"Whoever wins... We lose."
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October 3, 2004.
Weyland Industries satellite P12 picks up a heat bloom over Antarctica and the icebreaker Piper Maru is dispatched to investigate. Maxwell Stafford starts combing the globe looking for various experts for the expedition.
October 8, 2004
Stafford meets Alexa ‘Lex’ Woods in Nepal asking for her assistance aboard the Piper Maru.
Later that day Stafford meets with Professor Sebastian De Rosa and his assistant Thomas Parks in Teotihuacan to recruit them for the Piper Maru expedition.
October 9, 2004.
Lex Woods and Doctor Graham Miller fly from Cape Town to meet the Piper Maru enroute to Bouvetoya. Lex initially refuses to join the expedition due to insufficient time to train the other members. Miller and De Rosa eventually change her mind.
Graeme Miller: [towards Sebastian] Told you she'd stay. She can't resist my animal magnetism.
Mark Verheiden: Laugh it up, Miller. Laugh it up. Alien vs Predator. 20th Century Fox, 2004. Movie.
October 10, 2004.
The Piper Maru arrives at Bouvet Island. 30 minutes upon leaving the Piper Maru, the party arrives at an abandoned whaling station and discover a hole melted into the ice that leads directly to a pyramid buried under the island. Lex leads Weyland, De Rosa, Miller, Stafford, Thomas Parks, Verheiden, Joshi, Cannon Rousseau, Connors, Bass, Stone and three others down the ice tunnel, while Quinn’s drilling team and a Weyland Industries security party remain at the whaling station.
Just over 2 hours later, Lex’s party reaches the bottom of the ice tunnel and they enter the pyramid. Within 15 minutes, they discover the Sacrificial Chamber in the pyramid. Lex, Weyland, De Rosa, Miller, Stafford, Verhieden, Connors, Bass and Stone move down to a lower chamber and discover a sarcophogous containing strange artifacts, while Rousseau, Thomas Parks, Joshi, Cannon and the others catalogue the Sacrificial chamber.
Lex suggests they head back to the whaling camp and return in the morning. Before they do, Stafford and his men remove the artifacts, which springs a trap that turns the pyramid into a labyrinth. Rousseau, Thomas Parks, Joshi, Cannon and the others are trapped in the Sacrificial Chamber. Seven Ovomorphs appear on raised platforms and the group are attacked by Facehuggers.
Ten minutes later, the Facehugger drops off Rousseau, and a Chestburster shortly emerges from her chest.
Lex leads the group out of the sarcophogous chamber in an attempt to get out of the pyramid. Shortly after Stone and Bass are killed by the Yautja. In the confusion of the attack, the pyramid reconfigures and the group is split into three parts – Lex, Weyland, De Rosa and Stafford; Miller and Verheiden; and Connors. Connors, Miller and Verheiden are attacked and abducted by kiande amedha in separate incidents.
The pyramid reconfigures again and De Rosa correctly guesses it is changing every 10 minutes. The group moves on, but is attacked by two Yautja. Stafford is pinned to a wall with a net and killed. The humans are saved when an kiande amedha attacks the Yautja. One is impaled on the kiande amedha tail, while the other is killed after a hand to hand fight.
Lex, Weyland and De Rosa escape before being confronted by a third Yautja. It kills Weyland and pursues Lex and De Rosa. They barely escape as the pyramid reconfigures again and they are cut off from the Yautja.
De Rosa finds some heiroglyphics that explain the history of the Yautja on Earth. Meanwhile the remaining Yautja fends off a couple of kiande amedha attacks before falling to a Facehugger.
The pyramid reconfigures yet again. Lex and De Rosa are chased by an kiande amedha and almost escape by leaping across a chasm. De Rosa narrowly saves Lex before he is taken by an kiande amedha. Lex meets up with the Yautja and hands over one of the artifacts they discovered earlier. It is a shoulder mounted energy weapon. Before the Yautja can use it he is attacked by an kiande amedha. She uses a discarded spear to kill it, and the Yautja spares her life. As more kiande amedha approach the Yautja shoots a number of them with the shoulder gun. Nearby the Queen screams and the kiande amedha retreat to her aid.
The Yautja sets his auto destruct device to go off and leaves it in the Hive.
The two run back to the ice tunnel, pursued by kiande amedha. One attacks the Yautja, but Lex shoots it off. They jump on the cable sled and are hauled back to the surface as the bomb goes off. On the surface Lex and the Yautja battle the Queen. The Yautja is killed while Lex chains the Queen to a huge tank. The tank falls into the sea taking the Queen with it.
A Yautja ship lands and more Yautja emerge to pick up the body of their fallen comrade. Lex is left on the island while a PredAlien hatches from the dead Yautja shortly after the ship departs.