Alien Vs. Predator: Ruin
The cries of the town ring out as a building collapses. Twenty minutes ago, a gas main was broken, sending a stream of concentrated gas into the world above. The asphalt exploded upwards, and massive chunks crash into the buildings above, sending bits down on civilians. The people cover their heads, and gaze around with wide eyes. After all, how often down do buildings collapse in Chicago. Some people start asking if it's terrorists that finally are coming for them, but many people look at the manhole sized crack in the ground, which is still seeping out gas.
"What do you think did it?
"I don't know. Why don't you go in and find out?"
"Aha! I knew you were trying to get rid of me..."
"Everyone Shut-up! The crack is getting larger."
And sure enough, the crack was getting bigger. The splinters spread through the street at random, as the weakest parts of asphalt cracked led pieces off. More gas mains explode, and people scream as they run into buildings. The street is a messy network of cracked veins, barely seeming like they could hold a person up. One of the buildings closest to a crosswalk starts to shake, and people run out of the bank, but not before one thief runs in. If you're running out of a burning building, would you be more concerned about grabbing your PS3, or living to get another PS3 another day. Some people would pick to live, and so as the people left, they did not log out of the system, allowing the thief to steal. Everyone watches as he runs in, and starts to fill a duffel bag with green and silver. He continues smiling, until the shaking gets to the building, and the glass shatters. The man stops dead in his traps, paralyzed for a split second. Which was all that was needed for the building to collapse into the ground. The scratching of brick against concrete and pipes sets off fires and even more gas, bathing the city in orange and yellow.
People everywhere run, no longer held by curiousity. A gaping hole stands where the bank once was, and the cracks continue into other buildings. One by one, they start to fall, while a gang member decides to target a woman who runs into an alley to escape. She's alone, but five other people come, four men and a woman. They backed her against a wall, their breathing misty and rugged. "Well, what do you got there?" the girl asks, taking out a knife. It's a balisong, and highly fashionable. The woman whimpers, but then stops, staring behind them instead. She shudders, and whimpers even more. "Hey look at her. She's scared. Well missy, after my friends are done with you, you'll be scared, and dead." The group starts to laugh, when the woman peeps out one word. "Look."
The girl turns, and screams as a PredAlien looks right at her. Although this one is different, having gray streaks across its body. She starts to stab with her knife when it knocks it away and falls on her, wrapping its face around hers in the process. There, her screams are muffled as eggs slide down her throat in lumps. One has trouble getting down, and three build-up before they push through, breaking one of her neck bones. Her arms thrash feebly against the iron grip of the Pred-Alien's arms. It then tears through her clothing, and rapes her. The eggs in the stomach start to move immediately and the woman yells for all she can, so loud her screams make it through the Pred-Alien's mouth, and into the ears of her dead friends, all which were killed by the PredAlien's tail. The woman edges away as the PredAlien mates, causing the gangster to cry even louder. Her face manages quick turns, but stays straight. Finally, the PredAlien pulls away from her, and her body is destroyed. Her stomach explodes in a sickening display of gore, and baby PredAliens start to feast on her dead body. One moves up to her raw and destroyed face, which was massacred through the rough shoving of the PredAlien's second mouth. The other woman has one foot out of the alley, and one foot in when she's pulled back. She screams once, and then they too are muffled.
Headbutt leaps down from a crumbling building, his dreads dragging behind him. As his heavy-set body lands, he breaks through the frail ground and into the sewer before. Plunged into darkness as he was just seeing in color, he switches to XenoMorph mode, and the green lights up with moving figures. He locks onto four, and jumps back, firing each of the Plasma Bolts. While they fly, he spins around with his WristBlade, decapitating an Alien by accident. He tosses two Laser Mines onto the wall, and then quickly activates them. One alien is sliced in mid-air while the others stop. He turns back around and three Aliens fall on top of him. Although outnumbered, Headbutt easily lifts the three Serpents and himself up, and tosses two of them into the sewage water, where they camouflage.
He breaks the neck of one, and then tears off its tail. Another Alien launches itself at him, and he swings the tail quickly, slicing the Alien in half. He sends a burst of energy through it and it stiffens, which he Headbutt then throws like a spear. It impales an approaching PredAlien, but it just grasps the tail and pulls it out. Green blood corrodes the stone walkway and boils away the water. Headbutt's Plasma Launcher reloads fully, and he fire three of the bolts at the PredAlien, and one at a particularly ugly Alien. Glimpsing back for a second, he sees the Aliens dig into the section of the wall where his mines were latched onto. The wall falls into the wall, and the Aliens move around the lasers, now that they don't make a full barrier. Headbutt roars with anger and throws two Shurikens. They spiral out, and swing into larger sweeps until they cover the whole length between both the walls. Tiny spikes shoot out of them, and Aliens wither as the Acid needles aggravate the acid already inside them, melting them from the inside out. They stop withering, and Headbutt roars as the second mouth of an Alien digs into his unprotected shoulder. He leaps up, and brings the Alien over his back, slamming it down. He snaps its neck and faces three PredAliens, each looking nastier than the next.
Headbutt gives a low sigh as they dive at him, and tear into his armor. He sends a pulse of electricity through himself, causing the Serpents to let him go for a short time. Taking the reprieve, Headbutt leaps out of the hole, and drops three of the balls he took from Sahara. They spark violently, and Headbutt taps them as they explode. The Aliens shriek as they're incinerated, and Headbutt flies into a car, slamming against it. He rises groggily, and leans against as soon humans take pictures of him. They gasp as parts of the asphalt explode upwards, and Aliens appear behind Headbutt. He turns but the car stops his full turn, and the Aliens grab his arms and legs. A PredAlien strikes him in the face, and his Plasma Launcher resets, as he needs to lock on in order to fire. Headbutt tries to lock-on again, but the PredAlien hits him so hard he dents Headbutt's helmet. The next strike tears the helmet free of Headbutt's face, and the predator slumps of the pain of those blows. The PredAlien moves in for its signature kill: Second mouth to the face.
Falcon uses X-ray vision, and sees Headbutt apprehended. He roars with anger, and runs across his rooftop, clearing fifteen feet with each bound. He clears the twenty foot-leap between his rooftop and the next one, while no hand cartwheeling the next. As he sprints to cross a whole street between buildings, he tenses his legs, and launches himself across. The air whistles around him, and he grabs onto a street lamp right above Headbutt. He swings himself twice and then lets go, soaring an additional thirty feet in the air. While in mid-air, he grabs two Shurikens on his sides, and they click on. He twists in mid-air, letting the Shurinkens go as he completely turns to observe the scene.
The Shurikens twist towards the Aliens and PredAlien, but they only manage to decapitate those two. The PredAlien leans, and Headbutt uppercuts his wrist blades into the underside of its chin, just as its second mouth goes into part of his forehead. Headbutt roars, and Falcon lands onto the PredAlien, crushing it. Headbutt starts to fall, but Wolf catches him. The Twins come up behind them, and together they lower their dying leader.
"Wolf? You've returned?" Headbutt weakly croaks.
"Yes my lord. The humans are very cunning with their antics."
"I want you...to retrieve your weapon. It cannot afford to stay with the humans, or they will accidentally discover the Serpents for themselves. And the NinePredators Law, says we cannot help them after that, for they will have become an honorable race of themselves.
"Yes, father..." Wolf barely can croak, and Headbutt motions for Wolf to come closer. His eye sparks as part of Headbutt's life slips away. Headbutt pulls Wolf to his chest with astonishing strength however, and draws two things: Headbutt's spear, and gauntlet. Headbutt clicks affectionately, and Wolf turns to his father.
"Wolf, my sun...Honor me." Headbutt sighs, and then breaks off. His face eases, his muscles unclench, and his heart stop. He is now with his Fathers of the Hunt. Wolf's shakes, and he lets forth a red tear. He puts his hands over Headbutt's eyes, and slides them closed, before roaring with hate. Why did this affliction have to happen to him? Because of honor, that a Predator will fight until they fall, or because of some cruel trip by the Higher Ones. His family had sacrificed everything: The death of his two brothers by the Serpents on Earth( Celtic and Scar), barely called men, yet he loved them so much. More than a Predator normally allows themselves. But the death of their mother in the worlds of Lopetercada brought the family closer than those who simply meet after Hunts. Now, Wolf was alone, and temepted to commit the Cowardice Act, or kill himself.
Falcon puts his hand on Wolf's right shoulder, squeezing tightly.
"It is my fault your father is dead, Brother Wolf. If I had been just one step closer to the Hunter we must become, he would be here. Kill me. As revenge, and restitution, for I shame my family."
Wolf spared a glance at Falcon, and then shook his head. "No, my Falcon. We are brothers, and the Serpents-he kicks a decapitated Alien with his foot- did this. They only spread death, I honestly do not know why the Government keeps them around. But no, I will not kill you."
"But Brother Wolf, the Rite of Lives states -
"This is not Sahara!" Wolf interjects with an angry turn. "I will not kill you. If you wish to restitute, commit the Cowardice Act yourself." Wolf walks past Falcon, and takes off his Gauntlet, so muddy and damaged. It has cracks running through it, and another blow could set off the energy inside, including the End Bomb. So Wolf taps at some controls, and then removes it, setting the timer on the bomb. He takes Headbutt's gauntlet and puts it on, also setting his bomb, although he places this on Headbutt's chest, where he sheds another blood tear. "I love you, father. May you hunt eternally with the Higher Ones."
Then he takes off his own mask, and tucks his father's arms around it, so only the top and Visor show. He instead takes Headbutt's mask, and puts it on. A electrical jolt flies through him, and he synchronizes everything. He takes Headbutt's weapons, and adds them with his own. He takes Headbutt's memory card from the Visor, and transmits it to the ship. There, he sends the Life Packet to Sahara, where it will be shown through the streets. Regardless of whether Wolf lives or dies, his lineage will be shown. And with the twin beats of the End Bombs ticking, Wolf runs, his brothers behind him.
Five seconds...The Wolf vaults over a car, slides under a truck, and shoves a Toyota Camary into a shop. The glass shatters, and falls like a solid wave into the ground. People catch glimpses and shadows of the quadlet, but that is what Predators are. Shadows that watch and world, both to bring destruction, and occasionally end it.
Four seconds...A single dove lands on Headbutt, white and pure. It sings its sad song of loss for a moment, and then takes off, his face a sign of lifeless piece.
Three seconds...Falcon uses his whip to swing onto a building, which he can travel much faster on. His clawed feet drive into the gravel, and lunges a thirty foot gap. He narrowly makes it, and rolls before taking off again.
Two seconds... The Predators cloak, heading for the countryside where the Aliens can dig faster. Falcon leaps down, and falls in at the rear of the group, the Twins flanking Wolf on his left and right.
One second...All of Chicago gawk at each other, unsure of the destruction that just hit them, and unknown to the fact that they would never know.
No time... The bombs detonate, and Chicago is no more. The fire shatters all the buildings in five hundred feet, and then the energy spreads out for miles. The sound and shock is felt as far as Texas, but many people are dead too, as Aliens feast on them. Dallas is still resting on the church step in Ohio, and Kelly with her daughter travel to meet him, and warn the President of the United States. But on this night, of April 25, 2012, there was only one sight, the sight of four Predators running in unison, Gods invisible to the world and thirteen different spectrums. But as the explosion overtook the outskirts of the city, and if your neck was not just slit, you may have caught a glimpse of their ghostly silhouette, bathed in the blue light of plasma and air.
"A single Predator can kill Twenty Serpents, but an Honorable Predator can stop one's heart. My father, could do both...-
Wolf, sun of Headbutt, and Larcrease, and brother of all Predators, but Blood brother of Celtic, and Scar.