Solari

After the hunt of the Jakobeasts, I spent 10 minutes loading their corpses on my scout ship. I will be dealing with the bodies once I get back to my mothership. I still need to make my way to the force nexus and try to find a Solari crystal.

So I trudge through the snow, using my ability to see the energy field of the force and my holo-map to find the nexus. My mothership scanners gave me a general location, but it's up to me to zero in.

I eventually got to a point where I could see the energy field converge and get stronger towards the ground. I signal my mothership to to do a deep subterranean scan. A new cave system shows up on my bio-helmet's holo-map now. I stand back a good amount of meters and signal my mothership to use it's main plasm cannon to drill into the ground. In the first AVP movie, another mothership accomplished the same feat, so of course mine can do the same.

It only takes a moment for the plasma beam to come down from orbit. One blink later, I got myself a tunnel straight to the cave system. I waste no time and jump into the tunnel. I slide all the way down in no time. My bio-helmet has energy field vision installed as well, which only helps my own. As the cave is lightless, I overlay ultrasonic vision with it so I can see where I'm going.

I follow a path that only increases with energy field intensity. I can guess that this is the correct path to the Solari. As I get closer, I get the feeling something is watching me. After a few more minutes of walking my techno-armor is de-powered. now I'm left seeing through my bio-helmet with my natural, but much improved red sight vision. My techno-armor was made with this situation taken into account though. I have lost my use of it's special capabilities, but it is still as strong an armor as any. I can move in it with ease still. My wristblades still work too.

I then hear an uncanny genderless voice, "Hunter!"

I get low into a ready stance and pop out my wristblades. My growls reverberating throughout the caverns.

"Hunter!", I hear it again and start scanning my surroundings.

"I have been watching you for a long time hunter. I know of all the species that inhabit this galaxy, but you are not one of them.", I start to think about what or who this enemy could be.

"You are aware of me hunter. You've been seeking my power for yourself for some time. Almost since you got here.", it all starts to click.

I relax and stand up while shaking my head. I then say in my guttural language, "The Force..."

"Correct, yet not. I am but the will of the force, not the force itself. But the theology of myself is unimportant at the moment. What is important, is what you are, a hunter. I've watched you seek trophies, I've watched you hunt. I've seen you evolve after each hunt. You ability to evolve yourself and become a better killer has caught my eye." Although still off-putting, the voice sounded more interesting.

I say, "If I have caught your eye, that can only mean you have found a way for me to benefit you."

The Force Will hums, "Correct, but you must still prove yourself capable. If you do that, then I will issue you a hunt myself. At first, I aided just a little bit out of curiosity about what you would do. IT was after seeing your actions that I saw potential."

I ask, "What help?" The voice tells, "Midi-chlorians leave the body after death you know. If I did not keep them there in the body, and alive, you would have been unable to experiment. I must admit, I was a little shocked you had managed to unlock even the smallest percentage of the midi-chlorian genetic code. Your civilization must be master bioengineers. That is not too much of a surprise after watching you evolve yourself though."

This will of the force is correct. I had completely forgotten about midi-chlorians dispersing after death. I then say, "Then thanks for the curiosity driven help then. You must also know why I am here?" The voice responds, "You are after the Solari force crystal. Which is no problem, but I feel you had it easy with the Jakobeasts. I feel like you should another creature in order to get the Solari crystal."

My quilled eyebrows furrow, "What do you mean?" The voice laughs creepily, "I may have made a Rather appear in these caves. That Rathtar may or may not have eaten the Solari crystal."

I snarl. "You see hunter from beyond, I'm actually rooting for you to evolve further. That way you can succeed and become worthy of my hunts. Plus, anything can happen in the field, right? As a good hunter, I'm sure you're prepared. I'll be watching, good luck.", the voice then has a feeling of fading away.

I snort/snarl lowly, "While hunter isn't wrong. I prefer predator."

I then hear the sounds of savage snarling, screeching, flopping appendages, and rolling flesh. I am still de-powered, but that doesn't matter. The Rathar will die, guaranteed. Hear the sound getting closer. I get low and ready, wristblades out.

I see the Rathtar barreling down at me now as it turned the corner. It stopped midway though. IT flopped its tentacles towards me and I was hit with force push. I growl out, "It can use the force!Raaagh! Of course it can, dammit! You ugly ball of shit, I'll deflate your rolling aberration you call a body!"

I dead sprint at it. It sends some more force pushes towards me. My precognition kicks in and I dodge them with grace. As much grace I can manage with a 9ft body, but still grace. I basically steal a move from Wolverine and jump out claws first in a glide. I stab into the top of the Rathtar and drive both my wrist blades in. A tentacle knocks me off almost immediately. I'm sent into the wall. The Rathtar rushes me with a flurry of tentacles. Just as fast, I meet them with a flurry of slashes myself.

I cut up it's tentacles. It screams disgustingly, before it starts regenerating it's tentacles. I roar, "Force heal! Come on!" I go on defense, and take a look at my previous landed wounds on it's top. They are already closed and no scars. Dodging, force pushes, tentacles and even rocks been sent at me, I come up with a good plan. Even though my techno-armor is capable of forming a plasma cannon from reserve nanites, I always don a modified original one that is always shoulder mounted.

I rip it off my shoulder mount and drive my blade into it's power core to make it unstable. I can have around 10 seconds to get rid of it now.

I rush through the Rathtar's attacks and get right in front of its mouth. It open wide just for me, how considerate. I chuck the unstable plasma cannon in. As it is modified to be more powerful, it'll make a big boom. It goes off inside the Rathtar's mouth and blows it into chunks.

I predator laugh, "Good luck force healing from that you ugly mutant meatball that should be in the Fallout world."

I see a shiny golden crystal, "Ah, the Solari." It really did eat it, dam glutton. Well, I have what I came for. I take a look at some Rathtar chunks. The Yautja scientist takes over and I collect some chunks for genome unlocking. I severely doubt I'll want to incorporate any Rathtar in myself though.

The hunt for the Solari is over and I even got a "bonus", ugh. I got to respect it's deadliness though. It wasn't unworthy.