The Enemy of my Enemy

by Ghostnobody

This is going to be a tale of a very unlikely romance, a human male and a xenomorph queen find themselves in a hell that neither of them could have imagined in their wildest nightmares, but if they're going to survive then somehow they're going to have to learn to work together and together maybe they can prove that not only is the enemy of my enemy my friend but sometimes more.

2. Chapter 2

'Hey there people, hope everybody enjoyed the 1st chapter of my brand new tale, sorry for the delay in publishing the second chapter but it's been in beta with my beta reader evilservant2013 and he's been doing his best to make sure this comes out perfect, so a big thanks to him for pushing me in the right direction and helping me to become better at my craft. As always I extend an invitation to everyone to shout out any ideas or thoughts that you might have, I love reading through people's ideas and thoughts and sometimes they can help me send my story off down an even crazier path than I originally intended, but that's all part of the fun right? Using our minds to shape reality how we want it to be and having you all step out of your own heads an into mine for a little while makes me all the happier, stories help people to forget their pains and their problems if only for a little while but any happiness and joy I can bring is a step in the right direction.

So finally with a big thank you to you all for once again joining me on this journey, this is GhostNobody signing off and saying...on with the show'

Chapter 2: Breaking Chains.

Cold, darkness, fear and pain were her constant companions, with plenty of crushing loneliness thrown in for good measure. For as long as she could remember this had been her life, every so often the unusual humans would come and she knew it meant that more pain was coming her way. But in a weird way she actually began to crave their visits, at least it was a break from the crushing loneliness and boredom that threatened to break her mind every second of every day.

At least their visits meant that she could escape this dark void that they'd chosen to keep her locked up in. They always took her to the same place, a room filled with bright lights and weird looking human machines, she didn't know what any of them did but she did know that pretty much every one of them caused her varying degrees of pain. Especially the sharp spiky thing on the long metal arm, oh how she hated that thing, every time they stuck it through her flesh she screeched in absolute agony! but every time she begged them for mercy and pleaded with them to spare her from this pain... her pleas fell on deaf minds. The first few times they'd tried to use it, her acidic blood had dissolved the spike, their frustration at this gave her small merriments.

But once they'd perfected the metal to resist her blood they'd used it all the more often, not only to pierce her skin. But to explore her various orifices which caused her such intense pain and humiliation that it had nearly broken her mind so many times… How could sentient living creatures be so heartless and merciless to their fellow sentient beings?

Other machines felt like they burned her skin as they ran unusual lights over it, then there were ones that made her muscles feel as if they were going to tear themselves apart as they made her muscles pulse and flex against her will. The entire time they kept her shackled in some sort of machine that could change her body position at will, even though the humans were on the other side of some sort of shiny wall. Which showed her nothing more than an odd and rather humiliating reflection of herself as she was strapped into some rather unflattering poses. But at least she could still sense them and their thoughts and she wouldn't give up these trips here for anything. They were her only escape from the crushing loneliness.

She found human minds very confusing places to tread, they were vast mixtures of confusing emotions and needs. Some of the images she saw while zoning out and taking a stroll in the minds of whoever was on the other side of the shiny wall, was disturbing to say the least. More than a few of them seemed to believe that they could kill her and simply dissect her remains to study her, now this alone should have instilled her with a deep seated hatred of the humans. But there were a few that seemed to restore her belief that not all humans were bad, some of the minds she sensed and walked in were rather beautiful places filled with beauty and love. Although they were rare, she craved and lived for these minds to come her way, as they provided her with the most beautiful escape from her torments. The minds of these individuals almost always seemed to regard her with pity and sorrow, they were almost distressed at how she was treated and what was being done to her. She could feel vast amounts of self-loathing for being part of it, they hated themselves for the masks that they had to wear around other humans to prevent discovery by the other darker humans. The irony of this was that despite her being the one tortured for whatever they could learn from her, she felt sorry for them, at least she had the freedom to be what she was. They had no such joy and were forced to hide within their own skin's every day for fear of discovery. Discovery of something that humans seemed to fear so much… being different.

There was one human among the vast number that always oversaw these visits and really stood out from all the others, it was this one human that had really shaped her feelings towards them. While all the dark humans for all their dark thoughts and secret delights in harming her, or causing her pain. None of them had the guts to approach her directly for their overwhelming fear of what she could do to them should she break free or just manage to get hold of them. Even the beautiful different humans, although they pitied her and felt sorrow for her predicament, were not brave enough to approach her directly. But this one, this one was totally different.

He was one of what she considered to be the beautiful humans, but his mind was strange. Filled with darkness pain and rage that was shackled in his mind like a caged animal, but at the same time it was filled with such beauty and love. Not to mention all the wondrous images that she got to see every time he was around, his mind was much more like an open picture than the others, while with most of them she could barely penetrate their minds just deep enough to see and scratch the surface of their thoughts and feelings. But with him, she could walk through the landscape of his mind like it was an open field. It was probably because he was the only one out of all of them who didn't fear her, well that and the fact that he was the only one out of any of them who had touched her.

She still remembered the first time like it had just happened, out of the thirty humans who had been watching her being probed and prodded that day, there had only been one among them who she would consider beautiful. It had been a young female and so she had latched onto her mind to escape the pain that they were inflicting on her body. But as she was trying to walk deeper into the woman's mind she sensed another had entered the room. The second she felt him, her breath caught in her throat, his mind was unlike any she had ever encountered before. It was the mind of a warrior, but filled with such beauty and pain that it fascinated her. Especially when she realised that one part of this pain was directed at her and what was happening to her.

Now she could sense that quite a few of the human's present had a deep resentment, and in the case of a few, outright loathing of this new individual. But each and every one of them shared one trait in common when regarding him, respect.

From what she could gather from the jumble of their emotions and thoughts, this individual was some sort of powerful warrior among their kind that commanded their respect. And in some cases, outright fear. But she kept hearing the words bug lover and Xeno lover being thrown around in their minds.

Then an unprecedented act happened, the door to her cell hissed open and this unusual human was sent into her room. As he entered she got her first real look at him with her visual receptors, he was tall for a human about 6'8 which was still kinda short when compared to her 10ft height. He was also rather broad looking, like his impressive frame had been carved rather than born. And his skin was as bright white, she remembered that she couldn't help thinking that she was willing to bet that the females of his species must compete for his attentions as he was rather aesthetically pleasing, even to her. As he entered she felt an overwhelming surge of an odd emotion from the other side of the shiny wall, it was like they were collectively smug about something. Like they were all expecting something to happen to him, or as some of it cleared in her head, more they were expecting her to do something to prove them right.

The male that had entered seemed to be carrying something bundled in his arms, she watched him curiously tracking his movements with her head as best she could in the restraints. He walked over to a large metal table and placed the bundle of items down on it and separated them. The first thing he picked up and looked at with curiosity was a set of what appeared to be a pair of human hands that someone had shed the skin from, though why he'd be carrying such things she had no idea so she looked at his mind and heard the words 'Damn gloves, I mean really?' his thoughts said. She didn't know what these gloves were or what function they served, but if this oddly beautiful human didn't like them then she decided that neither should she. So she decided to vocalise her agreement with him letting out a hiss, he turned to look at her and she saw his eyes for the first time. They were filled with curiosity and power, but at the same time not a single drip of fear, "You don't like gloves either eh big girl?" he said in a voice so soft and melodic that it made her head swim. Then he did something that shocked her beyond any thoughts or words, he walked over to her and placed his bare hand on the crown of her head and lightly stroked it.

The feeling was like never she'd ever imagined in her life, as he did it he spoke to her softly, "Don't worry there big girl, I don't need no stinking gloves" he said. She could feel the soft warmth of his human skin and the gentleness of his touch sent shivers through her of a feeling that she'd never felt before. It was highly pleasant and the second he removed his hand from her she was instantly filled with a craving for him to return it, she actually fought against the shackles and tried to crane her neck in order to make her head connect with his hand again. But instead of being shocked at her sudden outburst of movement like all the humans behind the shiny wall, he remained perfectly calm. And for some reason, that she didn't understand, she found herself liking when he exposed his teeth to her, "Like that huh big girl?" he said and to her utter relief and delight he placed the hand on her head again.

"Don't worry I'm not like them I won't hurt you no matter what they say" he said raising his voice towards the end of that sentence and obviously directing it at the other humans. Without realising she was doing it her throat began to make an unusual sound that to her own ears sounded like a low thrumming at the pleasure of his touch. But again, and to her utter despair he removed his hand and returned to the table, again she struggled desperate now to feel that way again. He swiftly returned to her side this time carrying one of the items he'd brought in, it appeared to be a small square patch of cloth, "They want me to take some sample from your skin girl, but don't worry I won't hurt you, I promise you that" he said, for some reason she couldn't understand at all she trusted this human implicitly. She knew that when he said it that he meant it, so slowly she'd lowered her head and allowed him to swab her, he'd been true to his word.

That had been the first time she'd met the human who called himself Tyler, unfortunately his visits to her were rare as the rest of the humans seemed to really resent if not outright hate him for reasons that were beyond her. But what she knew was that if it had not been for this particular human showing her the kindness and gentleness that he did, she was convinced she would have gone insane from the pain and loneliness that they inflicted on her. Especially the loneliness, her kind were highly social creatures living in huge groups, though how she knew this she wasn't certain as she'd never met another of her kind. But deep in her mind she could see it as clear as day, hundreds if not thousands of them all living in the same hive together sharing their thoughts and feelings with each other. She knew that there were others here as she could feel them faintly from time to time, but try as she might to reach out to them with her mind, she couldn't make the connection with them.

So it was her connection with Tyler that kept her mind in one piece while they kept her here, she began to cherish his visits to her as if they were a days of celebration. It also hadn't taken her long to realise that she shared some sort of very strong bond with him, as she could access his mind rather easily, especially when he touched her. The first time she walked in the landscape of his emotions, his thoughts, hopes, and dreams she thought she was in heaven, it was like the perfect way to escape her void of loneliness and despair. But what shocked her the most was that he seemed to know that she was in there, and he just let her be rather than try to force her out like all the other humans did when she tried to gain entry into their minds. He just let her gallivant and run free through his memories, almost like he could sense what joy and happiness it gave her to live parts of his life through his eyes.

She especially loved seeing the memories of his mate and his hatchlings, they were memories that were filled with such joy and happiness what she could happily bask in them for hours at a time given the chance. Though she couldn't help but feel the odd pang of jealousy regarding the human female who had been lucky enough to claim this male for her own. Although she still remembered the time when she accidently wandered into the memories of how his hatchlings were conceived, and while part of her wanted to run to another part of his mind, another part of her made her stay and watch the highly intimate act. She found herself overwhelmed by the incredibly level of intimacy and sensuality human mating involved, especially between two that shared this bond that they called love. It was a mixture of emotions like none she had ever dared to even hope was possible in her dark little pain filled world. Although she obviously couldn't put herself into his female's view from only his memories, she could only try and imagine what it felt like. However, given the expressions and vocalisations that he remembered her making, it must have been an incredible feeling. And as beautiful as it was, she couldn't dare to hope that one day she would have a male of her own to make her feel like that, to show her the love and kindness that he showed her.

But as beautiful as those memories were, it was a bitter sweet thing being able to see them. As every time she was forced to disconnect from his mind and return to her dark cold void, it made her despair a hundred times worse for a while. She remembered what it was like for her after the first time she walked in his memories, she had nearly broken herself trying to escape from that cage of hers. To live in such joy and then to have it torn from her was unbearable, it made her realise just what a real and living hell her life was. She had screeched tears of agony and pain for hours afterwards. But despite all the horrors it brought her, she was like an addict, every time she was around him she couldn't help herself. It really didn't help that he was so gentle and kind towards her, always stroking her head or her arms and talking to her in that sweet sweet voice of his. She had even considered that if she ever did break out, she would finding his mate and challenging her for him. But in her heart, she knew to who his heart belonged and it wasn't to her, but she still felt that he was wasted on a human female.

But little did she know that pretty soon her cold dark world was about to get a whole lot bigger. It had started like pretty much every other day so far, nothingness… hours and hours of nothingness. Suddenly, out of the darkness, raw and powerful emotions bombarded her sensitive mind. They were so powerful that they threatened to overwhelm her mind, fear mind numbing and blinding fear. Accompanying it was blinding panic, rage and pain, it washed over her in waves from all directions, and they were so strong that she felt like she was going to drown in them. Something big and really bad was happening all around her and she couldn't find out what it was.

She heard a couple of massive boom noises that shook the whole place, making her stumble and fall on her face, it made dust from the ceiling of her cage drop on her from above. From Tyler's memories, she recognised those noises to be explosions, then smaller much more rapid explosions were sounding all around her gage from the corridors and halls around her. she recognised these to be gunfire from the human weapons that she'd also seen in the darker places of Tyler's mind, then the screams came, blood curdling and high pitched. Some were made from raw fear, others from immense pain, she could also hear some pretty horrible gurgling noises from rather close by.

Her heart began to race as she tried desperately to find out what was going on outside, but all she could get was a mass of jumbled emotions, mainly fear and panic. Then some of those gunshots sounded rather close to the entrance to her cage and there was a series of beeps from the far side. Turning in the darkness she looked towards the sound of the noises and prepared herself, the humans had never been stupid enough to come into her cage while she was conscious before. They had always used that gas of theirs that stuck to her skin and made her sleep no matter how hard she fought it, but now if they were panicking then they were probably not thinking straight, this might be her chance to escape this nightmare.

So she readied herself to strike at whoever stepped into her cage, swiftly she climbed the wall and got ready on the ceiling above the heavy metal door that separated her from her freedom with metal that not even her potent blood could eat through, oh how she'd tried. Suddenly the door flew up into its recess with a whoosh and a heavy figure stepped into the room holding a light of some kind, before he could swing it around she pounced down using her large frame to slam the figure to the floor with a heavy thud. Instantly she opened her jaws to take a bite out of the witless human, but just before she did she saw a set of eyes through the helmet visor that he was wearing that stopped her in her tracks, it was Tyler.

Quick as a flash she jumped off him absolutely mortified at herself for attacking the one human who had been kind to her, she was just so relieved that she'd stopped her final attack before it punched a hole straight through his helmet and his head. As she jumped off him she could hear him breathe a sigh of relief before sitting up, instantly she moved forwards and actually helped him up from the floor, "Thanks big girl, good to know that my trust in you wasn't misplaced. Thanks for not making me your next meal, though it probably would have been quicker than what I got coming." He said in a pain racked voice as he stroked the side of her head, she thrummed softly at his wonderful touch. A strange smell flooded her nostrils and she instantly recognised it, it was blood, human blood.

Looking quickly down she noticed that he seemed to be holding his left side with his hand, quickly she reached down and pulled his hand away, causing him to hiss in pain as she did. The wound that showed itself through the fabric jump suit looked to her like something had taken quite sizeable chunk out of his side, it kinda of looked like a bite to her but she didn't recognise the teeth pattern. It looked intensely painful and she instantly began to worry about her favourite human, he seemed to notice her concern and stroked her head again with his other hand, "Don't worry about me big girl we got far bigger problems. I told those fucking fools not to mess around with that fucking thing, that it was far more dangerous than anything we'd ever seen before, but would they listen? No, all they care about was they're fucking weapon, well it's come back to bite those fuckers now and possibly everyone else as well." He said in a voice filled with venom, she looked at him curiously, not understanding what he meant. He seemed to sense it, because he stroked her face this time, "Don't mind me big girl I'm just pissed that my kind can be so fucking arrogant and stupid enough to think we could actually control something like that. But enough about that, this place is totally fucked, we gotta get you outta here. I've already sprung your sisters by remote on my way over here and their making their way out, but I couldn't get your door open for some reason it's off the main system so I came down here to get you." Tyler said, she instantly felt touched that he'd come all this way just to save her through all of the dangers that were causing such fear out there. Then, without warning, he dropped to his knees and started coughing violently. Instantly she was at his side trying to pick him up, but he pushed her away, "You have to get out of here big girl, this is it for me. This shit has me beat and I can feel it burning through me like a fire, you have to get out of here. Now go. Go on, GO!" he yelled at the last part, but she was determined, she would not leave him here to die.

"No! I won't let you die here." she said in her mind, suddenly he looked at her, his face ashen white and huge black rings around his beautiful eyes. But more than that he had a look of real shock on his face,

"You-You-You just spoke!" he exclaimed in a seriously shocked voice. Now it was her turn to look shocked,

"You heard that!?" she exclaimed looking right at him, he nodded before another coughing fit claimed him,

"All this time, all this time and you could speak. Why did you never say anything?" he asked as he fought for breath,

"Because I didn't know that you could hear me. I'm not speaking using your people's methods, I'm using mine." she said telepathically, he looked at her and smiled,

"Well at least I got to hear you before I go." he said, a sudden panic rose in her. She stepped forwards to pick him up but he swatted her hands away,

"No, if you take me along with you you'll be in danger! You need to leave me! Go on, get out of here and get the freedom that you should have had!" he said desperately,

"No Tyler, I won't leave you! You were the only one who was nice to me, you were the one who taught me what kindness is, and I will not leave you die! I am going to return you to your mate and your hatchling, I owe you that much for all the nice things you showed me in your mind!" she said frantically, he coughed and looked confused… before a smile broke out of his face, his lips had turned deathly blue now.

"So it was you in my head… I was never sure, but I had hoped that it was. I hoped that by letting you in, you'd at least get to see the outside world through my eyes if you could." He said in a raspy voice, she smiled softly retracting her mandibles and her outer lips for him to see her smile.

"You showed me such beautiful things." She said and he smiled,

"That's because a beautiful creature… like you deserves to live in… beauty." This hit her like one of those machines they used to test the strength of her hide by punching it,

"You think I'm beautiful?" she almost stammered as she cradled his head, he smiled up at her,

"God yes… you're magnificent." He said, then he coughed again and drew a deep breath.

"I'm glad… at least my actions could bring you… some peace in here. And show you that… we're not all bad as a… species." he said then the coughing returned in massive fits before his breathing became extremely laboured.

"Looks…. like…. this…I s…. it….. for… me… goodbye… big….. girl… live….. free….. good….. luck." He said with raspy breaths before his chest sagged and he breathed no more, in a blind panic she shook his lifeless body.

"Tyler!" She yelled in panic, "No! you can't die! I need you!" she yelled desperately, shaking his lifeless body, then it hit her… She could no longer feel his mind, there was just nothingness.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO! TYLERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" She roared at the top of her lungs as her anguish hit her, she hugged the limp human's body to her own, cradling him against her chest. She sobbed into his shoulder, rubbing the side of his face with hers and using her mandibles to stroke every inch of his face, then suddenly he moved.

Instantly setting him down and looking at him desperately with hope, but when his eyes snapped open there was something very wrong, "Tyler?" she asked hopefully, but she couldn't feel his mind. All of a sudden, Tyler sat up and looked right at her, his eyes were filled with pulsing veins which led to totally white pupils.

"Tyler what's wrong?" she asked cautiously, about to move towards him. But before she could, Tyler, or rather the creature that used to be Tyler, lunged at her with inhuman speed and strength. It grabbed hold of her arm and tried to sink its teeth into her hide, if her reflexes hadn't been as fast as they were then she would have been bitten, but instead she was able to throw him off,

"Tyler stop it your scaring me!" she exclaimed, but again she couldn't feel his mind it was like there was a void wearing Tyler's skin. The Tyler creature clambered awkwardly back to its feet, it lunged at her again from across the small cage. She realised now that he smelled vastly different, it was like his scent… but it was sour like urine. A low growl emitted from his throat,

"Tyler?" she asked questioningly, but rather than answer the creature lunged her again and tried to catch hold of her tail, its jaws wide open to bite her. Out of reflex she stuck out with her tail, the mighty spear tip pierced straight through one of its white eyes and punched right out the back of his head. The Tyler creature instantly stopped moving and fell limp, now only suspended by her tail, she retracted it and caused the body to fall to the floor in a heap and a pool of black blood.

"Oh no! Tyler I'm so so sorry!" she said, rushing to the fallen human's side once again, as she lowered herself she could smell that foul smell again. It seemed to be coming from his blood, whatever he'd become… This was not her Tyler. Something had done this to her beautiful human, it had made him a mockery of what he was and what he'd stood for. It had turned the most beautiful member of their species into a crazed animal that attacked on sight. Again she roared, not in pan or anguish, but in true and primal rage. She was going to find the creature that had ripped her Tyler away from her, and she was going to tear it's throat out. She quickly looked at the now open door, her beautiful Tyler's last gift to her, freedom. With one last saddened look at the fallen male, she turned and accepted his gift.