Alien vs Predator: Beneath The Surface

[War Wager]

                              Beneath The Waves
                                                 Everyone Can Hear You Scream

Prolouge

In the year 2077, a Weyland Yutani scout team searching for mineral ore on the pacific ocean floor, come across an amazing find. A fossilised Alien Hive, perfectly preserved, Xenomorph's still surviving inside. This was Weyland Yutani's second chance to get the deadly alien species they had been willing to lie and murder to get there hands on. They build a multi-million dollar, high-tech research centre around the Hive and name the complex 'Aquarius'. The one of a kind facility also focuses on other subjects ranging from disease cures to security systems. Ultimatley to help mankind but also make them even richer. The Xenomorphs found alive and well in the Hive, are contained in the lower levels of the complex as revalutionary cloning work is done of them. Above the surface a lush tropical jungle thrives full of glorious wildlife and amazing flora. The year is now 2079, and an epic war is about to be waged...

Part One

Chapter 1.0: The Two Demons

Two scientists stroll down a rusty long corridor chatting amonst themselves. Their long white coats don't seem to move as the robotically make their way down. The corridors were clearly once pure white, but as time went by, rust began to cover the ceiling and tiles. Lights flicker and pipes hiss as the men enter a large room, it's tiles even more rusted. In the centre is a massive glass-like cage surrounded by strange equipment and gadgets. A slavering Alien peers out of the glass, focusing on the two steril men. They grin at the creature and sit down at computers, slamming away on their keyboards like falling rain. On the screens are two more sleeping Aliens, hunched over like the eggs they spawned from. These three beasts, the only survivors from the fossilised Hive, had survived in the glass chamber, with no food or nutrients, for over two years. The creatures spend most of the day sleeping and only occasionally peering out at the working scientists. They weren't aggresive at all. Much to the aggrevation of Weyland Yutani as this was not the beast they had planned on getting. They were strange. A cache of six eggs had also been found in the Hive, covered in a disgusting green material which almost seemed to be protecting them. The material had remained on the eggs for also two years and even though many had come in to contact with them, they never opened. The eggs are kept in a different part of the lower levels, where work to get them to open had being going on since the day they were found. They were strange also.

A frequent visitor to the lower levels in Micheal Bishop, head of Weyland Yutani and pioneer of the Bishop android. Every so often he would watch the scientists working on the eggs with a sinister impatience. He, like the other leaders before him, is fasinated and amazed with the Xenomorph being. It is his job to carry on the need for this weapon until the day he dies. He is obsessed. His successful robots thrive in the complex, fixing, mending and basically running the whole reaserch centre. Each droid has the same personality, all friendly, calm, yet they all have a strange sinister feeling about them, much like their creator.

Scientists line up against a wall in another dank corridor as a figure approches from a blinding light. They nood at the man as he glides by them. He is surrounded by many Marines guns at the ready, always on gaurd. The group enter an enormous room, bursting with computer clicking and bleeps. A huge screen covers a wall and many people stand in front waiting. The man approuches, making a bee-line for the screen. "Did he succeed?" asks a scientist. "He got them there, but he brought nothing out. He's most likely dead." "I'm sorry Sir, I..." "We've no time for your sympathy, we've made far to little progress." The scientist lowers his head and Micheal continues for the screen. "Turn it on!" he shouts, and the screen comes alive with screetching and gun shots. The screen fuzes as a face appears. "Where's Apone?! Wheres Apone?!". Another face appears. "The sarge is gone! Let's get the f*ck outta here!" The watching man's eyes narrow. More gun shots are fired and screetching is heard. The man walks in front of the screen and addresses the scientists as it continues to play. "Even those Marines couldn't handle them, we must aquire more." He turns his focus again to the screen as the video fills with fire. A set of jaws launges at the camera and the feed dies. "Lt. Ripley has escaped the planetoid and is now on another known as Fiorna 161, with an egg-laying embryo. This is our last chance to get this thing. I will not let any of you cause me fail. We will use any means nessesary to obtain her and bring her back... alive." He focuses on a Marine. "Or otherwise..." The Marine nods. "Yes, Sir."

Chapter 2.0: Aquarius Doomed

Aquaruis. The marvel of the ocean they call it. Two years under construction had produced a one of a kind reaserch centre, nearly 1034 feet below the surface. It's massive domed centre spreads out into smaller tunnels and passage ways, making it look like a metallic opctopus on the ocean floor. An impresive spanish-gallion in front of the structure, ozzing with eeriness. Many strange new creatures glide effortlessly through the waves, odd gilled whales and multiple finned fish. The suns raze's shine beautifuuly through the water creating a relaxing and calm atmosphere. Inside the lower levles of the complex however, it is a different story. Rusted walls and loud pipes line it's corridors, water drips from it's ceilings and dogs feast on garbage, lazyley dumped outside of the labs. The place stinks of plastic and salt, making the lower levels of the perfect complex not the nicest place to be. In many of the labs, huge underwater fish and other creatures swim in tight glass tanks, weak and helpless. For animals the place it hell, torture, a raping of natures will. Needles are jabbed into the creatures daily, as their blood is sucked out of them, hoping to be cure for some sort of infection. The majestic and beautiful complex hides a dark and sinister side. Only seen by those who are en-slaved to work there.

The centre's base, know as Command, notices a distrubance in the jungle above. An object is seen falling from the sky by satalite. "What the hell?" says a man helming a super-computer. "Sir, we've got a disturbance above ground..." A tall man in a military outfit glares at the screen in front. "Looks like some sort of asteroid Sir." "Or something else" mumbles the General. "Send a squad up to check it out" "Yes Sir" Almost in an instant, a message is received. "Command, we're at the surface and are about to move out." "Very good" the General mutters "procede north and check in if you find anything." "Will do" replies a sharp voice. "Sir it, it looks like some sort of small ship." "Don't be ridiculous, you don't get ships that small. It's probably a satillite piece from space."

Back in the Alien lab, something sinister is a foot. As three scientists, click away at their loved ones, the creatures seem to form a tight circle and start screetching. "What the hell are the doing?!" a woman asks as the other two scientists ruch over to the tank. The creatures continue to wail, as if they are in tremendous pain. The scientists clutch their ears as the sceetches get louder and louder. "Jesus... freeze 'em!" one of the men shouts and the woman dashes over to a large button at a computer. Slamming it, the tank fills with cold steam and the screetching stops. All is eeirely silent. "Damn bugs, would do they expect us t..." Suddenly a glump of acid hits the thick glass. The scientists jump back in fright as another hits the other side of the tank. "Sh*t they're breaking out!" Another glump hits the glass, then another and another. "God..." Glass smashes and more hssing is heard though this time it is not the acid. "They're out! They're f*cking out! Run!" The humans run for the door as the slavering beasts step out of there cage. One lauches itself at a man, ripping his neck open with it's deadly teeth. "Rick! N..." The other man coughs as a tail is plunged through his chest spraying red all over the floor. The woman runs for a computer, screaming. She grabs a speaker. "Security, the beasts are ou..." She screams and her brains splash off the computer screen.

Back in Command, they receive the short message. Everyone looks at each other in fear. There is an unholy silence. "Check the incubator!" yells the General. The computer operator swiflty clicks at the machine and brings up a thermal picture of the Alien tank. "They're still there Sir..." The General moans with frustartion as he looks at three figures curled up in the tank. He grabs a speaker. "Look you worthless pieces of sh*t, don't bother pulling off cheap pranks, you have no idea what panic you just caused us!" Back in the Alien lab, the three serpents hiss at each other as if in some strange communication. They slither up a wall towards a air-vent and ripping it open, disappear inside. "Uh, Sir these heat signatures are failing..." "What?!" roars the General. "Look Sir, there." "Bring up that image closer..." the General asks. As the image enlargens, they see that the signatures are not sleeping beasts but mauled humans. "Oh my God..." "Command" says a voice. "Yes, Sergeant?" "Uh, this is a bust there's nothing here." The Generals hands begin to shake and his vioce sharpens. "We have a small problem so please hurry back." "We're on our way." There is another silence in the room, but this time it is prolonged. The computer operator grasps a cross hanging around his neck.

Chapter 3.0: Making Friends

The three terrors continue to navigate the vent network, pulled sinister instict. Their domed heads slide off the rusty vents and their huge tails scratch at the sides. They are completely silent. Each claw-fall is so quiet. Suddeny the creatures stop as they here foot-falls from under them. An Alien peers through a gap in the vent and focuses towards the noise. Two scientists are running for thier lives screaming histeracally. "Where are they?!" "I don't know, just keep moving!" A voice blares from a speaker on one's coat. "We've captured another creature but we don't know what it is, come quickly!" The scientists look at each other. "We've got a situation down here!" "I know, just stay calm. Get up to Level A and you'll be save, we'll contain the Xenomorphs in the lower levels. They won't get up..." The two scientists bolt into an elevator and slam in Level A. "We're on our way. What does it look like?" There is a short pause. "Horrible..." As the elevator closes, the Aliens seize the chance and continue through the air vents. Minutes later, the Aliens here more footfalls and shouting. "God... we're doomed!" they hear. "We're gonna die!" Suddenly a voice on a tanoy system bursts to life. "Attention, all personnel please evacuate. Attention this is an emergency situation." The scientists tremble and run in any direction. The Aliens begin to speed up and eventually come to a halt. The move their heads like thinking birds as they look down through the vent. They are above a large, steel room. It is empty, apart from six oval shaped pods which sit in the centre. The beasts rip their way through the vent and land beside their 'friend makers'. Without missing a beat, they grab hold of the eggs and begin to drag them out of the room and into the dark corridors outside.

A woman is running, talking quickly to herself as runs into the blackness. "God.. please... ple... no... not... now... no" She falls over herself and smacks of the ground panting heavily. As she raises her head, she glares into a lab room, it's lights flickering. Pipes hiss and dead computers hum. She freezes as she see's an oval shaped object sitting in the centre. "My... God" she whispers to herself as she begins to sneak past the room. There is a screetch from the darkness before her and a slimely, spider-like creature slams against her face. The trio of Aliens watching from above, jump down from a gash in the vents. One grabs hold of the womans legs and starts to drag her away. The other two continue to carry more eggs into the other labs ahead. They are full of weird creatures swimming senselessly in small tanks. The Aliens almost grin and they yank the eggs towards the occupied tanks. Hours pass and the lower levels fill with unholy screams and moans, a horror which none should hear. Lights begin to die out as the tanoy continues to blare. "Attention, all personnel please evacuate. Attention. this is an emergency situation." From the dense steam from boiling pipes, a hoard of nine Aliens appear, screetching amonst themselves. The first trio lead the way as even more grotesque beasts follow. Some are huge, over 9 feet tall, with fin-like organs sticking out from there bodies and spikes lining their slimey heads. Some are much smaller, but even more hideous. They dart across the ground like cheetahs and bellow through the hallways like bears. It is a horrible sight, one of fear, terror... and death. 

Chapter 4.0: Aquarius - The Ghost Ship

The lower levels are completely empty. Every inhabitnat lies dead on it's floors and there is an unsettling silence, minus the alarm that still blares. Two Marines are sent down to the lower levels to try and secure the beasts and if possible exterminate them. They walk with their back against seperate walls as the descent deeper into the dark corridors. One of them holds a motion tracker, which as of now, shows no signs of    movement. "Anything" "Nothing, just keep moving." they whisper to each other. Even more lights begin to die out as the tanoy announcment continues. There is a scutteling sound from the vents above and the men aim their guns. "Tracker isn't picking anything up, let's keep going." They continue down the corridor and all the lights die. "Sh*t, can't see a thing, turn on your torch." The Marines flick a switch on the rifle's and continue down. Dripplets of water pour down from the rotting ceiling hitting off the Marines helmets. There is a bleeping from the motion tracker and a blue dot appears. "One's coming, 12 o'clock!" They aim ahead and kneel on one leg. "Come on motherf*cker, come and get it..." The bleeping suddenly stops. Whatever is picked up is not five feet in front of them. There is a silence until it is shattered by a pipe clanking. One of the Marines moves his hand in the direction of the sound and the torch is shone. There is a deafning screetch as the torch picks up an enormous Alien holding on to a wall. The Marines fire at the creature as it disappears into a room. "The Marines follow it into the complex's power core. The core lies in the centre rotaiting and a blue light ominates from it. The Marines aim their guns wildly at every sudden sound as the continue into the room. "We've got you now..." one whispers. In an instant the motion tracker comes alive and fills with signals. "Oh f*ck, their behin..." An inner jaw is shuvved through a Marines head and the other backs off. "Motherf*cker!" The reamining Marine spots an Alien in front of him. He pulls the trigger and lauches a grenade at the beast as it leaps at him. The grenade smashes into the core and it is engulfed with flames. "Oh... ff" The core explodes and sends a shock wave through the whole complex. A deafning alarm blazes. "Attention structure support if failing, Aquairuis will become uninhabitable in one hour. Please evacuate."The nine Aliens hiding in the vents above spilt, and go in different directions. They know what is going to happen, and nothing and no-one is going to stop them getting out. No-one...

[Major Alan Schaefer]

Part Two
The Guest

   The sun shined over a calm lake on a distant planet, there were many creatures like on Earth present and it sounded very similar to a lake there. All was calm, until the water started to part near the edge. A giant container rose from the depths and after the water stopped pouring from it a large door started to open. Four men in armor walked from it and looked out,   "It's always so damn bright up here." One said the one at the head of the group responded angrily,   "Quit the gripping Garry."
He then said,   "Check your equipment." The Marines checked their guns and their headsets,   "Alright, they want us to check out some disturbance to the North make sure its nothing that'll cause trouble." He pressed his headset and spoke into it,   "Command, we're at the surface and are about to move out."      "Very good, precede north and check in if you find anything."      
"Will do." He then started sprinting towards the forest, once reaching the edge they slowed down and jumped in,   "Garry take point, Peter cover the rear." The men fell in and followed orders they wanted out of there before they even entered. They looked around not paying attention to the beautiful jungle. They had checked it a million times usually just a large animal falling on the monitor,   "Sergeant Lee!" Garry yelled out as he looked over a hill,   "Sergeant....I don't know what to make of it." Lee looked over with him and sighed,   "My god...looks like something shot through here."      "Asteroid?"      "There's nothing left..." Lee said looking around,   
"Spread out." The men walked around the area finding little. Lee slid down into the pit and looked around,   "Nothing here..." he climbed back out; Peter grabbed him and helped him up. The two men looked around and finally gave up,    "Command?"
"Yes Sergeant?"      "Uh, this is a bust there's nothing here."      "We have a small problem so please hurry back."      "We're on our way." A loud noise suddenly broke the silence that followed the radio shutting off Lee and Peter looked around frantically and Lee went on the radio,   "Garry, Teal?"      "This is Garry...you guys hear that?"      "Yea...is Teal with you?"      "No."
"Get back to the crater." After several minutes there was no sign of Garry or Teal. The sergeant was worried and yelled over the radio,   "Garry!" he looked around and looked to Peter,   "Let's get going, its late we'll never find them alone." The two men ran towards the base through the forest and didn't look back until...

Chapter 2
Prey

A lone ship flew down over the planet; it then became invisible and flew over the forest. The ship malfunctioned causing it to crash straight into the forest. The pilot was thrown to the floor; he growled quietly and picked himself up. He looked around finding there was little damage. His mandibles trilled as he made sure he wasn't injured, a small river of green blood flowed down his arm he growled and opened up a case. He quickly used a paste and yelled loudly as is burned the wound. He gathered his weapons, and looked into his helmet. He attached it onto his face and trilled; the Humanoid looked around and left his ship. He walked down the ramp slowly and looked out; he listened to the jungle and observed the surroundings. He then heard footsteps he quickly activated his cloak and walked towards the noise slowly. He then heard a human yell out, "Sergeant Lee." He recorded it and ran to a tree. He climbed up and stood on a branch. He knelled over and repeated the phrase and looked down seeing a man walk up to the man who has said it. He observed them from above waiting for any indication they'd be worth a hunt. He watched them as they searched around his ship and almost aimed for the man who stood right next to it. As he left the crater so did the hunter he had decided he couldn't let them know of his presence. He jumped tree to tree and looked to another man walking around. He aimed his plasma caster at the man's head. The red triangle came onto his screen and it was followed by the loud plasma blast shooting from his shoulder. He jumped down and observed the body. The man wasn't even in good physical condition; he growled in disappointment and ran back towards the others. He saw another man speaking to himself and he jumped down and stabbed him in the back. He ran back to his ship finding the others gone. He growled and climbed up a tree; he looked further down the path and saw the two men running. He couldn't let them escape and even hint his presence to anyone else. He jumped quickly tree to tree; he soon caught up with them and looked down at them. He jumped in front of them and flashed his eyes, they both stopped and he walked forward. Lee stood his ground but Peter started backing away. The Hunter walked towards his foes and extended his wrist blades. The Sergeant opened fired then ran and kept shooting. Peter ran in a different direction and a lot slower than Lee, the Hunter shot a blast off at him and after confirming it hit him ran after Lee. Lee is very good shape so the Hunter had to run at his full speed. Lee jumped over a small gap in the forest and shot back at his attacker. The hunter sped up and listened to his own heartbeat as it grew faster. Lee was panting loudly and the hunter was catching up. Lee saw the pod and clicked his headset,   "Command I need reinforcements now!!!"      "Sergeant repeat that?"      "I have at least one hostile unit it has a..." he didn't continue hearing static on the other end,   "He was in the clearing again and ran towards the pod. He ran in and clicked on the door fast for it to submerge. It started to before the doors closed and water filled in it was ankle high before something jumped in causing the water to splash around it. Its cloak failed and Lee looked at the creature. It growled loudly at him and looked at him. It grabbed his neck and pushed him against the wall. His feet dangled as it looked at him. The Humanoid tilted his head and had the recording play,   "Sergeant Lee." The sergeant had a surprised look on his face and then the door behind him opened. The Predator looked out after Lee dropped seeing ten marines he roared loudly before a freezing substance filled the room. The Predator fell over as the Sergeant backed up,   "He said my name...."   

Chapter 3
Useless

"We have a problem sergeant get to command ASAP." The Sergeant nodded and got and headed towards command. He heard the alarms going off and kept running. He ran into command and looked to the commander,   "what's the situation?"      "We lost contact with the lower levels we think they've been compromised..."      "Compromised?" The General nodded,   "Power is out down there and we are blind."      "What do you want me to do?"       "Take a team down there and neutralize them." He loaded his weapon and looked to the man,   "Anything else?"      "Try and to save as many of them as you can."      "Yes sir..." Lee said almost angrily. He went to the armory and grabbed the freezing weapons. He grabbed a grenade and looked around as his unit fitted themselves up with the weapons,   "Ready?" the men nodded and they went into an elevator,      "Sergeant, this is the only way in or out now, do not let them spread into the higher levels."      "Roger." The doors opened into a dark room several alarms were going off loudly. He walked forward slowly looking side to side for the aliens. He heard noises of some of the other animals in the facility and pressed forward. He looked to the room where the aliens were and saw the corpses,   "We got dead civilians..."      "Keep looking." He looked around further the alarms were growing deafening. He turned to look down another corridor and heard a small hiss; the team slowly walked forward and armed their weapons,   "Careful..." Lee said slowly walking forward. They walked into another room and one man was below a vent. An alien quickly descended upon him from the vent and grabbed him yanking him up into it. The men shot out the freezing weapons only hitting the man's boots. They all backed away from the vent looking around,   "Back into the hall..." Lee said calmly the men filled out backing away from the room,   "It's FUBAR!" one yelled and Lee looked to him mouthing shut up. He looked forward signaling the men to back up. They started too slowly and as the rounded the corner they only had to back up into the elevator. The Aliens came around the corner after them. they shot out trying to freeze them and it had little effect they turned around and ran Lee dropped his grenade one slow marine died due to the shrapnel one alien was also killed. The elevator door closed as an alien walked through the smoke. The men looked to each other as the elevator slow went up playing some calm elevator music. A calm voice came over saying, "Fire on sublevel..."

Chapter 4
Wakey wakey....Wristblades and Bakey

   The Hunter slowly woke up feeling he was restrained he quickly looked around seeing the men in the room he closed his eyes not wanting to let them know he was awake. The doctor looked over him and two marines stood at the door, the hunter knew the risks and quickly looked to his arm. He still had wristblades on his arm. He smirked, extended them, and sliced the doctor's throat. He stood up, his vitals exploded into a loud noise. He roared at the marines running in, the first one was impaled in the head and the second's neck snapped. The predator growled looking around the infirmary. There were some injured men in the next room. He noticed his weapons were gone and so was his mask, he found it on a table he slowly put it back on and looked to the hallway. As he walked out he could hear alarms in the distance. He looked hall to hall and tried to activate his cloak but it was offline. He growled and trilled and looked down the hall seeing a group of marine running his way. He looked up seeing a vent and removed its cover and jumped into it. He crawled quickly away and was knelled over because of his height. He crawled a little further before jumping down into a hallway. He quickly went into the shadows as another group went by. He turned looking at them leave and walked forward. He had no idea where he was but he kept calm. He trilled and tried the cloak again with no success. He slowly walked down the hall and looked into another room, he found no sign of life and left. He noticed the little activity in the base and was cautious. He checked every corner and every intersection no one was around. He growled quietly and checked another room; he found his knife and spear. Some blood was on one of the spears. He trilled humored thinking someone probably impaled themselves with it. He gathered his gear and walked out into the hall.

Chapter 5
Elevator

Lee ran back to the armory with all the marines on the base with him,   "We have a problem." A man said running into the room, Lee opened his com and angrily asked,   "What is it now?"      "Our Guest escaped..."       "Roger." He closed the channel and looked to the men,   "Groups one and two will guard the only elevator to these levels. Group three will go with me to hunt down the alien, and Group four will patrol the perimeter of the safe zone." The men nodded and left for their missions. Lee drank from a bottle of water and strapped on his armor, he led his group down to the level the hunter was on. It was a couple levels above the aliens and was generally isolated. The hunter looked down at the groups from a vent he backed up some as they passed and then returned. He checked the weapons he'd found, his plasma caster had been damaged he'd have to use it handheld. He trilled as he looked over his spear, it was damaged and could barely open. Finally he checked his nuclear device, he turned it on then off to check if it was functioning. He tried his cloak once more but had no success; he growled and jumped back down. He knew he had a couple more weapons around and he needed to find them. He looked around and walked into a couple more rooms he then found an elevator. The door opened and he looked at the buttons he pressed one and then jumped to the ceiling and got on top of the elevator. When it opened a couple marines filed in. he aimed the caster at one's head and his head exploded into a bloody mass. The second marine was stabbed in the neck by his gauntlet. The third marine ran out as the Guest jumped down. The doors beeped as the Predator growled loudly and the doors closed. The marine unloaded into the elevator door, he could see the light from the elevator from the wholes. They were slowly cover up and darkened from the ground up. The door opened and a loud roar was heard followed by gunfire and a scream. Lee heard it over his radio and yelled to his men,   "The damn thing is on another level!" they ran back to the elevator and pressed the button it slowly descended and opened revealing the dead men. Lee just stood there looking at the bloody remains. One man gagged and another threw up. Lee slowly walked forward and pointed his gun up towards the ceiling. He noticed the hole and checked around,      "It's clear." The rest slowly walked in trying not to step onto the corpses of their fellow marines. One puked again as they entered. Lee watched the hole making sure nothing appeared near there. The quiet soothing elevator music played as they neared their level. The radio crackled over,        "Lee we have some reports of gunfire."      "Command level is compromised,   Guest is present."      "Make sure it doesn't reach D wing."
"Why?"      "Trust me."      "Aye, aye." The radio crackled off and the doors open with a small ding. Lee's team exited and walked down the corridors. There were some bloody footsteps defiantly not human. Lee followed them and they suddenly disappeared. Lee looked around; it was a three-way intersection of hallways. He looked around then looked up to find the vent without a cover, his group gathered around. He went onto the radio,   "Command he's using the vents repeat the Guest is in the vents."
"Roger, proceed with caution." Lee nodded and looked to his men,   "Let's get to group One." The team moved on a private looked back up into the vent staying behind for a moment. The Predator growled quietly and grabbed the marine with one arm. He started choking the man and dragging him up into the vent. The man's machine gun went off alerting Lee's team. They all turned around in time to see him pulled into the vent.

Chapter 6
Revenge

The Predator snapped the man's neck and dropped the corpse, the marines opened fired into the vent. The Guest quickly scooted away; he had been hit several times. He looked into his medical kit and removed the bullets. He quickly took a needle and stabbed it in. he injected the chemical and screamed in pain. The marines shot up again but he ignored them and followed the vent for a while. He stopped at and looked down into a hall way. He waited and made sure no one was around and dropped down. He looked towards a door with a keypad; he tired to open it with no luck. He then punched it in and it opened. He peered in trilling quietly, he took several steps forward then stopped. In the room there were several corpses on tables, each dissected and mutilated. The predator recognized them as his own kind; he looked to a table and found a spear gun. He grabbed it and looked around the room; he screamed out angrily and took his plasma caster out in one hand and the spear gun in another. He walked out consumed by rage of his fallen comrades. He walked towards a door that automatically opened; as it did three scientists peered out at the Predator. He shot the plasma caster burning a large whole into the man's chest. The second flew into a wall as he shot the speargun, the third ran at him but the predator used the spear to stop his advance. A door behind him opened and he pointed the plasma caster at it. The whip crack noise exploded killing the man in the doorway as the Guest recovered the spear from the wall. He didn't have many so he wanted to conserve it. He then walked down the hallway to the next set of rooms. The men tried desperately to fight but the Predator slaughtered them. The first group of Marines to arrive was team Four. The Predator hid in a corner and looked to his cloak, it was now working he growled and turned it on. The marines stood in a four way intersection pointing their guns in all directions. The predator jumped into a vent and moved to the one above them he cloaked himself and shot killing one marine, he then jumped down stabbing one man into both sides of his spear. His wristblades cut one mans throat and he ducked down as a marine turned around opening fire at the Guest. He shot one of his own men and then had his chest crushed by the Predator stabbing him and punching him there. The Predator stood back up to his full height and roared. He observed the bloody mess he'd made and trilled watched the heat slowly leave the bodies of his prey. He then slowly walked away; as his systematical killing spree continued further down the hall he came upon finding team one. They stayed around the elevator hearing a roar from the Predator. A private got nervous and shot towards the sound. The other marines started shooting as well. This gave the Predator a chance to quickly jump in and take care of them. He ran past on marine slitting his throat. The next he aimed the plasma caster with one hand to the man's head. His head exploded covering the area in his remains. The rest of the unit fell back and went into the elevator. It only went between to levels, they were heading into the aliens level and didn't even know. The Guest looked down the hall and saw a group of marines he trilled and jumped into a vent.

[Major Alan Schaefer]

Chapter 7
Lee's stand

The Marines went in formation down the hall; one of them noticed the broken keypad,
"Sergeant..." Lee walked into the room and saw the corpses of the Predators; he got on the radio,   "Command we have about five dead Guests..."      "You're in D block?" After looking outside seeing the letter,   "Yes sir."      "We've had reports of loud noises and screams, the cameras confirm he went down that hall after that nothing."      "We're going after him command." Command didn't respond and Lee didn't care he walked out and the man who was guarding the outside was gone,   
"Han!" he looked down the hall and found nothing, he slowly advanced his men covering his rear. He looked around the corner finding Han hanging from the ceiling by his legs. Lee's eyes widened and he looked around aiming his rifle in every direction. He looked up seeing an open vent the Predator's caster pointed at them. He was blinded and deafened by a loud whip crack, when his senses returned he saw two of his men on the ground dead. He shot out towards the Guest who quickly jumped and rolled standing back up to run down the hall. Lee ran to it and opened fired, he quickly reloaded and looked to the two men standing up,   "What the hell is that thing?"      "I don't know!" Lee said looking down the hall the others checked their weapons and the same man spoke again,   "we need more men."      "There are none! Red, their all dead!" the other man said. Red looked to Lee,   "What we do?" Lee took a death breath and thought a second,   "We got to get back to command."      "What about Team four?"      "We'll go by them." they started sprinting down the hall until they came to the first set of rooms. Red gagged and looked around,   "what happened here?"      "The Guest must be upset." Lee said quietly as he walked down the hall they went into several other rooms with no survives they were about to leave one when the heard whispering,      "They never acted like that before...he came for us...he came for us...never...like...that." Lee walked back into the room and found a man in a corner rambling on like that,   "Never did what?"      "Never...like that..." Lee looked in the man's eyes he was out of it probably didn't even know he was there he was in shock. A loud growl was heard and Red yelled,   "Leave him Lee!" Lee got up and ran to the door. They ran towards the elevator and found the corpses. Red was the first to notice a couple marines were missing,      "Where's the rest of the team?"
"The elevator..."      "That leads to those creatures..."      "We can't help them now." An alarm went off and a computer voice came over the intercom,   
"Hull breach...hull breach." Lee cursed and looked to Red,   "Red go to command, and I'll take this f**ker out." Lee checked his rifle and ran down the hall the other man followed Red. Lee walked towards a big room with glass looking out to the ocean. He didn't admire the beautiful view he just slowly walked. He heard a trill and a growl and yelled out,   "Were all alone now." The Predator then played the recording,   "Sergeant Lee." Lee got his weapon ready and looked around for the Guest. He heard a loud roar as the spear flew by his head cutting his shoulder. He screamed in pain and shot in the direction it came from. The Predator jumped down dodging the bullets, he ran and grabbed Lee's gun as he reloaded and smashed it on the ground. Lee saw the bullet wounds he only hit him three times. The Guest was much taller than he was and he circled him. The wristblades extended and he walked towards Lee, he surprised the Guest by drawing his knife and blocking the attack. His knife was extremely well made so it could stand up to the hunter's weapon. The Guest punched him and he flew back hitting the wall. He grunted and rolled out of the way as the Predator stabbed down at him. Lee stood up and got the knife in a fighting position. The Guest did the nearest thing to a chuckle as a Predator could and took his mask off and put it to the side. Lee was hard to make out just an outline. He held his knife horizontally and was ready to slice the Guest at any moment. The Guest stood in front of him concentrating on his prey; Lee breathed deeply and kept his distance. The Guest grabbed his arm holding the knife and twisted it. Lee screamed. He was lifted off the ground and punched in the stomach all the air was taken away from his lungs. He kicked the Guest once and punched him with his other arm. The Predator threw him and let him scrap along the floor roaring loudly. Lee grabbed a pistol and pointed at the Predator who said in a deep scratching voice,   "Sergeant Lee."   "f**k you, you f**king..." Before Lee could finish the sentence the glass leading outside broke open having water pour in. the Guest grabbed his mask and jumped back up to his higher level. Lee made a run for the door and ran out of the room. The Predator peered down into the room watching three aliens rise up of the water slowly hissing.

Part Three
Chapter 1.1: Ugly Motherf*ckers

In writing

[War Wager]

Some drawings from the story:

War Beneath The Waves



The Guest

[Major Alan Schaefer]

Part Three
Ugly Motherf**kers

Lee crawled to his feet slowly feeling the water on his legs, he the slowly started to hear the roar of the water pouring in. he blinked and tried to gain his bearings. He looked back and heard the hissing of the approaching aliens. He gained his balance and stumbled towards the door. He leg was hurt causing him to limp; he fell onto the door pressing the open button repeatedly until it open. He fell into the next room and looked up seeing one of the aliens running towards him. He kicked the door close button on the other side.  The water had just reached the door as it closed and sealed. Lee could hear the aliens beating against it followed by the water hitting it. He sighed and slowly got to his feet, he breathed deeply and went towards the medical bay. As he approached he noticed the alarms blaring for the first time,   "Warning Hull breach, Warning Hull breach, station is sinking out of position." Lee laughed and entered the medical bay,   "that's beautiful, just perfect." He looked in the room only finding corpses from the Guest's mad rampage. He quickly picked up a dead marines rifle and checked the ammo. He reloaded the rifle then patched himself up crudely and quickly. He stabbed a needle into his arm to kill the pain and then broke the needle in him as a giant explosion shook the facility. The computer voice came over again along with the alarms,   "Attention structure support if failing, Aquarius will become uninhabitable in one hour. Please evacuate." Lee screamed in pain and anger and jumped up, he hit his ear to get the radio on,   "Command you copy?"      "We copy Lee where are you?"      "I'm near D-Block I'm heading to the escape shuttles."      "Negative, come back to command. We still have an hour to try and stay and save the facility."      "The Xenomorphs are on my level sir."      "And the Guest?"      "I assume he is as well or the level above."      "This doesn't change my orders command out."   Lee cursed to himself and looked around, he heard a door burst and water start pouring in. He ran towards the elevator and pressed the button, the doors closed but the elevator didn't move. Lee pressed the button several times then strapped the rifle onto his back and climbed up the elevator. He stood on the top of it and looked up; he climbed up the ladder checking down several times. He then heard the door crash open, he quickly stared down as an alien ran into the elevator and came out the hole. He drew his gun and looked onto his arm. Three red lights were on it, he looked towards the source and the Guest was about a floor above him. Before he could get a shot off he shot, Lee dodged it grabbing onto a wire. He was death from the whip crack of the weapon. He then saw the alien jump past him onto the Guest. The Predator punched the alien before his wrist blades came out, but before he could impale the alien it dragged them off the pole he was standing on. They fell down the shaft both of them trying to grasp onto something. The guest grabbed hold of a wire and tried to stab the alien dangling onto his foot. He roared at it returning its loud hiss, its tongue shot out into his leg making him roar in pain. He let go of the wire and fell down onto the elevator. Lee had watched only for a moment then swung back and forth on the wire until he could reach the ladder. He quickly climbed up and reached the command level. The two beasts below fought on. The Guest struggled to stand as the alien prepared to leap on its prey, it hissed loudly then jumped into the spear the Guest shot at it. It screamed out in pain and its blood ran down burning the elevator. The Guest stood watching the alien struggle, he stabbed into its head several times to kill it. Its body went limp then the elevator creaked. The guest screamed out as the elevator started to fall the acid burning all that held it in place. It had not reached the last floor when it stopped water splashing up all the sides. The predator growled loudly and opened its medical kit. It fixed up the wound on its leg quickly and then started crawling up the side of the shaft.

Chapter 2
Following Orders

   Lee limped towards command he heard a couple of screams followed by much gunfire. He sped up towards the command center but fell due to his leg. He grunted and pushed himself up, he then heard silence. He opened the door and saw what was left, there were a couple dead bodies, some holes in the floor, but over half the command staff was gone. He grabbed weapons off the floor and looked to the computers; he heard the computer voice ask,   "Access code please." It repeated that until Lee entered a code it then replied,   "Military override by Sergeant Lee." The computer screen came to life, he quickly typed in some orders and the computer came over acknowledging the command,
"Opening all vents and drainers. Emptying water on levels above science level, water near depleted. Opening all elevator doors for emergency draining, raising elevators for emergency draining." Lee kept issuing orders as the Guest slowly climbed up, the shaft filled up with light and sound as the elevator shot up towards him. He jumped from the wall right before it went by landing on its surface. It shot up to the top level almost smashing him. The Guest quickly jumped on his stomach to avoid this. He then went in-between the crack the alien made with its blood and opened the door. He looked down hearing the loud water rushing down the shafts. He then saw several aliens coming up the shaft. He quickly climbed back up the elevator and cut everything holding it in place he grabbed on the side as it pummeled down towards them, only one alien got smashed by the heavy box, the others jumping into another floor or making it though the hole. Lee back at the computers heard another report,   "flooding reduced, elevator three is out of order, all other elevators are on top levels. Scanners down, power core failure eminent without shutdown and removal structure failure will be eminent. Station stabilizing, sinking has been reduced, station uninhabitable in fifty minutes." Lee threw the computer across the room and was about to leave as a computer screen came to life,
"Come in Aquarius," the rest was static but Lee knew who it was,      "Bishop!"
"Sergeant Lee...what's going on there I can barely see you." Michael was looking into the static screen Lee was barely visible from all the static,      "Xenomorphs escaped sir, Aquarius is compromised."      "Who's left?"      "I am."
   "Sergeant get yourself out of their we can't risk sending a team in, but we will wait for you on the surface, get to the surface. Bishop out." the screen shut off and Lee looked down. The structure shook again and Lee almost lost his balance. He quickly ran towards the shuttle bay to find them all destroyed. He slid down on the side of the wall and put his head in his hands. He heard footsteps and looked up seeing known other then Red. He was holding his arm and bleeding badly,      "Sergeant..."      "Red, what happened to the pods...to you?"      "The Commander, the Xenomorphs attacked the base, we couldn't hold them off and he ran. By the time I made it after getting cut by one of those things and bled on. He escaped and disabled the other pods."
   "Why he do that?" Lee almost yelled the Red chuckled,   "Pour bastard scared to death, company orders who knows." Lee then looked to Red with a smirk,   "can you carry anything?"

Chapter 3
Trap

   The Guest slowly walked into the command center, he looked around noticing all the corpses, and he turned his attention towards on of the acid holes. He crouched down and felt the sides. He quickly moved his hand back. Still hot, he looked up standing back up. He heard Lee and Red talking; he activated his cloak and walked towards them slowly. He listened for a minute then turned his quickly behind him after hearing a hiss. He walked forward slowly closer to the noise. He heard it again and recognized it as an Alien's hiss. He kept going towards it until he came to a three-way intersection, then three Aliens quickly jumped out blocking the exits. He almost smirked they set a trap; two were walking on all fours while one was bipedal. They slowly approached all hissing; the Guest formed a plan quickly. He extended his wrist blades and drew his weapons. He aimed the caster towards the bipedal, hoping to confuse them for a second he deactivated the cloak. He shot out with both his weapons; the bipedal was killed cut in half. The other ducked and was scrapped by the spear. It hissed out in pain and the other jumped onto the Guest. He kicked it off shooting with the plasma caster decapitating it. The other alien jumped onto a wall and then leaped onto the Guest, he dropped his caster surprised by the alien. He tried to keep the aliens head away as it attempted to headbite him. He roared and punched the head away; the alien was getting closer with each headbite. It tried to use its tail to stab at the Guest's head. The Predator dodged it by an inch and grabbed spear container from his leg, he grabbed one of the small spears and stabbed into the alien's head. It hissed in pain and the Guest threw it off, he roared standing up. The alien ripped knocked the spear out and retreated the Guest grabbed his weapons and rearmed the speargun. He then walked in the direction the alien ran off in, he started to run but his leg kept him from running at his full speed. He saw the alien jump into the elevator shaft he ran to the open door and looked down. He roared and dived into the dark cold depths. He swam down and entered the next open door. He walked slowly breathing little to conserve it. He looked around for any sign of the aliens he noticed darks shapes swimming around the halls. The whole facility then shook and the Predator almost lost his balance, he heard some computer voice speaking but couldn't understand it. His wristblades extended and he walked forward. A large dark shape blocked the light from down the hall. It was the biggest Alien he had seen, it had gill like ridges on its neck, arms and legs. Its head was bigger but more streamline, better for swimming. It opened its mouth and showed its two rows of teeth, the Guest drew his spear and slowly walked towards the alien. It jumped up and shot at him like a torpedo it pummeled him into a wall and the Guest was knocked into another room. He regained his footing and decided now was the time to leave. He retreated towards the shaft, and alien blocked his path, he fired the speargun and the spear traveled even faster in the water hitting the alien pinning him to a wall in the shaft. The Predator quickly swam to the surface of the water climbing up the wall. Several aliens including the shark hybrid jumped out and quickly crawled after him. He aimed the plasma caster at the shark and shot out all the aliens managed to dodge it, he climbed up more then fired again this time hitting the closest one. He climbed into a door and ran down the hall, the Runner alien with the scarred head was the first to reach the door. It quickly ran after the Guest jumping on his back from the ceiling. The Guest slammed his elbow into the alien's neck stunning it long enough to get it off him. He roared and stood up he stabbed into its head and shot the plasma caster into it. This time he knew it wouldn't come back, he looked down the hall to the charging aliens and jumped up into the airshafts. He quickly crawled in them and avoided the tails coming from the floor. He rolled over to the side as the shark alien stabbed its large tail into the tunnel. He quickly crawled away and went upwards towards another level.

Chapter 4
Spoils of War

   Lee carried the last box into the escape shuttle and smiled,   "That's all we need."
"Good, that's all I could carry..."      "Alright, the plan is we tilt the station so when it falls apart we can use the emergency thrusters and get far away enough from the explosion that it doesn't kill it but it does shoot us to the surface, or at least closer. The easy part will be tilting the place, once it's tilted I'll come back here and we'll shoot out."
   "I though this shuttles hull was breached?"      "It is, that's why we have these suits," he pointed over too the suits and smirked,    "this might just work." The computer voice came over,   "the chances of success are less than 30%" Lee sighed and looked to the computer's console,   "any suggestions?"      "Save the facility."
"Even computers think of themselves first." Red said Lee sighed,   "Any other suggestions?"      "Tilting commencing." The station creaked and alarms blared loudly. Lee jumped into the pod and held onto the hatch, Red fell to the floor and Lee then got hit on the head by a box and fell back down,   "Mother we weren't ready!" the computer didn't answer and all the lights went out. Red moaned in pain and then chuckled,   "You killed her..." Lee smiled small and looked up to the hatch,   "not to high I'll find a desk or something to help us up." Lee walked off and Red stayed in the corner of the room. Red passed out and woke up to an alarm blaring,   "Ten minutes until facility is uninhabitable." He noticed the red lights on and he was in water. He got himself up and then looked to the hatch. Lee was nowhere in site, he looked around and ran to the hall,   " Sergeant Lee!" he looked back to the hatch then back to the hall. He had no choice so he jumped into the shuttle and prepared it for launch. Twenty minutes earlier, Lee woke up, his neck was stiff and he felt wet. He looked around and didn't recognize the walls. He looked to himself finding himself cocooned, "what the..." he tried to move his arm put couldn't get it far. He felt his leg and sighed with relief. He grabbed his knife and started to cut away at the cocoon. Above him in a Vent the Guest looked down, he saw about ten cocoons under the water on the floor. The vent was still off the ground some so he wasn't in water trilled quietly. He then heard a loud growl and turned around as the Shark Alien jumped on him. The Vent fell from the wall and the two rolled out onto the watery floor. The Guest stood up on a marine's corpse's head crushing it. He growled loudly and the Predator turned to him, the recording played again,   "Sergeant Lee."      "f**ker..." he cut himself free falling to the ground. He grabbed at his assault rifle and fired out at the two aliens. They both retreated in different directions he quickly reloaded looking to the floor. He looked closer recognizing it as Red's friend. He lowered his head until an Alien's hiss made him raise it. He stood up and ran towards the door; he looked floor finding out his location. He was two floors below now across from the shuttles. He looked at his watch;   "fifteen minutes..." he ran towards the nearest elevator, it took him a while to find it due to the changed layout. He grabbed a grenade and threw it back towards the loud hissing and jumped into the shaft. After the explosion he jumped up and ran towards the top level. An alien descended from the wall in front of him blocking his path. Lee shot out unloading half of the clip. The alien burned into the next level and Lee ran to the next shaft. The Guest crawled from the hole the alien just made and ran after Lee. He wasn't the strongest prey, but he was the one that escaped. He heard his own heartbeat ever growing faster; he jumped into the corridors and ran after him. He was nearing his prey when suddenly an alien jumped out in front of him. It jumped on top of him and almost punctured his helmet with a headbite. The Guest got a lucky and impaled the alien in the head that only made it mad. It shrieked sliced at the helmet, it stabbed his side with its tail and headbite his shoulder. The Guest screamed out and head butted the alien it was only back for a second but this was long enough for the Predator to push him off. The Alien had become harder to see and the guest heard electrical sparks and clicking, he screamed in pain as his helmet exploded in sparks and fire. He threw it off and growled loudly, he tackled against the alien pushing it into a spike from the former ceiling. It shrieked out in pain and the Guest grabbed his plasma caster and finished the job. He then remembered Lee in time to have water rush towards him. Lee ran up the climbed up the stairs now on the side of the wall and entered the shuttle room,   "Red!" Red poked his head out and smiled,      "Lee, you made it."      "Yea, now let's get the hell out of here." Red nodded upside down and went into the shuttle. Lee limped towards it and heard this rushing water. He ran to the door and closed it quickly and sealing it.  He made his way towards the shuttle and was about to climb up when he heard a long banging on the seal. He pulled out his rifle and gripped it tightly pointing at the seal. After one loud band the seal blew off and out from the depths the blood stained Guest rose. It trilled to itself as it rose and spotted Lee,      "Sergeant Lee..." the Predator was injured and it was obvious Lee looked to Red a second who yelled to him,   "we gotta go now!"   the slowly approaching Predator growled Lee pointed his rifle at it then lowered it, he jumped up into the shuttle and sealed it. The Predator used his last bit of strength and grabbed onto the shuttle trying to rip it open,      "Red hit it!" the Shuttle shot out off a tube flooding the room below it, the Guest held on with all its might. They finally got away from the station then Lee hit the emergency thrusters. They pushed the Guest away and he swam freely still rising as the shuttle did, but they were going at a much faster rate. Then a large dark blur went by him as he swam upward towards the surface.

[Major Alan Schaefer]

Chapter 5
Surface Race

   Red yelled to Lee panicked,   "We got something big on the radar swimming way to fast, and we're starting to leak!" then something banged against the shuttle hitting it out of place and then it went to the other side banging into it,   "Who long until Aquarius blows?" Lee yelled before red could be heard a thunderous explosion swallowed all his words. The Guest screamed out bubbles pouring from his mouth as he was pushed upward extremely fast, then the explosion reached the shuttle and its attacker. They both sped up and Lee was screaming to Red,   "We're going way to fast it's going to rip the ship apart." Lee looked to the screen displaying the ship's hull and screamed to Red,   "we lost the wings and the rest is about to go!" a loud alarm started to blare and to Lee time stood still. He saw Red frantically trying to slow them down as he got his wetsuit on. Lee ripped off his own armor and grabbed the wetsuit. He looked up to see a dark blur approaching the window. He yelled out as it hit the glass busting it out and causing water to pour in. Lee quickly grabbed the breather and put it in. then the water hit him pushing him back to the end of the shuttle. He quickly gained the strength to escape. The shuttle was still being pushed up. He quickly tried to swim against to force pushing them down. He climbed up the wall and got to the ledge, Red had followed him and was almost up on the other side. The explosion had spread out more and so their ship had slowed down a lot. They could now swim faster, and they did. They swam up Lee freezing in hit old clothes. He swam up and looked back seeing the dark blur. He screamed out sending bubbles abroad. Red looked back but it was to late, the giant Alien grappled him and bit into his neck head biting him at the same time. Red screamed out sending red bubbles. Lee just kept swimming letting the alien do what it wanted with Red. The explosion caused the whole area to be filled with bubbles and Lee saw the surface and sighed he used his last strength pushing himself forward. He almost broke it when a giant hand grabbed his leg. He looked down seeing the giant alien hiss at him. He screamed out trying to pull away. Then the alien shrieked out and let go; Lee couldn't see through all the bubbles and just swam to the surface. He ripped off the breather and gasped for air. He laughed and swam to the side looking at the bubbling water. Then the Guest's head rose to the surface and he gasped for air. Lee's eyes grew big as the Predator screamed out getting pulled down. The Guest focused now on his enemy, his true nemesis; The Shark Hybrid. He was still bleeding from the other fight, on top of all the bubbles blocking his already bad vision. He yelled out as the alien came out of nowhere from the bubbles ramming against him. His wristblades drew one final time he roared at his foe and stabbed its arm; the alien shrieked and grabbed the Guest's arm almost ripping it off. He shrieked in pain and kicked the alien. He stabbed again at the alien impaling its neck. The alien headbit the Predator in the shoulder that hadn't been and used its large tail to stab at his head, it barely missed but gave the guest enough time to grab a spear and impale the Alien's neck. The Alien shrieked and its tongue shot out, the guest roared and stabbed its stomach. The alien's tail then grabbled the Predator wrapping around it cutting its skin. As it finished the wrap the tail's spike went into the Guest's chest. He roared out and grabbed the speargun that had one spear loaded he stabbed the gun into the Alien's chest and tried to swim to the surface. Lee watched the arm of the Guest rise. Wristblades gleaming in the sun and his hand in a fist they slowly sank and his fist unclenched. Lee watched them slowly sink back, sink back below the surface.