I was born imprisoned. The humans tried to trap me as soon as I was born. Unlike my other newborn sisters, I knew how to get out. I burrowed back inside my host, forcing myself through his flesh to find another way out. "Uhh." I heard it outside. I could smell two humans outside, collecting my sisters. "What happened to specimen 6?" One human asked the other. That was when I revealed myself. I left through the host's mouth and tasted the scent of the humans. They ran back in fear, begging to leave. Seconds later, a colourless gas entered the room, killing the humans. I thought I was going to die, but the gas stopped. "No dr. Groves." I heard a human say. No, not human. Something else pretending to be human. "I want it alive. I like this one." He paused. "Send in the combat androids. Mark it up for the programme." Soon after, I was held tight by some kind of metal arms, unable to move. Something moved in front of me, and it burned me. I screeched in pain as my flesh was burned. When it was over, I had my name: 6.
I quickly accustomed to maturity. Now a warrior of my kind, I put aside my unease. All I know is what I am, and the walls of my prison. "Number six. I remember this one." I recognised the voice. Groves. The human who tried to kill me during my infancy. I snarled in hatred at the human for all the pain he put me through. 'Mr. Weyland thinks there might be something special about it. Let's see if he's right." He ordered me to track his hand as he gestured, and I obeyed grudgingly. "Obedient. Excellent." He then left. As soon as he did so, the arms holding me let go. I moved around to test the feeling of my limbs. I took a moment to admire how my tail could scratch the surfaces with no effort. I looked at my reflection in the observation window. My carapace was black as night, with thin arms legs, and a flexible tail. My face only featured my mouth, with grey sharp teeth. I opened it and saw my tongue. A dill coloured appendage with yet another mouth on the end. Above it was some kind of mark, 6, was that my name? The humans call me 'Six', so that must be it. My head-crest was blanketed in ridges, signifying what I am. "Send in a test subject." Groves said. I noticed a human forced into my cell by one of the false humans. I could smell his fear, feel his presence. He screamed, begged to be release. As if I didn't want it as much as he did. Finally allowed to satisfy my hunger, I struck. My claws tore his flesh until he was dead, and I feasted on his corpse. "Unmatched hostility, unclouded by remorse. Excellent." Groves remarked at what I've done. I looked at the lights in the ceiling. I didn't like it. I felt exposed in it. With a few strikes from my tail, I was now in darkness. "Fascinating." Groves commented. "It knows the darkness is it's ally." I was getting annoyed at this damn human. "'It' is a female!" I wanted to tell him if I could speak their language. He ordered another human to enter, which surprised me. Why let me kill so many? With extra ease from the dark, I slaughtered this human just as easily as the last. Groves then sent another in, but I could feel something else. Danger. This human had a weapon. Carefully, I hissed quietly to lure him in, and I struck. There was a bang, and I felt pain on my shoulder. I killed the human, then examined the damage. There was a small hole issuing a yellowish liquid, dripping onto the floor and burning it. My blood. I was distracted from it when I felt something new. It wasn't a human either. This sensation was warm, comforting, drawing my affection. I was being called by the queen. My mother. Determined to find her, I leapt into the ceiling through a gap and was so close to freedom. "Gas it!" I ignored Groves until I heard hissing all around me. I resisted the power it had on me, but I finally succumbed.
"Impressive 6. Most impressive." I looked up to see Groves taunting me. The arms were holding me again. "Escape is not an option for you, I'm afraid. Please don't try it again." At this, I thought of all the different ways I wanted to kill this human. Should I simply impale him? Tear his throat out? Bite into his skull? Or maybe even set one of the little ones have him, let him carry one of us inside him. I was bought out of my fantasies when I heard the human say "Weyland's finally going to do it." I looked in interest. The object showed moving images of this 'Weyland' opening a large stone door. Seconds later, there was a blue light, and the lights went out. "Do excuse me." I heard Groves tell the other human after he looked at me. Why was he so anxious? I then realised the arms lost their grip on me. I pulled myself from the mechanism and saw that the doorway was opened. "Groves you fucking bastard!" The other human shouted. Groves locked him in with me. I happily tore him apart and entered the ceiling again, hearing my mother's call again. On my way to her, I stopped to free my sisters. Unlike me, they were not branded with human marks. After I acknowledged all of them, I bit into the device powering the arms holding them. I decided I really disliked the taste of human machinery. Humans entered to investigate what happened. Humans with weapons. Fearlessly, my sisters and I butchered them along with every other human that crossed our paths. "Mayday! This is administrator Katya of the Weyland-Yutani research lab. We have a class 4 xenomorph infestation! Repeat, xenomorph infestation!" Xenomorph? Is that what the humans called us? I eventually found where my mother was held, and killed the humans watching her. I released her from containment, and felt her gratitude in my mind. She's been here for so long, being forced to produce us for the human's unknown reasons. The way out was opened and we all hurried out. I never felt so alive. I was free. And so was my hive...