I would like to just tell you I do not own Aliens and Hannibal Rising is a guilty pleasure of mine. The cover for it reminds me of the cover of The Purge. I like how in the end Hannibal learns he also ate his sister like the rest of the Nazi's, I like his uncle's widow, and I like all the times this new actor tries to be like Anthony Hopkins. Still, friends of mine don't like it and critics didn't like it, so I guess it's just me being different.

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There was no way in hell he could win this very difficult fight, but he was going to go down like a Marine, he was going to go down fighting.

He did rapid fire, the quickest way to lose ammo but the most powerful way to fire a weapon. With seven shots he tool out three of them, three out of three thousand. And he died. They climbed over him with their beastly tongues cutting open his flesh.

He sat up in a cold sweat, it was just a nightmare. Marine or not he hated every minute of that nightmare. He got up, got dressed, and went to see Julia. He walked and walked and ignored every marine he saw until he found her with Lucy.

He was not in the room with her, but he could see her through the monitor. The hardened marine was near a xenomorph. Good thing this xenomorph was Lucy. Even so he was nervous. She had a line of different types of meat in front of her. Those meat must be there for a very important reason.

' She's probably testing her,' he thought. That's when he noticed that he was calling the alien a 'her'. He was seeing the alien as a person.

It was wrong in every sense of the word, given what these things do, but it felt right to him for some reason. After all he couldn't take care of a creature he was only trained to kill by himself.

It would be better if multiple people took care of her. Through the monitor, he could see that Lucy immediately went for the beef followed by the pork followed by the chicken, but it left the fish and the meat substitute on the floor. Ian wondered what would happen if a xenomorph had venison in front of it, but that question could wait. He didn't know if he should get in there and talk to the both of them.

"Why don't you join them?" Hal asked from behind him.

"Rule number one about Julia: never interrupt her experiments," Ian stated.

Hal would keep that in mind the next time he saw her. Ian remembered when they were little, Julia always insisted on doing her science fair projects herself.

She only had partial science knowledge, but she loved performing experiments that just happened to be scientific. And sometimes this helped her get good grades. She never intended to be a doctor, she always dreamed about being a veterinarian. This was her opportunity to work with an animal, so to speak.

' I think Maryanne should be there to,' Ian thought to himself, ' then again she might react harshly toward her.'

Either way he and his sister's needed to work this out together.

Later that night, he brought Maryanne to the monitor room while everyone else was asleep. Maryanne and Ian could only try to imagine what Julia was doing. When they got into the room and turned on the monitor, they saw Julia sleeping with Lucy. That's right her head was actually resting on skin belonging to an acid carrying creature.

Maryanne was shocked, Julia's head was actually resting on skin belonging to an acid carrying creature.

" Are you sure that's our sister in there?" She asked.

"Yep," Ian stated, "that's defiantly her."

At least she wasn't kissing the acid blood monster.

"That is Lucy," Ian said, "my... daughter."

"You know that was a joke, right?" Maryanne asked.

Ian now felt like a complete idiot for not knowing that. "Hal was the one who gave her the name," Ian stated, "it was not my idea."

Maryanne did not really care what they called this xenomorph, she would much rather learn why her sister was sleeping with it.

Ian answered her unspoken question when he said, "She's been working for a while now studying Lucy, she deserves a good nights rest."

"Maybe it's time I get to watch Lucy and you carry her to bed," Maryanne stated.

Ian smiled, "Alright."

Julia may be a tough person but she wasn't impossible to carry, especially for a Marine.

Maryanne pondered what they saw in a creature that could kill all of them without a second thought. Maybe it was because of the connection between Lucy and Ian. One thing was certain: Maryanne wanted to meet Lucy.

XXX

Maryanne walked to the door while Ian walked out of the room with Julia in his arms.

"I want to go in," Maryanne whispered.

"Okay," he said, "but you need my smell on you or else she might rip your head off."

"I'm covered in oil," she stated, "what should I do about that?"

Ian would first want her to take a bath. Then he got the sick idea they should take a shower together.

"There's an emergency shower in there," Ian said gesturing to Lucy's holding cell. "I can turn off the cameras and you can shower in peace. I left a bar of soap on the stand next to it."

"You're kidding right?" Maryanne asked, "What about... Lucy?"

Ian didn't want to tell her Lucy would be showering with Julia or at least have a sick idea of doing it.

"I'm sure she won't bother you," Ian stated.

Maryanne was happy to hear that. She stepped into the room and saw Lucy, curled next to the shower. This was a place most Xeno's wouldn't step foot into. It was a place most people would not step foot into willingly, the beasts lair. This beast lair however was the only shower she had. When Maryanne approached Lucy, she moved out of the way so she could take a shower.

"Hi Lucy. Want to take a shower with me?" She immediately regretted that question, because Lucy was not a dog, she was a deadly creature without a second thought. Lucy actually did her best to ignore Maryanne. She shrugged and undressed, for extra protection she covered the camera with one of her socks.

The water that came from the emergency shower was luke warm, not too hot or too cold, it was just right. Things were going well until she needed to wash her back.

She couldn't touch any piece of skin without feeling a hard and slimy surface. She couldn't reach the middle of her back with the soap. A warm, yet bony hand rested on her shoulder, it was Lucy. Maryanne trembled in fear, but Lucy did not want to kill her, she wanted to help. Lucy took the bar of soap with her bony hand and rubbed it on her back. She was gentle to her skin, rubbing her back with the soap with care. When Lucy was finished, she stepped back to let Maryanne rinse herself off.

" Umm...thank you."

Lord knows this thing was reading her mind. Then, Lucy stepped into the shower with her, she seemed to enjoy the feeling of the water running off her smooth skin.

"You want me to wash you?" Maryanne asked. Lucy nodded in agreement, she understood her.

Maryanne was a little bit iffy on whether she should touch the skin of it, but what did she have to lose? It was already proven Lucy wasn't here to kill her.

' Might as well wash it,' she thought to herself.

What Lucy liked was interesting to Maryanne. Most animals do not like to be bathed, but Lucy seemed to enjoy it. It was a surprise they liked water. She picked up the bar of soap and lightly scrubbed the xenomorph's dome. She was a great Xenomorph through all of this.

God, she was talking about her like she was her pet. She was a dangerous creature and if she was a pet the owner would be Ian. Maryanne almost forgot she was naked, she was more focused on the creature that may or may not kill her.

Good thing there were no perverts watching them.

" Would you two get out of that shower please. You've been in there for twenty five minutes!"

It was Hal that yelled at them. He didn't do it to sound mean, but he came off as mean because Maryanne was both spoiling herself and her new pet and using a lot of water in the process. Most marines had a shower where they would take twenty seconds to get wet, turn off the water to rub themselves with shampoo and soap, and then wash it all off.

" Listen now Hal." She turned off the valve. The water was off and Maryanne stepped out. Lucy sat down like a human waiting for Maryanne to leave. " I just need one more minute."

She finished washing Lucy and turned off the water.

"I left spare clothes on the outside of the door and set the door settings to 'manual' so you don't have to open it all the way," Hal said.

" Thank you Hal. At first I thought you finding out about us keeping Lucy would make you tell the other marines so we would be executed. I don't even think there's a rule for people keeping xenomorph's without telling anyone since they want to kill you."

Maryanne wanted to see how Ian was doing. Thanks to manual setting she had to squeeze through the door, a good thing she was thin, and walked down the corridor. If she remembered right Ian was probably outside right now. When she got there, all of the Marines, including Ian, were gearing up to get ready to go into the field.

Seeing her brother gear up to go back into the field that nearly took his life made Maryanne very worried.

"Relax Maryanne," Decaf stated, "I'll be with him the whole time."

"MARINES," the general yelled, "we have a new development."

Maryanne was curious about what new development the general was talking about. He showed them turrets. They were not brand new or anything so why were they bothering to show them. Then he started explaining how the turrets have cameras inside them. It was recording when the Spikey Xenomorphs attacked the normal Xenomorphs.

The footage was poor in quality, everything had a bluish tinge and the footage shifted every few seconds. It showed a single xenomorph approaching the turret when, out of nowhere a xenomorph covered in spikes shoulder charged the normal xenomorph.

This was like watching an action movie except there was no side to cheer on which was more like being in a side of a war and not having a side to follow. Also there was no sound, so it was like a silent movie.

It turns out Ian was planning. Ian figured that they were two separate species of xenomorph. He couldn't think of a scenario where the marines could deal with both species at the same time. It was no good doing this.

"It may be better if we let the two species fight it out," Ian said.

"That may be," Decaf said, "but we have to think about the safety of the people still alive in this colony."

That was true. They were all going to get hurt unless something was there to help them.

"This is still a rescue mission," Decaf stated, "not a bug hunt."

Ian was all for not hunting bugs because of circumstances named Lucy. He did not like to kill things, but he loved the feeling of being a hero. It was like being love by a god, but heroism does not come without sacrifice. He couldn't live knowing all the sacrifice that goes on. People he knew died next to him in the past, he never forgot them.

He should have died himself.

XXX

Several years prior, there was a major riot at a prison. Ian tripped over a rock and a sniper got one of his friends directly behind him. His sisters were not on the trip, if they were they would have comforted him. He tried to get resigned when his company was assigned to go to prison planet Gita 32-11.

If the AI didn't make them change where they were who knew what fate awaited Ian.

Ian inspected his Motion Tracker, which had been cleaned since the last time he used it, when the parasite latched to his face. His pistol, however, needed cleaning. Everyone had an hour to prepare. While Ian and Decaf cleaned their weapons, Decaf updated him on his mission while Ian was out of commission.

" Me and my group rescued a family. You aren't the only one who has been sleeping peaceful lately."

"Yeah," Ian asked, "what happened?"

"First off," he began, "we found out that we are not just on any colony on Romulan 351, we are on the largest colony on the planet. But that is unrelated to the story...

"What we thought was an area only populated by xenomorph's had survivors. A father whom was a plumber, his wife a physiotherapist, and their two unlucky children."

"'Unlucky'?" Ian asked.

"They weren't infected. It's just they were in fear of their lives and it's because their parents brought them to this planet," he explained.

"Ah," Ian said, "where do they go after we rescue them?"

"Well Earth. Earth is where humans belong," he replied.

"I know that smart-ass," Ian snapped.

"Jeez, they're sent to the Spectrum," Decaf said.

"Sorry," Ian apologized, "I'm just nervous about this new mission."

"Okay," he said, "your nervous. My last job was hell and I thought I need a job I could enjoy for the next thirty years, but this was the only job I found where I could be myself."

"What was your previous job?" Ian asked.

He sighed, "I was a Natural Resource and Soil Conservationist."

Ian nodded his head but that sounded like a job that was bathroom cleaning.

"It was a boring desk job," Decaf said.

" So sitting down all the time was worse than running around trying to shoot xenomorph's?"

"There was no rush," Decaf said.

Ian understood that. They got up and joined the rest of their squad. Ian was staying close to Decaf. They were not just friends, they were brothers of war. Julia told him how Decaf was a killing machine trying to revenge the infection of his friend.

Even when he knew that Ian was going to be fine, he felt the need to kill xenomorphs. He wasn't a fool though. An alien blood beast had to be shot away from the head unless there were certain circumstances.

They boarded the APC with the rest of their squad, ready to rescue more families. After the protocol of buckling up and taking deep breaths it started moving. The men inside, with the acceptation of General Santiago, knew where they were going. They knew to watch forward and back because they could come from any angle.

The soldiers had to keep themselves aligned. Ian and Decaf stayed with the general. Ian picked up three blips on his radar, and they were ten meters away.

" Weapons be ready to fire." Decaf said.