Nearby indeed

A bone spear flew across the corridor and lodged itself in one of the soldier's skull. Daniel fell on the floor, dead.

"Contact !" Thierry screamed.

He fired his unique rocket behind them. The detonation left rumble and smoke. Behind it, the creature's flight was put to a stop, its shape looking like one of an insect. A big one.

"Hopefully, it will buy them enough time," mumbled Thierry, "Damn it, Dan-"

"9 o'clock," Sarah yelled before firing a clip in the air intake conduit. Thierry wasn't even allowed to spend more than a second thinking about his friend's **** as another creature threatened his group.

This time, the creature that moved fast across the corridor was in full view. It looked like a fly, a gigantic one that is. Pink, with thick wings. Its abdomen was bigger than the rest of its body. A protrusion, maybe 5 inches long, hung from it. Its shape was ovoid, the base and the tip thinner than its center. White pink liquid flooded from it in an odd way. Like if it was vibrating. The mouth of the creature consisted of two mandibles, white liquid fell from it only to vanish in steam once it touched the ground, leaving a small hole where steel used to stand. A white spike emerged from where its throat should be. Ready to burst out, and probably impale another one of Thierry's soldiers.

"Shoot it down!" Thierry screamed while unloading his gun on it.

With little space, the creature couldn't dodge well and fell on the floor before it could do anything dramatic. It screamed as pink blood spilled around its corpse. Thierry did not lose any time: "Keep moving, go go go."

"Protect the officer!" Jack shouted.

The officer is a key figure in a squad, and soldiers were trained to protect them at all costs, even if it meant their own ****.

A long and slick tongue flew across the room from the conduit and grabbed Sarah's ankle. She fell, face first, on the cold floor. As the creature started to pull her, she took out a knife, but it was too late. The tongue contracted and the poor Sarah got pulled toward the air conduit. Fortunately for her, the hole made in the conduit was not big enough to let her whole body through. So she was stuck, the top of her body falling in the corridor while her legs were trapped in the ceiling.

"Nooo, get off meeeee,"

Thierry grabbed her arms and tried to pull her out. Unfortunately, the creature's grasp was too strong. He took a quick look behind him, where he threw his rocket earlier, the smokescreen embraced the walls.

No way to know when a creature will emerge from it. It was way too dangerous to remain here.

"Keep moving, you need to get out of here" Sarah pled "Leave me behind, chief, I was prepared for it. I knew I might die once I signed so don't worry, I-Hey, it pulled down my pants. What is it doing- Eeeee, it's licking my... Hnng... Why is this happening, ohhhh, this is so humiliating, just kill me already, what are you doing? Hnng... ah...aaaahhh"

Thierry and the remnants of his troop could no longer hear her torments as they were now out of range. By now, they almost reached the hangar.

"What are those things?" Jessica, the other girl of the group, inquired, "They killed Daniel but they captured Sarah to... use her? Why are they doing this?"