Alien vs. Predator Page #18

KAMEN:

I'll survive.

BREWSTER's BARKS cease, replaced instead with a TERRIFIED LOW WHINING.

DE VRIES:

What's with the dog?

GUTTIEREZ jogs over to BREWSTER. Lowers his rifle to the ground and fumbles

with the knot tying the dog to the pipe.

GUTTIEREZ:

Hey; c'mon now, girl. It's alright. Let's

just get this knot undone...

A spray of plastic shards EXPLODES not three feet away from GUTTIEREZ. The

rifle goes skittering away out of reach, and he scrambles away as an ALIEN

half-pulls itself out of the sewer overflow, wet and glistening...

KAMEN:

Jan!

BREWSTER's a mass of fur, totally out of control. When the ALIEN lashes out

to grab the HOWLING animal, there's nothing GUTTIEREZ can do. BREWSTER's

legs are the last thing we see, thrashing helplessly as she's dragged down

into the splinter-edged gap.

DE VRIES:

Get out of there, man!

THOMAS grabs CALDWELL's rifle from the deck. He races towards GUTTIEREZ,

with DE VRIES close behind...

THOMAS:

Catch this!

From behind comes the SOUND of more rupturing plastic as biomechanoid limbs

struggle up out of newly-broken ducts. THOMAS heaves the rifle over the

heads of the emerging ALIENS. Although GUTTIEREZ snags it awkwardly, he

quickly turns the barrel on the relentless creatures.

GUTTIEREZ:

Chew on this!

DE VRIES races up to join them, SCREAMING as she fires. KAMEN glances down

at this tracker's tiny screen. It shows clusters of signals, lots of them.

KAMEN:

(hollering)

They're all around, they're in the

drainage system!

DE VRIES reacts swiftly, loosing a round of shots at the emerging ALIENS.

GUTTIEREZ yells across to KAMEN.

GUTTIEREZ:

Get your ass out of here, boss!

ALIENS are appearing everywhere. From the overflow ducts; over the platform

edges; along overhead cable supports. Having taken on the genetic

characteristics of their hosts, many of them are non-humanoid. All of them

are living nightmares.

HIROKO:

Oh my _God_...

INT. RYUSHI STATION - LIVING QUARTERS

CASSIE brushes her teeth in front of the wall-mounted mirror of her tiny

bathroom-cubicle. A raucous emergency klaxon GOES OFF in the corridor

outside.

CASSIE:

Sh*t.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - DUSK

THOMAS, GUTTIEREZ, and DE VRIES are cut-off. As they race swiftly down the

street, GUTTIEREZ tries hard to interpret his tracker's signals. A

particularly loud BLEEP registers from a source immediately behind them. He

glances over his shoulder and sees an ALIEN crawling down the outside of a

module towards them.

GUTTIEREZ:

De Vries!

DE VRIES' head turns. She sees the ALIEN and nails it with a rapid burst.

It falls onto the concrete nearby, writhing in it's death throes.

The group round the corner of a building. Across the street from them is

parked KAMEN's crawler.

GUTTIEREZ (CONT'D)

Inside, inside!

They scramble up into the cab. GUTTIEREZ throws himself into the driver's

seat. An ALIEN sprints at the crawler with bared teeth. THOMAS looses a

shot, blasting it backward into a Pepsi sign.

THOMAS:

Yo' momma, boneface!

DE VRIES:

(to Guttierez)

C'mon, man; punch this cow!

GUTTIEREZ fumbles at the ignition. They keys are there. He flips them, and

the engine GROWLS to life.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - CRANE CATWALK - DUSK

PREDATOR-VISION. From way up here, we've got an outstanding view of the

humans running across the platform...

Crouching on a bright-yellow catwalk, BROKEN TUSK presses closed a panel on

the small container balanced on his knee. Inside it are rows of metal

instruments with a pristine surgical quality about them. BROKEN TUSK flexes

his hand experimentally. Satisfied, he clips the medical kit onto his back

before getting to his feet.

Standing around him are several other PREDATORS. All but one have their

camouflage cloaks activated. The SOUND of GUNFIRE way across the station

draws their attention...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - DUSK

HIROKO and KAMEN bolt towards an external hatch, with KAMEN laying down a

field of covering fire on full-automatic. The blaze of light from the

rifle's barrel abruptly stops.

HIROKO:

What?

KAMEN:

I'm out of ammo. Get inside, get inside!

HIROKO hears a HORRIBLE NOISE nearby. A field of cows being slaughtered by

machetes would sound like this.

HIROKO:

They're in with the rhino!

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - RHINO PEN - DUSK

An ALIEN is SMASHED sideways into the one solid wall of the pen, broadsided

and instantly crushed by a ton of FRENZIED rhino. It's yellow blood eats

into the weighty quadruped, eliciting ANGUISHED BELLOWS of pain from the

hapless creature.

ALIEN stingers slice through the air. Rhinos try to bolt but are intercepted

by inhumanly powerful forces. It's wholesale carnage.

PREDATOR-VISION. We're moving swiftly along the rooftops and surveying the

melee below, lessening the distance with each second...

Several indefinable FIGURES plunge into the fray, creating anarchy within the

ALIENS' ranks. The biomechanoids HISS with fury as the PREDATORS join battle

against them...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - DUSK

An ALIEN hurls itself through the air and onto the speeding crawler's roof.

INT. CRAWLER - DUSK

KER-CHUNK! The cab's occupants react as the thin roof buckles slightly.

Skeletal fingers SLICE through, RIPPING at the metal like a can-opener.

DE VRIES:

Jesus!

THOMAS raises his rifle and looses a fusillade of shots through the roof.

One of them RICOCHETS off the interior, SHATTERING the windscreen. There's

a THUMP from outside...

DE VRIES (CONT'D)

You got 'im!

Their triumph is short-lived. Globules of yellow acid perforate the roof

like Swiss cheese, dripping down on them. GUTTIEREZ floors the brakes. The

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