JesseJames vs Gaunt

"Sir my motion trackers broken ... sir!?...Harker!?".

'To t..he ... slaugh..ter'. In the darkened cover of the wrecked ship Gaunt grinned, clutching the head of the now deceased Marine, "Harker", in his claws he faced upward to stare towards yet more marines, their shoulder lamps glinting off his domed head.

"SHITT!!, OH SHIAGGHHHGGAAH!!", "SHOOT IT!!, SHOOT IT!!", "RUNNAGKAGHaaah..". They had barely made it through the crumpled enterance of the wreckage, now they were all dead. Wagging his tail in content he started to feed on the nearest corpse, 'Ahh..go..od'.

A radio buzzed to life behind him as he fed, a paniced voice spoke. "All reconacance units, fall back to the research facility ASAP, infesta------imin--". It garbled out. Gaunt stopped his feeding, turning to face the enterance he could see a heavy Marine presence, and something else.

'He..h.e'. He scuttled out of the wreck to come face to face with a rover personel carrier, two Marines, oblivious to his presence, calling for Harker and his men to leave the wreck.

As they left the vehicle to check the wreck, Gaunt, now hidden above the enterance waited for them to go in. As they did he imediatly scuttled under the rover and clung to the loose metalic platings underneath, pulling himself up and into the back.

Seconds later he heard the Marines scream with disgust, anger and fear, heard them running back to the rover. They started the engine and drove the rover off, as the passenger screamed in his radio, a frantic and paniced voice. "HARKERS GONE!!, HARKER, RODRIQUES AND TIMPA, GONE!!!, falling back to the research facility!".

Now in the boot of the rover, under a seat and out of view, Gaunt started to stir, hearing a garbled responce on the radio as he rested, "---H-urr-y, -pr--o--t".

'Nothing like a free ride'

The rover stopped, the men left. So did Gaunt.
In an opertunity that he didn't originally see, putting himself at total risk once again, the only thought that came to his mind was, 'Gone twice.. third times a cha..rm'.

As the passanger of the rover had been shouting for help, franticly, over and over again, Gaunt had slipped under his armour and nessled himself on the Marines back.

The driver, too shaken and focused on his current task hadn't noticed a thing, the beeps of the one motion tracker in the back unheaded as they were drowned out by the booming screams of the passenger on his radio.

There Gaunt still lay, on the Marines back, motionless and quiet, able to see, able to see everything around him. Undetectable.


"Uh hold on there Pilkins, my armours loose. Give me a moment. Close shut god damb i..AGHHHGH!!! NOOaghh..."

looks at the frantic marine and pulls his armor back and jumps back himself and sees a huge chestburster on his back and before he could aim it jumps off and scuddles away and jesse looks at the marine who looks like he's about to faint from panic and fear then jesse offers his flask to the marine who gulps down everydrop of what's in it and thanks jesse for it and he starts calming down after the drink.

As he lurked around, in a shadow projected off the very walls of the corridoor, he stalked.
Gaunt had waited enough. He was hungry and eager to leave the unknown and barron rock that he somehow inhibited, mind and body.

Pouncing out once of his hiding place, he slashed his tail into the back of one of the Marines heads, the one with the water flask.

As that man fell, dead, due to shock and the fatal point in his nevous system that had just been severed, Gaunt leapt onto the other marine.

Clasping onto the Humans chest plating, Gaunt pulled himself up to face his foe. As his head met the stonehard face of the Marine that he clung to, Gaunt plundged his tail over the metalic shoulder guard into the mans back, scrapping the sharp tip against his shoulder blade.


Something told Gaunt that this fight wouldn't be so easy.

watches in shock that the creature did it in such a short time frame and aims for it and fires controled bursts at it with his rifle and watches it run away after jesse scared it away kneels to the marine it attacked and prays for him then grabs his tags and decides to keep his wits about him cause that thing can pop up from anywhere and has the motion sensor ready to pick him up so he atleast has a warning that it's nearby so he can react quicker

'Hmm..hmm beepbox'.

Either this Human had some sort of power to repel him or Gaunts nervous system was acting up. The latter was the most probabal case.

His motor control was scetchy, he had killed that first Human with ease, yet his body continued to move forwards and back into the shadows once more, to hide!?.

Now he turned to his main target once more, the Marine he had stabbed in the back, the one holding the motion tracker. He didn't seem to of noticed his wound yet. Gaunt ran forwards, hearing the blipping beeps of the motion tracker as he got closer, met with the sound of open gun fire.

As the Marine opened fire with his pulse rifle Gaunt strafed under the hail of bullets, sustaining scratchings and bruises that hissed and cracked with the air around him. Pouncing onto the Humans left leg he tore at the exsposed flesh above the shin guard, his inner jaw ripping out chunks of flesh as his tail fastened around to secure a footing.


'mhhm..hm tasty!'

knocks the thing away and winces at the pain in his shoulder and then aims and fires a quick burt that hit it's mark and wounds it's arms and legs and a fe bullets hit it's head and he keeps moveing but it wasn't going to be easy and hears commotion over the comms in the form of shreiks and marines screaming and makes his way to the camp and finally reaches the door just as the thing was leaping at him but jesse knew that it wouldn't be long before it would find a way in and he decided to patch himself up and then grabs all the ammo in the room and sees that he has 45 clips of pulse rifle ammo, over 300 flame tanks, and over 100 shotgun shells, grenade launcher ammo, and pistol clips.

then jesse loads up and gets ready for the thing when it finds a way in and looks around "alright you little piece of shit i'm ready for ya come on in i've got a nice suprise for ya" he says as he keeps his rifle in hand and his shotgun on his back and his pistol on his hip ready for action.

'Hahee..heh'.

His wounds were barely wounds, scorched flesh, patched around his exoskeletal body. The bullets had either ricocheted off him or melted away in his acid blood.

He could sense the Human, inside, armed, waiting. 'Aheh, lets se..e where this g..oes'. An air vent, one way rested above the door. Clambering up the door Gaunt heard the box, 'Beep .. Beep!', he could see it in the Humans hand.

'hehe, kn..ow my location with that beepbox, ... , do you no good'. Gripping his claws into the grate he tore his way into the vent without hesitation, hearing the motion tracker blip and beep with every move he made.

Smashing the other grate of the vent, out and towards the Human, Gaunt charged towards it with tremendous speed, using the smashed remains of the grate as cover as it slid and tumbled across the floor.

The Human had opened fire, his tracker filled the room, beeping and whirling like crazy. Skimming through and under the hail of bullets Gaunt latched onto the Humans leg.

As the Marine swiped and shot at him violently Gaunt slashed the motion tracker, which sparked and burst.
As the Human dropped the broken and fried tracker Gaunt dug his claws into its leg, while his tail went slashing at the Marines pulse rifle.

moves the rifle away from it's tail and then aims it at the thing and unleashes a hail of bullets right into it's head and listens to it shriek in pain and finaly gets off his leg and then he readies a m203 as it dashes at him and he fires it and it dodges but the shrapnel from the spot it it cuts deep into the creatures body and then jesse unleashes another hail of bullets and then quickly reloads and as it leaps at him he knocks it aside and then gets the clip in and ready then fires again but he wastes it all as the creature dodges every bullet then after reloading again he drops it on a table and then he grabs the flamethrower and turns it on and grins "ready for a bbq you ugly mother fucker good cause your gonna be the main course"

hey says and unleashes a stream of fire at it and notices that he got a few flames on it and hears it shriek in pain again and keeps shrieking as the flames burn it's skin

The bullets to the head were surprising, in fact Gaunt was stunned that he survived such a shot. The bullets had gone in alright, tearing into his xeoskeletal flesh, some ricocheting off while others went driving into his organs and soft tissue.

As his blood splattered in all directions, covering the floor, walls, ceiling, and even some of the Marines armour, Gaunt shook violently as his grasp loosened around the Humans legs, flaying backwards with a manical spasm.

As he turned to face the Human once again flames lapped around his body, his skin charred and crackled, and his bleeding body, now sealed, started to burn.


Letting out a shriek of pain he filled himsef with rage, 'AHHHHHHH!! Ti...me DIE!'.

Strafing to his right, out of the arc of fire that had been hurtled towards him, Gaunt flayed his limbs as he moved in attempt to cool off the flames. He was pouncing off the walls now, moving around at breakneck speeds, circling the Marine who burnt everything around him, trying to catch him in the flames once more.

Still partly on fire Gaunt saw a chance. Leaping directly at the marines flamethrower, narrowly gliding over the the arc of fire that portrued from it, he slashed the fuel tank of the flamestick open, spraying the Marine and himself with the highly flamable contents.

His tail still on fire, Gaunt jumped backwards, away from the Human, wacking him on the side and setting him alight. As the Marine burst into flames Gaunt tumbled to the ground, crashing into the wall behind. He could see the Human flaying his arms frantically as his clothing and weapons crackled and fused to his skin, under the intense heat and pressure.

The ammunition on the Human started to explode in reaction to the heat of the flames. Gaunt crashed through a service vent near the enterance of the building, his surroundings blurred by smoke and fire. Brushing past the heated and smoldering door of the room Gaunt skidded onto the icy, cold ground outside.

Proceeding to roll and douse any flames left on his body, he felt his skin crack and creak with pain against the ice. As he lay and rested for a moment he woundered of the Human, who he could still hear crying out in that burning room.

'K..ill wi.th FIRE!'.

gets under some water and puts himself out and then he rolls his shoulder snd looks at the alien thats burnt and injured beyond belief and takes out his shotgun loads it then slings it back onto his back then he grabs the peices of armor that got blood on them and rips them off and tosses them to the side and then grabs the smartgun and aims it at the creature and pulls the trigger and unleashes a hail of bullets that burrow deep into the aliens body takeing off his limbs and that annoying tail of his.

then stops and looks at the alien on the floor looking like some horid mutated version of swiss cheese then he walks up to the alien pulls his shotgun out and steps on it so it can't get away and aims his shotgun at it "any last words you piece of alien shit?" it shrieks weakly but jesse cuts it shorts by blowing a huge hole into it's head and wathces it go limp and lay there dead. "sorry didn't catch that fucker" spits on it and heads out with a fully loaded shotgun, pulse rifle and pistol and makes his way to the extraction zone to get off this frigid rock with the bag full of dog tags from all of his fallen comrades.

heads to the head researchers room and gets the data disk and heads to the extraction zone to get back to the ship and have a nice hot meal.

Off topic: Alright well I didn't see that coming, following the rules we still had quite a bit of time to kill.

Hmm well whatever, you somehow walked really well despite being horrifically burn and shredded, thankfully I'm casual as hell.

In the future Jesse I'd suject being more realistic to your character and traits (i.e. a xenomorph is more resistant to fire than a Human, hence my actions).


Well good fight anyway.

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'...'.

This wasn't another end, it would never end.
It didn't rest anymore, it didn't sleep. It consumed to its maximum potential, providing chaos and destruction to others as it evolved, through personal development.


The body twitches, spasms, blood splattering as it does. It is not its end, it will never end.
It is simply another number of inconcevable learning curves, which lead to improvements of untold preportions.

The body is gone, the ice and sleet burn in its wake, lone and stranded creatures cry out as it consumes their forms, feeding, growing.

It doesn't end.

thanks

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sits in the infirmary getting healed and waits for his next dispatch