(I know what some of you are thinking. You there is gonna be some kind of romance between Kathryn and Jane. Don't worry as of now I'm not intending anything. But that doesn't mean nothing will happen I think up the story as I go along. I rarely ever plan ahead.)

Crimson Palace 05:30

Kathryn woke up as the sun was starting to come up over the mountains in the distance. She jumped into the shower before getting dressed. The Marines were all waiting in the hall when she walked out of her room.

"What I need am escort to eat breakfast?" She asked jokingly.

"Yes ma'am." Kittler said. "The mess hall is across the yard."

"Oh I see." Kathryn said.

The Marines loaded their weapons and took their positions surrounding Kathryn and headed down the hall. As they were walking a child ran into the hall with a miner's helmet on and a stick. He took the point and walked with the Marines to the main doors. Kathryn and the others were chuckling watching the child yell at anyone that got into the way like he was a high ranking officer. Whoever stepped in front and got yelled at by the child moved out of the way laughing as they passed. Once they got to the main gate the child stepped aside and let the Marines pass. Suzy patted him on the head as she passed and he smiled.

"Cute kid." Kathryn said as they walked through the yard to the mess hall.

"A storm's brewing." A miner said.

"How can you tell?" Kathryn asked.

"I can see the sand storm in the distance." The miner said.

Kittler pulled out a pair of high power binoculars and looked at the cloud.

"He's right." He said. "Looks like it will be here in about 30 mics."

"I guess works gonna be going slow today." Kathryn said.

"Yes it will." The miner said. "But we never stop working except for when a storm gets to strong and night time." The man said.

Kathryn and the others walked into the mess hall where they were met by Rick.

"Kathryn I have a place for you and your guards at the main table." He said.

"Ok." Kathryn said.

They were led to the head table and took their seats. Just before the end of breakfast Rick stood up and called for everyone's attention.

"Everyone I'm sure you all have seen the Marines guarding this young woman." He said. "I know some of you are thinking she is an inspector with "The Company" but she's not. She is the new Chef Engineer and "The Company wants her looked after. She will be overseeing the construction of the residential section. Kathryn tell them about your self."

"I hate speeches." Kathryn said standing up. "Well as Mr. Armond said I'm the new Chef Engineer. I was born in China and moved with my family to America when I was 10. I joined "The Company as just an Engineer when I was 18 and have been working fore them ever since."

There were a few approving murmurs but for the most part the people in the room didn't really care. The activity in the room quickly picked back up.

Unfinished residential section

Kathryn looked over the work that had been completed and was impressed.

"These welds are strong." She said.

Her crew were all standing around as she inspected everything. Once she was finished she met all 30 men and 10 women on her crew.

"Ok guys seeing as that sand storm is right on top of up I want you all to form four groups of ten." Kathryn said.

The crew did as they were told and Kathryn assigned each team a number one through four.

"Ok team one you are up first." She said. "Every two hours you will switch with the next team. Since I'm the new girl on the team I'll be with the first team and third team. Once the last team is finished we call it a day."

The teams nodded and the first crew went to work along with Kathryn and the Marines. The Marines just stuck close to Kathryn as she helped move boxes with a Loader.

"Clear behind." She said as she backed the large machine up.

She stacked most of the supplies in a corner of the construction yard and got out of the Loader. There was a engineer dragging a large beam.

"You're gonna hurt yourself." Kathryn said grabbing the other end of the beam. "Damn this is heavy."

"Yea it is." The man said.

"Hey Kittler, Walther help us out." Kathryn said.

Kittler and Walther shouldered there weapons and lifted the beam on their shoulders. Kathryn and the engineer quickly moved under the beam and all four of them walked the beam to where a Loader was waiting.

"I'll take it." The operator said and lifted it off of their shoulders.

The sand storm had been pounding them nonstop but hit full force just as the first teams shift was up and they were glad to get inside. They were all covered in sand and were forced to take a shower just so they could sit down without rubbing off skin.

Kathryn's room

'Well so much for an easy job.' She thought. 'And I have another shift in an hour and a half. Well might as well get some rest before I head out again.'

Her nap was ended when the intercom cane to life.

"Miss Chang its Kittler. The workers are requesting to see you." Kittler said.

Kathryn threw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and opened the door. There were about 5 workers with the 2nd team standing at the door bleeding and covered in sand.

"Miss Chang that storm has gotten to strong." One of them said. "We can no longer work out there until it slows down."

Kathryn looked at the man and looked out her window. It looked like her window was under the sand except for the light.

"It looks pretty bad." She said. "Ok call it a day third and fourth team are off for the day."

"Thank you ma'am." The worker said and went to call the others in and inform the rest of the teams.

"Well that was nice." Kittler said.

"No use in them getting so messed up that they can't work." Kathryn said. "I'd rather lose one day than several."

"That's a good point." Kittler said.

"Well I guess I'll see you and your team at lunch." Kathryn said.

"Yes ma'am." Kittler said and walked back into his room.

Kathryn walked back to her bed and lay back down.

'Damn first day and a storm knocks out the work.' She thought. 'That's not good. We'll just have to work harder for the next few days.'

Sector 5 ½ mile from the cave

The men and women scouting sector 5 were hunkered down in the rocks of a nearby hill with sleeping bags attached together and pulled over them to keep them safe from the sand.

"Man I hope Chris and the others are alright." A man said. "They never came back to camp last night."

"They probably spent the night in that cave they were talking about." The man in charge said. "Now their stuck in it with this sand storm kicking the shit out of us."

Along the out skirts if the hill that the workers were taking cover in the ground was moving in a small wave but it wasn't the sand. There were 30 facehuggers making their way to the workers. The workers feet were handing out from under the sleeping bags and the facehuggers jumped onto their legs and ran up their bodies. Some of the workers were screaming as they fought against their attackers but soon fell silent. All the facehuggers had claimed a host leaving 5 workers alive and running for their lives.

"Let's run to that cave." A woman yelled.

The small group ran into the cave and turned on their flashlights.

"What the hell?" The woman said picking up a helmet. "It's Roberts helmet."

"Then they must still be in here." A man said.

They walked into farther into the cave and before they knew where they were they were standing in the nest looking at Drone Xenomorphs.

"Oh shit." The woman said. "Back up real slow."

They started to move back until they heard the sound of something scratching behind them. They all turned around and sat 5 facehuggers hanging on the wall. Before they could move the facehuggers jumped and latched onto their heads. All five of them fell to the ground in convulsions then went still.