Jennifer's Diary
July 10, 2621
Ever since we'd left Yautja Prime, Rachelle and I had been working on fixing my GPS communicator bracelet. I'd found it in Jon's bag a few days before we'd been banished. I'd completely forgotten about it, that Dad had given it to me. It brought back some painful memories about the first time he and I had met, as well as the overwhelming thoughts about my family. It had been months since we'd seen or heard from each other, I knew they were very worried about me, they probably thought I was dead. I could only imagine the relief and surprise on their faces once they saw me again.
It'd been so long since I'd talked to them last, it felt a little weird to be honest. My life had changed drastically in the months I'd spent with Jon, Ch'ris, and Rachelle. The thought about what Weyland Yutani was doing to the marines and what we were doing with the xenomorphs also returned to my mind. I'd been so caught up with everything going on around me and the relationship I'd built up with Jon that I'd forgotten about that too. Once I found the bracelet I was reminded of all that, and the painful idea that I had to right the wrongs the corporation had made. It also reminded me of the thought that Jon had blamed my father for everything wrong that had happened before we met. That was also going to be hard to face. I still believed that Daddy was innocent of these crimes. I didn't want to believe he was the heartless monster Jon had made him out to be. I loved my father. But like I'd said numerous times before, I loved Jon too. He'd cared for me, and I'd shown my care for him in return. He'd also shown me proof that the marines weren't what the media had made them out to be. I was still determined to get to the bottom of this. Once I did so I'd expose the truth to the public and fix this whole mess.
I honestly didn't really know what I was thinking though when I tried fixing the bracelet. I didn't have a plan on what to do, nor did I have an idea of what to say if I got it to work again and managed to get through to somebody. I guess it'd been so long since I talked to my family I guess I was just a little desperate to hear from them again. Rachelle and I had been working hard on it too, so I guess that just made my curiosity and enthusiasm for seeing them again all the more temping. On our last test with it, it had worked. The only problem was that we were outside of the range for KJ-147s satellite communication devises to connect us to anyone.
As I sat on my bed starring at the little devise and heard the sounds of the rain hammering lightly on Ch'ris' ship and the laughter of my three friends echoing through the halls of the ship, I began sensing this ominous and foreboding feeling gravitating over me. I couldn't understand why this was making me so uncomfortable. That alone should've been enough to persuade me to stop, but I didn't listen to it's warning.
Once I turned it on I closed my eyes and prayed with all of my faith to my new found Heavenly Father that the signal would get through to someone. I didn't wait to long to receive an answer to it.
"Hello? Who is this? Who's out there?" A voice spoke on the other end of the signal.
"Hello?! This is Jennifer Bishop Weyland. Can you hear me?" I spoke into the bracelet.
"Holy shit! Jennifer is that you?!" The voice asked.
"Yes it's me." I told them with an excited smile that began to grow on my face.
"Holy fucking shit! Hey! It's Jennifer Weyland!" The voice called out to a couple other individuals who were with him. "Miss Weyland are you alright?! Where the hell are you?!" The voice asked a couple seconds afterward.
"I'm alright, I'm alright ,sir. I'm with a few others who've taken care of me. I'm perfectly fine." I told the person talking to me on the other end of the connection.
"Holy crap! You've been missing for months what happened to you?! Where are you now we can come and get you immediately?!" The person asked. Needless to say I expected to receive a reaction like that.
"Listen I'm alright. I have some friends with me. Please can you patch me up with Charles Bishop Weyland?" I asked, assuring them I was perfectly alright as I did so. I didn't want to say too much about my friends. The person continued to try and get my location, but I managed to reassure him that I was alright, and that I didn't need any emergency assistance. The person put me through with Daddy soon after.
"Hello?! Jenny?! Is that you?! Are you there baby?!" Dad asked me with excited concern in his voice. I felt like I was going to cry when I heard him.
"Yes, Dad, it's me! I'm here!" It took a lot of effort not to scream when I said that.
"Oh, baby! Thank God!" He spoke in a soft thankful whisper after he heard my voice. It almost sounded like he was going to cry himself. Just by hearing his voice I could tell that my disappearance had taken a toll on him. I couldn't imagine what kind of grief he must have went through not knowing where I was, or what had happened to me the whole time I was gone. "Where are you now?! A-are you in trouble?! Where have you been?! What happened to you?! Are you safe?!" Dad asked me with a concerned whimper.
"It's fine Dad, I'm alright. I'm with some friends right now, we're not in any danger at all." I assured him, causing him to whisper and whimper some more. "It feels good to hear your voice again Daddy." I told him with tears beginning to form in my eyes.
"You have no idea how happy I am to hear you too sweetheart." He said in a soft caring voice only a parent who'd been worried sick about their child like he was could make. "Listen, where are you now? I can have the Task Force prepare a dropship, we can come over there right now, we can bring you straight home, okay sweetheart?" He asked.
"Dad, I'm fine. I'm somewhere southeast of Cardona Valley." I told him.
"What happened to you baby?! Where have you been?!" He asked.
"I couldn't make it to the safe room in time Dad; the xenomorphs chased me into the jungle, but it's alright. Jon found me and saved me before they got me." I told him.
"Who's Jon? Wait, do you mean Kjon? The Hunter?!" He exclaimed.
"Yes him. He found me. He and some friends of ours have taken care of me these past four months ,Dad." I told him.
"Did he hurt you?! That son of a bitch marine! I'll make him wish he was never born!" Daddy growled.
"Dad it's alright. He hasn't hurt me at all, in fact he's saved me multiple times now. What is the matter?" I asked.
"He's dangerous Jenny. You need to get away from him now!"
"What do you mean? He hasn't laid a finger on me since I met him? What are you talking about?"
"Jenny, he's a monster he's a murderer. He's killed many innocent people baby. I don't know why he hasn't hurt you yet, but you need to get away from him as soon as you can."
"What are you saying, Jon hasn't hurt anyone, I know he hasn't? What are you talking about?"
"Jenny. Sweetheart. Listen to me. I don't know what is going on but he is dangerous. There are things about him you don't know about him that I do. He's a monster." Dad told me. I couldn't make any sense of what he was saying. I knew Jon, I knew he couldn't have hurt anyone, at least not unless it was for a good reason that was.
"What. This makes no sense though. Jon told me you turned him into an Abomination. That you've been keeping xenomorphs this whole time. He told me that you're the reason the marines have such a bad reputation. That you've been lying about everything you've been doing." I told him.
"None of that is true Jenny. He's been lying to you. I've seen him before he killed some of your friends during that outbreak he's the reason why you're out there right now Jenny." Daddy told me.
"What are you saying?" I couldn't believe what Daddy was telling me.
"Listen to me Jenny. I have proof of it. Everything he's told you about me is a lie. You have to believe me."
"But what about the marines? Everything he's told me. Why are we still keeping them when we're suppose to be killing them?" I asked.
"Jenny... listen to me baby. I know what you're talking about. We've recently found evidence about the lies we've been telling about the marines. Believe me we all thought it was real. It was someone else's doing, we all bought into it. Trust me. But Kjon is not what he says he is. What you think he is." Dad told me.
I thought about the arguments he was making for a second, and the proof I had in front of me. It was very difficult for me to process everything I'd learned from Jon and everything I knew, or at least what I thought I knew about my own father. I loved the both of them, but both were making conflicting accusations against one another. I could tell one of them was lying but which one was my question though.
"Daddy, do you love me?" I asked him. With everything Jon had shown me I couldn't deny we'd done something to him, and it also made no sense that all the marines would be seen as the lazy gun monkeys or the xeno cultists the media said they were. And it also made no sense to keep so many xenomorphs for experimentation when they escape so frequently. Sure he'd said we were using them to try and learn to control them so we could fight off these infestations, but it still made no sense when you thought about the planetary extermination. Even if the marines had missed a few they were still there to take them out. Even before we made them out to be the bad guys, we still had frequent infestations that could've only been caused if someone had been keeping them around for similar purposes like us. But you also had to think that just because all of this pointed heavily towards Weyland Yutani, that didn't mean that it pointed towards Dad, or at least not all of it.
"What are you talking about ,sweetheart?! Of course I love you?! I love you and your sister Bethany more than life itself?! You know I do, why are you asking me this?!" Dad asked perplexed by my question.
"In the past four months I've come to learn a lot of things. Everything isn't just black and white like the media says it is Daddy. I want to know the truth. I want to move past that grey area. I want to know who's lying. I'm not saying it's you, but Jon has shown me things about us that don't add up. We've been doing bad things, and I want to know who's doing them, I also want to fix those things. I want the truth. If you love me please tell me the truth." I told him.
He paused for a few seconds to take in what I'd told him, before replying. "Baby, I understand what you're talking about. Everything I've told you is the truth. You are my daughter Jenny. I love you more than anything else in the world. You and your sister both. And I can understand Jon has taken care of you too. But you have to believe me. He is not what you think he is. He is not human, he may act like it, but he is still one of them. That is the truth honey. If you need more proof Beth and I will give it to you. Please baby." Dad said.
It may be hard for you to believe me when I say this, but I actually believed him. Sure like I'd said before the evidence Jon had against Weyland Yutani was valid and incriminating, but that didn't mean Dad was the cause of it like he said he was. I also loved the both of them, but because of that I also couldn't choose between the two of them and what they were saying about each other. How could I agree with my alien boyfriend who I loved yes, but had only known for four months really, over my father who I'd known all my life. But the same was true the other way around. I had to have the truth.
"Yes Daddy. But I just want to say that even though I don't believe it's you who's doing this, I also don't believe what you're saying about Jon is true either." I told him.
"Jenny you have to. Listen I'll show you what happened, then you'll understand. Can you at least give us the chance to see it?" Dad asked.
I thought about it for a moment before giving my answer. As I did so though a part of me was telling me to say no, but because of everything I'd seen and heard so far from both Jon and Dad I wasn't sure of anything. "Yes, Daddy." I replied.
"Thank-you dear. I love you so much sweetheart." He said this time in a calmer tone of voice.
"I love you too Dad. I'll be home soon. Bye." I sad to him.
"Good-bye sweetheart. I'll see you soon." He said to me.
I didn't mention anything about my conversation with Dad to Jon that evening. You could argue about why I did that, when I mentioned so much about Jon to Dad, but I had to remain on neutral ground until I got my answers. I still loved Jon, but I also loved Daddy too.
That night after sharing a few fun games with Ch'ris and Rachelle, we all turned in for the night. Before Jon and I did so though, I shared a dance with my Fire Angel listening to "Hungry Eyes" from Dirty Dancing.
"Hey Jon. May I ask you something?" I asked.
"Of course ,Pyode Tarei'hsan. What do you need?" He asked me with a soft smile and in an equally soft tone. He'd been acting extra friendly to me like this ever since I helped him get over the thought of his failing to restore his mother's honor. Every time he did so it felt like he was hiding something from me. It felt strange, but up until that point I didn't really think much of it since it wasn't to out of the usual for me to see from him. He loved me, why wouldn't he act this way with me. But as we danced there I thought more about it. I also began to think that it may have had something in relation to what me and Dad were talking about earlier. I had no real reason to think this was the case though and quickly dropped it. Still though I was a little curious about him.
"How much do you love me?" I asked him. His face fell and his eyes widened a bit after he heard me ask my question.
"Why do you ask?" He said with a hint of nervousness in his voice.
"I'm just wondering." I told him.
His face softened a little after I gave me nonchalant reply. "Truth be told Jenny. I don't even have a clue as to how much I love you. Personally now that I think about everything you've done for me over the past four months, I have no idea just how lucky I am to have just met you, let alone fall in love with you. Really I don't think I can tell you how much I love you." He replied with that soft smile on his face again.
"Do you love me enough to tell me the truth, no matter how hard it would be to do that?" I asked.
"I don't understand? Why are you asking me this?" He asked me again his face falling a little deeper this time.
"Well, Jon I've been thinking about the two of us a lot, but ever since I found my bracelet Dad gave me I've also been thinking about Dad too, and the things you told me about him. I'm not saying you're wrong about any of it, but I still don't believe Dad did it either though. It's just when I found the bracelet I also remembered that I would find the truth behind what Weylnd Yutani has been doing to the marines, including you, and it's just made me very nervous. I want the truth, but I know it's going to be hard just to get it, not just physically challenging, but also challenging to my family and our relationship as well. I'm just worried about it that's all." I explained. Jon's face kept it's form but softened a bit.
"I understand what you mean Jenny. Truth be told I've been a little caught up as well to think about what we're going to do when we get back. Your dad does not like me at all." He said.
"Yes, but I love the both of you. I can't choose, but I'm afraid it may come to the point where I will have to. You understand that, right? I'm just... I'm just a little scared about it that's all." I continued.
"It's alright Pyode Tarei'hsan. I understand perfectly." He said with a smile as he pressed my head up against his chest softly. "You know Jenny. After everything you've done for me, I honestly believe you've done way more for me than I have for you, and I mean that when I say it. You helped me complete my mission, you gave me a reason to live, you saved Trish's life, you came with me to help me restore honor to my clan and my mother, both which mean more to mean than life itself really, and you've just always been there to help me up whenever I fell during that time. I... I've just saved you a bunch of times after getting you in trouble really. I've done very little for you. And here you are helping me again by trying to find out the truth about the marines. You are just one of the most selfless people I've ever known and have been lucky enough to met I just feel a little selfish sometimes whenever I think about it."
"That's not true Jon. That's not true at all. You've given everything you could to protecting others, yet they all just keep mistreating you. Weyland Yutani made you what you are now, yet no matter what we do to you, you still fight to protect us. You give everything, even for me. That's one of the biggest reasons that I fell in love with you, that and also because after everything we've done to you, you refuse to harm us. I mean you don't exactly turn the other cheek but you understand what I mean. It's like what happened when we first met, when we weren't friendly with each other, you were easy with me then and I just gave you a bunch of crap. I just... I just can't help but fall in love with you after how gentle and easy you are with us, with me." I told him.
"You know ,Pyode. It's been my experience that actions speak louder than words do, but every time you do both I find myself thinking I'm even luckier that I think I am. Just having you stand here with me... I don't know what else to say, but... Thank-you... Thank-you so much Jenny." He said pulling himself away from me for a short moment.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"I want you to keep this." He said, softly growling as he pulled his mother's necklace, which had hung proudly beside his crucifix.
"But it's your mother's necklace?" I said.
"I know, but every time I think about how selfless you are, and how selfless she was, and how much the both of you love me... You deserve it Pyode. Please keep it." He said. I stared at it of a moment before accepting it from him with a smile.
After tying it around my throat I asked. "How do I look?"
"Gorgeous ,Pyode. Absolutely gorgeous." He replied. We both embraced each other for a soft kiss. After cherishing each other's embrace, he continued "You told me that you'd never leave me no matter what I did. Now I know you meant it only for that moment, but I want to take it a step further Pyode. I promised you I'd do every thing I could to protect you. Well now I want to change that promise just a little. I promise you that I will be there for you whenever you need me, and no matter what you do to me I'll never leave you alone." In that moment everything that I'd thought about before that faded into obscurity. I didn't forget about it though, but my worry for it eased to the point where I wasn't so anxious about it. His promise was the sweetest thing I'd ever heard from him, it was like he was giving up his very being to me, I knew that wasn't the case and really I barely thought much of it but I still accepted it nonetheless.
The next morning after waking up and packing all of our things together, we gave Ch'ris and Rachelle one final good-bye.
"Thank-you for all the help you've been to us Ch'ris, Rachelle." Jon thanked them with a gracious smile.
"We thank you more for the help you've been to us. You restored our clan Hunter Brother. I wish there was more we could do for you." Ch'ris replied.
"Thank-you anyway though. Seriously. Well miss you both." I said.
"As will we. It is a shame that we must part like this." Rachelle said.
"Yeah." Jon said. The five of us including Sa-v'ar stood there for a short moment before we all gave each other a final group hug.
"Until we met again, Kjon, Jenny." Chris told us.
"My God and his peace be upon you three as well." Jon replied.
As they left we gave them a final wave. We knew we'd see them again, but to be honest it did feel a little disappointing having to wave good-bye to them like that.
"Well it's about time I came through with that promise I made to you Jenny. Let's get you home." He said.
"Sounds good to me." I replied.
We remained relatively silent with one another as we trudged back through the jungle landscape. We weren't angry with each other or anything, it's just we didn't really talk all that much while we returned to the facility. Jon did spark a few interesting conversations, and each time he did he felt like he had something to ask me each time he did so. He always looked very nervous when he did too. I'd never seen him blush so much over something that seemed so simple to me. Then again I didn't know what it was he wanted to ask so I couldn't judge. This particular occasion was no exception.
"Uh, Jenny." He said nervously.
"Yes ,Fire Angel." His blush deepened after I called him that. "What is it Jon?" I asked.
"I've been thinking a lot lately... about what I said... what I promised... how... how much you..." He stuttered.
"Is there something you've been meaning to ask me?" I asked. That just increased his embarrassment.
"Yes." He replied with a wide-eyed expression.
"It's okay babe, you already know I don't bite." I said jokingly in a seductive tone which made him laugh.
"You see ,Pyode the thing is... the thing is... I've kind of been meaning to ask you this before, but I never really..." He said after he finished laughing. The pressure of the question he wanted to ask me caused him to punch his head a few times. After he finished humiliating himself in front of me, he focused a hard glare down on me, probably the only thing he could do to keep from embarrassing himself, before saying. "Jenny, will... will... will yo-?"
He would've finished his question, but before he could he sensed trouble. "What's-?" I was about to ask before he tackled me to the ground with him. He'd sensed danger which immediately came afterwards in the form of gunfire. We'd walked into an ambush.
"Shit!" Jon cursed before looking down at me with a scared look. "We need to go come on!" He said before we both darted for cover. Our attackers continued firing at us both. Luckily for myself I had Jon's wristbracer with me that would allow me to camouflage. Jon realized this and had me cloak before he began leading our attackers away from us. A couple minutes afterward I began looking for Jon. I ran into one of our attackers who raised his pulse rifle at me and demanded that I surrender to him, immediately before more of them encircled me. I did as I was told and decloaked.
"Hold your fire it's her!" The one who'd caught me said.
"What?" I asked.
"Secure her! Get on the horn to the boss! Tell him we got the package!" The soldier said.
"Package?! What the hell is going on?!" I exclaimed.
"Don't worry Miss you're safe now. We're gonna get you back home." The soldier told me, as two of them began radioing into their 'boss.'
"Dad?!" I blurted, once I realized these guys were Task Force operatives. Their ghillie suits made it difficult to recognize them. They also were wearing thermal insolation suits underneath their camouflage so we wouldn't be able to see them on our bio-masks' infra-red.
"Affirmative Ma'am." The soldier answered.
"What about Jon?!" I asked a couple moments afterwards.
"Spears have you eliminated the hostile yet?" The soldier asked another person through his earpiece.
"Wait, What?! Jon isn't a hostile?! Stop attacking him?!" I ordered. The soldier made no reply to me "Stop it! Let me speak to my father now!" I demanded.
"Don't worry ma'am your father will be here shortly, you can talk to him them." He told me before going back to his earpiece. I began commanding the others to stop, but they ignored me just the same. I continued hearing gunfire going off in the distance the whole while I tried to make them stop. I heard a loud agonizing roar coming from the distance shortly after. That made me kick the one soldier who I was talking with in his precious region before having a short scuffle with a few of the other soldiers. I managed to escape from them without harming them too badly, but I knew it wouldn't be long before more arrived to catch me. I wasn't thinking rationally when I fought them, nor was I thinking rationally when I ran towards the sound of gunfire, but at the time I was too worried about getting back to Jon to think about that. Before I could regroup with my Fire Angel however, I ran into my father.
"Jenny!" He said after I accidently ran into him. He immediately enveloped me in his arms and began too whisper a series of gracious thank-yous. Daddy wasn't a young man, but he wasn't an old one either. After my disappearance though you couldn't have been able to tell that that was the case. His darkish grey hair line had whitened greatly since I'd last seen him and some of it looked to be falling off, the subtle wrinkles on his face had deepened into saggy folds of skin that looked like they were almost melting off of his face, and his pigmentation had gotten paler with dark spots. It was quite jarring to see him like this, and to think that I was partially responsible for causing it. Despite that he seemed perfectly well. In fact our sudden reunion was giving him the greatest joy I'd ever seen him have. "Thank goodness you're safe ,sweetheart." He continued chanting with a tearful shiver.
"Daddy!" I exclaimed as I embraced him, I'll be honest I shed a few tears of my own while I hugged my father. "What's going on ,Dad?! Why are you attacking him?!" I asked him.
"I have no time to explain right now ,sweetheart. Right now we need to get you to safety. Don't worry I'll take care of this." His last sentence gave me a very foreboding feeling. After we both got back to our feet I could see he was wearing Task Force body armor, and he had a shotgun in his hand. I knew what Daddy was planning to do the second I saw it. Before I could do or say anything. Jon came rushing out of the brush. He had his bio-mask on, but judging by the fact the Task Force operatives were wearing heat insolation suits it didn't do him any good to track their body heat. He'd been shot several times, but luckily his hide was a lot stronger than ours was and wasn't injured too badly. Unfortunately since he couldn't see his attackers that didn't mean he could see the Task Force operatives beside me and Daddy. Daddy quickly pushed me to the ground with him as the operatives began to open fire on Jon.
"NO! STOP IT!" I screamed as their pulse rifles tore into his torso, arms, and right leg. The bullets didn't penetrate very deeply into his body, but they were still enough to cause significant damage. Thankfully Jon also had armor protecting his vital areas as well, but still with the damage he was sustaining it wouldn't do him much good. Dad even got a shot off, and nailed Jon in the face blowing his mask off in the process. They continued firing at him pushing him towards the edge of a cliff which also had a large waterfall beside it. Jon lost his footing and nearly fell over the edge, but he managed to catch himself with his left hand.
"Cease fire!" Dad told the operatives. This short distraction allowed me the chance I needed to pull myself away from him and run to Jon. Dad made no attempt to stop me. I tried helping Jon up, but before anything could be said or done, my father materialized beside me with his shotgun pointed down at Jon. Jon's face widened in fearful surprise as he saw who it was. Daddy returned his fearful look with a wicked frown on his face. I tried stopping him before he could shoot, but my reaction time was to late, and Dad put the shot into Jon's sternum. The shot sent him flying away from the edge of the cliff.
"NO!" I screamed loudly as I saw it happen. I continued to watch in horror as Jon fell to the bottom of the waterfall. Thankfully from the angle at which he fell and the depth of the water, he didn't die. I drew a relaxed sigh as I saw him painfully drag himself out of the bank. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! HE DIDN'T HURT ME OR ANYONE ELSE?! WHY?!" I asked Dad in tearful rage.
"I'm sorry, I cannot explain now but I will later." He replied.
"NO!" I began to scream in protest, forcing some of the Task Force operatives to grab ahold of me.
"Take her back to the facility and keep her there." Dad told them. I struggled with them for a brief moment before using my tail to stab one of them in the leg, allowing me to bring my knee into the other's crotch, before climbing down the edge of the drop off. I heard Dad and the operatives scream something as I made my escape, I didn't care enough at the moment to pay attention to what it was.
After making it to the bottom I continued trying to find Jon. My plasma caster backpack had a medicomp in it ,as all plasma caster backpacks do. Jon had dropped his medicomp along with his pack sometime during the chase earlier, since I didn't see it on him when the Task Force operatives and Dad shot him. If I could make it to him in time I could heal the gun shot wound in his chest. I heard more gunfire, and again foolishly decided to head towards it. I was met by Dad again along with another pair of operatives following him, and another group who'd mistaken me for Jon. Dad tried to stop them but there was nothing he could do to stop the one that had spotted me from firing of a shot from his shotgun.
Then from out of nowhere, Jon leapt out of the brush in front of me, taking the shot for me. He roared in agony as the buckshot sunk into his lower abdomen. We were all stunned by the development we'd just witnessed. After chastising the operative who'd shot at me, Dad ordered for the operatives to subdue me before he walked over to Jon, who gave another series of painful roars and growled gasps as he tried getting up on his hands and knees. Daddy had seen Jon save me, but it didn't make any difference to him and he smacked Jon in the face with the butt of his shotgun, successfully forcing him to the ground. Jon's wounds had been to severe for him to be able to do much else besides lie down where he was and gasp for air. Daddy ignored all of my crying and pleading as he aimed the barrel of his weapon at the Predator's face.
Before Dad could successfully land the shot on Jon's face however, Jon managed to grab the barrel and quickly pull it away from his face. Jon roared as the shot burst next to his right ear. Jon had forgotten to put his hearing protection on before the fight like he and I had done so many times before when we shot our firearms. Although I didn't notice that at the time since I had mine on, the blast had caused his ear drum to burst leaving him deaf with that ear. Dad tried to fight Jon for the weapon, but Jon still had enough strength in him to keep the weapon pointed away. Jon knew it wouldn't last with how bad his wounds were, so he instead moved the barrel towards his chest again and gave Dad an angry growl. Dad didn't care how he killed him, just so long as he was dead, and pumped the shotgun preparing it to fire off another shell. As he did so though, Jon softened his gaze and turned to look at me. He vibrated his mandibles in a pained hiss, before coughing up some blood and passed out. Dad recognized the concerned look on Jon's face as he looked at me. He also saw me continue to cry and beg tearfully for him to stop. He stood there for a moment mulling over whether he should kill or spare Jon. Dad then turned his shotgun away before shooting it.
"Call for a dropship. Tell them to bring a hypersleep chamber for the Hunter. I want this it's wounds treated. Now!" He ordered the operatives who'd seen the same things we all had, and were probably thinking the same things we were. Despite the operatives' surprise they obediently did as Dad had told them to and began calling for a dropship and the emergency chamber.
"Why?! Why did you do that Daddy?!" I cried.
"You will know sweetheart. I'll show you when we get back." Dad replied with a foreboding look on his face.