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CSI: Vegas crossover with Alien Vs Predator: Requiem Fanfiction:

A homeless man floated facedown in the water near the entrance to the sewers. The CSIs photographed the victim before moving him to the crime lab's morgue for Doc Robbins to conduct a post mortem analysis on the dead body. When the CSIs removed the hobo from the drain and turned him over, they discovered something shocking. The hobo had died a grisly death and his face was frozen in terror.

The CSIs combed the area looking for clues and evidence. They found nothing except unusual tracks leading back into the sewers and some strange substance on the ground near the water. It was the Predalien Xenomorph’s saliva but they had no idea about that yet.



“Post Mortem analysis indicated that the man was brutally attacked and killed with unusual weapons. He had some unusual wounds”, Doc Robbins said. "I have never seen anything like them." The CSI team pored through the photographs Doc took of the victim during the post mortem. They had never seen anyone who died with these wounds either.



The Predalien Xenomorph moved through the water filled sewers with surprising ease. It was a cross between an Alien Xenomorph and a Yautja Predator warrior. It found another homeless person wandering around in the sewers and it attacked him. The second hobo was no match for the Xenomorph and died swiftly too.



The second hobo’s body was found near the entrance to the sewers, quite close to where the first body was found. He was floating face up in the water. This hobo had died a grisly death and his face was frozen in terror too. Once again, the CSIs found nothing except unusual tracks leading back into the sewers and some strange substance on the ground near the water.



“Post Mortem analysis indicated that the second man was brutally attacked and killed with unusual weapons just like the first man. He had the same unusual wounds as the first victim”, Doc Robbins said. The CSI team pored through the photographs Doc took of the second victim during the post mortem.

“Both of them died in or near the sewers”, Sara Sidle said.

“Looks like something deadly could be hiding in the sewers", Warrick Brown said.

"Whatever it is we better find it fast”, Dr. Gilbert “Gil” Grissom said to the team of CSIs around the evidence table.

"I do not think it is human and we might have to kill it", Greg Sanders, the CSI's lab rat said.

"Do you have proof, Greg?", Dr. Grissom asked.

Greg showed the team the result of his analysis of the strange liquid substance they found at both crime scenes. "I believe this is the creature's saliva and there are alien micro organisms that are out of this world within it."



The team of CSIs armed themselves with guns and headed back to the area where the two bodies were found. They wore miner’s helmets with headlights to free their hands to hold the guns. They also wore bulletproof vests but that would not protect them from the Predalien Xenomorph that they would find. They drew their guns, flicked the safety off and switched their headlights on. Each CSI carried a spare gun and plenty of ammo for both guns. They went into the sewers to investigate and find the culprit that had killed their two victims. They had no idea what they would find would change their lives forever.



“We have been in the sewers for five hours and found nothing. Whatever it is must have gone elsewhere”, Warrick Brown said in frustration. An ominous shadow crept up along the wall as he was speaking.

Nick Stokes was the first person to notice the Predalien Xenomorph sneaking up behind Warrick Brown. He yelled, "Warrick! Look out!"

Despite being knee deep in sewer water, Warrick pirouetted around and plugged a few slugs into the creature behind him. The Predalien Xenomorph reared backwards in pain and howled. Saliva dripped from its maws and blood spurted out of its wounds. Warrick swiftly moved away from the Predalien Xenomorph and allowed the other CSIs to shoot at it.

The Predalien Xenomorph was no match for the team of CSIs. The CSIs emptied their guns into it, reloaded and fired again and again until the Predalien Xenomorph sank down into the sewer water and died.

"Thank you for that warning Nick", Warrick said.

"No problem, Warrick", Nick said.

The CSIs investigated the creature they had killed.

"Holy s**t! This thing belongs in area 51!", Greg Sanders said.



"Post mortem analysis of the strange creature you guys encountered and killed in the sewers indicated that it was the culprit that murdered the two victims. They were not killed with strange weapons but were bitten to death by the creature", Doc Robbins said. "The tracks found on the ground near both crime scenes were its footsteps and the substance Greg claimed to be the creature's saliva was indeed its saliva."

"I believe we solved this crime. Case closed", Dr. Grissom said and the CSIs and Doc agreed. They went to a good restaurant in downtown Vegas to celebrate being able to close an unusual case.

Halo Fanfiction: The life of Serin-019 before she became a Spartan-II candidate

Serin Çelik found a burst water pipe in an alley behind a very busy restaurant and drank until she was not thirsty. She found it ironic that she could go for a few days without food but must drink water every day. She overturned one of the restaurant's garbage cans and scrounged for food. The food in this restaurant was unrivaled and therefore business was booming and there was a shortage of kitchen staff. As a result, the kitchen staff was too busy and nobody from the restaurant heard the garbage can being overturned and came out to investigate. Counting her blessings, Serin hastily went through the rubbish from the garbage can. She found a half eaten burger and a half eaten chicken drumstick, counted her blessings again and swiftly consumed them.

Feeling thirsty once more, she went back to the burst water pipe to drink again. As Serin was drinking water from the leaking pipe again, a noise at one end of the alley caused her to look around. A man stood at that end of the alley and watched her. He held a package in one of his hands. The man slowly approached Serin and equally slowly unwrapped the package he held in his hands. Serin had never seen a wrapped burger before this. All the burgers she had ever eaten were half eaten leftovers from the restaurant's garbage cans. She wondered what was in the package. When the man stood in front of her, he showed her the item he was holding. Sitting in the center of the piece of wrapping paper was a freshly cooked burger from the restaurant whose garbage can she had rummaged in. It was a whole burger and it was the most beautiful burger she had ever seen. The delicious aroma of the freshly cooked burger overwhelmed Serin's sense of smell. She salivated in hunger despite the fact that she had already eaten. Serin approached the man cautiously with her hands outstretched and wondered whether he would give her the burger.

The man waved the burger at Serin. "Come on, come on...", he said and slowly backed out of the alley. All caution thrown to the wind, Serin quickened her pace and followed him. She wanted that burger! He continued to back away slowly but made sure Serin continued to follow him. He looked harmless and friendly and Serin wondered what was happening. A nagging sense of danger warned her that something was wrong. Very wrong. This sixth sense had saved her from getting into trouble many times but this time she ignored it.

The man led her towards a waiting transport that blocked the end of the alley. The transport more closely resembled an armored truck than a car. He opened the back door of the vehicle to reveal a small pile of wrapped burgers similar to the one he had opened which contained the delicious burger. The delicious smell intensified, emanating from the wrapped burgers that were sitting on the car seat. But more importantly, there were several bottles of mineral water next to the pile of burgers. Food and drink! Serin ignored her sense of danger and ran towards the transport.

Serin was too close to the man now. He gave Serin the burger he held in his hands. Serin gratefully mumbled "Thank you" and started to eat the burger. Serin was a swift eater and quickly finished eating the burger she was given by the man. It was the most delicious burger she had ever eaten. It tasted much better than the half eaten leftover burger she found in the restaurant's garbage can earlier.

He saw that she had finished eating the burger he had given her and waved at the inside of the waiting transport. "There are more burgers for you inside", he said.

Serin's eyes widened. "All these are for me? The bottles of water too?"

"Yes", the man nodded and smiled. *How generous of him!*, Serin thought. The naive six years old Serin thought that she had found a new friend.

She was thirsty again and needed to drink water. Fortunately there were many bottles of water inside the vehicle. Serin clambered into the vehicle and grabbed a bottle of water. She twisted the cap to open the bottle and then guzzled the water from the bottle. This water tasted even better than the water she had drunk earlier from the leaking pipe! As soon as Serin entered the vehicle, the man swiftly got into the vehicle after her and closed the door. "You can drive away now. Target acquired", he told the driver who nodded. The vehicle sped away from the alley.

Serin was baffled by her new friend's words. She was a target? For what purpose? But the food and drink called to her and she forgot what she heard. She finished the bottle of water, unwrapped another burger and started to eat it. As she ate, she looked outside the window at the scenery. The building where she lived with her mom loomed for a moment as the vehicle neared it and then they passed it. Serin thought of Pinar Çelik, her mom who often neglected her and was the reason why she had to scrounge for food wherever she could. Serin had no idea she would never see her mother or that she would never need to scrounge for food or go hungry again.

Serin's new friend, the man who had lured her with the food and drink was an Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent named Mr. Teddy. Serin was kidnapped to become a Spartan-II candidate and she would be listed as Serin-019 on the Spartan-II candidate roster.

A swimming pool aboard a starship!

Unbelievable!
Swimming pool in starship's gym!
I swam in this pool

Her parents had a weird sense of humor or they weren’t thinking when they named her Cherry Crusher. This shy girl became the butt of jokes and bullying in the small town of New Haven where she lived with her parents Jonathan and Annamaria Crusher and her brother Phoenix Crusher. Her brother was the butt of jokes too but not as badly as her.

Right now the town of New Haven is having a townwide water festival. This festival happens annually. Everyone, old and young are now going around town with their water guns shooting water at each other. A temporary waterpark has been set up in the park in the middle of the town. It has all kinds of waterslides and an enormous inflatable swimming pool.

Cherry bought a simple water gun, filled it with water and used it to defend herself against the other townies who shot at her with their water guns. She discovered that the watergun she bought was quite useless. It keeps getting jammed and she was unable to fire back when that happens. So she took a piece of paper and a pencil and designed a better watergun. Then she set about trying to build it with recyclable materials she found in the house. Having build the watergun, she filled it with water and went outside with it.

Vladimir, the boy who was the biggest bully in town lived next door. She nicknamed him “Dracula” not because of his name but because he was cloaked with an aura of negativity and reeks of evil. He was sitting outside his house and when he saw her he came and tried to soak her with his watergun. Cherry fired back with her new invention and was able to soak him thoroughly before he gave her more than wet hair. Defeated and ashamed, Vlad immediately ran back into his house and slammed the front door.

Other townies ended up getting even more surprised when Cherry discovered that her watergun could shoot two targets at once with minor modifications. Soon, word got around the town of New Haven - “Don’t mess with Cherry this water festival. She’s got a powerful watergun.” No one shot at her with their waterguns anymore. Right now, she was only 3 years old. This first success with the improved water gun proved that Cherry Crusher was a genius. Many other creative inventions build with recyclable materials will be invented by her.

When Cherry Crusher, the kid with the weird name was 9 years old, she finished high school by skipping many grades during elementary and high school and earned a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was very glad to get away from small town New Haven. It wasn’t because New Haven was boring. It was because the town was full of very mean people who made fun of her because of her name. You can’t choose your parents, much less your name.

Her roommate in the co-ed dorm had a weird name too, but not as bad as hers. Jade Goldstein liked to party, swim and listen to loud music. At first, Jade Goldstein didn’t think much of her new roommate Cherry Crusher who was many years younger than her.

“What’s a baby like you doing in a place like this?”, was her initial reaction when they first met when they moved into their dorm room. But when Cherry was able to tutor Jade in Advanced Calculus, a subject she usually had trouble with, she changed her mind and they developed mutual respect.

Jade frequently invited Cherry to go swimming with her in the M.I.T's swimming pool. They also went with their friends to the seaside so they could swim in the sea. One year, Cherry invited Jade to go back to New Haven with her during the town's annual water festival. Both of them had fun blasting the other townies with their two giant water cannons that they build out of recyclable materials.

Cherry graduated with a double major Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Quantum Physics, followed by a double major Masters degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and a double major Ph.D in Aeronautical and Civil Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with full scholarships. It took her 1 year to graduate with her bachelor's degree, 1 year to graduate with her masters degree and she completed her doctorate studies and graduated when she was 12 years old. Before and after she graduated, she did a lot of research, wrote many thesis papers, invented many gadgets with recyclable materials and became famous.

When Dr. Cherry Crusher was still studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the space colonization race begun. After MARS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were successful and Mars was successfully colonised, many countries wanted to colonise the moon next. Three countries with space programs: The United States, Russia and China decided to collaborate and pool their expertise and resources to colonise the moon together. So the joint U.S. – Russia – China Lunar Program was born. With her unique qualifications, Dr. Cherry Crusher was immediately accepted for the Lunar Colonisation Program when she submitted her application. Coincidentally, the joint U.S. – Russia – China Lunar Program was named the Phoenix Lunar Program. Phoenix, like her brother Phoenix Crusher.

The parts of the Lunar colony space shuttle were build in each of the three countries but the final assembly was at Cape Canaveral where the shuttle would lift off. The shuttle was build in such a way that the Lunar Colonists can cannibalise it for spare parts when they reach the moon. After eight months of construction and testing, the space shuttle was completed. Meanwhile, the people who were chosen to be the space colonists and crew including Dr. Cherry Crusher had been undergoing astronaut training. They were now ready to go Colonise the moon.

Liftoff from Cape Canaveral happened without any issues. Then the shuttle was underway and they reached the moon within a week. The colonists’ shuttle landed safely on the moon. In the first few weeks, the Lunar Colonists build several Biodomes with living quarters, greenhouses and life support for them to live in. Dr Cherry Crusher improved on the designs of the existing Biodomes. The structural integrity increased and the Biodomes became safer and the greenhouses were 20% more efficient at generating oxygen and food. Soon they began to try to terraform the moon like their Martian colonist counterparts have been doing on Mars. Dr Cherry Crusher once again proved to be a quite useful colonist as she led the Lunar terraforming efforts.

Now, many years later, there's a thin but breathable atmosphere, some tough plants are able to survive outside the Biodome greenhouses and there are lakes on the moon. Those lakes contained fishes from Earth in them such as Salmon, Trout, Carp, Pike and Tuna. The Lunar Colonists are now able to enjoy fishing and sailing on boats and ships in their lakes on the moon.