A/N: Devon, I already know more than enough about "The Nazi's" and the Schutzstaffel AND Totenkopf (Seeing as though I've spent the last two to three years to know this sort of thing) to say that I needn't read any of the material you mentioned, and FYI: I speak a little German. I'm more focused on the military side of WW2, you know tactics and whatnot, I don't so much as care about the political shit-cyclone surrounding Nazism and its modern counterparts. And, Grid Xenomorph? You're a pain in the ass, you know that, right?
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Right, enough stalling,
Chapter Two: Explosions…..
After pinching the bridge of my nose and shaking my head, I pressed the button marked "3", which is where the Interrogation cells were. It took almost 15 seconds for the elevator to get to the floor, as it got there; I cocked my pistol to make sure I had a round chambered, just in case. Then slid the weapon back in its holster. "You're not going to shoot him as soon as you get in there, are you?" Asked Evans. "No, only if he doesn't play my game. If he does, then, he'll live."
The elevator dinged, signalling that we had made it to level 3 of New Zurich Medical Unit and we got out in order. "Oh, Sargent, you've been promoted to the rank of Major by the powers that be, congrats." The Colonel said before breaking off to head somewhere else, probably for Damage control, for, uh, you know.
We walked down the hall to where the guards were standing, "June, This door here is a room that joins onto the cell. It has a one-way mirror, you can see us, but we can't see you. Stay there until either we walk out with the information we need, or we kill him, clear?" I asked her, which she seemed to acknowledge as I opened to door for her.
I closed the door for her and met Max at the door to the cell where the Nazi was sitting, being an asshole to everyone. Max opened the door and I stepped in first wandered to the back of the room, then Max stepped in and closed the door behind him. Out of nowhere, the Nazi starts shouting at Max with a voice I'd know anywhere… This P.O.S. was a friend of mine from High School.
I got very angry in a few, albeit small, seconds. Before I could do anything, my hands moved on their, own pulling my pistol from its holster and grabbing the scruff of his neck and slamming his face onto the table. I gently placed to barrel of the gun to his head and spoke slowly in German "Start speaking English now, or I'll feed you to the Xenomorph in the next room!" in my slow, threatening tone. Then I motioned for Max to deactivate the One-Way Mirror, revealing June, just standing there, with her arms folded.
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll speak English; just don't feed me to it!" I looked at June and shrugged, she just shook her head and said to me, "He probably won't taste very good, I hate the Taste of Nazi!" She sneered, I cracked a small smile.
"Well, fortunately for you, she isn't hungry. I can't say the same about my itchy trigger finger, so start talking, mate." I, as gently and threateningly as possible, growled. I involuntarily looked toward his shoulder, and found something that June instantly recognised, so did I. One word came to both our Minds, Totenkopfverbande (SS Death's Head Unit). I pulled his head back and pulled him over the back of his chair and slammed him onto the ground. I put the gun to his head and said, "What the absolute Fuck is Totenkopf doing here!? Huh!?"
"Wait, Totenkopf? As in Death's Head, Skull and Crossbones? That type of thing?" Max asked. "Yep" was all I responded with. "I thought they protected the Death camps to the East? What the fuck are they doing here?" Max asked.
"Good Question, Let's ask our friend here before I put a large hole in his skull" I said.
"I'll explain, It all started in 2500…..
- Flashback, 80 years-
Aboard the Heinrich Himmler, an Adolf Eichmann Class Heavy Dreadnaught, 2501 A.D.
The Nazi Captain of the Heinrich stood there in all of his War Medals and Bars. He pointed to a holographic display between him and his audience, most of the captains of the Entire Nazi Fleet holding position in the Omega Nebula, (Almost Ten Thousand ships strong) "We have just discovered a Hive of Xenomorphs in the Horsehead Nebula, a fairly strong one at that. We saw Praetorians, Carriers, Paladin's AND several Empresses! As well as the generic assortment of normal Xenomorphs."
- Present Day-
"Wait, so you hunted Xenomorphs to near extinction? For what reason?" Asked Max.
"They are the Perfect Hunter, undetectable by traditional Thermal imagery. They are the pinnacle of organic evolution, with unmatched hostility and grace. They need to be eradicated from the face of the galaxy, which is why we resurfaced. That, and we need to control them, better then Wayland did, anyway." Replied PFC Nazi Fuck-Face
"Huh, you stupid, spineless idiots. Wayland was shut down for a reason; they lost too many people trying to "control" them. Why do you think we'd rather leave them be, rather than kicking the Hornets' nest. Dumbasses" I retorted.
-65 Years Ago-
"Experiment 495 is a failure, The Subject died horribly before birth. That's Four Hundred and Ninety-Five Failures, no Successes. We've exhausted all viable means of Genetic Manipulation of the Human-Xenomorph Hybrid. *Sigh* As the Americans say, "Close, but no Cigar" This is Doctor Schwartz, signing off"
-Present Day-
"Are you stupid and Blind!? Wayland-Yutani already tried that, and it only worked once, because of a stable genetic structure that caused a freak mutation in Ripley 8, allowing her to survive" I shouted at him.
"Yes, we tried to recreate the same elements that caused said "freak mutation" as of yet, we still haven't found Ripley, and believe me, we're still searching for her." He said.
- 50 years ago-
"This is Commandant Grazier, All Xenomorphic assets are loose, I say again, All Xenomorphic assets are loose. Do Not Engage, fall back to Evac shuttles, we are getting the Fuck out of here." Before he could continue, he was violently and permanently cut off, by a very pissed off Xenomorph Alpha.
-Present Day-
"There, that is the story of why we came back." Suddenly, an Explosion rocked the building, before he could take to opportunity to escape, I ended him, permanently. "Problem solved" I stated.
I put my hand to my earpiece "Would someone care to explain what the hell that bang was?" I asked. Before anyone could answer, someone came over the Hospital PA system and shouted "Unknown Xenomorph types have entered the Hospital, heading to the 3rd floor, through the elevator shaft. Major, they're probably headed to you." Said the guy on the PA.
"Yeah, tell them what room I'm in, why don't you!?" I sarcastically said.
"Be careful Jameson, they are Praetorians." June warned.
"Huh, Perfect." I said to her.
"Right, Lets lure them out of the Fort. I'll head to the Vehicle Depot, Max, you'll come with me and June, see if you can get some support from your Hive, Praetorians preferably." I ordered, perhaps one of the reasons I was promoted, I could strategize with the best of them.
June dipped her head, but not before hugging me. Then she ran off to get the support I asked for. "That Creature really likes you. What are you going to say when she asks you to mate with her?" Max asked.
"Fucked if I'd know. Let's just get to the Depot, whilst trying to lure these three out." I replied.
I placed my hand against the Earpiece again, "Stryker One-Four!, Do you Copy? I need your help." I asked the Commander of said Vehicle. I got an almost immediate response from him.
"Major, what do you need? We're getting reports of Xeno's in the Hospital, please confirm?" He asked.
"Reports Confirmed, I say again, reports confirmed. I need you, two MBT's and Centaur One-Eight to meet me near the west exit of the Fort. Three Praetorian Class Xenomorphs will be on my tail, metaphorically speaking. Soon after you should be seeing several more start to attack them, so don't fire upon them a Warrior Class will also be at the vanguard of them." I told him.
"Well, that's one hell of a shit storm you just described, which ones are we to shoot at?" He asked.
"The ones chasing the bait Brainiac" I, sarcastic, said.
Suddenly, the door to the elevator shaft was forced open (Which is hard to do, because they're magnetically locked) by a pair of Jet Black hands larger than June's. Oh Crap! I thought as I drew my Sidearm and fired a few rounds at those hands.
"Well, At least it isn't 40 Kilos of Semtex, this time." Max said.
"Ha, remember the amount of damage it did to the lobby of that hotel a few Years back?" I asked.
"Yeah, they had to demolish the building cos the damage was too extensive. That building is still rubble, never had a chance to rebuild it, damn Nazi's" He said as he, too, fired his sidearm.
That pissed off the Praetorian's to no end, which was the goal we wanted them to chase us down the outside of the building and to the Vehicle Depot.
As she got the doors open, I whistled at her and fired a few 5.7x28mm AP rounds at her, but no way would they penetrate the armour of a Praetorian shouting "Come and get me!" at them, then I began to run down the hallway towards the window facing the roof.
I shot out the window with Max trailing a few feet behind me. Just before leaping out, I heard him shout "Are you nuts!?"
I replied with "No choice, but I lost my sanity after saving your sorry ass two years ago!"
I hit the roof and rolled with the momentum before getting to my feet and continuing onto the second level roof and then to the first before dropping to the ground floor, taking a quick glance back to see if the enraged Praetorians were still following, well, long story short, they were, and they were closing rapidly so I picked up the pace.
"Max, Where the Hell are you!?" I shouted, only to hear him a few feet behind me, "Ah, trying to outrun three really angry Xeno's, what about you!?" He sarcastically said.
We continued to run towards the Motor Pool, with the three angry Xenomorphs in very hot pursuit. The motor pool was a few meters ahead, I picked up a grenade launcher that was lying on the ground and made sure that it was loaded, thankfully, it was.
"They really need to stop giving us toys to play with!" I said, aiming the launcher behind and pulling the trigger. The explosive round left the short barrel with a thump, like sound resounded followed by an explosion.
I didn't aim at the Xeno's, just in front; I wanted to trip them, not to kill them, yet. They all tripped up and over each other, raging even more. They really must hate me, I thought to myself.
Unsurprising, you did just shoot at them with a "Grenade Launcher" came the reply that I didn't expect, from June.
With the Xeno's temporarily road-blocked, we jumped through the doors and shut them by placing a toolbox to block them.
Max remarked "That, most certainly, will not hold them for long."
I jogged over to an older model Pick-up Truck. "Huh, an M34 Avenger, they haven't made one of these in a long time. I'm surprised to see one." I opened up the driver's side door and got in, it started first time. Max was in the passenger side before I told him to get in, and I waited for the Praetorians to get in, they didn't keep us waiting long, as they were in in a matter of seconds.
As soon as they were in, I shifted into first gear and floored it. After I smashed through the gate of the motor pool, I shifted into second, momentarily taking my foot off of the accelerator to place it on the clutch as I shifted, before hitting the gas again.
I didn't need to go faster, as the gate was already open and the Avenger screamed out onto the plateau, with the Xeno's in tow. Then, four tanks rolled around the corner of the base and fired. The two lead tanks were APC's with 25mm bushmaster cannons, whilst the two MBT's that followed had 120mm Railguns.
Jameson, I've convinced the Queen to loan her Royal Guard to us with several Alpha's and myself to deal with the hostile Praetorians, and the Human next to you means you great harm, watch yourself, Please, for my sake!. She sounded desperate, not good.
We got far enough away from the Praetorians, that I made a U-turn and sped up into third gear, intent on ramming the head Xenomorph.
"Have you really lost it!? You could kill us both, you idiot!" He shouted and grabbed the steering wheel, pulling us off course and sending the Avenger into a roll, the Praetorian never stood a chance. After the Avenger stopped rolling and landed on its wheels, the Praetorian didn't fare as well as the truck; her back was broken along with a few other things.
I climbed out of the wrecked Pick-up, and relocated my shoulder, again. I felt sorry for the praetorian, I swore I'd mercifully put her down. I didn't notice the shotgun that was bolted to the rear windshield and picked it up, making sure it wasn't loaded. I reached over to the glove box and found a box of 8 gauge shells. I pulled the pump back and loaded a shell into the breach of the barrel, and pushed the pump forward, whilst loading the weapon to capacity.
I walked over to the badly wounded Xenomorph and gently, placed the barrel against her head.
"Find peace in the arms of your god, goddess, whatever" I said to her before pulling the trigger and ending her life. That was very hard to do, she was probably mated to another one of her Hive, I'd done too much of this.
I cocked the Shotgun then turned it on my friend, or who I thought was my friend. "It seems that my cover has been blown, by that mongrel Creature you saved, no doubt. Was it fun to kill it, Hmm?" was all he said to me, whilst aiming his pistol at me
"Why? Why betray me, betray everything we stood for. WHY!?" I yelled at him
"The Nazi's offered me something I couldn't refuse. Information involving my family. You hear that! In my position, you'd have done the same fucking thing!" He shouted his pistol dead straight.
"My family is dead because of them, that's why I hate them with every fibre of my bein" before I could finish, he pulled the trigger of his pistol three times, and I pulled the trigger of the shotgun at, roughly, the same time. Two of his bullets tore through the left side of my chest and the third tore through my neck.
My shotgun blast tore apart his chest, killing him immediately.
Damn it, that had to hurt, for a second, anyway. I thought as I hit the ground, in the near distance, I heard several explosions and a pained screech, similar to June's.
I rolled onto my arms and lifted myself to my knees, and got up to walk towards the road. I placed my hand against my throat to try and stem the bleeding a bit, which helped a little.
After what seemed forever, I made it to the road. I could hear tank treads closing in, and I collapsed on the road, only to hear June calling my name. I rolled onto my back and saw the vehicle in question, Stryker One-Four, with June, Riding shotgun, on top. She jumped off and raced over to me, with two Alphas' at her flank.
I let my blood covered hand softly land against the grass as she gently placed her hand against my throat, whilst I was coughing blood, again.
I told you to watch yourself, you idiot! I coughed up more blood in answer. She was right, and I wasn't going to argue.
"Major! Damn it, you crazy Bastard. Where's Max?" Stryker One-Four's commander asked. I pointed towards the wrecked Pickup.
"Betrayed me" was all I managed to get out before I coughed up more blood, as the Xeno's worked to fix up my wounds, and gently applied Hive Webbing to my wounds, firstly, around my neck.
"We are going to take you to the Medical Unit, then report to Colonel Evans about this… incident" The Commander said.
"No" I said before coughing and spluttering, "They'll take me to her Hive, they'll take better care of me, and she says the Queen wishes to see me, preferably when I'm not coughing up blood."
Just then, all four of the Praetorians crawled, albeit cautiously, over the hill. One was being supported by her siblings bleeding a little, but not as much as me. The one at the vanguard had a number burned into her forehead, the number Six, in fact.
The Alpha on my left side, my more wounded side, tapped my shoulder and said telepathically "Your stable, we can move you to the hive" the she said to Six, "Can you carry him to the Hive, Please?" She huffed and rose to her hind legs, and walked over to us and lifted me up. As she did this, a sharp pain shot up my left side and I cried out.
"Crap, I forgot how fragile you Humans are, I mainly just killed humans, never carried wounded ones." She stated matter-of-factly.
The Commander gave her a suspicious look, but I waved him off.
"Tell Evans my transponder will be off, so don't bother trying to rescue me, because I don't need it." I told him. He just gave me a curt nod and allowed the group of Xeno's to carry me off to their Hive, the place June came from, while he called off the turrets that had my position pre-sighted and locked.
"It's alright, just go to sleep, your safe. No-one would be stupid enough to attack us." I thought that was June saying that, but, it turned out to be Six. I followed her orders and slipped away.
