Ok people this is where the shit hits the fan and chaos comes, in the words of a great man

Now….shall we begin?


Chapter 7: GAME OVER MAN!

Everything was silent on board the Asclepheus and the majority of the crew was asleep while a skeleton crew was operating the deck making sure the ship was on course.

Captain Grey was on the bridge of the Quatermaine with a cup of coffee in his hand while the ship's pilots flicked the flashing controls to keep the ship running.

"Captain Grey we are receiving a message from Captain Azarov" one of the pilots told the Captain

"Put it through" the Captain said after taking a sip of his coffee

The screen showed a very tired looking Azarov sitting in her captain's chair "Captain Grey I'm going to turn in for the night is that alright?" the Russian captain asked

"Alright Cynthia have a good sleep, I'll take control for the night" Grey said with a smile

The screens of the Newton showed Captain Grey as Captain Azarov left the bridge leaving the pilots with Captain Grey's likeness on their screens.

"Full ahead full" Captain Grey ordered the pilots of both ships as they kept pace with the Asclepheus.


Eli and Rezeal slept as soundly as Kamads could (on their backs snoring like fog horns) with their feet hanging off the edge of their beds.

Due to the Kamad's large sizes they each needed a double king size bed to accommodate them which wasn't hard on a ship with thousands of human inhabitants.


Norma slept silently in her bed with her hair undone while Dexter was sleeping in his cage with his wings ruffled up with his tail wagging slightly.


"Captain I'm picking something up" one of the Pilots said

"What an asteroid or something?" the Captain asked

"No it's bigger, much bigger not to mention they are way too fast to be asteroids" the Pilot said analysing the screen studying the strange patterns they were picking up.

Then with no warning at all 4 colossal battleships emerged from the darkness of space directly in front of the Quatermaine, all four ships looked very Yautja-like only they had darker armour plating and red markings on the side like no other Yautja ships had.

"Yautja ships Captain?" the pilot asked eyes fixed on the ships

"Those aren't Yautja, ALL HANDS TO BATTLE STATIONS!" the Captain shouted at the top of his lungs into the intercom causing the sleeping crew members to scramble to their stations and Marines to get geared up.

One of the 4 ships engaged the Quatermaine and shot a plasma blast into its hull tearing it to pieces.

"SIR WE JUST GOT HIT INTO THE MAIN HULL!"

"SEAL IT UP AND POWER UP THOSE SHIELDS!" the Captain shouted his orders to the pilots and quickly got into his chair.


Captain Azarov woke up to the sounds of alarm claxons and men shouting, she knew that sound because it was the sound of an attack.

She leapt out of bed and put on her officers jacket and her gun belt around her waist and opened her door to see marines and crew members running back and forth to their stations. Azarov followed suit and ran into the direction of the bridge and to her horror when she got there she saw the ships attacking.

"CAPTAIN AZAROV, WE'RE LOSING POWER! THEY'VE HIT OUR GENERATORS!" one of the pilots shouted

"THEN SWITCH TO BACK UP'S AND FIRE ALL MAIN BATTERIES!" Azarov shouted her orders as the Newton began to fire its pulse batteries as the attacking ships only for the projectiles to impact upon the enemy ship's plasma shields

The enemy ship then fired several objects that weren't plasma bolts into the side of the Newton, these objects looked like drills only meant for digging into the ship's side but not causing any real damage and this was proven when the drills clamped themselves in place on the hull.


Squads of Marines were running down the halls of the ship with pulse rifles and smart guns in their hands preparing for action as the entire ship rumbled.

Suddenly a drill looking object pierced the hull completely shredding a marine or two in the process, one drill was followed by another and then another until there were at least six or seven drills imbedded in the ship's hull.

The Marines kept their distance form them raised their weapons toward the drills preparing for the worst as the drill blades themselves began to shift and retract back until there were only hatches that opened up with a hiss.

Out of the hatch hoped a figure clad in black sectional armour that was adorned with skulls and bones, the figure had the dreadlocks of a Yautja but unlike a Yautja's they were spreading backward and its skin was a lot scalier and darker.

This figure was then joined as a lot more of its kin as more leapt from the hatches wearing all sorts of black armour with varying trophies and helmets.

"OPEN FIRE!" one of the marines shouted as all the marines began firing everything they had at the black Yautja. Some of the warriors got riddled with shells and fell to the floor bleeding terribly while others managed to avoid the bullets or have them bounce off of their armour as they charged the marines.

One of the Yautja threw their combi stick which impaled a marine against a wall, the Black Yautja the collided with the marines and began to use their close combat weapons to stab, slice and tear at the marines.

One Yautja would decapitate a marine while another would rip their arms off; many of the Yautja killed their opponents in different ways all of which were brutal and merciless.

It didn't take long for the Black Yautja to slaughter the marines while sustaining a few losses themselves, one Yautja that looked like a high ranking warrior raised his Glaive and let out a roar before leading the other warriors deeper into the ship.


The other two black yautja ships fired many of their drilling pods at the Asclepheus' sides piercing the hull.

The Marines on board the Asclepheus had constructed several barricades in the hallways in order to buy many of the crew members time to get to the escape pods; the barricades gave the image of trenches in a world war situation with the soldiers leaning their guns on the barricades to steady them.

Black Yautja warriors emerged from the corners and charged the marines who let off a war cry and unloaded everything they had, pulse rifles, smart guns, RPG's and even a rocket launcher or two.

The Black Yautja however did manage to get a few cloaked warriors behind them in order to outflank the marines. The halls quickly became coated in glowing green blood and crimson red blood of both species as the marines and warriors slaughtered each other in the halls of the colossal ship.


Blair was in his office and was scrambling through his notes in a hurry trying desperately to find something until he finally found it his remote. This remote was to open up the segments of the ship containing the worst menageries on board along with burst open the locks of a very special room down below.

Blair got the remote and typed a few numbers and combinations into it causing one of the lights on it to blink rapidly.


Deep in the lower levels of the ship the door that containing the Xenomorphs opened up and from there came the sounds of scurrying as thousands of Facehuggers swarmed from the depths of the ship intent on latching onto the faces of whatever they came across.


"Holy shit man this is fucked up!" one marine with short blonde hair said

"Shut up your startling everyone else up private!" another marine said

"Startling! STARTLING! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING MAN!? WE'RE DEAD! FUCKING DEAD! GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER! WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW!?" The marine screamed as the other grabbed him and smacked him in the face

"GET IT TOGETHER YOU SON OF A BITCH OR ILL KILL YOU MYSELF!" the other marine bellowed at him.

A lot of the marines had managed to barricade off the Black Yautja and were taking shelter in a munitions room. There were at least 50 marines all together in this room and more than a few were freaking out probably due to missing limbs and what they had just experienced.

"Now we have to get an attack plan together, we have to find a way to get to the bridge to get a distress signal out for help" the same marine said

"Well that's a fucking stupid plan, in the event of an attack a distress signal is sent out immediately along with schematics of the ship in order to send it to the right response team" another marine said

"Yeah so all we got to do is get to the escape pods and get the fuck out of…" one marine started until a Facehugger leapt from the shadows and latched onto his face this caused all the other marines to start freaking out as thousands of Facehuggers swarmed the room latching onto their faces one by one. One marine would try to fire a few shots only to get stopped by a Facehugger leaping onto his face and wrapping a tail around his throat.

The blonde marine who was freaking out quickly pried the door open and quickly shut the door behind him and blocking it shut with a few gas barrels he found nearby.

"GOD DAM IT YOU OPEN THIS DOOR NOW YOU FUCKING COWARD!" one marine screamed at the top of her lungs from the other side as the marine blocking the door heard the screams of the marines on the other side of the door die down as each one was taken by a face hugger. It didn't take long for the screaming to be turned into complete silence.

The marine began to back away with his eyes watering but as he turned around he saw something that filled him with pure terror.

One of the ship's experimental creatures the Aurelian Skarnak had broken free from its enclosure and was right in front of him ad was drooling from its Maw of a mouth. The creature grabbed him with one of its pincers and shoved him into its mouth causing its hundreds of rows of razor sharp teeth to shred him into tiny little pieces. The marine quickly disappeared into the creature's mouth and was rejected as a red mist out of one of the vents on the creature's back with an audible wet hissing noise.


Norma had finished getting her research notes together as she and Sophie rushed to pack everything away with the sounds of panic and screaming in the back ground but as the two turned to the door way they froze to see a Black Yautja warrior standing there with extended Wristblades.

The Black Yautja then gave out a hellish chuckle as it approached the two human females. Norma got in front of Sophie in a defensive stance as the creature approached slowly until it halted.

The creature then gave out a choking sound as a katana blade pierced its throat from behind and sliced the creature clean in half down the middle causing glowing green organs and blood to splatter on the floor. Eli was standing there with a katana coated in glowing green blood wearing his full gear he then turned to Norma and Sophie and asked in a clear voice.

"You two want to live? Then follow me and stick close" he said before swinging his sword behind him decapitating a Black Yautja that tried sneaking up on him while cloaked.

That little display made up Norma and Sophie's minds as they quickly began following Eli closely as he cut down any Yautja that stood in his path.


A group of Black Yautja had just finished slaughtering a squad of marines and were busy de-skulling them and skinning them. One Black Yautja was busy gutting a female marine's corpse and was actively desecrating her body.

"Filthy Oomans don't know when to quit! Did you see the look on her face when I cut her legs off?" the Black Yautja chuckled causing the other hunters to laugh

"Little bitch shot me in the leg! Not so tough now are..." the Yautja was interrupted by getting a knife imbedded in his skull.

Rezeal leapt from one of the banisters above them and threw another knife into a nearby Yautja's throat causing him to choke on his own blood.

Another Yautja ran at him and swung his Wristblades at him, Rezeal simply grabbed a hold of the Yautja's arm and kicked him in groin causing him to fall onto the ground giving Rezeal the time to grab a knife from the Yautja's belt and slit his throat with it causing green luminescent blood to spill all over the floor.

Rezeal finally drew his Shortsword and Hookblade and cut off another Yautja's arm following up with a kick to the throat crushing the Yautja's windpipe. Another Yautja tried to impale him on his combi-stick, Rezeal dodged it and jammed his Hookblade into the Yautja's head bringing him close enough for a stab to the neck before ripping his head clean off.

Two Black Yautja attacked at once with their Glaives attempting to behead him, Rezeal instead of ducking like many would leapt upwards and split kick the two Yautja at once, he landed and swiped his Shortsword and stabbed the Black Yautja in the chest before bringing it down in a saw like motion causing the Yautja's innards to spill all over the floor. The other Yautja stumbled around dizzily giving Rezeal enough time to get bring his Hookblade onto the Yautja's shoulder and yank him onto the floor letting Rezeal violently step on his face causing his head to cave in.

Rezeal looked over the assorted corpses and retracted his helmet back showing the look of pure hate in his reptilian eyes as he looked at the Black Yautja corpses in particular.

"Scum like you deserves nothing less than death" he whispered under his breath as he marched past the corpses into a quick jog to meet up with Eli.


Things aboard the Quatermaine weren't going so well as the Black Yautja were continuing their onslaught with the humans barely able to fight back.

"KEEP THOSE REAR BATTERIES FIRING!" Captain Grey shouted his orders.

"SIR THE INVADERS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE MID SECTION OF THE SHIP!" one Pilot shouted back

"FUCK IT, TELL THE MEN TO ABANDON SHIP!" the Captain said

"But sir if we abandon the ship now the mission is lost!"

"In case you didn't notice if we aren't in control of the mid-section it's only a matter of time before those bastards get to the bridge and take full control of the ship and slaughter every last one of us!" the Captain said grabbing the pilot by the scruff of his neck.

"Besides the newton is still in fighting condition and if I know Captain Azarov she will have a plan of her own" Captain Grey said

"Now get the men to abandon ship!"

"But sir what about you?" the pilot asked

"Never mind me you get into the escape pods now!" the Captain ordered. The Captain's orders where followed by the sounds of the blast doors being rammed from the other side, the captain looked to the marines in the room beside him and spoke in aloud steady voice as the pilots evacuated the ship.

"Men it has been an Honour and a Privilege serving beside you. Right there beyond those doors is a force of savage predators worse than the likes of the Yautja I fought in the Great War. These creatures have no sense of honour, duty or mercy and will not hesitate to hang you with your own intestines!" Nathanial said to his men.

"It is a complete certainty that none of us will make it out of this alive! The Reaper is waiting for us Boys! He has fuelled up his truck and is ready to haul our sorry arses to the next world! BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY?! I SAY WE MAKE HIM WAIT A LITTLE LONGER AND TAKE A FEW OF THESE FUCKERS KICKING AND SCREAMING WITH US!" Nathanial shouted drawing a sword from his chair as all the marines at his side simultaneously let out a battle cry.

"HOORAH!" the marines cried out readying their weapons

The blast doors were then ripped open and Black Yautja began to pour out of the opening charging with their weapons raised as they did. The marines opened fire with everything they had causing a few of the Black Yautja to become riddled with bullets falling to ground dead.

Grey drew his pistol and fired off a few rounds at the Yautja getting a few well-placed shots, he targeted the most vulnerable parts of them such as the legs and their throats were the armour was thinnest, it didn't however take long for the Black Yautja to clash with the marines who fought back with everything they had, Grey slashed at the Yautja taking off limbs and inflicting crippling wounds to them.

Grey swung his sword at one Yautja slitting its throat causing it to fall to its knees where he could easily decapitate it. Grey turned only to lock eyes with one hunter that was obviously of a higher rank than the others, the hunter charged with its Wristblades drawn as it clashed with Grey causing sparks to erupt from their blades.

The hunter gave Grey a powerful kick to the chest sending him crashing into one of the control consoles. The hunter quickly ran to Grey and pushed him into the console casing him to drop his sword, the hunter then looked at the Captain's coat particularly the stripes signifying his rank as Captain and let out a hellish chuckle before landing an uppercut knocking Grey unconscious.


Grey's eyes groggily opened and it took a few seconds for his vision to properly return to his organic eye while his cybernetic eye rebooted. In the room where the scattered and mutilated corpses of many human marines while next to him where a few of his lieutenants were tied up next to him.

The Black Yautja had taken over the bridge and a few of them were analysing the controls, a new figure came into the room. A large Black Yautja wearing ornate armour and a red patterned cloak , it looked like an Elder only this creature didn't look nearly as regal as it's armour was just as rugged and gritty as that of one of the hunters.

This Yautja was most defiantly the leader due to the way he walked with a superior stance and the way the hunters bowed their heads to him. The Yautja that knocked him out seemed to be his second in command as they spoke to each other.

"5 Oomans still alive my lord….the one with the synthetic eye is their commander" the Hunter said to the Elder.

"Very good Tra'kan, what of the other ship?" the Elder asked in a deep commanding voice

"The men have only to take the bridge and the ship will be ours" Tra'kan said

"Very good" the Black Yautja Elder said as he strolled toward the Oomans staring through his mask at Grey the entire time. The Elder crouched down in front of Grey and reached up to the tubes connecting his mask and gave them a sharp yank resulting in a few streams of gas jetting out. He clasped his mask and gave it a sharp pull revealing his face which by the standards of the Yautja Grey had seen was ugly as fuck.

This Elder's face was more pointed like a snout as his mandible dent outwards as opposed to the sideward mandibles the regular Yautja had, his face had more of a whitish pigment and had rings and piercings adorning his face, one of his mandible tusks was slightly broken as the rest had runes engraved on them.

"I recall this is how humans speak….am I correct?" the Elder asked the captain

Grey didn't respond and simply glared at the Elder

"A bit bitter about how my men slaughtered yours like cattle?" the Elder replied nonchalantly

"Go fuck yourself" Grey said with venom in his voice as he spat at the Elder

"I see you still have some fight in you, oh well I was hoping we could progress without any more bloodshed….and we still can but it all revolves around your co-operation captain" the Elder said standing up

"GO TO HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" the Captain bellowed at the Elder who simply smiled at him before turning to the Hunters stood behind Grey's lieutenants and nodded.

The Hunter then drew their weapons and tore the lieutenants heads off as brutally as they could, the look of shock on Grey's face said it all as he watched his men's bodies get horribly mutilated right in front of him.

"I can tell it is going to be a pleasure getting to know you Captain" the Elder smiled as he turned and walked away.

Tra'kan walked up to Grey and smiled behind his mask before knocking the human unconscious once again.


Ok everybody the plot has arrived and the Black Yautja have made themselves known, now this chapter was really fun to write and I could use a bit of feedback in the form of a comment/review or a PM. Now for the questions that I would like answers to:

-what did you think of the attack?

-would you like more action or less?

-what do you think of the Black Yautja especially the Elder?

-what did you like?

illustrations of the Aurelian Skarnak and the Kamads can be found on deviantart page - artisticaldarkness

Whatever you think let me know because I could do with some feedback, Next chapter we will be returning to Humanity's greatest soldiers a year after we left them.

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