Chaos

The doors slid open to reveal a scene from a perverse nightmare. The walls of hallway outside of the elevator were slick with green and yellow ichor, several bodies of the infected creatures scattered on the deck, their mutated flesh gouged by numerous rifle wounds.

Before Marie or Nicholas could get their bearings, a whirling mass of flesh and claws hurled itself through the opening doors, slamming Nicholas off his feet and pinning him to the floor. The pilot's rifle clattered away as he howled in fear and struggled to throw off the assailant. The creature's deformed hands scrabbled at Nicholas's RIG, and its inhumanly long tongue slavered of the pilot's helmet, coating it with drool and yellow slime. Marie realized that the beast was keeping him distracted and pinned while its massive tail reared up, preparing to strike.

Reacting instinctively, Marie lashed out with her surgical blade.