Alien vs. Predator: Three World War #2 pg 6 February 24, 2010 Ink over pencils on 11x17 Dark Horse illustration board Writer: Randy Stradley Pencils: Rick Leonardi (Signed bottom center) Inks: Mark Pennington (Signed to right)
When a mysterious faction of Predators attack a mining operation on a human colony world, the Colonial Marines go to visit Machiko Noguchi, a former hunter herself, to try and enlist her help in fighting them. Though she refuses at first, she is shown a video which shows that the Predators were working with Xenomorphs. She identifies that these are a rogue demographic of Predators called "Killers," which are not part of the mainstream culture of the Hunters. Faced with the evidence, Machiko reluctantly agrees to help the Marines. With Machiko on point, the humans devise a deadly new plan: to enlist the help of her old hunting party to stop the Killers...
Machiko Noguchi is the only human known to have lived among the extraterrestrial hunters known as Predators — and she's had plenty of up-close-and-personal experience with another deadly, otherworldly life form, the xenomorph Aliens, hunting the beasts alongside her Predator hosts. Machiko thought those days were long past, but now a long-lost rival clan of warlike Predators has emerged, using specially bred Aliens as weapons, and both Predators and humans are threatened. Now, Machiko must again don her Predator armor and negotiate a possible alliance with the very same race that made trophies of humans for centuries. And when you "negotiate" with Predators, there will be blood!
