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Chapter 11: Explanations and a tail

Location: Resonance III

Date: April 9th 2263

Time: 0845

Major changes have happened Will is on edge Now that Weyland Yutani has discovered that he may share some link to the missing royal jelly and is now taking extra steps to make sure they don't find out he performed surgery on his son, he could only hope they would collapse before they found out. Robert and Damien are celebrating after learning that both of them have been promoted due to their acts of bravery in the field, allowing them more control over a situation should the need arise.

It has been a couple of months since the three friends became four and they couldn't be happier each providing challenges and feats for the others to overcome was a great way for them to play. They were also there for each other in times of need and when sad things happened to one another, strengthening their bond.

But recent changes had been happening to the two of them. Ruby had been getting an itching sensation in her hands and a numbing pain in her mouth, a sign that her retractable claws and fangs were coming through all in all a normal stage in a custodian's life. What stuck was that Jacob was getting constant back pains that often left him unable to get up at times. His mother worried that he would be getting a form arthritis but this is not the case at all, if Will could hide his transparent teeth from revealing his origin then it will be impossible to lie to him about this.

(Robert's P.O.V)

I stood proudly next to Damien and many others as we awaited our promotion. I could see Jess and Will in the front row of the audience and sitting next to them were two bundles of joy we protect so hard Izzy, Jake, Charlotte and Ruby all came to watch as we presented ourselves to the Galaxies leaders.

"We are here to honour the bravery and skill of these men as they stood at the centre of hardship and saw it through to the end." I inwardly rolled my eye's at the president's attempt to sound all inspiring but agreed with him nonetheless.

He began to list off those who were given promotions in alphabetical order before "To Damien Smith, as a result of heroic and trustworthy actions in the face of danger I hereby dub you Sergent." Ruby and Charlotte smiled and clapped at that. Ruby stopped earlier to scratch her hands, well whaddayaknow she's growing claws, that must be very irritating for her.

The ceremony went on until finally, they got to me thank god. "To Robert Belenham, For acts of strategic skill major success in pushing back and defeating the enemy, including rescuing and saving millions of lives it gives me great honour to promote you to the position of Admirable congratulations, sir." He finished by placing a medal on my white suit. The crowd roared with applause I looked over at everyone seeing the hope in their eye's as I shook the President's arm.

I then looked down seeing Will with a proud look on his face. Jess was almost in tear because of how happy she was. Izzy was jumping up and down with glee as she saw me look at her she started to wave. I then looked at Jake and frowned he looked happy by every time he tried to show it fully he bent over holding his back and that got me concerned I guess I will have to ask Jess about this afterwards. Right now I just had to get this ceremony over with.

As soon as I walked outside with Damien we were greeted by the people we cared the most about. We barely had any time to speak before we were tackled by our smallest ones. "Congratulations DAD/GRANDPA." they screamed at us I could help but hug them.

As soon as they got off us they started asking us questions like 'Can I see your medal, Whats the President like, can we go to Chili's for lunch.' and so forth. I respected their wishes gratefully. "Ok kids here you go." I handed them my medals smirking at their amazed faces. I then turned my attention to Damien who was hugging his girls as if he would suffocate without them. "Enjoying yourself Damien?" He gave me a 'Nuh-duh' face as he released them.

"It's good to see that the two of you have gotten a promotion." Jess interrupted reminding me of something.

"Yeah, I guess that's an upside to this job. Hey during the ceremony I noticed something was wrong with Jacobs back". I asked wondering if there was a story behind this

"We don't know what it is we think it is arthritis but maybe we are being paranoid" I looked down to Jake to see him holding his back.

I leaned over and ask him "How are you going Jake Is your back sore from an accident?"

He Shook his head "I don't know what is wrong with me two months ago I was fine and then I woke up with the pain right here" he pointed at his tail bone " Since then It has spread Like this" He drew a sophisticated line over his back which leads straight back to his tail bone.

I look over to Will and whispered in his ear "You don't think this has something to do with... you know" He shook his head

I'm not sure Bob I hope not but I better check. Hey, don't you have a med pod on the Shadowblade?" I nodded to in and turned back to Jacob.

Hey Jacob do you want to come to my ship I think I have something to fix your back." He looks hopeful and practically screamed his answer.

"Really grandpa yes can we go there now I can't take this anymore." I smiled at him and turned back to Will who had a concerned look on his face.

We were walking back to my house When I saw Kayleb coming up To us "Hi everyone, Hey Jake how's your back" Jacob groaned

It's getting worse But grandpa says he is a way to fix it"

"Cool can I come see" I probably should've said no but I couldn't not to his closest friend.

"Sure Kayleb I need a tell you or something anyway about Jacob" Will spoke up Shocking me and Jess he couldn't be serious. But his eyes didn't lie he was serious about this, something must have happened because for him to change his mind like this all the sudden is a big change.

We arrived shortly afterwards to my ship where I needed to ask Will about his mental state. The moment the kids ran off I asked him. "Will what are you thinking? We can tell them what we did to Jake one Jake might never look at you the same way again and two he might lose any relationship he had with his friends." He seemed to get the idea.

"I know Bob but something has happened and I can't leave them out of this. A while back I was visited by an old work colleague, the CEO of Weyland Yyutani the guy in which I stole 'Royal jelly' from." I was here Jess spoke up.

"You mean that they're onto you?"

"Yes, and if I give them anything to be suspicious about I could lose my job and God Knows what would happen to Jake."

"Why didn't you tell us this earlier?" She asked

"Because I thought that it was a one time thing like they would suspect me for a moment and move on but they haven't if anything they may be getting closer and I want Jake to understand why if something goes wrong."

"So why are you telling this now?" I questioned.

He inhaled through his nose for a moment and exhaled. "Last week when I put Jake to bed he begged me to see if there was something wrong with his back, being the parent to humour him I looked." He paused.

"Well did you see anything?" Jess asked.

"I saw his spine. But it wasn't right I mean normally you have a your vertebrae in a long line straight line but his had an omega symbol over is back that started from his tailbone and ended at his at tailbone." We all stared at him then turned to Jake who was playing with his friends in the kitchen.

"Well we need to be sure the medpod has an X-ray maybe we can examine him to be sure." They nodded at me. "Also what's your excuse to hide the fact you spliced his DNA with a Xenomorph?"

"I'm gonna say that I spliced his DNA with another animal to save his life I'm not gonna specify what, because that might scare Charlotte and Ruby." We nodded but that got me another question. What am I going to tell Damien? I'll figure it out later.

(Will's P.O.V)

"Jake I need you to come over here for a second." Bob lead everyone to the medical room. There it was a medical machine capable of countless procedures. He bent down to Jake's level "Jake." He looked at Bob as he place a hand on his shoulder. "There are some things you need to understand." He looked at me worryingly.

"O-Ok, umm what do you mean?" He looked up to me silently asking him to take over.

"What he means is Jake is that when your mother was still pregnant with you, she got sick and would have died without medical treatment." He seemed to recognise this story.

"Yeah but you told me that she got special treatment that cured her and saved me." I nodded at his words.

"That is true son but it's not the whole truth." Getting a shocked expresion from him and his friends and sister.

I then got up to explain this to everyone "Back when Jess was sick we had found out were the sickness was originating from, it was coming from you Jake." Everyone looked at Jake for a moment before turning back to me. "However there was a way to save you and your mum, before you started developing we infused you with a trait from another animal giving you the strength to fight it off."

"B-But what happened to me afterwards?" I sighed after that.

"Well at first they were minor issues like your hair and teeth." Kayleb spoke up at this.

"What's wrong with his teeth, is it that he loses them so quickly?" His friends would be idiots not to suspect something was different about him. After all a mask isn't exactly a fashion statement.

"Your close Kayleb but not quite."

"Dad didn't you tell me it was because I had bad breath." I smirked at that.

"Actually that was just me thinking on my toes. Jake I gave you that mask so no one would see your teeth, because they were another effect of the trait." again everyone looked at Jake. "I won't force you to Jake but you can take your mask off if it will make you feel comfortable." He looked at everyone to his left before staring at the floor.

He reached up with two fingers and pulled his mask down with his mouth shut. Slowly he parted his lips revealing what he was told was something normal. His teeth shined a translucent silver without a hint of a white bone, they were perfectly aligned with one another and they were the shape of regular teeth with his incisors, premolars, molars but it would be an insult to call his four remaining teeth canines they were more like fangs. Everyone gasped at the sight.

Feeling that people would find him strange he quickly pulled his black mask over mouth wishing he hadn't taken it off. Feeling a bit overwhelmed from this discovery that he had been lied to and the fear of what his friends would think of him now he started to tear up a bit, turning away from everyone.

But before he could let any tears to fall he was stunned as I pulled him into a hug and shocked more because I was crying. "I'm so sorry Jake. I didn't tell you any of this because I wanted you to feel like every other kid. I gave you that trait because I wanted to see you grow with the carefree spirit of any child, discovering new things in the world but all in all being able to live. Could you ever forgive me?" Jake cried at that.

"Yes daddy! Thanks to you I got to live and I like living with you, mum, and Izzy I just feel so happy about it. So don't be sorry about letting me live." He sobbed into his dad's shoulder. They shared a moment for a moment or two before pulling away.

"Thank you son I'm so glad your in my life." I kissed Jake's forehead. "But now we have a new problem of you back and how we were going to fix it correct?" He smiled and nodded at that. "Good. Ok I need you to get up and lie on your belly in this pod." He finished as the pod opened.

Jake looked back at everyone. They just smiled and encouraged him to get in which he obliged. Once he was strapped in the pod came to life making Jake worried. I could tell because his heart rate had increased while he was in there. "Don't worry Jake we just need to get an Xray of your back to get an idea of the problem." I smiled at Jake who calmed down a bit. The pod scanned his back and in a minute a hologram of Jake's back was on display for everyone.

"Is that what I think it is?" Kayleb asked.

"I think it is." Ruby agreed.

"It's a tail!" Charlotte said.

"Dad what type of animal did you… umm… put into Jake?" Izzy questioned.

That was when I looked at the floor. "As much as I'd like to tell you that Izzy I can't, if I did then I'm sure you'd never look at Jake or me the same way again. So please try to understand I did this to save his life." While she was unsatisfied she decided not to argue against it.

Returning to the current issue of how we were supposed to get the tail out of Jake proved to be a challenging one. I could just amputate it I don't know what that would do to him, and for all I know he might just grow another one. I guess the only thing I can do is, pull it out. I shivered at the thought, but it seemed like the only way.

(Jake's P.O.V)

Dad had a very concerned look on his face. Suddenly he spoke up. "Jake we're gonna have to get that tail out from under your skin. To do that we're gonna have to... pull… it… out." He seemed worried about it.

"Ok dad. Will it hurt?" He sighed.

"Yes Jake it will, but think of it this way if we remove it then you won't have your back pain anymore." He then smirked a bit. "That and you may get a few days off school."

"Really! Cool ok can we do this now." He nodded.

"Of course but first." He turned to everyone. "I'm afraid you're all going to wait outside till it's over ok." Everyone whined at that. "Alright calm down everyone you can say something before we get into this surgery, alright." Everyone calmed down.

I hopped out of the pod and made my way up to my friends, my sister went first.

"Well bro I knew you were full of surprises but this takes the cake, I just want to tell you that I'll never think you're weird because of this, I love you just as much since I first saw you." She pulled me into a warm hug.

"Wow. Thanks Izzy I didn't know you thought of me that way." I said as she released me.

"Well you're my little brother of course I think that of you and I have to say that if it wasn't for you everything would be boring without you." She finished kissing my head.

Kayleb walked up to me with a smile on his face. "I knew there was something different about you." I rolled my eyes at him.

"You're never gonna let this down are you?"

"Never, but just make sure you come out alive ok you're my best friend and I don't know what I would do without you, so come back alright." He finished by hugging my the way he had been since pre-school.

"Don't worry this just will hurt, nothing more."

Ruby stood up next. "I thought that I would steal the show with my new parts but I guess you're gonna outshine me huh?"

I almost laughed at her "You're kidding right I have a tail and you're growing fangs and claws there is no way you're not outshining me, if anything I should be jealous of you. Because now you will become even more unique then you were."

She peeked up at my words and threw herself at me in a thankful hug. "You're the best Jake, you better get a cool looking tail otherwise I'll have no one else to compare myself to." She comforted me.

Lastly was Charlotte, she twiddled her thumbs trying to think of something to say. "Ummm… Jake I just wanna wish you good luck and that no matter what happens you're still my best friend and I'll always be there for you, just as you were there for me." she hugged me but then did something I didn't expect. She kissed me on the cheek.

I stared at her for the longest time before I spoke. "Wow. Charlotte… I-I don't know what to say."

"You don't have to do anything, just come back so we can laugh and play together again." I nodded at her before going to my dad.

"I'm ready dad."

(Will's P.O.V)

It wasn't easy but eventually I got Jake strapped down breathing nitrous oxide as I took manual control over the machine. I had Jake biting down on a plank of rubber to prevent him biting his tongue, everyone was out of the medication room so there was no distractions.

"You ready Jake?" He gave me a thumbs up. "Ok I'm gonna begin now." I looked threw the birds eye view camera at jake's back and controlled the arms to make an incision in his lower back.

The machine sprayed a numbing agent over the area that was going to be cut open. I then got ready for cutting procedure. Lining up I hesitated for a moment before firing the laser to cut threw the flesh.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!" Jake screamed at the pain. But I held steady until it cut a reasonable line. It took five seconds god knows how long it felt to Jake. I made the machine hold the open as I switched to a new arm. I could see Jake sobbing at the pain.

"Be strong Jake. I just gotta reach in and pull the tail out and then were done ok." He quickly nodded.

I switched the camera to an X Ray view so I could see the tip of the tail. Using the third arm I probed the flesh under his skin toward the tip. Jake suck in air furiously through his teeth as I inched closer finally reaching the tip. Getting ready I clamped down on the tip, Jake tensed at the unfamiliar sensation. I began to pull which caused more pain in his body.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

"Almost done Jake just a little more."

I continued to pull and began to marvel at the length of the tail, It was almost a long as Jake was tall. After three grueling minutes I finally pulled it free. I used a hose to wash away his acidic blood and some bandages to cover up the cut where his tail was. I opened the pod and pulled Jake out seeing he didn't have the strength.

"It's ok Jake it's over now." I sat down with him in my arms. Head on my shoulder as he let out any last whimpers of pain. I looked at his tail, it seemed to be a meter and bit long, it was bony enough that you could see the vertebrae in it, it was covered with a thin layer of skin covered it making it look a faded grey and was thick enough for me to just wrap my hand around it, finished off with a pointed end but thankfully no sign of a blade unless the skin was covering that as well.

I pated Jake's head as his whimpers died down. "You ok Jake?" He lifted his head to look at me.

"Yeah, I-I'm ok just a bit sore." that I could agree with him, not that I could truly understand but his cries said it all.

"Well do you want to take a look at your tail?" I gestured to it. He peaked over his shoulder and stared at it, with awe in his face.

"Wow, that was in me?"

"Yep that's the thing that's been causing you pain." I explained patting him on the back. "Can you… move it?" I asked out of curiosity. He frowned at me and looked down at it concentrating. Suddenly it twitched, shocking Jake. He repeated the process in his head and he actually picked it off the ground. He chuckled, I guess from the new sensation or he was feeling a little proud of himself.

We stood up together Jake took a bit longer because he had to readjust his centre of gravity but eventually he stood proud. Waging it side to side he quickly tried experimenting with his new appendage. He curled it into a ring, coiled it around one of his legs and wrapped it under an armpit and over a shoulder. He laughed at the feeling wanting to do more but I interrupted him. "Enjoying yourself Jake." He jumped as if forgetting I was here.

"Oh sorry dad and yeah this is really cool."

"Well if it's so cool how about we show everyone?"

"Yeah let's do that!" he said about to run off but I caught him.

"Let's do it slowly ok?" He pouted but agreed

(Izzy's P.O.V)

We were watching a movie waiting for the surgery to be over. But we were all worried about Jake and no amount of movies would distract us from that.

A cough made us all turn around to see dad. "Well everyone you can rest easy, I got the tail out from under his skin meaning he won't have any more back pains." We all cheered hearing this.

"Dad that's amazing, how is he anyway?"

"Well I'd tell you but I'd think he would rather do it." At this moment Jake walked out from behind Dad. Revealing a grey wagging tail as he stepped forth.

"Hey guys, did ya miss me?" We all looked at him in shock before charging over to him with embrace.

"Jake you're alive!"

"Are you alright?"

"Your tail looks so cool!"

"Can I touch it?"

I ran up and hugged him, after a moment he hugged me back but with his tail as well which felt tough and soft at the same time. "You're the coolest little bro ever you know that Jake." He looked up at me losing his grip a bit.

"Thanks Izzy." after that we all had a group hug.

AN: Yeah I know it's all lovey dovey this chapter but lies are somethings that no family should ever have between each other, anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter if you did please make sure to follow this story leave a review all comments welcomed and if you feel like it favourite this story it really helps me. Until then see ya next chapter