Hey there people, first time writing for this fandome so I hope that I do a good job. Right now there aren't many fics for this so I hope that this will help change that.
Please know that I do not intend to offend anyone who talks like they did in the move, but I will not be writing his speech patterns like it was. I have nothing against it I just hate writing like that.
This fic has not been given to a beta but I tried to get all the mistakes I could. If I missed anything then I am sorry.
Disclaimer I own nothing of District 9.
Wikus wasn't sure when it had started to happen but one day he noticed that he had stopped thinking or even acting like the human he use to be. It had dawned on him in the afternoon when he had been chewing on a large tire that he found in a pile of trash. He had already eaten a good section of it and had been lowering his head to take another bite when he seemed to realize what he was doing. He threw the tire away quickly and stared down at his altered hands, he moved his hands like he was only seeing them for the first time.
His gaze moved from there up his dark green shelled arms and then to his hard coated chest. He ran his hands over the mandibles that hung from his mouth and then up his wider head and stopped when they touched his fellers. He pinched at them and only just seemed to notice how strong they where. He sat down on his rear and set his legs in front of him and stared at there new shape and color.
'I am not me anymore!' he thought to himself.
A sudden hard shove on his shoulder had him turning around and glaring at whoever did it. Thinking that it would be another one of the soldiers who where just trying to get a reason to shoot at him he prepared him self to either fight them or run. He stood up and found that it wasn't a soldier but another one of the Prawns, one that he could consider himself friends with. He was about a head taller then himself and the plating of his shell was a slightly lighter green then his and had large spots of brown and black on it, his name was Jeffery and ever since Wikus fully transformed he had been there with a helping hand. He held out a can of cat food for him and Wikus took it gratefully. They began to walk around the ramshackled huts that where everywhere in District 9 each eating there can in silence.
"Your quiet today Wikus." Jeffery said after they had both finished there cans.
Wikus thought about not responding but Jeffery had been so nice to him that he couldn't stand putting him off like that.
"Just thinking is all." He said kicking a small piece of junk that was on the ground.
"Well that can't be good." He clicked.
Wikus sighed when he again realized how much he had changed. Before he had been able to understand what they where saying up to a point but it still took some guess work for him to know what they meant. Now he seemed to be able to understand them easily and he could communicate with the same clicks and warbles that they used.
"Very funny." He mumbled, he felt his fellers dip a little as a wave of sadness washed over him.
Jeffery stopped and grabbed Wikus's shoulders and turned him so they where facing each other.
"Wikus what is wrong? Have the others been acting badly to you?" He asked his protective streak coming out.
Wikus shook his head.
"No I've just... been realizing how much I have changed over the last year or two." He said.
A couple of sympathetic clicks came from Jeffery at his words.
"Don't worry about it, soon Christopher will return with others from our home and they will be able to fix you put you back the way you where." He said trying to cheer him up.
Wikus let out another sigh.
"I am not sure if I can go back to being human." He said sadly.
"Of course you can Christopher will find a way to do it. He was... is a genius." Jeffery told him.
"I know its just... I can't go back. I can't remember how to be human, I look at them now and all I see are small soft creatures full of hate for anything different. And I can't even remember the names of the people I use to know, I use to have a wife I called her my angle but now all I can remember about her is her yellow hair." Wikus said a large tear falling from his light yellow eye.
He was instantly wrapped in a strong powerful hug from Jeffery, he rubbed at his back and purred softly trying to calm him down. It took a few moment but Wikus was finally able to get control of his emotions.
"I am sorry to get emotional on you, I know that I must be the only Prawn who cries..." Wikus began but was cut off.
"Don't be stupid, all of us cry. We just tend to do it where no one can see us. Its nothing to be ashamed of." Jeffery told him.
Wikus smiled at him, or what he thought was a smile. He felt all his mandibles move up so he was going to take it as smiling. A sudden vibration started to make its way through the ground.
"Did you feel that?" Wikus asked Jeffery.
"I did more then feel it." He said pointing up into the sky. "I see it."
Wikus looked to where Jeffery was pointing and if he still had a jaw he was sure that it would be somewhere on the floor. Descending from the clouds was a ship about the same size as the one he had seen Christopher fly up in to get to the mother ship. It landed in what he figured was the middle of the district, soon dozens more of the ships started to come down from the sky all of them landing in different areas. Wikus looked back at Jeffery who was clicking happily.
"There here! I can't believe there back. There early." He said.
He grabbed Wikus's arm and began to pull him as he ran to the nearest landing sight. Wikus soon started running with Jeffery so that his arm wasn't being pulled. They made it to one of the pods and found a crowed of Prawns already gathered around it, all there eyes where focused on the opening door. Out stepped a Prawn who held himself fully erect, his shell was a shade of dark green that it looked almost black. His large eyes scanned the crowed, and he seemed to be thinking about what was going to happen.
As he stood there at least three more ships landed close by the crowd and the Prawns gathered divided there attention between the four ships. The dark green Prawn Wikus was still watching began to speak.
"Greetings lost brothers, we have arrived to take you all home."
There was silence for a few minutes before all the Prawns burst out into excited clicks and chirps. The sounds was extremely loud that Wikus wasn't sure how he heard the next words from the Prawn by the ship.
"Where is the one called Wikus?" He called out.
Several of the Prawns mumbled to themselves and Wikus was to in shock to speak up and let him know who he was. A hard shove at his back had him stumbling forward and he was forced out of the ring of Prawns so that he was standing in the small clearing in front of the ship. He glared back and found Jeffery waving at him his eyes showing his delight.
Wikus looked back at the Prawn by the ship, his intense eyes where focused on him and he was only barley able to find his voice.
"Umm... I... I am Wikus." He said shakily.
The Prawn hummed to himself and moved forward until he was standing in front of Wikus. He looked him over for a moment and Wikus tried to keep himself from shaking. Finally he held out his hand for Wikus to shake and slowly he took it.
"It is nice to meet you, Christopher has mentioned you quiet often during the course of our trip here." The Prawn said.
"R... really?" Wikus stuttered out.
The Prawn nodded his head and took him by the shoulder and started to lead him into the ship.
"Yes he spoke of nothing else. It seems as if my offspring has taken to you greatly." He said as he set him down gently in a chair along the wall.
Wikus was shocked at the words. Not only had Christopher remembered him but he didn't stop talking about him, and this Prawn was his father. He sat there in shock as the Prawn stepped back outside and started directing the rest of the Prawns into ships. He thought that some more would come onto the ship with him but none did, from what he could see of the outside the crowed had been divided up into thirds and they where all moving onto the other three ships.
Once all the ships where full the dark Prawn that was Christopher's father came back in and sat at the controls. The doors closed and Wikus felt the ship start up, he clutched the arm rest as it lifted off the ground. Trying to distract himself he started talking to the Prawn.
"So... where is Christopher?" He asked.
"He is back on the mother ship, he wanted to come down and find you himself but he was need up there to start the finishing touches on what we will use to change you back to how you where." He said.
Wikus cringed slightly at the mention of changing back. A worried click made its way from his mandibles and the father turned his head to look back at him.
"Is everything alright?" He asked kindly.
"I... don't think that I want to go back." Wikus said.
The Prawn hummed to himself and turned back to face the controls. There was a slight bump that made Wikus jump a little and bang his head on a cabinet above him. He rubbed at one of his feelers that got bent by the action, it was soar now and wouldn't stand straight.
"Sorry should have warned you. We just left you atmosphere. There will be another one in a few moments as we dock to the mother ship." He said.
Wikus nodded his head and relaxed a little, he noticed how this seat was perfect for him to sit in unlike the ones that where on Earth. They bent the same way his legs did and took the pressure off of his back. He was shaken when the ship docked and stood up when the other did.
"Come my son is waiting for you." He said to him as they made there way out of the door.
Wikus was stunned by what he saw. He had seen videos of the inside of the other mother ship when it was hovering over what became District 9 but it looked nothing like this. True the power had been out for over twenty years and things had gotten torn up by the starved Prawns but still it looked nothing close to this. The walls went up into darkness so he couldn't see the roof, there where several crisscrossing walkways that had new Prawns walking along them. All of them looked fit and healthy not starved and stringy like the ones he knew. A pull on his shoulder brought his attention back to the dark one he was following.
He led Wikus through a maze of hallways and rooms, up an elevator only to walk back down a flight of stairs. Into rooms that led into other rooms that led to more hallways. Wikus began to think that they would never get to where they where going, but finally they came to a stop in front of a large door that clearly had a warning for people to keep clear of it.
Wikus began to get scared, maybe this Prawn wasn't taking him to see Christopher. Maybe he was leading him to a lab where they would run tests on him like the humans had done before. He began to back away slowly but the one calming to be Christopher's father caught him before he could get away.
"Do not be afraid, this is only where Christopher works. The sign is only a warning to let others know that there are dangerous thing inside."
The words help but not much, slowly he moved back to where he was standing before. The doors opened and they walked into a large chamber that didn't have any windows. The door closed and a red light flashed on and off, a blue wave of light started to pass over them. It moved up and down there bodies a few times before it turned off. Then a large cloud of mist began to spray into the chamber, it quickly made it impossible to see and Wikus started to panic again.
"Don't worry, its only disinfectant. The room beyond needs to remain clean." He was told.
He relaxed again and soon the mist was clearing and the door in front of them was opening letting them move into the bright white room beyond. Wikus blinked several times to adjust his eyes to the bright room, it looked strange to see the room so white and clean and then to see several large bug like creatures moving around. It looked like one of the labs back on Earth at the job he use to have at MNU. A sudden high pitched chirping sound came from one of the Prawns who was in the room and soon Wikus was looking upon the form of Christopher. He had changed a little since Wikus had last seen him, his coloring was a little brighter and there wasn't a layer of dirt on his plates. He had also gotten a little bulkier too like he had put on some muscle.
Christopher rushed up to them and had to physically calm himself before doing anything else. Once he was back to his normal composer he bowed his head low at his father.
"Father, I am glade to see you back so soon and unharmed." He said.
His father bowed his head in return.
"It is good to be back my son, how you survived on that planet all thoughs years I will never know. I could barley breath in there week atmosphere let alone all the things you had to do in order to escape." His father said.
"It took a few years to get use to it, but it was well worth it in the end." He replied.
All the time he spoke his head stayed bowed while his father held his high.
"Please there is no need to remain so formal, you have waited a long time to see this Wikus again and now he is here and you haven't even greeted him." His father said laughter in his voice.
Christopher raised his head his eyes dancing with delight as he looked over Wikus.
"Wikus it is good to see you again." He said holding out his hand.
Wikus took it firmly.
"I am happy to see you too." He replied.
"I see you haven't turned out to badly, once you have gotten cleaned up I am sure that you would have to fight off almost everyone on this ship seeing as how they would want to claim you for there mate." Christopher said. "Its a shame that you won't be staying like this."
Wikus shifted embarrassed by the praise, he had noticed a few of the Prawns back on Earth eying him with something more then friendship in there eyes but none of them ever said anything about him being attractive. Maybe he had more to thank Jeffery for then he knew.
"Actually he was telling me on the ship that he didn't want to go back to how he was." Christopher's father said.
Wikus saw Christopher straighten up a little more at the words and he saw him give him a long look out of the corner of his eyes.
"Really? Why is that Wikus, last we talked it was all you had on your mind." He said.
Wikus shifted and rubbed at the back of his head.
"Things have changed... I have changed more then I thought I would." He said.
"I see." Christopher mumbled. "Well then if you are sure then there is no reason for use to stay in here any longer."
"I agree, let us move somewhere a little more comfortable and get some decent food into are young friend here." The father said happily.
The three of them went back into the chamber and waited for the mist to disinfect them all before they exited and headed out into the crowed of Prawns who where going about there business.
Well there it is the first chapter to my first District 9 fic and I hope that everyone liked it. Now depending on the response I get from this I will either keep it going with new chapters or I will let it fall into nothingness. The choice is up to you.
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