Chapter 03
When Michael arrives at the apartment building, he locks his bike in the bike room and removes as much women as he can from his clothes. Much of the dust sticks to the Alien queen's drool, but Michael still manages to remove a large part of the dust from the ventilation drum.
When Michael arrives at the accommodation, he happily greets the staff. They are sitting in the office and they are happy that Michael is back. Krister walks out of the office and greets Michael and sees Michael's dirty shirt. Krister looks and frowns at the Alien Queen's drool.
- But eww. What is that disgusting mess?
Michael laughs, looking embarrassed.
- I was visiting an acquaintance and he was playing wildly with a bottle of lubricant. Don't ask me why he had it but it was. It disappears in the wash.
- Lube? Huh. Yes, I thought it looked like that. But oh man. You have lube all the way down your pants. What have you been up to anyway?
- Ah. We've just had a little fun. Krister, Do you want to help me with the food and take out some money. I'll meet Sven later.
Krister nods and retrieves the keys to Michael's safe. Krister follows to MIchael's apartment and he sniffs Michael thoughtfully. Michael doesn't smell like lube does, it's a completely different smell. Michael looks at Krister.
- Krister, I'm just going to take a shower. You are welcome to start by preparing the food I will have. It's fried falu sausage and potatoes today.
- Yeah, you probably need a shower. You smell a little..weird.
- The person I was visiting was renovating and they used some new agent in the house.
- Well, yes. Then I understand.
Michael goes into the bathroom and puts all the clothes in the laundry basket and goes to shower. Krister begins to peel the potatoes and puts them in a saucepan and turns on the stove so that the potatoes start to boil. Krister is waiting by the stove. Michael takes a quick shower and puts on new clothes and comes out into the kitchen. Krister starts to fry the falu sausages and Michael and Krister talk to each other while they work. When the food is ready, Krister collects money from the cash register. Michael sits in the kitchen and eats in the meantime.
Michael has just finished eating when he sees that it is time for him to go outside and wait for Sven. Michael quickly puts on his shoes and says goodbye to the staff and leaves the residence. Michael has just come out of the apartment building when Sven comes driving. Michael enters and sits in Sven's car and Sven drives towards Skeppsholmen.
When Sven passes Mariatorget, he looks in surprise towards the tunnel, which is now open. Sven doesn't usually drive here unless he's going to pick up Michael and he didn't notice that the tunnel was open when he drove to Michael's apartment building.
- I'll be damned. Looks like the tunnel we talked about is open. I never thought they would open it.
- But wow, how exciting. I didn't know about that.
- Neither do I. There should have been something in the paper about it. So strange. Or do you have...?
Sven turns to Michael and looks at him searchingly. Michael looks back and tries to look innocent and he hopes that Sven will be fooled by his innocent face. Sven nods silently and smiles at Michael. Sven suspects that Michael has some involvement in this, but he thinks it's funny that the tunnel has reopened after being closed for so many years. Michael smiles back
- So, will you go down the tunnel now that it's open?
- We shall see. Would you like to come with me in that case?
- Why not? It could be interesting.
- Yes absolutely.
- Speaking of something completely different. Where are you going to park?
- I was thinking of parking in the guest parking lot at Skeppsholmen. It is very close to the ferry so we don't have to go that far.
- That sounds like a very good idea.
- Speaking of something else. I heard that you had been unwell the night after you had met me. Did anything special happen that night?
- I felt cold all over just before I went to bed and after that it just got worse and worse.
- The staff asked if you wished anything and you said no. Between us, did you wish anything?
- No.
Sven looks at Michael and he feels that Michael is not being completely honest with him. It took a long time before the answer came and Michael has a special look that he gets when someone has proof that he had done something stupid. Sven is sure that Michael has wished for something and he is curious about what. It can't just be that the tunnel is open. There must be something more he has wished.
Sven drives towards Skeppsholmen and when they arrive at the car park they see that the ferry is leaving the quay. Sven locks his car and goes to the ticket office to buy two tickets for the next ferry. The ferry will depart after 45 minutes but Sven buys the two tickets. Sven stuffs the tickets into his trouser pocket and turns to Michael.
- The ferry doesn't leave until after 45 minutes. Do you want us to go to Slussen and have a little walk there while we wait?
Michael does not want to go to Slussen because he knows there is an Alien egg there. It's not that big of a risk that Sven will go and look at the egg, but Michael doesn't want to risk that happening, so he shakes his head.
- We can each buy a soft ice cream in the kiosk and just sit down on a bench and have a good time. The weather is so nice today.
Sven agrees and they each buy a soft ice cream and sit on a nice and comfortable bench and look out at the water while the seagulls scream above them. Michael and Sven talk about everything except Alien monsters. The sun is shining on Michael and Sven and it's a nice day but it will soon change to something else.
T- Centralen
Shortly after Michael leaves T-Centralen, a first human arrives. It is a man and his name is Matthias and he works as a lawyer at a well-known company. Matthias has been in a meeting that has dragged on and he hopes that the train he is going home with has not left but he sees to his disappointment that it has just left the platform. The next train will arrive in about 45 minutes. Matthias has to go all the way to Hässelby and that train leaves every half hour but the next train is already delayed by a quarter of an hour and will therefore leave in 45 minutes if it is not delayed even more.
Matthias sits down heavily on one of the metallic benches on the platform. It does not look very comfortable to sit on and Matthias quickly notices that it is not comfortable to sit on. Matthias picks up a large cardboard can of ready-made food that he has in his case and he looks for a wooden fork that he knows must be in the case somewhere. Matthias finds the wooden fork after a while of searching and he starts to eat the food.
Matthias looks around the platform while eating and everything looks as usual. But Matthias suddenly catches sight of something that´s odd and it's right at the end of the platform. Matthias sharpens his eyes. It looks like a light brown giant egg. Matthias decides to go over to the egg and study it more closely and he puts the wooden fork and the can of food back in the box and starts walking towards the big egg. When Matthias gets closer, he sees that the egg is slimy and he feels disgusted by it. However, Matthias decides to photograph the egg and post it on Instagram.
Matthias picks up his mobile phone and photographs the egg. Matthias then opens the picture on the mobile and chooses to share it on Instagram. As the main heading, Matthias writes; Look what I found on T-Centralen and he uses the words; Eggs Disgusting, Slimy, Cool as tags and publishes the image. Matthias walks further towards the egg and he sees a movement in it. Matthias wonders if he should be so close to the egg but it opens like a flower before he can back away from it. There is some kind of creature in the open egg and Matthias thinks it resembles an octopus. Suddenly the creature explodes out of the egg and Matthias sees that it will land on him but he does not have time to run away.
As soon as the facehugger has landed on Matthias' face, it releases lots of chemical substances and they cause Matthias to lose consciousness and he falls heavily to the ground. The Facehugger's fingers have a firm grip on Matthias's face and the proboscis seeks his mouth. The proboscis soon finds Matthias's mouth and begins to slide down into it, approaching his throat. The proboscis becomes stiff and this helps it penetrate deeper into the throat than it would otherwise. Since the facehugger has attacked a man, the proboscis must penetrate as far down as possible. If it is a woman, the proboscis does not have to penetrate as far down and that is because women have a uterus and the eggs that the facehugger ejects from its proboscis have an easier time getting attached and growing in the uterus than in the men's chest/stomach. It is not always that the eggs start growing in the stomach of the men, but they end up in the chest.
The stiff proboscis continues to penetrate deeper through Matthias' neck in an almost continuous motion but eventually it reaches no further and stops. The proboscis swells and it begins to eject enormous quantities of eggs. The eggs are black and the size of a cooked grain of rice and they are very soft. There is a thin protective shell around each egg and it disappears when it mixes with body fluids. Hundreds of eggs shoot out from the proboscis and they move from Matthias' neck down through the body. The proboscis is almost like a powerful machine gun when it ejects the eggs. One of the eggs will absorb the nutrients in the stomach or chest and grow into a chestbuster. The fact that so many eggs are ejected is because not all the eggs are viable enough to absorb any nutrients and grow. It is therefore exactly the same as when animals and humans mate. Only one sperm is viable and will grow in the animals and humans wombs. The proboscis continues to eject hundreds of eggs, but the eggs run out after just under two minutes.
The proboscis becomes slack and is drawn back into the facehugger. A woman comes down on the platform and she sees Matthias and the facehugger covering his face and she starts running towards Matthias to get rid of the beast covering his face. The Facehugger lets go of Matthias's face and runs away with the help of its long fingers and tail. The woman running towards Matthias and the facehugger almost manages to grab the facehugger's long tail but loses her grip on it and the facehugger disappears along the track where the trains run.
The woman tries to make contact with Matthias, but he does not respond to her calls and is completely still. The woman calls for help and a security guard comes running and he asks what has happened. The woman looks almost panicked.
- He was attacked by a small beast and it was stuck all over his face, but when I arrived, the beast ran off in that direction and the man does not respond to calls.
The woman points in the direction the facehugger ran towards and the security guard goes over there shining a strong flashlight but he can't see any beast anywhere. The security guard walks back to the woman and the lying man. The security guard can see that there is some blood under the man's head and that his lips look slimy.
- I didn't see any beast where you pointed. I wonder if I should have a doctor examine the man. I think he hit the back of the head. What did the beast roughly look like?
- Hmm. It looked like a big hand with long fingers and a very long tail. I think it was light brown.
- Mmm Okay. I intend to contact a colleague to find out if he thinks the man needs medical attention or not. Are you staying with him while I talk to my colleague?
- Absolutely. I can take another train if mine goes.
- Good.
The security guard steps away while he calls his colleague. Meanwhile, Matthias suddenly opens his eyes and sees a beautiful woman looking at him. Matthias starts to lift his head and slowly stand up, but the woman calms him down.
- Calm now. Take it easy. The security guard thinks you've hit your head.
Matthias coughs a few times and his throat almost feels like dry ash.
- Water. I need to drink water.
The woman hands out an almost unused Loka and Matthias gratefully accepts the drink and begins to drink from it. It hurts a little in Matthias' throat, but the cold water makes it hurt less.
- Thanks so much.
Matthias hands the bottle to the woman but she smiles at him.
- You can keep it if you want. I have another one in my backpack and it's unopened.
The security guard comes back and he sees that the man is awake and drinking a Loka. The security guard squats in front of the man and looks at him searchingly.
- How are you? Do you have pain anywhere?
Matthias coughs lightly.
- I have a bit of a sore throat and was dizzy at the beginning but feel better.
- What is your name and where are you going?
- My name is Matthias Degelfors and I am going to Hässelby. I live there.
Matthias takes out his ID and shows it to the security guard. The security guard sees that the name is correct. Another security guard walks up to Matthias and wants to shine in his eyes. Matthias thinks it's okay.
The other security guard shines in Matthias' eyes and they react in a normal way. The other security guard gently presses Matthias' body and asks if it hurts when he presses the different places but it doesn't. The security guard also looks behind Matthias' head and feels how it feels there. Finally, the other security guard nods and starts talking.
- The eyes react normally to light and the man doesn't seem to be in pain anywhere when I press his body. He may have had a mild concussion and I don't think he needs any medical attention.
The first security guard agrees and they leave Matthias and the woman. Matthias looks at the timetable showing the next train and his train will enter the platform in just under two minutes. Matthias smiles at the woman.
- My train will arrive in about two minutes. Thanks for the drink.
A train arrives on the other side of the platform.
- Oh, it was so little. Ah, now my train is coming.
The woman quickly waves her hand and hurries to the train on the other side. A few minutes later, Matthias' train arrives and he enters the subway train and sits down in an empty seat. Matthias places his case on the floor. The doors are open for a few minutes.
The second security guard goes up to the first floor while the first security guard stays on the platform and checks that everything is in order. The security guard throws some rubbish in a bin and he is about to leave the platform when he sees the egg that contained the facehugger. The security guard walks up to the egg and looks at it. He recognizes it and knows what it is and he wonders who put the egg here. The security guard knows that people who have seen the Alien movies might get worried if they see an egg like this standing on the platform. The doors on the train close and it begins to roll forward.
The security guard gently feels the empty egg and it doesn't feel like a plastic toy but something organic. The security guard remembers how the woman described the beast stuck in Matthias's face and the security guard realizes that is a very good description of a facehugger. The security guard presses his hands into the empty egg and realizes with horror that it must be a real Alien egg. The structure inside the egg is so unique and organic that it must be real. The security guard looks at the rolling train and realizes that it needs to be stopped and the man who was attacked needs to be isolated. The security guard picks up his walkie talkie and calls the traffic authority that controls whether the trains can depart or not and it beeps busy.
The facehugger that attacked Matthias is down on the train track running around there and it's on the side of the train that Matthias is in. The facehugger feels the vibrations from the approaching train but doesn't move. The driver of the train cannot see the facehugger because it is so far down the track. The hard steel wheels run over the body of the facehugger and the yellow acidic blood sprays up over the front wheel and right up to the glass window. There is only a low crunching sound in the tunnel when the facehugger is run over. The facehugger's acidic blood immediately begins to corrode the front wheel but also the glass window. None of the people riding in the carriage notices that smoke is starting to come from the glass window and from the wheels. Most people look at their mobiles and send SMS. Matthias does not sit in the same carriage, so he does not see when the glass window smokes and small air holes form in it.
The subway train comes out of the dark tunnel and into the sunlight and sharp sun flashes are created from the mobile screens. The driver notices that one of the front wheels is smoking and he immediately becomes worried and calls the traffic authority. The steel on the front wheel is almost completely gone and a few seconds later it completely loses contact with the track and the Subway train stops with a loud screeching sound and the sharp smell of overheated metal. Many of the travelers in the three different carriages look up from their cell phones and frown. It's a delay again. Many want to go home to their children and families. Matthias sighs and takes the food from the box and begins to eat and drink Loka.
Meanwhile, while Matthias eats, a creature forms in his stomach and a creature like this has never been in a living person except in the world of the movie. The creature is snake-like and grows rapidly. It's a chestbuster and it eats up all the food that Matthias has eaten during the day and even the food that gets into his stomach. Matthias cannot yet feel the movements of the chestbuster in his stomach and he is unaware that it is there. The chestbuster continues to grow from all the nutrition it receives.
The security guard who discovered the egg has contacted a manager and he explains the situation but the manager does not believe him. In the meantime, while they are talking, the person in charge finds out that the train in question has stopped outside the tunnel and that it is currently 25 meters above the ground. The security guard asks if it is possible to pull the train back to the station and is told that it is possible but it will take over an hour before it can be done. The security guard swears silently when he learns the answer.
The front of the subway train starts to lean to the left because the front wheel is completely gone and the driver gets out in the first car and explains to all the passengers that they must get into cars two and three. Otherwise, there is a risk that the subway train could fall off the track. Then all passengers and the driver will die. Those sitting in carriage one go directly to carriages two and three. The two carriages are full of people.
Brunkebergstunneln
At the same time that Matthias discovers the egg in the T-Centralen, a fat woman comes walking through Brunkebergstunneln and she is quite close to the exit which is at Tunnelgatan. The woman's name is Mary and she is going to take the ferry to Gröna lund, but first she has to go through the entire Brunkebergstunneln and all the way down to Skeppsholmen. Mary could have taken a subway train and got off closer to Skeppsholmen, but she needs to reduce her weight properly and then it is good to walk as much as possible. Mary doesn't have time to fit so she doesn't move that fast through the tunnel but she has her cell phone in front of her and is chatting with an acquaintance.
Because Mary is so busy chatting, she doesn't see the big Alien egg until she trips over it and lands on the ground. Mary drops her cell phone and it goes off on the ground and she sees the egg she tripped over. Mary rises from the ground and angrily swears at whoever put the egg in the tunnel. The egg senses Mary's presence and opens like a large flower. Mary looks at the open egg and she sees something moving in it. Mary has never seen an egg like this before and she wonders if it is dangerous. The facehugger prepares to leave the egg and it flexes its long tail.
The Facehugger explodes out of the egg and lands on Mary's face. The facehugger releases lots of chemicals and Mary loses consciousness and she tumbles to the ground but she ends up with her head and upper body against the soft egg. Mary's hair is very long and it is filled with lots of slime that runs down the sides of the egg. Slime welled up along the edges of the egg as the Facehugger jumped out of the egg. The facehugger thrusts its proboscis through Mary's mouth and the proboscis immediately senses that this is a woman and that it therefore does not have to penetrate so deeply. The proboscis can feel the small variations in the mouth that tell if it is a male or a female that it has attacked.
The proboscis stiffens as it continues down Mary's throat. The proboscis moves in an uninterrupted motion and soon it has penetrated far enough down. The proboscis swells up and a few seconds later it begins to squirt large quantities of small eggs down Mary's throat. The eggs are released very quickly and they move directly down to the uterus. Some of the eggs are not viable and stick further up but most are viable. The thin shell over the eggs dissolves and some of them start to grow, but it is already one egg that grows faster than the others and when it gets bigger, it eats the other eggs. The proboscis continues to eject the black small eggs and they eject with great force. But the eggs run out after barely two minutes and the proboscis becomes completely limp and is drawn back into the facehugger.
The Facehugger lets go of Mary's face and scitters away in the tunnel and it is almost at the entrance and exit at Tunnelgatan when it stops moving and dies. The long finger like digits are pulled inward against its body as it dies and soon it looks more like a large slimy lumpfish with a long tail. A few minutes later, two middle-aged men come through the entrance and they get a direct view of the facehugger and they approach it cautiously.
The two men turn around the facehugger and they see its 8 digits that looks like fingers and it´s slimy insides. They have both seen the Alien movies and know immediately what it is that they have found. One man raises his eyebrows and the other thinks it's cool to find this beast here.
- But wow. Look. That is a facehugger from the Alien movies. What is doing here?
The man who thinks it's cool that they found the facehugger grabs the facehugger's long tail and holds it up in the air. The man then begins to feel the internal organs of the facehugger and he manages to pull out the proboscis a long way.
- It must be this one that the facehugger uses when it lays its eggs in people. Feel how soft it is.
But his friend absolutely does not want to feel the facehugger's proboscis.
- No eww. That thing looks disgusting. Even if it's not real, I don't want to feel it.
- How boring. Blame yourself then. Kalle, Can you take some photos of me holding the facehugger? You can use my mobile
- I can absolutely do that.
Kalle receives Jesper's mobile phone and takes several photos of him holding the facehugger's tail and also some photos of him pulling its proboscis and some photos of him holding its 8 digits..
Jesper gets his mobile phone back and he puts it in his trouser pocket. He wants to feel more about the facehugger and he lays it down on the floor and lifts some of its organs and sees what it looks like under them. Jesper's hands get really sticky from all the mucus that is under and on the organs, but he doesn't think it matters. Jesper manages to pull out the long 8 digits of the facehugger so that they are fully extended.
- Look, just like a big hand with fingers.
- Um. You don't forget to wash your hands before you eat, do you?
Jesper laughs at the question and continues to pull on the facehugger's internal organs and he accidentally makes a big hole in one of the organs. The yellow blood begins to flow out of the hole and onto the ground. It sizzles loudly as the yellow blood flows onto the ground and after a few seconds it also starts to smoke from the ground and both Jesper and Kalle see as the yellow blood eats away part of the ground in front of them. It takes them a few seconds to realize that this creature actually has caustic acid as blood.
- Oh my gosh. Do you see?. It actually has acid as blood. How in the world can that be true?
- Um i don´t know. This actually feels a bit scary. Where does it come from?
- I have no idea, but I'll take a look around.
Jesper takes out his mobile phone and takes several pictures of the yellow blood and the corroded ground in front of him. Jesper no longer wants to feel the facehugger and he leaves it on the ground. Both Jesper and Kalle decide to continue walking in the tunnel and it doesn't take long until they see an open Alien egg and there is a fat woman lying next to the egg. Jesper and Kalle carefully approach the woman and when they are at her place, she opens her eyes and stares at them in surprise. The female has her head against the egg and her hair looks very slimy and sticky.
The woman gets up clumsily and looks thoughtfully at the egg and sees her mobile phone that has slipped a bit and she picks it up and starts walking towards the entrance and exit. Jesper and Kalle look at each other and wonder if they should talk to the woman and find out how she is doing. It should be most natural. But the woman walks relatively fast and they decide to leave her alone. Jesper looks down into the open egg and there is lots of transparent slime at the bottom. Jesper puts his hand into the egg and fishes out some of the slime and quickly turns to Kalle. Kalle doesn't want the slime on him and backs away quickly.
- Eww. Remove that. I don't want to get that slime on me.
- Huh. We can mess with it and play with it. It feels very soft.
- Keep that to yourself, please. It looks so disgusting and smells very weird too.
- Do you think an Alien queen has been here and popped out the egg?
- No, I really don't think so. It would be so absurd if she existed.
- That would have been so damn awesome.
Jesper pulls the slime-filled hand against the wall and most of the slime disappears from his hand. Jesper and Kalle continue through Brunkebergstunneln while Mary approaches Gamla stan.
Mary walks faster than she did before and she gets very sweaty and soon she is at Skeppsholmen and according to the timetable there should be a ferry in about 20 minutes. Mary is hungry and she buys a large hamburger with extra everything at the kiosk. When the hamburger is ready, Mary sits down on a bench and eats her food.
Skeppsholmen
Michael catches sight of Mary as she sits eating and he reacts when he sees her slimy hair. Michael thinks the slime resembles the slime of the Alien monsters and he wonders if she has been attacked by a facehugger. It looks like something has been sitting hard over the woman's face which reinforces Michael's theory.
Sven notices that Michael is staring very intensely at the fat woman and he clears his throat.
- It's rude to stare at people. You know about that, right?
Michael turns and looks at Sven.
- I didn't stare. I just looked at her. There's nothing wrong with that, right?
- I thought it looked like you looked at her for a very long time. Is it someone you know?
- No, I don't know her. Erm. I'm just going to the bathroom.
- Sure okay.
Michael leaves the bench and goes to a public toilet and puts in some coins. When he enters the toilet, he relieves himself, but he also sits and thinks about whether the woman has been attacked by a facehugger or not. If she has been attacked, Michael hopes that she will not be in the same boat as he and Sven. There is a high chance that a chestbuster will explode from her chest or stomach and even though Michael wished the Alien monsters were real, he doesn't want to be around when a chestbuster is born because he himself could be injured by it in that case. Michael leaves the toilet and sits next to Sven again and they talk about different things. Michael avoids thinking about the Alien monsters when he talks to Sven.
Mary picks up her mobile phone and starts chatting with a friend. Mary feels some pain in her neck and she has vague memories of being attacked by some monster but she can't remember what it looked like and it makes her easily frustrated.
In the meantime, the egg in her stomach has fully grown and is beginning to change into a new life form. The new life form looks almost like a long snake but has steel teeth. The creature absorbs the nourishment from the food Mary has just swallowed and it moves a little. Mary can faintly feel its movements and she looks up from her mobile and feels her stomach in surprise. What was that? Mary has been pregnant once and the movement she just felt was reminiscent of her baby moving in the womb. Mary becomes confused.
Am I pregnant again?
But Mary hasn't felt any other symptoms that indicate she is pregnant and she sighs and thinks that that movement was probably just either her imagination or her bowels moving a little violently but oh how wrong she is.
Disclaimer: Facehugger, Chestburster, Alien, Alien Warriors, Alien Queen Belongs to Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
