Krystal's eyes adjusted to the light from the ceiling as they slowly cracked open. Her vision was blurry and her head was spinning. The feeling of cold metal on her skin suddenly flooded her senses. She sat up and realized that she was wearing a hospital gown. Nervously looking around, and rubbing her eyes for clarity, she noticed that she was in her father's lab, more importantly, she was in a cell.

Kevin and Daniel were on the outside looking in, through the triple thick, bullet resistant, plastic glass that separated Krystal from the outside. Krystal slowly slid off the cold table and walked up to the glass. "Father…what is going on?" She asked as she placed one hand on the glass. Kevin didn't respond he just stared at her. Krystal looked like she had just been to hell and back. If you would look at her bedroom at the house, you would think that hell had just blown through there.

"Krystal, you are taking your medicine, are you not?" Kevin asks.

"Of course, I'm taking more that what Daniel has recommended." She looks at the facial reactions of both her father and Daniel. "What is going on? Why am I in here?"

"I came home and found one of the maids on the ground. I got closer and realized that her head had spun around one hundred and eighty degrees. That's when I heard all the noise from your room. I'm pretty sure you know where I'm going with this."

Krystal lowered her head. "I'm sorry father. I…I…couldn't hold it back anymore."

"And that's why you must stay in there may angel." Kevin placed his hand on the glass as to touch his daughter's hand. Daniel decided to break up the touchy-feely moment.

"Uh...Kevin, I know this is a hard time for you and Krystal right now, but we do have a problem. You understand that right?"

Kevin instantly went back to "business mode". "You're right! So what are we looking at?"

"Involving just Krystal, or as a whole?"

"The collective, what's the big picture?"

"There's a dead body of an illegal immigrant hidden in your house because your daughter went ape shit. If that doesn't cause problems, we had to use Yutari manpower to restrain her, which means "upstairs" is going to know all about this in the morning."

"Would there be any problem making this look like a normal Xenomorph problem?"

"Uh…yeah, pick one!" Daniel sits on the table by his computer. "There hasn't been any Xeno activity in this area in the last year or so. A team found a small hive of about twenty or so people with face huggers on them. The hive was destroyed and all known Xeno were confirmed destroyed. We can't blame a normal Xeno for this. Even if we could, there are eight security guards that had to take down Krystal and bring her here. I know you got deep pockets Kevin, but you're not paying any of those guys off to keep quiet. Upstairs will learn about Krystal tomorrow morning. I'm surprised we've got this far with it being under wraps."

"She was only nine when we infused the hybrid DNA into her…" Kevin begins to drift off.

"Hey! Kevin, snap out of it!" Daniel stands up and stands in front of Kevin, blocking his view of Krystal. "We need to figure out what to do. Yea, shit's going to hell right now and it's only going to get worse, but that's not the worst thing we have to worry about. We need to figure why the serum isn't working on Krystal anymore."

"Ok…ok you're right, let me think." Kevin begins to pace. "Maybe her body is becoming immune to the serum? It basically acts as a mild virus that inhibits the hybrid traits in her DNA. What if her body has developed a way to fight against it and render it useless?"

"That's possible, but if it did happen, we're fucked! The only reason that Krystal has went all psychotic Xeno on us is because of the amount of the serum I've dumped in her since we've got here."

"How diluted is the serum, and how much did you give her?"

"Kevin, I didn't dilute it. I gave her 2500cc of straight inhibitor."

"You did what!"

"Calm down man, there's good news and bad news to this. Good news is, she isn't dead from the amount of inhibitor that I've given her. Bad news, she isn't dead, therefore meaning that the hybrid DNA is taking over. We can keep pumping her with the pure serum, but after a while it's not going to matter anymore."

"We need to make a better inhibitor."

"It's kind of hard to do that. The last one was created using Krystal's DNA while she was still normal."

"Well, we need to get a sample of her DNA when she's not!"

"Oh god, you're serious aren't you?"

"Daren Jason King, aka DJK, you ready to get this party poppin?" Mouse yelled as he walked into the room. "You ready to play?"

Daren was finishing up getting ready, which didn't consist of much. The only thinking Daren would prepare was to make sure he had a black wife-beater on, a fitted, straight billed cap, and his signature mask. "To be honest, I really want this night to end."

"Why's that man? This is your first concert in the area. And no one even knows that it's you, so you should feel accomplished or whatever."

"No, it's not that…I don't feel so good." Daren was hunched over with his face in the sink. "I don't think I can out on stage."

"What! Oh hell na man! I'm not going to let the one night that I'll be able to smash on any hot ass bitch in the building because you're feeling a little sick."

Daren picked his head up and looked back at Mouse. Daren's eyes were blood shoot red, his forehead was covered in sweat, and he was shivering. "Mouse, I really don't feel good at all."

"What happened?"

Daren fell to the ground. "I don't know, it came out of nowhere. You're going to have to go on stage for me."

"What? Uh…what? I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I'm not you."

"It doesn't matter. We're the same skin tone, around the same height. Just wear one of my hoodies and take the mask and hat."

"Dude I don't know how to scratch."

"You don't need to. Tell Marcus what's going on. He'll help you out. You've watched me enough…just do what I would do."

Mouse didn't know what to do, but since there was only a few minutes left before show time, he decided to take Daren's place. He left the room to go talk to Marcus, leaving Daren on the floor. The sweat on his head was getting in his eye, so he lifted his right hand to wipe it off. That's when he noticed that small splatter of red that he had on his hand after school was gone, but his hand was covered by dark red colored vein-like markings…and they were crawling up his arm. Daren laid his head back on the floor as he stared at the lights on the ceiling trying to figure out what was going on.

Back inside the lab, Krystal was curled up into a ball in the corner of the room. Daniel and Kevin had argued back and forth about what type of action they'll take to try to resolve the issue at hand. After a considerable amount of time, Daniel gave into Kevin's idea. Krystal was able to hear the whole thing.

She wasn't particularly happy with the decision, but she trusted her father more than anyone in the world. So, if her father wanted to purposefully cause her to change into the monster that she's able to become, then she wasn't going to argue it.

Daniel had prepared the syringe that would deliver the reversed serum that would accelerate the very same traits in Krystal's DNA that they were trying to inhibit. Kevin takes it into Krystal's cell. He begins to try to explain to her what he is about to do, but she doesn't let him. She quickly snatches the syringe and injects herself with it. "What are you doing Krystal?" Kevin asked as showed signs of regret for what he had just done. "I'm helping you find a way to stop this."

Within seconds on the delivery of the serum, Krystal was beginning to change. She grabbed her head in pain and began screaming. Daniel grabbed Kevin and pulled him out of the room and locked the door. "We can't take any chances." Krystal's skin began to turn gray, before eventually turning black. Her eyes were completely black as four mandibles that are normal on a Predator began to form around her mouth. Her teeth became sharpen to a fine point while her entire body frame began to grow in size. Out of her skull were the dread-lock type hairs that were also traits of a Predator. The important parts of her body was completely covered in a black armor while the rest of her skin was a dark gray color. "What the hell! It's happening again!" Daniel shouted.

"This is what we wanted. We need to get a sample of her DNA while she's like this." Kevin added as he kept his eyes affixed on his daughter.

"And how do you expect we do that exactly?"

Kevin looked back at Daniel. "I'm still trying to figure that out."

Krystal's transformation was almost complete. Standing at six foot tall, she began to buckle on the floor as a massive amount of pain shoot though her body. Her spinal cord began to ripple and shift as the signature Xenomorph tail shot out. About six foot in length as well, the tail had a razor sharp, knife like end to it. Her transformation was complete. She stood calm as she stared at Daniel and Kevin on the opposite of the glass. "What do we do now?" Daniel asked, but before Kevin could answer, Krystal began ramming the glass over and over again. Clawing, punching, and using her head, she began to do something that Kevin and Daniel didn't think was possible...but cracks into the containment glass. Kevin and Daniel watched as Krystal clawed her way to the brink of the containment wall. She stared at them for a few moments before whipping her tail and shattering the glass completely. She was now free.