Aliens: Genesis
Chapter 1: Awakening
The eerie silence in the cryogenics lab was broken. A grey mist surrounded the lab as the once dark and deathly room became lit by the overhead lights and the sounds of computers filled the air. As the mist slowly dispersed the crew slowly reanimated back into their thawed selves. One by one they lined up for their reanimation progress reports. "Rise and shine ladies we've got a big day today," Said the lively captain John Rico. He was met with a response of Sir Yes Sir. The crew had the upmost respect for Rico, not only because of his high status in the military but also because he chose each of his squad members by his own preference.
-3 Months Earlier-
The walls were filled the shadows of the squad standing before Rico and his
general who was overlooking the mission. The Debriefing room had a lively
attitude mixed with a hint of anxiety. "These people aren't soldiers, I
don't know what you're thinking," Said General Darwin. "I've been trusted with
a very important mission and I'm not looking for shoot first questions later
kind of people, Look I'll show you," Said Rico confidently.
"ATTENTION, Here is how this is going to work, I'm going to call each of you up
and you're going to kindly tell my friend General Darwin here why I chose each
of you, IS THAT CLEAR?" Said Rico. He was met with his accustomed SIR YES SIR.
He walked down the line of his team and stopped.
"You There, What's your name?" He said viciously to the man standing opposite him.
The man casually replied with:
"Name's Buck, You chose me because I can kill anything that breaths."
"You bring that egomaniacal attitude on my mission and you'll be on your own and dead in ten minutes, this isn't world war 5 it's a rescue mission and I chose you, Mister Buck, not because of
your itchy trigger finger but because you're the best damn
pilot I could find, at ease soldier." Rico nodded at Buck and then moved on
to the next soldier.
"And You?" He Said.
"My name is Samantha Carter Sir, You chose me because of my engineering skills and experience with search and rescue missions sir!" Rico smiled at General Darwin and moved on.
He looked at the next soldier expectantly and waited for them to announce themselves.
"Hey everyone my names Marcus, I've served in the military for 9 years and in those nine years, I have been a part of a lot of high risk missions. Every time minimum casualties, I expect this to be no different." Marcus then walked towards the rack of weapons on the left side of the room.
"Outstanding attitude Soldier." Rico stated.
Rico one by one made the team point out their professions. He was pleased with himself and it looked as if General Darwin was too. Rico then walk back to the head of the group and said to them.
"You all know why you're here but I still need to tell you what we are doing, This mission is highly classified, Yesterday at 1400 hours we received a distress call from a faraway planet called LV-426, The planet is uninhabited and we have 12 men and women from one of our ships stranded there, Our mission is to safely retrieve them and fly them back to this military base, should be simple in, then out mission. Any questions?"
After a mere second of silence a tall Russian man by the name of Private Yonderson said:
"Why are there 11 of us going on a mission that could be done by robots?"
"Good Question," Rico said with a sense of pride in what he was about to say, "Not only are we going to planet LV-426 to retrieve our stranded marines but there have been several reports of additional life
readings inside the ship, we have to go in there and identify this
life form and bring one back for the scientists at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation."
Everyone was eager to ask the same question but Rico was already about to
announce the answer.
"This life form is supposedly some kind of bacterial parasite and is about 1 hundredth of the size of a grain of sand. Unfortunately the thick walls of the ship make it extremely difficult to confirm the exact size, we will be bringing a small amount of weaponry on this mission in case we get boarded by pirates or if we run into trouble but I assure you we should be just fine!"
-Present -
Everyone was still dazed by their long sleep in the cryogenics tubes. It was an unnatural way to preserve the body over long periods of time but it was necessary. The planet they were heading to, took 2 and a half month to travel to. After everyone had finally awoken from their long slumber they made their way to the kitchen to eat. "Holy crap I'm as hungry as Buck is ugly," Yonderson said jokingly. Buck just looked at Yonderson and kept walking. Everyone in the squad had different backgrounds so it was hard for them to get along. "Ok guys, we have 4 hours before we land on LV-426 so get your stuff
together, I want no screw ups. Do you copy?" Said Rico Sternly.
Rico was met with the all too common: Yes Sir!
The mission was meant to be simple, in and out, but Rico just couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen…
