ALIENS Vs.PREDATOR

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

Shit.

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

crawler swings through ninety degrees before SCREECHING to a halt.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - COMMAND CENTER

CASSIE enters admin at a run. Before, it was empty. Now it's sheer chaos.

She shoves her way through dozens of grim-faced people. PARSONS is standing

at a console, YELLING into his headset.

PARSONS

Seal everything now!

CASSIE

What's happening?

PARSONS

Cassie, thank Christ! We're under attack.

CASSIE

We're what!?

York races in, SHOUTING above the clamor.

YORK

The son-of-bitches got into 'E' wing!

They're ripping it apart!

PARSONS

Fuck! Somebody get over there with some

guns! Now!

CASSIE watches the scene unfolding on the banks of monitors. PEOPLE mouthing

unheard words into camera. Bursts of STATIC. Fleeting glimpses of

nightmarish SHAPES darting across the picture...

CASSIE

How many of them _are_ there?

PARSONS

Too many.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - DUSK

GUTTIEREZ' group hurriedly exits the crawler. A cloud of acrid smoke rapidly

fills the cabin.

DE VRIES

(coughing)

Move it, man!

The dead ALIEN's corpse tumbles through the acid-eaten hole, falling into the

cab's rear seat and promptly burning through that as well.

Not far away across the platform, the massive doors to the auto-shop hanger

are RUMBLING slowly closed...

GUTTIEREZ

(shouting)

Hold the doors, hold the doors!

They don't hear him. The doors seal with a BOOM of finality.

DE VRIES

Over there, on the right!

THOMAS sees the two ALIENS nimbly climbing the platform's edge. He squeezes

off about five shots, managing to kill the FIRST ALIEN...

THOMAS

These bastards ain't so tough!

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THOMAS looks concernedly at GUTTIEREZ.

THOMAS

Is that thing working?

GUTTIEREZ takes off the headset and scrutinises it closely.

GUTTIEREZ

Shit! The casing's cracked!

DE VRIES rips her headset off and urgently passes it to him.

DE VRIES

Use mine. Channel twenty-six.

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM - DUSK

Despite their ferocity and weapons, it's clear that the small group of

PREDATORS are being overrun by the ALIEN horde.

BROKEN TUSK's shoulder cannon swivels automatically, blowing away another

attacker. Hearing a distinctive SCREAM, he looks across the platform. One

of the PREDATORS, it's camouflage cloak flickering intermittently, is trying

to resist being dragged down into a duct. The two ALIENS in either side

plunge their tail-stingers into the PREDATOR's body, making it CRY OUT in

agony.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - CORRIDORS

Pumped up with adrenalin, KAMEN reaches an intersection and encounters a

harrowing tableau. An ALIEN blocks his way on the other side of a corridor

bulkhead, holding a STRUGGLING MAN above the floor. It's piston-like tongue

shoots into the MAN's skull, spraying gore.

The ALIEN sees KAMEN, and it's mouth twists into a bloody SNARL. Both KAMEN

and the ALIEN lunge forward together, but KAMEN's got the edge by a split-

second. He STRIKES a bright red switch and the overhead pressure bulkhead

SLAMS down and locks into place. His breathing is heavy as he slowly backs

away from the hatch...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - DUSK

The two ALIENS THOMAS killed must have been the scout party. Others appear,

more cautiously this time...

DE VRIES

Hurry up and figure that thing out, man!

GUTTIEREZ is desperately trying to operate the tiny plastic microswitches on

the headset with his fingernails.

GUTTIEREZ

What?

THOMAS

We've got company!

THOMAS brings his weapon to bear and pulls on the trigger. He gets off one

shot, then nothing more happens. He looks at the counter on the side. It

reads 'zero'.

THOMAS (CONT'D)

Shit, I'm dry! You're up!

DE VRIES raises her rifle. She aims, and...

CLICK.

DE VRIES

I'm jammed!

THOMAS

You're what?!

She works the manual slide.

DE VRIES

It's locked solid...

THOMAS

Quick, give me the clip!

DE VRIES fumbles the ammunition clip from her rifle. It falls from her hands

onto a plastic overflow grate. THOMAS leaps after it...about a second too

late. It slips through the narrow gap, gone for good.

THOMAS (CONT'D)

Oh, Lord! Please, no! Not now!

INT. RYUSHI STATION - EXECUTIVE OFFICE

HIROKO enters her office at a run. She crosses to an inset control box on

the far wall and presses a button. Two exterior panels begin to slide closed

behind the polycarbonate window.

KERSMASH! Fracture lines appear on the toughened plastic as it comes under

assault from the razor-edge tip of an ALIEN's tail. In shock, HIROKO

reflexively falls backwards onto the floor, scrambling away. She watches the

creature precariously balancing on the this ledge outside, fighting against

the closing shutters with simultaneously raining repeated blows on the

window with it's tail.

The ALIEN leaps through the gap as the window gives way under the onslaught,

showering splinters across the room. The twin shutters secure behind it,

closing on the creatures tail in the process. It HISSES in indignation and

thrashes about. Like a lizard, the segmented tail SNAPS in two. The freed

ALIEN staggers a little before gaining balance, blood dripping from the

laceration and penetrating the wooden floorboards. It sights HIROKO and

hurls itself in her direction, an unstoppable killing machine...

HIROKO

Holo on!

Her VOICE quavers so badly with fear and panic, it's a wonder the computer

can recognize it. FOUR NINJA SWORDSMEN promptly appear, forming a semi-circle

between HIROKO and the ALIEN. The ALIEN halts, confused by this intrusion.

It swipes at the pre-programmed holograms, bewildered by the lack of contact

as it's claws pass through them.

Gaining on a few seconds of bought time, HIROKO flings herself towards the

PREDATOR spear lying forgotten nearby. The ALIEN locks in on this sudden

movement and charges through the holograms at her. HIROKO GRUNTS, swinging

the spear with her full strength...

She's no super-athlete, but the cutting edge's advanced metallurgy does the

job. It slices half-way through the ALIEN's skull and sticks there, spewing

yellow fluid everywhere. HIROKO beats a hasty retreat as the dying

biomechanoid falls to the floor, fumbling at the lodged weapon...

INT. RYUSHI STATION - CORRIDORS

HIROKO reels into the outside corridor. She SHRIEKS as her shoulders are

seized from behind...

KAMEN

Come on!

HIROKO looks at KAMEN confusedly as he continues along the corridor.

HIROKO

That's the wrong way!

KAMEN

Detour. Other way's blocked...

EXT. RYUSHI STATION - PLATFORM FAR SIDE - DUSK

Back outside, the ALIENS have sensed that something's amiss. DE VRIES turns

desperately to GUTTIEREZ.

DE VRIES

You got any slugs left?

GUTTIEREZ looks down at the counter on his slung weapon.

GUTTIEREZ

Yeah. Uh...

DE VRIES rips the weapon off his shoulder. GUTTIEREZ completes his sentence.

GUTTIEREZ (CONT'D)

...Seven.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! DE VRIES tries to make each shot count. She sights an

ALIEN crawling across the top of a group of cylindrical storage containers.

Draws a bead on the metal tank and fires...

A molten ball EXPLODES outward, transforming the immediate vicinity into a

blazing inferno. The ALIEN's body twists end-over-end, remaining immobile

as it hits the deck. A curtain of fire ripples across the platform...

THOMAS

_Yes_!

Their victory is short-lived. The other ALIENS crawl cautiously forward,

flames licking their faces but leaving them unharmed. We can clearly hear

the HISSING of their internal jaws.

DE VRIES

Try again, man...

The headset in GUTTIEREZ' hand BLEEPS as it turns into the correct channel.

He YELLS into it...

GUTTIEREZ

Matt! Open these damn doors right now,

or I'll ream your ass so bad these things

out here'll seem like the Easter Bunny in

comparison! Swear to God!

THOMAS turns and hammers on the impenetrable plate metal.

THOMAS

Open the doors! Open the goddamned

fucking doors!

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! CLICK. GUTTIEREZ' bullets are gone.

DE VRIES

That's it! We're dead!

The first of the ALIENS rushes at them. This is the end. DE VRIES

SCREAMS...

There's a blinding flash, and most of the ALIEN's head vaporises. GUTTIEREZ

blinks is disbelief as hazy SHAPES comprised of refracted fire suddenly

occupy the killing ground between the HUMAN and ALIEN antagonists. Intense

bursts of light illuminate the platform as hi-tech PREDATOR weaponry far in

advance of the humans' sears the air...

GUTTIEREZ turns at the SOUND of the huge metal doors GRINDING slowly open.

Just enough for them to get through.

GUTTIEREZ

Move!

INT. RYUSHI STATION - AUTO-SHOP

THOMAS pushes DE VRIES through the opening, with GUTTIEREZ hurriedly

following.

The Auto-shop is a large spacious workshop with three bays lining one wall.

The front of a crawler pokes from one of them, while in the center of the

room another crawler is raised above a maintenance-pit on a hydraulic

platform. A handful of GREASE MONKEYS stands around the doorway, brandishing

power-tools in lieu of firearms. A blonde surfer-type with long straggly

hair rushes over to them. This is MATT, their savior.

MATT

Close it up, close it up!

GUTTIEREZ stares through the narrow opening as the doors seal back up. In

the midst of the flames, the ALIENS are fighting a pitched battle tooth-and-

nail with their unseen opponents. It's like a scene out of Hell.

INT. RYUSHI STATION - CORRIDORS

Clusters of rotating emergency lights wig-wag above HIROKO and KAMEN as they

flee through the maze of long corridors leading to the Command Center. KAMEN

is falling behind as they approach a junction.

HIROKO

Hurry it up.