<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>1st Squad</strong></span><br/><br/>The flames from Zippo's weapon erupted in a superheated blast of life cooking death. No sooner than had the area around the dead man, and the unknown source of movement, been bathed in flames than what ever was in the area made its presence known. Preceded by an inhuman roar of pure rage, every motion sensor in the squad began to ping madly with sudden, speedy movement.<br/><br/>Before Zippo had even let up on the tiger, what appeared to be a steel net flew through the flames and made contact with her body. The device almost instantly wrapped around the woman's body and began to constrict. The servos on her ape suit whining as they fought against the pressure of the net only to give in as the marine found her body being constricted by the device despite the power of the ape suit's mechanisms.<br/><br/>A split second later something landed in the midst of the squad. Even though nothing could be seen three things confirmed this fact to every member of the squad, the first was the motion detectors, the second the near instinctual feeling of something being close. And the third the actions taken by the creature among them. The first to feel the creature's wrath was Sarge in the form of a blow from some sort of blunt weapon directed at the man's chest. The weapon struck with extreme weight and force, bending Sarge's chest plate as he was knocked off his feet. Next was Rome, the same device now struck him on the back of both shoulders as if the weapon's wielder had known that with the smartgun in front of him Rome would be easily stumbled and overbalanced in a forward direction.<br/><br/>What ever was concealing the unknown creature suddenly dissipated, either though over use or the simple desire of its user to be seen. As its form (http://www.hit.ro/lib/uploads/image/an_2009/luna_05/zi_21/aliens_vs_predator_pcps3xbox360_seg_artwork_02_-_predator.jpg) shimmered into existence the warrior locked its gaze on Senjo. Three  red dots appeared on the synthetic's forehead and the device on the unknown warrior's shoulder began to glow bright blue as if charging up.  A moment later a small ball of bright blue energy propelled itself in her direction!<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>3rd Squad</strong></span><br/><br/>As the squad entered the colony complex they found themselves face to face with the men who had opened fire on them. There were five enemies in all, each one standing behind a large barricade of bullet proof glass and firing from around it. Rather than ceasing fire when they saw that it was the Colonial Marines that had entered the squad of hostiles seemed to become even more determined to eliminate their targets.<br/><br/>Benjamin's display of pyrotechnics, which would surely have proved intimidating to civilians and wild beasts, did not have the desired effect on the enemy that his squad was facing. Rather than panic or cow them into surrender it served to paint a large target on the flamethrower man. Even before he had finished his sentence two of the hostile soldiers had zeroed in on him and directed their fire to his center mass. Within seconds several rounds impacted with his ape suit. One managed to punch though and into his right thigh.<br/><br/>The snap and whiz of rounds passing by and impacting near filled Riska, Jones, and Cooper's ears as the remaining enemies focused their fire on them rather than the other squad members who were obstructed by the APC. Each man was wearing strange armor (http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/283/1/6/Hyperdyne_Contractor_by_ChainsawDroid.jpg) more akin to a space or hazmat suit than it was to combat plating.  But despite its odd design it seemed to serve some purpose as Riska's smartgun was unable to auto-target their heat signatures.<br/><br/>The enemy holding what appeared to be an advanced shotgun (http://th01.deviantart.com/fs15/300W/f/2007/006/5/a/Plasma_Rifle_2_by_ivangraphics.jpg) took aim at Riska and opened fire. The cone of projectiles that flew towards the smartgunner seemed to glow a bright blue. The blast caught her directly in her center mass, blowing several holes in the outer layer of her chestplate, even though none of the rounds punched into her skin what ever the shotgun was firing it had managed to make Swiss-cheese of the layer her armor that was supposed to stop such weapons, and could obviously blow through every layer of it with enough tries.<br/>