Another take on season three. What if Xev and Stanley had a son that played a crucial role in Prince's games? Angst, Anal, CR, H/C, MCD, MiCD, M/F, M/M, D/s, M/s, Oral, Preg, Violence
Chapter One: The Son
It has been nearly 4,000 years since the Lexx drifted through the Dark Universe after it ran out of fuel to propel itself in deep space. Once the Lexx reached the orbit of two planets, 790's roller-cart fails to function and descends off the bridge. Since the Lexx crew are in deep cryo-sleep, it was hard for 790 to wake up Xev from under the bridge, where he gets stuck. The robot-head weeps in the meantime.
In a fourth cryo-pod, another male figure awaits to be reawakened once the Lexx reaches an orbit. apparently, the pod malfunctions and the lid opens. It appears to me a tall, full grown man, with no hair and a brown goatee and wearing an extra red security guard uniform, that was left behind by a stowaway from the Cluster. The man appeared in his early 20's and had an average mesomorph body type. He was also very quiet and shy. He didn't speak much, well not at all, for being raised by Kai and 790 while Xev and Stan laid in cryo-sleep during the 4,000 year journey.
While the Light Zone was still around, Xev finally gave in, in a desperate attempt to relieve her sexual frustration and tension, and gave in to Stanley's needs. They ended up conceiving and had a son. The boy was a year old during the collapse of the universe. Before the others decided to go into cryo-sleep, Stan tells Kai that his child is too young for cryo-sleep, so Kai must raise him until he's an adult. While Kai needed his cryo-sleep, 790 kept him company. Kai had to feed Stan and Xev's son with pieces of flesh taken from the Lexx's interior walls and parts of the moths, so the son could survive.
Just after awakening from cryo-sleep, he goes to the bridge and notices 790 missing from the bridge. He also looks up at the view screen and notices the Lexx orbiting two planets. He would wake the other to tell them, but he was never taught on how to operate the cryo-pod control unit. He eventually spent weeks wandering around the Lexx and eventually collapsing onto the bridge, opposed to lack of food and starvation.
Also, during this time, a middle-aged blonde, with spiked hair and wears a blue cloak and choker, is in a gondola and trying to attempt to reach the Lexx. This guy, along with two other balloonist, is Prince. Prince and his lackies are going around the inside of the Lexx and checking things out. When they enter the bridge, That's when they see a collapsed male figure on the floor. The balloonist pick him up, to his feet, as Prince approaches him. Stan's son was still conscience enough to see the figure in front of him, but too weak to keep his head up and keep his standing posture.
Prince: Who are you?
The week Tweedle doesn't answer.
Prince: Are you the only one here?
Again, the young Tweedle doesn't answer. He's too weak to focus.
Prince: How important are you?
The young Tweedle mumbles something, but Prince couldn't understand. He had his men carry him off to be taken down to his planet. Then, they hear 790's weeping and one of the balloonist gets 790 from where it's stuck and bring 790 to Prince, who is standing up on the pedestal.
790: Bring me to Xev.
790 demands.
Prince: Who is Xev?
790: My beloved darling, Xev, is the greatest woman who ever lived and I demand that you wake her at once.
Prince: Who else is on board, exactly?
Prince asks as he climbs down from the pedestal.
790: A security guard named Stanley Tweedle, who has no importance any time or place, and a dead assassin named Kai.
790 changes the subject, but a little demanding.
790: Bring me to her, at once, or...
Prince: Or what?
790: I'll wake her myself.
Prince: How?
790: I would have wakened her up, a long time ago, but the cryo-pod control unit couldn't hear me from down there where I was stuck.
Prince: So, she's the important one?
790: Without a doubt.
Prince: Good.
790: So, are you gonna bring me to her?
Without care, Prince says "no" and drops 790 off the edge of the bridge. 790 falls into pieces at the bottom of the bridge. Then Prince and his lackies head toward the cryo-chamber. Prince goes over to Xev's cryo-pod and the glass. As he presses the buttons on the control unit, the end up waking Stanley instead. As Stan wakes up, Prince doesn't give him a warm welcome, such as having his lackies threaten him with a knife to his throat. After dragging Stanley to the bridge, Prince gets Stanley to open up about his importance, where he came from and all about the Lexx itself. First, he asks what's going on.
Stanley: So - exactly where are we?
Prince: Between Fire and Water.
Stanley: And, er - how long have we been here?
Prince: You first appeared in the sky three battles ago.
Stanley: How long - how long is that?
Prince: Long time.
The balloonists push Stan up onto the pedestal.
Prince: There have been many expeditions to the giant comet - or bug, as you call it. This is the first to succeed.
Stanley: Hmm. Interesting.
Prince indicates the template. Stan puts his hand on it.
Stanley: Lexx - you can wake up now.
Lexx: Good morning, Stanley.
Stanley: Good morning, Lexx. How are you today?
Lexx: I am tired, Stan. I have been sleeping for a very long time.
Stanley: How long?
Lexx: I don't know.
Then Prince asks the same question that was asks to the young Tweedle.
Prince: How important are you?
Stanley: It isn't obvious? Lexx -
Lexx: Yes?
Stanley: Tell them - er, tell them that you're not unfriendly in any way, that you're just a big bug that wants to eat, right?
Lexx: I am not unfriendly in any way. I am just a big bug that wants to eat - right?
Stanley: So - let's, er, let's go wake up the others.
Prince: Why? We're just getting to know each other.
Stanley: Well, it's just my friends have been asleep for a long time. I'm sure they'd really like to be up about now.
Prince: Let us be friends, Stanley Tweedle, you and I .
Stanley: Friends, oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, friends. We're friends.
Prince: Hmm. So what else does your bug do?
Stanley: It flies around. When it...
Prince: When it what?
Stanley: When it - when it does. Say, you know, I should have asked you before, but - what do you guys exactly want?
Prince: The question is not what do we want.
Stanley: Oh, I want outta here!
Stan runs off the bridge, with the balloonists in pursuit. Stan gets to the cryo-chamber, and tries to wake up Kai. Prince happens to be there.
Prince: We missed you, Stanley.
Prince is in Stan's cryo-pod. He gets out, and the balloonists push Stan into it.
Stanley: That hurts!
Prince: I'm very good with pain
Back on the bridge again. Stan is on the pedestal. He thinks that not telling Prince that the Lexx is a weapon might save his life, but he was wrong. Stan also doesn't anything about his son, cause he doesn't want his son to get involved. He does the same for others, hoping this Prince guy would leave them alone. He was wrong.
Stanley: Why are you doing this to me?
Prince: Fun.
Prince: I wanna know about the others. First, what about the man in black?
Stanley: Oh, he's dead, see, we're just holding onto him until we can finally land on a planet and bury him, you know? It's a custom we observe, with our dead. Actually, he's kind of alive dead.
Prince: Alive dead?
Stanley: Yeah, yeah. He can actually walk around a little bit. You know, we should go wake him up so that, so that I could show you. You'd find it really interesting.
Prince: What about the woman?
Stanley: Oh - don't worry about her, she's - I dunno, she's just a nurse or something, I, you know, I bet, I don't even know for sure exactly what it is she does do, but she's definitely not important.
Prince: She's not important?
Stanley: No, not important, not in any way shape or form.
Prince: YOU -
A frill/collar at the back of his coat suddenly flicks upright.
Prince: - are not important!
Prince ends up taking Stan and Xev's cryo-pod down to the surface of his his hot planet, called Fire. A city called Prince Town and places Stan in the bellows for punishment. Down in the bellows, captured Stan notices another male figure, held by two other men, wearing the exact same outfit he's wearing. Stan hasn't seen his son since he was only a year old. He assumes that, that's his son as an adult. Stan notices how limp the other guy is and calls out to him.
Stanley: Lazenby?
The other guy looks up, as if recognized his own name by a familiar voice...his own father.
Stanley: Lazenby, what happened to you?
The young and weak Tweedle doesn't answer. Stan could see that his son looked very weak and those who are holding him up, just doesn't understand that Lazenby isn't well.
Two handlers chain him to a seat attached to two levers, a wheel with pedals, and some bellows. The same goes for young Lazenby.
Stanley: You can't do this. That is my son. He doesn't look well. What did you all do to him?
A combination of squawks and points - Stan has to work the levers while pedaling.
Stanley: Is this what I'm supposed to do, yeah? Well I won't do that. Whatever. Whatever. I'm not gonna do it.
The handlers poke him again.
STAN: Okay, I'll do it for a while.
The handlers attach a weight to a pole at the end of the bellows, and leave Stan pedaling.
Prince hovers over Xev's cryo-pod until the heat defrosts her cryo-pod and she wakes up. Prince removes the cryo-pod lid, so she could get some air. She looks around and doesn't see Stan or Kai and notices that she's somewhere else. She sits up as she hears a different voice. The voice of a man with spiky blonde hair and wearing a long blue cloak.
Xev: Who are you?
Prince: I am Prince. Who are you?
Xev: I'm Xev.
Prince: Tell me your story Xev. Tell me everything. Tell me about your ship, the Lexx.
In the meantime, Kai wakes up from cryo-stasis and notices that Xev and Stan are missing. He also notices that 790 had fallen off the bridge, so he jumps off the bridge to retrieve the broken parts of 790. After 790 is repaired, by Kai, Kai turns the robot head around and the 790 falls for the first person it sees.
Stanley, on the other hand, isn't doing so good. He isn't happy with his punishment and demands that he be free or he'll bring on the consequences.
Stanley: Oh. Oh, good, finally. Now look - I hereby formally protest the treatment that my son and I are receiving. We have done nothing to warrant this kind of punishment, and I demand that you return us to my ship, or else you're gonna suffer the severest - the severest consequences, and I'm serious about this. You respond to my command promptly, or I'll see to it personally that you pay the price.
The handlers start to poke him again.
Stanley: Forget it, forget it, listen, my arms are tired, my legs are about to give out, and my back is burning up, so you can poke all you want, I am not gonna do this anymore, period.
The handlers lower a sort of mini guillotine, with a metal basket in front.
Instead, Stan's pleas end up getting him into more trouble. They force him to pump the bellows by placing him in a guillotine.
Back on Prince's city, Xev is tearing off pieces of her cluster-lizard dress to get comfortable, turning her dress into a two-piece outfit.
Xev: Why is it so hot in here?
Prince goes on about the war of the worlds and Xev has no idea on what he's talking about. So, she steps outside with him. Out on the ledge of his headquarters.
Prince: No one knows how long the war began, or how it would end, until now.
Xev steps closer to Prince.
Prince: Are you afraid?
Xev: Of what?
Prince: Of me.
Xev: Should I be?
Prince: Yes.
Xev: I still don't know who you are, but I'm not afraid of you.
Xev steps out, in front of Prince, and looks out into the horizon. Prince approaches from behind her.
Prince: We bump the bellows, day and night, to keep the air cool. It's the only way we can survive. We must escape from this place.
Prince changes the subject.
Prince: I sense a deep emptiness in you, Xev. Please help me.
Prince looks into her face and pleas. He starts to feel some passion for her. A passion that arouses him. Something that he hasn't felt for a long time. Xev, of course, is emotionally vulnerable and wants to help Prince.
Xev: How?
Prince: I don't know. You must tell me, cause I don't know that you can.
Xev: Why?
Prince: It's my gift.
Xev: I don't think I understand.
Prince steps closer, to touch Xev, but hesitates. He swallows hard and uses his right hand to stroke her left cheek. Xev reacts by closing her eyes.
Prince: I have waited, for you, forever.
Xev: What do you mean?
Prince: I knew that somehow, someday, you would come here. Until that day happened, I will never know true joy.
Xev: Is that what you feel now?
Prince: Close your eyes.
Xev closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. She waits for what Prince to do something. Prince leans in and gives her a long, deep kiss on the lips and looks back at her.
Prince: Please help me.
Xev: How can I?
Prince: Until now, there has always been a balance. That's why the war has never ended. But now, you Xev are the grain of sand that will tip the scales. You and your ship, the Lexx.
In the meantime, Kai asks 790 on what happened to Xev and Stan, but 790 has no clue and seems to not care. Kai looks for ways to get down to one of the planets, to go look for them, but realizes that there is only one more way. That way is jumping off the Lexx and onto the water planet first.
On the Fire planet, inside the bellows, Stan is getting exhausted and ready to give up. But, the only thing keeping him going is the guillotine.
Stanley: Where's the dead man when you need him?
Back on Prince's city, Prince and Xev are back inside his headquarters and continuing their conversation.
Xev: Where's Stanley, Kai and Lazenby?
Prince: They're dead.
Xev feels kinda bummed and a little saddened.
Xev: Stan was the one who had the key to the Lexx.
Prince: The key to the Lexx?
Xev: The Lexx only responds to the one who has the key.
Prince: Is that important? And who is Lazenby?
Prince didn't quite get what was being said. Xev makes sense of it to Prince.
Xev: The Lexx is not a grain of sand that could tip the scales. It's a huge desert. Actually, it's the most powerful weapon ever created. It can destroy a planet within seconds, but only if Stanley Tweedle tells it to. And Lazenby is Stanley's only son.
Prince, dumbfounded, takes in this information.
Prince: He never mentioned that to me.
Xev: What do you mean? I thought they were dead.
Back in the guillotine, Stan has a close call with the blade before he is called upon.