Weyland stood in the cockpit with his back to the wall and his arms folded. He thought of all the weapons and enhanced soldiers he had. One in particular had his attention. If anyone was going to kill an alien queen it was him, a murderer by definition. He had killed so many people that he would have rotted in prison, but helping Weyland would set him free. Honestly it was a win for Weyland because he was free of charge and the best chance Weyland had. Only tradeoff was keeping him under control.
The man would start fights in the cafeteria for no particular reason, and he would bad mouth Weyland. Worse still, woman didn't need to be within a mile of the man unless they had a gun at the ready. This caused a certain amount of unrest amongst the soldiers and they would often complain to Weyland. The murderer however was simply too important to killing the xeno that he couldn't afford to get rid of him, so here he was standing before Weyland for the umpteenth time in all his muscled glory. Hypersleep had crossed Weyland's of course, but hypersleep is for long term flights and this one is shorter than a month.
Weyland sighed as the big man started using his height to try and intimidate him. This was going to be a long day.
Weyland shook his head and ignored the fowl mouth man and though. The flight is almost over and soon I can spread my men away from that man. Weyland tried to calm himself. One day left of my nightmarish flight will be over and I will get my son back from that xeno. I swear on my life she will pay. He mentally promised the self proclaimed Queen of Death.
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Lita turned her attention to Kadisha who was crawling through the forest floor toward a human sentinel for her host.
Lita had decided to only send one child so as to be less conspicuous, and Kadisha was the obvious choice. Lita had noticed Kadisha's stalking technique and found it entertaining and couldn't help turning her mind to the intriguing strategy Kadisha used, if only for a moments respite from her children. It had no particular rhythm to it and made her proud to have such and innovative child. It was like having a breath of fresh air for the first time and you simply couldn't stop inhaling the pure relief it brought.
The pattern Kadisha followed was a zigzag whilst she scurried through the thick foliage on the forest floor; no doubt this was to make her seem to be one of the native rodents that scurried everywhere. Of course there was no native creature for miles for some reason... But oddly enough the soldiers didn't notice that. The missing rodents might become a problem for Anaya… Lita made a mental note but not really caring, it was Anaya's problem though. Lita simply couldn't handle every little thing.
You are doing well daughter. Wait till he is a good distance away from the camp. Kadisha had reached her destination and easily found the target.
Kadisha didn't reply to Lita's command, instead she just kept trailing the soldier rather noisily, though the noise was purposeful.
While Kadisha kept busy Lita began to focus on her more personal problems.
1: Anaya was still a subject of debate amongst her children.
2; Nico was becoming surprisingly creepy and very Xenomorph in his behavior.
3: The children crying against her were becoming bolder.
The answer to 1 was perhaps the hardest to deal with so Lita moved on to 2.
Nico was becoming unstable in behavior patterns, he actually liked killing his food and said things to Lita that made her do a double take to make sure he wasn't a xeno. He often asks her if she is proud after he killed something. Way creepy for a human to act like that. Lita thought, I guess it's my fault though. I have talked a lot to him. Maybe this was the way it needed to be. If Lita could get Nico to choose her as a parental figure instead of Anaya it would prove to get rid of her first problem and maybe alleviate some of her third. But how would one do that to a child? It seems wrong… Lita took a curious pause at herself, A xeno with a conscience?
All right, let's get back to 1 and 2 later. On to 3, Lita mentally forced herself to not think of a conscience.
If things continued it could become worse than it may appear. Sure Lita would win the feud without batting an eye if these children attacked her as drones, praetorians, or anything else really. Lita, as monarch chose your status in the hive which worked easily in into her favor. The biggest problem with this uprising business was that if they chose to fight her it could destroy what she had worked so hard to build. Her children would fight amongst themselves and ultimately weaken them for the coming fight. That was not something that Lita could be afforded to happen.
She thought deeply for a moment and decided this is how she will fix her problems. She would let problems 1 and 2 be healed with time, and problem 3 she would socially crumble. Now to go about socially crumbling something you need to start at the source, so she searched for the main rallying child who called herself, Setsuko. Lita remembered something about Setsuko meaning temperate child in Japanese. Ironic choice of names for the loudest of Lita's children…
Setsuko would likely die, but Lita would still try to make her child see reasoning. No matter how hard you try, something has to die. Humans, animals, plants, and especially children it would seem, Lita thought with a little disdain before realizing what she had thought was not normal. Damn it! Stop being heartfelt and pained over such things! You are a xeno Lita! You have no feelings aside from hatred. All right lets add a 4th problem. 4: The monarch grows a conscience that should never be there.
Back to socially stomping this resistance, Lita needed to make Setsuko a praetorian and allow her to grow and become the leader of this group. Then Lita would have to time it to where Setsuko was the new leader of these little protestors and call her forward before she would have the chance to completely rally the group's courage to fight Lita.
Once Setsuko stands before Lita, she would give her a good talking to in front of the entire family. It may seem like a weak thing to simply talk, but with the right words Lita could convince Setsuko to bow, and once that happened then the other children will quickly follow.
If talking didn't work Lita would ask is she wanted a formal challenge for monarchy. If refused then Lita would verbally beat Setsuko or if accepted Lita would crush her slowly in battle to show of her might as the Queen of Death.
It was a simple in her mind yet so very complicated to carry out.
Lita mentally returned to Kadisha's for "another breath of air" and found her latched firmly onto the throat of her host and well hidden. Pride swelled in Lita's chest at that before informing Kadisha of her status, I want you to be a praetorian, daughter. She felt the excitement flood her daughter in acknowledgment to Lita's statement.
This at least was good news that Lita could live happily with. Now for another child to be sent out to one of the other sentinels.
No, She snapped at herself she decided she wanted more than one, I want two to go. Setsuko will need to be next, but who else shall I choose? Lita pushed against the walls of her mind again and found several voices as usual but right then she looked for the strongest of the strong. This time she found a male by the name Aleksandr. He had a very loyal way to him that made Lita instantly trust him. It was unlikely he would hurt her and he would honestly make a good candidate for praetorian, but Lita was trying to figure out how that would work with a male giving of eggs...
She ended up talking it out in her head, Xeno's are asexual so that makes us all inherently nothing as far as gender, but there was still the he/she stigma in our minds. Maybe it is a natural choice for us to choose our sex as male or female in our mind.
Wow that's messed up, but whatever.
Lita refocused on Aleksandr and Setsuko, Go south Setsuko, you shall find a sentinel there that will make an easy target if you are patient; Lita said this gently and surprisingly with no malice.
Aleksandr, go South East and search for yourself a sentinel. Aleksandr seemed surprised he had been noticed, but immediately jumped out of his egg.
Setsuko did the same only slower, as if expecting to be killed.
Now Weyland, my house is already crumbling and you just got here. You may have a chance yet, but I will fight you tooth and nail before I let you win.She mentally promised Weyland.
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Wow.. I am so sorry I didn't update for that long. I feel like hitting myself. It couldn't be helped sadly I had surgery and the painkillers kept me asleep every time I took them, which was a lot and then school shopping started along with other things and I simply couldn't break away no matter how hard I tried.
It was kind of funny trying to write on painkillers. I went back later and read what I did and couldn't quite make out if it was really me or not. It was like trying to understand a drunken slur.
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