The Big Damn Fight

A mass of armed creatures rounded a corner in front of her. They were tall humanoids with mechanical protrusions extruding from their grey-blue skin which formed a sort of armor. This machinery ran down their arms, the tubing and components coming to a head at where their hands were. They noticed Nova immediately and began lumbering quickly towards her. She had seen enough foot-soldiers in her adventures to know what they looked like, regardless of what alien race they came from.

“I mean you no harm!” She shouted, all the while posing for the cameras. Nova hoped they could understand english, but she couldn't observe any indication one way or the other. “I assume I’m trespassing, but there’s a perfectly rational reason for me being here..." She tried to devise ways about how she could relate her recent experiences without sounding insane, but failed to do so. Nova sighed."..I just can’t explain it very well yet. ”

This must have angered the opposing force, as the alien squadron took a shooting stance and extended their arms in her direction. Nova slowly raised her hands in the air. “If you attack me, I will be forced to retaliate. Let’s not do anything rash now.” She said, cooly. Nova glanced back at the drones “Eyes, take cover.”

Neon blue light ran down the tubing protruding from the creatures, and they let loose a flurry of beams out of their gun-hands. Nova jumped into the air, flipping around the hot blue pillars of light to avoid being hit. Everywhere the beams made contact with in the metal corridors around her, they left a semi-melted welt. Fuck! Nova thought, I better hope we’re in an inner corridor right now, and not anywhere close to space.

She kicked off a wall and rocketed towards one of the creatures, making heavy contact and sending it flying. This put Nova square in the middle of the aliens’ squad formation. She turned to the nearest one, grabbing it’s gun arms from underneath, pointing them over her head before they could fire. The beams from its arms made contact with one of the other alien soldiers, leaving a gaping, melted hole where it’s head was, purple blood dripping down it’s mangled torso. She yanked the one whose arms she was holding onto up into the air, and whipped it down onto another alien smashing both to the floor. Nova wasn’t done with her new acquaintance yet, and instead of letting go of the alien, she opted to spin him around like a discus, blocking incoming beams with its body before tossing it into the rest of the aliens’ regiment, toppling them like bowling pins.

Most of the alien soldiers were knocked out, a few writhing in pain. A single soldier began to put itself together and stand up. Something uniquely unsettling began to happen, its face began to contort and the mechanical protrusions beginning to be absorbed by it's undulating flesh. The being let loose a guttural howling screech.

“Nope.” Nova punched it in it’s shifting face, sending it flying down the hallway out of sight. She turned to one of her drones, “I don’t know what that was, but I think I'm safe to assume something that horrifying isn't up to anything good.”