A/N: Any character or theme or name or creature and anything else from the movie I DO NOT OWN. The plot for this story I do own, as well as Xenayakata and the species Xenyautan. These two are my creatations and mine alone so NO TOUCHIE! If anyone rips off my character or species I will send the real Xenayakata after them and she gets crankywhen people rip her off.

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Chapter 2: The World is a Scary Place

For the remainder of the week when ever I was not learning from Tina, Mike would teach me to speak human and every day I grew larger and stronger.

I began my combat lessons on the third day after my birth and by the end of the week I had learnt much, mastered control of the techniques of combat and the human language. But one thing had not gone to plan; I had not matured fully as it was thought I would and so I had not learnt to control the nanobots in my body.

Tina told me that, mentally at least, I was at the stage they deemed a 'young adult' but I still had to mature more before I could learn more about the human world by going out into it.

I wanted to go out. The room that I had been taught and trained in was now prison-like to me. I needed to be out, to run, to stretch and practice my skills.

Need to be out. I thought to Tina.

"You can't Xeno, not yet."

Need to run.

"Xeno…" Tina sighed.

Need to be out. Need to run. Please Tina? Need to stretch. Need to be out. I'm trapped in here. Please?

"No, Xeno…"

"Oh, come on Tina." Mike came to Xeno's defence. "One little trip out side won't hurt her. For all we know it could be the fact that we've kept her in here that's stopped her from maturing at a normal rate."

"I don't know…"

Please Tina? Please? I thought begged her.

"Come on Tina. One slightly early trip won't hurt."

"And how do you suppose we get her out there with out the patrols seeing her? There aren't any children on this base and you know it, while at the moment she looks like a five year old. How would we explain that?"

"She's still small enough to fit into a bag." Mike said.

Please Tina? I'll be good. You won't even know I'm there.

"Oh alright." Tina gave in. "But you'd better behave or we'll be coming straight back."

Promise. Cross my heart. I thought to her.

Mike winks at me and I wink back. We were friends now. I speak fluent human now and I have begun to teach Mike to understand and speak Xeno. We didn't tell Tina. It is our secret. It will be a surprise.

Mike put me into a large white bag and zipped it up. I couldn't see but I could hear.

I heard the doors opening and gave a little excited hiss.

"Quiet Xeno. No sound until we get out side. I'll tell you when." Mike says.

No sound. I think to him. Quiet as a mouse.

I look around me in the bag for something to play with quietly.

There is only one thing that interested me. A little jar filled with yellow stuff.

"Almost there Xeno." Mike says quietly.

But I'm not paying attention; I'm much more interested in the yellow stuff. It seems familiar some how.

I start to pry open the jar. Suddenly the lid comes off with a 'pop' and the yellow stuff splatters all over.

It burns me. I can feel my flesh burning and I screech. It is burning the bag too but all I know is that I'm burning.

"Xeno? Xeno!" Mike yells as I screech again.

And then I feel the change.

It is too fast to follow but suddenly I am different. I've fallen through the bottom of the bag were the acid has eaten through it. I hear Mike and Tina gasp as loud as a waterfall in my ear. I'm not burning any more. I look at myself and I am black and shiny all over. I have seen pictures of what I am now.

I am a Xenomorph.

Suddenly I am surrounded by the sounds of my family and Mother. They are calling to me.

Time to come home, They tell me. I am so happy to be a Xenomorph, the sound of my family is all around and I feel as though I can never be alone again, especially when Mother gives her joyful cheer. I run towards her voice, not listening to Mike and Tina as they call for me to come back. Soon I have left them behind.

Something hits me hard in my leg and tears through my tough exoskeleton.

"XENO!" Someone yells.

I look and see it is a marine. And his gun is pointed at me.

Not enemy. I think to him. Not enemy. My name Xenayakata.

"Why don't you run, you little fucker?"

He does not understand me. But I learn from his mind that his name is Anthony Marker. I show him that I mean no harm. I sit on my haunches and scratch my chin with my hind foot.

"What the fuck is going on here?" The marine growls, keeping his gun levelled at me.

Friend. I think to him.

Then he fires at me.

A bullet only just misses my head as I jump away. I hit a wall and am surprised when I do not fall to the floor. I am sticking to the wall and I remember that Xenomorphs can do this.

Then the marine fires at me again and there is no more time for thinking.

I run.

I run and dodge side to side, up and down the walls and the ceiling, making it harder for the marine to hit me. This slows me down but still I am faster then him. I have left him behind now but I come to a dead end. I hear the marine coming after me. He is calling for back up. I know he will kill me but I have no where to go.

I know he is much closer now. I can smell him now. He stinks of something smokey.

I hear a small hiss to my left. My heart is pounding as I hear it. I swear it sounds like a 'come here' hiss.

Cautiously I creep near to a vent grill in the wall. I am sure this is where the hiss came from.

Hurry. I hear a thought. He be here soon. Gone and safe you must be when he comes.

Who are you? I think.

Friend. Mother sends me. Come. Hurry. Pity it would be to see beauty like you splattered by bullets.

It was the jibe that spurred me on more than the sudden 'clang' as the grill was reduced to shrapnel by a set of razor sharp claws. I wanted to see the thing that called me a beauty so I could give it a swat. Beauty was a human term for appearing nice and I did not want anything to do with humans at the moment.

I scramble into the vent and bump into something solid.

Hello Xenayakata. I hear him think.

How do I know it is a he? I don't know. I feel it. It is like I feel the difference between Mike and Tina. They feel different in their minds. Something in Tina's tells me it is Tina and something in Mike's tells me it is Mike.
Something tells me it is a male.

Who are you? I ask again.

I tell you later. He thinks to me. We go now. To safe place. The Others will look for you. Find you they must not. At least not yet.

I feel him moving away and I start to follow. After a few seconds I hit a wall. I screech softly with indignation and because of my stinging face.

I hear him hiss softly in Xeno laughter.

You should watch where walking. He thinks to me. I feel his amusement but it does not amuse me.

I was watching. You didn't tell me there was a corner here. I can't see and I don't know how you can. Have you got night goggles or something? I ask angrily.

His amusement stops abruptly.

You can't see? He thinks to me.

No. I told you that already. And if I could see I would have known there was a corner here and I wouldn't have walked into the wall. That would just be stupid of me. I think to him angrily. And I am not stupid.

We see dark places as good as light. He thinks to me. It's part of what Xeno's do.

You're a Xenomorph? I ask.

Yes. He thinks to me. I thought you knew. You can't see me?

No. I think to him. I can feel you. I know you are there but I can't see you.

I know he is thinking. I feel his sudden happiness and guess he has thought of something.

Have Others taught about Xenos? He thinks to me.

Yes. Why?

Did Others know we have eyes?

This makes me think. I remember every lesson very well. I realize that Tina always said that Xenos had no eyes. She thought that they used something like a bat's sonar radar to see every thing and that was the reason for their elongated heads and the hissing sounds that they made; to send out a vibration that carried and then to collect the return sounds off of as many surfaces as possible in order to see what was around them. Now I know better.

No. I think to him. The humans believe we have no eyes. They think we use the sounds around us in order to see.

Very wrong they are. He thinks to me. I feel his amusement again. Our eyes very near mouths; no Other want touch Xeno mouth, even White Skin ones.

You mean the scientists?

I don't know what they called. They no stop shooting to tell, you know. I feel his agitation as he hisses softly.

So what is this about our eyes? I think to him, changing subject. I feel he is happier now, to know something I don't.

We can see different. He thinks to me. Blink hard. I do as he says.

Suddenly I can see an outline of red. Everything is still dark but I can see a little better. The red is around the male. I still can not see him though.

See me now?

Yes. I think to him. I see you now. Why are you surrounded by red?

That my scent. All Xeno have red scent. Human and food things has blue scent. Predator has -

I know all about Predators. I hiss sharply. I do not want to hear more about them. They kill for no reason other than their own glory. They disgust me.

Then no more talk of them. He thinks. I feel he dislikes what I have said but I don't know why.

So I am red to you? I ask.

No. You different. Mostly red but have blue and green also. Near head.

He knew about me, I was sure of it.

Green. The Predator's scent colour. I hated the part of me that was akin to their species but it had made it possible for me to live and without it I wouldn't have existed.

Are you as disgusted as I am that part of me is them? I think to him.

I am not disgusted at all. He thinks back.

Something has changed in his thoughts. There is something warm there. It is hope but of what I do not know.

You should be. I think to him. They are disgraceful and-

I was born from one.

This shocks me. I can not think of something to say.

How could you have been born from one? I have never heard of this happening.

I am a first. Just like you. Blink hard again. I show you.

I do as he tells me and I am stunned. I see him now. Everything is bright and I can see very well. But I only see him.

He is not black or shiny. He looks like a Predator almost. He is small, with short strands of what a human would call Predator 'hair' coming from his head and the colour of Predator flesh but I can see that his skin is far tougher than any Predator's.

It is criss-crossed by scars of his past battles and I know that he is a warrior; a very good one to have survived and recovered from so many battles to carry no hindrance and only scars to show off.

What are you? I ask.

He suddenly turns his head to the side, listening. I listen also.

Men are coming to the marine's call. I have completely forgotten the marine.

No time now. Enough wasted. I tell later. First to safety. He thinks to me urgently.

Lead the way. I tell him.

He takes off and this time I follow without running into walls. I have only one thought at the moment.

The world is a scary place.

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End Ch 2

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