A/N WOOHOO! went and saw alien covenant great movie I won't spoil anything but I will say it was worth watching. I probably would've been more scared if I wasn't rooting for the aliens oh well. Anyway due to exam week and my laziness I haven't been on top of this. This isn't to say I will improve because I have no motivation in my life. Honestly if it wasn't for my stomach I probably wouldn't get out of bed of a morning. But who cares about that stuff onto the next chapter


Disclaimer I don't own alien

Chapter 7: What a coincidence

Location: Lost planet

Date: 11th February 2260

Time: 0930

Robert has arrived to the last outpost of Vera pax but no matter how smoothly everything seems to going he can't help but feel worried that something is going to go wrong. In the back of his mind he is feeling calm ready to take on any challenge with his warship named 'Ares' carrying 10'000 marines plus heavy vehicles, he felt a little relief that if he did this then he would be able to leave the army with the fact in mind that he destroyed a terrorist group before he left. But in a galaxy as destructive as this one he doubted the latter would come around.

Back on Resonance III Jacob was getting along with Kayleb in the best way possible. They liked doing the same things, they tried to be better than the other at everything, getting into trouble together, sharing secrets and sticking together when the other was in trouble. However today they face a new challenge as a new student has arrived and they can't help but notice she seems lonely and shy. Very, very shy.


(Robert's P.O.V)

After days of careful navigation we finally made it to the final outpost of Vera pax. This mission would be different from the others. I was given one warship named 'Ares' 10'000 marines and a few dropships, APCs and other scout vehicles. We would be landing on the planet soon and I would be leading the charge which was a bit of a surprise but I'm not complaining.

"General we will be arriving at the outpost in three hours, it would be a good time to start getting ready." The commander told me, I only nodded before equipping myself with standard marine equipment and couple of other attachments.

"Didn't think I would be fighting with you sir." said a unknown voice. I turned to see someone I think I recognised. He was about as tall as Will, had brown hair, blue eyes, pretty bulk and looked fairly young.

"Do I know you son? Because I think I should."

"Oh sorry sir I'm Damien Smith I was part of the team that scouted on KX-37." That when it clicked.

"Oh of course I don't think I ever thanked you for doing that, it was pretty impressive doing that when you're only a rookie." I complimented.

I saw a hint of pride in his eyes "I appreciate that sir, I try my best for my Galaxy and for my little girl." He finished grabbing my attention as we started to walk to the cafeteria.

"You're married?" I asked curiously.

"Yes sir. I mean I was. Back before I join the marines I was a simple miner. After a while I realized I needed more money because my wife had fallen pregnant and I needed a way to support them. It was here my wife suggested the marines, I told her I wouldn't make it and I would make a fool of myself but she thought otherwise." He pause for a moment remembering her.

I smiled and spoke up. "It seems when looking for a wife you struck gold, because she seemed to see the confidence you refused to see. If this is to troubling for you, you don't have to continue." I said making him feel better.

"No it fine I feel comfortable talking about it, it gets it off my chest." I nodded a gestured him to continue. "Anyway it turned out I was pretty good at being a marine and before I knew it I was one, and Grace had had our child." His smile lasted for a moment before disappearing. "It was then at this point that things started to go down hill, my home was attacked and a lot of people died including Grace, I never got to say goodbye." He said staring to look more depressed.

"I took it upon myself to take my daughter to a safer planet. Would you believe my shock when you said your grandson was being born on the same planet." That did shock me.

"Really how old is your daughter exactly?" I questioned

"She should be the same age as your grandson she was born earlier that year."

"Can I ask you something really quick?" he nodded. "Besides you, does she have anyone else?" I asked now concerned. That's when he frowned. "You can't be serious you're the only person she has and you have one of the most dangerous jobs in the Galaxy, Why?" We got some food and sat at the same table.

He looked up at me with a look of despair. "I'm not a smart man General. I was a miner before because it was the best a man of my intelligence could get. The marines offered me more money regardless of intelligence. I also wanted to be like a hero for my daughter, she's everything to me, and I didn't see that happening as a miner." Looked at him understanding him a bit.

"So far I think I'm doing alright she loves me like any daughter would. But I feel as though I've made her a little insecure." He said making me raise an eyebrow. "She is very shy, she runs whenever something goes wrong and the only place she feels safe is up in a tree where no one can get to her." Now why does that remind me of someone. "She got bullied so bad I had to move her to another school. I worry about her all the time."

I looked him dead in the eye and said. "You're a good man Dameian, If you can see your daughters troubles and recognise them enough to support her then you're doing great. What is her name anyway?"


(Jake's P.O.V)

"Charlotte smith?" I questioned.

"Yea she's a new student that came here after. Her last school bullied her because of how she acted." Kayleb told me. Ever since I met Kayleb I have stuck to him like glue. I was always with him because he was my best and only friend and he was easy to spot, with his blonde curly short hair, tanned skin and brown eyes he was easy to find amongst all the pail kids.

"Really? What was she like?"

"I don't know let's see." We hurried inside to begin the day and meet this new girl. We sat down in front of the teacher and waited for the reveal.

"Ok class, as some of you may know their is a new student joining us today. She came here after her old school bullied her out of the school, I want to make sure that we do not repeat this." I was surprize how can someone be bullied that much, maybe Kayleb and I can could help her.

"Her name is Charlotte smith, she is a very timid girl and I would like everyone here to treat her as member of our school. Charlotte could you come in here?" The teacher said softly.

I turned around to see her when I did I stopped breathing. She was really pretty she had long silky brown hair, blue eye's and was just a bit smaller than me, She was wearing a short jeans and a white T-shirt, but she looked really worried like someone was going to hurt her. She looked at me and I gave her a soft smile which seemed to calm her down a bit.


"So what do you think?" Kayleb asked me.

"About what?" I asked being innocent.

"You know what, Charlotte. What do you think?"

"Oh… she seems… really scared and fragile, I don't know what do you think."

"Well she's a girl so I didn't think too much about it, but she does look prettier than the other girls in the class." He said with a smirk making me giggle. "Where is she anyway?" We looked around the playground until we realised she wasn't there.

"I don't know. Hey look there's Phil trying to climb a tree." We watched as he attempted to lift his fat body, I smirked at Kayleb "You wanna get a better view." His only response was to run over.

When we got over to the tree Phil was trying to climb we realised he was trying to get someone. "You think you can get away from me!" He screamed as he tried to grab a branch only for it to snap and for him to fall on his butt.

Kayleb and I couldn't contain ourselves as we laughed at him. He seemed to notice us and turned with a very angry look on his face. "What are you laughing losers?" I thought it was fairly obvious but I decided to tell him anyway.

"Oh nothing just something ugly falling on it's butt." I taunted. He responded well to this, he charged straight at me. Panic I braced myself putting my right leg behind me and left leg kneeling down into a lunge position with my arms out front to lessen the force.

I didn't know what I was doing Phil was three times bigger than me he would crush me. With no time to reposition myself I got ready. 'CRASH!' The impact… was not as bad as a thought. This didn't stop me from being pushed back, but then something happened that shocked everyone, I stopped him.

"Move! Loser." He brought his fist up to hit my back. I was struggling to hold him as I was, there was no way I could stop him. Just as he was about to bring it down the weight was suddenly taken off my shoulders. I looked up to see Kayleb tackling Phil. They both hit the ground, quickly I ran over to picked up Kayleb. We ran to some bushes and waited for Phil to run off. "Where did you go road head, you and blondie are dead!" We watched as he headed in the wrong direction.

We slowly moved out of the bush an over to the tree. "You can come down now he won't bother you any more." She looked down before putting her head back in her arms. "What do you think we should do? I mean I think we should leave but she won't come back to class, but if we go up there we might make her more upset."

Kayleb scratched his chin for a moment. "I think you should go up there, Try and get her to come down I'll tell the teacher what has happened." I nodded and started to climb.

I was right underneath her before I noticed just how high I climbed, the only people I knew that could climb this high was Kayleb and me so I was Impressed to see her this high up. "Hey" I said softly she looked at me really scared. Worried I spoke up before something bad happened "It's ok I'm not going to hurt you I was just wondering why you're up here?"

She looked worried for a moment before saying. "I-I was just trying to get away from the fat minnie chasing me." I snorted at that.

"That's pretty funny, what you said about Phil I mean, and you chose the best place to run to since he struggles to climb the stairs." She smiled at that. "Uhh… I'm Jacob Kelly, my friends name is Kayleb Miles I was wondering if you would like to come sit with us since it seems pretty lonely up here."

She looked at me with an almost shocked expression. "R-really?!" she said tears almost falling.

"Of course Kayleb and I are running out of things to do maybe if we had someone else we could do more things." Everything I said was true, I do like playing with Kayleb but it could be better if we had someone else. "Don't you have any friends?"

She looked sad before saying "I never had any friends I was always to scared or because everyone made fun of me because of it." She started to cry. "I was so lonely."

I smiled back at her. "You don't have to be lonely anymore, because I want you as a friend." she looked at me baffled.

"Why?" she asked unsure.

"Why not, anyone that can climb a tree this good, I have to be friends with. The only people I know that can climb this high are Kayleb and myself so please will you be our friend?" I pretty much begged.

"Of course." She said not missing a beat.

We climbed back down to the ground where it was safer and I could see Kaleb coming back.

"So you got her down." I nodded before saying

"Yep, and Charlotte is going to be our new friend." His mood instantly brightened.

"Finally, someone that doesn't talk about buildings!" instantly getting a response from me.

"Hey I do not just talk about buildings."

"Oh really, last week you wouldn't shut up about the world's largest bridge being built on the other side of the world." we continued arguing completely oblivious to how much Charlotte was smiling with pure joy.


(Roberts P.O.V)

This was it? I looked at what was the supposed last hold out for Vera pax, and it was small, really small like the size of the vatican small (I only knew how big it was thanks to Jake.). But the never the less we split up into two team each consisting of 5000. One will go inside the others will wait outside incase any escape. Simple but effective.

Damien and I headed inside along with the other 4998 marines. We walked around the base threw some dog drones to gain an idea of the layout, it must have been half an hour before we realised that no one was home.

"This is weird we were given unmistakable evidence about this outpost how have we not run into anything yet?" I asked to no one in particular. But then I realised that I was only here with Damien.

"I'm not sure, let me contact the team outside see if anything changed." He fiddled with a device for a moment before looking confused. "That's odd, I can't seem to get a signal."

"Maybe it's the interference with the structure. Now that looks interesting." I said staring at a large door. I walked up to it and pushed, it slowly creaked open. There was one person sitting in a chair looking up at a holographic projection of the galaxy.

I signaled to Damien to get ready. I aimed my pulse rifle at him waiting for whoever that was in the chair to make a move. "So cautious general." I steadied myself making my way around to see this person.

What I got was a fairly old person looking like he was in his early 60's with a hairline that had receded right to the back of his head with a lifeless expression on his face. Completed with a grey uniform. "Come to destroy a minor threat have you, in order to return to the main issue of the Xenomorph infestation all around the galaxy as you can see." He typed a couple of commands before the galaxy changed showing only the planets and which one had been taken by Xeno's marking them orange.

He didn't appear armed and I could tell he wasn't an android so I decided to question him. "Who are you?"

"Nobody important just the leader of this outpost."

"So you're the leader of Vera pax?"

He snorted "Not a chance, but allow me to answer something else on your mind 'how can we control the Xenomorphs?' We are able to control them thanks to our leader who has bonded with an empress." I decided to skip the question of how he/she did that, I may sound stupid but i'm not the kind of guy that like to work with an unstoppable species.

"While that is interesting, where's your boss?"

He sighed "We'll hate to be the banner of bad news but she isn't here nor is the army. But I can tell you why." A man that doesn't have anything to hide makes me glad and worried at the same time.

"Our leader is not here because She Has been travelling from planet to planet gaining new allies." He typed again zooming in on a couple of planets. "When you first came into contact with Vera pax we had conquered these planets." They were highlighted red. "You fort and gained them back but found no sign of our leader. That's because she had been travelling and gaining the trust of other Xenomorph infested planets."

He zoomed out showing all the planets in the galaxy "Over a short period of time we had visited all the planets till we went from a minor problem to The Problem." He typed one key and all the planets became red except the ones that weren't infested with Xenomorphs. "And now I don't know where the Leader is, as for the the army I can cofindendly say they aren't anywhere because we used them as test subjects for a new breed. Granted they aren't perfect but tell the leader what you think." He said before grinning like a madman, typed one last thing and bit something in his mouth which he then swallowed. It was cyanide.

Suddenly the communications were back on "...*static* All troops head to the evac point were being shredded out here. Repeat all teams head to evac point." Quick on the update I took command.

"This is General Belenham someone tell me what's going on."

"Sir? We thought you were dead. Ahem. There's some things out here we're sure are Xeno's but we can't identify them. All we know is that they soak up bullets and are ripping our men to shreds."

"What's the current order?"

"I've told everyone to wait for the evac." The evac was out in the open, even if it is still daylight out there it will still put us at a disadvantage with the high tree cover.

"Cancel that order get everyone inside I think I've found the station controls." I pushed lifeless out of the chair. "Damien close the Door." I rerouted the controls to the station and I found out something about the station. It was a research station each corridor with a purge function. "Commander how many marines are left?"

"roughly 6000 sir." I cringed at that.

"How many of the Identified Xeno's are there?"

"100 sir."

"Tell everyone to head to this section of the facility, and tell the to close and guard the exit's" I said sending the coordinates to him. I fiddled with the computer bringing up security feeds, door and purge commands to gain control of the environment.

One last team was making their way to the panic room. They were fast but the Xeno's were faster. Then I got an idea, just before the xeno's could catch them I closed a door giving them more time. It was short lived as they broke through it in less than thirty seconds.

They tried to catch up again so I closed another door. The team was half way their. I repeated my strategy becoming concerned with the team's stamina, they were almost there. I highlighted all the halls they had travelled, and began to close the final door. The team made it through I closed the final door and activated the purge sequence.

The entire facility shook as nearly all of it was blown to hell. For a moment I relaxed before there was a loud bang on the door behind me. Not waiting to find out what it was I activated an escape route to the panic room. "Marines set up a firewall at the second entrance, I'm bringing the remaining 20 to your position."

I ran like the devil was on my tail which wasn't far off. Damien following behind. Even with our speed it took us three minutes to get to the second entrance. There was to many guns in my view to count, Perfect. I ran past them just as the Xeno's came into view, at that very moment I learnt just what 50 or more guns sound like. But more still the sound of 20 screaming Xeno's.

It lasted for two minutes before everything died down. I finally got a good look at these new Xeno's. There usually smooth or serrated heads had reinforced plating, their claws were elongated up to thirty centimeters, They was bipedal like a human, they looked seven feet tall, their body was less armoured than the head but looked more muscular than a warrior, then their was the tail it was three meters at least with a blade the side of my forearm.

I wish I didn't have to say this but with the reveal of Vera pax's power, this new breed and mystery leader in this war. "I guess I'm not retiring anytime soon, I'm sorry will." I whispered to myself.


A/N jeez I really know how to stretch something out I mean come on I could probably write this in three days oh well. I would like to thank AlfredoCon3ras and NightHawk the Warrior for reviewing really helps guys thanks. Next chapter coming… eventually.