FireHunter,
Human,
11 years ago
Slick shrieked as its dome was melted away by the cutting torch. It was a long drop from its grip for the human, but surprisingly the human had just taken off. The slender Xenomorph went after him, only his pheromones betraying his position, and soon more pheromones came to Slick's attention. More humans.
Slick knew that without Achilles, Demon and FireHunter, attacking them head-on would be suicide, had Achilles still been alive, this would have been much easier. The humans were unaware of the skeletal demon lurking in the shadows, it was too far away, too quiet to be noticed, but it could see them. The beast caressed the wall, more xenomorphs, drones and warriors, some remnants of the Hive, were coming, also silent, knowing the plan before they could even see the humans.
Once again the humans found themselves surrounded, unknowingly this time. The xenomorphs slowly closed in, there weren't a huge amount of them, around 16 not including Slick. The darkness shrouded their approach.
But stealth could not be held for long, the haunting, eerie cries of a motion tracker signalled the Xenomorph approach. The creatures all stopped in unison. The beeping stopped, they all begun creeping forward again, and stopped, the beeping ceased once more. None of them moved, Slick wasn't used to being only accompanied by regular drones and warriors, it was used to the might of the other three in the Praetorian Guard. This wasn't like the intersection, where they had them surrounded on all four sides, it was two directions to come from, the front and the back, and with the amount of marines, the humans could keep both sides covered.
Slick looked up at the ceiling, the vents would provide a strategic third direction, two warriors, one from each side, crawled up the walls and into vents in the ceiling. They begun moving towards the soldiers, the beeping arose again, slowly getting faster. Four more xenomorphs, two from each side, followed the initial pair. And as the remaining ten closed in through the hallway, Slick itself squeezed its horribly tall form into the vent. It was cramped, but that never bothered Slick, whose slim form contorted to fit, up ahead, the first pair were almost directly above the humans.
Gunfire broke out and a Xenomorph death knell rang out from the hallway below. Another came from inside the vent, and one of the Warriors fell through the hole created by its own blood, falling among the Marines. The others came pouring out of the hole, and the humans quickly found themselves under assault, but the Xenomorphs' numbers were falling. Slick crawled to the hole, being the last in the vent, and seeing its opportunity, reached down and seized one of the Marines. The man was quickly dragged into the vent with the beast and slain, the powerful inner jaw of Slick punched through his feeble skull. His struggles ceased and he was dropped back out to the body-littered hallway below. The battle had gone by so quickly, both sides being reduced to a mere few in a matter of seconds, most of the marines had fallen to the acid blood that drenched and burned at everything.
The remaining drones scampered about, avoiding bullets as best they could. They were a distraction, and as they retreated further into the corridor, the men followed, and Slick silently emerged from the ceiling. It reached forward and grabbed a second man, pulling him backwards to be impaled on its tail, he died with a tremendous shout. Before the remaining two could do much more than turn and fire blindly at the lanky creature, both of their clips simultaneously ran dry, Slick's arm lunged and struck them both down, acid spilled from its new wounds. Jessie James and John Blackburn once again found themselves in the beast's clutches. Their guns were torn from their hands and Slick reached down to suffocate them both, its enormous hands engulfed their faces and resisted the struggles. Slick lifted them up by their faces, their struggles grew weaker. Slick dropped Jessie to the only remaining Drone, who immediately carried him away, barely conscious. Slick held onto Blackburn and continued to carry him to the Hive, the pulse rifle dangled from his back by the strap, empty and ignored by the towering Slick. It could sense more Drones approaching to keep watch, but for now, again the pair were alone.