Chapter 4: Nite Survivor's Last Words

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Xenomorph Screech/Yautja Roar"

'Xenomorph/Predator Thoughts'

(Description of Item/Person/Entity)

(Umbral Nites: 11:50 PM)

(Survivor's 1 1st Person P.O.V)

I couldn't help but whimper once again at our predicament as we were holed up in Umbral Nites Metroplex Apartments the evening started out alright then these... things popped out of the sewers and attacked everyone and dragged off many of our friends and family. Now we're stuck in the U.N.M.A with barely any food and limited supplies I heard from the scavenger teams that the... Things were Intelligent as after forty minutes of barely uninterrupted scavenging the damn things ruined almost everything in the U.N.M.A and anything not ruined is now boobytrapped to hell with those 'Facehuggers' that one of the Scavenger teams coined due to the fact they latch onto the victims face

Because of this we barely have any food for most of us here and the Scavenger teams have been hoarding it for themselves leaving us with what little remains especially since after losing some people we now have 45 people and the Assholes didn't bother to recover their bodies and just left them there I heard from a buddy that joined the Scavenger teams just to get any food that they noticed that the... Things must be moving the bodies because the things they were never there when they come back to those rooms the bodies were gone and signs of 'Serpents' were found which indicate that the things want us for something which is agitating people here and making us feel like sheep trapped in a pen waiting for the butcher to come slaughter us

Already I can see cracks forming in the survivors and two groups forming one from Nate who wants to run to the other colony that's on the other side of the planet with the only spaceport on the planet and the Scavenger Team Captain Joshua who wants to wait until the other settlement sends someone to check on them and for Colonial Marines but no one was confident in either of these twos so it's just a powder keg waiting to go off until then and... No no no... Nate! What are you doing!

"Joshua We need to head to the other settlement so we can call the Colonial Marines" Nate Said Harshly but Joshua looked unimpressed "How the Serpents have us completely surrounded if you have a grand idea to escape this now would be the time" Joshua snapped back with vitriol and I winced as everyone was watching with a third agreeing with Nate and a Third agreeing with Joshua "We can use the old access tunnels to head to the border of town and get out" Nate said with a smirk and I shook my head as I said "It won't work" as both Nate and Joshua turned towards me Nate with fury in his eyes and Joshua with curiosity as he asked "How so" I replied "I may not be on the scavenger teams but I noticed a pattern about how the Facehuggers and Serpents are moving around" I watch as everyone turn towards me but I press on "the Ducts... they're using the ducts to move around which stands to reason that those Access tunnels are crawling with serpents and even if they're not they'll soon will because of how loud sound travels especially since those things don't look like they have eyes" as everyone pondered that I can see everyone grimacing in agreement but Nate was unconvinced "so what? We'll just be extra quiet then" he snapped but before he could continue Joshua Said "no Arthur is right it's a suicide mission forget it"

I almost missed what happened next but it will be engraved into my mind as I watch Nate pull out a pistol and shoot Joshua in the back starting a chain reaction as Nate's Followers revealed hidden pistols and hunting rifles and fired on Joshua's Men as they retaliate in kind with many innocents getting hit in the crossfire.

O decided to flip a table over and use it as cover until the bullets stopped flying. It wasn't until a few minutes later I heard the guns stop and I peek over... Over 34 people dead by those two groups killing each other and only a few of Joshua's men are still alive but before order can be restored the Serpents broke through containment along with Facehuggers as I watched with horror as everyone still alive got a new friend to their face I couldn't help and think 'this really isn't my day'

(Umbral Nites: Around the Same time)

(Survivor's 3 1st Person P.O.V)

Being an Ex-Colonial Marine meant that you were prepared for when shit went down no matter what it was I guess that's why I'm still alive with 29 other security staff even if we have no Idea if anyone else made it out of the first attack wave regardless we've been holed up in the middle of the main park watching the damn 'Serpents' that one of my men coined stay out of our range and observe use and prowling about I bet it's to fray our nerves well it's working on the security staff but not me despite these Xenos want I won't break so easily

I do a round of checking on the men to make sure they're alright and to see their ammo counts as we might not get any extra from dead Serpents not to mention that I was waiting for any surprise attack these Serpents were planning but I picked the location well we can check all sides for an attack and an attack from above so no way in hell are these things going to ambush us so easily regardless I still felt uneasy

As I was finishing up my last check I nearly lost my footing and noticed that everyone was the same before I ask what that was the ground under us collapsed under us and killed 13 as they were buried alive by the rubble and most of the other men had been semi buried which had either crippled them or damaged their weapons which further crippled our combat effectiveness but before we could dig ourselves out the Serpents began pouring out over our former barricades and a hole in the side of the hole and with dread I realized these things put us in a damn Murder Hole!

As I listened to my men get butchered alive I watched one approach me and I noticed it was one I had grazed earlier and I simply stared at it down and said "what are you waiting for... Do It!" and listen to the last then I'll ever hear "SCREECH"

(Umbral Nites: Around the Same time)

(Survivor's 2 1st Person P.O.V)

As a security guard the worst that you'll deal with is either a thief or a pickpocket but when the disappearances began I always felt they were the prelude to something much much more worse and I couldn't but be right as 'Serpents' and 'Facehuggers' are now playing havoc across the entire colony and with comms down the other colony is blind to what's going on but hopefully in 13 more days they'll find out and we'll be avenged regardless of what happens

The reason why Is i'm guarding panicking civilians and injured who can't move in a hospital and these damn things have been picking off my men left right and center sooner or later things are gonna come to a stand and the civilians are gonna panic before then and I fear there's nothing I can do to prevent it from happening

As I watched the door I noticed out of the corner of my eye the civilians grabbing boards and metal appliances not connected to the injured and I motion to what's left of my men to take aim as they began charging us leaving us no choice but to open fire on them and watch as several of them drop to the ground but that doesn't mean they didn' get their kicks in as three more men just went down to their weapons that by the time the civilians settled down there was barely 13 people left and I gritted my teeth knowing that panicking civilians was the worst and that I couldn't avoid it

But before I could say anything the door burst open behind us and knock down the last two of my men and I turned around to see the serpents swarming in and pinning me to the wall with my gun on the floor and as I watched a Facehugger skitter towards me I thought 'Dammit they played us for fools' as blackness overtook me