xeno_slayer,
Undefined,
16 years ago
Slayer had been tirelessly searching the complex for hours. There were plenty of signs that a xenomorph had been here but the thing was nowhere to be found.
There was a light towards the end of the hallway he was walking through. He slowly walked towards it. The light shone upwards, illuminating a long ladder. Slayer scaled the thing in seconds and when he got to the top, he found himself on a walkway that had been built all along the top left wall of the corridor. It jutted out from the side about five feet, just enough to walk on. It was probably a maintenance access way or something, but slayer continued along anyway in hopes of picking up waralien's trail.
Finally he came to a door that led off to the side. It opened into an airship hangar that was filled with human transport ships. The walkway continued across middle of the massive room, suspended about twenty feet in the air.
Suddenly slayer's instincts snapped into gear. He extended his wristblades and crouched low to the ground. There was another yautja in the room. It was cloaked but slayer picked it up on his sensor, standing on the ground below him. Slayer watched as the stray predator staggered along. It had obviously survived the crash, but was severely weakened by it's injuries.
Something wasn't right. Slayer's skin crawled with anticipation. There was an injured predator standing right out in the open, in a place where one of the most dangerous shadow serpent aliens was roaming freely about. It felt like the calm before the storm.
Just as slayer had guessed, waralien sprang out from behind one of the ships and plunged it's tail into the yautja's chest. Slayer could have helped him, but more than likely the yautja was a criminal anyway, and his "death before dishonor" instinct held him firmly in his place.
The alien obviously had anticipated more of a fight, and had not noticed the yautja's injuries. As waralien backed up and prepared for a counter attack, the yautja simply collapsed with pain and exhaustion.
Now slayer had the upper hand. As waralien retreated into the darkness, slayer continued across the walkway following him. Now the real hunt was on.
Waralien crawled into an air vent in the wall of the room and came down from the walkway via another small ladder.
Slayer could hear the vile alien slithering through the air vents in the wall.