Author's note: Just an idea for an Alpha and Omega story I came up with some time ago, but wasn't sure how to start until I watched the prequel to Alien (called Prometheus). The idea I came up with was to turn the last 18 minutes of that movie into written word (that's what this chapter is) and add a bit more to the ending to tie it into the rest of the story, which will be set in Jasper Park.
I don't know how many of my watchers here have seen any of the Alien movies, but I thought doing a crossover of Alpha and Omega and Alien would be interesting. (Note: I've already written the first three or four chapters, so I may post them fast at first.) But this will be the only chapter of the story that isn't written from scratch. (Again, this is the last 18 minutes of the movie Prometheus. It took a while to write this with all of the quotes and such being exactly the same from the movie.)
Prologue:
Prometheus
"I told you to get the ship going," the woman said to man in a commanding voice. Her name was Meredith Vickers.
The man at the pilot's death, an African American in a green military uniform, wiped his left hand across his forehead. His name was Janek.
"Mr. Ravel," Janek said to one of the co-pilots. "Warm up the ion propulsion."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Meredith almost gasped.
"Sir," Ravel said. "Burning ion in the atmosphere—"
"—turns us into a bullet," Janek cut him off. "That's the point."
"What the hell are you doing?" Meredith asked him with disbelief. "This is my ship. I'm telling you to take us home!" she yelled.
"Vickers, I'll eject your module onto that surface," Janek replied. "Two years of life. You want it or you want to stay with me?" He looked back to Meredith. "You got 40 seconds to get to your escape pod."
"You're crazy!" Meredith gasped.
"Gentleman," Janek said. "I can handle this myself. Feel free to join Miss Vickers."
Meredith yelled as she ran through the automatic sliding doors and down the corridor to the room containing the escape pods.
"All due respect, captain," Ravel, a Chinese-American man, said. "You're a shit pilot and you're gonna need all the help you can get."
The alarm was wailing as Meredith ran down the corridor that led to the escape pods. She grunted when she inadvertently ran into the wall as a result of her frenzied running.
As quickly as Meredith pushed a button to activate one of the escape pods, she went to retrieve one of the space suites hanging on the wall. She began to put the suit on when the engine of the crew's space ship activated, sending a light blue fire toward the ground.
In the cockpit of the ship, Janek put goggles over his eyes and was speaking in a sing-songy voice. "Well, if you can't be with the one you love…"
"If you think this means the bet's off," Chance said. "You're wrong."
Ravel chuckled in response, then said, "Why don't you pay me on the other side?"
"All right, get us as close as we can," Janek instructed the two co-pilots. "Only got one shot at this."
The human survivors' space ship roared as it rose off the ground and shot toward the other spaceship, belonging to an alien species known as "Engineers," which was trying to get away.
"Life boats away!" Janek yelled then pressed a bottom that released the lifeboat containing Meredith and the escape pods.
"Twenty seconds," an automated voice said over a speaker as Meredith got into the protective space suite. The pod crashed into the ground when the anti-gravity engine suddenly failed.
"Countdown initiated," Chance said.
"Ion propulsion is online," Ravel said.
Meredith was only just getting into the escape pod, wearing one of the protective space suits.
"Ten," the same computerized voice said over the speaker. "Nine."
"Come on!" Meredith yelled.
"Eight."
And the escape pod launched out of the ship suddenly, before the countdown could finish. The escape pod containing Meredith crashed into this alien planet's rocky landscape. Elizabeth saw it happen as she thought about how their mission to search for an ancient yet advanced civilization (that could be responsible for human life on Earth) went straight to Hell. Instead, they had found a dark, twisted world teeming with deadly alien creatures that had already killed half of the crew of astronauts.
"Three," the computerized voice continued counting down.
"Let's do this," Janek said.
"Two."
"Impact imminent," the computerized voice warned the pilot and two co-pilots.
"Hands off!" Janek yelled. He screamed as their ship crashed into the alien one, tearing its metal like a piece of paper. Both ships turned into a ball of fire before they crashed into the rocky landscape below, leaving no human or humanoid alien survivors, of what had been aboard either of the ships.
Elizabeth and Meredith, now the only survivors of the once nine-person crew, watched in horror as the ships turned into fiery explosions.
A large fragment of the alien ship survived the explosion and crashed into the ground right before the two women.
"Oh, God," Elizabeth gasped.
The two women took off running as fragments of metal crashed to the surface all around them as if they were meteors.
Meredith screamed when she tripped over a rock that she had not seen, spraining her ankle in the process. The fragment of the alien ship was falling toward the two women, who were in severe danger of being crushed to death by the collapsing alien ship.
Meredith grunted and repeated "No" over and over, as she watched the ship fragment edging closer and closer toward her. She screamed agonizingly as the ship crushed her. Her scream echoed then there was only silence in the area.
"Oh, God," Elizabeth gasped with disbelief. There was ash blowing around her as she breathed heavily. She could not believe that, of the once nine astronauts, only she was still alive.
Elizabeth screamed as the ship fell sideways toward her. It narrowly missed crushing her to death like it had Meredith.
"Warning: You have two minutes of oxygen remaining," Elizabeth heard a male computerized voice said. The lone survivor panted heavily as she crawled out of a ditch underneath the fallen ship. Elizabeth took off in a dead run in the opposite direction, despite being physically exhausted.
Her suite began beeping as she climbed into the crashed lifeboat. "Warning: You have 30 seconds of oxygen remaining," the computerized voice said again.
Grunting, Elizabeth began pushing buttons on a keyboard. The rear door of the lifeboat closed.
"Airlock sealed," a different computerized voice said. "Oxygen levels now stabilizing."
Elizabeth began filling a medium-sized backpack with food and supplies from a shelf. She stopped suddenly and a look of horror came over her face when she heard an unearthly wailing in the distance.
Elizabeth looked around and grabbed the first thing she saw to possibly defend herself with. A large hatchet with a curved handle. She walked through the automatic sliding doors that led to what remained of the crashed lifeboat There were sparking wires and a few spots of fire all over the room she entered. There was also violin music playing over the speaker, although she did not understand why. Or care that it was.
Elizabeth removed her helmet and sat it down on a nearby shelf. She took up the hatchet in a defensive posture when she heard thumping against the wall of the ship. At first, she saw nothing when she looked through the bloody window on the door.
But then something suddenly slammed against that window, startling the lone survivor. It resembled a tentacle, but Elizabeth was not sure. Seconds later, she saw it again. It was a tentacle belonging to something large.
"Elizabeth, are you there?" she heard a voice ask over the radio. "This is David."
David was the android, built to resemble a human, who had accompanied the crew, and the only other survivor. Although he was just a head now, having been decapitated by an alien humanoid that had killed an entire second group of astronauts. That humanoid had been on the ship when Elizabeth's crew had crashed the ship into it, to stop it from reaching the Earth with the intention of making life there extinct.
"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah," Elizabeth stammered.
"You need to get out immediately," she heard David's voice in her helmet radio again. He sounded weak, as if he were dying, even though that was not possible for an android. "He's coming for you."
"Whose coming?" she asked him through the radio.
"Airlock breach," a computerized voice said suddenly, before the alarm began wailing.
Then Elizabeth saw him. It was the same alien humanoid that had killed most of the humans only half an hour earlier. She had assumed he was dead after the explosion caused by the collision of the two ships, but the truth was: the humanoid was not even burned, let alone dead. He still looked like a mutated bald man, only with animalistic teeth.
"DIE!" Elizabeth screamed when the humanoid ran at her and pinned her against the wall.
Elizabeth slammed the hatchet's handle against a button that opened the door. A massive tentacle rushed into the room and wrapped itself around the humanoid's neck. He began gagging as he dropped Elizabeth and the entire creature rushed into the room. It could be best described as a giant and mutated starfish with features of an octopus. The mouth opened up, revealing a ring of razor sharp teeth. Elizabeth knew what it was. It was the alien, which she dubbed a "Trilobite," that had grown inside of her after having sex with fellow crewmember Charlie Holloway, not realizing that he had been infected with the aliens' DNA after exploring the cave on this hellish planet. She would be dead if she had not removed the "Trilobite" from her womb through C-section using one of the machines on board the crew's ship.
Elizabeth ran down several corridors and through every door she encountered. She looked back once, upon reaching the exit, and then jumped out the rear entrance of the aliens' ship.
Inside, the humanoid was still struggling with the massive Trilobite. It shot out several tendons, which stuck to the back of the humanoid's head. He could not move his head, and soon found something sharp shot into his mouth and down his throat. It was a tubular tongue of sorts. The Trilobite and the humanoid collapsed as the massive alien wrapped its tentacles around him.
Elizabeth was still on her back right outside the ship, now sobbing loudly.
"I'm so sorry!" she cried to herself. "Oh, God. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Charlie. I can't do it. I can't do it anymore!"
"Elizabeth," she heard a voice say in her suite's radio. It was David, the android, again. "Are you there?"
Elizabeth gasped quietly but said nothing.
"Dr. Shaw…can you hear me?"
"Yes," Elizabeth replied. "Yes, I can hear you."
"I was afraid you were dead," she heard David say.
"You have no idea what afraid is," Elizabeth almost scoffed.
"I know we've had our differences…but, please…I need to ask you for your help," David continued.
"Why in the hell would I help you?" Elizabeth asked the android harshly.
"Because," David replied, "without me, you'll never leave this place."
"Neither one of us is leaving this replace," Elizabeth whispered.
"It's not the only ship," David told her. "There are many others. I can operate them." He was referring to the ships like the one the alien humanoid had piloted before it was destroyed.
Elizabeth breathed heavily as she sat up, suddenly willing to listen to David.
"Doctor Shaw?" David asked, but would not get a response any time soon.
Elizabeth was driving in a vehicle made for this sort of terrain, heading back into the crashed alien ship that had killed Meredith.
"Dr. Shaw!" David called when he saw her enter the ship. "Over here."
Elizabeth saw the severed head of the android lying on the floor, in the same spot it had fallen after he was decapitated by the humanoid when he had tried communicating with him in their language of the humanoids' race. His body was not far away.
"Where is my cross?" Elizabeth asked David, standing over his head.
"The pouch is in my utility belt," the android's head told her.
Elizabeth removed her helmet then retrieved her cross from the pouch. She put the necklace around her neck.
"Even after all this…you still believe, don't you?" David asked her. He was referring to not only her faith in her religion and God, but also finding where the alien humanoids had come from, and why they created then wanted to destroy the human race, but changed their minds.
"You said you could understand their navigation," Elizabeth said. "Use their maps."
"Yes, of course," the severed android head replied. "Once we get to one of their other ships…finding a path to Earth should be relatively straight forward."
"I don't want to go back where we came from," Elizabeth admitted. "I want to go where they came from first." She was referring to the alien humanoids, like the leader that was now being attacked by the Trilobite alien. Her crew had come to this planet to find the origins of humanity on Earth, and Elizabeth would not leave until she found their civilization. And she also wanted to know why the humanoids had tried to make humans extinct on Earth, only to change their mind.
"Do you think you can do that, David?" Elizabeth asked David when he did not answer right away.
David had to think about it but he soon told her: "Yes. I believe I can."
Elizabeth began lowering the android's body down the side of the crashed alien ship with a steel cable.
"May I ask what you hope to achieve by going there?" David asked.
"They created us," Elizabeth explained. "Then they tried to kill us. They changed their minds. I deserve to know why."
"The answer is irrelevant," David said. "Does it matter why they changed their minds?"
"Yes," she replied resolutely. "Yes, it does."
"I don't understand," David said.
"Well…I guess that's because I'm a human being…and you're a robot." Elizabeth picked up the android's head and placed it gently in her bag. "I'm sorry," she whispered.
"It's quite alright," David replied. Elizabeth zipped the bag shut and began propelling down the side of the ship with the steel cable, using David's robotic body as a weight to keep the cable from swaying as she went down it.
"Final report of the vessel Prometheus," Elizabeth was saying into the radio of another ship, belonging to the alien humanoids as it powered up. "The ship and her entire crew are gone. If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now and I'm leaving it behind. It is New Year's Day…the year of our Lord, 2014.
"My name is Elizabeth Shaw…the last survivor of the Prometheus," she continued as the ship took off from the planet's surface. "And I am still searching."
The ship launched toward the alien planet's atmosphere in a blast of light. Elizabeth did not see the larger planet nearby, even after the clouds cleared away. It was Saturn and this alien "planet" was actually one of its many moons.
Elizabeth had no idea that the alien humanoid leader, which had been attacked by the massive "Trilobite," had found his way into the ship she was now flying back to the Earth, having found her answer to her questions. It was several weeks after she had left that moon as the lone human survivor of her crew. The Trilobite alien was also there as well, but it was dead.
The humanoid was lying on his back and convulsing, making a loud choking sound as his body shook violently. There was a loud trip and a blood splatter as the humanoid's chest burst open. The lights flicked as a sharp, pointed object broke through his ribcage and cut the flesh like it was a piece of paper. A small alien creature suddenly spilled out in a pool of the humanoid's dark red, almost black, blood.
The newborn alien creature began to stand up on its hind legs, making a strange squeaking and cooing sound as it did. It continued making those noises as it looked around the back of this ship. It was drooling an almost black slime because it sensed prey in the front of the ship. That prey was Elizabeth, who did not even know of this alien in the cargo hold of the alien ship she was piloting over the Earth, looking for a place to land it unnoticed.
The alien began hissing as it expanded its jaws, which dripped with the slimy saliva as a result. It began roaring as a second set of jaws, pink rather than jet-black like the rest of the body was, expanded from its tooth mouth.
And Elizabeth would not find out about this alien, as she flew the alien ship over a national park in northern Canada—Jasper Park—until it would be too late for her to do anything about it.
