The creatures seemed to understand the danger that the marine's weapons posed, as soon as the marines opened fire the creatures moved to evade their shots. Jumping back and forth as they continued to relentlessly close the distance, seemingly unafraid of even their own deaths. They crossed the school room without taking any fire, jumping and dodging the marines' fire streams until they reached the door into the hall that the marines were in. As they entered the hall way they were left with nowhere to dodge.<br/><br/>Moving as one they jumped at their targets, Rome's smartgun fire sawing one creature in half before it was even able to leap into the air, two others were destroyed in mid-flight, the kinetic force of the shells striking their bodies sending them flying back the way they had come.<br/><br/>The fourth creature used its fellows deaths to buy it the time it needed to make it's attack, as it traveled through the air it was struck several times by the marines' firepower, blowing it's right arm off, as well as a large hole in it's torso. Even wounded as it was, and obviously near death it moved to attack it's targets, it quickly slashed out at Rome with it's tail. The razor sharp tip digging deep into his armor before it pulled away collapsing as the last of its strength left it.<br/><br/>The creature fell to its side, shrieking in it's death throes, it's blood pooling on the floor as a faint but distinct sizzling sound could be heard....the creatures blood seemed to be eating through the floor itself!<br/><br/>The sounds of more claws striking the ground could be heard, from the direction that the four creatures had come....many more claws....what ever the creatures were the four the marines had just faced were obviously only the beginning.