INT. LV 427 - PYRAMID - TUNNEL
Vossler is driving the nuke laden ATV back to where Voight was attacked, he guides the machine over piles of debris dislodged by Hunter's exploding grenade and into the Mutation chamber. He maneuvers the ATV over the burnt/shot remains of the mutant Facehuggers and as the vehicle progresses into the large chamber the tyres begin to smoke, the acid from the dead creatures is eating into the steel belt reinforced heavy duty rubber. Vossler parks the ATV on a clear section of the chamber floor and dismounts.
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Vossler is inspecting the place where Voight was obviously attacked. He picks up the discarded flamethrower and begins to look around the chamber.
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The smoking tyres of the ATV. Two of them blow out explosively as they are eaten through by the potent acid, the ATV settles on the flat tyres and the other two blow also.
Vossler has searched the large chamber but there is no sign of Voight's body, he returns to the ATV and begins arming the chain linked nukes.
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INT. LV 427 - PYRAMID - MUTATION CHAMBER - TUNNEL ORIFICE
Behind Vossler hundreds of the mutant facehuggers are spilling out of the tunnel that leads to the Queen chamber, some are the "Scorpion" creatures others are the type that attacked Martinez, they spread out over the chamber. Vossler's motion tracker beeps insistently and he whirls around, Pulse Rifle levelled.
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VOSSLER'S POV.
The chamber is covered by an Arachnoid carpet. The creatures are now motionless except for their tails, they are waving back and forth in unison, slowly undulating like a field of wheat in a gentle breeze. The eyeless creatures appear to be "watching" Vossler.
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TUNNEL ORIFICE
A bipedal humanoid creature enters the chamber, nine feet tall; elongated, ribbed, eyeless head; skin the same greyish yellow as the mutant Facehuggers; the limbs are distended and deformed; cancerous growths leak noxious pus. The mutant Facehuggers part ranks to let the tall creature pass and close ranks behind it, an extraterrestrial Moses parting the sea of creatures before it. The tall mutant stops 10 metres in front of Vossler.
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The Extraterrestrial Biped. The creature is clad in the tattered remnants of a combat spacesuit still bearing the name tag: Voight.
VOSSLER. V.O.
Corp? Is that you? What the fuck did they do to you?
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The hybrid cocks its head to one side quizzically, eerily reminiscent of a dog. It begins to advance on Vossler. He raises his Pulse Rifle and aims it at the advancing mutant.
VOSSLER. V.O.
Oh fuck Corp, I'm sorry, I should never have left ya in here.
He backs up a few steps away from the advancing mutated Voight. The mutant is getting closer to Vossler and he opens fire hitting the creature in its torso, the Voight mutant staggers but keeps advancing. Vossler opens fire on full auto and the hybrid is hit by multiple rounds, it staggers and reels and as the caseless rounds punch holes in the creature's head Vossler is hit by a spray of the mutant's acid blood.
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Vossler. The powerful acid immediately begins melting through his spacesuit and visor. The mutant Facehuggers erupt into action and advance on Vossler who reaches the ATV before the creatures can reach him. The acid burns through his visor.
SUIT COMPUTER. V.O.
WARNING SUIT INTEGRITY COMPROMISED. OXYGEN DEPLETION IN T - MINUS TWO MINUTES.
Vossler grabs the trigger for the chain linked nukes, he is wheezing heavily and struggling to breathe as his escaping oxygen supply mixes with the toxic atmosphere. The mutant creatures swarm over him and Vossler yells defiantly as he triggers the nukes.
VOSSLER.
SEMPER FI MOTHERFUCKERS...
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EXT. LV 427 - AERIAL VIEW.
The pyramid and a large section of the surrounding Biomech city are vapourised in the nuclear explosion.
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A massive mushroom cloud expands into the atmosphere.
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INT. USCSS KURTZ - MED BAY
Hunter, Broussard and Elias rush into the Med - Bay. Elias goes to the Autodoc console and inputs commands, the computer warning shuts off and he inspects the readouts and camera feeds from Martinez' pod. Hunter and Broussard are inspecting the smoking hole in the side of the armoured pod as well as the trails of blood leading into the deck grille.
ELIAS.
Martinez is deceased. The embryo's development was more advanced than I expected.
He joins the others.
ELIAS.
It appears that the parasite implanted multiple embryos.
He replays the video files from Martinez' pod after the medical emergency was declared. They watch Martinez' agonised thrashing and hear the crunch of breaking ribs as the camera is obscured by a spray of blood. Hunter brings up the Med - Bay surveillance cam files and replays from the point where Martinez' medical emergency began.
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MONITOR SCREEN
Surveillance cam footage of the Med - Bay plays until the motion sensors detect wisps of smoke rising from the side of the med pod. A small hole appears and steadily grows in size, until three organisms are visible: They are limbless and have the appearance of eyeless snakes, two of the creatures hiss at each other and the crew see that they have mouths filled with metallic teeth. The creatures slip out of the smoking hole and disappear into the floor grate.
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The corridor outside the Med - Bay. Concerned crew members are gathering.
Hunter looks over at Ralston's pod and comes to a decision. He addresses the crew.
HUNTER.
Listen up people. Martinez is dead, he and Ralston were infected with alien spores by the parasites that attacked them. Ralston is still alive but the prognosis is terminal.
He inputs commands into the Autodoc control console and replays the video feed of Martinez' demise. The crew are stunned.
HUNTER.
I am now switching off the life support for Ralston's pod. I won't let her suffer needlessly. Computer this is Captain Hunter, discontinue life support for med - pod 001. Authorisation follows.
He inputs the code into the Autodoc console.
COMPUTER. V.O.
Quarantine Med - Pod KP001 Life Support Terminated. Powering Down. Disconnect All Feeds.
The crew bow their heads in respect as the legend: LIFE SUPPORT TERMINATED flashes on and off in red on the Autodoc monitor.
After a short silence Hunter speaks.
HUNTER.
Broussard, Kelly, break out Tasers, Shock stunners and motion trackers. All crewmembers report to the Hangar bay immediately. Mr. Elias I want all the information on the aliens that has been processed so far, I need to know exactly what we're dealing with.
ELIAS.
Aye Sir.
Hunter goes to a comm panel and hits the button for the shipwide intercom
HUNTER.
All crew report to hangar bay immediately, repeat all crew report to hangar bay immediately.
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INT. USCSS KURTZ - TAKAMURA'S QUARTERS
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Hunter's voice echoes through an empty cabin, Takamura is nowhere to be seen. His bunk is covered in blood and gelatinous alien slime from his metamorphosis by the Scorpion creature's venom. The uniform he was wearing is in tatters on the bunk and the deck.
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INT. USCSS KURTZ - KRAHE'S QUARTERS
HUNTER. V.O.
All crew report to hangar bay immediately, repeat all crew report to hangar bay immediately.
Krahe black - eyed and bruised closes the laptop he was perusing and stands up. He walks over to the hatch, presses the control and it slides open.
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KRAHE'S POV.
The Takamura Hybrid is standing there, its limbs are grossly distended, The eyes have been absorbed, the head is elongated and ribbed, its skin has become a sickly yellow colour and is covered in cancerous ulcerations, ribbed tubes carry foul liquids throughout Takamura's mutated body.
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Krahe whimpers with fear as he takes in the monstrosity standing before him. He is shaking in terror.
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Krahe's feet. A small puddle of urine forms as his bladder voids.
The hybrid reaches out its arms and pushes Krahe back into the cabin, it has to bend down to enter as the mutant is now nearly 9 feet tall.
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The mutant's head. The jaws open, dripping slime, the lower jaw distends and a large cylindrical tongue tastes the air.
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Holding Krahe by the upper arms, his feet dangling a foot above the deck. the hybrid's tongue seems to be scenting Krahe Suddenly it becomes semi rigid and plunges into Krahe's mouth and down his throat. The hybrid seems to be regurgitating, it is pumping some form of alien bile down his throat. Krahe is gagging and choking, his eyes wide. The tongue is removed and Krahe retches small amounts of hideous ooze. The hybrid, almost gently, lays him down on the deck. Turning its head, as if sensing something it issues a hissing, high pitched screech and runs out the hatch.
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Krahe, laying on the deck, vile alien mucus streaming from his mouth. His face is turning a yellowish grey as he slips into unconsciousness.
INT. USCSS KURTZ - HANGAR BAY
The Captain, Elias and Taylor are gathered for the briefing. McAndrews enters followed by Broussard and Kelly wheeling a trolley laden with shock stunners, Comms headsets, tasers and motion trackers.
HUNTER.
We now have three hostile organisms aboard ship. We need to search the ship, find these things and eject them into space ASAP. Mr Elias you have the floor, what exactly are these things?
ELIAS.
As I explained earlier Captain these organisms are lethal and extremely hostile within hours of birth and their overriding biological imperatives are survival and reproduction. They possess concentrated molecular acid for blood, which in an enclosed environment such as a spaceship precludes the use of any sort of weapon that inflicts penetrating injuries.
HUNTER.
Stunners and tasers only. Hopefully we can find them before they reach maturity, Mr. Elias any background info would be helpful.
ELIAS.
The Pyramid structure on LV 427 was a Bio - Weapons research and development facility of a race of beings I have labeled Bio Engineers. They were an ancient race long before life arose on Earth, colonising many systems throughout the galaxy. The Bio Engineer race was divided into two "Factions". One I will describe as "Benevolent", the other "Cruel and Vengeful". These descriptions are vague approximations only as their true motivations and agendas are entirely unfathomable by any human frames of reference, they are beyond good and evil. Countless millennia ago these two factions waged a galactic civil war.
HUNTER.
And they created these organisms as weapons?
ELIAS.
Not created, discovered. The parasitic lifeform hereby referred to as the Xenomorph is a naturally evolved organism. The Bio Engineers mutate existing life forms through gene splicing, powerful mutagens and their organic biomechanoid technology. They were experimenting on the Xenomorph to produce more destructive variations. Approximately three thousand years ago a Xenomorph outbreak took place on LV 427, the Bio Engineers were decimated and the survivors of the outbreak placed themselves in stasis in a secure hibernation vault. They sent out the distress/warning signal and awaited rescue which never arrived. One by one the stasis units were shut down as the power supply failed until only one survivor remained.
TAYLOR.
There were people in that pyramid.
ELIAS.
Clones. Bred from stock abducted from Earth thousands of years ago. It appears that the "Benevolent" Bio Engineers visited Earth in prehistoric times and possibly gave the primitive primates they encountered a helping hand up the evolutionary ladder.
TAYLOR. (With a cynical laugh).
So "God" was an Alien species all along. Organised religion isn't going to like this much, they're all out of a job.
HUNTER.
What about the things that attacked the Leviathan's crew? The organism that penetrated the survivor's capsules?
ELIAS.
The insectoid predators were previous experiments that escaped their stasis chamber after the Xenomorph outbreak and I believe the "Fungal" organism is native to LV 427 but mutated by exposure to toxic wastes. Captain, information was exchanged when I was short circuited by the Bio Engineer communication device. The sole survivor is a member of the "Evil" faction, it is aware of the death of its fellow survivors and is now piloting his craft to the homeworld of his enemies with a cargo of Xenomorph eggs. After exacting its "Revenge" on its "Enemies" it intends to visit Earth and sterilise it of all life through Xenomorph infestation.
HUNTER.
Vossler took care of the eggs on LV 427, they're radioactive dust now.
ELIAS.
Unfortunately Captain the Bio Engineers also had a weapons storage facility on LV 426, stocked with tens of thousands of eggs. As well as the fact that a Xenomorph infestation will produce a number of Queens capable of laying hundreds of eggs each.
HUNTER.
Is there anything that can help us find these things and get them off my ship?
ELIAS.
The creatures are vulnerable to fire and will retreat from it like any animal. Projectile weapons would be effective in an environment where conservation of atmosphere was not a consideration. I am unsure as to the effectiveness of stunners and tasers. I can offer no other constructive advice except that we only have hours to find the newborn embryos before they reach maturity.
HUNTER.
OK people let's move like we've got a purpose. 3 teams. Broussard and I will take the flight deck. Elias and Taylor take the quarter deck, I need you to round up Krahe and Takamura, if they're too out of it give them a shot of stimulants. McAndrews and Kelly you've got the engineering deck. I'm loath to use flamethrowers aboard ship but we've got no choice. Find these things, herd them to the nearest airlock and eject their slimy asses into space. Go.
The crew all take a taser, shock stunner, comms headset and motion tracker from the trolley. Hunter goes to the hangar bay weapons locker and hands a flamethrower to McAndrews, Elias and takes one for himself.
HUNTER.
Use those flamethrowers carefully, short bursts, the last thing we need is a fire aboard ship. Everybody stay frosty and we'll nail these fuckers, move out.
The search teams head out for their assigned decks.
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