Hey guys! Here's that crossover fic I've FINALLY gotten around to submitting! You (and I) have waited for so long, and now at long last the story begins! (*20th Century Fox music starts playing*) As an added note this is my first crossover fan-fic, so I hope you guys enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own no recognisable characters!
Survival. She could not really focus on much else. Her own survival and the survival of her accomplices were her main focus. She didn't even acknowledge the cold, icy wind nipping at her face, barely even computed half of her surroundings, and only ran in one direction: forward. Away from the double-jawed menace behind her.
She half-computed a source of shelter before her and quickly dove into it. For the first time throughout this venture, despite having been trapped inside a constantly shifting pyramid, Lex felt completely trapped and defenseless. She was unarmed and—although her make-shift shelter kept her enemy at bay—under the alien's strength, her shelter creaked and jerked in ways that made Lex doubt the stability of her new shelter. In addition to its strength, the alien—despite its large size—was also fast. If she tried to sneak past it away from her shelter, the alien would surely catch her. On the other hand, if the alien didn't notice her, maybe she would be able to get by, but just when Lex was beginning to contemplate the very idea, the alien's visage crept into view above her as it pushed the water reservoir off its supports.
All the fighting, all the struggling, it seemed like such a wasted effort in the face of the alien Queen. Lex's body suddenly grew rigid. She began to embrace the inevitable.
She detected a flicker of movement in her peripheral vision. The flickering form became clearer as if morphed into view. She began to register the flailing of sleek, black locks rooted to the back of a slightly elongated face with deep sunken eyes and mandibles flaring outward in fury. Its body twisted in mid-air and thrust a spear into the alien's skull with near-death precision.
The Queen shrieked and Lex's senses were revived. Just as Lex crawled out of her deteriorating shelter, her humanoid champion landed firmly on the ground before her, his mandibles flaring and eyes burning at the Queen with new-found rage.
Lex's humanoid champion turned to her. His muddy amber eyes softened and his brows furrowed. A quizzical purr rumbled from deep within his throat.
"Yeah," she nodded, "I'm fine."
The Queen shrieked again, bringing Lex's attention back to annihilating the Queen. Deep brown eyes darted across her surroundings and skidded to a stop at the chain still dangling from the Queen's body and dragging behind her. Lex's gaze then retreated back to her former shelter, noticing the water reservoir beginning to slip off its supports. Her gaze reverted back to the Queen's chain, but her champion had already caught on to what she had begun to ponder.
The Queen's chain already seized in his hands, he began to reel in the massive beast with inhuman strength. Lex grabbed hold of the end of the chain that wasn't already in her champion's hands and started pull at the slack, working towards somehow attaching the chain to the teetering water reservoir.
Almost there, she kept thinking, Almost got it!
"Got it!" Lex hollered, and not a moment too soon. The supports gave way and the reservoir was just beginning to tumble down the cliff side and into the freezing waters below.
To Lex's dismay, the reservoir stopped falling. The restraints bounding the reservoir to its supports stalled the fall. And that was not all; the Queen's screeching had stopped as well. In its place an agonized roar echoed throughout the empty whaling station. Lex whipped her head towards the source of the sound just in time to see emerald blood come spurting from her companion's abdomen, an ebony spike protruding from the center of the wound.
Lex turned her attention back towards the reservoir and spotted a shovel she could use to pry away the reservoir's restraints. She immediately seized the shovel and wedged its blade between the reservoir and its restraint. No matter how much of her strength she exerted on the shovel, though, the restraints would not budge. Lex dared to sneak a glance back at her wounded friend. He and the Queen were face to face, now, the Queen's jaws parted as far as her jaw hinges would allow. Her friend's mandibles flared outward and a powerful roar rumbled throughout the entire island (or so it seemed) not out of pain or anguish, but of valor, almost as if to challenge the Queen further, daring her to finish him off. She did not hesitate. Luminescent emerald blood stained pure and otherwise untouched, white snow. A once inhumanly strong body went limp.
"SCAR!" Lex jolted forward. A cold sweat soaked her entire body, an icy chill quivered down her spine, her breathing staggered, and her form trembled. As she steadily began to collect herself, Lex reexamined her surroundings. There was no wind, not even a slight breeze, and although it was a bit chilly, this cold was nothing compared to the arctic. Still shaking and not yet completely calm, she dared to spare a glance to her left, but the only image her sight could manage to formulate was a blank, bare wall. Lex sighed, but only a small portion of it was out of relief.
"Dammit," She breathed, grabbing a wad full of her damp ebony curls in each hand, "god dammit!" she muttered a little louder, keeling over with renewed tremors reverberating through her body.
"Ms. Woods?" her head snapped up, her eyes scrutinized the general direction in which the voice came from. "Ms. Woods are you alright?" Lex quickly peeled off the covers, swung her feet over the edge of her cot, and made her way towards the voice. Since her eyes had not yet adjusted to the area, she had to feel along the wall, but at last she felt a small, round extrusion along the wall and pushed down on it with her forefinger.
"Ms. Woo-"
"I'm here." She responded with a much more collected composure, and released the pressure she exerted on the extrusion.
"Are you feeling alright Ms. Woods?" the voice asked, a small, almost inaudible amount of static glazing the voice's concerned intonation. Lex pressed down on the extrusion again.
"Yeah, just another dream." She released the button.
"Would you like some medicine that will help you sleep?" the voice—which Lex just realized had a slight Japanese accent woven into it—urged. Lex paused before pushing the intercom button, again.
"I'd like to go to the weight room, please."
"At this hour? Ms. Woods, you do realize that it is nearly two-thirty in the morning?"
"It'll help me unwind." Lex persisted. There was another pause over the intercom, and Lex began to wonder whether the signal between the two intercoms was cut off.
"As you wish Ms. Woods," the Asian woman sighed, "A Weyland-Yutani official will be there shortly to escort you to the weight room."
"Thank you." Lex responded flatly and then began feeling around the wall for a light switch. She didn't feel like fumbling blindly through her small, spaceless drawers for an extra set of clothes.
I know I pretty much just re-capped what happened at the end of the first AVP movie, but there's a reason I did that and you all will find out why in due time, because there are PLENTY more chapters to come (as you may have guessed seeing as there wasn't a single bit of Transformers in this bit). And yes, I know that in the AVP movies "Weyland Industries" and "Yutani Industries" were considered two different companies, you'll see why I have it as one company in this fic soon enough, but I think you guys are smart enough to guess why they're stated as one company in this fic.
Of the few people I showed this to (like people I know outside the internet) for editing reasons, I've been told that this was a good start, but I wanna know what you guys think! Tell me how you like this so far, cuz as I said, there is plenty more in store!