A/N: not going to lie, the chance to write my crack ship doctor mechanic is a large reason why I'm writing the aliens au XD Sorry for any errors.
-(On earth)
Bellamy and his sister exchanged matching smiles. "What do you think Octavia?"
"I think getting caught is the best thing that's ever happened to me Bell," she threw her arms up, "I'm free. After so many years pent up I can finally roam where I want without fear of getting caught," she said honestly.
Bellamy grinned. He'd have to get his boys to break the wrist bands when he gets a chance so the ark wont follow them down. Nobody suspected him of shooting Jaha. He and Octavia can be happy. Clarke and Wells could be a problem, but a mutiny against the royals wont be difficult to stage. The delinquents had no love or friendship for the privileged. Things were looking up for the Blakes!
"Oh thank God! We finally made it!" Jasper cheered when they made it "...and there's a giant metal door," he lowered his raised arms. "Well this is just great. Any ideas Monty?" He turned to his friend.
Monty approached the door. "Looks like there's a passcode. Does anybody have lucky numbers?"
Clarke sighed, her skin crawled like a cat's as she felt Bellamy dart pass her and to Monty. "Any bright ideas princess?" He sneered at her.
"Yes. Go and do something and stop being a royal pain," deciding to ignore Bellamy's angry face, she regretfully turned to Well's," you don't happen to know do you?"
Wells bite his bottom lip, "I could try some codes."
He slid next to Monty and checked that faded numbers. His hand descended down, but before he could press a button, a container was thrown at the crowd and smoke came out.
"What's that!" Ocatvia yelled and the 100 panicked.
"Nothing good," Finn muttered. "Guys run!" They were already falling however, Clarke fell to her knees and tried to stay awake. Bellamy saw the blurry figures in white running at them.
"Get away! Who are you?" Finn yelled, the last man standing. The mysterious people hit him with the butt of their fire arm. Finn hissed in pain, falling to one knee and then getting back up. He made a fist and aimed it on the guy.
"Don't hurt them they're just kids," someone yelled as Finn punched another bad guy.
"Sir, this one isn't no kid! He's strong," one shouted as Finn kneed him in the gut.
"Fuck it! Electrocute the bastard!"
"Wha-" before Finn could protest or surrender, a white coat slinked behind him and hit him with an electrical rod. Finn squirmed on the floor.
"Finally! Bring them in!" They opened the hatch and dragged a weak Finn in with the others.
"What the devil is this guy, John? He won't stop fighting!" Finn tried to butt head with one of them.
The dull light made things more eerie, made them looks more haunting, but they sounded human.
"There are people living here!" Finn gasped.
"Welcome back home son. How's the homecoming party?" one sneered.
"Why are you guys doing this?"
"God! I hope you aren't so much of a talker in bed. Shut up will ya! It's just precaution measure," they threw him in a white room all alone. Finn gritted his teeth and slammed his fists on the door.
"Don't hurt my friends!"
"Are you really in any position to be making demands," the guys shook their heads mockingly and left him.
-(On the ark)-
"There's something odd happening," Abby's assistant Jackson called out to them, scrunching his face at the monitor.
"Are they alright? Wells?" Jaha rushed to the screens.
"There's something strange going on with their vitals," Jackson said nervously. "The radiation must be kicking in."
"That doesn't make sense," Abby studied the charts, "The majority of the kids heartbeats slowed at the same time. There was a momentary spike and then it stabled. John Murphy's and Harper's heart beat is a bit erratic, but these other three are going crazy. It's like those three are terrified," Abby gave them her theory. "If it was radiation they should have similar readings. No, this rapid pace is of someone running for their life. Of adrenaline hitting. I'm worried about those three."
"You think they're being chased," Callie inquired.
"That's ridiculous! There would have to be life on earth for that to happen," Kane scoffed.
Abby shrugged," he's right. There's no life on Earth so I don't know why that's happening."
It was quick, but Abby had known him for a long time and caught the shadow that fell on Jaha's face. He had the same face as the patients had when they lie to her, or omits. She didn't like it.
"What should we do?" Callie asked.
"Nothing for now," Kane sighs. The landing had fried their only mains of communications with the 100.
"We're just going to sit here and twiddle our thumbs?" Callie scoffed. "Kick back our feet and have the kids fend for themselves?"
"Let's remain optimistic Callie. They're not completely helpless. They'll be safe when they enter the fortress," Jaha sent them a warning glance to drop the topic. Jaha nodded, appearing deeply troubled, "keep working on establishing communications. I want to talk to those kids!" Jaha urged them to hurry.
He left the grounds and Abby followed him.
"How's the gun shot?"
His only response was to grunt.
"I have some pills that could help with that."
"Please."
Abby led Jaha to her room. As a mother her first priority was Clarke, doctor Abigail would have to take a back seat for now. She shut the door behind him and crossed her arms.
"No more lies Jaha, time to be honest. What are you hiding from me?"
Jaha rubbed his face tiredly," you're not going to like this."
"I don't see how you can achieve making me more upset," Abby chuckles. After her husbands death she had low expectations on Jaha. She tried to keep it civil between them and time heals all wounds.
"What you have learned in the history books are lies, not surprising since history is seen and written by emotional, biased men. The planet we are orbiting is not the original Earth, but a different planet with an exact ecosystem. According to the first chancellors notes, a long time ago, our original planet was purposely infested by dangerous monsters of another planet. The government lost control and nuked earth daily. Earth is a dumpster waste land now. The survivors of the exodus went to this planet." He took a major breath.
"About a century or two later, a mad general and a scientist that had a major god complex got their hands on those creatures and tried to control them. History repeated itself. Instead of fleeing to another planet and trying again, the governments constructed the ark and launched a major apocalyptic hits of nukes that made earth inhospitable, but it wasn't done to destroy enemy countries, it was to kill off the dark monsters. This is a very small chance that the monsters might be alive and roaming. The notes say that they're very resilient. Its been worrying me at night," Jaha finished.
To Abby's credit her face was neutral during the first part of Jaha's speech. The second part her face showed signs of anger. Now at the end she struggled to not blow up.
"What-" Abby's face was dangerously low, "-do you mean, that earth...earth two is possibly inhabited by hostile beings that can what? They must be able to tear the children like tissue paper if they're dangerous enough to start a nuke war on a planet."
Jaha suppressed a wince, "exactly like how I said it. The chances of the creatures being alive," Abby clenched her hands, "are unlikely. Everything dies after a certain time. The nukes killed everyone so their is no way for the species to thrive."
Abby counted to five in her head. CLARKE! Abby shot him a withering glare, whirled, and marched to the door.
"Are you going to go see that girl?"
"Maybe if she's with her teacher. And don't use that damn tone when referring to Raven," she went out the door leaving Jaha alone to contemplate in silence and pain.
Abby couldn't think! There was just so much information too absorb and yes it sounded ridiculous, life forms from different planets, but Jaha wouldn't jest when he was on thin ice with Abby. There's a slight chance Clarke and the kids were in danger. Kane and Diana would use this to their advantage. Abby needed to know what was occurring down there before them, and plan her attack. Jaha had said they were dead, but a human could live up to be more than 100. What if the creatures body didn't weaken until a long time. What were their cycle like? What if they lived as long as arctic sponges! That's a really long time. She would grind Jaha for more information later. Right now she needed a means to communicate with the 100. She trusted that Raven and Sinclair could help her.
When she went to the poorer district she wanted to stop and examine everyone that appeared to have difficulty breathing. She needed to tell Raven to stop exerting herself, it would be bad if she fainted, why was Raven so determined to always be doing something.
Abby walked in to the mechanic's workshop to see Sinclair holding a furious, struggling, Raven, and Wick bleeding from his nose, lying on the oily floor.
Seeing that Raven was being attended she went into doctor mode,"Oh that looks painful," Abby announced her presence and Raven froze in Sinclair's arms.
"Abby!" Raven hadn't expected to see the stunning woman so soon.
Abby reached to a bleeding Wick, except he flinched away from her touch and got up.
"It's fine," he glared at Raven.
"Honey, you're bleeding a waterfall," Abby tried to reason with him. Blood was trailing down his chin and ruining his shirt.
"Just need to stop the blood," he dismissed her concerns, and turned to face Raven, " try that again and I'll whip out a surprise for you."
Raven with fresh vigor, was about to spew insults at Wick, but Sinclair clamped his hand over her mouth.
"Calm down Raven. You can escort yourself out Wick," Sinclair said and Raven growled at Wick.
Wick strutted out of there with a black aura and a gushing nose.
"What was that all about? Did you fight him Raven," Abby asked, hand going to Raven's chin so she could direct her face to different angles and see if she spots any bruises. For a bunch of genius mechanics, they really needed to do something about the workshop low lighting. Raven blushed at the touch, it's been a while since Abby has cradled her face. She was touch starved for Abby who was strict on the rules of conduct until Raven mended her business with Finn.
"Nothing to worry about. Wick just needs a lesson in humility and respect," Sinclair sighed.
Ravens face still being cradled by Abby, and Raven muttered venomously, "racist, white supremacist prick," she spat angrily.
"He's a good kid," Sinclair wasn't giving up on Wick, "he's just mislead by his parent's teaching. He'll grow up."
"Yeah sure, cant believe I ever dated that guy," Raven rolled her eyes, and huffed out her anger. " Hi Abby, what brings you to this part of town? Not that I'm not glad to see you," Raven grabbed Abby's hands and kissed the back of her hand.
If there was someone she could count on for support it was Sinclair. He was always confident in her, and encouraged her to chase her dreams. He believed in her when Raven wasn't sure of herself.
Abby blushed at Raven's kiss and smiled affectionately, "I needed to talk to you two. Is it's a bad time?"
"Nope. What can I help you out with. Lotion massage?" Raven quipped.
"I have an important, personal, question about Finn," Abby let out and she felt Raven tighten her grip on their intertwined hands.
"Oh. Uh, Abby isn't this a conversation we should have in private," Raven sweated and Sinclair inched to the door.
"It's not that kind of question Raven," Abby chuckled, "and I'm mostly directing my question to Finn's father."
"Ohhhh," both geniuses were relieved they wouldn't have to enter any awkward conversations.
"...I'm sure Raven has already informed you about the malfunction with the pod, but is there any way you can communicate with Finn?" Abby pleads.
Sinclair recoils in shock, "you know!" He glances at a guilty Raven staring at the ground. He sighs, "of course you know."
Abby cleared her throat, "it's not her fault. I'm the one that noticed when I saw him...bleed. I was going to take it up to Jaha but Raven stopped me."
"I told him to be careful," Sinclair sighed.
"The kids might be in trouble," the room became dimmer.
"What kind of trouble? Radiation?" Sinclair guesses.
"So the earth isn't hospitable? They're going to cull the herd?" Raven shifts anxiously.
"I think that...earth," Abby takes her hand back and crosses her arms, she would have to tell Raven the whole story later. She was limited in time, "earth is livable. Its residents might not be so friendly to strangers."
Raven's mouth drops, and then a grin breaks out," people could have survived! That's great!"
"I didn't say people honey," Abby whispers and Raven touches Abby's shoulder.
"Abby?" Raven nudges her to keep going.
"From what Jaha has told me earth might be home to some dangerous creatures," Abby sighs. "I need to see what's happening their before Kane and Diana pull another stunt."
"Like when Kane tried to float you?" Sinclair cringes when Raven goes rigid.
"HE WHAT! WHEN?! WHY?! ARE YOU OKAY?" Raven yells. "When were you going to tell me that?!" She asks Abby.
"That's not important now," Abby says in a soothing tone, but that only riles Raven up more. " Do you have a way?"
"I do actually. I'm not sure if it'll work from such a far distance but I can try," Sinclair goes to find his stuff.
"We need to talk," Raven demands.
Abby shuffles, "I need to do some rounds," Abby tries for an excuse.
"Abby!" And now Raven is the one crossing her arms, and absolute in getting what she wants.
"I've been busy. I told you there's a lot of things going on, and behind the scenes," Abby groans.
"You almost being executed should have been in the things to be brought up list, when you went to see me not a few hours ago," Raven scolds her. That Kane! Cant he just not do anything for once?
"I know what you're thinking and he was just following the law."
"Why did he want to float you?" Raven wanted to know. Whatever it was, it could be a grave crime, it wasn't in Abby's nature.
"...I used extra medicine to save Jaha's life," Abby shrugs.
"Oh my God," Raven hisses angrily.
-(Back on earth2)-
Lexa lazily reclined on her folding chair watching Aden and the kids run after the skittering black, shiny, spider. Her people had long ago grown accustomed to the odd creatures. In a chilling way, her people saw them as brothers-in-arms, they had both survived the nuclear blasts. They've survived along each other for almost a century. According to the ancient archives that Titus had read to her, they were called Xenomorphs. They were strong, agile creatures, and Lexa had tired of telling the children not to mess around with them.
Something in Lexa's dark blood made her feel uneasy about them ever since she was a child. They gave Lexa hellish nightmares since she was a toddler, there was brief recess when she became Heda, instead of the queens calling she dreamed of the lives she took in the war, and then of Costia. She dreamed of Costia, naked and over her, smiling gentle, loving, and content. The smile changed to a grimace and then a scream of pain, before long a black, sharp tail pierced through her lover, and splattered her red blood over Lexa. Lexa hated that mocking, abominable, bitch.
Her people didn't feel the same and she knew that was possibly because of the dreams mother gave them. Her people did not fear the Xenomorphs, the Xenomorphs had no use for useless creatures. The Xenomorphs did not like the night-bloods. In fact they were weary of anyone with black blood. Titus didn't know the reason for this but he figured it might have a connection to the highly dangerous black goo, and the mountain.
The Xenomorphs didn't like a few things: imperfect nests, fire, black goo, the mountain, and Lexa. Titus explained that Lexa was a descendant of their long time enemy, an enemy that constantly made their plans and lives blow up. When Lexa was older and braver she ventured into the nest, uninvitingly, to speak with the queen. It wasn't really speaking but there was a strong connection between that species and herself since forever. Lexa walked right in and stood in front of her. Like when she presented herself to the clans, Titus warned her not to show fear, fear was a path that led directly to your grave. Titus acknowledged that the queen would be trickier to fool because of her strong empathic connection to Lexa and that would have been a problem if Lexa actually feared those creatures.
The connection went both ways; Lexa knew how weary, and to a degree, afraid the queen was about what Lexa had the potential to do. Lexa got glimpses and emotions that spanned centuries ago, feuds where Lexa's ancestors, prevailed in a way. With every confrontation between Lexa's family tree and the Xenomorphs species, the xenomorphs became more cautious and venomous. In a fucked up way the Xenomorphs are the best teacher Lexa ever had, more than Anya and Titus. It taught her how to control her emotions, how to fight, how to reign. These biological machines of mass destruction were part of Lexa's legacy, a link could be found in their blood. They were the family she never wanted, mother mentally abused her, tried to reduce Lexa every day, weather awake or in her sleep. Mothers presence was always whispering in the back of her head. Lexa had to learn how to build a mental wall to muffle her voice, a barrier to weaken the line.
Lexa was too old and has been through too much to be afraid. The humidity and tunnels of the hive, didn't alarm her, she knew every inch of it from her dreams. Mothers children slinked in the shadows, but didn't grab her. A 18 year old Lexa entered the breeding area where mother sized her up. Lexa was briefly surprised at how easy she received the queens signal. At this proximity, Lexa knew that she didn't have to use words, not like the xenomorphs used a vocal systems like humanity's. It was deadly silent, and the queen told her to be careful, not to get too close to the eggs so they wouldn't flap open. It would be a waste of a perfectly good egg to use it on Lexa.
Lexa had some questions. She really wanted to know what they were to each other.
"No sweet words," Lexa spoke, conveying her feeling empathetically. "Do you know what are we?"
An image and flood of dark feelings was the queens answer; Lexa was a prophet of doom, Lexa was the offspring of an eternal rage. Lexa saw green eyes, curly brown hair, strong, beautiful features. She saw a woman that would go to the ends of the universe for revenge. The brood knew this woman as their mortal enemy. Lexa felt a pang of respect for this woman.
Lexa smirked, "Don't hold back on my account. I know there's more. There are some people that think of you as their mother, but there something in the blood between us. Why do you fear the night-bloods?"
The queen gave a warning screech, and Lexa almost covered her ears. Damn she was loud. There was a glimpse of a giant, pinkish-greyish, man like figure and Lexa felt a profound fear. Both the queen and Lexa knew this giant with the strange armor was extremely dangerous. Lexa was out of breath when the glimpse of the man was over. Lexa cursed, her hands almost shaking, and all the Xenomorphs hissed. She overcame the great need to hide in a corner, she knew the queen was observing her.
"What was that?" Lexa was proud she didn't sound so breathless. The queen didn't answer. "You aren't being fair. You've tried to control me through fear all my life, sending my own people to kill me, sometimes you've whispered for me to come to you and now that I'm confronted you, you hold back. Is this special treatment? Am I not your child?"
The very religious of her people thought of the queen like that. The queen sent them dreams, and they thought of her as the messiah. The majority of the population didn't get the queens call, but they saw the creatures as kin, they treated Xenomorphs with respect. Xenomorphs were just part of every day life.
"Am I not your child?" Lexa repeated, her tolerance for the queen fraying. "If not then stop calling me!" Lexa suppressed a shiver when the queen mouth moved, it looked almost like a smirk.
Lexa felt the message the queen sent. Fondness and amusement. It was almost like a mother laughing at something silly their child had said. It was not a pleasant comparison for Lexa.
She limited her visits to the hive. Sometimes the queen was talkative, most times she was dismissing. Mommy is busy right now Lexi, calm back another time. Lexa didn't like that it seemed the queen was humored by Lexa's presence. Their dynamic shifted when one day a messenger woke her up in the middle of the night. A message from Indra.
Lexa felt the annoying feeling of déjà vu when she saw a messenger scurrying to where she sat in the shade. He straightened next to her, ready to deliver his message, but Lexa delayed. She sipped her lemonade, things were just starting to look up, Indra never sent someone with good news. The baby xenomorph dangled from one of the younger night-bloods fist. Titus pursed his lips, the night-bloods will eventually learn to be careful with those things.
The messenger bite his lip, and Lexa had to suppress a sigh. Right, better get on with it, deal with it, and move on to her next project.
Lexa got up and went into commander mode. He took that as the signal to speak.
"Heda, Indra sent me with extremely important news!" Lexa eyebrow twitched. Was it the mountain men? Dante Wallace and his estranged son? The bitch from the north?
"Right...okay. Lets go speak in private," she waved to Titus. He nodded and took over baby sitting the children. "This way."
The messenger eyes widened when he saw they were going to take the elevator. He checked the body builders who's job was to pull. Their bicep was as perfectly round as a soccer ball. The top of Heda's tower was insanely tall. They entered the elevator and the messenger gulped, praying in his head. It took forever to get to the top! There was also an awkward stiff air that couldn't be easily overstepped. You can't just strike casual conversation with the commander! He made sure not to let his relief show when they finally made it to the floor. Lexa stepped out and strolled into her thrown room. He didn't proceed further in when she stood in the center of her room. There was a focused, scrutiny in Lexa's green eyes, as if she was waiting for something to show up. The guard scanned the room. Those were a lot of candles... at least it smelled pretty.
After a moment Lexa exhaled, her shoulders loosening just barely. She turned to the messenger, arms behind her back.
"Speak," the messenger liked Heda's voice. Soft and musical, it held weight without being overbearing.
"Heda, a space craft had fallen like a meteorite from the sky. The chief sent her people to find what had happened. Aliens have descended from space Heda, and they look just like us. Our huntsmen were able to capture two. The insect warriors wrestled the three we took from the grips of the huntsmen. They didn't kill the aliens or use them for food. The huntsmen reported that they embraced them carefully. The fled with the aliens. The aliens we were able to capture told us they were not from the mountain. The aliens are heading to the mountain," he said breathlessly.
Lexa got a dreadful feeling. Damn so the rich didn't escape to another planet and decided it was safe enough to land here. Damn! The mental was shook. Mother spoke gently, let me in child, we must be united, defend me. Lexa internally shivered, damn!
"Is that all?" Lexa asked.
"Heda, the insects have been restless, circling the outskirts of the mountain and borders of the village. They know we have two of the aliens and its only the nigh bloods that are keeping them in bay."
Lexa nods, "You mean to say that Indra wants me to come?"
"Yes Heda. The sooner the better."
"Go and tell Indra I'll be there in a day or so," Lexa dismissed him.
Gustus came out of the shadows, "Heda?"
"Bring Titus to me and tell Anya to prepare to leave in a few hours," Lexa ordered him. She sat on her uncomfortable throne and contemplated the future. Even from this distance the queen sensed Lexa's turbulent mind and tried to peak inside. The probing only angered Lexa and strengthened the mental barrier. If Lexa ignored her for too long, she would get headaches; Lexe sent a quick response that she would have to visit the queen later and see if the incubators were alive. Lexa didn't promise to deliver her the other aliens.
