Predator vs The Giant Gila Monster

   They are the Metal Masks; long ago a Yautja colony ship was caught in a trans-dimensional wormhole as they were set between realities to find a new territory. Their ship crashed on a Metaphysical class world, a world of many humanoid races and sentient beasts among other things. Over the millennia the Metal Masks would come to be seen as just another humanoid race among so many, their long life spans putting them in the same category as the High Elves and Dwarves, who also secretly held knowledge of technology as the Metal Masks did. Their style of weaponry and armor aesthetics have changed to be similar to that of other humanoid hunters of the great beasts of this world. Thanks to sorcerers and their inter-dimensional portals connecting their world with other metaphysical worlds the Metal Masks were able to study how this works in this reality and connect it to others despite the trans-reality tempest around such a reality as this one. The Metal Masks have re-acquired ships, tech, and can now hunt among different worlds as they did before.

    San’kar, brave warrior of the Metal Masks, his armor isn’t very different than that of a typical Yautja, at least not in placement, instead of fishnet links he has chain-mail wire, his armor is plated steel, his mask is silver; yet is technological. He carries no plasma caster (shoulder cannon), or gauntlet claws; instead he carries a broadsword. He has hunted orcs, trolls, goblins, and is well known in the northern mountains for slaying a fire dragon single handedly. With his clan now traveling to other realities he has joined the hunt for new prey with new challenges.

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    An inter-dimensional portal appears above a mundane looking Earth; a small inconspicuous wedge shaped vessel exits the portal and vanishes via a cloaking device as it heads towards the South Western United States. Upon the ground San’kar tracks large reptilian footprints through the desert. In the warm night air San’kar hears the sound a vehicle crashing followed by a woman’s scream. His cloak deployed he crosses over a hill to the sight of a giant Gila Monster devouring a human woman, pulling her body from a car it knocked off the road. Her body being torn apart as the massive lizard wrestles it from the car’s seatbelt and interior with its giant jaws barley able to squeeze into the door frame.

   San’kar takes aim as the beast finishes its meal and blasts it in the back of the neck at the base of the head. The creature flops down by the car, smoke rising from the hole in its neck. San’kar treks over to the beast quietly, prepared for the monster to rise up at any moment; one shot has never taken down a dragon before; even by surprise.  However he finds the great big lizard dead, the blast cleanly severing its spinal column. Using his sword he cleaves the head from the body, and with a few taps of his gauntlet controls summons his ship to retrieve the head with its scan like sub-space storage device.

   The human authorities arrive some time later, finding the decapitated lizard; pondering what sort of thing could do that to this creature. A dissection of the body would reveal the remains of several towns people and livestock; the lizard had been strangely voracious, bloating its gut with far more than it needed. The towns people however and the national guard would be on high alert and the lookout for the unknown creature or individual that killed the giant Gila Monster; however they would never find them and in time life would return to normal.