Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! Or whatever other holiday you celebrate at this time! Another chapter so soon! Time to start getting this story wrapped up. I really don't have much to say for an intro, so I hope you enjoy this early chapter! Time for the action scene that everyone's been waiting for!
Kira found some aluminum foil in Chaser's kitchen, and being aware of its radiation-interfering abilities, decided to start wrapping it around Aster's head, as Kai did with Sugarcube. Both of the Drones pawed at the stuff as it was covering their heads.
"I really don't like this stuff..." Aster said.
"I know it may not be the most comfortable thing in the world..." Kira replied as she brought the foil roll in circles around Aster's head. "...but we gotta make sure you can block the Queen out. There, I think that should be enough."
Aster held out his hands in front of him, trying to get a feel of his surroundings. Sugarcube was also doing the same.
"I can't see very well..." Aster said.
"Yeah," Sugarcube added. "This foil makes everything look... fuzzy."
"Well, will you two be able to see good enough to fight?" Kai asked.
"Um... I guess." Aster responded.
"Hold on..." Kira said. "...I've got a crazy idea!"
Kira brought Kai, Aster, and Sugarcube down to the passenger bay and wrapped aluminum foil around the heads of the still-unconscious experimental Xenomorphs. A few of them stirred and awoke after it happened. But soon enough, they were all up. They were touching their heads and trying to get the foil off, but Aster and Sugarcube convinced them not to and why. Reluctantly, the other Xenos agreed to the plan.
The Yautja awoke as well and, being immune to Xenomorph telepathy, took no hesitation to join the fight.
"Okay, we can't waste any more time!" Kira said. "Time to end this for good!"
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Dr. Meyers was whistling a white tone to get his Queen to follow him as he made his way towards Chaser with his pistol in his hand. He was going to raid the ship and kill the two rebellious students who stole what was his, and reclaim all of the Xenomorphs and Yautja he created.
He was approaching the ship, when he saw a large mass in the distance coming from the ship. As it came closer, he saw that it was the Xenomorphs and Yautja, and in the very front were Kira and Kai, and off to either side of them were a male and female Drone. They all appeared to have a silvery substance wrapped around their heads. They all stopped approaching when they were about twenty meters from Meyers.
Immediately, all of the Xenos started hissing at the sight of Dr. Meyers and the Queen.
"Alright, Meyers," Kai said. "we have decided to give you a chance here. We are open to negotiation as of right now, and—"
"There is no negotiating when it comes to this!" Dr. Meyers said. "You stole Weyland-Yutani property! You have to pay for the severity and illegality of your act!"
Kai smirked. "Good fucking luck trying to get your Queen there to influence these Xenos! Their heads are covered in many layers of aluminum! I doubt even the will of the Queen could creep through that shit!" He said wholeheartedly.
"I see you have one for yourself too, Kai..." Dr. Meyers said upon noticing Sugarcube. "...Subject VX-429, I believe."
"Her real name is Sugarcube!" Kai said. "And I think she respects me infinitely more than she ever will do so for you!"
"And then, of course... the ever-rebellious Subject SR-724..." Dr. Meyers continued. "...I fail to understand how you could survive the Queen's self-destruct code embedded into your brain... but I'm sure that some more tests should give me the answers I need..."
"My name is Aster, you prick!" Aster hissed. "And I would rather die than end up in your hands again! I will NOT go down without a fight!"
"Dr. Meyers, this is your final warning..." Kira said. "...call off your Queen, or die."
Without hesitation, Dr. Meyers whistled a tone that made the Queen hiss and start to stalk towards the group of Xenos, sticking out her secondary mouth and flailing her tail about.
Aster, so full of rage... fury... extreme emotion... he could not restrain his beastly instincts any longer.
Without warning, Aster went completely savage and charged the Queen, leaping up at her head and trying to claw through the thick skin. But he barely did any damage and was flung off several meters. He got back up and rushed behind her, as she could not turn very fast, and tried to slice out her dorsal tubes. But the Queen started to thrust her tail at him, narrowly missing her own back, and forcing Aster to dodge as he attempted to do damage, up until a wide blow knocked him back off.
More and more, Aster tried to land a blow on the Queen, but each time it took longer for him to get back up. Eventually, Aster tried to get up a final time, but his arms fell out from under him as he tried to stand. He lay on the ground, panting and bruised.
"...I... can't... do it..." Aster uttered. "...she's... too strong... and I... can't see... clearly enough..."
Dr. Meyers laughed the whole time, and then whistled for his Queen to briefly retreat. Though he did like to play dirty most of the time, this time he decided to have this be a Battle Royale of honor.
Kira rushed over to Aster as he lay on the ground, his foil head-cover with a few battle-damage tears in it.
"C'mon, Aster! You gotta get up! You have to beat her!" Kira tried to encourage him.
"Kira... I can't... I just can't..." Aster replied. "...I'm... too weak... too small..."
"Aster, please, the other Xenos are too scared to try and go up against her! You're our only chance!" Kira said.
She brought her head down to his.
"I believe in you, Aster..." Kira whispered, before gently kissing an exposed spot on the front of his cranial carapace.
Aster lay completely still as he let that kiss, that single touch of her lips, sink in... flashbacks of him first meeting her on her tour of the facility surged through his mind... him escaping to find her... her naming him... the fun times they had at her house... her convincing Hailey that he was good... her rescuing him and breaking the Queen's control over him... her saving his life... their mating in the spaceship... and, most of all... her pledge of love to him.
A glowing green light appeared inside of Aster's chest, but instead of just flashing for a brief moment, it remained steady. Aster sat up, pressing his teeth together... and glowing green patterns appeared on his skin, covering his entire body. He then ripped the foil off of his head with his claws. Kira stared in unbreakable awe.
"Aster... wh-what are you..." Kira stammered.
"Oh... the power! It feels GREAT!" Aster said as he stood, revealing the glowing patterns on his body quite clearly. "I feel... strong... unstoppable..."
Dr. Meyers was in shock by this. "No... it's impossible! He couldn't have had the gene! He COULDN'T!" He said before whistling to have the Queen take care of Aster.
Aster and the Queen both circled each other slowly, hissing angrily at each other the entire time. Kira hastily rushed back over to Kai.
"He's directly challenging the Queen!" Kai said. "I've never seen anything like this!"
"What do you think it is, though?" Kira asked.
Kai rubbed his chin. "Well, I remember reading something in the WY confidential archives about a special gene that some genetically altered Xenomorphs could carry... all of the Xenos carrying it were killed long ago... or so they thought."
"What gene?" Kira asked.
"Apparently, it's called the 'Royal Gene'." Kai answered. "A Xenomorph that has it in their chromosomes has the ability to forcibly become a King or Queen, depending on their gender, for a temporary period of time. It can only be activated via certain brain activity."
Kira's eyes widened. "So, that means Aster's..." she trailed off.
Kai nodded. "Yes. When you kissed Aster, I assume it excited him enough to activate the gene, putting him into what WY has called 'King Mode'."
"King Mode..." Kira repeated.
Breaking the standoff, Aster charged the Queen. She tried to impale him to the ground with her massive tail, but Aster swiftly dodged and leaped up at her, making several quick slashes that caused some minor bleeding. The Queen shrieked in pain and anger as this happened.
While in King Mode, Aster appeared to have greater strength, dexterity, agility, and reflexes than before.
"C'mon, Aster!" Sugarcube cheered on. "Show her what your tail tastes like!"
Aster hissed in fury and charged at the Queen again, this time climbing onto her back and slashing at her ribs, causing even more bleeding... and came to the point of puncturing her lung. The Queen began to wheeze heavily.
"Time to finish you..." Aster said.
With that, he let out another long hiss as the glowing green patterns on his skin got brighter and started to resemble fluid flowing through them. He appeared to be heavily focusing on the Queen.
The Queen started to shutter erratically, bringing her hands up to her head and clutching it tightly. She let out groans and loud breaths.
Kai stared in amazement. "He's taking control of her...!" he said.
Still shaking and holding her head, the Queen brought up her massive tail, straight above her and angling it downward. Aster brought his arm up slowly, and swung it straight downwards. The Queen immediately pulled her tail back down... straight through her own chest, spilling acidic blood all over the place as she collapsed. She took a few final, shaky breaths... before she stopped breathing and slumped over, completely still.
Dr. Meyers fell to his knees. "My Xenomorph Queen!" he cried. "My perfect living weapon! My creation! NOOOOOOOOO!"
Kira, now overdosing on amazement, walked up to Aster. The Drone's glow faded, and he swayed slightly and put a hand to his head as if he was a bit dizzy.
"Aster..." Kira began. "...you controlled a Queen! With your own mind! You did it!"
Aster looked back over at the dead Queen. "Yeah... I have no idea how, but it happened." he said.
"You truly are amazing, Aster..." Kira said as she gently held the Xeno's head in her hands. "...and that's just what I love about you."
And she brought his head down... and kissed him on the lips (or whatever Xenomorphs have for lips). Aster was entranced by this for a brief moment, but then he pursed his "lips" together as tightly as he comfortably could and kissed her back. The two wrapped their arms around each other as they remain locked by their lips for a brief moment that felt like an eternity.
After the two broke up the kiss, Kira looked around to see that the other Xenos had removed their aluminum foil head covers and were surrounding her and Aster in a circle. After stopping, the group of Xenos kneeled, all of them facing Aster.
Kira's eye widened. "What's going on here?" she asked.
"It looks like the other Xenomorphs have accepted Aster as their new King." Kai said.
"He defeated a big threat that we could not take upon ourselves to stop..." Sugarcube said as she kneeled towards Aster. "...hail King Aster!"
"Hail King Aster!" The other Xenos repeated in unison.
"Me? King of the hive?" Aster said. "I don't know... I don't understand how to command a hive, or what to do to support—"
"I know you can do it, Aster." Kira said. "You will make a great hive leader! You just have to do what you feel is best for them... and yourself."
Aster smiled. "Yeah... you're right, Kira! I'll do it! I'll be the best Xenomorph King the galaxy has ever known!"
Dr. Meyers had stood back up, a very angry expression on his face. He tried to draw his pistol... but it got whacked out his hand by the tail of a female Warrior, who hissed at him.
"This isn't over!" Dr. Meyers said. "You will give back what you took!"
"Not on your life!" Kai said. "Even though you research Xenomorphs, they still are living beings!"
"Yeah, see? These particular Xenomorphs are not the monsters everyone thinks they are." Kira said, before she walked up to Aster and held him close. "They just need a little love."
"No!" Dr. Meyers said. "I'm never going to let you get your way with—"
He was cut off by a few hovercrafts approaching their destination. They were not police or law agency crafts, but the logo and markings on them made them out to be...
"Seegson Corporation?" Kai asked. "What are they doing here?"
The crafts stopped, deployed boarding ramps, and out of the closest one stepped a man who smiled at Kira and Kai.
"You two..." he said. "...it's great to finally meet the Xenomorph Whisperers everyone's been talking about!"
Looks like things are finally gonna come to a close, just to tie up all the loose ends from here on out. Anyways, I finally got to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the theaters. I've been dying to see it, and it was pretty good, a LOT better than the prequels! I'm so glad that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford are in it. If you haven't seen it, GO SEE IT! Oh, there I go getting off-topic again. So, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! The final few will be coming soon! Keep holding on...