Alien: Covenant 2: Part 3

Author's note:

************* Ghost Protocol ***********

David was traveling through the vessel searching for an intruder, an intruder aboard his ship (actually since he was the one who'd confiscated this craft, after it had landed on Planet 4, didn't that make him the intruder?) Anyway, somewhere aboard this vessel was Daniels Brandson... and she was really becoming a pain in his ass.

After hijacking the Covenant David had prepared himself for a long journey to Origae-6, a long quiet journey. However, that didn't seem to be happening. Daniels had escaped her cryo-pod, somehow (he would investigate this after he had resolved this issue. However, for now he had more pressing circumstances).

Anyway, somewhere aboard the Covenant was his antagonist. How hard could it be to find her, even with all of her foolery and tricks? The ship may be big, but it wasn't the size of Texas. T for Texas, T for Tennessee. He remembered the old folk-a-billy song by Jimmie Rodgers (yes David 8 was versed in many things. His data banks were filled with "useless information". Hey, wasn't that a lyric in a Rolling Stone song? However, his favorite music was classical).

Anyway, everywhere he went now, every chamber that he searched, he found the same thing. Something in that sector had been used to cause a heat signature. It was like he was chasing a ghost.

(Isn't this a point where a human may call (foul), not fare?)

David pushed that idea from his brain.

(Foul, cheating, the cards stacked against someone. Those were all human terms, human emotions which allowed some goal not to be reached, and David was not about to give in to failure)

But then an idea ran through his circuits.

Daniels, she had mention that this resembled a game of cat and mouse. Well, how does a cat catch a mouse, it does not pursue,...it lays in wait. It sets up in a location and lets the mouse come to it.

Tennessee, the pilot of the Covenant was still in his cryo-chamber. David had witnessed this through the camera which had been activated in the cryo-room. His vitals had all shown that he was alive and well and at rest in his unit. Tennessee could be used as bait.

Sooner or later Daniels would realize that she was vulnerable. She would become aware that her only human companion (aboard the Covenant), the only soul who knew what was going on and could actually help her, was the pilot.

The two thousand colonists aboard, in their cryo-modules, were in DSS (deep-status-sleep). Their bodies so chilled from their freezers that it would take many cycles for them to recover (as seen in the Alien movie).

The human body was fragile and sluggish when coming out of cryo-sleep. This was why the crew of the Covenant had been set to be awakened at select intervals during their journey to Origae-6, to keep their bodies warm, and their minds functional.

David knew that he had to make his way to the Cryo-unit. He had to secure a hiding place until Daniels arrived.

Yes, David would set a trap.

"Let's see how smart you really are lov," he said as he rushed towards the cryo-unit.

END PART 3