Alien vs. Predator Page #10

EXT. LINSON'S RANGE - IMPACT SIGHT - DAY

Under the cathedral-like light filtering through the trees above, a row of

metal spikes have been driven into the earth. Four are topped with still-

smoking ALIEN skulls. Two and empty.

PREDATOR-VISION. A newly decapitated ALIEN head is turned around in another

PREDATOR's hands in admiration. This PREDATOR thrusts his trophy onto the

next spike, then stares at the vacant one for a long moment. His wrist

computer BLEEPS for attention...

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

With nothing to do, most of the screens are out and the remaining personnel

bored. PARSONS is reading a magazine with his feet up on the console,

uninterested in HIROKO and KAMEN's conversation nearby.

HIROKO:

I'm going to need you to co-sign the

report. Until we come up with something,

this'll be treated as first degree murder.

KAMEN:

Agreed.

HIROKO:

When we get the link back, and I send this

in, I.C.C.'ll throw a _fit_.

KAMEN:

Ah, don't worry about I.C.C. They're the

least of your problems right now.

HIROKO:

What do you mean?

URIOSTE walks up, very serious. She interrupts.

URIOSTE:

Sorry. Can I have a word?

HIROKO:

Sure. What's up?

URIOSTE:

Three-Pump failed a half-hour ago. The

algae must have clogged up an intake

duct.

KAMEN:

Think I spoke too soon...

HIROKO:

Again? How long before we start noticing

the difference?

URIOSTE:

I reckon it'll be another day before the

smell gets unbearable. Beauvais usually

fixes it, but...ah...

HIROKO knows what she means. BEAUVAIS is dead.

HIROKO:

Can you handle it?

URIOSTE:

Sure, I can manage. But I'm not going

into the Pit on my own.

HIROKO:

(to Urioste)

Alright, get somebody from the auto-shop.

(to Kamen)

Is that alright?

KAMEN:

Yeah, no problem. Ask Diller, he's good

with his hands.

URIOSTE exchanges a grin with CASSIE.

CASSIE:

I'll go along with that.

A SHRILL TRILLING from his console communicator makes PARSONS leap up to

answer.

PARSONS:

Parsons.

(long beat)

Yeah. Hold on.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - INFIRMARY

A CLOSE UP of an eye, bright blue and dilated. DOC REVNA's shining a hand-

held light into ACKLAND's face. ACKLAND's regained consciousness, but is far

from happy. He's sitting on the edge of a cot in the base Infirmary, an

antiseptic room full of automated medical equipment. The Autodoc is

suspended from the ceiling nearby, a circular cluster of sophisticated

manipulator arms tipped with cutting blades and surgical paraphernalia.

ACKLAND:

Hey, c'mon Doc, I feel fine. Really.

REVNA flicks off the probe.

REVNA:

Headache? Dehydration?

ACKLAND:

The head's okay, but I could sink a six-

pack.

REVNA:

Forget that. I want you off alcohol for

at least seventy-two hours. I've got some

toxin build-up tests still to run.

REVNA shakes her head and turns to KAMEN.

REVNA (CONT'D)

He's broken a fever that would kill a

mule, but if he says he's alright I'm

prepared to believe him. He's all yours.

HIROKO enters. She watches from behind KAMEN.

KAMEN:

What happened out there, Ack?

ACKLAND:

(consternated)

What do you mean, 'what happened'? What

am I doing back here? Where's York?

HIROKO:

(insistent)

What's the last thing you can remember?

ACKLAND thinks hard.

ACKLAND:

We...watched a meteor hit over Linson's.

HIROKO and KAMEN exchange significant glances.

HIROKO:

A meteor?

ACKLAND:

Yeah, it impacted really off. We went

out to the crash-site...and...uh...

that's...that's all.

KAMEN:

Nothing else?

ACKLAND:

No.

KAMEN turns to REVNA.

KAMEN:

Show him 'Fido'.

REVNA pulls out a cylindrical glass stasis tube from a wall rack. She hands

it to ACKLAND. He studies the dead FACEHUGGER floating inside with morbid

fascination.

REVNA:

Ring any bells?

ACKLAND tries hard to think, but it's as if a wall's slammed down hard on his

mind.

ACKLAND:

Not really, no. Ugly little sonuvabitch.

What is it?

KAMEN:

We thought you might be able to tell us.

I found it by your cot at the camp. You

were out cold.

ACKLAND:

What did York say?

HIROKO:

York's vanished.

ACKLAND:

Vanished?

HIROKO:

Beauvais and Minh are dead, Ackland. York's

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