Chapter One: So It Begins
[Remote Research Facility. Complex integrity comprimised]
The figure clung to the ceiling watching the Marines below it, they advanced into the gloom of the Complex scanning the darkness with their shoulder-lamps. The watcher could sense their jumpiness, their fear, it waited until they had passed down the corridor before letting go of its holding and landing easily on the metallic floor. It shook its helmeted head causing its dreadlocks to flick about, it tapped a button a vanished from sight. Hiden behind its cloaking field, its eerie clicking-purr eoched through out the Complex as it began its hunt. With silence and expert quickness it stalked its prey using heat vision, its prey this day, Xenomorph. The vile things crawled all over the planet making it an excellent hunting ground for his kind.
[Complex Sub-Levels]
The Drone lay curled up in a corner, it had only just reached maturity. The filmy membrane over its eyes flicked open and it got to its feet letting out a venemous hiss as it did so. Inside its elongated head Hive commands buzzed and flowed;
Serve the Hive, serve the Queen. Hunt, kill!
The young drone flicked its tail experimentally and looked about it, its primitive intelligence knew that their were prey nearby. The Hive commands pounded in its head urging it on to the hunt, to find and kill its prey. Delaying no more it got on all fours and scurried along the hallway, its tail arched ready to strike. It felt the Hive presence albiet faintly and more of its brethern lurking throughout the Complex and even one Praetorian who seemed to be on the verge of moulting, becoming a Queen. It was her that had awoken it, called it to the hunt.
[Medical Bay #1]
The group of humans cowered in the corner, they had locked themselves in Med Bay #1 after the Complex had been compromised. But now they had nowhere to go, they wondered if they would be all dead before the Marines arrived. Just then the door shook and from the other side came deathly hisses and the sound of claws scratching against the metal of the door. They could also hear the thud of Xenomorph tails pounded against the door, they crowded together in an attempt at safety. The door shook under the repeated blows and the hisses grew louder and louder as the door began to give way. Soon they would be through and upon them, some of the humans were crying whilst others cradled their heads in their hands in fear.
The Predator strode through the Complex, switching vision modes as he went. His heavy footsteps wer muffled by the darkness of the Complex adn he heard the hiss of Xenomorph, he switched his vision mode so that he would be able to find Xenomorph much more easier but as he was changing vision mode he felt something rush past him without either of them noticing. Up ahead he saw several aliens and he raised his Speargun and prepared to fire, he let out a booming laugh which eoched through the Complex as the spear took off one Xenomorph's head and pinned it to the far wall. But suddenly they were upon him and he drew his combat spear and faced them. Their claws bounced off his armour and grabbing one by the tail he tossed it into the wall and stabbed it with his wrist-blades. The Xenomorph hissed in pain and leapt at him only to be tripped and impaled by his spear, the tail of a second Xenomorph lashed out and gouged his armour. He could sense many more Xenomorph in the Complex and even a Praetorian on the verge of becoming a Queen. This was going to be a good challenge for him, one he welcomed.
The Drone did not see the Predator as it scurried along in its hunt for prey and narrowly avoided colliding with it. It's claws clinked on the metallic floor as it ran using its naviagation view to see through the darkness. It hissed and was joined by others of its kind as they raced through the darkened Complex on their hunt for humans who had proved time and time again to be the easiest prey. They had located a small group of humans locked in a large room, even now its Hive brethern were clawing their way through the door. They hissed venomous as they scratched and clawed at the door in their attempts to get at the humans on the other side.
The humans remained cowering in the room, it wouldn't be long before the door gave way and the Xenomorph were upon them. Kaine got up at walked over to the wall and pressed the alarm button which would cause security alarms to blare all over the Complex and send out a Distress Signal which would alert the Colonial Marines. He only prayed that they would be able to get here in time before it was too late. The clawing at the door stopped and the hissing grew silent, the humans drew in sighs of relief which only became screams of fear as a razor sharp tail burst through the door which collapsed inwards. The elongated heads of Xenomorph peered around the door and in they rushed, the room became filled with screams as the Xenomorph went about their grizzly work. But Kaine, he had managed to crawl out of the room through an airvent and was making his way towards the Personnel Quarters.
The Predator unleashed a clicking purr as it made its way through the Complex. The bodies of several of its clan-mates rested upon this world and his clan had returned to retrieve them as well as to avenge the honour of their clan. He raised his Speargun and zoomed up on one of the humans he was stalking, they indeed carried guns making them a threat and a challenge. In one deadly movement he fired and the human crumpeled to the ground with a spear sticking out of his back. The other humans raised their Pulse Rifles and glanced about in fear, but due to his being cloaked were unable to find him.