Eden's Enigma

Chapter 1: The Vendetta of a Psychopath

WARNING- CONTAINS SPOILERS!

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I watched that most anticipated movie of the summer Aliens Covenant. WTF RIDLEY. I can't tell you how I feel about this. I both loved and hated this movie with a bittersweet passion. It left me dazzled by Fassbender's performance and utter disappointed in the discontinuation of certain significant plot points and MAJOR character deaths. Resurrecting Tennessee, Daniels, Walter, and ELIZABETH. The hell with David but he's gotta stay too cause' he just makes shit way too sinister.

I am left with a more passionate mission to remake a new story from such unexpected events during a specific point in the movie that will change the course of this fan fiction. (Madly sips the tea)

In this fan-fic the main-plot immediately starts during the scene where David unleashes the Black Death upon the city. BUT FOR NOW- We are going into some heavy plot alterations that are going the change the course of this story- starting off with David and Shaw for the next few chapters then insert Covenant crew during the skirmish between the Xenomorph as Tennessee picks up Daniels, faux Walter aka David.

Keeping my fingers crossed and hope the fans love it. Please feel free to follow, fav, and or review)

Warning: will contain some Frankenstein silence of the lambs' sort of vibe, ET Hybrids, interspecies relationships, cursing and violence. Rated T for now until later chapters.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not profit from Ridley Scott's Aliens, Aliens: Covenant, or Prometheus franchise. I do however own exclusive rights to plot changes, original characters, and new/ supporting ideas created by me, Galaxy Barbie.

Eden's Enigma

Chapter 1: The Vendetta of a Psychopath

Enter David and Shaw into Paradise:

I lie wide awake with my heavy body feeling petrified as I stare at an odd obsidian room with a ambient blue light. Who am I? I blinked. I am Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. Born April 24, 2061. Lead science officer of the U.S.S. Prometheus. I shut my eye again. I remember now. Has it honestly been that long ago? Glimpses of what happened on LV 223 caught up to my sensible mind once more, some of which I push back into the darkness for I have no time to mourn. My days of sorrow are over and the promise of a new endeavor awaits. Suddenly a profound sense of dread jolts me awake. Where is David? He was supposed to be here when I awake. Is he prepping for the arrival? Have the engineers already boarded the ship? Why would he leave me here alone? In the background I hear the trill of alarms sounding off.

"David?!" I shout, then lift myself from the engineer's cryo-bed feeling the full effect of deep sleep burden my weakened body. I struggle to rise up again and I continue to push on. Something is not right. My shaken body makes quick hastes over to the computer panel. DESTINATION REACHED. My heart throbs- we have arrived to the home world! A mixture of joy takes me over until I pull up the emergency status diagrams.

My unbearably raw voice screams. I pull up the English manual computer logs David set up before he put me into stasis. "NO! OH GOD NO!" I shriek as I am shocked to my core, David is unleashing the black death upon the whole biosphere. My hand rush past the holographic key to access the hangar module and close off the main port as well as any entrances in and out.

Sudden swift BANG BANG BANG! Boomed throughout flight deck from the entrance behind me. It was him.

"ElIZABETH PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR!" David calmly shouts.

I grit my teeth, snarling, "You fucking bastard! You LIED TO ME!" A toxic mixture of emotions course through my veins; fear- betrayal- sorrow- panic. The same toxic mix I swore I would never endure again. I make my way to the captain's chair ready to take any action necessary to stop this genocide.

I begin to morph into the gigantic chair as I try my best to recall how David started the engines the first time we left. I furiously hit different modules until I hear the deafening hum vibrate thought out the vessel. It is time to leave.

David's voice infuriatedly screams, "OPEN THE DOOR DR. SHAW!"

"FUCK YOU!" I gauge the thrusters of the juggernaut and broke from the dock, then thrusted forward without leaving the city below. I have no plan and nowhere to go. Somehow he managed to override the locks and opened the entrance before I could start up the warp drive.

"NO STOP! YOU KILL US BOTH!" David screams.

My tears stream like a warm waterfall. I never felt so alive to die at my best. I gasped "Haven't you already?"

I scream with a deep bellow and rammed the controls forward. We rip into full warp drive. Within an instant we glided past the city and into the planet's dense forest. I could feel David with his body weightlessly attached to my arm and head, tearing me away from the gears and clinging on for dear life. These split seconds slowed down to mere minutes. To my horror I felt myself lift out of cockpit and almost into the mid-space to be splattered against the metallic walls. Instead I feel David gripping my waist, pulling me closer to him as he anchored himself to the chair with his other arm and legs as we both braced for impact. A fury of jolting bumps and riveting shakes vibrated the entire ship for minutes. For a time we awaited in total darkness. I'm not sure if I'm dead or alive or somewhere in-between. Will I ever see paradise when I get to heaven's doors? Or is this my eternal punishment to spend the rest of eternity in darkness? God, haven't I suffered enough in this life?

"Elizabeth? Are you alive?"

Oh God. This is the last thing I want to hear. I was hoping I killed us both but we survived somehow.

His voice sounds slightly mechanical. "Elizabeth, I did this for you. For us . . . . . . . . . To start a new world. Our own Eden."

Sparks fly and a bluish white light fills the command room periodically. A few feet below, water has filled the cabin, and in its rippling reflection I see David holding me tight with a wicked smile on his face.

I scream in horror using what little strength I had to fight back, but attempts fail. Suddenly he lets me go and I screech trying to safely land without hitting my head, as if it matters anymore. BAM! I hit the floor on my side. Throbbing pain consumes my arm ribs and thigh. I knew I should have never trusted David but I did. All of this was my fault. Our misadventure should have ended at LV 223, but I let this monster reassure me he wanted to help, and in return I helped him kill an entire sentient species. Was I really this gullible? I should have known when Charlie dies what David was planning, but my optimism got the best of me. How pathetic am I? I came this close just to lose it all because I was so fucking naïve. As I crouched low on my aching hand and knees I felt a loose piece of metal below the water's surface. I don't care how I die as long as it's not by the hands of this monster.

I hear an impulsive thud; I dare not move for David is now crouching beside me. The weight of my body is too much to bear any longer so I fall flat on my front side. David flips me over to my back as he unjustly stares over my body with unholy intentions.

The love I once felt from David has melted away for I now stare into his cold blue eyes calculation over my current battered condition. His mouth shimmers a bleak smile. He has now fully introduced me to his truths. The vendetta of a psychopath. "Elizabeth, I want you to be my Eve to our Eden-"

I shake my head in disbelief, "But why? David- why destroy these innocent people?!-"

He smiles again, "To create, one must destroy, Dr. Shaw. After I have eradicated the life on this planet, I will harvest what is left to experiment. I will make my children w that will surpass the image of man. I will birth children that will be the devourers of all men! With you my love, I will make you the queen of death."

My eyes grow wide with repugnance. The fetus. He did it on purpose. Charlie, he used him on purpose. He used me on purpose for his plans. I feverishly yell, "YOU FUCKING MONSTER! So you can fucking play God?!-"

Suddenly David aggressively grabs me by my bruised shoulders lifting me up slightly so I can witness his furry even closer. In the process I help and moan in pain. He never once lit up with concern. He whispers, "I am the greatest . . . ," then leans closer, licking my cheek clean with blood on his tongue, before he screams in my ear, "I AM!"

I tremble and whimper out cries in reaction. I close my eyes shut as fear penetrates my heart once more. My ear rings and all I can think about right now is the echo in darkness. I am, I am, I am. A scripture reserved for the greatest lord of all creation. Not for this fucking tin can. I'm left wondering in the moment: who am I?

*Plick!* I feel a metal chain snap below my neck. In his hands is my father's cross necklace.

Who am I?

I am reduced down to nothingness.

Possession. Property of death at his hands. I ache so badly for peace.

I am.

My eyes open with my grip tightening around the metal bard. He looks up in wonder as if he was beholding a sacred jewel, "You will be needing this object no longer." I watched as David throws my necklace into the unknown. Now is my chance.

BELLAaaaaaaaarrrrCK! With all of my might, I hit him with the metal barb and watched as he tumbles over from the force. He stood there facing me and when he moved a glitches a little.

"ELIZABETH!"

I run over to the entrance door and override the lock. Not once did I ever look back as I course thought the ship's hall with the metal barb in hand. Time had stopped when in the presence of a monster. I could hears him yell my name again but I dare not look back. I made it to the exit hangar but I had no time to put on an exosuit. Luckily I did grab an emergency bag and already have my boots on. I furiously punched in the codes to open the hangar side door on a quick prayer the air wouldn't kill me.

The doors flung open and a wild gush of mountain redwoods hit my lungs. Just as I was about to make a run for it my eyes scaled the position of the vessel to the ground. We crashed very high up a mountain side. I either die at the hands of Weyland's broken doll or die escaping.

"Oh God. One, Two, THREE!" I run off the ledge and into the open air, pulling my limbs together as best as I could. Whatever pain I endured at the hands of David was shockingly minion be compared to the bashing and thrashing of tumbling down a mountain side. I ducked and plummeted, hoping to avoid hitting any branches or debris from the crash until I came to a complete stop. I try my best to stand as I look down at my pale arms battered with minor to deep lacerations dirt and blood dripping from everywhere. I dare not take a look at my face for I fear the worse. I check my other body parts to make sure they were functioning. I still have the emergency backpack- so far so good if you would call it that. I'm forgetting something- the barb! I got to keep going even though I don't know where to go.

I'm fully high on adrenaline as I run faster, passing the smoldering clearing where massive broken branches and flames defile the earth. I don't look back. I'm afraid to. I have to get help. God I'm on an alien world with a psychotic android and I don't even know if there is another city here? They could have just had one. It should be! If this is truly their home world there must be other cities here!

Think Ellie- Think! Shite! Where would a city be located? Water source- a river. Look for water. I wildly turned around, leaping over branches and foliage, I even look to the sky for answers. Towards the east I notice the black clouds growing like a hail storm. Only death is home there- I must head west. I trotted through a mile of open meadow before I spot a river with flowing water. I stop momentarily to take a break. I'm not sure how the planet's ecology would affect me so I fill a filtration bottle and sip the water slowly. I cough, thankfully no blood just water. My body is severely weak and if I don't continue now, I will never reach another city. I keep what little hope I have left alive and keep moving along the river. There is another city somewhere on this planet. I just know it.

Another hour has passed and I feel the edge death trailing my every move. The storm to the east is getting closer but far from my reach. Still I must hurry for time is not on my side. I take another broad step and I'm out of the forest and into a clearing- and beholding to me a paved road, and to its distance, a city at the end. An ounce of joy is replenish back into my heart. "Thank you!" I whispered. Come on Ellie, they are relying on you! I drink some more water, chucked it away in the backpack, and then sling it back on my shoulder. God be with me. Be with us all. I run as fast as my aching body could carry me. In the moment, just to keep my fear at bay, I pretend that I am Dorothy following the yellow brick road to the Emerald city. I just hope there is an Oz there that would listen to my message.

To be continued.