As the group followed the movement to the right elevator with their trackers, they still would see more destruction caused by whatever battle has happened in the station, even some splatters of blood in walls and on the floor, despite the crew's curiosity, Gerald had one question in particular:
"This doesn't make any sense" -Gerald said
"Well whatever happened here must had been a crazy battle" -Marcus said
"True, but the real question were are the corpses?" -Gerald wondered
"What are you a mortician?" -Ivy asked
"I don't enjoy seeing corpses, but don't you think it looks strange that there is blood, damages, weapons and wasted bullets, but no traces of bones, no body, plus the blood stains looked as if they were dragged to-" -Gerald halted as he saw some trails of blood leading to vents and others to different paths; the group was confused;
"Dragged? Just like that?" -Milo asked
"But those vents don't look big enough for a body to fit in, how could that be possible?" -Daniel wondered
"Well the real question just made another real question, who took the corpses?" -Erica said
"Guys why the fuck should we even care for the corpses anyway, if we don't like or need them, why should they be our concern?!" -Leroy asked furiously
"Maybe this gives that something or someone isn't friendly" -Marcus
"hmm, don't like that, but it's a fair point" -Leroy said
The group continued to investigate the signal, it stopped; they were fortunate enough to be close to whatever it was, as they looked to where the movement stopped, they looked at a man who was tired, he looked like as if he ran but at the same time he had many injuries on him:
"A survivor?" -Tulio whispered
"Of course, he is still breathing" -Marcus whispered as well
"Excuse me sir" -Gerald shouted
"What?! Who's there?!! -the man panicked
"It's alright, we are friendly" -Daniel said
But as the man looked at Gerald's coat logo, he had said:
"They've used you too" -the man said to Gerald and Tulio
"Used us? What are you talking about?" -Tulio wondered
"Weyland-Yutani, they've send you guys here too?" -the man asked with worry
"Of course, we've thought we were suppose to deliver something" -Gerald said
"I was sent to fix the station's AI, but I was set up" -the man said
"Wait set up, you don't know what's going on either?" -Erica said
"At first i didn't knew anything, but they were using us, they were fucking playing with us!" -the man turned paranoid
"Sir calm down, what are-" -Gerald was interrupted
"Can't you people see?! We're the bait for those monsters!" -the man said with insanity
"Monsters? Where?" -Milo asked
"They're everywhere! In the ceilings, in the vents, walls, above or below us, they're fucking following us!!" -the man was so scared; until he took out a gun, the group reacted to him, but Daniel said:
"Everybody wait just a for a second!"
"Tell that to those lizards, they're not going to give us a headstart at all" -the man said as he was shooting the ceiling
"Dude, calm down!" -Ivy said
"Come out wherever the fuck you runts are!!" -the man said, but Daniel and Gerald were grabbing him, the man struggled and they still did their best to calm him down as Gerald removed his weapon; while the struggling and shouting continued, Milo looked at his tracker to see more movement coming from afar, he said:
"We've got more movement"
"What do you mean of more movement?" -Erica asked
"Like there is 10... No wait there's 23... What? Why is there more coming?" -Milo said
"And they're coming towards us" -Ivy said
"See (he chuckled maniacally), they're coming to get us" -the deranged man said
"That's because you brought unwanted attention thanks to you asshole!" -Leroy said
The team was preparing themselves to arm, Gerald gave back the gun that belong to the mad man, he along with Tulio checked what they can find to defend themselves, Tulio picked up another gun, but Gerald wasn't really a firearms person, so he saw a half broken chair and picked it up; as the motion tracker continued beeping and show the movement surrounding them, the team looked anywhere to see what was surrounding them, it was a circling mix of bad feelings; distrust, fear, confusion and anger; but the place was so dark, their flash lights weren't enough to show what was in there and sounds as if something was coming from the walls or at the ceilings; Suddenly Tulio was stabbed as he groaned with pain, the team saw him just to see something piercing him as it petruted to his body, showing a sharp tip of what seems to be a tail, yet it dragged Tulip away as Marcus shouted and used his pulse rifle to take down whatever was in the darkness, but it didn't seem like he got it at all, but Dan suggested:
"Run, let's move now!!"
"Shoot what might chase us in case!" -Erica shouted
The group headed forward to find a door that was almost far from them, Ivy tried to look back what was coming after them, she saw glimpses of an animal she thought, but Marcus pulled her away as he tried shooting again; the mad man got to the door as the group was still behind, he pressed buttons randomly, but nothing was working:
"Wait there, I'll help!" -Milo said
But then the mad man was stabbed, as Milo stopped with horror to see what caught the man; it was a large slender creature with a dark colored skin as coal, it had a long tail with a sharp tip on it's end; it's exoskeleton looked strange and almost confusing to describe as it looked as if had "wires" on some parts and "tubes" on it's back; it had claws on it's feet and at it's four fingers; lastly it had a long dark grey and head with no visible eyes, eye sockets or a nose, just it's mouth drooling with sharp silver fangs as it hissed to it's victim, then as it opened it's mouth, a smaller one popped out and took a dreadful bite at the lunatic, ending his life and taking his corpse away; Milo froze with fear as he saw what just happened, the beast reacted to his fear, he crawled fastly in the ceiling trying to reach him, but it was shoot by Leroy, Milo reacted back to normal and ran to the door, Leroy was close to finish of the slender creature, but then another one was behind him, this one almost looked different as it had a different dome and had some "cysts" on it; rather than stabbing him, it launched an acid ball to his hand; Leroy shouted with pain as half of his hand was melted by this acidic sphere; the group was reaching up to Milo and Leroy as the all got to the door, Milo was trying to open the door by hacking it this time considering it's advanced level, Ivy was mending Leroy's wounds and the rest where defending them from the beings that are going after them, a small wave of these slender creatures where coming from everywhere, the team got to hit some of them until they fell, others dodged the bullets and others were unexplainably resistant to them; but no matter how many died, many more were coming, Milo hopefully opened the door, the team got inside as fast as possible, once that happened, Milo was closing the door, hoping it does so quickly, which it did closed the door at time, but more them with "cysts" came and tried opening the shut door with their acid projectiles; the process wasn't fast enough, but the team kept running for the locked door may not last long; the team checked on their trackers, they were successfully outrunning them, but to their surprise another door locked fastly, as the team was split in two groups, Daniel with Milo and the rest on the other side:
"Crap what was that?!" -Marcus shouted
"Danny, Milo, do you copy?" -Erica was checking on her comm tech
"Yes, we copy Erica, we are right here!" -Daniel replied on his headgear
"What just happened?!" -Gerald asked
"These doors must have locked in emergency status, but I can open them" -Milo replied
But as as much he tried to open them, he felt an awkward shock on it, meaning that he won't be able to open it:
"Ow, can't seem to neither hack it or torch it, it's security function is much more advanced" -Milo said
Marcus used a finger to the touch the door, but he was shocked too:
"The kid's not joking" -Marcus said
"But there are always other paths to go right? We can always take them" -Ivy said
"No! We stay right here and help Daniel and Milo to get in here" -Erica said
Daniel checked on his tracker to see movement coming from some sides:
"Erica, you can't stay here longer, there is more movement coming from different sides, go on and search for a nice place to hide, me and Milo will find a way to get to you guys" -Daniel said
"What?! You can't be serious, we can't leave you guys here!" -Erica said
"Trust on Daniel here, there is no other choice but to find a safe place and then we'll try to regroup with them" -Gerald said
"But-" -Erica said
"Go now sis, Dan and I we will find you, just go!!" -Milo said with so much concern
"Come on Erica we've got to go, they're coming!" -Ivy said while she held Leroy on her shoulder
Erica was worried that not only that she might lose one of her friends, but also losing her young brother to hands of whatever they were facing, she had no other choice then:
"You two come back with safety alright? We will rendezvous somewhere I'll contact you soon ok?" -Erica said
"Good luck Erica" -Milo said
As each group ran to their own respective paths, it was so unclear where were they now going, but they knew they must be fast before whatever species was blending with the station's confusing darkness.
Meanwhile somewhere else, in a sector named Vahan LV-920, it was a habitable planet owned by the Weyland-Yutani corp, on the planet there was a mansion sort of place with a terraforming device close to it, it had beautiful gardens with exotic species of flora and lakes with small waterfalls, the sky was clouded, making the weather peaceful and it didn't seem to be raining yet; but as in the entrance there was three people who came inside the place, among them was Reginald, he rang the door's bell and waited it to be opened; it was opened by a young girl at the age of 9, she had long brown hair and blue eyes, Reginald then asked her:
"Good evening miss Delilah, is your... Father here?"
"Of course, I shall lead you to him" -said the child
"Thank you very much"
As the three men followed the girl, inside the place it had large rooms of white walls decorated with almost pastel blue colored details decoration the ceilings and plants rooted on small basements, it had small staircases in some rooms and the hall had a large window that's view can see the garden big as a jungle, almost; as they reached into another room which had large bookshelves like a library, a white carpet that almost looked like a terrain covered with snow and blue lights on the ceilings; there was an old man who was reading a book, just then Delilah told to him:
"Father, mister Reginald came to see you"
"Very well Delilah, you can continue to play now" -the old man said
"Can I play with Pahla now?" -Delilah asked
"Of course you can, she doesn't seem to mind at all" -the old man said, then the girl left
"Who's Pahla?" -Reginald asked
"It's the name of our pet, an exotic animal to be more exact" -the old man said
"Right, you know Samson, I came by to ask you a plenty good amount of questions"
"I've assume you'd do so again, but before I can answer those questions, tell me did you deliver the feast for the Xenomorphs?" -Samson asked
"Almost, we had to terminate half of the crew, but let's say we gave them a new flavour to put it like that... Pirates"
"Pirates? Never expected that, but they're humans nevertheless"
"Come on Samson, Wey-Yu is so desperate and impatient about your experiment, when will we be able to get and give what the company wants?"
"And they've sent you to tell me their concern? They can't expect me to tame these creatures at all, there were never meant to be weapons or pets to begin with"
"But you are feeding them lives and what has that given us so far?"
"In here I can control anything from Eden, their doors and their systems and I can see what's going on there, their progress seems fine and advancing"
"Lies! Nothing varies according to your reports, nothing has changed at all, they gather people for their hive, make more of their kind and still nothing new as you promised"
"They are understanding their environment and learning tactics from any new threat by time, I'm studying their intelligence"
"Enough with those excuses Samson! What is the reason why you continue doing this and haven't done anything yet?!"
"So you don't think patience is a virtue don't you? Not even when we are so close to find what can make humanity better than before, without using them? One in which medicine is no longer required to help us?"
"What?... What is that suppose to be mean?"
"It means that I AM working at something that can benefit everyone, but seeing that everyone is not being patient with me, then this most go away"
Samson took out a device, with a button and a small screen indicating Eden's systems, Reginald got worried as he was trying to tell him:
"You wouldn't dare destroy what Weyland-Yutani has worked for a long time!"
"Does it look like I'm bluffing, I dare you to discharge me of my duty, to shoot me with that gun you're carrying or let me do my work, what's it's going to be?"
Reginald didn't liked Samson's answers that well, he didn't trust him that much at all, but knowing that Samson controls the Eden somehow and is allowed by the company to do so, he had no choice but not to pressure him:
"So then, what will I tell them? What ex... What do I tell them exactly?" -Reginald asked with disappointment
"Tell them that they are close to get what they've always craved for, just wait for a day or two, that's all what they need to do, run along now, they must be anxious for the news you're about to give them"
Reginald and his men got out of his mansion and headed to their ship to leave at once, while Samson looked at his garden, seeing his daughter playing with an exotic creature that looks like a large, tall and slender fox with blue eyes, coated with white fur and had two horns like those of an antelope; Samson was happy, surprisingly the device he had was thrown and it wasn't controlling anything from Eden at all, he wanted Reginald to believe it was real though.
Back in Eden, the path that Daniel and Milo took was a long way to run into, there was only tubes and vents on the wall, almost making the path look smaller for them, it almost felt like a labyrinth for them, but they were fortunate not to see many movement in their trackers; but they were now hoping to reunite with the rest of the group to later think of a plan, after some time since they ran out of there, they were walking and searching for a map or something that can track their team members, however Milo was shocked for the thing he just saw, Daniel noticed him and then Milo said with fright:
"It was brutal"
"Milo"
"The way they killed those two persons, i-it... It was-"
"Milo relax"
"We didn't save them! W-we saw that they were unstoppable" Milo said with a stammering voice
"Milo, look at me"
"I can't calm down Dan! There was a whole army trying to get us for their own damn feast! This place is a cage for those things and we are their meal!" -Milo said with a breaking voice
"Would you listen to me for a second?!, we are not going to get killed by god knows what they are, alright? We will regroup with the rest along with Erica and we will get of here ok?"
"A-Alright, We will try"
"No tries, Do, we will do so"
"So far none of those things are following us according to the motion tracker"
"Good, let's keep going then"
As the continued their path, there was another door, it was locked, hopefully Milo was hacking it to open; while Milo was doing so, Daniel looked at his right to see a large shut window along with some touch screen, he asked to Milo:
"You think it be safe to mess around with those things Milo?"
"I guess so, just make sure not to activate anything wrong... Hope not anyway"
"If you say s- odd"
"What happened?"
"According to the tracker there is... Three of us?"
"What? (He checked his tracker) But... It's just the two of us and the third thing is on your right side"
Daniel didn't understood what was really happening, but something was behind that window, he was using the system to open it:
"Wait Dan, on second thought I don't thi-"
When Daniel activated the window to open, both men were surprised to see something too... Different! It was a room, not a lab room, just an ordinary room that is common in homes, there was so many normal furniture, from shelves, light lamps, a bed, clock, a chair and a normal vent; perhaps the previously mentioned details aren't that surprising, but what did caught their attention is that there was a lady living there, she looked calm and happy, reading a book and walked in circles; this lady had long brown hair with green eyes, her age might be around 19 or more, she had a normal shape, her clothes looked normal, except that in her shirt there was a tag that read "Subject-194", she wasn bothered by it at all; Daniel was stunned to see this, he wondered what is she doing there being calm while inside a station filled with strange beings, but he then tried to shout:
"Hey!!"
"Shush Dan, what if those things hear us?" -Milo said
"Hey, what are you doing there?!!"
Unfortunately the girl didn't heard him at all, Daniel then tried hitting the window, it was bulletproof, but it was soundproof as well, there was nothing she was able to hear from him:
"Maybe she is deaf" -Milo said
"This doesn't make any sense now, what if those things get her, we've got to help her now!"
"I've managed to open the door, but regarding your idea, I don't know, what if she is crazier than the other guy?"
"It's still worth a try, we can't let anyone get dragged by those things, let's move!"
Daniel and Milo ran into the opened door, they were far away from her, but somehow the lady reacted to something, she pur the book down and headed to the vent, she was using a screwdriver to remove the nails, opened the vent and crawled into there easily, it would be a hard thing for anyone to do so, but this lady strangely was able to move inside the vent easier and even a little faster; meanwhile with the other group they were resting in a spot where there was medical supplies, only some where available due to other being taken away or others being destroyed; Leroy and Marcus were taking a look out for any Xenomorphs, Gerald was checking for medicines inside the rooms of the pharmacy section and as for Erica along with Ivy they were planning what to do:
"Are you sure we should be looking for them, I don't want to sound rude or anything, but they can be dead you know?" -Ivy said
"I want to believe they're fine and even if they're not alive, may I remind you we don't have a map for the entire ship, so we can't escape that easily" -Erica said
"We'd also have to check if there is any ship that works well, considering where are inside a junk place now, barely anything works" -Marcus said
"A very fucked up one indeed, now we have to deal with doors opening and closing, lights turning off and on, monsters coming out of nowhere, etcetera of etceteras" -Leroy said
"How long will all this take though?" -Ivy wondered
"Judging by the size of this station, it might takes out weeks" -Erica said
"Ok just make up your mind are you a pessimist or an optimist?" -Ivy asked to Erica
While the group still talked about what will they do, Gerald still checked the rooms, but then he felt something sticky on the wall, he checked on his hand to see some sort of web-like thing on it, it felt almost jelly though, he was disgusted but he was curious to see what was going on, he went on further to see an odd looking "spider" on the floor, he was frightened, but the creature itself didn't moved, even when Gerald poked it with a piece of metal and yet it didn't moved at all; then he saw a big "stone" which had an opening, he went to looked and inside it... There was nothing, he was clueless, but then Ivy got to where he was and said:
"Hey Doc Gerry, what are you doing? We need your help"
"Sorry, I was looking at this weird stuff an- OH MY GOD!" -Gerald freaked out when he someone stucked with the substance he had found into the wall, the group heard his shout, headed to where he was and saw the body on the wall, they were shocked by this, it was a confusing view to even look at, but Erica asked to Gerald:
"Do you think he is alive?"
"I'm not so sure, I need to take the body out of there and check his pulse" -Gerald said
As he was getting close to him, the man woke up, freaked up and scared, the group got spooked as well, Gerald then went back on his senses and tried getting him out of there:
"Don't worry sir, we'll get you out of there" -Gerald said
"Kill me" -the man said
"Hey it's fine, we won't hurt you" -Ivy said
"Please Kill me"
"Are you suicidal or what?" -Leroy asked
"There is someth- oww!" -the man groaned with pain
"My goodness is that thing doing something to him?" -Erica wondered with fear
"It's inside me! Shoot at it!"
"Calm down, we can fix this!"
"There is no ti-"
The man tried to speak, but blood was coming out of his mouth, something was trying to break his torso open:
"Oh God what is that?!" -Ivy said
"Stand back I'll take it out!!" -Marcus said as he took out a pistol
Gerald stepped away, as Marcus was shooting at the agonizing man's chest multiple times until he couldn't move anymore, nothing was moving at all; there was an awkward silence, Ivy was frightened and Gerald was sad; but then the man's head moved and imploded to reveal an odd worm-like creature with teeth and two sharp claws, one on each side of it's tiny arms, it almost looked like the xenomorphs that attacked them but smaller and almost shaped liked a serpent; it jumped to Marcus's knee and making a deep cut on him, the rest of the group tried to shoot at it, but it ran off safely to the vents and wasn't seen again; the group felt an terrifying feeling of horror as they witnessed another gruesome death, even at it's smallest size, they were even thinking that the mad man may have a point back there, this place was a scary set up for these fiends to hunt people are will come here against their will or other reasons.
