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The Alien didn't know what had happened, the spear striking from behind and up at the angle, coming out its mouth and Martha kept moving, never knowing how close she had come to death.
Jack scrambled to his feet and looked at the gorgeous creature that was dispassionately shaking the Alien's blood off the spear, his Predator armour shining.
"Damn, you look fucking dangerous babe" Jack leered and Ianto glanced at him and rolled his eyes, then canted his head and winked.
"Be a good boy and we'll see how dangerous I can be, yeah Cariad?" Ianto growled and Jack huffed as he felt himself go hard.
"Come on you two, flirt later" Martha yelled over her shoulder, her dreadlocks swinging as she roared and slapped another magazine into the riffle.
"Christ on a Harley" Ianto snorted, 'She's a fierce wee beastie."
"Solder, she's a soldier" Jack corrected, skipping into a run as she disappeared down the tunnel and he raced after her as Ianto swung the spear under his arm, catching a bug that had thought it was really going to catch him unawares from behind.
Idiot things.
Ianto turned and disappeared as his cloaking reengaged and the faint gunfire echoed as Jack and Martha cleared the tunnels.
Ianto moved into the bowels, searching for the source of the infestation and he heard an ungodly scream, making him increase speed. He entered a large tomb-like cavern where the Queen was in full fight mode and he had time to see Maddy fly before another was plucked from the ground, it's cloak failing as well and Ianto could see that her hands…if you can call them that…were bleeding from her efforts to protect her brood. This blood was shorting their armour.
Bitch.
"MADDY" he yelled, his fear raw as he noticed how still she was but then he saw her shaking her head to show she was coming back.
Ianto refocused on the prize.
Big bitch prize.
Yeah.
Ianto felt himself grow cool as if someone had dumped water over his head and he took a deep cleansing breath, then erupted. He ran around the edge of the room and the spear worked like a pick axe, griping and pulling as he gained traction up the walls and as he leapt for her he screamed with power, the spear sinking into the flesh behind what was…her ear? Maybe? Do they have eyes?
She was making that horrible noise as she swung, bashing him against the side of the cavern and he felt his gip slipping, snarling as he twisted his wrist and the spear lengthened to that of a long staff, exiting the other side of her throat and then it jerked, weight on the other side making her head slam down.
Other Predators moved in, calm and collected as they sliced at her and with her head trapped from Ianto and Maddy's weight she could only scream as Bix swung the huge axe, bringing it down on her skull, roaring as he placed a foot on the armour to try and lever it out.
"Move!" Jack demanded, bringing the sonic weapon to his hip and as she opened her mouth to scream again he opened fire, the skull disintegrating and the spear now visible with chunks of viscera dripping from it.
"Ew, gross Cariad" Ianto huffed as he detracted the spear and shook it off, "It's smelly."
"Yeah, sort of chemically, plasticy gross" Jack agreed with him.
"Gonna hurl" Ianto sighed, then he turned and emptied his guts on the ground, pulling in air as he straightened.
"OK babe?"
"Yeah, you know I hate smells" Ianto sighed, then he looked around, "Where is that Martha now?"
"Shit!" Jack gasped and he took off calling for her, Ianto calmly pounding past like Jack was just jogging instead of sprinting and Jack grinned as he yelled, "Show off!"
Faint laughter as Ianto disappeared and then he entered a tunnel to find Martha along with several Predators, pulling Alien carcasses to one side.
"I think they want to take them" she said to Jack as he started to help.
"They will reuse some of their skulls for armour and such, jettison the rest into space so there is nothing remaining here on earth" Ianto told her happily, "Oooo, look. The Claw!"
Ianto had an Alien paw and it had atrophied in death, raking it at Jack like a crazed person and Jack blinked, then burst out laughing at the absurdity of it all.
"Brother, you always were silly after battle" Maddy said happily as she passed with a piece of the Queen dragging after her, "Such a show off."
"It is not me, it is the Claw" Ianto said again, this time raking at her as she passed and that strange musical sound Jack knew was laughter sounded as several Predators watched, then started playing as well.
It was a strange sight, fully grown Predators prancing around having a viscera fight.
Jack felt so alive.
Gods, and Ianto was so fuckable as he laughed in the middle of it all.
Then Bix reached out to pat Ianto on the butt.
Jack's smiled faded as he started to storm towards them and Ianto was still laughing as he turned and slapped the Predator so hard that he flew back into another that grunted and struck him as well.
Jack beamed at Martha as she shook her head with wonder.
Bloody mad the lot of them.
Marvellous.