[IC] AvP: Sepulcrum [Angel Vicky & Otaku95]

[Jurassic Weeb]

The Spitter turned just in time to receive a three-round burst of bullets through its brain. The other Xenomorphs were falling back. The Sergeant slapped a fresh magazine into the weapon. "They were judging our strength, our weaknesses." He moved back inside, covering Varia. "That was ballsy, Crest. Stupid, but ballsy."

[Angel Vicky]

"Got the job done didnt it?" She gets up from the floor, looking around with her trusty gun at the ready. "Cant afford to be slow, they already know we're here and they can smell our every move."

[Jurassic Weeb]

Drake nodded. The corpsman began treating Jenkins' injury as the perimeter was reinforced. Motion trackers were set up outside to relay back to HQ. The blast doors of the window were closed, so it would be unlikely for a Xeno to come in that way. Currently several were working to block off the nonessential ventilation systems.

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Moonscar had seen enough. If she stayed for much longer, she could be killed. Unlike most of her sisters, she had self-preservation instincts normally reserved for Queens or lone Xenomorphs.

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Wyvern dodged the serpent, unleashing a blast from his plasma cannon. The shot was off, and it cut off only the bladed tip of the beast's tail. Angered, it charged again.

[Angel Vicky]

Varia heard the plasma canon echoing from down the long hallway. "Is someone missing? Is there someone else out there?" She asked aloud and looked around, seeing they were all accounted for. Except the ones who died.

[Jurassic Weeb]

Drake hadn't heard it. "All heads are accounted for," he said. However he heard another roar. "That sounds like a damn big bug." With the building secure he'd taken some of his armor off and set up a cot on the top floor, as had most of the squad. They had set up the automated turrets on the first floor, and shifts would take turns standing guard on the second floor.

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Wyvern leaped over the Crusher as it charged. With inhuman reflexes he hurled a shuriken. The blades sliced through the neck, completely beheading the creature. The body spasmed of its own accord, as if a demon had possessed the body. However it soon laid still.

[Angel Vicky]

Varia turns back from the barricaded door with a concerned expression. "Okay then..." However, she was still not convinced. She begins to check the consoles for any information that may assist. Such as the fastest way to the lab. Once she had gotten the research she came for, they needed to go to the core and set the reactor to a full nuclear detonation in order to eradicate the vermin. She tapped away at the computer. She overrode the command protocols to let her have full administrator privileges. This meant she could now instruct the AI to do anything. Depending how malfunctioned it was.

[Jurassic Weeb]

Moonscar returned to the nest, seeing her mother, the Queen. She was massive, even by the standards of Queen Xenomorphs, she was large, standing nearly three stories tall. Her exoskeleton was a pale white, and more heavily armored than other Queens. Unfortunately for the humans, she was also more intelligent, too, and could lay far more eggs.

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Wyvern broke the Crusher's finger off, taking off his Biomask as well. He etched a symbol onto his forehead with the acid, then his helmet. He was Blooded now. His brothers may be dead by now, or Blooded like him. Either way, the serpents had to be eradicated.

[Angel Vicky]

"So, what the plan now Sarge?" Varia asked as she leaned her pert curvy rear against the computer desk with arms folded. She was ballsy indeed but she had to be in this environment. None of that girly femininity gentle and kind personality of hers was going to help any of them. Not until she needed to administer first aid or comfort someone when they were dying.

[Jurassic Weeb]

"We'll contact the In Autumn Clad," Drake said. "It's still in orbit, so we'll get supplies when we need them." He moved to the computer. "USS In Autumn Clad, this is Sergeant Drake."

"Go ahead, Sergeant."

"We've secured the armory as field command. We have a Private in need of medevac. Can he be brought up when the next squad arrives?"

"We'll have a bed opened up for him when he comes homes."

"WILCO. Reports will be sent every hour until the next squad arrives. Drake out."

[Angel Vicky]

And now the wait. Some of the turret guns begin to fire but then soon stop again as the aliens got more intelligent about going anywhere near them.

"Where do you suppose these things even came from on this planet?" The other female soldier asked aloud.

Varia sighed. "Well...I can theorise that, since they have popped up in very different locations too far apart that anything could travel to and from in between to transport them, and without any human interference at all. That, these things...are not natural in the least. It was if God had planted one of them in specific vantage points in the galaxy. Too coincidental to be mere natural evolution." She explained with a gloved hand in her chin.

"You're such a nerd!" The other female retorted.

Varia frowned. "This is all important information, and its not to be dismissed so easily. Do you WANT to keep on fighting these things for the rest of humanity's life?"

[Jurassic Weeb]

"Nobody knows where Xenos came from," said Drake. "But we know that first and second contact was on Earth back in the twenty-first century. We didn't encounter them again until 2122. These things are not natural." He sat on his cot. "As far as I can tell, it's like God, or Satan, or whatever decided to make the perfect predator and bioweapon. And I'm sure people want to get their hands on them for the latter purpose."

[Angel Vicky]

Varia agreed with a nod. "It's disgusting. But Wey-Yu are paying over ten million per Xeno..." She sighed as she watched the monitors for any movement.

[Jurassic Weeb]

"No wonder people are risking their asses," Drake said. He scowled in frustration. "Just makes more work for us though, damn them." He drew his pistol, checking the magazine out of habit.

"I don't know why we don't nuke the place from orbit," Cho said. Drake shook his head.

"Because they could survive. Xenos can survive in a vacuum. For how long, I don't know."

[Angel Vicky]

"They don't need to breathe oxygen. The only thing that scares the is fire." Varia added as she watched the Sarge check his pistol. Turning to the injured private, she asked. "How are you holding up?"

[Jurassic Weeb]

"I've felt worse," Jenkins said. "Although that was because of tequila and an ass-kicking." A collective chuckle went through the marines. Most new the story of how Jenkins had gotten wasted on a colony, flirted with the wrong girl, and wound up with a completely dislocated jaw. He never drank again for six months.

[Angel Vicky]

Varia chuckled at hearing this story for the first time. "Well now you know not to mess with women." She waved her gun at him. "Especially ones who can kick your ass." She reminded him, he had been the one flirting with her the entire journey here. She couldn't get away from him fast enough at times.

[Jurassic Weeb]

"Aw, come on! I like a little fire!" Jenkins laughed.

"Get some rest, Private," Drake ordered, smirking. He moved over to one of the consoles. "Get some shut-eye before your shifts, ladies. Last thing I want is one of those bugs tonguing me."

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Wyvern found his brother's corpse. He'd been torn apart by a serpent, with a hole in his forehead from a headbite. He took his brother's equipment before setting the self-destruct device. The blast would vaporize everything within a ten meter radius, so he began heading for the human settlement.

[Angel Vicky]

Varia laughs at the Sarge's joke as she got comfy on the floor, using one of the ammo bags as a sort of make shift pillow. The other female lay down near by then leaned over to Varia to whisper. "I bet that bug aint the only one who'd like to tongue him, eh V?" She winked at her and lay back down. Varia just shook her head with a sigh. "Shut up Sarah." She whispered back and tried to get some rest before the next shift.

[Jurassic Weeb]

Drake spent several hours on the console, trying to isolate where the main hive was. Xenos like heat and humidity, so they would be somewhere near a reactor or a water treatment plant. The Sergeant flitted over the schematics until he found what he was looking for, as well as cross-referencing where the colonists' tracking implants were. "Autumn Command, this is Sergeant Drake," he radioed. "We've located the hive, sending coordinates."

[Angel Vicky]

"Hmm...you found the main hive?" Came Varia's voice from behind the sergeant as she leans in to look at the console more closely. She couldn't really sleep and his voice woke her up anyway. She noted the schematics and layout of the facility.