Disclaimer: Neither Sky or I own AVP or anything linked to it. I did come up with the "Texas Cockroaches" line though. Yay, me!
This is the first fanfic I've written while teamed up with Sky and I must say that this couldn't have been done without her. She's awesome. Thank you, Sky.
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In a cell made of clear acrylic walls, two girls were coming back to consciousness. One of them, the long-haired one named Sky, sat up and promptly dropped her aching head into her hands. She groaned as her friend, the curly-haired Allison, sat up and blinked at her surroundings.
"What happened?" she asked as Sky looked over at her now-conscious friend.
-Flashback-
Allison and Sky finally made their way out of the building and dashed to the space docks.
Safety! They had just been introduced to a large shiny alien with a drooling problem and they did NOT want to meet it again.
Sadly, a line of soldiers was blocking their way. They grabbed the two women and halted their escape.
"Where do you think you are going?" one asked with unnatural calm.
"Off this station!" Allison yelled back as she struggled for freedom. Sky had writhed free by kicking her captor between the legs and was about to help her friend when another soldier restrained her.
All of them froze when an inhuman scream rent the air and two huge, bipedal, armored aliens came running out the door previously passed through by the two girls. They killed the soldiers blocking the door, though sadly not the ones restraining Allison and Sky. That quickly became irrelevant when Allison and Sky were released and all of the soldiers ran for it.
Sometimes it doesn't matter how big a gun you have when faced with a pair seven foot tall aliens.
More guards, these heavily armed and armored, streamed out of the doorway.
The two women took off grateful for the distraction, away from the guards and, inadvertently, towards the aliens.
It didn't matter though as they were all gunned down from behind.
-End Flashback-
"Right," Allison said. "But why are we still alive?"
Sky reassured herself that she was in one piece, but her back was one giant throbbing pain. "I think they used hollow rounds. You know, the ones that stun?"
"That would explain a lot," Allison commented as she had now discovered the reason her chest felt like a trampoline after a five year old's birthday party. Looking up, Allison moaned, "Oh, no."
Sky turned her head in surprise. "What?"
Allison pointed to two large figures in the acrylic cell next to theirs. It was the aliens from before. They were sitting on the floor and were staring at the two human females.
"Glad to see you're awake," a voice from outside of both acrylic cells said. The heads of all four beings snapped towards it. The voice originated from a man wearing a white coat with graying hair and a malicious grin.
"Who are you?" Sky asked standing up.
"Why are we in here!?" Allison shouted, joining Sky. It was one thing to be locked up but to be kept prisoner in a place with transparent walls? With aliens looking at you?
"You are under arrest for aiding in the escape of these...things," he indicated to the aliens who growled at him. Obviously they didn't think highly of the man and knew when they were being insulted.
"Aiding!? We weren't aiding, we were escaping death from that thing that got loose!" Allison shouted in fury.
"And you just happened to be fleeing after them?," the scientist pointed out.
"YES!"
He snorted and turned his back. "Release it," he commanded to no one in view as he walked out.
The two women looked at each other in fright. A metal clank from an air vent caught their attention just in time for them to see a large, fleshy, spider-like thing with a long tail come leaping out and land in the center of the cell floor. Allison screamed, Sky made a low noise of surprise and disgust, and both decided to back into opposite corners. The bizarre creature turned around a few times, trying to decide which human would be its victim.
Meanwhile, all the personnel directly involved who had been on shift were gathered into a security guard station watching the video feeds for the two acrylic cells. The sounds of betting filled the room.
"The frizzy-haired one will die first!" one claimed.
"No, the thin one will!" countered another.
No one noticed the heavy footsteps approaching the room.
The face hugger selected its target and leapt towards her head. Sky shoved herself into the corner as much as she could in a vain attempt to avoid the thing flying towards her face. She raised an arm an anticipation of the collision...which never happened. Allison had leapt up when she saw the creature jump towards her friend's head and snatched its tail.
Allison stared at it in fascination until it started trying to crawl up her arm.
"EEEEEEW! IT'S LIKE A TEXAS COCKROACH!!!!!"
Before it(we all know it's called a "facehugger" but they don't) could retaliate, she swung it against the wall, again and again, each time resulting in a wet thwack and a screech.
When she was sure the creature was dead, Allison threw the bizarre corpse into the furthest corner of the cell. She glared at it, and if it hadn't already been dead, her expression would have done a fine job. She wiped her hand on her jeans and shuddered.
"Hey, look at this," Sky said as she pointed to the smears of green blood left on the wall.
Allison turned around. "What?"
"It's acidic." The blood was melting the acrylic.
"It's acidic." The blood was melting the acrylic.
Back in the security room, the men, though suprised at the outcome of releasing the facehugger into the room, were laughing at the frizzy-haired woman's reaction. The laughter ended when the spear-like end of a xenomorph tail went through the closed door and ripped out a chunk of the wood large enough for the men to see the black creature beyond. The door was quickly torn apart and the men inside...well, you can probably figure out what happened to them.
Allison looked at the creature, at the acidic blood on the wall, then back at the creature. She retrieved its corpse from the corner where it had been thrown. Sky backed up to stand behind Allison as Allison spattered the melting wall with more green blood. When there was a good-sized hole, the small cadaver was returned to its corner at high velocity and the two humans evacuated the cell.
Sky looked around. "Weird," she commented, "there's no one here. Not that I'm complaining…" There were absolutely no people in the room, the room next to it, or out in the hallway. From what she could see, there appeared to be no one in the rooms off the hall, either. "Is this when the walls start to try and squish us?"
"We should let them out," Allison said suddenly.
"What?" Sky about-faced slack-jawed. None of Allison's ideas had ever been this crazy.
Allison was watching the two aliens and they were watching her. At least, they appeared to be. You couldn't really tell because of the face masks they both wore.
"C'mon, let's! They're in the same position as us. It wouldn't be right to leave them like this." Allison began searching for something to open their cells with.
Sky stared at her. Knowing it was futile because her friend was painfully stubborn, Sky began to help her.
After a minute's search, Sky found a keypad in the wall. "This might be it," she said as she walked up to it. Allison came up behind her as Sky started messing with the keypad. After a moment of pressing buttons, a seamless door in the acrylic slid open.
The two alien hunters got out and made their way to leave.
"Hey…" Allison said. One of them growled and she shrank back. They walked through the door, which automatically slid open to allow them passage. "You're welcome," Allison grumbled sarcastically when they were well out of earshot.
"Unless you have any desire to stay here," Sky pointed out, "we should probably leave."
"Right."
The two escapees stepped out into the hallway after the aliens and the door slid shut with a hiss behind them.
Sky and Allison were looking into the various rooms they passed while going down the hallway in search of something useful. "Hey, check this out," Allison called to Sky, who was slightly further ahead in the hallway, as she entered the room. Sky turned back and followed her.
The room contained technical equipment that the pair could neither name, nor guess the purpose of. On a table with said equipment were odd-looking objects that seemed familiar. Allison picked up a thing that looked like a nightstick with blades on the ends and Sky grabbed something that looked like it was meant to be worn on an arm, a large muscular arm.
"Whoa," Allison jumped back as the thing in her hand extended with a click into a long double-headed spear.
"Cool," Sky said as two thin, cruel-looking blades appeared out of her object.
"I know it's rude to take other people's things without permission. But can't we make an exception?" Allison grinned.
Sky grinned back. The two girls eagerly took more of the strange equipment, everything they could find—which wasn't much—and left with it.
"Now, how to get out," Sky muttered as the pair wandered down a hallway. They had encountered no one, despite being free for nearly thirty minutes.
They came to a large, familiar room, the cafeteria, also empty. "Now I know where we are!" Allison said, glad she was somewhere familiar.
Behind her, Sky swore.
"Wha-? Oh." The two feeble humans looked at the deadly-looking black creature that had frozen in place and was currently staring at them. (How you stare at something when you have no eyes, I don't know, but this creature was doing so.) Without warning (why would it warn you?) it became motion incarnate and sped toward the pair.
Allison and Sky dove away from each other as the black thing came toward them and ran from it. When neither of them felt claws sink into their flesh, they turned around to see what had happened. The creature was standing between them looking back and forth.
It picked Allison because she looked tastier. Allison promptly resumed running and dove beneath a table, rising on the other side, never losing speed. Sky ran towards her to get close enough to the thing to divert its attention, which quickly became unnecessary. The drooling alien looked around and hissed as if sensing something.
Sky exploited the distraction by shoving a spear through the creature. Well, that was her goal anyway. She wasn't strong enough to give the spear enough energy to go through the thing. Instead, the head buried itself into the creature's back. It screamed and hit Sky with a sweep of its tail, sending her crashing across a table.
It turned on her, but Allison grabbed Sky's spear and twisted it to cause more internal damage. The creature screamed again and staggered as it was mortally wounded. Sky got back up in time to see the black thing jerk itself free of her spear. Green acidic blood was flowing from the gaping wound and spilling onto the floor. It towered over Allison.
Sky threw one of the things with the thin retractable blades and it hit the creature, which spun to face her. Allison promptly replaced the spear into the creature's back, shoving it farther in.
The black thing staggered and died. Sky rejoined Allison as she pulled out the spear. They would have celebrated their victory, but the two aliens from before deactivated their cloaks and materialized near the wall.
"Um, hi guys," Allison said as they came up to the pair. "Want your stuff back?"
For the equipment they had taken indeed belonged to them. Sky and Allison proffered the stolen weapons and the warriors took them chittering, turned, and walked away.
Allison turned her head to Sky, "I'm getting a weird sense of deja vu."
The two women followed them out as they wound their way out of the compound once again. This time, the hulking aliens did nothing to stop the two girls from following them. Every once in a while one of them would look back as if to check if they were still there. This was continued all the way to the docking bay.
A huge ship materialized at one of the docks and the two aliens made their way toward it, followed at a distance by Allison and Sky, who halted when they came near the ship because more similarly armored beings appeared.
Since those were unmasked, the strange faces with four mandibles around the mouth were obvious.
As the two boarded the ship, one of the guards came forward. He seemed to be older and in charge. He carried himself with authority and a figure that demanded respect. He dropped one of the collapsible spears into Allison's hands and nodded to her and Sky. Then he turned around and the aliens boarded the ship, which immediately left the docking station and became not-quite-invisible as the cloak was activated.
Allison and Sky stared in awe.
"One spear?" Allison said breaking the silence. "How are we supposed to split this?"
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