Chapter 3: Human Laziness... Kills Everyone
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Xenomorph Screech/Yautja Roar"
'Xenomorph/Predator Thoughts'
(Description of Item/Person/Entity)
(Umbral Nites: 4:45 PM)
(First Person P.O.V)
*Sighs* alright I've calmed slightly and I've now got near a baker's dozen bodies baking Chestbursters with the Common Xenomorph Strain and I have them ready to pop but the question is should I let them grow ... no because that will out my hive to the humans before I am ready so for now I'll do the haunted Fusion Plant play so, I pop the bursters who screech out to their heart's content and move them and the bodies to the Queen's chamber
As my Aphids start moving around Ovomorphs and shifting human crates to make room for more Ovomorphs to be laid by my Queen who I have now named Queen Ruby and watch as both my little ones and regulars get settled in plus if my Aphids can keep them in a communications blackout, then I shouldn't have too much of a problem and I set them on their paths of more Aphids and Drones thus allowing my Hive to grow I also discover another Tooltip which allows me to see the Number of units I have but got confused by another tier on the Leader list but it only said unknown
[Ovomorphs: 112]
[Facehuggers: 87]
[Tier 0: 16]
[Tier 1: 0/0/0]
[Tier 2: 0/0/0/0/0/0]
[Tier 3: 0]
[Queen:1]
[Emperor:½]
[Unknown:0]
I shrug off and look to my Emperor who hasn't evolved in a while but that's mainly because his size still allows him to travel through the vents and if I evolve him any further he won't fit which is not a good thing because the second he's fully developed he'll be bigger than Queen Ruby
Regardless I'm going to have my hands full as I don't know if this is the only city in the Colony or the only colony in the System regardless but I can't worry about that at the moment but just plan for short term goals... I wonder if I get my Xenomorphs to pilot starships or even bulk freighters
Once my eleven drones are down I'll send my Aphids to scout out more regions to find anything out
...you know I wasn't going to say anything but... where the hell is the security forces bursting down the refinery doors and leading to an incredible fight between Xenomorphs and Human Marines perhaps it's just me but... Deciding to send my gaze to the town I stare in mute shock as no one was reacting to the disappearance of over twenty seven people from a colony
I'm... I'm in hell and I must scream at the sheer stupidity of my former race as they shouldn't be this goddamn fucking Stupid! I mean really twenty seven people disappearing over 3 days wouldn't that set off some goddamn alarm bells in your heads... No then fuck you dumb idiots because if you're not going to worry about your fellow men and women then I'ma abuse the fuck out of it because the longer they take the better prepared I can become to fuck them all up
*exhales* sorry about that just Hate It when Idiots don't use common sense and sadly over the three days that I mentioned before over eighteen additional more people wander in and decide 'Hey let's go and see what's going on nothing wrong here'' which just gets my non-existent eye twitching but at least it gives me over twenty nine additional drones to use which just makes my day which when all twenty nine chestbursters the last of there timers run out I press the evolve button... in one push of a button... I'm in my happy place that I finally have stronger Xenomorphs even if it's not by much while the Aphids are sent to literally scout out the rest of the world while my drones now help start spreading the hive material around the in the Fusion Plant and making in into a proper Hive with body trapping rooms, Digging Murder holes and a nice comfortable chamber for Queen Ruby
Sixteen days... for sixteen days and the disappearance of more people that both came into the factory each day I was left to do whatever the fuck I wanted... *inhales* do not scream. Do not scream. Do. Not. Scream. After that and evolving my new chestbursters into drones during that time I check my Units tab
[Ovomorphs: 167]
[Facehuggers: 338]
[Tier 0: 16]
[Tier 1: 37/0/0]
[Tier 2: 0/0/0/0/0/0]
[Tier 3: 0]
[Queen:1]
[Emperor:½]
[Unknown:0]
*groans* welp I know what the fuck i'm doing... In case it wasn't obvious I'm going to make people regret not taking this serious after making all my Ovomorphs hatch and I sent my Facehuggers throughout the colony via the alleys, vents and Sewers and once they reach a place to latch onto people while in their houses and have my Xenomorphs drag them out and back into the nest
By the way in case you're wondering if you're new to AVP or just getting into this series a Facehugger once they latch onto a creature the aforementioned thing is rendered unconscious for over several hours so no waking up to space spider-crab, anyways I wasn't always successful in avoiding patrols so I have them quietly killed off before they can sound off an alarm
After two nights of this I'll soon have enough Xenomorphs to launch an all out assault on Umbral Nites which I guess I should have mentioned last time but the entire colony is covered completely in shadows and the only time you know it's day is when the sky is gray other why it feels like nighttime
As for reconnaissance I've got three fifths of the world done and my Aphids are still exploring more and mapping the entire world so that I won't be taken by surprised by anything out there on the planet
Two more days after my little house shopping spree with my facehuggers and Xenomorphs Drones I get... Nothing... Absolutely nothing as there is barely any reactions and oh boy does that just piss me off I decide to open the hive count tooltip to check
[Ovomorphs: 334]
[Facehuggers: 356]
[Tier 0: 16]
[Tier 1: 212/0/0]
[Tier 2: 0/0/0/0/0/0]
[Tier 3: 0]
[Queen:1]
[Emperor:½]
[Unknown:0]
Oh yea I also noticed that the Drones have their Tooltips Now I Decided to check {Warrior: 3-Days: Hp - high: Spd - average: Str - high / Spitter: 4-Days: Hp - low: Spd - average: Str - average}
Alright First... I hatch the Eggs to double my number of active facehuggers and then like before I spread them throughout the colony via the alleys, vents and sewers and have them in wait meanwhile I sequester sixty of my drones to transform them into Warriors so that I'll have stronger Xenomorphs to attack the colony
Alright everyone's in position but I want to wait until the warriors arrive after all the difference between victory and defeat is impatience but I also don't want them to get to smart so Sending a squad of Drones I set them to {Passive} and {Stealth} and decide to sabotage the crap out of the colony. The Drones start by taking Power couplings, Damaging Air Filters, Tripping Motion Sensors where there are no Cameras or Destroying Cameras when they find one and sabotaging the few Remaining Comm Stations so with their communications thoroughly down this is definitely causing some panic... if it was reaching the civilian populus as I see the Colonies Security seems to have increased and the Ex-Colonial Marine Sergeant seems to have begun teaching them to deal with rebels and insurgents which they think is what is going on and not Xenomorphs... which is a genuine threat but not what is happening
Come to think of it where the hell am I in the Timeline because what I'm doing may cause butterfly effects but I can't seem to care as Xenomorphs were never general Knowledge to the common populus and any who did know were swooped up by Weyland-Yutani and either turned into Xenomorph Chow, recruited or killed off there was no inbetween with them regardless I decided to take another thirty civilians starting with the poor and homeless
...that worked to well and now I'm even more pissed off at the colonial administrators for allowing even if they aren't aware of Xenomorphs to allow this to happen since I just kidnapped a shit ton of people to turn into incubators I decide to open the Colonies Menu
[Umbral Nites]
[Population 2987]
[Development: Minimal]
[Combat Readiness: Negligible +]
[Current Population Thoughts: Sleepy/Confused]
So their combat readiness was still negligible but it was raising a bit. An amusing thought passed through my head that with the idea that there was a Negligible + was there a Negligible - where they just threw themselves at my hives in a sacrificial manner but regardless I noticed the colony was only raising the patrols in the more richer districts
Regardless I wait until my new chestbursters and warriors hatch and I have more than enough facehuggers for half of the colony so that I can get them all in one sitting but will take a while. Oh absolutely but it'll be worthwhile especially since I'll have Drones harassing there defenses all the while especially since I'll have more Warriors sequestered for the final Assault and if all goes well only humans with chestbursters in them will leave this valley alive to carry to other colonies and I will be laughing with glee
(Umbral Nites: 1:15 PM)
(First Person P.O.V)
For six nights I have been taking people for six nights and only now does the colony get its shit together not that it'll help them especially with how many extra people I've taken by that time to help with their demise
[Ovomorphs: 3,106]
[Facehuggers: 234]
[Tier 0: 16]
[Tier 1: 70/0/0]
[Tier 2: 212/0/0/0/0/0]
[Tier 3: 0]
[Queen:1]
[Emperor:½]
[Unknown:0]
That hasn't even included the Chestbursters that haven't been fully grown yet just sitting in my Queen's Chambers just waiting to be fully grown so... About a few extra waiting in the wings so that is excellent. Meanwhile the humans have fully armed patrols of Security forces out and about deployed with pistols, Shotguns and the squad leaders each with a Pulse rifle... they're only out and about at night though and with the communications being so thoroughly messed up they can only rely on the colonies defenses. I don't know why but sometimes I catch myself rooting for humans, after all they are completely fucked and they just don't know it meanwhile they got a 20 to 1 value if you count the unarmed civilians but I don't
I also learned that you can set the speed of the Queen's Egg laying but it comes at the cost of the Queen's Health but she can regenerate it however which is why I have so many Ovomorphs... In Fact I have so many that I had to expand into the sewers just to fit them all I also learned that Warriors cannot spread the Resin which was a bummer but regardless it's time to conquer this colony for it's sheer stupidity
On the Seventh night right after the fourth night the drones are born the facehuggers were hatched as I watched over three Thousand Facehuggers pour through the sewers and Maintenance ducts with everyone alone or asleep soon finds themselves a new friendly Facehugger "Hugging" almost immediately all hell breaks loose as warriors and drones come bursting from underground and from vents they immediately begin assaulting the security teams simultaneously.
Ten minutes have passed and I have lost 21 Warriors to combined fire of the Security teams as the humans quickly find defenses however I managed to pay them back in blood as I managed to wipe out six teams before them and I gleefully see a ninety three infection rate
[Umbral Nites]
[Population 174]
[Development: Ruined]
[Combat Readiness: High]
[Current Population Thoughts: Horrified/Terrified]
After sixteen hours I lost an addition 29 Warriors as the remaining survivors begin rapidly digging themselves into holes and are now beginning to be highly organized and constant contact with other because of this it's taking all of my strategic acumen to keep them from regrouping and attempting an escape from the valley while they haven't become a carrier yet.
As I look over the now destroyed colony I see three major points of resistance with one being in the central park with the least number of defenders and all of them being security forces who are led by the Ex-Colonial Marine especially since they got an open air defense and can see all around them and they've built earthen walls to slow me down which is a hassle and number thirty troops
The second group is in an apartment complex this is a second group is hiding behind scrap walls that they must of pulled from surrounding apartments and they also been sending teams to scavenge for food and supplies which suggest that they may be in it for the long haul and number around eighty which is going to be a hassle
The Final group was in the Hospital made up mostly civilians who were visiting family when my attack happened and some security forces who have now rounded up to thirty members which would not help them as I decided to send skirmishing forces the resistant points and take out any remaining ones or twos with facehuggers and unneeded warriors to round them up especially since before the attack I had removed "Hugged" Humans from the battle back to the Nest
Anyways battle plans starting with the hospital I have my Xenomorphs start making noise constantly which will make them panicky and nervous and start to pick off Security forces that are sent out and watch it out then send in the facehuggers for the survivors when the civilians and security troops begin to butcher each other
Around that time I managed to find an Aqueduct that leads directly near the defenses of the park survivors so have any nearby drones begin to dig out a literal murder hole so that when the time is right I'll collapse it and crush the survivors in Crimson tide of Exoskeletons after they fall into the murder hole
Finally I refuse to allow the humans in the apartment buildings to gather any food so I have seventy percent of the complex trashed and the food trashed and ruined so the humans couldn't used it and the rest booby trapped with enough Facehuggers that it wouldn't matter with that the humans would begin to divide and begin to tear each other apart and then I would send in the Facehuggers and Warriors to take care of them
All in All this is what happens when you don't take a threat seriously and allow it to fester in a 'Civilized' space