Authors Note.Now it has been quite a while since I've been at the writing game. So I must apologize if my work seems a little rusty or sloppy. Also note, I do NOT put myself in my stories T.T this is one of my characters from his point of view.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own or have any of the rights to any of the AVP films, games, ect. This is purely fiction for the sake of entertainment not profit.
The day started off normal enough. Breakfast, around the house chores, and paying my respects to my dead grandfather. After that I made my way down to town. I lived in a small mountain community where the air was always clean, crisp and the views at sunset and dawn were always breath taking. The trees would give off the sweet sent of pollen in the air, and the people were for the most part always nice and respectful of one another. Well... except for me that is.
I walked into the general store to buy some large batteries, some replacement cable, and a little extra carousel oil. But upon my arrival I received many strange and odd looks from the people of the town. To them I was a paranoid recluse living on the rim of the mountain in my grandfathers cabin. I would always catch the rumors about me and how I "was trying to bring my grandfather back to life and, that I was some nut gearing up for war." None of it was true of course but people would always seem to find something to make up about me.
"So how goes the science experiments Frankenstein?" Joe, the cashier and a good friend of mine asked.
"Oh bite me you little gremlin. You know just as well as everyone else that I'm not some madman or crazy. So quit teasing me about it!"
"Hey hey, I'm only joking around man. I know." He said while bagging the items.
"Seriously though, why does everyone always say that about me? I don't get it. It's like after my grandfather died everyone can't stop talking about me." I spoke with a tired voice. It never really did help my sanity much that everyone kept looking down on me.
"Well let's see, you took up martial arts the moment he died. You started buying a ton of surveillance equipment. Hell, just last week you bought a fan blade and flood lights. Why do you even need those?" He asked with genuine concern.
"The fan blade on one of my generators broke."
"And the flood lights?"
"... I want to be able to easily spot animals that wonder close?"
He sighed and finished ringing up the items. I guess I could kind of understand where he was coming from. I never did let anyone ever come to visit me, or invited friends over. And I would on occasion buy some questionable things that people don't generally outfit their homes with.
"Thanks Joe, hey I'll see you later alright man?"
"Just try to take care Allen, really." He said with a smile. I waved and left.
While walking back to my car a patrol unit came up along side me. It was Remirez, the local sheriff. He had always given me a hard time about being "different" and living alone while never letting anyone come near the house. Every time there was something happening in this small town it would be my door he'd beat on first.
"Keeping out of trouble Allen?" He asked.
"But of course officer. I'm just getting ready to head home."
"Well look, anytime you ever wanna get out more there are a lot of places you could visit. Like, a book store or maybe even going to talk to someone."
"No I'm fine. Besides, I've got enough to keep me busy all the time at home."
He grunted and started to pull away. He wasn't a bad man, just a bit overbearing. But I suppose that's what made him good at his job.
When I finally got home it was about four o'clock in the afternoon. I carried the things inside and set them down on the counter. Then walked upstairs to view the security camera footage over last night. I had camera's installed in many different parts of the house and more than a few hidden well outside. There was nothing out of place except seeing some teens throw rocks at the house.
"I swear one of these days those idiots are going to stumble right into it." I said while heading back downstairs. I ate dinner then proceeded outside and down the hill a bit. I stopped right at the edge of a gape between the trees, looked around. Then reached my hand out and started to feel the invisible surface. I knew exactly where the controls were by heart, and proceeded to open the hatch on the ship.
Once open I strolled inside and started up the generators activating the lights. Closed the hatch behind me and opened my video diary.
"Okay, so it's taken three years and a hell of a lot of translation, but I think I've finally learned the language of the Yautja... in text form anyway." I spoke while setting the camera down on my workstation. I poured the oil into several lanterns I had hanging in the halls.
"So, last week I got a little too eager and accessed the armory. Which I swore I WOULDN'T do after that little mishap with the tiny box I thought was a computer, then seeing it fire a blue death ball through my house. But as a result, I found some kind of wrist-mounted blades. And I also found out that they can fire out of the gauntlets. Hence why I had to buy another fan blade for the generator." I said motioning my off hand towards it while I was working.
"Now, my initial thought was maybe I'd find some tools or something to maybe help me find out more about their culture. Seeing as how I couldn't dig up much from the ships data banks except different locations throughout the galaxy. But no, there was just a bunch of different weapons. But I guess I should have figured as much from a room listed as "the armory"." I said with picking up the camera and walking down the hall.
I entered a somewhat larger room that was round, had a big table in the middle of it, and on one end of the room had many dark computer screens. I walked over and sat down in the chair that was a little big for me and started tapping away on the buttons.
"Now I have tested the ships power by integrating a few human computers into the system to monitor the ships state. And I found out that not only has this thing managed to have enough power to stay cloaked for three whole years but that it's power source renews itself every few hours or so. This ship literally produces more power than it needs and as far as I can tell it's reactor is self-sustaining." I said as the screens in front of me came to live.
"I want to know everything about them. Why they come to Earth, where they're actually from, and if they're a reasonable people." I said while browsing through the ships controls. I saw a file that read, "Home and clan" and opened it. I then saw many different pictures, texts, just so much data flowing through the screen at once. I tried slowing it down to read it but as I did that I heard a loud bang.
My head swiveled around and I was up and out of the seat racing down the hall. I saw a view port as I was running and it looked like the ship was moving. I came to the hatch and opened it only to see that I was already thirty feet up in the air. Then the engines roared and I was sent flying into a pillar. I crawled for the controls to close the hatch then was back up and sprinting back to the bridge again.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no no no." I frantically repeated while jumping back into the chair. Something in that file or something I did auto started the engines and the ship was rapidly ascending into the sky.
"Okay this should be easy. Just find the button to land again, right? Or wait, do I have to do that manually?" I mused while flying through the controls. I was no pilot, not only that I was on board a non human ship. All I knew how to do on this thing was read the messages onscreen and use the ships bridge computer.
"I could just turn the ship off right? Power down the systems?" I thought to myself while viewing the controls for it. There was a safety protocol in place that prevented me from attempting it however. My mind was racing and my heart was beating a mile a minute. Where was this thing going? How would I stop it or turn it around?
I hit a tab onscreen that read, "open central viewing area" and then the round bridge rooms walls started re-contracting revealing the blackness of space. I saw many fast moving stars, and when I turned around to see Earth... all I could see was our solar system slowly getting smaller.
"... Fuck my life."