The Waylond – Yutani building was hard to miss, so Shadow wondered how he hadn't seen it earlier. The large square facility towered over the entire neighborhood, dark and foreboding.
"You sure this plan of yours will work?"
"Sure. It's always works in movies." Shadow looked at Mr. Big and Burly "Hey...what's your name, by the way?"
"David," he said. "Call me David."
The group soon came upon the back entrance of the facility. Two guards were standing watch.
"Okay, like we practiced people," Shadow whispered to the others.
The Neighborhood Watch then burst out from the shadows, and rushed the guards. While the guards were fending them off, Shadow snuck in.
"Hate to leave those guys out there, but I've got to do this alone." Shadow thought to himself. "Now, where to start?"
Shadow snuck through the facility, sticking to the shadows, and taking air ducts when necessary. He eventually came upon a large laboratory. Hiding in the ceiling duct, he listened in on the scientist's conversation.
"Professor Richter, how goes progress on the crossbreeding project?" said a man in a buisness suit.
"Oh, Administrator! The project is progressing quite well. After countless prototypes and DNA tweaking, we are in the final stages!" the professor said.
"Mr. Waylond wants his alien hybrid army NOW, Professor. See that you complete the project in the next week, or your job will be on the line."
"Y-yes sir! We'll try to speed the process along!"
Shadow had a look of disgust on his face. "Not on my watch." He continued to crawl through the vents.
Eventually, he came upon an abandoned hallway, and jumped out of the vents. He strolled past several rooms, each with different labels on the doors.
"Computer servers...experimentation lab...DNA scrambling lab...damn it, where do they keep all they soliders?" Shadow suddenly stopped. "Wait, what's this? 'Failed prototypes"..." Shadow decided to give this room a look.
The lights were dim here, with several different xenos in hibernation pod. There were varying types: Solider, Lurkers, Spitters, even a Boiler at one point. But at the back, were three clouded hibernation pods. Shadow found a computer next to the pods.
"Damn...locked." he said in frustration. "Wait a minute...I'm a Cybertronian, what am I thinking?" He sent a small electric surge from his body into the computer, and he was in.
Shadow found some video logs in the computer's database, which he booted up.
"This is Professor Adrian Richter, video log number 55. After countless failures of injecting xenomorph DNA within our human test subjects, creating nothing but horrid mutations, my team has decided to test a new theory. We injected human DNA into 3 xeno facehuggers, then allowed them to inseminate 3 human test subjects. We need only wait a few hours for the result."
"This is Professor Richter once again, video log number 56. The xeno chestbursters have...ehm, bursted from the human test subjects. It seems our DNA injections seem to have worked, considering the chestbursters have small hands and feet. Now we wait to see how the young develop..."
"Video log number 57. The offspring seem to have taken longer to develop than regular xenos. It took at least 2 months for them to reach full size, and even then they resemble teenaged humans. We have designated them Subjects B-11, B-12, and B-13. During their two month development, we taught them basic motor skills, reading, and speech. Subjects B-11 and B-13 have mastered these skills well, but B-12 struggles with speech, and only knows the basic English alphabet. I am hoping e will catch on quickly, or we'll have to terminate him..."
Shadow decided to skip ahead a few entries.
"Video log number 62. Subjects B-11 and B-13's DNA structure has unexpectedly broken down. Before they reached complete termination, we managed to preserve them in hibernation pods for future reference in experimentation. Subject B-12's DNA structure has stayed intact, but his mental state has completely broken down. His behavior resembles that of a basic xenomorph solider. We have decided to restrict him to a hibernation pod as well. Phase B of experimentation seems to have come to an end, but we now move into phase C, which we hope will be the final phase. This is Professor Richter, signing off."
Shadow turned off the video log. "Geez...these idiots have been messing with stuff they shouldn't be messing with...and succeeding." He walked over to the hibernation pods, and wiped away at the fogged up glass. There they were, the afore-mentioned Subject's B-11, B-12, and B-13. They each had a xeno's lower half and arms, while their chest and head remained human. Each had their number scratched into the upper right of their chest.
B-11 was an albino on his human half, with see-though bits on his xeno half like a Lurker. B-13 had green hair, with a sickly green look on his human half, and acid pockets on his xeno half like a Spitter. B-12 seemed quite generic, with dark brown hair, and slightly skinny.
"Poor bastards...I'm sorry you were born into monsters like this..." Shadow said with remorse.
But then...B-12's right arm twitched.
Shadow did a double take. No way. He was in a hibernation pod, he shouldn't be moving.
But then, a loud growl, muffled by the glass, was heard. Then, B-12 punched right though the glass, while Shadow tumbled backwards onto the floor.
"What the-but how?" Shadow then noticed a small pipe that had burst open from pressure, connected to the pod. It must have been supplying sleeping gas into the pod to keep it's occupants inactive.
"Oh...well then." Shadow said, looking up at B-12 climbing out of the pod. "This just sucks."