Chapter 13
Hey new chapter! so sorry for the long wait been preoccupide with school lately but I'm glad I finally go this chapter down and guess whos finally going to make an apperance. If you guess the Republic your dead wrong, thier not going to show up unilt the project goes down hill and we all know what that means. so anyways enjoy!- Dustbot-062
Captain Emotion and 999 entered the holding cell section of the research facility and were greeted by the loud screeches of the xenomorphs.
"Well something has them wiled up" 999 commented.
Emotion nodded his head as they walked down the rows of holding cells.
The xenomorphs were not only screeching loudly but were also jumping at the force field that kept them contained, trying to get out.
"What do you think they're so agitated about?" 999 asked the captain as they walked do the aisle of captive xenomorphs.
"Whatever is wrong with X-1 could be causing them to act like this," Emotion answered doing his best to speak over the screeching xenomorphs.
Emotion and 999 arrived at X-1's cell to see a cautious and worried looking Fetch-X and several super battle droids with their wrist blasters aimed at the cell.
"Fetch-X, What is going on down here?" Emotion asked the retriever droid.
"I'm not sure my lord, one minute X-1 is fine then next it starts ramming itself at the sides of the cell and then all the others start to freak out and now this," Fetch-X told the captain.
Emotion moved next to Fetch-X and saw X-1 curled up in a ball on the floor the cell. There were several cracks in the exoskeleton, reveling some of the soft under tissue, and it was also breathing rapidly.
"What do you think is happing to it?" 999 asked
"It appears to be going through some sort of metamorphic change," Emotion answered, still staring at X-1
"A What?" 999 asked
"It's common in creatures with an exoskeleton to shed their old exoskeleton as they grow or move on to the next stage in their lifecycle," Emotion answered.
X-1 suddenly jumped up and banged its fists against the cell door.
Emotion stared at the xenomorph's eyeless face and watched as X-1 dropped on all fours as the cracks in exoskeleton increased in size and numbers. X-1 quickly arched its back and with a loud crack the back of the exoskeleton split open, reveling the soft tissue and what appeared to be an already developing new exoskeleton.
X-1 began to tear away at the old exoskeleton, until the floor of the cell was covered in pieces of the old exoskeleton.
Emotion stared in plain fascination at the creature that stood before him.
It was bigger than any of the other xenomorphs and had what appeared to be a developing crest on the head. Its breathing was slowly returning to normal as it stood straight up in its cell.
"999 prepare the bigger holding cell on the last floor for X-1's arrival, it looks like she'll be needing a bigger cage," Emotion ordered the 2.0
999 stared opened mouth at the creature before leaving to do as he was told.
"Fetch-X I'll need you to gather up some of the larger restraints from the weapons warehouse and bring them here so we can transport X-1 to her to new cell," Emotion ordered the retriever droid, not once taking his eye off the creature that stood before him.
Emotion watched as Fetch-X placed the restraints around X-1's wrists, ankles, neck and tail. X-1 was surprisingly calm while the restraints were attached to her. Emotion had predicted that the change must have taken quite a lot of energy, leaving X-1 tiered, but yet there was still something about X-1 that had Emotion worrying about the transfer procedure.
Maybe it was the fact that X-1 was growing a new exoskeleton surprisingly fast, X-1 was now almost completely black again when it had just only shredded its old exoskeleton a few minutes ago, or the fact the other xenomorphs were still agitated.
Could it be that X-1's transformation is the cause of their agitation? Or is this normal for the species? Is this stage in the lifecycle supposed to agitate the other members? What purpose does this stage perform in the xenomorph lifecycle? So many questions and yet still no answers. Emotion thought to himself.
Emotion continued to think to himself as X-1 was lead to the lowest level in the research facility, the very level with access to the transport tunnel that connects the research facility to the main base.
Along the way down to the lowest level the other xenomorphs continued to attack the barriers keeping them back as X-1 walked by. X-1 stopped as they walked by X-13's cell.
X-13suddnely stopped jumping at the barrier and sat back on its heels. X-1 let out a small hiss. X-13 then cocked it its head to side and hissed back. X-1 nodded and hissed a response.
Fetch-X watched as the two exchanged hisses.
"Captain are you seeing this?" Fetch-X asked.
Emotion just mumbled something back in response and shook his head, walked into the back of a super battle droid, apologized and then continued walking, still mumbling to himself.
Fetch-X shook his head before jabbing X-1 in the back with an electrostaff, forcing the larger xenomorph to move on.
As they got closer to the last floor they based the five survivors of the supply ship that had been destroyed earlier and that captain Emotion had completely forgot he had. The survivors where completely shocked by the big, monstrous alien that walked by.
Finally that had reached the larger cell on the last floor. Fetch-X quickly removed the restraints than with a finally prod from the electrostaff, moved X-1 into the cell. The barrier quickly closed behind the xenomorph.
Emotion stood there staring at X-1, mumbling to himself, as Fetch-X waited for his new orders. After waiting for several minutes for the captain, Fetch-X told the supers to return to their post before leaving the captain to his thoughts.
Emotion paced around the room mumbling to himself as X-1 watched.
"Maybe this is the stage that lays the eggs?" Emotion asked himself "No she's still not big enough,"
Emotion continued to come up with theories and kept throwing them away as he paced the room.
Emotion stopped suddenly and turned to see several small cracks in X-1's exoskeleton.
Emotions head quickly switched to anger "Oh if that malfunctioning retriever droid hurt you my beauty I will personally…" Emotion said angrily before his head switched back to happy.
"Number 2 drop the shield around X-1's new cell please,"
"But sir," Number 2 said worryingly over the com.
"Just do it!" Emotion shouted angrily
The shield dropped and Emotion approached the xenomorph.
X-1 was too preoccupied at the moment with the sudden energy loss of the change to notice Emotion approach it.
Emotion approached one of X-1's legs and gently tapped at the cracking exoskeleton. More cracks appeared around the leg with each tap.
Emotion then watched as pieces of the exoskeleton feel away revealing an already developing exoskeleton underneath.
Emotion backed away slowly as X-1 dropped on all fours and arched its back. Pieces of the old exoskeleton began to fall away as X-1 tore away the old pieces.
"Close the cell!" Emotion shouted through the com-link.
The energy shield reappeared, just as the last few pieces of the old exoskeleton fell to the floor.
Emotion stared at the towering xenomorph behind the energy shield.
"By the Force," Emotion said quietly
The xenomorph was at least fifteen feet tall and almost touched the ceiling. The crest on the head had grown in mass and height. There also appeared to be another pair of smaller arms coming out of the chest. It let out a loud screech and stood straight up, the crest brushing the ceiling, the screech was later echoed by several others.
X-1 slouched back down, breathing rapidly, and snarled at Emotion, who had fallen back onto the floor, his head on fear. X-1 banged at the energy field viciously demanding to be let out.
Emotion's head switched back to anger and he began to laugh evilly.
"You can't break through it my friend," Emotion stated, as he stood "And even if you did you have nowhere to run! My forces would hunt you down and kill you like the vermin you are!"
X-1 let out another screech of anger as Emotion continued to laugh.
Number 1 and 2, Sniffles, 999 and Fetch-X came running down the ramp leading down to the floor to see captain Emotion standing with his arms spread out wide, laughing like a maniac, but what really caught their attention was the creature in the cell.
999's jaw dropped as he moved next to Emotion, followed by the others.
"Captain what is that!" 999 asked
"That is the key to winning this war my friend, that is death itself, that is the very spawn of the Sith, the dark side of the Force incarnated as a goddess, SHE is our unstoppable weapon! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Emotion answered with a laugh.
X-1 hissed angrily and attacked the force field again.
"What do you mean?" Fetch-X asked
"Don't you see? She's the answer to all of our problems! I can't believe I didn't notice it sooner. She's the xenomorph we've been waiting for!" Emotion exclaimed
"I don't understand? If she's the xenomorph we've been waiting for then that means…" 999 said before being interpreted by the captain.
"YES SHE'S THE MOTHER, THEIR LEADER, THEIR QUEEN! AHAHAHAHAHA!" Emotion exclaimed loudly before laughing loudly again.
"So now what?" 999 asked
Emotion out of now where punched the 2.0 unit.
999 stumbled back some before falling on the ground.
"WHAT DO WE NOW? HOW STUPID CAN YOU BEE 999 SHES THE THING WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! HERE LET ME SPELL IT OUT FOR SHE" Emotion pointed at the queen "LAYS THE EGGS AND WHAT DO WE HAPPEN TO BE OUT OF?"
"Eggs" 999 said rubbing his jaw
"YES! NO DO YOU UNDERSTAND? ALL WE HAVE TO NOW IS WAIT FOR HER TO START LAYING EGG OR FIND SOME TO GET HER TO,"
"Now then I want two or three portable hologram projectors but into the cage and Count Dooku, Nute Gunray and some other important self-absorbed separatist leader contacted and make sure they are projected on to the projectors inside the cage or my anger will be the least of your problems, understood?" Emotion asked finally calmed down.
"Rodger, Rodger" Number 1 and 2 said together.
With that Emotion strolled out the room to prepare his surprise transmission for the count.
Three holographic images appeared in a dark room, the blue light of the holograms being the only source of light.
One of the three images was that of Count Dooku who surveyed the area with a raised eyebrow and a small frown.
The other two were that of Nute Gunray and Wat Tambor, both looked around the room puzzled.
"Where is that droid that contacted us?" Nute Gunray asked impatiently "I have better things do,"
That was when suddenly a barbed tail came out of the darkness and passed through the image of Nute Gunray, distorting the image. The tail quickly pulled back and monster head appeared; from out of the darkness, in front of the three images, only Count Dooku appeared not scared of what lied before him.
"What is that?" Nute Gunray screamed.
"It appears to some kind of reptilian insectoid," Wat Tambor answered, trying not to sound frightened.
Suddenly, there was the sound of light flicking back on as the darkness began to retreat as the lights turned on by row. The creature let out a hiss before trying to retreat into the darkness as well.
All three holographic head turned to see figure walking towards them, through a now apparent translucent energy field.
"Gentleman, I'm glad you were able to introduce yourselves to her majesty," Emotion said as approached the transport energy field.
"Emotion! What is he doing still alive? I thought I told you have him off-lined and sold as the traitorous scrap he is!" Nute Gunray asked Dooku angrily.
"I for one am glad to see to that the captain is functioning, he did after change the way the war was going for awhile in our favor," Wat Tambor stated.
Emotion nodded his thanks to Tambor.
"Relax viceroy, and besides I told you that he was in charge of a project at this base," Dooku said calmly
"NO! You said you had someone we could trust running this base and I for cannot trust that droid with a stock pile of developing separatist weapons," Gunray said angrily.
"My master and I put Emotion in charge of this base for many reasons, viceroy and handling guns wasn't one of those reasons," Dooku said, still speaking in a clam manner, "No captain why have you contacted us?"
"Well she standing right behind you" Emotion stated
The three turned around to see the giant creature from before staring down at them.
"Gentlemen, I will like to introduce to you X-Q or Xenomorph Queen!" Emotion exclaimed happily.
"Impressive, no how many 2.0 units do you have combat ready?" Dooku asked
Emotion head suddenly switched to sad, Dooku glared at the captain.
"Yes umm well you see, it's actually quite a funny story, umm, but well you see I was working on one when it turned out the xenomorph wasn't full sedated so umm it woke up and attack, and well fearing for the best of the facility, the other experiments and for the planet I umm well had to well you know umm kill it," Emotion said sadly, shamefully and as quietly as he could.
"But on the bright side we have queen, who lays the eggs, which means we can produce more xenomorphs to turn into 2.0 units!" Emotion said happily, trying to make what he has been doing sound better than what he should be doing.
"Very well but if I don't get at least one 2.0 unit by the time the Republic finds out we're up to something, consider this and any other project of your closed,"
"Yes of course my lord I'll get right on that"
With that three images disappeared.
Emotion looked up at the queen before mumbling something and leaving the area.
Bold if you guess that big momma xenomorph was going to fianlly apper you when the prize of being smart and good a guessing XD! And yes i know xenomorphs aren't suppoes to become queens with the royal jell but i felt like making on mature into so there. I'm also going to TRY, try being the key word here, to have another chapter up by Halloween, if I don't you can send me angry hate mail or something about long it takes me to right a chapter with several grammer and spelling error.
Any review, fav and what not.- Dustbot-062.