Hey guys, thanks for the reviews. I'll be answering any questions or concerns you might have.
Vixen in Violet: Yeah I know, I tried to make them as suspicious as possible but I didn't want to stray too far from the JP storyline. Thanks btw :)
IrationalFear: I'll try my best not to kill both of them off, but I reckon one of them has to go. And yeah I did think about making Newt say that but I figured she's meant to be a teen in this story and probably wouldn't talk like that anymore
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NiniNogginHead: Thanks! I actually thought of this when I had a dream (More like a nightmare in the end) and figured they'd go well together
CHAPTER 7. WARRIORS
Hammond led his guests down into the hatchery they had all been dying to see. The room was completely white and most of the people that were working there were also dressed in white. Hicks was astonished at the organization of the place, and some of the strange technology.
Hammond walked over to a tall Asian man who was scribbling something down on a clipboard.
"Hello Dr. Wu." Hammond said politely. The man turned his head and smiled.
"Good day sir, I see you brought our guests." Wu said, gesturing to Hicks, Ripley, Vasquez, Hudson, Newt and Gennaro.
"Yes, they wanted to come and see the artificial chestburster slabs, is that okay with you?" Hammond asked and Wu nodded.
"Sure, as long as they don't touch anything." Wu said led them over to a heated table with four white slabs of carbon fiber and other material.
"You were probably told about what these were made of so I won't bother explaining. Each of these units is injected with just the right amount of nutrients for the Xeno to be born healthy, they were originally made to replicate a human chest but we figured that would only encourage aggressive behavior towards humans, so we changed the design. The early encounter with human flesh is what gave the aliens their original bloodlust for humans, they feed on the insides and after their born, they will recognize that humans are prey because that's what they fed on." Wu educated them.
Hicks noticed one of the slabs start to move. Something was poking the top of it from the inside, causing it to stretch. He pointed at it and looked at Wu, whose face lit up in excitement when he saw it.
"Perfect timing, I was hoping they'd hatch before I had to go to the drop-ship." He said and slipped on a pair of rubber gloves.
The eight of them crowded around the slab in amazement. Suddenly a small spike penetrated the top of the slab and then retracted.
"Come on, come on little one..." Hammond encouraged the baby alien.
The tiny strips of soft carbon fiber started to peel away next to the hole and a tiny face appeared in it.
"That's right...you've almost got it... Just push!" Hammond whispered, slowly the alien started to break out of the slab and feebly pushed the fragments of material away with its tiny hands.
"There you are...there you are!" Hammond said enthusiastically and started to peel the bits of carbon fiber of the alien's tiny face. Hicks was amazed, as much as he hated to admit it, this little animal was actually pretty cute.
"They form a connection to the first creature they come in contact with when they're born...That's why I've been present for the birth of every single animal on this island." Hammond told them and stroked the alien's patterned head with a gloved hand.
"Surely not the ones that have bred in the wild man." Hudson said.
"Actually they can't breed in the wild." Wu said and Hudson raised and eyebrow.
"All the drones in Xenomorphic Park are female. The queen relies on male drones to mate with her to get eggs, and there are none. We've genetically engineered them that way." Wu said.
"How do you know they're all female? Does somebody go out into the park and pull up all of their skirts?" Hudson asked.
"No we just engineer them all female, its really not that difficult. We just need to give them an extra hormone at the right developmental stage to make them male, but we simply deny them that. There's no unauthorized breeding in Xenomorphic Park." Wu told them.
Hudson got up off of his chair.
"Listen man, I don't mean any offense or anything but here's the thing. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained, life breaks free, expands to new places painfully even dangerously, but there it is." Hudson said and Wu raised an eyebrow.
"You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals...will breed?" Wu asked.
"No...But life finds a way." Hudson said deeply.
"Probably some of that bullshit Chaos theory you were going on about on the drop-ship." Vasquez said sarcastically and Hudson rolled his eyes.
Meanwhile, Hammond had given everybody a pair of rubber gloves and was passing the baby Xenomorph around. It eventually got to Hicks and he held it cautiously. He examined it and the markings on it's head seemed awfully familiar.
"What type of Xeno is this?" He asked, concerned.
"It's a Warrior type." Wu said and Hicks glared at him; Warrior aliens had been the type responsible for massacring the majority of his platoon years earlier. He knew them to be extremely vicious and aggressive.
"You bred warriors?"
Wu nodded and got back to his clipboard.
"We did breed them, and nasty buggers they are indeed. Unlike most of the others, they kept their aggressive nature even after we bred them artificially, like the standard Queen. We keep them down in a holding pen on the other side of the compound, you can see them if you like." Hammond offered.
Hicks held his head, the distant screaming of his men, bursts of gunfire, and the blood-curdling shrieks of the warrior aliens rang in his ears. He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to forget the horrific memories but when he did, he started to have flashbacks. He breathed heavily and tried to pull himself together.
"You okay honey?" Ripley asked him and Hicks nodded weakly.
Hammond led them outside of the visitor's center and to a huge concrete holding pen. Huge electric fences surrounded it and a tower with guards and snipers watched on next to it. The actual pen itself was even covered by an small wire roof; also electrified.
A huge crane holding a cow then started to move, and it dangled the cow over the holding pen roof.
"What are they doing?" Hicks asked Hammond.
"Feeding them." Hammond said calmly.
The crane then started to lower the cow, which mooed in fear. The electric gate to the top of the pen retracted and the cow was put down into it. Hicks rushed up to the observation platform and watched on. As soon as the cow hit the ground, Hicks heard loud footsteps rushing in from inside the enclosure. The cow was suddenly yanked away and the chilling cry of the warrior alien was heard.
Hicks struggled to see what was going on, because it happened so fast. He watched as the warriors gruesomely tore the cow apart and made loud, frightening noises as they did so. Newt was also watching on and rushed away so she could vomit at what she had just seen. Vasquez, as tough as she was, also raised her eyebrows in horror and disgust. Hicks started to pant again as he started to imagine his soldiers being down there in place of the cow. How can God make creatures like that? He thought.
The crane slowly started to lift out of the pen, and instead of the usual blue cloth that was meant to be on the end of it; was a shredded piece of material soaked in blood.
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