Malus gritted his teeth and fought the sheer agony that ripped through him with every fibre of his being. Just as evrey part of his mind was ferociously denying what he in his heart knew all to well. Despite all that Malus had done, it was over. He was finished. His mind recoiled at the thought that he would die here, in a place light-years away from home, with only his murderer to witness his death. The survivalist in Malus whispered sometihng into his mind. 'Don't give up on it now, if you're going to die then at least go down fighting, or even better kill him!' It said insistently, and Malus managed to open his eyes. His vision swam as tears streaked down his face. He blinked a few times to clear his vision and saw stalker crawling towards him, using his arms to cross the distance. Malus knew that he had a few seconds to destroy stalkers three remaining weapons: The speargun, the netgun and the wristblades. Malus checked the ammo clip on his pistol and swore.
Three bullets left, and in his condition he would not be able to reload before the monster killed him. He felt his combat knife on his hip and grinned. He was hopelessly outmatched. Stalker was physically stronger, had more weapons remaining and had less damage than he did. Malus's shattered face slowly twisted into a grin. Those were the kind of odds that he lived for. He realized that the beast had it's mask off and grinned. "You are one ugly mother fucker." He said, and then felt as if he'd achieved something, like he'd just fulfilled a tradition. He realized that stalker would be unable to use any of his remaining weapons without the use of his hands, and grinned, a desperate plan forming in his desperate mind.
He raised his pistol and took aim at the wristblades mounted on stalker's arm, just above his hand. "You will not need those." He said, a cold and evil tone entering his voice as he fired twice. Malus had a basic accuracy score of 99.7%, the highest in existence. This meant that he had a reputation of never missing. Of course with his wounds it had gone down to about 80%, but that was still enough to score the hit he needed. The first bullet exploded against the armour of the wristblade housing, penetrating and exploding with a dull roar, shattering the wristblade's housing and destroing the weapon. Shrapnel from both the bullet and the wristblades dug deep into stalker's wrist and sliced through muscles, tendons, nerves and ligaments. The hand immediatly went limp. It would no longer be able to hold or use a weapon for this fight. Malus then turned and aimed his second last shot at the knee of Stalker's remaining leg and fired, the explosive bullet sending shards of bone flying in all directions. The kneecap was spread over the hallway in a three metre radius, disabling Stalker's last leg. Malus laughed evilly and then winced in pain as it aggrivated his damaged kidney. His laughter died as stalker still gained on him, crawling towards him. He was almost in range to throw Malus fully across the room now, and Malus knew he'd have to act quickly. He dropped the pistol and drew his Combat knife from it's holster at his belt. He sprung up with his good leg and crossed the remaining distance between them in an eyeblink.
Malus had three possesions that meant the world to him. The first of which was the pistol his father had given to him exactly three days before a Xeno Queen had ripped through him with a gigantic segmented tail. It had already been deadly when he'd first been given it, and he'd done eight years of upgrading to it. And now he had to drop it. The second possession was the alien bone pendant that he wore around his neck. It was from the skull of the Queen that had murdered his father. The Queen he had killed himself in mortal combat. The third was his Combat knife, which he'd also made himself from the bones of that same Xeno Queen. He kept that knife so sharp he had to use a metal holster for it, because it cut through all the others he had tried. He knew that it could cleave bone, and that is exactly what it did.
He swung it in a wide arc in front of him and allowed himself a grin he swung it with all of his might and reaped the rewards of using such an effective weapon as it sheared neatly through Stalker's remaining wrist, slicing his last useful hand clean off. Malus unsteadily got onto his good foot and hopped away a reasonable distance as the hand fell to the ground. Stalker was now completely disabled, with one hand entirely gone, and the other one utterly useless and two legs that wouldn't support the weight of a kitten, much less a hunter of his weight. All of his technology had been disabled and blood was pouring from him in bucketloads, as he had forgotted to cauterize his wounds as Malus had the moment he had lost his hand. Malus holstered the knife and stopped to grab a smartgun. He could see that Stalker was in minor shock, and he quickly unclipped the gún's ammo and strapped it to his shot leg in a makeshift splint before rising unsteadily to his feet. The spear had gone thorough his kneecap, and his leg hurt like hell but on the whole the spear was still lodged in there and supporting his leg in place of the kneecap itself. Which was more than stalker's wound was doing. He finished strapping it up and rose unsteadily to his feet, limping over to his pistol and picking it up.
It was over, stalker was finished. He may not be dead yet, but he was defeated. He was unable to fight any further, unable to use any weapons other than the stumps of his arms, and to be able to reach Malus he'd have to crawl, an act that would be even harder with no useful hands.
Malus holstered his pistol and picked up the fallen speargun before kicking away all possible weapons from the predator, before limping back to a reasonable distance and inclining his head to stalker in respect. "You are truly a mighty warrior, whatever you are. And you founght well, but it's time to face facts. You have lost." Malus said, managing to keep his voice clear despite the pain. He pushed that pain to the back of his mind and continued. "I do not like killing unarmed foes, and if you cut your losses and retreat then I will allow you to leave, to live to kill me another day. But don't get me wrong, if you take a single crawl towards me I WILL shoot." He said, keeping stalker distracted whilst he figured out how the strange weapon worked. Once he figured it out he grinned.
"Now, will you leave or will I have to put a spear through your head while you are lying down?" He asked as he accessed his radio. "All Marines, this is Malus Darkblade. I am at the main hallway of the second floor and am seriously wounded. I want you to send a medic up ASAP, also, we have a foe here that is still potentially dangerous, I want a squad on stand-by incase he manages to kill me. And Kidd sir, there is a Xenomorph and a Predator still on the loose up here, I suggest you get hyro and clear them out. If this guy doesn't manage to kill me I'll be joining you after I get the medics to fix me up. Darkblade out."
(Okay Stalker, you have no useful limbs left, I have removed/disabled all of your weapons and have a speargun pointed at your head from a safe distance. You can either try to kill me in this infirmed state or cut your losses and flee to survive this RPG, but congratulations, you fought well mate.)
Honour is a fools prize, glory is of no use to the dead."