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Chapter 2: The Little Girl
On my way to the hive, I noticed a large room where I heard a peculiar sound. I ran inside and saw many dead animals(cows, pig, etc.), probably these humans' domesticated animals. As I was turning to leave, I saw another fellow xenomorph appear across from me. I noticed immediately how he was different than me. He was on all four, and had joints that were shaped differently than mine. I tried to talk to him but he did not respond back. (FYI, we xenomorphs are not familiar with other type of xenomorphs. You would have referred to these as the runners.) I noticed that one of the cows had a hole in its stomach.
I figured out why this xeno is different from me. This xenon used the cow as a host. He began to run towards me and he was definitely not friendly. I shouted telepathically for him to stop, but he was not listening. Could he even understand me? This is when I realized why the Queen stressed how we must use a human host. A cow was not as intelligent as a human. Usually I was the one who went on the offensive during a fight. I had to terminate this xeno. I got up on two legs, not too sure how a human would do this. I used my front claws and blocked his body as it came at me. This runner xeno managed to push me back a few feet, but I lifted him up with my arms and threw him across the room. He was a lot lighter than a normal xenomorph. As he was dazed, I got up onto the ceiling and came striking down towards his head, and that managed to kill him. Acid blood flew everywhere.
Before I knew what was happening, the floor gave way under me from the acid, and I fell through. I hit a large body of water, and it was ice cold. I surfaced and tried to see where I was. This seemed to be the sewage. I swam out of the water and crawled down the hall. I remembered that I had to get to the hive. So I began sprinting again. I came across a sealed door, and it was too strong for me to push down. I noticed that there was a scanner next to the door. I could not afford to use my blood to burn down the door, so I thought of another way. I ran to a nearby dead body of a scientist and grabbed the card around his neck. I placed the card next to the scanner and sure enough, it opened.
I reached the hive, and it seemed that the my brothers and sisters had not suspected me of helping the human. I ran across the chamber to where they kept the living humans who were stuck onto the walls. There were at least thirty people who were there. There were ten children, and eight of them were girls. I realized a problem that I had not thought about it. How would I know who is Alice and how could I get her out of here? I ran up to all the humans and slapped them with my tails lightly to wake them up. After I was done, everyone began to mumble and cry out in fear.
I was praying that I did not get too much attention from the other xenos. I was only here for that women's sister. As they all noticed me, the only xenomorph in the room, I began forming the letter ALICE using the sticky substance on the wall. Everyone stared at the word in confusion, but I noticed one girl that seemed to be staring in shock. I ran up to her and she began hyperventilating from the fear. I didn't know how to calm her down, and I don't blame her. I pointed toward the word Alice, and pointed back at her. She understood and said stuttering that she is Alice. Relieved I snatched her off the wall and carried her out of the back vent so none of my brethren would notice.
She was screaming along the way, so I stopped in a vacant room and dropped Alice onto the floor next to me. She slid backwards to the wall, scared to be near me. This was going to be hard to bring Alice to her sister if she does not even trust me. I needed to find a way to show her I meant no harm. I stood there quietly, squatting in front of her. I stretched out my tail and tapped her hand. She jumped at the texture of my skin, but continued to to stare at me. I slowly approached her, and I did the unforgettable. I remembered what the woman did to me, wrapping her arms around my body, so that is what I did to Alice. I reach out my bony arms and wrapped myself around her in an embrace.
She tried to struggle at first screaming a bit, but then she calmed down and realized that I did not want to harm her. Alice was very surprised and asked what I was doing. I didn't know how to answer. She then asked if I understood her. I nodded my head, but then I stuck my tongue out. Alice jumped back a bit, thinking that I was attacking her, but then she realized that I was just answering her last question. I felt Alice relax a bit, and she started hugging me back. She seem to answer her first questions herself. My relief turned to anxiety again when I realized that this girl had been impregnated. I sensed there was something moving inside her.
Without explaining, I grabbed Alice again and brought her to the closest surgical room. I never saw humans use this room before, but I figured out that the machine in the room was for the removal of chestbursters. Alice also seemed to figure out what this room was for and tried to run away again screaming. I placed her in the machine and told placed my hand softly on her head to relax her. This did not help, so I pointed at her chest and she stopped struggling. It seems that she understood that she had an alien inside her. I closed the case of the machine, but I had no clue how to start this high tech machine. I pressed the large button in the center of the panel, which made the lights of the machine turn on. The screen displayed the words "Remove Foreign Object?". I assumed this was right and I hit the words confirm, which started the machine.
As I watched, a syringe was injected into the side of Alice's ribs, which made her fall asleep. And then, a surgical laser cut her stomach open, and the machine pulled out the premature chestburster. The machine then sealed up Alice's stomach, and then the lid opened up. I allowed Alice to continue resting on the bed, but I immediately removed the chestburster from the machine. It started to wiggling in my hands. I screeched at it, and the chestburster calmed down. I was holding this chestburster, just like a human would hold a baby. I knew that this chestburster would try to attack this girl when it molts, so I terminated the alien. I knew that there was no turning back to the hive. My brethrens had sensed that I killed one of my own.