AVP Ultimate Prey 42

"It's shooting at me!" Singh shouted.

"Try to get into a service duct," Clarke said. "It may be too big to follow you."

They heard another pop. Singh grunted.

"Are you hit?" Bak peered at the camera.

Something stuck out of Singh's left shoulder. The projectile was long with fletching on the end, like an arrow. Singh lurched forward and fell face-down. He stopped moving.-pg.347 chpt.13

He heard a terrible scream and the creature reappeared as it tumbled backward, its cloak flickering out. Bak had scored a head shot, but not a killing one. A scorch mark on the alien's helmet smoldered just above the right eye, but it didn't seem injured. Only pissed.


It aimed the old-style projectile weapon. He dove behind a hypersleep chamber and rolled under the entire row of them to emerge on the left side of the room. He hid behind another chamber, watching the hunter scan the room for him.

It spotted him and its weapon fired. Bak ducked and he felt something whiff past his ear. It struck the metal bulkhead behind him and then clattered to the floor. He turned and located a dent in the wall. That was close. He searched around him until he found a wicked looking metal dart the length of his hand, its barbed tip coated in a yellow substance. Poison? It's doing this for sport, Bak realized.-pg.354 chpt.13