Four years ago:
14 year old Adamus and Marina were sitting outside of their house watching as Panto and Six took off in their car. "Where do you think they are going at this time?" Marina asked. "It's summer, they can't be needed at the school."
"They are probably out on a mission," Adamus responded.
"When do you think we'll go on our first mission?"
"When we have a better grasp of our powers is what Mom says."
"But I have a good grasp of my powers," Marina complained. "Watch," she told him before freezing and unfreezing a tree in their front yard. "I should be able to go on a mission."
"So the little girl wants to go on a mission," a voice chuckled from the shadows.
Both Marina and Adamus jumped up, with Kusa slipping out of Adamus's shirt to transform into a giant hellhound with a growl. "Who is there?" Marina asked.
"Why, I'm an old friend of your grandfather," the voice remarked before a figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a man in his late 30s with a portly figure, greasy brown hair, and these startling white eyes, the kind used to convey blindness in movies. "My name is Hugo von Light."
That was all Marina needed to hear before shooting a blast of ice at the man. He disappeared in a puff of white smoke before appearing behind the two of them and landing a kick to the back of Adamus's head, knocking him out cold. "Look at what your lack of manners made me do. I simply came here to talk, but if you want a fight, then you shall get one."
"Kusa, protect Adamus, I got this," Marina told the chimæra before shooting another ice blast at the man. He disappeared once more and reappeared behind Marina, where he pinned her to the ground. Marina began to thrash under his grasp, but his grip held tight.
"Poor Marina Mime-Mectix, so used to fighting on equal or greater footing, you don't even know how to recognize when you've been thoroughly beaten. Well let's see if you know when you've been broken." He knocked her unconscious and then disappeared.
When Marina regained consciousness later, she was strapped down to a table. She began to thrash around before von Light's voice snapped at her. "Quit it, it will only make things more difficult." Marina stopped thrashing as she heard something else thrashing beside her. She looked to her left and was horrified to see a xenomorph strapped down so close to her.
"What are you going to do to me," she asked, fear evident in her voice.
"Oh come on. You're a smart girl, shouldn't it be obvious?"
Marina racked her brains for a bit before coming to the only obvious conclusion. She looked at where von Light's voice was coming from, terrified.
"Oh yes. Your family has killed countless xenomorphs, so I thought to myself, 'how would they react if one of their own became a xenomorph?'" von Light cackled. "I hope that you enjoyed your last day as a human Ms. Mime-Mectix, because this process is permanent."
Marina was going to protest, but her eyes began to feel heavy before she drifted off again.
Over the next few hours, days, weeks, Marina didn't know, she saw flashes of surgical equipment. When she fully came to she looked at herself and screamed. Except that it wasn't a scream and was one of those clicking noises a xenomorph made. She began to thrash some more, even attempting, but failing, to freeze the restraints, before von Light's voice caught her attention once more. "Don't worry, your voice and powers will return shortly, but by then you'll be in a prison cell, while I prepare to condition you." Von Light went over to her table and tilted her head to her right. What she saw chilled her to the bone. It was her body, her human body, with the top of its head removed. She looked at her eyes to see that they were lifeless. Internally she was brought to tears as externally she made these strangled cries. Von Light then wheeled her out of a room and into a jail cell where she spent the next few days.
Von Light hadn't lied to her, her powers and voice did eventually return. There was nothing she could do though. She was powerless. Even if she could escape, she didn't know where she was, or if her family would recognize her. She just spent most of her days sitting there defeated. Broken.
One day the entire building shook with the force of the Tsar Bomba as a powerful voice roared, "VON LIGHT!" Marina's heart leapt. It was Kurt. Her grandfather had come to save her. And he sounded pissed. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER YOU BASTARD!?"
Marina pressed herself against the door to her cell and yelled at the top of her lungs. "I'M IN HERE! HELP!" The sound of footsteps quickly approached her cell. She pulled back a bit as Adamus, Panto, and Six. They all looked hopeful to find her, but their faces fell when they saw her.
"It's just one of those voice mimicking xenos," Adamus snarled before he activated his wrist gauntlet, prepared to strike her down. There was rage in his eyes as he pulled back his arm to strike.
"Ad, Mom, Dad," Marina croaked out, wanting them to recognize her.
Hearing his annoying nickname made Adamus hesitate. "Mar?" he whispered back at her.
Marina let out a strangled cry of relief at being recognized. "I want to go home," she managed to get out.
"Stand back," Six told everyone before he punched the door off of the hinges. The family rushed Marina and hugged her tightly, her dry sobbing as she let it happen. She was so happy to finally be free.
The next few weeks were spent with Marina trying to adjust to her new life as a xeno. Panto bought her a spray can that would make her look human. She learned how to keep her xenomorph abilities under control. It was a difficult period for everyone with the sudden change to their lives.
Present:
Some nights Marina lay awake in bed, frozen as the memories of those days hit her. Tonight was one such night. The past few days with the mention of xenomorph experimentation as well as her almost revealing herself, caused her stress beyond belief. She wished that she could go back and be normal again. That was the only thought in her head as she curled up and cried herself to sleep.
AN: And there you go, an explanation onto what the ending of last chapter was about. Sorry about no chapter Monday. I didn't have the chance to write it as I had to watch my dog. I watch my dog downstairs while my writing device is upstairs. I hope you understand. Also thanks go out to Void for this chapter's title.