(Note: This post is using my new style. From now on, you will be referred to by your character, not your user name. I was originally going to do this, but forgot to when I started the first few actions. I'm not reverting to it. If you don't know who's char is who, go back and look at the first page. Ronike is Gary, Frozen is Windows, Commonyoshi is Norris, and Duke is Nauls.)
(Also, if you notice, there is way too much in here for it to be by PMs. I admit, I made it more dramatic. When I originally wrote this, I thought "Man, that's weak for a fight like this." So I made it more interesting. The outcome is the same, I just had fun with it. I didn't do anything in there that they person didn't say they wanted to do. Duke wanted to throw a knife, Ronike and Frozen wanted to kill a thing, Ronike wanted to burn it, Frozen wanted to shoot it. So, enjoy the dramatized write up. Don't look hard for clues, I didn't put in any.)
Windows and Gary stand, facing the door. They look at each other.
Gary nods.
The door of the Medical room bursts open, and out runs Gary, his pistol missing, his flamethrower held in both hands.
There is a soft roar. Something flies towards him. There is a pause, the moment a man remembers for the rest of his flame.
He pulls the trigger.
As if someone turned the lights on, the room is illuminated.
The flames lick harmlessly against the concrete wall, missing its target.
But it did reveal it.
A hideous form of flesh, sacs, and blood is in front of him, with Norris's head in the air, attached to an overly long, stained spinal column. There is a sort of canine mouth tearing its way out of the side of his head.
The face is in shock, not expecting an attack. It growls.
Gary stands, too shocked at what he is seeing to move. He feels vomit pushing its way through his stomach.
A tentacle, wet with alien fluid, pink from its flesh, whips out, wrapping itself around Gary’s neck. Gary gasps for air, his hands moving up to his neck, dropping the flamethrower. The tentacle pulls.
*BANG*
*BANG*
There is an explosion of blood, and the tentacle flies back.
Windows stands in the doorway, two pistols in his hands.
The fire goes out, and it turns back to darkness.
Gunshots pump out, the yellow flashes illuminated Window’s bearded face.
There is another burst of fire, and the hallway is illuminated again. Again, Gary missed, but just narrowly. The flames crash into the wall, a mere foot from the Thing.
The flames illuminate Nauls, bleeding from his chest, tentacles wrapping themselves around him, dragging him towards the Thing’s body. The Thing’s chest has turned into nothing more then a blob of flesh and blood, with a great maw, lined with teeth.
Gary vomits onto the ground, unable to hold himself. He heaves up everything, collapsing to his knees in his own filth. But he still raises his flamethrower.
Disgusted, he clicks again.
The flames shoot out, directly into the lob of flesh. The tentacles detract, wailing around their user. The fire burns, using the Thing’s body as fuel.
There is a terrible scream, something never heard before by human ears.
A limb pushes its way out of the flesh, ending in a spike. It fires towards Gary, who shoots again from his knees, hitting it right before it impaled him. The tentacle wails, falling on the ground, burning.
Windows unloads more gunshots, until one of his guns runs out of ammo. He fruitlessly throws it at the Thing, and brings his hands around to grasp hold of his other gun, using both hands to steady his aim. He sees a disgusting, humanoid eye in the body. He fires, causing it to squirt blood and fluid out, making it indistinguishable from the rest of the Thing.
The Thing transforms. Even though it’s burning, it changes its body into a more humanoid form of flesh. A spiked limb shoots into the ceiling, pulling itself up.
Norris’s head hangs down, staring at them. Gary starts to stand up, but a tentacle flies down, wrapping itself around his legs. It yanks, knocking his head against the ground. A flash of blood flies onto the ground.
The tentacle pulls Gary up, now unconscious.
Windows shoots, but his bullets do nothing, and he has only one left. He stands in horror as the Thing pulls Gary up to his fate.
There is a flash, illuminated by the burning flesh.
A knife, thrown by a barely conscious Nauls, hits Norris’s head, directly into it’s left eye. There is another howl, and the tentacle opens, dropping Gary.
Windows dives forward, catching him before he lands. The weight knocks them both over.
Loosing no time, Windows grabs the barrel of the flamethrower, and shoots again. The howl continues, and the Thing drops from the ceiling, landing less then a foot away from them.
The Maw opens, a few inches from Window. A tongue shoots out, wrapping itself around his neck, yanking his head inside. But Windows still held the barrel, and he fired again, directly into the maw, before the teeth closed around his head. The tongue is disconnected, and Windows jumps back, a second before the Maw closed around the barrel of the Flamethrower.
Windows rips the tongue off, throws it against a wall, and backs away. The barrel is inside the Thing, which is now almost completely immolated. The Thing pulls, ripping the tank off of Gary’s back, tearing the straps.
Windows sees his chance. He pulls out his gun, single bullet left.
He aims, silently praying.
He fires.
A spark greeted him.
Kerosene leaks out of the bullet hole, dribbling down the tank, onto the burning flesh of the Thing. The Kerosene connects with the flames, racing them back into the tank.
”KRA-KOOOOOM”
An explosion rips through the hallway. Pieces of flesh fly everywhere, crashing around the hallway.
Windows is knocked back by the force, his head again hitting the ground.
Groggily, he rolls over and pushes himself up.
Pieces of Thing are everywhere, burning. Norris’s head is on the ground, shooting its tongue out to try and escape. But his hair catches on fire, and soon the entire head is consumed.
Windows stands, looking at the destruction.
The flames run out of fuel, and soon go away, turning the room back into darkness. The view vanishes.
MacReady walks into the Medical and Surgery Room.
