Authors note: Just in case anyone is wondering, there is only one reason I added my own OC dog into this fanfic. It is because I am sick and tired of horror movies that kill off the animals FIRST! I wanted, at least once, to see a horror story where the animal is not an enemy and is not killed within the first thirty minutes. That is why there is a dog in my fic. She is not a super dog, nor does she have any powers, except the fact that she is the one character I will DEFINATLY NOT KILL OFF! It never made sense to me that the dogs and the cats would get killed first. You would think with animal instincts they would know enough to run. I'll try not to make her a Mary Sue…or would that be a Doggy-Sue? Fido-Sue? Well, whatever, tell me what you think of her.
Oh, and I'm basically going to borrow and nab small details from the Alien's series in this. While the plot will kind of follow the first Alien movie, the Aliens abilities will be kind of a mishmash of what I've seen and read in other media…or just stuff I make up on the spot. If you are a rabid Alien fanatic and I somehow offend you…I'm sorry. I'm taking creative license. That's why I write fanfic, so I can make up a bunch of stuff about my favorite characters. Isn't that why all of us are writing fanfiction?
Henceforth the Alien shall be referred to as a Xenomorph in this fic, because that is what I found on wikipedia! Most of the (cough cough) data I got about the Aliens came from the wonderful world of wikipedia!
Chapter Two
Not in Jump Anymore
"Dude! How'd we get into SPACE!" Beast Boy shouted "You haven't been playing around with tower while we weren't looking, were you Cy?"
"Don't look at me, man, I haven't done this." Cyborg looked at the twinkling expanse out the window. Was that a nebula in the distance? Yes it was.
"We are so in the Twilight Zone, dudes." Beast Boy said.
"I do hope Silky will be well in the hospital of veterinary." Starfire said. "I hope he will not miss us."
Raven sighed to herself. Of course the first thing Star would think about was that annoying bug. Raven had never really liked the thing, being splatted by gummy pink goo is not the best way to endure yourself to someone like Raven, and it seemed to Raven that Silky would splat goo on the drop of a hat. What was worse was that said goo was usually a pinkish purple color. Disgusting. The thing had been having problems with its digestive system, and Starfire had taken it to the vet.
I shall not dwell on the nature of said digestive problem…no way.
"He'll be fine Star," Robin said, comforting his alien crush. "First we need to concentrate on what is happing here. We should check the rest of the Tower for clues. Star, do you think you could fly out there and look around the outside and see if you spot anything suspicious?" Starfire nodded. "Raven and Beast Boy, you two go down to the basement and work your way up. Cyborg and I will take it from the top and head down. Use the communicators if you find anything. Titan's go!"
Angel, who had basically been forgotten in favor of a mystery, whimpered in a worried way. As a dog she could sense things humans could not, and she knew that something was wrong. Nothing outside the tower seemed…real. There was nothing out there, just the smell of…nothing. She was anxious, and being a dog she did the only thing that came to mind to comfort herself.
She found a pair of Robin's favorite slippers and began chewing them.
For some odd reason the basement door looked far more ominous than it should to Beast Boy. It was just a door, but for some reason he could not quite place Beast Boy did not like it at all. He really wanted to just slink away from it and leave it alone, but Raven was not hesitating at all. She was already reaching for the door.
"Uh, Rae, are you sure about this?" Beast Boy asked.
"It's just a basement; there is nothing to worry about."
"Hello! Remember the last experience we had with the creepy basement? Does Wicked Scary ring a bell?"
Raven glowered at him. "First off, I have not seen a horror movie recently. Two, my powers are under control and three, you are an idiot."
Beast Boy winched at himself. He'd temporally forgotten how personally Raven took things. She had probably interpreted his concern as a criticism against her. Would he always end up with his foot in his mouth every time he talked with her? Why did he keep doing this!?
Raven opened the door and descended into the basement, and Beast Boy followed. He could smell something very odd. Something he did not like at all. It smelled like cooked sludge. And what where those strange noises? Beast Boy fumbled for the light, found it, and turned it on. When he saw what was in there with them he screamed (a bit like a little girl), and Raven (the actual girl) gasped in horror.
How many facehuggers were in that room? Fifty? A hundred? A thousand? Whatever the quantity it was clear that the two Titans were badly outnumbered. The room was filled with the disgusting things, and they advanced on Raven and Beast Boy like a small army. The pale arachnoid parasites lunged for Raven and Beast Boy, claw-legs extended to latch on.
Beast Boy shifted to gorilla and started flinging facehuggers as soon as he could lay hand on them. The creatures splattered into walls, sometimes literally. Raven's dark powers flung and deflected the monsters with ease, and at first it looked like the two Titans would be victorious.
It was not to be. A facehugger lunged for Raven's face from behind. Sensing the danger Raven turned and zapped the thing in midair. The good news was that this caused it to blow up; the bad news was that…well it blew up. The acid blood of the facehugger splashed over Raven's face and eyes. She screamed in pain as the acidic blood ate into her face. She covered her eyes and backed up until she hit a wall. Quickly she used her powers to wipe off the acid, but it was a bit on the too late side. She removed her hands from her face and tried to focus her eyes, to no avail. She was blinded, and could not see a thing. Unfortunately for her, there was another facehugger in waiting. It sensed her weakness, lunged and latched.
Raven felt long, bony legs attached themselves to her head and a long tail wrap around her neck. The tail began to tighten around her throat, suffocating her. Instinctively she gasped for breath, and a long…something began to slip itself down her esophagus. She could taste something odd in her mouth, and she started to lose consciousness. She slid down the wall and lay there, completely out of it.
Beast Boy heard Raven scream and for some reason it drove him into a frenzy, a bit like what had happened in the Adonis incident. He did not transform into the Beast, but he could feel its anger bubbling to the surface. He stopped with flinging and just started smashing facehuggers left and right. Their horrible blood soon covered his big gorilla hands and began eating away at them. Beast Boy could feel the immense pain as his hands were covered in acidic blood, but he did not stop. Soon the other facehuggers where squashed like the spiders they resembled. Not one of them survived…except the one attached to Raven.
Beast Boy returned to human form and went to Raven, being careful not to step in the facehugger remains. He tried to pick Raven up, but gasped when agony shot through his hands all the way up to his arms. Gently he pulled off his gloves and looked at his hands. They were badly burned by the acid, and they looked horrible. The pain was so bad he felt like crying, but then he looked over at Raven and began to feel guilty. Here he was moaning about his hands when one of his best friends was lying on the ground, apparently unconscious, with a big ugly THING doing who-knows-what to her face!
Ignoring the agony he tried to pull the monster off of Raven, but every time he tried the thing would tighten its tail around her neck or squeeze her head with its sharp claw-legs. Beast Boy, although a goof at times, knew when it was time to be serious, and boy was it time to be serious! He needed the others, and he needed them now.
However, he was not sure if he could reach his communicator with his hands in this state. Finally using his cobwebby brain he shifted to a Velociraptor and roared loudly, hoping the noise would attract help. Within moments he heard the loud, clanging footsteps of Cyborg and the much quieter, ninja like tread of Robin. The two heroes burst thru the door and then stood there, shocked at the sight of Beast Boy with his burned and bleeding hands and Raven with a…something or other attached to her head.
"Beast Boy, what happened?!" Robin asked, trying to look at both Beast Boy's hands and Raven's face at the same time.
"Dude, we came down here and I was all 'maybe this is a bad idea!' and Raven was like 'you're an idiot, Beast Boy,' so we came down here and there were things that kind of looked like spiders and they attacked us and somehow one of them blew up in Raven's face and their blood burns so it hurt her and this other spider thing grabbed her face so I kind killed the rest of the spider things and that's why my hands hurt, smashed 'em as a gorilla and when I was done I came over here and found Raven like this but I can't get the thing off her, every time I try it tries to strangle her, but I couldn't use the communicator because of my hands so I just roared for you and here you are!"
Robin and Cyborg stared at Beast Boy. How did he do that? That was one of the longest sentences they had ever heard and somehow it made sense.
"Okay," Robin said as soon as his brain had caught up with Beast Boy's…odd way of communicating "Cyborg, you carry Raven to the med lab. You go with them and get those hand looked at, Beast Boy. I'll stay here and collect evidence."
"Dude, watch out for the blood. It'll eat your flesh." Beast Boy held out his hands for emphasis. Robin nodded.
Cyborg gently picked up Raven, feeling very angry. He loved Raven like a sister, he had never really had a sister until Raven and Starfire had come along, and he hated to see them hurt in any way. He wasn't really angry at Beast Boy, the grass stain had obviously done his best to help her, but he was angry at the creature sticking to Raven's face. He didn't like the look of this at all.
After the others had left, Robin produced what looked like a large evidence bag and a pair of tongs from somewhere about his person. Who knew where? He gently picked up the flattened corpse of one of the spider things and placed it in the bag. The bag did not melt; it had been designed to handle even the most acidic of liquids. Still, he held the bag away from his body, just in case. Robin then followed his friends to the med lab. As he left he opened his own communicator and contacted Starfire.
"Star, we need you back in here. Something's happened and Raven and Beast Boy are hurt."
Had Robin stayed a bit longer he would have noticed a large swirled of white energy materialize in the center of the room. From the whirlpool of light something emerged.
A black, almost cybernetic, hand clutched a glowing red crystal. It brought the crystal to its outer mouth and snarled, dripping wet drool. A voice came from the crystal, like a walky-talky.
"Gi, are you there?" It asked. The voice had a slight French accent.
"Here, think Gi are." The creature said. "Many dead hatchlings Gi sees. Very sad. Poor babies."
"Blame Freddy for that, not the humans." It was the same voice, but the accent was gone, replaced by an American one. "He's the one that put them there."
"Gi knows that, don't have to be told by Erik." The creature growled. "And you get control of your head!"
"I'm fine, you worry about the mission."
"You not fine. Voice accent sounds changed now, you need focus." The creature replied. "Need Macavity to hit you on head?"
"Ah, the animal is getting more perceptive." Another voice said this one with a Hungarian accent. Something else was said in the background and the two voices started arguing like there was no tomorrow. Soon another voice picked up, this one sounded American as well, but it also sounded like it was being transmitted by an old-fashioned radio.
"You just keep going, Gi." The new voice said "Just make sure at least one of them survives. You know how important this is."
"Gi knows." The creature said, and it balled the hand that held the crystal into a fist. The crystal vanished, but it would be back.
The creature, Gi, could sense that one of the hatchlings had already taken one of the humans that called themselves the Titans. That one was doomed, it would be pointless to try and help right now. In fact, it was probably best if he was not seen. His only job was to retake all the hatchlings, which was impossible now, or destroy any adults that sprang from the hosts. And to make sure at least one of the humans survived.
Only one was needed. Gi settled down in a dark corner and began to wait.
"MAN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS USELESS PIECE OF CRAP! CRAPPY COMPUTER! WORK, DAMN YOU!" Cyborg bellowed at the computer that was scanning Raven in the med bay. He slammed the thing a couple of times, as if physical impact would make the thing work. Robin was pacing about the room like a lion in cage, sometimes looking over at Raven with a pained look in his eyes. Starfire was watching Raven with a sad look on her face. She had wanted to simply tear the thing off of Raven, but she realized that might kill her. Starfire hated feeling helpless, but there was nothing she could do. Beast Boy was a kind of combination of Robin and Starfire. Sometimes he would just sit and stare with an empty look in eyes, and other times he would get up and walk around the room looking lost. Then he would go back and sit down again.
"What is wrong with the computers?" Robin asked, still filled with nervous energy. "What is that thing on Raven?"
"That's just it; the computer says that there isn't anything there." Cyborg said.
"What? How can that be?"
"I don't know, but that's what it is telling me. It won't scan the thing at all." Cyborg walked over to where Raven was laying and glared at the facehugger. "I don't know what to do, guys. The computers are not giving me a thing to work with here. I can only guess that this must be something magical or something like that. That's the only reason they are not giving me squat. I don't know how to get this thing-"
Cyborg stopped speaking as the facehugger begin to twitch. The thing then relaxed its grip on Raven's face and dropped to the ground with a dull thwack. It was apparently dead, in a rather anticlimactic way. Robin, taking a chance, brought out his metal bo and poked it around. It looked pretty dead.
"Guys…what happened?" Raven said, apparently now conscious. "And could someone turn on the lights?"
Robin finally focused on Raven's face, and had to hold back a scream of horror. It was pretty darn gruesome, and Robin had dealt with some pretty horrible things. Good lord he could see parts of her skull! The acid had eaten away a good portion of her flesh, and her eyes…simply were not there anymore.
He tried not to throw up at the sight.
"Raven." He said, his voice shaking "You remember the creatures that you and Beast Boy fought?" she nodded. "One of them was attached to your face for a while. We don't know what it was doing but…Raven you're hurt pretty badly and-"
"The lights are on, aren't they?" she said, catching on quick "I'm blind, aren't I?"
Robin nodded then remembered that she couldn't see. "Yes," he said "And your face is a bit…um." Darn, how was he supposed to explain this?
"Hmmmm, I'm wounded to, right?" Raven said. "Don't worry about it."
She pulled herself up to a sitting position and covered her injured face with her hands. At first Robin thought she was going to break down and cry, but she did not. Instead he could see pale blue light coming from between her fingers, and he realized that she was healing herself. He had forgotten that she had that ability.
After a few minutes she dropped her hands, looking tired. Her face had improved greatly. There were still horrible scars all over her cheeks and forehead, but at least her skull was no longer visible. She had somehow managed to re-grow her eyes as well, even though they were white and still sightless.
"I'll have to wait awhile to heal myself the rest of the way." She whispered, obviously tired from spending her energy on healing. "Healing is the least of my abilities. I'll just have to live with being blind for a while."
"I'm going to scan you just to make sure that nothing else is wrong." Cyborg said and Raven nodded in understanding.
It did not occur to anyone that if the creature itself was not visible to scanners anything that resulted of it would not show up as well.
Deep inside Raven's body a small chestburster stirred. Raven felt some nausea and exhaustion, and even a bit of chest pain, but she dismissed all of this as symptoms of getting a face full of acid and then trying to heal herself like that.
The chestburster itself was growing, and getting more powerful by the second. In a hour or two it would be ready to leave it's host.
Deep inside the basement, Gi stirred as well, sensing the chestburster's presence. Gi opened his outer jaws and hissed the other mouth now completely visible. It's drool pooled on the floor and it lashes it big black tail.
Gi would not have to what much longer.
An author's note: Gi and the people he was talking too are not technically my creations either. They belong to…other people. Unfortunately I can't tell you who, or the surprise will be spoiled. I admit I do not own them, and you will eventually learn who they are. So just remember that I do not own them or the Teen Titans.
The concept, however is mine.
Next time you will get to see if a half-demon can survive massive trauma to the chest, and you'll get to see what a Xenomorph looks like when it's been incubated in a half-demon.
I am going to make that up. It makes sense that the Xenomorph will look different. Just look at the dog-Alien in Alien 3 and the Predalien in that computer game.