A/N: I know this took a while because I wasn't sure what was going to happen. This chapter wasn't very exciting I don't think. But the next chapters, I will be putting in more things. Please read and review. I hope you enjoy this chapter
Chapter 3: Surprise!
Two soldiers named Jack and Craig were heading to a big gate that was the entrance to a wide passage that trucks used to transport things. Both men were heading to the next complex to do something. "Bad weather for recon," Craig mentioned.
"That's all the weather we get here," Jack reminded.
"No. We get bad and worse," added Craig.
The two men, armed with the standard Pulse Rifle, activated a switch. The gate groaned as it slowly opened, revealing a wide passage that had a door on its left side. A light above the door and above the gate on the other side, but both men still put on their shoulder lights, to illuminate the dark areas of the passage.
The two men slowly walked down the passage, Pulse Rifles lowered to their waist. Craig thought he heard something like something clicking against metal. But he didn't think much of it. Besides, it didn't seem Jack had heard it.
They were right in front of the other door and Jack was heading to the switch on the right side to open it. Craig remained where he stood, waiting patiently.
Jack put his hand on the switch and was about to bring it down when he thought he heard something loud. He turned around, turning his shoulder light on. He saw a big black thing with the head of his friend is its mouth. Its jaws crushed the head and the beast swallowed. Jack only stared at it, not able to move due to pure shock. The beast turned to face him, growling and showing its long sharp teeth. An Alien, Jack thought, although it was something he had never seen the likes of before.
The beast slowly walked up to him, growling loudly, and drool dripping from its long teeth. The last thing Jack remembered was the beast towering over him, opening its mouth, and an inner mouth lashing out. Then his world went black.
The Emperor's inner mouth ripped into the man's head. He placed his hands on the human's shoulders, placed his jaws around the head, and ripped it off. Although he had had his fill with the other dead humans, he still hungered a bit for the head, perhaps his favorite part of a human.
After swallowing the head, he turned to face the other side of the complex he was heading to before the two humans showed up. He slowly walked to the opened gate and observed his surrounding. He was in another massive part of the complex. There were two trucks, both near a pile of containers, and a big rectangular structure with more containers inside. A walkway was in front of the Alien.
The Alien then heard something running towards him. He whipped his head to the left and saw another human. The human had not seen him before, due to the fact that the Alien was disguised in the shadows. He slipped on the ground and, as fast as he had appeared, tried to run away. But the Alien lifted his extremely long tail and lashed out with it. The tail spike stabbed the man's right eye and exited out of the other side of the head. The man died instantly.
The Emperor lifted his tail again and whipped it to the left, throwing the man's dead body off. He could see a light far away, moving erratically, behind a truck. A throaty growl rumbled from within his neck. He slowly walked to the truck, taking his time like a carnivorous dinosaur slowly walking to his severely injured prey.
As he neared the truck, he could hear panicked breathing. It became worse as he got closer, even though his approach was as silent as that of a tiger. Finally he reached the truck and looked to see who it was. Not surprisingly, it was a man but this time he was unarmed. At last, something that wouldn't fight back at all.
The Alien snarled loudly. The man looked at the Alien with a terrified look. The Alien grabbed the human by the collar of his long-sleeved shirt with his longer left arm. He brought the man to his face, placed his longer right arm on the man's left leg, and with all his strength, ripped the man in two. He dropped the man's separated body on the floor and headed towards the entrance of the walkway. But as he headed there, two armed soldiers showed up at the entrance of the walkway. The Alien growled in frustration and hid behind another half triangular structure again. He planned on using the structures to sneak up on the humans; the nature of any Alien. All Aliens normally depended on stealth and that was their style of attack. Probably the only ones that did not depend on stealth but pure power were the Empress, the Ravagers, the Praetorians, the Warriors, and the Carriers. The Drones, Runners, and Predaliens depended mostly on stealth to hunt their prey.
He quietly climbed onto the triangular structure, sticking to the shadows. Luckily the sun wasn't out. The men spoke true when they mentioned the bad weather. The clouds swirled in a circle and lightning crackled in the sky. It looked like the eye of a storm.
So the structures were nearly bathing in shadows, making the Emperor's job much easier. But he still needed to make a stealthy approach. He did not want gunfire to attract a horde of soldiers to this area.
The two humans were standing there, armed and ready to fight if necessary. They didn't see the dead human that the Emperor had killed by stabbing him with the Alien's tail spike. Luckily the body had been thrown into the shadows.
The Emperor dug his claws into the metal, careful not to make a sound. He continued his slow advancement towards the two men. The humans had not noticed nor heard the Alien coming. They continued guarding the entrance.
The Emperor quietly climbed down the left side of the last half triangular structure and slowly planted his long right hand first on the ground. Then his other hands and feet were placed on the ground. Gradually, he got up on twos and walked up to the man on his right. Instead of chomping his head off like he had done with the others, he lifted his main right arm and dug his claws deep into the man's face. With his claws still in the man's face, the Alien quickly removed his claws, slashing deeply into the man's face and skull. Blood spewed from the deep wounds. The man fell to the ground, bleeding like crazy. The other man faced the Alien and aimed the Pulse Rifle at the black beast. But before he could fire, the Alien ran to him and grabbed the rifle, pushing it up. The sudden move got the human to lose his grip on the gun. The Alien threw the weapon aside and growled ferociously at the man, who was now taking out a standard pistol. Once again before he could fire, the Alien swiftly grabbed the gun with his main left hand. He crushed it like a soda can. The man began breathing rapidly and in fear, began running away.
The Emperor screeched loudly and ran towards the fleeing human. When he was nearly 10 feet away, give or take, the Emperor turned counterclockwise, lifting his tail high into the air. His tail circled counterclockwise as well and in a flash, whipped the man in the back. The tail spike instantly sliced into his back. Blood gushed from the wound. The man was thrown several feet away and screamed loudly. He hit the ground on his chest, moaning in pain and trying to crawl away despite his wound. The Alien walked a few feet, slowly lifted his tail, aimed his tail spike, and stabbed the man through his head, instantly killing him.
Satisfied, the Emperor turned around and faced the entrance to the walkway the men had been guarding.
"Are you sure of it?" the soldier named Michael asked.
"Yes, I'm sure I heard an Alien," the frantic scientist answered. "My friend and I were just talking and we heard gunfire. Then we heard a screech. I know it was from an Alien."
The scientist seemed so sure that it was an Alien, but Michael thought otherwise. He had heard machines or metal that have screeched similar to an Alien. Scientists have been getting mixed up with the sounds of the machines and metal with the screech and roars of an Alien.
He couldn't be sure if the scientist had truly seen an Alien. For the sake of the security team, he would not raise the alarm unless he saw proof that there was an Alien loose. "Alright, I'll see what I can do," Michael lied. He did not want the scientist to be telling someone else and scaring others with his story of an Alien.
"Ok," the scientist replied.
"For now, get back to what you were doing," the soldier ordered.
The scientist almost gulped in fear. He did not want to be outside with an Alien running around. He had a job to do outside where he had heard gunfire. Now he didn't want to go. "Hey, you have a job to do. Go to where you must be and do your job!" Michael yelled.
The scientist was angry from the soldier's reply, but he didn't have much of a choice. Heart already pounding, he turned around and headed out of the office that overlooked the eastern landing pad for the complex.
At last the scientist left. Michael looked down at the eastern landing area from the office on the second floor. So far, nothing had happened. But despite not truly believing the scientist, he was afraid. He remembered when an Alien escaped a long time ago. The Alien killed many people and managed to escape to the Hive. Since then, security became tighter to make sure that no Alien escaped again. Hearing of another Alien that escaped scared him badly. But he didn't show it. If he saw the Alien, it was his job to warn others. And if he had to, he would fight the Alien himself. Of course, he didn't know that the Alien was very different from the other types that were known. The Alien Emperor was about to show him and everyone else in the complex the true power of a raging Alien.
The Emperor hid in the darkness as he observed all the humans that were working in the next part of the complex, the eastern landing pad. He clung to the walls of the walkway, staying alert of any nearby enemies. He could see some sort of odd drop ship land on the landing pad. The bottom of the ship opened up to reveal a sort of platform that allowed people, vehicles, and supplies to get into the ship. A human in a white robe walked up the thin platform and began fixing something in the ship. More humans showed up, armed with the same weapon that the other armed humans had. The area was filled with humans. The Emperor knew that he would need stealth more than ever to get past this area.
But now he could hear someone coming. He stayed in the shadows as he observed another man with white robes walking down the walkway. The Emperor could almost feel his fear radiating off the man. The Alien could almost feel himself grin in excitement; this would be another easy prey. At last he was beginning to install fear into the humans.
He quietly stalked his prey, ready to kill like the silent, stealthy Alien he was born to be.
The scientist had a feeling that scared him. It felt as if something was following him. He was hoping to God that he wasn't being followed, especially not by the very Alien he had reported not too long ago. He began walking faster and tried to calm himself down. But he heart was still pounding and he began to breathe faster.
Suddenly he felt something grab his face and something dig deep into his skin. He tried to scream in pain and fear but the black hand covering his face prevented that. Then he felt something stab him in the chest and his world want pitch black.
The Alien Emperor, still clinging to the wall of the walkway, used his long, main right claws to grab the man's face and then used his tail to stab the man through the heart. It was a nice, fast, silent kill. He looked back to the landing pad and noticed that no one had even noticed the scientist being killed. The Alien threw the man's body into the darkness and began quietly walking towards the entrance of the walkway, careful to stay into the darkness. There weren't enough hiding places around the area so his stealth plan wouldn't work. The Alien figured he would have no choice but to quickly assault the humans and leave the area.
He would for sure get injured. Hell, even nearly killed by the attack, but he had no choice. He had to fight his way out of the complex to at last head to his Hive and join his queen, the Empress.
He jumped off from the wall, landing on the ground feet first. He decided to make his big entrance by killing the nearest armed human, but the problem was how near the human was. The nearest one was actually by the drop ship. Everyone else was pretty far away from the entrance of the walkway. In fact, some of the armed humans were leaving, heading to another part of the complex using two or three doors in the eastern landing pad. After waiting for a few more minutes, about seven were left in the area. There were six armed men and one in a lab coat, still fixing something on the drop ship. The Alien of course did not know of the office on the second floor that overlooked the landing pad. His stealthy attacks would soon end.
The Emperor could not believe how weak the security was. Evidently the pathetic humans still didn't know of his escape and the deaths of their fellow humans. If he were human, he'd be laughing by now.
The Emperor's intelligence was beyond comprehensible. He wasn't human, but he could still almost think as one. Aliens were known to be highly intelligent, not mindless killing machines like many believed. But the Emperor was different from other types of Aliens. His intelligence rivaled that of the Empress, or possibly surpassed hers.
He determined that a quick attack, if done effectively, would be enough to get passed this area and go on with his objective. He prepared himself for his next fight.
He got himself ready to run. He slowly walked to the entrance of the walkway, hiding in the last of the shadows that had hidden him since he first entered the walkway. Then, like a jaguar, ran out into the landing pad until he was several feet away from his target and jumped at him, using his body as a battering ram to smack into the man and smash him into a wall, instantly killing him. The other armed men turned around and saw the Alien kill their comrade. Just as fast as the Emperor had appeared, the men were shooting at him. He shrieked in pain as some of the bullets pierced his armored skin. He headed to his closest target, another armed man. He ran several more feet and again did a counterclockwise turn, lifting his tail. The tail whip sent the man flying into the air, smashing into the drop ship. He didn't move after the attack.
He turned around and saw another armed man, shooting at him. The Emperor growled and ran towards him again. This time, the human was smart enough to try and run away. He was trying to seek a place to hide and to protect himself against the Alien's attack. But he couldn't believe how fast the Alien was.
The Emperor quickly caught up to the man and grabbed his shoulders with his long arms. He held the man close to his face and the Alien once again used his inner mouth to finish the human off. Three down, four more to go.
Two humans suddenly threw something spherical that the Alien had not seen since his escape. The two spheres landed near the Alien's feet and exploded. The Emperor roared in pain. How dare the humans try to hurt him like this. Him, the king of the Aliens! The Emperor roared in pure rage, the earth shaking under his mighty roar. The humans threw two more grenades but this time, the Emperor caught both with his longer arms and threw both right back at the two humans who had first thrown the grenades. The humans tried to escape but it was too late. The grenades exploded, sending the two humans flying into the air. One of them had his left leg blown clear off. The other seemed like he lost the lower half of his body, since one of the grenades landed directly under him. Both bodies were black from the explosion.
The Emperor roared in victory and continued his onslaught.
Michael could only watch from the office as the Alien attacked and killed his comrades. He could not believe how fast, powerful, and big the Alien was. It didn't look like a Praetorian, a Ravager, a Predalien, or even the Empress. It was far more different than any Alien he had seen.
He couldn't believe such an Alien even escaped once more. Shit, I have to tell the Sergeant. We have to increase security, he thought.
He walked up to some kind of machine and pressed a button to activate a big screen on the machine. A man showed up on the screen, looking at Michael with an angry look. Michael didn't know why the sergeant seemed angry but he had no time. "Sarge, sorry for bothering you at this moment in time, but…we have a problem," Michael said.
The Alien Emperor finally came up to the cowardly scientist, grabbed his head with his smaller right arm, and smashed it against the wall of the drop ship. His head was crushed and blood exploded from the head, instantly killing the last remaining human of the area.
The Emperor screeched loudly in triumph. Then began feasting on the scientist so that his wounds could heal. Once he was done with the body, he walked out of the drop ship and headed towards the entrance of another passage, where a truck was parked. The front was spewing some sort of white gas. The Alien took his time towards the entrance of the passage, ready to take on any other humans that tested his power.