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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 27, 2007 1:05:56 GMT -5
Myrr tapped her wrist, which brought up the radar again. The radar had been calibrated to list all drone types as just dots, and the queen or higher as the actual beast.
"Yeah, she's in that cocoon, and we have to defeat all of these Xenomorphs in about five minutes in order to reach on time and kill the queen before she emerges... Not good... How are we suppose to get through all of these things and get to the queen?"
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Post by lordnidhogg on Oct 27, 2007 1:14:25 GMT -5
((Just let me know if I'm overstepping any bounds, I'm just assuming given the time frame we seem to be on))
"It's a Queen." Thanatos said, entering behind Shive. "She isn't completely molted, but she's almost an Empress, judging by the size of the Hive. The only reason you're alive is because she has completed the transformation-or worse, gone further to become a mother Queen. Then we'd have queens all over the damn place."
Thanatos punctuated his remarks by exnending another set of wristblades.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 27, 2007 1:19:46 GMT -5
"Empress? Mother Queen? Good lord, is there any other types of Xenomorphs you want to tell me about, Thanatos? Really, I'd like to know, cause I've only seen the normal drones and Queen before all this." Myrr replied.
'Cause none of these 'new varieties' are on record.' she added to herself.
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Post by Talon on Oct 27, 2007 12:06:17 GMT -5
Shive slowly approached the xenomorph 'army' that stood between them and the changing Queen. His eyes narrowed and pupils dialated as he aimed both index fingers at the cluster before him, electricity surging through his forearms. With a roar, a lightning bolt erupted from each finger and plowed a line clean through the bloackade, and Shive rushed forward.
"I F***ING HATE XENOMORPHS!" He screamed, decking a xeno that stood in his way.
Trying to keep the opening clear, Shive motioned for Thanatos and Myrr to follow as he smashed through the alien swarm, cracking open heads and ripping torsos in half. He was about 60 feet away from the cocoon, when the aliens started to move away from him.
Shive cocked an eyebrow as one of the larger aliens in the back stomped towards him, claws flexing.
"Praetorians." Shive hissed through clenched teeth.
The alien stopped about 10 feet from Shive, its lip twitching. The two had a staredown with eachother before finally rushing eachother, Shive punching and the Praetorian clawing. The two then shoved away from eachother, staring again.
"It seems... this may be more idfficult than I thought." Shive panted as another Praetorian approached Thanatos and Razor Claws approached Myrr.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 27, 2007 12:48:29 GMT -5
"Shame on you fiends, attacking a lady." Myrr taunted, earning a charge from one of the Razorclaws, who brandished its namesakes. She reeled her fist back, ducked under a claw swipe, and hammered the XenoRazorclaw into the ground.
"If it weren't for the fact that I can fight back. Who else wants some?" she asked, waving her hand in a 'come on' gesture. The Xenomorphs, while ignorant that she had just insulted them, still lunged to attack... All at once.
"Aw crap." Myrr muttered, ready to try and fight them off. Two of them became paralyzed in mid-air, leaving the third and last one of the group on its own. With her workload drastically cut, she spared no expense in eliminating the creature. The other two were suddenly slammed together and crushed against each others mass, turning them into a ball of Xenomorph parts which was tossed away.
"Need some assistance? Looks like some of you have your hands full." Myrr's father, Solranous, stated as part of the ceiling collasped, which in turn revealed the emerald dragon. He dropped down, a battle cry thundering from his throat as he unleashed his fire breath on the dreaded aliens.
Do to his tendency to sweep with his fire breath, Solranous struck many of the opposing Xenomorphs, however the great dragon was downed when a 'jumper' slammed its bulk into him.
"Ragh! Take this!" Solranous roared, blasting the fiend back with a burst of telekinetic energy. He leapt to his feet to see multiple Xenomorphs start to close in on him.
"Well, as Shive said, 'Everythings better with fire.'" He mused, and started to breath short bursts of his fire breath to clear the way.
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Post by lordnidhogg on Oct 27, 2007 15:24:02 GMT -5
Thanatos merely watched the praetorian approach him. If it was foolish enough to try to kill him, he would act. The praetorian came closer. Thanatos took a single step forward and glared into the praetorian's glistening facial dome. For a moment, the xenomorph backed down, resisting its matriarch's wishes from sheer fear. But the power of the Queen was great, and it lunged forward. Thanatos caught it by the jaw and threw it to the ground. Then in a brutal finisher, he stomped down on its crested skull and extended the spikes in his foot. He kept his foot there, pressing and grinding slightly, until the thing stopped twitching.
It really is a pity, Thanatos thought, they are such beautiful killers.
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Post by Talon on Oct 27, 2007 15:46:45 GMT -5
((Uh, Nid? Praetorians are MUCH harder to kill than that))
Shive growled as the Praetorian's tail went through his shoulder, tearing some of his wing ligaments. The dragonkin roared in pain as he wrenched the tail out and punched the Praetorian directly in the mouth, breaking teeth. He then stabbed it with it's own tail while it was distracted, making it hiss in agony as it pulled its own appendage out of its stomach.
As it stared at the green ooze dripping from it stomach, Shive grabbed it by the back of the head and slammed his knee into its face, breaking more exoskeleton. Shive let out his own hiss as he shoved his hand into its mouth and ripped out its inner mouth and tossed it aside. He lost focus as the Praetorian's claw slammed into his face, drawing a small spray of blood forth.
The other claw plowed into his midsection, then exited with a liver impaled on it. Shive coughed as he slammed his claw into its chest, sending the acidic blood onto the ground.
"I'm ending this." He growled.
In a flash, he grabbed the Praetorian's tail and slammed it into a nearby group of drones, then fired off his last Lightning Bolt directly at them, creating a small explosion of rubble and charred flesh into the air. Shive's knees buckled as he tried to remain on his feet, staggering forward still.
He punched a jumped out of the way and shoved his foot through its midsection, still sluggishly moving forward. A Chrysalis rolled into him, trying to knock him down, but failed as he grabbed it by the tail and threw it behind him as he marched forward.
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Post by lordnidhogg on Oct 27, 2007 18:02:01 GMT -5
((Looking at it objectively, not really. Had it actually managed to fight Thanatos, then yeah. However, having one's brain turned to orange goo didn't help. Remember, that's 3,200 lbs of spikes being driven through its skull))
Another praetorian had moved behind Thanatos as he tried to whipe the first xenomorph's brains off of his feet. Just as Thanatos heard the hiss and began to turn around, it pounced, tackling him to the ground. The creature was large enough that Thanatos and the praetorian skidded along the ground on Thanatos' front side. When Thanatos recovered, he elbowed the creature off of him-hard enough that it hit the ceiling. Thanatos got up and immediately looked up towards the ceiling for the alien: he hadn't seen it fall. But it was out of sight now.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 27, 2007 18:31:55 GMT -5
"Ok, these guys can handle whatever these 'Praetorians' are, I'll just deal with the small fry... Again." Myrr took a second to check her pistol, which was still capable of firing. The damn thing had a tendancy to jam in the worst moments after time travel. To think it could still do that without using bullets...
She shrugged to herself and charged at the Xenomorphs, firing multiple bolts which easily killed some of the normal drones. A XenoChrysalis curled up and rolled at her, but was blown off course by a bolt of telekinetic energy.
"Solranous!" She called, not knowing that he knew her secret.
"It's alright to call me 'Father,' I now know that you are my daughter from the future, Myrr."
"How?"
"I'll explain after we deal with these abominations! RARGH!" Solranous roared, spewing his fire breath on another group of Xenomorphs, setting them aflame as the scurried around, vainly trying to exstinguish themselves. A Praetorian, however, was closing in behind him.
"Get away from my father!" Myrr screech as she punched the Xenomorph away. Solranous, taking note of it, took the easy way out by setting it on fire, too. Father and daughter soon stood back-to-back, snarling at the Xenomorphs.
"This is vaugely familiar, except it wasn't against Xenomorphs." Myrr mused.
"I assume my future self has fought along side you then, often ending up in this kind of situation?"
"...Pretty much." the half-dragon replied simply.
"Oh bother..."
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Post by Talon on Oct 27, 2007 19:18:34 GMT -5
As the xenomorph-war raged on, Shive continued to push his way through the crowd towards the cocoon.
Let's see... I'v exhausted most of my spells, I've got about 20 stab wounds, 15 slash wounds, 4 near-fatal wounds, and a torn wing. I think I can still do this. Shive thought, grinning.
He elbowed a Praetorian out of the way, and just as another was about to pounce on him, a whirring sound was heard as the Praetorian suddenly exploded in a flash of red. Shive turned to see where it came from, and spotted a robot shaped a lot like him, except it had two blasters on each forearm, a large cannon on each shoulder instead of wings, and a long, xenomorph-esque tail. Its single orange eye narrowed at him, and it yelled,
"What the hell are you doing? Hurry up damnit! That Queen's already metamorphosed past an Empress, and it's heading for Queen Mother! That's not something you want."
Shive nodded as the robot extended a green blade of energy from its forearm, hacking through the crowd towards the cocoon as well. The droid then issued a mechanical sigh as two Praetorians stood before him.
"You know what? I don't have time to waste on you two." He stated in the monotone voice.
His mouth opened, the bottom jaw splitting, and a three-barreled flamethrower issued out a blast of fiery death, incinerating the guards. He shoved his blade through a Razorclaw's throat, while blasting a jumper in half. O'Malley spotted Thanatos, Solranous, and Myrr, and he merely shrugged.
"Must be with the other one." He stated, blowing an opening in the blockade.
He now had a clear run to the Queen's cocoon. The four engines on his back whirred to life as he propelled himself forward, splitting anything tht got in his way in half. Meanwhile, the cannons on his back flipped onto his shoulders, and he aimed them at the cocoon. The left fired a blast of red energy, while the right fired off a large bolt of white energy towards the changing Queen.
However, both were intercepted by a Praetorian, blowing them apart.
"damn. Now I have to wait for the stupid things to recharge." O'Malley muttered.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 27, 2007 19:28:10 GMT -5
"Myrr! Let's bombard the cocoon from the air!" Solranous roared taking off on his wings.
"D'oh! Why didn't I think of that!?" Myrr screeched, following her father's lead. The pair flew as close to the ceiling as they could and Solranous soon had a clear shot at the Empress' cocoon. He drew his sword and let loose his flames, which coated the navy blue blade and stayed there.
"Take this! Wave of Fire!" The emerald loosed a battle cry as he swung the blade, sending, as the name suggested, a fiery wave at the cocoon, supposedly enveloping it.
"Can you give me something to stand on? I need my wings for my signature attack to work." Myrr asked.
"On it, Myrr." Solranous replied, focusing his energy to lift some rubble into an air borne platform, which Myrr landed on.
"Time for my Wind Bullets!" Myrr called as she reeled her wings back yet again and fired of her signature attack at the cocoon.
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Post by lordnidhogg on Oct 27, 2007 20:40:09 GMT -5
"Queen Mother? What the hell are you talking about?!" Thanatos yelled angrily as he threw another smaller xenomorph off of him while looking for his missing Praetorian. "The cocoon's at most two days old and it's not the size of a house yet! Do you even know how big a Queen Mother is?!"
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Post by Talon on Oct 28, 2007 20:26:37 GMT -5
((This will get confusing, but stay with me on this))
O'Malley's eye narrowed as he replied back to Thanatos,
"I've seen a planet get obliterated because a Queen Mother was on it. I've encountered one myself, and was ripped in half by the damn thing. Yes, I know how big a f***ing Queen Mother is. We're not seeing all of the damn cocoon!"
Suddenly, cracks began to run through the floor as the walls shook. The floor beneath the cocoon suddenly shattered, the cocoon falling and shattering about 30 feet below.
"I guess I was wrong... it isn't the cocoon... the damn thing's a decoy! The f***ing cocoon is a god-damn decoy!" O'Malley boomed, blasting a hole through a Praetorian's face.
Shive stopped, shoulders sagging. he gave the hole a blank stare, then suddenly snapped out of it as he roared towards the hole, decking anything that got in his way. The rest of the floor gave way, sending everything within the massive room hurtling a good 30 feet. As the dust settled, they stood on solid stone ground, tunnel entrances lining the bottom of the room. Shive glanced around as the xenomorphs all started traveling through random tunnels.
Shive clenched his fists, blood slowly oozing out of his palms. He slammed his fist into the wall, splintering a small crater into it. His teeth were bared, and his tail lashed from side to side, growling in frustration. He glared down one of the tunnels, then stepped directly in front of one. He cupped his hands as wind began to circulate around them, slowly rising in speed. Finally, he aimed the sphere of wind at the entrance and unleashed an extremely pressurized blast of wind into the tunnel.
The shrieks of xeno's dying and the echo of the wind rushing down the halls became apparent as Shive lowered his palms, scowling. He glanced around at the other entrances, as if waiting for something. A few seconds later, a blast of wind rushed out of three of them, and Shive smirked. He walked over to one of the holes and started running.
"Follow me!" He shouted.
As Myrr gave her radar a confused look, O'Malley walked up beside her.
"The reason your radar thought the cocoon was real is because the drones covered it in Queen pheramones, decieving the sensor." He stated, then walked towards the hole Shive dissapeared into.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Oct 28, 2007 20:39:39 GMT -5
Myrr was about to protest that it didn't scan for pheramones, but O'Malley was already out of ear shot.
"D*** it!"
"No time to fume, we have to catch up to them, NOW!" Solranous roared, showing the courage that reminded her so much about the Solranous of her time. Her mother had always told that Solranous was inheritly courages after he became a dragon, and that only strengthened over the years.
What I'm wondering, is how were they able to deceive my telepathic senses? Solranous thought
"Xenomorphs are telepathic in their own way, its only natural that such an advanced xenomorph would be able to replicate the brain waves a Queen possesses in another place." Myrr told him, as if she read his mind. "I'll explain how I knew what you were thinking when we are out of this mess."
"Please do, you have much explaining still to do, but it must wait for a more... suitable time."
The two nodded to each other, and chased after Shive and O'Malley.
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Post by Talon on Oct 28, 2007 21:01:28 GMT -5
Shive was running down the hallway at top speed, sweating.
That Cyclonic Blast took more out of me than I thought... He thought.
Occasionally, he'd step on a Facehugger egg or swat a drone out of the way, barely slowing down. Until, of course, another xeno type entered the fray...
((My own design ^.^))
A large, bulky xenomorph dropped down from the ceiling, hissing. It had a row of spines on its back and head, strong-looking arms, and its tail-blade seemed to be dripping something. On either side of its maw were two small spikes that curved forward, and its legs were slightly thicker than average. It seemed to be lacking the 'lips' that all other xeno's possesed, as its teeth were constantly exposed.
"That's... a new one in my book." O'Malley stated.
Shive merely growled as he dashed forward and slammed his fist into its head, barely even cracking it. The xeno responded by lashing out with its tail and impaling Shive to the wall, proceeding to punch holes in him with its inner mouth. Shive kicked it off and ripped the tail out of his shoulder, kneeing it in the gut.
"Go on ahead!" Shive barked, uppercutting the thing.
O'Malley merely nodded as his thrusters ignited, screaming down the tunnel with Thanatos in pursuit. Shive saw Myrr and Solranous pause to help, but merely roared,
"GO ON WITHOUT ME!"
He grabbed it by the face and slammed it into the ceiling, shaking debris from the roof. It dawned on the other two dragons what Shive was trying to do, for another cluster of warriors was rushing down the hall from the way they came. Shive nodded, brushing blood from his eye as he slammed his fist into the ceiling, a cracking sound becoming apparent.
"See ya." Shive yelled as the ceiling came down on he, the special xeno, and the warriors...
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