Chapter One

The space station "The Resolute" was enormous spanning a length of over 5 miles and being twelve stories high it was the most visible thing in the space around the planet LV- 141, a jungle planet the size of Pluto. The Resolute drifted at a speed of only a couple miles an hour but it didn't need to go anywhere seeing as it was nothing more then a giant research facility used by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. They were one of the corporations that run the human colonies outside the solar system through the extra solar Colonization Administration. They were also were fuelled up in space colonization and research, which is the reason for the resolute.

Ellen Anders walked down one of the stations long hallways, the intercom she was holding went off again. "Professor Anders please report to lab 23, the subject is here." Ellen picked up the pace upon hearing the new subject was "under the scope" as she called it, already. She was about 5'9 and of Asian/ Caucasian descent giving her a pretty face and a nice figure. She wore a white lab coat over her regular clothes. She would have taken one of the small the tram cars that travel around picking up the Resolute employees, but the lab was only a quarter mile from her sleeping quarters and she needed the exercise. She arrived at lab 23 and pressed the key card around her neck onto the blue code lock. "Access granted, welcome Professor Anders." Ellen stepped inside the lab with the metal doors closing behind her. She walked over to where a bunch of other scientist was all crowding around a table with a cloth over it. She addressed an older doctor. "Doctor Lee, what is the status of the specimen." Lee looked up at her with a surprised look, "It's dead, has been when the Marine team found it and brought it in." She frowned and swore under her breath. "Well let's see it then." Two researchers grabbed either end of the cloth and pulled it off of what was on the table. She was taken back at what she saw.

Lying dead on the table in front of her was a humongous humanoid beast. It was about 7'5 feet tall from head to toe, with arthropod-like mandibles and long, hair-like appendages on their heads that resembled dread locks. It had tannish gray skin and no visible nose and a big fore head. "What the hell is that?" she asked to no one in particular. "Beats the hell out of me, your guess is as good as ours." She looked at its eyes which were open, they were barely visible under the skull of the thing but they seemed to be staring right back at her. "Alright let's do diagnostic on it and run some test."

For two hours the team did test on the creature, finding out its skin is quite resistant to puncture wounds and that it was dry but wet at the same time, "kind of like a snake," Dr. Lee said. "Yea a really ugly ass snake," replied another doctor.

They worked vigilantly for an hour or so more until Ellen's wrist watch went off. BEEP BEEP BEEP! The sound was deafening, but it was Ellen's queue to leave. "Alright ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Grant has some special project of his in the research lab, let's continue this study later."

"Special project, probably his dick," said Lee under his breath. This was followed by a few snickers from the others.

Ellen whirled around on him, "Lee what's your problem?" Lee looked around at the other doctors and professors, who nodded, and said, "Dr. Grant is our problem; he and his whole damn research team are our problem."

Ellen couldn't help but feel sympathetic for them. Dr. Grant and his research team were a different kind of people. They had heard stories of the horrid experiments they conducted, or the lengths they would go to get their hands on a few more Xenomorphs, but those were just stories and Ellen hadn't really believed or knew if any of that was true. What she did know, is that Weyland-Yutani, paid Dr. Grants team a helluva lot more then they paid Ellen's team. Despite both working in the same god forsaken time machine for over a year now.

"Look, I know Dr. Grant is different, but the stuff we do here can save man kind from the Xenomorphs and what ever the hell that thing is." She said pointing at the creature.

"But Ellen, we all know Grant wants to take you from us, and honestly we need you," Lee practically cried out.

Ellen put her hand on his shoulder and said with a smile, "I would never in my life think of leaving you guys, no matter how much money or convincing Dr. Grant tries to use on me," she turned towards the others and said, "Besides if I see this project maybe we can develop something close to it and get more funding."

Everyone laughed and began to exit. Ellen and another Doctor called Cheng put the tarp over the monster then they cleaned the equipment then left turning off the lights, leaving an ominous glow from the ships on board computer and sealing the doors shut behind them. Had they waited another five minutes they would of saw what happened next. The corpse twitched then the skin bulged and stretched and then POP! An alien appeared out of the chest. It was all pink and had no eyes and had the mandibles of its "mother." The little creature screeched and seemed to be purring at the same time as it left the corpse and headed into the vents and into the ship.

Robert Patterson was a bald white male of about thirty five. He had done many bad things, such as arson, burglary, and even murder. But he was a changed man now he had served his time in prison and he had even paid a considerable amount of cash to the family of the person he had murdered.

Robert was happy to be being released, and they had taken him to the large space station, where they said he would get his Transport papers signed.

But the last thing Robert remembered was a soon as he got of the ship he had been knocked out.

Now he awoke a few hours later. He was strapped to a chair and there was a large tube thing that was placed around his chest area. He gasped and attempted to move, but to no avail.

He looked over to his right and saw that another person was in the same situation as him. The man next to him began to convulse and grunt in pain as if he was having a heart attack. The man screamed as his chest began to heave and then his chest cavity burst outward as a little pink creature came out into the tube, screeching and squirming around. Robert watched in horror as the man slumped over dead, his eyes rolled back.

Robert began to panic and squirmed even more. "Please! Somebody! HELP ME!" he yelled. It occurred to him that this might be some sort of execution for his murder. "Please! I made up for my sins! I'm a changed man now! Please! HELP ME!"

He felt something moving inside him and he began to scream. His chest began to heave. "AHHHH!" then POP! Another little creature came out of his chest blood sprayed onto the tube. He saw the eyeless, elongated head for a second then his eyes rolled back and he was dead.

On the other side of the observation glass, Ellen stared in absolute disgust and horror. They had just taken a human life to create a few Xenomorphs. She turned to Dr. Grant, who was in his late 40's and was beginning to bald. "You're a horrible man Dr. Grant and I want no part of your Lab team." With that she turned and headed out the door.

Grant just smiled and said, "You're making a mistake Anders, you will regret it when Weyland funds us our very own station." Ellen just walked away and as she was about to pass the bulk doors she flipped him the bird.

"Tsk tsk and you were so pretty too," Grant said, he turned to the two lab techs, "commence specimen retrieval."

The techs walked into the room where Robert lay dead along with two other people. They grabbed the tubes containing the little Xenomorphs and sealed them onto the cart.

Grant smiled as much as his smug dried face would let him, "Mr. Weyland is gonna be exceptionally happy about this."