Predator: The hardest meat Chapter 18: Epilogue Honor, an aliens/predator fanfic

Chapter 18. Epilogue/Honor

Nan-de than gaun jumped when he heard the alarm! Someone had activated their self-destruct! He ran to the cockpit as fast as he could, powered up the engine, and flew as far from the ooman construct as posible! Soon, one side of the construct exploded in a flash of blue light, causing the rest of it to shatter!

He slowed the ship back to a stop and powered the engines down. Nobody could have survived that, he thought as he walked back to the med lab. Waiting there, unconscious, was Nain-de!

After he had passed out, Nan-de than gaun had been forced to tie one of H'sai-de's old whips around his leg and jump out the hatch! He managed to get him back inside the ship, but Nain-de had lost far too much blood! Nan-de than gaun managed to stop the bleeding, but he had been hopping that Cetanu would come back soon and help treat the wound. So much for that idea, he grumbled.

He looked at the missing arm, and felt just a little pity for the runt. If the others had survived, Nain-de would have been doomed to a life of guarding the ship with Nan-de than gaun. But now that they were the sole survivors, he had no idea what would happen

After a few moments, another alarm went off! Maybe someone did survive! He ran to the cockpit again, but this time he checked the scanners first. It was no survivor.

There was a yautja mothership headed straight for them!

It had significant damage down the middle, and judging by its speed, the engines were overheated. He looked carefully at the scanners, and realized it was the same mothership they had stranded between the two suns! Scanners began to flash, signaling that a message was coming in.

"Bad blood! Eject all your weapons immediately!" one of the ship's elders said.

Nan-de than gaun ignored his orders and activated the engines! However, the mothership fired its burners destroyed all three engines before the ship could move a single nok! A door opened on the back of the mothership, and a much smaller shuttle shot out! The shuttle flew up to the ship of the N'dui'se, and stopped right next to the hatch! Ten fully armored hult'ah's and an elder jumped out of the shuttle, and fired their plasma casters at the hatch until it exploded!

Nan-de than gaun ran to the weapons closet, but a hult'ah was already waiting for him! He fired his plasma caster, but Nan-de than gaun dove under the blast! He pushed a hidden button on his mechanical left arm, and two of the panels on the arm folded out, revealing their razor sharp ends, and formed a pair of wrist blades! He stabbed the hult'ah through the stomach, and sliced up through his heart and lungs!

He pulled the blades out of the yautja, and put on a plasma caster from the closet. He ran to the med lab to try and wake Nain-de, but a hult'ah was already there! He held a glaive over Nain-de's limp body, and plunged it through his skull! Nan-de than gaun screamed in anger as he fired his plasma caster through the hult'ah's neck!

He let out another scream, when he heard footsteps behind him! He turned to see the other nine yautja to board the ship! The elder spoke first.

"Bad blood, where is the ominous Da'guande?"

"Dead."

"How!?!"

"He was with the others on a hunt. A self-destruct went off." The elder pondered this for a moment, before Nan-de than gaun spoke.

"What do you care?"

The elder looked him in the eye.

"Our laws have changed since you escaped from captivity on the homeworld. We would have received payment for capturing him alive, and honor his body."

"That still doesn't explain why you haven't killed me." He replied calmly.

"If you come with us peacefully, you will be given a hard meat trial. Survive, and your honor shall be restored!"

Nan-de than gaun took this under consideration. Did he really want to try to battle a hard meat, just to be judged behind his back, both for his handicap and his criminal status?

"I'm sorry, but I think I'll need to pass!" The moment he said it, Nan-de than gaun fired his plasma caster through one hult'ah's stomach!

Another one swung a glaive at him, but Nan-de than gaun caught it in his right hand, and pulled it from his hands! The hult'ah was caught off guard, and stumbled into Nan-de than gaun's wrist blades!

The others began to fire their plasma casters, but the body stuck on Nan-de than gaun's blades absorbed all of the shots! He used the glaive to scrape its former owner off his mechanized arm, and threw it into another hult'ah's heart!

He fired his plasma caster at another hult'ah, who dodged by running in a circle around Nan-de than gaun, and attacking him from behind with a pair of wrist blades! Nan-de than gaun blocked the slash with his blades, and tried to cut through the hult'ah's abdomen, but that move was countered as well! The two of them locked blades for a moment, when Nan-de than gaun used his free hand to punch his foe in the groin! He bent over with soreness, giving Nan-de than gaun a chance to slice through his face!

A split second afterward, something whacked Nan-de than gaun on the side of the head! He flew across the room, slamming into the wall! A hult'ah walked up, carrying a very large hammer! He swung it at Nan-de than gaun again, but this time he rolled out of the way, and shoved his blades so deep into the Hult'ah's neck that his fist still slammed into his face!

He ripped off the hult'ah's head, and threw it to one of his companions. But when the warrior reached out to catch the head, Nan-de than gaun blew the hult'ah's own head to bits!

The three remaining hult'ah's ganged up on him, but he had a plan! When one of them swung its combi stick at Nan-de than gaun, but he ducked and let him stab another hult'ah! He grabbed the impaled hult'ah, and shook his body so the staff sliced through its owner's neck! He finally used his blades to slice through the third one's knees, making him fall on the combi stick face first!

Nan-de than gaun stood up and glared at the elder, who hadn't moved a bit.

"You've made a very foolish choice, although I'm not sure what I should have expected from a bad blood."

Nan-de than gaun managed to stay calm as the elder took off his self-destruct device. He set it to go off in only a few seconds, tossed it into the cockpit, and walked back to the hatch!

"You could have gotten your honor restored, if not for your criminal pride!"

Nan-de than gaun just laughed as the elder jumped out of the ship!

As long as he tells even one of his men what I did, he thought as blue flashes of lightning began to shoot from the cockpit, they will have given me more honor than I ever could ask for!

THE END