Alien vs. Predator: Rage
Once again, I do not own any of the characters in this book save for the Twins, Falcon, or the now dead Headbutt. But all the ideas are my own, and I hope you enjoy this next chronicle- LongLoreLover
May 3, 2012
The distant boom shook a distant glass of water, so faint however that the family on the couch did not notice it. Instead, they sat, engrossed in their monster movie. The creature had a chased a family into the house, forcing them to lock the door.
"Are we safe?" one of the kids asked quietly, and the Mom quickly patted his head.
"Yes baby. We're safe for now. That door should it for a while until the army comes." But a chunk of the floor explodes out, a terrible claw gripping the floor as it pulled itself up. it terrible hiss explodes from the hole, and the family screams just as- the tv shuts off. The husband grunts and moves to check it out when a low digging noise starts to grow. The wife looks at the ground, apparently paranoid from the movie. She reaches for a glass case holding a .12 millimeter pistol and an extra clip. She takes off safety and prods the kids into a corner while husband comes back with a shotgun. He grabs for the phone and dials 911 into the receiver while trying to ignore the now intensifying sound of claws and rock removal. The line beeps dead, and the man abandons his attempts. "We leave now!" he shouts over the ruckus, but the wooden floor breaks in that second. The wife starts firing at weird crawling spiders, but they move too fast, and two jump past her and onto the faces of her kids. She screams and turns to tear them off the childrens' faces, which no longer move but are still as their immobilized bodies, when a PredAlien comes out of the hole and wraps its tail around her waist. The husband fires at it, but an Alien tail swipes off his head and another goes through his heart. He falls and two Aliens disengage from the ceiling. They hiss with pleasure as the PredAlien rapes the wife, and latches its mouth onto her face.
They hiss angrily however, and back up as the PredAlien stops, the women already ravaged, and dead. Her chest and belly explode in a bloody display, and the PredAlien licks itself clean while feasting on what's left of her. The Aliens hiss with warning, but the PredAlien ignores them, continuing to eat. The two beasts hiss one last time, and them flee into the hole, leaving the PredAlien to feast. So into the feast it is that it does not even notice one of the Twins come up behind it and uncloak.
The Predator watches the Serpent, which seems oblivious to his arrival. He reaches with his hands towards its neck, and then twists so violently that the head snaps off, suddenly in the direction facing the Predator. The Twin snarls, and tosses the head away while the other Predators uncloak not too far behind him, watching silently. Wolf walks forward, and then takes off his mask slowly. Gazing around with his rare color vision eyes. He wears the face one who is weary, and indeed he is. The Predators all out sprinted from the explosion, and ran faster still to try and beat the Aliens here. This kind seem to have to surface every half hour or so, otherwise they lose their sense of direction. Plus these Aliens were hungry, and the PredAlien wishing to mate at that moment. Wolf spies the children in the corner, and over to Falcon, who looks at them.
He switches his color to Xeno-Morph mode, and sure enough, the Alien embryos were already inside, making it impossible to save the children. Might as well make their deaths painless. The Predators turn away as Falcon unsheathes his Wristblade, and draws back. He cuts the tail of the Facehugger, and watches as the acid sprays from the tail onto the children's chests. They melt, and the acid kills the unprotected Alien, which would have still needed grow its final skin to be acid-proof. The bodies came in, and then Falcon stabs the center of the Facehuggers before they could escape. It sinks through, and out the back of the children's head. Wolf and the others turn back around and Falcon nods, seemingly oblivious to what he just did. Wolf strides to the opening of the hole, and then turns to the Twins.
"This is where we must part ways brothers. Tremble, and Shiver. Follow the Serpents path, and stop where they are headed. They are trying to find some place..."The Twins nod and each grasps Wolf's shoulders. "We are happy to have found you Wolf. Honor us as we will honor you." They say simultaneously, and Wolf nods genuinely, grasping their shoulders as well. With one last look back, the two jump down into darkness. Wolf turns to Falcon, who continues to stare at him. "What are you fixed on Falcon?" Wolf asks, and Falcon snorts, his helmet rising up a bit.
"You are much like your father, Brother Wolf. I just hope you will live to tell your story on Sahara...and can fight like him." Falcon replies, and Wolf turns confused.
"What are you talking about?"Wolf asks, right as Falcon fires his Plasma Caster at him. Wolf rolls out of the way and the bolt strikes the closet. It explodes but the battle has already moved to Falcon firing more at Wolf. He rolls and flips, grasping to of his Shurikens in the process. On another flip, he throws them, and Falcon splits under them, sinking into the floor as the disks slice into the wall, and out into the night. Wolf puts back on his helmet and starts to lock-on and the triangle stretches to Falcon's figure, but suddenly Falcon disappears from the lock-on. Emp Cloak; it stops targeting and electronic attacks, but only Falcon has that feature. Wolf switches spectrums to find his foe, barely sparing a thought that he had been betrayed. A creak to his left, Wolf swings high right kick, and Falcon falls through a wall. His head breaks part of the toilet, and Wolf dives on top of him, punching every piece of exposed skin he can. Falcon locks on, and Wolf rolls off him just as the bolt flies through the ceiling, roof, and into the night.
Wolf gets up but barely can brace as Falcon throws him through another wall. The wood splinters as Wolf hits it, and Falcon stomps down. Wolf rolls again and grabs Falcon's leg, pulling with all his might. The other Predator soars over him, and down a flight of stairs. He's slow to get up, and Wolf grabs his spear, roaring as he throws it. Falcon ducks however and the spear only succeeds in tearing off the Plasma Caster. It goes through another wall and shatters the plumbing, spraying Falcon with water. His Cloak disengages, and Falcon roars angrily as Wolf locks-on. "Die Tainted!" Wolf shouts as he fires and it hits Falcon right in the chest. Falcon's chest armor explodes, and Falcon himself is flung through the wall, his stiletto creating an energy web that protects him from the heat and damage. He gets up slowly, but Wolf advances faster, throwing a flurry of blows. Falcon falls upon the onslaught, dazed and bloodied.
Green blood drips from behind his mask, and coats his chin while Wolf delivers a final kick to the chest. Falcon falls over a banister and through the flow into the basement below. He lands with a cascading amount of rubble close above. He falls, and does not rise.
But Wolf is not convinced, and falls down after him. He falls to his left, but Falcon is already up, Shurikens in his hands. Wolf backs up slightly, Falcon is a master of throwing Shurikens, and injured makes him even more likely to try and kill on the first throw. Falcon spins to the right twice and flips, lifting his feet off the ground and twirling. Wolf looks at the blur for where his hands are, but the disks fly at him from two impossible angles. He dodges one with a body turn, but the other flies to the right and then twists down, as if they had minds of their own. Wolf falls for the fake, and part of the blade catches his calf. He stumbles and the Shurikens turn back to Falcon, who catches them, and then throws them while executing a perfect 540 flip. The blades whistle at Wolf, who fires at them with his Plasma Caster. The bolts hit one but the other one scrapes against Wolf's mask, slashing one of the visors and most of Wolf's face mask. It flies back but Wolf grabs it and dives for Falcon, who has just landed in the flip. He jams the blade underneath Falcon's chin, and the Predator gurgles. Wolf realizes how he killed his fellow brother, and what could've driven him to that.
"Why brother? Why?" He asks, but Falcon does not answer. Wolf steps back, taking his hand off the Shuriken. He roars in hate through his mask, cursing the humans. Why could they not just follow, which one of their Gods was cruel enough to force a Predator to kill another. One way or another, this had to stop. Too many had died, and these Serpents were not what they thought they were. Falcon's body finally falls, and Wolf collapses next to him, exhausted...
The Twins stalk through the tunnel, occasionally stopping to lay mines, or pick off stray Aliens. Both are in Xenomorphs and map-mode, allowing them to navigate the tunnels to Ohio. One the Twins spot a dead human, his chest blow open. They nod to each other and continue, Wristblades out and PlasmaCaster retracter. The Aliens always seemed to go for those, and be down here without a functional PlasmaCaster was just asking for trouble, and death. One the passages fall into a deep hole, and the Twins each lay Laser Mines around it, keeping whatever slumbers down there down there for now. However, the thing down there was not something that needed to move. Another queen situated there, and she had caught the scent of the two Yautija. Her three drones went after then.
The Twins moved quietly until one of their motion detectors detected movement, from all over. The Predators looked at each other and armed their Plasma Casters, knowing full well that they did not know these tunnels, and could be ambushed at any time. It was how their parents perished, without even being able to fight. One of the Twins saw shadows and threw laser mines, activating them just as an Alien charges through. Individual pieces fall through, and the Predators aim on creating an escape route. They both fire their Plasma Casters upwards, shattering mounds of rock upon them. They continue to fire, and finally can pierce the surface. A small circle of three feet is made, allowing only one of them to go at a time. One of the Twins kneel and brace their arms to throw the other one up, but not because that one just wants him to go. It's because that one saw the Aliens tear down a laser net, and wanted his brother to live. The oblivious Twin jumps off his brother's arms and leaps the fifty feet up, climbing out of the hole and turning before he saw it, the resigned state of his shoulders and build, slumping as he prepared to brawl.
"No brother! Jump, I can save you! Jump!" The Twin above yelled down, but his brother just looked up at him sadly.
"It was never to be brother. I knew this would be my last mission; I'm tired of living. To leave you is a regret, but so is being born a Yautija. Go, and leave me to the Serpents. I will not fall to their Transmitters."The other brother stated, and the Twin above could see his brother below with his arm flashing in a complicated series of dots. The End Bomb, armed to explode in thirty seconds. But the Twin would not let his brother go, he just couldn't. He took off his mask and roared forcefully. The Twin below just broke the head of another Alien in a headlock before he looked up into the stubborn face of his brother.
"What is wrong with you? Go!" He demanded, but the other brother shook his head, He prepared to grab his spear and go down to fight when he was impaled from behind. A PredAlien's tail drove right through him, and the Twin roared in pain as the PredAlien walked closer, and pushed the tail even further through, The Twin below yelled with fury, not even noticing when his head was swiped from his body by a Drone of the Queen. He fell, and the Twin above looked down in shock before he knew what he had to do. He gripped the Alien tail jutting some three feet in front of him, and plunged himself into the hole. His brother's EndBomb was still active due to a special mechanism that allowed to the device to stay active even after death. As the Twin above fell, he thought of when he and his brother found out they were orphans. They clutched one another on the shoulders, steadying themselves, for they were just pups. "Who will take care of us? One of them asked, and the other looked him squarely in the eye and said, "Each other." As the Twin above died in the explosion, he focused on the last two words.