Alright, time to get back on track for the fic! Sorry about the long wait, but with the semester starting back up, I haven't had a lot of spare time, and my schedule is terribly erratic. But, I will see to it that this story does reach its rightful end, which I predict that this chapter will be! So, let's finish this!
Kira and Kai watched in tears as the spacecraft made its way up into the starry, dark blue sky, slowly vanishing from view. It was now just a white dot in the sky, long after having left Mars' stratosphere.
Kira sniffled. "...I know we shouldn't be sad, but..." she wiped her eyes. "...we're not ever gonna see them again... and they won't get to visit at all!"
"I know..." Kai said. "...I haven't known Sugarcube for as long as you've known Aster... but I could still just feel something... special with her. A connection... that I just haven't ever felt before..."
Kira hung her head down. Aster... she thought to herself.
(XXXX)
Kasel was, as it turned out, unsure about the whole situation. He knew that it was for the better that the Xenomorphs were sent back to their native homeworld... but he felt guilty about separating two of them from their human friends. No matter what was the case, the Xenos surely would never forget about them.
Finally, he made up his mind...
Kasel burst through the doors to the space drone control room
"Recall that ship!" he said.
A subordinate stared. "Sir...?"
"Hurry! Before it jumps to lightspeed!" Kasel ordered.
"O-okay... if you say so, sir..." the team responded, immediately as they got to work putting commands into the computers to transmit to the spacecraft.
(XXXX)
It was sometime later that Kira and Kai both sat in a park square in the Remus colony on a bench. With no more tears, both of them simply sulked.
"I just don't know what to do anymore, Kai!" Kira said. "We fled Earth just so we could be with them! Why couldn't things have just turned out for the best after we were done evading the law!
Kai put his hand on her shoulder. "As painful as it is... we're just going to have to make the best of it..." he said.
Kira sighed. "That's just what I want to do... but I just can't..."
At that moment, a Seegson hovercraft pulled in front of them. The hatch opened to reveal Kasel, who was smiling.
"So..." Kira said. "...they are on their way? Nothing went wrong and they're alright...?"
Kasel nodded. "Oh, yes! They are quite alright... and I know this, because..." he stepped aside.
Standing behind Kasel, appearing from out of the shadows...
"ASTER!" Kira shouted.
"KIRA!" Aster responded.
"SUGARCUBE!" Kai followed up.
"KAI!" Sugarcube finished.
The pair of lovers quickly rushed up to and hugged their respective partner immensely.
"...we called them off of the craft while sending the remaining Xenomorphs and Yautja to their specific homeworlds.
"And you did this just for us!?" Kira asked.
Kasel nodded. "I truly felt guilty about the whole thing... and I knew only then that having them stay here... was the right decision."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Kasel!" Kai said. "We won't forget about this, ever!"
"You're quite welcome..." Kasel said as he stepped back into the craft, preparing to close the hatch. "...farewell, you two! Don't try to get into any more trouble now! And remember, Seegson always strives for a better future. Tomorrow... together."
"Goodbye, Mr. Kasel!" Kira said as she waved.
Kasel closed the hatch, and the craft took off.
"Oh, Kira... you have no idea how happy I am that me and Sugarcube get to stay here!" Aster said as he held Kira very tightly against his chest.
"...Ngh... Aster..." Kira strained as his firm embrace was crushing her. "...Need... to breathe..."
Aster let go. "Oh, I'm sorry." he said.
"Well, all's well that ends well." Kai said.
"So, now that we're back together again... what will we do now?" Sugarcube asked.
Kira looked over at Kai and smiled. "I think it's time to go home... don't you think, Kai?"
Kai nodded. "Yeah. Nice little one-day trip we had... but it's time to bounce back."
So, the pair of humans and Xenomorphs all proceeded to head back to Chaser, which was still in the spot that they had landed on, powered up the engine, and set the Superjump coordinates for Earth as the Sun began to rise on the Eastern horizon...
(XXXX)
"Expelled?" Kira said as she looked at her tablet.
"What?" Kai asked. "What do you mean?"
Kira pressed her teeth together nervously. "Well... apparently, you and I have been expelled from Weyland Advanced University due to allegations made by anonymous sources."
"Meyers..." Kai said out of frustration. "...okay, so now we're just left with major blemishes on our records. What are we going to do now?"
"Well..." Kira said, looking over the WY website to see what other options they had. "...they're always accepting students at Weyland-Yutani Community College."
"The Community College..." Kai pondered. "...yeah, sure. Why not? It's not like it's a different degree, or different credit hours."
Kira put the tablet back in its place. "Well, probably gonna be quite a long flight back to Earth, so might as well just enjoy the ride." she said.
"Yep... and I'm sure that there's more than enough for us to..." Kai stopped speaking as he looked back over at Kira. "...is something wrong?"
Kira was bent forward with both hands on her front.
"Kira... you okay?" Kai asked.
"Ngh..." Kira groaned. "...it feels like... like something moving around... inside me!"
Kira stood straight up and lifted her shirt a bit to reveal that something was moving around inside of her stomach, creating moving bulges on her skin.
"Oh, jeez... this feels so weird!" Kira commented.
Kai hastily stepped backwards. "Uhhhh...! That's pretty scary!" he said. "What's wrong with you?"
"I don't know...!" Kira said. "...Ahh... it's shifting... getting lower..." her eyes widened. "...I feel it moving... into my vagina...!"
To Kai's immense shock, Kira stripped down her trousers right in front of him. There was some fluid dribbling from her crotch, and moments later... something began to emerge from her vagina.
It was flesh-colored, but it did not look anything human. Instead, as it slowly crept out, they made it out to be an infant Xenomorph. After its main body emerged, the tail quickly followed as it lightly dropped on the floor of the ship. A long umbilical cord attached to the front of its abdomen, which Kira could feel pull out the placenta from her uterus. She tugged at the cord and removed it entirely.
Instead of hissing and trying to escape, the newborn Xenomorph simply lay on the ground, panting. Slowly, Kira lifted it up and held it in her arms, looking at it with immense shock.
"...Uh..." Kira uttered. "...w-was this thing... inside of me...!?"
Kai nodded slowly. "Yeah... I don't understand... what this is all..."
He trailed off as he noticed Sugarcube put hands to her stomach, making puzzled hissing sounds.
"Oh...! I'm feeling some weird movement in my stomach, too!" she said.
"Wait..." Kai said, pondering. "...I think I may have a bit of a theory..."
They waited for a moment, watching the movements happen underneath the skin on Sugarcube's lower stomach, moving downward into her pelvic region. Soon enough, another newborn Xenomorph emerged from Sugarcube. It looked quite similar to the one that Kira held.
"So, wait..." Kira began. "...if these were inside Sugarcube and me... and we had sex the night before..."
"...We're mothers!" Sugarcube telepathically exclaimed upon knowing exactly what had happened.
"I was... pregnant...?" Kira stammered. "You mean... that whole time... me and Sugarcube... were pregnant!?"
"I guess so..." Kai said. "...it would make sense that they developed rapidly, just like a regular Xenomorph from a Facehugger... but what doesn't make sense is how you were both impregnated."
"But, aren't they genetically altered?" Kira asked.
Kai raised his eyebrows and nodded. "Yeah... I think that would make sense."
Sugarcube held up her newborn, and gave it a gentle hug. "Oh... my little baby. I can't help but love you."
"Motherly instinct, I guess." Kira said... before she looked at her own Xenomorph offspring and felt just the thing she described.
Even though it was not a human child, and did not look like something that anyone on Earth would pride her on... she could still feel a deep, loving connection with it.
She held it in a tight hug, and heard it let out its comfortable moans. To have her own child... it truly felt like the greatest thing to have happened to her in all of the worlds.
Aster was still in an immense level of surprise at what had just unfolded in front of him.
"I don't understand..." Aster said. "...how can that be your child, but it is not human? How did you spawn an entirely different species...?"
"You know that whitish fluid that you let off through your penis when you are sexually active?" Kira said. "It's called semen, and it contains millions of sperm, tiny creatures created in those two round organs, called testicles, that contain chromosomes, which are 'packets' of DNA containing every bit of information about a living organism. When male sperm is given to a female via sex, the sperm impregnate a microscopic egg from her equivalent of testes, called 'ovaries'."
This completely puzzled Aster. That white fluid from his sex organs was full of tiny creatures that created offspring, through an egg inside of a female?
"So, your DNA and mine had to mix in order to create our baby." Kira said.
"Our baby...?" Aster asked.
Kira nodded. "It's your child, too." she then looked at it a bit closely. "...I think it's a girl! Hold her, Aster!"
Slowly, Aster held out his arms, and took the baby Xeno. He craddled it to his chest, and after a moment, realized just how much it truly meant to him.
"My daughter..." he whispered.
The infant Xeno began to whine a little bit, and Aster slowly rubbed her head to calm her down.
"It's okay... it's okay..." he reassured his offspring. "...I'm your father. I'm here for you." he then held her in a light, but deep hug. "...I promise that your mother and I will take extra special care of you."
"So... what should we name her?" Kira asked.
"Well..." Aster began. "...like I said when we first met... I hardly know any real names."
Kira thought for a moment. "Well... you and I are a pair, united across the reaches of space. Beyond the star themselves..." she said, before looked at her child. "...I think I want to go with... Star."
Aster smiled. "Star... that's a great name." he said.
"Ours is a boy." Kai said. "We've named him Chase... after the ship he was born on."
Star and Chase... Kira thought. ...unusual, but lovely names.
The four continued to savor this single most momentous occasion of their lives, before it was time for them to go to sleep...
(XXXX)
They made it back to Earth a few hours later, still in the dead of night. The alarm woke them up to begin the landing cycle. Kai landed the vessel in an open area outside of Weyland Advanced University's property. Kai activated the radio deflection device to minimize the possibility of them being tracked.
Kira and Aster, along with Star, stepped off of the ship, but Kai, Sugarcube, and Chase all stayed on.
Kira looked back at them. "What's up? Aren't you coming?"
Kai shook his head. "Actually, I've recently gotten a message concerning a certain... family event going on off-planet. I really won't want to pass it up."
"Like what?" Kira asked.
"I'm gonna be heading off to visit Earth's moon. My older brother and his wife live on the colony, and are having a baby. As of next year, I'll have a niece." Kai said. "They've decided to name her Ellen."
Kira's eyes widened. "Oh, that'll be nice! I'm so happy for you!" she said.
"So... I guess this is it, then?" Kai asked. "We both just spend the course of our friendship on the run from the law, and part ways when everything turns out okay?"
Kira sighed. "I guess so..." she said, before saddening as she resumed: "...I wish Hailey could've been here to experience it with us."
" I know..." Kai responded, also a bit sad. "...but, things are only going to get better! I'm going to see to it that I can convert Chaser into a grounded living quarters possibly on Mars or something so that Sugarcube and I can live together in safety."
"Well, good luck with that!" Kira said.
"It's been nice to know you for the short time that I did, Kira Sykes." Kai said with a formal tone.
"Yep!" Kira said. "Come to think of it... I don't think you ever told me your last name."
Kai smiled. "...Ripley."
"Kai Ripley..." Kira repeated. "...well, I'm sure you've got things to do. Sooner the better, right?"
Kai nodded. "Yep! Well... goodbye, Kira! Goodbye, Aster!" he called out.
Kira waved, tears forming in her eyes. "Goodbye, Kai! Goodbye, Sugarcube!" she said. "Take good care of Chase!"
Sugarcube waved back while holding Chase with her free arm. "Farewell, Kira! Aster!"
Aster waved as well. "Farewell, Kai! Sugarcube!" he finished.
After the parting, Kai closed and pressured the airlock, and moments later, Chaser took off en route to the moon, Kira and Aster watching as it became a white dot in the night sky, before vanishing from sight completely.
"C'mon, Aster..." Kira said. "...let's get home."
"Home... that sounds great!" Aster responded, before looking at Star in his arms, bundled up in a blanket. "It's time for us to start our own hive!"
Kira laughed. "Yes... whatever you say." she said.
So, the two of them went back to Kira's rented house, only to find that it appeared to have been raided, presumably by WY security teams; furniture was tipped over, and several trinkets and other decorative items were all over the floor, forcing them to clean up the mess. But they more or less got the place back into a livable state.
Aster and Kira climbed into bed, Star in both of their embrace, where she would sleep until they could get her own bed for her sometime in the future. Kira's adventure to go to such lengths to do what was right has ended... but her new journey has only started. Now that she had a family with which she would grow old with, she really felt that her life was truly complete... at least, almost.
Kira woke at some point in the very early morning hours while Aster and Star were still asleep, and crept into her office. She fired up her laptop and looked up the upcoming application dates for Weyland-Yutani Community College.
"Gotta be ready for next semester..." she said to herself. "...I need a degree to get a good job and raise the family."
Excellent! I was finally able to complete another fic! Like with my other fanfics, I could go into greater detail and create a few spinoffs and sequels, but I still have ideas for other fics that I want to get out there. Maybe it will happen in the future, but only time will tell... as well as my scheduling. XD. Until next time, this is midnightwolfGX, signing off. Keep holding on...
