He looked up, and saw something that confused him. Part of the metal bars around the bunk were burnt, like melted. But, what could melt metal? He couldn't think of anything, except acid. But why would someone bring acid into the barracks?
Lian and Jerry were in the armory. Lian looked through the lockers, grabbing all the ammo she could carry. She looked over at Jerry, who was doing the same.
"So, I saw you and Kiersten in the A.P.C," she said. He looked at her, with a shy look on his face. She guessed he didn't know anyone saw.
"Yeah, so?" he asked. She smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
"Nothing, just…," she started, and couldn't think of what to say. He walked over to her.
"Just what?" he asked.
"It's just, Kiersten's had a lot of boyfriends, and she's been hurt bad almost every time," she said. Jerry gave her a stern, kind of hurt look.
"You think I'll hurt her?" he asked. She shrugged.
"It's not like that, it's just Kiersten always thinks she's in love. And when her boyfriends dump her, it breaks her heart," she told him.
"Lian, we've known each other since we were what, thirteen? You should know I've liked her for years, and you know I won't hurt her," he said. She smiled, and nodded.
"Yeah, I guess I know that," she smiled. Then she looked down, and nearly screamed. There was a puddle of dried blood under her, and going all the way across the room, up the wall and into an air vent.
"What is it?" Jerry asked. She pointed to the trail of blood. He gasped. "How the hell didn't we notice that?" he asked. She shook her head. She didn't know. And why was it going into the air vent?
Nate looked around. He and Katie were in the med room, looking for anything different; out of place. So far, everything looked okay.
"You find anything?" he asked as he turned to face her. She shook her head.
"This is too weird. Where are they?" she asked. He shrugged his shoulders. It was weird; how could a group of about twenty marines just disappear without a trace?
Rigby screamed. She was in the showers, but it could hardly be called that anymore. The white walls were doused with red blood, and so was the entire floor. Bits and pieces of flesh were scattered throughout the rather large room, which had to belong to at least five people. She walked through the room, her gun aimed. She was using a smart-gun, a high caliber machine gun that only her and Kevin were certified to use. It was a large gun that was attached to a rod that wrapped around her waist.
She was now in the center of the room. She looked at the motion detector, that was attached to her smart-gun and worked as a radar. Nothing was near this area, at least nothing alive. She bent over, and saw a finger with a ring. The ring had a diamond on it, and she knew who's finger it was. It had belonged to Savannah Miller, who Rigby had known since middle school. The ring had been her engagement ring, but Savannah wouldn't be getting married anytime soon.
Rigby moved through the room more, and saw a name-tag. The name on it was A. Sen. Aditya. Rigby put her hand over her mouth to try to keep from puking. She had been good friends with Aditya, had dated him at one point. She just couldn't believe he was gone…
Whatever had killed her friends, they were going to pay…
Andrew sat down at the desk. He was in the main hall, which was a room filled with computers for the scientists to work at. He grabbed the mouse, and clicked one of the icons that said LOGS. He figured that maybe he could find out what happened if he read them.
April 1st 2214
We have just started work here. So far, we are all having no complaints. The planet is barren, with barely any plant life, let alone any other life. Weyland-Yutani has ordered us to start building a tunnel from our lower floors; they say that there's some oil on this planet. Lord knows Earth needs it.
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
Andrew clicked NEXT.
April 17th 2214
We have finally finished the tunnel. We have stumbled across a room filled with eggs of some species. There seem to be no creatures on this planet, so we will simply destroy the eggs to continue. Right now the area is off limits.
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
April 19th 2214
Today we had an accident. I sent Holden and Knepp down to the tunnels today to make sure everything was in order. Well, it seems the two just couldn't resist, and they took a closer look at the eggs. Something that was in the eggs, some kind of, well "alien", has attached itself to there face. It's a nasty looking little fucker too. It resembles a spider, sort of, with eight long, finger-like legs. It's a pale yellow color, and doesn't really have a head, per se. It also has no visible eyes. It has a long tail, and each of the creatures has there tail wrapped around Holden and Knepp's neck. Sometimes I notice the neck tighten, and when they gasp for breath, two flaps on its body fill up, like its breathing for them….
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
April 20th 2214
Something weird happened today. When we checked on Knepp and Holden, the creatures were gone. Holden and Knepp were awake, but looked like they had just woken up from a major hangover. Other than that, they seem okay. We found the spider things in the vents. They were dead. This is getting weird…
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
April 21st 2214
Holden and Knepper are dead… It happened when we were in the barracks, just hanging out, like old times on Earth. One minute we were listening to music, and then Holden started coughing, moaning about chest pains. Before we could help him he went into convulsions, and fell to the ground. He started puking up blood. I didn't know what to do, none of us did. When I tried to help, he pushed me away, he pushed everyone away. For a minute it stopped, and he looked at me. At that moment I saw something in his eyes, like he was at peace. Then he screamed like I've never heard anyone scream before, and all I could see was blood. Something, a little snake-like creature, had broken out of his chest. It looked at us and shrieked, and before we could grab it, it slithered off.
We were scared of Knepp. She wouldn't move for a long time, knowing what was going to happen. She asked us all to shoot her…. But we couldn't. She's our friend, we couldn't do it. When nobody would, she grabbed a grenade and walked outside. We heard the explosion, but none of us could say anything…
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
April 22nd 2214
We found the thing that burst out of Holden today. But it wasn't the same. It was darker, and bigger. Much bigger, around seven or eight feet tall. Unfortunately Colton found it. He's not around anymore. We found a few pieces of him in the air vents; it seems that's how the thing is getting around. When we finally did see it, Clint shot it with a pistol. The alien's blood burned a hole through the metal door, and then the alien thing left. Fucking acidic blood…
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
April 23rd 2214
There are more of them. And not just one or two, but hundreds. I think when Holden, how do I say it, "gave birth", I guess, that creature woke up the others that were asleep, further down the tunnel. They are getting in through the vents, crawling around the complex. There's also a cave about half a mile away that connects to their "nest". We're all scared, and we all plan on going into hiding, probably in the showers, the only way in is the door, and that's hard metal. Plus with all our guns, we should be able to keep them away…
-Lieutenant R. Kerckhoff
Andrew finished reading, and felt sick. He quickly grabbed his radio. Everybody needed to see this…