The Gift, Part Two
By: Joel Dao-Zi Kh'as
*Joel's Room*
Joel was sitting up straight, in a cold sweat. The dream was just so real, it felt like it had actually been happening... suddenly, he started remembering an ancient memory...
*Flashback*
His father had been a computer technician for the company. His mother was a major share holder in Weyland-Yutani. During that short stint of his life, everything felt so... unreal. Like it was too good to be true. He couldn't really discern it, since he was 6 at the time, but still, he felt something was coming soon. Something bad.
Of course, his intuition was correct. On May 9th, Joel's birthday, a strange ship had come aboard the station. Evidently, it was going on autopilot, and was requesting docking clearance. It had used correct docking codes, etc., so they had let it aboard. That was one of the worst mistakes they would ever make...
*Slightly Later, Still Flashback, not Joel's POV*
"Ok, people, ready docking bay Number Two-oh-five. This ship's coming in on autopilot, so don't get too close to it, or it might smash you."
The ship was not that big. About the size of three one-story houses. However, when the doors were opened, there was a strange sound from it opening it's doors... an almost organic slurping sound...
"I don't believe that is a normal sound when one opens a door, John," said Carlene McCowsky, one of the supervisors.
"No, I don't like this one bit..." said John Marshall, another one of the supervisors.
John then activated the intercom function, and then proceeded to ask for Curtis Schwister, the local Colonial Marine Brigade commander.
"Excuse me, Commander Curtis, but we think there's something you should see..." said John.
"What is it? It's in the middle of the night, for God's sake..." said Curtis, sleepy from just waking up.
"Well sir, we have a situation here, and we think you should-" he was cut short by a blood-curdling scream.
"Oh my God! What IS that thing?!?!" screamed one of the docking people.
A huge creature, with an elongated head, and was about 5-6 feet taller than a normal human. It then proceeded to run towards the nearest docking controller and grabbed him and dragged him into the ship. Chaos then insued, and an alert was sounded throughout the colony.
*Curtis Schwister's Quarter's*
"Crap," thought Curtis, "not now... I was about to retire, also. Well, guess I'll rouse the troops..."
Cutis then went to the control panel to the special intercom which only went into the Colonial Marine's Quarters and spoke into it saying,
"Attention, all Colonial Marine Personnel. We have a possible Xenomorph infestation on the ship that just came in, and we need to flush it out. We need to hold back the Xenomorphs untill they can hack into the Ship's guidance systems and make it go out the airlock."
*RJ Cooper's Quarter's, The Colony Leader.*
RJ Cooper was very tense. A ship full of the deadliest creatures in the Galaxy had just gone into his colony, and he didn't know what to do except do a distress call. Disoriented, he ran towards the Colonial Marines HQ for the base, and demanded to see Commander Schwister immediately.
"Ok, I want to know two things. One, why was that ship allowed clearance into the base? and Two, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!?"
"Sir, calm down. Those marines are experts, and they can control the threat for now. THere should be backup in an hour or two, so don't worry. There's a whole Platoon
of Marines down on the Planet we're orbiting, so we'll get enough reinforcments."
"Yeah, that's what they said 50 years ago at the Acheron colony..." thought Cooper, still very afraid.
END OF PART TWO