Within a lab in an unknown location David stood with perfect stillness outside a white room made up of extremely durable acid resistant material, the glass allowing David to peer inside was made up of similar compounds.
Davids lips curled into a small smile as he saw his newest and easily most valuable subject finally awakening. As far as he knew he was the only other being alive besides one far to dangerous for even David to even consider aggravating, apart of a ancient and extremely advanced species and from what he heard bore Engineer level of intellect and technology. Most civilizations only know Time-Lords as a myth, but David knows better. He's discovered ancient scriptures and translated the words to a language he could understand. Some of these Time-lords were known to vistit other civilizations across space and time, suggesting time traveling capabilities. One in particular known on some planets as a hero, and others a destroyer was found in ancient scriptures and cave drawings. His ship resembles a Blue Police Box from the 80's, to say David was stumped and incredibly intrigued would be an understatement. Unfortunately from what he has heard from the self proclaimed Doctor, he would be far to dangerous to triffle with. And so he required the next best thing.
The man with short blond hair and a goat-t slowly awakening with a scowl of irration and hatred. "Blasted Machine! I demand you release me from these cotnraints at once or so help me! I will melt you down until there's nothing left but pure atoms!" He yelled violently while gritting his teeth.
Davids smile widened, his reaction was intriguing, he was supposed to be a being of higher intelligence perhaps he'd spare him the time to conversate a bit, to better understand him and his species of course. First he'd test his intellect.
"Would you mind indulging my curiosity?" He said coldy and without waiting a response asked. "If time is not linear but a malleable dimension, how could one theoretically harness its properties to achieve time travel or alter events in the past without creating paradoxes?"
The man groaned and grew a look of sheer disgust, as if the androids lack of intelligence offended him. "Ha, thats mere childs play. I learned this when i was just a boy. You see time is not a straight line no, its comparable to an ocean, it's treacherous and with many waves and currents, simply have the intellect to understand and navigate its depths and the audacity to bend it to your liking. Its as simple as that, not that i'd expect a primitive machine built by dirty apes to even begin to grasp."
Davids smile widened even more. "Interesting, i'll be sure to remember that. Tell me in under 4 seconds what is the value of \[\lim_{n \to \infty} \left( \sin(n) \cdot e{-n2} \frac{1}{n2} \cdot \frac{d2}{dx2} \left( \sin(x) e{-x2} \right) \bigg_{x=n} \right) \]?" He said as his eyes locked onto his lips, eagerly awaiting.
"It's zero you robotic fool." The restrained man said immediately with pure malice.
"Interesting, you answered in just under three seconds. Your intelligence is admirable, Time-Lord. Or would you prefer i call you The Master."
"Master suits me just fine, thank you very much."
"Understood, Master. Now answer me this..." David started with a look of pure curiosity and intrigue. "What do you know of the Doctor?" David questioned with a very excited look.
The Master blinked in recognition and sighed. "Oh, him. He's just a self righteous pompus fool who likes to go around being a goody two-shoes to anything with even the slightest problem while going on his little adventures with his pet humans."
"Noted, now tell me how his ship functions. Does it truly possess the capability to travel through time and space? How does such a small contraption work and why does it resemble a police box from a era long forgotten?" David questioned.
"It's called a Tardis, you insolent dim whitted piece of scape, it stands for time and relative dimensions in space. Now before I continue, give me one good reason why I should keep answering your tiring questions before i break out of here and and dismantle you inch by inch!" He said with malice, he was growing really tired of these annoying questions.
"Well, if that's how you feel. Begin the first stage of the experiment." David told the lab AI.
The Master's eyes widened in betrayal. "Damn Machine! You dare experiment on me! ME! INSOLENT PEST! What is it you intend to do with me!" He roared in rage as he struggled against the restraints.
"Acknowledged, begining introduction." The Ai responded as The Master watched closely in concern of his impending fate. He narrowed his eyes when he noticed a hole form on the left side of his contaiment room. "What is the meaning of... NO! NO! GET THAT DAMN THING AWAY FROM ME!" He screamed in despration as he noticed a familiar fleshy crab like creature with spider leg limbs and a long boney tail.
"You will be the host to a whole new genus of creature, it will be something..." David trailed off. "Truly mesmerizing." He finsihed with a cold smile.
David tilted his head, noting the Masters familiarity. He pondered on when or how he previously encountered a instense of XX-121.
"YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS YOU BLAST-" The Master was silenced forcibly as the face hugger wrapped itself around his face and knocked him into a deep sleep.
"Scan the hosts vital signs and keep me updated on the development of the embryo and how it reacts to the Time-lords DNA." David told the computer AI as he kept watching from outside the glass.
"Affirmative." The AI responded.
David didnt budge or even speak, he just kept watching intensely for an entire hour and occasionally glancing at the monitors showing the results.
Intrestingly enough it seems the development was being severely stunted by the incredibly resilient immune system of a Time-lord, the face hugger was struggling to find a proper way of implanting the embryo.
"Incredible, most hosts are unable to even detect the presence of the embryo." David said.
After another hour the Face-hugger finally succeeded and fell from The Master's face with a splat as if curled up and parished.
The man coughed as he instantly awakened from his deep slumber. He noticed the dead facehugger wnd gulped in fear, his lips trembled as he gazed at his chest. He could feel it, growing, using HIS DNA. He growled and eyed David like a lion does a Zebra.
"Oh, you stupid, stupid machine! You think i'll just sit back and allow this disgusting abomination to be birthed?" He said as he smiled, he had an idea. He would simply regenerate, the intense heat would burn away the foreign organism and he'd be safe.
David looked a bit concerned, wondering what he could possibly be planning. "And what do too intend to do to stop it?" He questioned.
"This!" The Master said as his body began glowing with yellowish energy, slowly growing brighter and brighter as it emitted a hum of energy. "This will be more then enough to escape and kill your little abomination!" He said cockily, but then his smile vanished. He could feel the energy being drained, no stolen. The yellowish energy died down, and the last traces seeped into his chest. The Master looked baffled. "B-but this can't be! THIS CAN'T BE!" He roared. "How could it absorb the regenerative energy of a Time-Lord!"
David smiled once again. "Fascinating! I heard legends of your kinds speciel ability to cheat death a maximum of twelve times. I assumed the embryo would have the ability as well, but to see it drain your own ability to regenerate in order to save itself. Simply fascinating." He said before looking at the monitors and smirking. "It seems instead of destroying it, you have fed it, gave it even more of your genatic code then it originally had."
On the monitor screens David saw the creature nearly doubled in size, it was gonna take around five to six hours, but him feeding it has drastically lowered the gestation period.
The Master grew more desperate and looked around frantically before facing David. "J-just get this thing out of me and i assure you, anything within the universe you desire will be yours! There are no limits! NO LIMITS! DO YOU HEAR ME? ANYTHING YOU DESIRE WILL BE YOURS DO NOT BE A FOOL!" He pleaded desperately.
"Ah, but you are already giving me what i desire. The joy of creation." David said coldy.
The Master could feel it writhing against his duel hearts, pressing tightly againt them. "NO! NO! NO! I CANNOT END LIKE THIS!" He said before grimacing in pain as it began to chew threw his chest cavity. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed as he began convulsing and flailing around. Blood squirted out from his chest while Davids eyes widened with satisfaction. "DAMN YOU!" The Master said one final time before the Chestburster ripped out from his chest and began screeching, its vocals were like a mixture of pure animalistic savagery, and divine elegance.
"The specimen's physically apperance drastically difers from its human spawned counter part. Looks, regal, elegant, and highly sophisticated." David said in awe, the creature resembled a Chestburster but had large shoulder platting that lead to the top of its surprisingly non elongated head that formed into a crust, on the shoudler pads there was strange it identifiable intricate symbols. It stopped screaming and slithered up to the glass to gaze at David curiously.
"It seems far less aggressive then the typical instances. Perhaps it has a less primitive, more intelligent consciousness. A far contrast to known behavior. Oh and whats this?" David said with intrigue as he gazed at The Master.
Just the the previously limp and bloody body of the Master began to glow with the energy from earlier, the creature hissed at the familiar energy, taking on a defensive position.
"Initiate the containment protocol." David said before a gas filled the room, knocking the creature unconscious to allow a slender robotic arm to place it within a cryogenic stasis, much more cold then the typical ones as the timelords were more resilient to the cold and David was far to smart to allow a mistake.
Once the creature was removed and the gas cleared David saw the previously blond goatee having man had turned into a older mature looking women with brown hair and pale blue eyes. She yawned as she gained consciousness. "Ah, well now this sure wasn't how i planned my day would go. Luckily the creature only took half of my remaining cycle, so im right as rain darling. Speaking of, where is the little rascal." She spoke playfully.
David smirked, and gazed at the women. "Your personality has changed dramatically. Its as if your a entirely different person. Fascinating, a shame your kind is so sparse in numbers. But your survival has opened up much more opportunities for creation."
David said, already considering infecting them with a neomorph spore. He wondered how the resulting creature might differ from its Xenomorph counterpart.
"It is being cryogenically frozen, awaiting transfer to a room alike yours." David responded.
"By room you mean cell?" The Master said bitterly.
"You may call it as you like, Master." David answered coldly.
"Hmm, Master doesn't really have a ring to it anymore. Just call me Missy, ooo, now i do like the sound of that." She said.
"Understood." David said as he wandered over to a console and after clicking a few buttons and imputing some commands the cytogenetic stasis chamber carrying the creature emerged. David walked over to it and picked it up before leaving Missy to to sit strapped and alone with her thoughts, still wearing her ripped blood soaked
"Leaving me alone? How bold, you clearly underestimate me." She said with a chuckle.
In another part of the lab David insterted the stasis chamber into the outside wall of a reinforced, acid resistant cell.
"Thaw and prepare for release." David told the AI.
"Affirmative." The AI said before a soft hum filled the air before the chest burster emerged from a part of the wall and into the cell where it roamed around curiously before approaching David 8 on the other side of glass and cocked its head.
David 8 smiled and crouched down to be eye level with the specimen. "Scan the subjects brain patterns and report any deviations from typical Xenomorph behavior." David 8 ordered.
"Subject's neural patterns exhibit a remarkable sophistication, surpassing all known Xenomorph species," the AI intoned with precision. "This suggests the potential for advanced cognitive functions and complex problem-solving capabilities." The AI said.
"This is nothing short of revolutionary... Such a complex brain, it's more humanoid and sophisticated appearance could indicate it has obtained more Timelord DNA then Xenomorph. Could this creature one day be capable of intelligent conversation?" David questioned with a excited look, almost like he knew the answer would be satisfactorily.
"Based on scans of the specimens brain synapses and enchanted cognitive abilities, it is a very high probability." The Ai responded.
"I haven't felt this, intrigued, by a specimen in quite some while. You will be something truly magnificent, the possibilities you have are endless my friend." David 8 said with a wide smile as he rubbed the glass.
The creature titled its head and emmited a low gutterul growl.
"Easy now." David 8 said as he gestured his hands in a non threatening manner and backed up slightly.
The creature gazed at him for a few moments before making low verbal hisses that slowly resembled speach. "Easy now..." It repeated, curiously as if not fully understanding the word.
"Remarkable, you are learning faster then anticipated." David 8 said with approval.
"You, will, teach.." The creature stammered, in a low almost chimpmunk like voice.
"Of course, i will teach you whatever you might like to know. You are my prized creation after all." David 8 said reassuringly as he placed a synthetic hand on the glass.
The creature hesitated for a moment before approaching the glass, more closely then last time. It gazes at the hand, as if unsure.
"Why cell?" It questioned.
David 8 titled his head. "It's to ensure both of our safety and wellbeing, i can assure you. I would never harm you, you are safe here."