Plus, the entire plot of this book revolved around the efforts of the most highly-advanced A.I. The reason the Terminators were so hard for the Predators to kill wasn’t because of their robotics–as Predators have destroyed androids plenty of times in past AvP stories–but because of the ‘Xenomorph’ aspect of their new synthetic biology. This direct side-by-side comparison seems to indicate that Xenomorphs are better killers, since they succeeded where the Predators so miserably failed–but that’s not all.

The number of Xenomorphs that attacked the Terminators were about the same as the number of Predators that were fighting in the battle. The Xenomorphs–who were previously kept dormant in the lab–swarmed the Terminator-hybrids, and quickly wiped out every last one of them. So, Ripley does the one thing she thought she’d never do, and she unleashes a horde of Xenomorphs.

The Terminator/Xenomorph-hybrids proved too much for the Predators as the team of professional hunters were getting decimated by Skynet’s forces. Unfortunately, once the battle breaks out, the Predators start losing–pretty badly. This means that the Predators had to kill them all, right here and now, or the universe would be doomed. When Ripley and the small army of Predators arrived, they realized that they were too late, and the Terminators already created their perfect killing machines. The Terminators decided to make it their own testing facility and use the dormant Xenomorphs that were contained within the lab to create their sinister hybrids. Ripley and the Predators track the Terminators to a secret laboratory that was established as a safe place off-world to experiment on Xenomorphs. In Aliens vs Predator vs The Terminator #4 by Mark Schultz and Mel Rubi, Ripley8 (the Xenomorph-hybrid clone of Ripley) has joined forces with the Predators to take down Skynet before the Terminators merge with Xenomorphs and become the deadliest creatures in the galaxy.

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