Chapter 4: Getting Better

Rebecca Jordan had lived a hard life for the past four months. Four months ago, her father and mother had both gotten jobs on colony outpost LV-426 as Terraformers. Rebecca and her little brother, both of whom were younger than ten, had had to accompany their parent to the outpost, taking them away from their home world of LV-183.

From there everything went down hill for Rebecca. Within two and half monthes of living on LV-426, Rebecca had become an outcast among the other children of the outpost employees, including her brother, due to her abnormal ability to simply dissappear on the few times when she had played hide and seek with the others. He ability to hide earned her the nicknames 'Ghost' or, more commonly, 'Newt', as she was almost unfindable in the vents of LV-426.

Then, one day while out with her parents and brother Terraforming, the people back at home base called in to tell her parents to go search a certain region before returning to base. Her parent complied, and upon arrival, Newt's family came into veiw of a large ship of alien origin. Her parents called it in and were asked to take a quick look around before returning to base. Leaving Newt and her brother in the Terraformer, her parent went for what they thought was to be a quick trip. An hour later, they were proved wrong, as her father returned unconscious and with a giant spider creature on his face.

The next month passed in the blink of an eye, and Newt soon became the only human resident of outpost LV-426, as everyone she knew was killed by the monsters that her parents found. Then, one day, they came, the people sent to find out what happened at her new home. She learned their names even though she knew they would all die, she remembered the names of all the people of outpost LV-426. Along with her ability hide in vents, which was what had kept her alive so long, Newt had an almost perfect memory and she remembered names the easiest.

The new people were marines, along with a few civilians, who somehow already knew about the monsters. Mr. Crowe, Mr. Wierzbowski, Mr. Frost, Mr. Apone, Ms. Dietrich, and Mr. Drake all died while searching for any other survivors aside from her. Mr. Spunkmeyer and Ms. Ferro died when they lost control of their dropship. Mr. Hudson was shot one of the monsters and its burning blood got all over his body, killing him. Ms. Vasquez and Mr. Gorman both got hurt decided to blow up themselves and the tunnels they were in, so that Newt, Mr. Hicks, and Ms. Ripley escaped, and Mr. Bishop the robot summoned a dropship. Also, though Newt didn't care what happened to him, Mr. Burke dissappeared right before the monsters attacked and was never seen again.

After being saved by Ms. Ripley twice more from the monsters, Newt, an injured Mr. Hicks, a damaged Mr. Bishop, and Ms. Ripley all escaped from LV-426 and set off to a new and hopefully safe planet. That plan came only half way true. Newt now found her self on a planet with a lot of forest, but as far as she could tell no other people.

That was until a few moments ago when she came back from taking a pee and found a blond teen with a knife searching her landing pod. She had immediately fled when the boy approached her and was now running blindly through the forest calling out for help from the three people who had saved her from the monsters. Soon Newt came to a clearing and found something that for a moment took her mind off of her prusuer.

"Mr. Bishop!"


Next time we gain more dialogue, and a standoff occurs. Ja ne.