TDN rushed at the beast, his rage could no longer be contained. As he made a mad dash to the beast, he had only one thing in mind, to end its life as quickly as possible. And how foolish that idea was, as he'll soon learn. TDN with knife in hand, ran and tried to take a stab at the beast, only to have it block his knife, and with a swipe of it powerful arm, it sent him back a good couple of feet. TDN stood up and recovered from that blow, and tried again to take a stab at it. It laughed in mockery of his pitiful attempts to attack it, as it once again blocked his attack and this time, swinging out its wristblades, stabbed him in the abdomen. It retracts its wristblades and with the same arm, punched him and sending him back aneven further distance than the one before. TDN coughed blood heavily. He looked up at the creature, its maskless face showed no sign of mercy, and yet it could laugh at his face of despair.
TDN laid there, trying to calm himself down. His rage was getting the beter of him. He wasn't able to think clearly with this anger inside of him. He knew that this was the creature's plan all along, to get him to attack in a fit of rage and could no longer use his mind which could have given him an advantage. Yet he allowed his rage to blind him. "There are two things I shall never show to my enemies, my fear and my anger" he thought. And with that, he sat up and closed his eyes to focus, trying to let go of the anger that clouded his judgements. He opened his eyes, looking at the creature. He could see that it too was angered. This had became a game, a game where the winner is the one who shall remain calm and the loser is the one engulfed in rage. And he shall win this game.
TDN knew there was one thing that these creatures considered the highest in their culture, their honor. Dointhing to insult their honor, and especially their pride will get them riled up, just as he did before. "Hey you ugly son of a b**ch!" he said to it "Yeah, I'm calling to you moron. What, can't do any better than that? My dog fights better than you". With each word he said, TDN made insulting gestures. And he saw that, though the creature was indeed different and tried to conceal its anger just as he did, it could not do it any longer. The creature charged at TDN, and in its rage even forgot to cloak itself. Clenching his knife in his hand, he prepared for the creature's attack. And this time he was prepared.
As the creature charged at him, it took a swipe with its wristblades fully extended as soon as it saw that he was in range. TDN ducked and dodged its attack. He would make sure that his movements are randomized, so that the creature cannot detect any pattern in his attacks. This was something he had learned to do in every fight, and he was going to use it well. He did anything that came to mind: side-step, back, dash, sideway leap, dodge, duck, back, side-step, feint dash, back, dash...stab. And with that, he could see that his attack had worked, for his knife had buried itself deep inside the creature's stomach. It let out a roar of pain, as TDN took his knife out of its stomach. His knife, which had been made to cut through the Predator's nets easily, had made a deep wound on the creature.
TDN continued his randomized pattern, hoping to take another stab at it, but to his surprise, the creature leapt at him, knocking him to the ground and pinning him the the floor with its arm pressing down on his body. It extended its wristblades once more, this time hoping to finish him off, but it could not have anticipated what happened after. TDN took a concealed shotgun from his backpack, and taking aim at its unprotected face, shot it at almost point blank range that would have killed any normal Xenomorph. With a roar of pain, the creature put its hand over its face, for the shot had destroyed most of its face, its mandibles, and especially its eyes. It was now blinded. TDN had delibrately attacked over and over with his knife for one purpose, to make the creature think that it was the only weapon he had on him after his Pulse Rifle had been destroyed. It did not know that he had concealed a shotgun in his small backpack.
TDN stood up, and fire two more shots at the creature as it stood still covering its face after the initial shot. One shot he fired to its shoulder canon, destroying it in an instant. "That's my weapon for your weapon. Fair payback" he said to it. The other shot was aimed at its right leg, causing it to limp down on one leg. With flourescent blood pouring out, it took another swipe at him, and this time he did not anticipated it as he could have. The swipe opened a wound in his stomach, close to the area that he had been stabbed, almost making a deep cut. This sent him back a few paces. "It is indeed determined" he thought. And he stood there, waiting for its next strike, his shotgun ready with 3 more shots...
***Note: Recap of what the damages are just so we don't just sudden;y get healthy again in our next posts. I've been stabbed in the abdomen area, swiped in the stomach by wristblades, knocked back two times, both which had caused me to cough blood, and Pulse Rifle destroyed.
Stalker, you've been stabbed in the shoulder blades, stabbed in the stomach by a knife, shot in the face with a shotgun, destroying your mandibles and eyes, which renders you blind, shot in the right leg, and Plasmacaster destroyed.
I'll be waiting for your next post Stalker.
"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die."