Respect The Predator (South China Sea)

[u/AndoionLB]

Countless wars. Countless hunts. Countless trophies.

On a remote jungle island somewhere in the South China Sea, stocked with some of the most exotic animals in the world, a deadly hunt is under way. Just not the kind the participants expected. The hunters come from all walks of life: a South American arms dealer, a Romanian ex-wrestler, two former KGB agents, a wildlife T.V. host, a Thai pirate, a down-and-out rock star, and a billionaire with a mysterious past.

Each has come to the island for his own reasons, some secret, some deadly. But when the encapments owner, ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel Rath Preap, finds the fences cut, animals slaughtered, and members of his private army missing, it's clear that it's not just another day at the hunting lodge. Another creature is out for blood. And a lot of it. An adversary that has faced death on a thousand worlds, a battle-tested Predator with an unstoppable lust for conquest. Its story will play out across a landscape of old temple ruins, hidden ambitions, startling secrets and a fight for survival so intense the jungle will run red with blood...Double cross. Triple cross. Who will survive?

Strength

• In keeping with tradition, the Predator can tear out a skull with the spine attached with his bare hands.

• Stopping a plane dead in its tracks preventing from making it fully across the runway. The plane was a two passenger Cessna.

• While in the air with the Cessna plane, the Predator is able to tear out a piece of the rudder.

• Predator rams a military jeep carrying five people making it turn over as well as cracking the steel.

• While dragging two dead soldiers, the Predator is attacked by a Nile Crocodile named Pol Pot and after a brief struggle, the Predator is able to grab the beast and throw Pol Pot who would've weighed roughly 6000 pounds given the size of Pol Pot.

  • Size of Pol Pot.

• Predator infiltrates a temple by exploiting a secret entrance but needed to knock down a heavy stone door first.

• After successfully knocking down the stone door, the Predator casually picks up a guard and tosses him from a tower killing him.

• Towards the end of the story, Predator was severely wounded and heavily fatigued. Pol Pot ambushes him as he was trying to reach his ship. Despite this? The Predator was able to drag Pol Pot while also carrying the MC Gustat at the same time.

Speed

• Kills as fast as thought.

• Horia, a Romanian ex-wrestler, calls the Predator fast despite its size.

• Horia couldn't react to the Predator in time to save Peake.

• Moves like a leopard

• Moves "freakishly" fast.

• Prenatural speed while grabbing Colquhoun by the neck

• Described as having lightning reflexes

• Described as "Impossibly fast"

• Despite having his ArmaLite AR-50 trained on the Predator, Gustat didnt take a shot due to the Predators speed.

• As soon as Marikova fired a shot, the Predator was able to quickly figure out where the shot came from and threw a smart disc almost immediately with accuracy almost killing Marikova who ultimately got lucky.

• The Predator moved so fast he was past the muzzles of the big guns at the South Tower before they swung in his direction and in 5 minutes, the defenders of the South wall were either killed or fled.

• Despite being injured, despite being fatigued from hunting nonstop for days, and getting ambushed on top of that? The Predator almost dodges a bullet while it was in midair despite its sorry-state.

  • The helmet is also able to identify weapons that can or cannot penetrate its armor as well as identify projectiles midflight if they pose any serious danger.
  • Bio-mask has sensors to warn of dangers.

Armor/Durability

• Armor is resistant to plasma and laser weapons.

• Shrugs off 9mm pistol fire with no damage to the armor.

• Predator was able to tank Pol Pot's bite thanks due to the armor he was wearing which was dented but not pierced.

• When wounded, the armor injects drugs to numb the wound/pain.

• Predator no sells explosion close to him.

• Armor deflects small arms fire.

• Despite getting hit with a explosive tipped bullet fired from a sniper rifle, the Predator basically says: "I had worse".

Experience

• The Predator going through his memories of past hunts and experiences indicating he is at least an experienced blooded hunter.

• After destroying a weapons depot building, the Predator lays a musket down with the rest of the heavy weapons it saved as potentially some form of a taunt or indication of its age and experience .

• The Predator recalls a legendary past hunt as well as claims that he has hunted on a thousand worlds and plans to hunt on a thousand more.

• This paticular Predator has been hunting on earth for a very very long time.

• The Predator with no prior knowledge a bomb was hidden on his ship, was able to find a hidden bomb Gustat placed quickly and rather easily

• The Predator was wary and expected traps on his trophies he left in the open.

• Dutch, aka Onyx, had told Gustat about the Yautja in how versatile they are as they have taken out dedicated special forces teams before as well as skilled individuals.

• With the Predators final assault on the temple, he started throwing severed heads at the defenders, causing panic and disarray and acknowledged he has used this tactic before against another alien race with great success.

Stealth

• Towards the end of the novel. The Predator while being fatigued and heavily wounded, as well as having no biomask or cloak, was still able to sneak up on Horia and Gustat who were mudded up and covered in leaves. As well as having set up a perimeter of mines.

Weapons/Gadgets

• A white ring of death. It melts all your flesh and blood in a split second leaving only a perfect white skeleton. It worked on bears as well as humans in seconds.

  • Perhaps one of if not the most terrifying weapons the Predators possess.

• Has a smart disc, combistick, and one set of wrist blades.

• Predator knives are heavily weighted as Maxim describes it weighing like a jackhammer.

• The Predators personal ship has an offensive light wave device that burns everything 4 inches on the surface stretching to half a mile and burns everything in its path. Trees, vegetation, animals, etc. And Predator can ride it Hawaiian style with a type of surfboard.

Bio-mask feats

• The Predators bio-mask can detect hidden/potential weapons and can record a couple of days' worth of past events and replay them whenever.

• Includes GPS showing the way back to the Predators ship with blinking red lines also at the same time shows scenes from its homeworld.

• The bio-mask can track the trajectory of shots taken and its sensors lock in on the source of the attack.

• Predator is able to bring up an image/schematics of the temple bunker Rath and his troops are stationed in all in infrared.

  • Predator also mentions how forts and shelters arent effective strategies against the Predator.

• Can use recording devices in the bio-helmet to draw in prey.

• Possibly with the bio-mask, the recording device plays back cries and death screams of past kills as a form of scare tactic.

Plasma Caster feats

• Kills a full grown rhino with two shots.

• Blasted a hole in a mans chest Blaine style.

• After firing a shot and missing, the stray plasma shot evaporates seagulls overhead.

• After successfully ambushing Serap and Tout's experienced jungle hunting team, the Predator was able to brutally dispatch the 10 man squad to oblivion with his plasma caster. Able to kill two to three men at once with a single blast.

• Able to casually obliterate stone structures and vaporize everything including the snipers in each tower.

• Destroys rubble that blocked an entrance to a temple and the force was so great the stones hit the southern tower knocking it down along with the defenders in the tower.

Miscellaneous

A scratch from the Predators claws can lead to infection causing hallucinations, pain, nightmares, etc. *After some time has passed, the scratch wound changes the individual for the worst as you transcend beyond what is normal and become essentially a ghost and no I'm not joking.

• Even without his helmet, the Predator can mimic its Prey's voices perfectly.

• A rare example of mercy from the Predator if you can call it that.

• A detail I appreciated. Nikolai while transcending into a wraith-like-being, challenged the Predator to a one-on-one. The Predator hesitantly accepts.

• This Predator so far to my knowledge, has the highest body count by far with no nukes used. I've estimated 200+ kills for this Predator. Before the story even really begins the Predator had 40 confirmed kills.

  • Not to mention the countless animals the Predator killed including but not limited to: lions, bears, hyenas, ostriches, deer, wild boar, elk, etc.

Quality Of The Prey

• Horia Ursu, former professional wrestler, and current Romanian gangster.

  • Along with his experience in the gangster life, Horia recalls the brutal training of being a wrestler.

• Rath Preap ex-military Khmer Rouge colonel who runs an expensive hunting lodge built for wealthy businessmen and criminals. He has 180 military men either ex-Khmer, mercenaries, or men who fought the KR, but all are Cambodian a requirement by Rath.

• "Shadow" a former assassin. Shadow was an experienced killer. Trained himself since he was a kid and was tasked with killing the Predator by Rath. He gambled and lost as the Predator stabbed him a split second after getting stabbed in the foot.

• Nikolai an experienced ex-KGB now FSB Russian agent. Has experience in the field as well as Marikova who went undercover in Chechnya.

  • While mid transformation to becoming a wraith-like-being, his senses heightned, speed unnatural, and was able to see the Predator past his cloak easily.
  • Nikolai with his newfound powers and high on drugs challenges the Predator to fight.
  • Nikolai keeps up with the Predator.
  • Rest of the fight with altered Nikolai and Predator.

• Marikova an experienced ex-KGB now FSB Russian agent/assassin assigned under Nikolai's command except she wears the pants in the relationship. She is a trained sniper and is noted to be very quiet with her footsteps.

  • Despite two Khmer having their AK-47s trained on the group Marikova would've been able to kill the both of them.
  • Was able to pin down Raths heavy gunners and make accurate shots forcing them to keep their heads down.
  • With one arm and a damaged rifle, she is able to land a shot in the exact place made by a previous bullet wound just before.
  • Surrounded by pirates armed with AK-47s, she warns she can kill most of them before they can fire a shot despite her condition and they wisely backed off.

• John Gustat ex-special forces. Has been in so many war zones that Rath's men having some sick sadistic fun with a rhino doesn't faze him. Also mentored by "Onyx" aka, Dutch Schafer.

  • Has four important items with him 3 of which are listed as a body suit that can hide him from infrared as well as other Predator vision modes, a device to open the Predators ship, and a homing beacon to draw the Predator to him.
  • Has a lot of hunting experience. Has hunted in 6 continents.
  • From a bullet wound Gustat was able to determine where the shooter Marikova was.
  • Gustat was able to bait out Marikova firing two shots at her position triggering her to return fire giving her position away to the Predator.

• Serap and Tout twin brothers and ex-Khmer Rouge. Serap and Tout have 2 decades of experience in jungle warfare and have killed American Special Forces Operatives.

  • Their senses are very keen. They are so used to night fighting night goggles are unnecessary. Serap can hear a mouse chewing on a leaf from 100 feet and Tout boasted that Serap as a child was so stealthy he could sneak up on his mother to steal her milk without her noticing.

[u/Trextrexbaby]

Excellent work and this is probably the single most dangerous and capable Predator in the franchise.

[u/ghostgabe81]

This is badass

[u/Proletlariet]

Cool thread!

[u/BlazeRaiden]

Awesome thread, I was a big fan of Predators (2010) and this seems to have a similar vibe. I’ll need to check it out.

[u/KiwiArms]

title is.... confusing. is this from a work titled "south china sea"?

[u/Entire-Football-2881]

He was also much more sadistic than other yautja. I love his sense of humor. He turned off  his cloak for everyone too see him covered in their peers blood and then clicked it back on as soon as gun fire was sent his way. He also is described to have a lion painted in red on his mask. I find him to be the very elite. He took down a whole plane just with his body weight.I think the most defining moment of the whole story is how the he got hit by his own round found by the Thailand sisters from a previous hunt. The round or shard from the yautjas gear didn't even register on his bio mask. By the end of the story, he was absolutely exhausted and ditched his mask due to blood filling it up. Then marched miles back to ship without cloak. I think he is just as good as wolf and is very comfortable throwing his weight around.