Complex 13

JOURNEY OUT OF HELL

Out of the lab they bolted.

Dozens of squealing man-sized dragons now filled the air of the hangar.

Armstrong and his men fired up in every direction as they ran, bringing down creatures all around them.

They came to the spindly metal spiral staircase leading to the ceiling…

…just as a series of great low growls arose from the floor of the hangar.

Every man froze.

The high-pitched squeals of the smaller dragons stopped.

Then, with a great cracking sound, five large super-adults burst up out of the web-formation on the floor of the hangar!

They were enormous—not only possessed of heads like T-Rexs, but each was the size and shape of a T-Rex, only with huge flapping leathery wings and six free-grasping claws which they used to grab prey. Their heads were utterly terrifying: longnosed and leathery, with giant jaws equipped with teeth twenty inches long!

And how they moved!

The great superdragon-like monsters soared into the air, swooping around the staircase like giant bats, snapping at Armstrong and his men. They towered over the humans—easily double their size.

One creature bit a Marine clean in half.

Another grabbed two with its claws and stuffed them both into his mouth together.

In both cases the creature in question instantly vomited up its food, spraying blood and partially-digested human remains everywhere in some peculiar kind of eating function. No sooner had the remains hit the floor than hundreds of little slug-like creatures emerged from the web and started eating the shredded remains.

Yet another of the super-adults made for Armstrong himself—but the Finisher just whirled to face it and fired his large-bore Desert Eagle right into the monster’s left eye.

The giant creature’s eye exploded, torn from its socket and the monster squealed and fell out of the air, crashing down on top of its ship, writhing and convulsing.

Now only five Marines remained on the spiral staircase.

Armstrong and two of them made it to the top of the stairs just as two of the super-adults wrenched on the staircase itself, ripping the entire structure from its ceiling mounts, causing the whole high-and-narrow staircase to topple…and fall… with the last two Marines on it!

Like a slow-falling tree, the staircase fell, crashing down onto the silver spaceship and the web formation on the floor, crushing through the suspended catwalk on the way.

No man would be going down there ever again.