"Okay," said Tom, "Tell me one more time, as simple as you can put it."

Ian sighed. "We were using a machine on a crystal, to try and figure out what the crystal was made of."

"And this crystal was from an alien world?"

"Yes, now the machine was working higher than it's normal capacity, this caused an energy surge which reacted with the unusual properties of the crystal to cause a resonance cascade, which means that enormous amounts of destructive energy are being channelled in through the alien world as well as alien creatures teleporting in due to a temporary disruption of..."

"Woah! Doc! Seriously, high school drop out."

Ian sighed again, "things are...randomly exploding, and we're being attacked by aliens."

"Oooohh okay then."

"At any rate, the incident area most likely will be confined within the facility, we should be safe here, until someone comes to rescue us."

"So do you have a backup plan for this sort of thing?"

"We have a whole military task force dedicated to emergencies like this, things will probably be wrapped up within a few hours, but I hate to think of all the lives that will be lost."

"Well, at least you tried to stop it doc. Speaking of the military, there's a tram coming on the other rail, looks like soldiers."

"Jackson!" called James, "You alright?"

Private Jackson was leaning out the window of the moving tram, staring down the dark tunnel ahead. He spoke without bothering to face James.

"You know man, the more I think about this shit the more pissed off I get." He turned around, "Damn scientists, playing god, not caring who gets killed, I say we should just nuke the damn facility, kill them all, why should we put ourselves in danger to rescue these bastards?"

"This is what we do."

"I signed up to protect my country, not to KILL MYSELF! SAVING SOME GODDAMN HIGH AND MIGHTY SCIENTIST PRICKS!"

"Settle down man, we knew this was a dangerous job, we got to finish our mission, we've got to finish it for the guys if nothing else."

"Don't worry Bolton, I aint lost it yet, mission first, funerals later, right?"

James stared at the private for a few seconds, "Yeah."

"I'm still pissed though."

"There's a tram car up there," said James pointing down the tunnel. Private Jackson took his gun off his shoulder and removed the safety.

"It's not moving." James and Jackson's tram approached the other stationary one, "Security gaurd and scientist,"

James shouted to the other tram as they approached it, "THIS IS THE ARMY! STAY WHERE YOU ARE! YOU'LL BE RESCUED SOON!"

The trams finally came up alongside the stationary tram and continued to move past, Tom spoke to James and Jackson as their tram moved on.

"Alright, don't you boys take too long, remember we're waiting for you."

The tram moved on for about 5 more minutes before finally stopping at the Anomalous materials station platform. A tone sounded from the tram and the door tried to open but it moved a few inches before sparks started flying from it.

"Through the window." Said James, "come on"

James and Private Jackson climbed out the window of the tram, and approached the blast door, suddenly a loud unusual noise sounded behind them accompanied by a green flash. James and Jackson both spun around bringing their rifles to bear in the direction of the flash, there was a small strange looking 4 legged creature on the ground, it didn't seem to have any eyes.

"What the fu..." before Jackson could finish, the creature shrieked at jumped at his face, digging it's claws into his neck.

"OH GOD! GET IT OFF!" He shouted.

"HOLD STILL."

Jackson let out a painful shout and kept sruggling with the creature.

"DAMMIT HOLD STILL!"

Jackson seemed to register this time and held as still as he could through the pain. James aimed his rifle and killed the creature with one shot. Jackson fell t his knees, and carefully removed the creature's claws from his neck. Jackson threw the dead creature to the ground and checked his wounds, strangely there were only letting out a small amount of blood.

"You alright Jackson?"

"Yeah, son of a bitch missed everything important."

"You need some bandages?"

"Nah, it's not bleeding, doesn't even hurt that much."

"What the hell was that thing?"

"I don't know, I was mainly focussing on the fact that it was EATING MY FACE!"

"You alright to go on?"

Jackson sat there for a few seconds, and then grabbed his rifle and got to his feet.

"Yeah, the sooner we get out of here the better."

Hey everyone, We've finally got our first bit of alien combat action, and it only took 7 chapters/

Anyway, I hope you enjoy what I've written so far and look forward to feedback.