Kay flickered in and out of consciousness. Was she being carried? She wasn't sure. She shut her eyes. When she opened them again, she was lying on the floor of a lift. Where was she going? She slipped back into unconsciousness.

When she woke again, Andy was lying her down in the same bed on the Corbelan she had fallen asleep on, earlier that day.

She had to vomit, very badly. She did not know where she found the strength, but she stumbled to the toilet. She had not eaten anything since the last time she had ended up here, so only a thin stream of bile came out of her mouth.

That marked the third time she had been knocked unconscious in… what? The last hour?

She tried to struggle to her feet, but failed miserably, gripping the edge of the toilet so as to not fall to the floor entirely.

"You should get some rest", she heard Andy say.

With a head injury? You must be joking.

Kay felt around at the back of her head, and her fingers came away bloody when she looked at them.

Definitely not safe to fall asleep now.

"Andy?" she croaked. "Could you find some medical supplies, please?"

Then as Andy crawled away, Kay spotted the case of Z-01 they had taken from the lab.

It worked on the rat. Why shouldn't it work on me?

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"T-minus ten minutes to impact event."

Ben reluctantly pulled away from Rain's lips.

"Time to go, I think", he said, and he saw her nod. His arm was throbbing in pain.

"Aubrie, can you…" he motioned towards his arm.

He saw the look on his apprentice's face. She was dangerously close to running out of energy, and they both knew if she used too much to heal him, her body would lose enough energy to keep properly functioning… even enough to stop her heart from beating.

But Aubrie suddenly set her jaw, and nodded.

That's my girl. Ben knew Aubrie well enough to know she did not include the word "quit" in her vocabulary, and she placed her hands on his broken arm. Ben grit his teeth as he felt the bone knit back together, and he flexed his fingers.

Good as new.

"Well done, Aubrie, thank you-"

Then Aubrie fell forward, her eyes rolling into the back of her head.

"No!"

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Rain and Ben caught Aubrie as she fainted, lowering her to the ground.

"We have to go, now", she said to Ben. "She can rest on the ship."

Ben nodded, pain and guilt written all over his face. He scooped up Aubrie's lightsaber, then picked Aubrie herself up in a fireman's carry. They started moving towards the hole in the door the Inquisitor had cut with his lightsaber. Then suddenly, a steel door slammed down in the corridor ahead of them. Then another slammed down on the corridor they had all come through to get there.

"You're wasting your time", Rain heard a voice say, and was shocked to see Rook, the other synthetic, displayed on a screen.

"Hey!" Rain yelled at him. "Please help us! Open the door."

Rook smiled coldly. "I'm afraid I must deny your petition. I can't risk compromising the compound, which you'll be glad to know has made it onto your ship. But know, I am truly grateful for the help you have provided to the company."

Rain screamed, and opened fire with her blaster, damaging the screen.

Ben put Aubrie down, and started cutting a hole in the door with his lightsaber. Then suddenly, without warning he stopped.

"What are you doing?!"

Ben turned around, looking down the corridor, and Rain saw what he had heard.

More Xenomorphs.

"Shit", she heard Ben whisper, "I'll never be able to cut our way through before they're on us."

"Indeed", Rook said. "I can't lie to you about your chances, Master Jedi, but… you have my sympathies."

Ben's only response was to drive his lightsaber through the screen, shutting it down.

"We're going to have to go through them", he said. "Can you help me carry Aubrie?"

"I have to", Rain replied. Even now, Ben had not given up, and she felt his determination inspire her.

They would fight. For each other, for Aubrie… for their baby. They would fight.

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"I have a really, really bad idea", Ben said to Rain.

"Will it get us out of here?" She asked.

"It'll increase our chances", he replied.

Rain smiled. "Then what are we waiting for?"

Ben walked over to the control panel on the wall, activating the zero-gravity generator.

"Wait… what?" he heard Rain ask.

"The Xenomorph's have never fought in zero-gravity before. But I have."

He heard the creatures approaching next to them, as a ten-second countdown started.

"When it activates, they'll be caught off guard. When that happens, shoot them with your rifle", he instructed Rain.

"Okay", Rain said. "But what about their blood?"

"Let me worry about that", Ben replied and as the zero-g kicked in, he used the Force to secure Rain, Aubrie and himself to the floor.

Sure enough, once they started floating off the floor, the creatures were taken by surprise, scrabbling at nothing as they were lifted into the air.

"Shoot the closest one!" Ben yelled at Rain. His girlfriend let go a barrage of blaster bolts, hitting the alien in the chest and head. As it reeled back in death, Ben saw small drops of green blood leaving its body.

Shit.

Ben reached out, collecting the blood and suspending it in mid-air, away from the floor or walls.

"Shoot the rest! Let me worry about the blood!" he yelled.

Rain opened fire, Ben catching every drop of blood he could, driving it away from the walls.

The Xenomorphs were caught completely off guard, and at close range, in such a narrow corridor, Rain couldn't miss if she tried.

As the last of them fell back, dead, Ben focused on suspending the last of the blood.

Then he noticed one of the parasitical face-huggers heading straight towards them.

"Rain!"

She saw it, and blasted it away.

Ben let out a sigh of relief, and turned to Rain.

"Just so you know", he said, "you're a fucking badass. Did you know that?"

Rain's eyes opened wide at his use of the word fucking, then laughed.

"What can I say? It's a blessing and a curse."

She leaned in to kiss him. "Oh, and just so you know", she mumbled, her pupils dilating, "I am more than open to talk about… fucking… later on."

Ben grinned, and kissed her back.

As they made their way through the corridor, pulling the still-unconscious Aubrie between them, Ben focused on keeping the blood away from them with the Force, twisting it and parting it when it got in their way.

He felt a wrench in his gut as he saw Tyler and Bjorn's bodies floating in zero-g.

"Ben…"

"We have to leave them. I'm sorry, but there's just no time."

Ben didn't feel right about it, but he there was no option available where they brought the boys' bodies with them and still had time to make it off.

As they propelled themselves towards the elevator, Ben cursed as he realised it wasn't there.

Andy must have forgotten to send it back down.

"The elevator won't work without gravity", he heard Rain say.

Fuck. Should've realised that.

"Okay",

They let Aubrie's body float in mid-air while they shut the grate.

"Ready?" Rain asked.

Ben nodded, and they pushed themselves up, Ben gripping on to Aubrie. But as they did so, Rain was jerked back behind him.

"Rain!" Ben saw the Xenomorph's tail curling around her leg as he rose up. Quickly, Rain turned around and shot the tail off with her blaster, and the recoil sent her spinning back into the wall, where Ben heard her grunt with pain. Quickly, he wound one hand around Aubrie's body and propelled himself towards the ladder with the Force, locking his feet around it and using his free hand to steady Rain in mid-air.

He began to draw Rain towards him as he lay perpendicular to the ladder, his feet wound around the ladder's rungs. But as he did so, he heard an alarm blaring.

No! Not now!

"Gravity purge! Grab on to the rungs!" He yelled at Rain, frantically twisting around with his feet, switching Aubrie back to a fireman's carry with one hand while quickly moving around and propelling Rain towards the rungs with his other hand. As he saw Rain grab on, just below him, Ben quickly used his now-free hand to grab on to the rungs himself.

Then Ben felt something dropping down, and turned his head to look.

Shit. The elevator, now free of the burden of zero-gravity, was hurtling straight towards them.

Still carrying Aubrie, Ben was forced to once again use the Force with only his free hand to push the elevator away, to stop it from crushing them. Hanging on by only his feet, physically and mentally drained after the events of the last hour, Ben didn't know how long he could hold the elevator off.

Just until the zero-g kicks in again. Then you can-

"BEN!" Rain screamed.

"Huh?" Ben looked down. Oh God. Not again.

They could see a brand new host of Xenomorphs clambering up the walls with incredible speed, clearly intent on tearing them apart.

What could he do? Both his hands were in use.

"Ben?" he heard a voice speak groggily in his ear.

"Aubrie, you have either the worst timing in the galaxy, or the best", Ben replied.

"W-what?"

"Elevator, right above us. Force push upwards, NOW!"

Aubrie understood, and instantly reached up, sending the elevator skyrocketing upwards.

Good girl.

Ben dropped Aubrie downwards, and she instantly came back to life, arching in mid-air and latching on to the rungs in between Ben and Rain.

Then they all heard the elevator rushing back down.

"FLATTEN YOURSELEVES!" Ben roared, pushing himself against the rungs.

As the girls did the same, the lift sailed downwards, smashing right into the Xenomorphs and crushing them into the floor.

But as he began to let out a sigh of relief, Ben heard Rain scream again.

Directly across from her was a lone, surviving Xenomorph staring right at her and preparing itself to jump.

Ben saw Aubrie pat around on her belt.

"Wait, where's my-"

But Ben had already launched himself off the ladder. Both his and Aubrie's lightsabers ignited as he smashed into the creature, slicing it into a dozen parts in a dizzying swirl of green and blue.

Once he had sliced it apart, Ben let the pieces fall to the floor as he clipped both lightsabers to his belt in mid-air, then twisted and caught on to the ladder below the girls.

"Oh, thank God", he heard Rain say above him.

Ben was inclined to agree.

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As they clambered up to the top of the ladder, Rain heard the final countdown begin.

"Impact event in ten, nine, eight…"

They could see the Corbelan's entrance above them.

"Come on!" Aubrie yelled, launching herself an impossible distance upwards into the entrance.

Rain gaped.

"It's okay", Ben said, wrapping his arm around her waist, "you'll learn how to do that, in time."

Holding her tightly, he launched them upwards after Aubrie, setting Rain down on the floor of the entrance.

Shutting the door behind them, they made their way up to the cockpit.

"What took you so long?" Kay mumbled from the chair she was sitting in.

Smiling with relief, Rain gave her a hug. "Let's get you out of here."

"I am glad to see you made it". Enraged, Rain saw Rook's face on one of the Corbelan's monitors, and was about to yell some very offensive swear words at him when, to her astonishment, Ben clambered into the pilot's seat.

"Can you fly the ship?"

"All Jedi are trained pilots", Ben replied, taking control and flying the Corbelan out of the hangar bay, as the space station behind them began to crash into the asteroid field.

"The company couldn't be… prouder… of what's been accomplished here today. I have sent a message through to the Empire. When they arrive, they will take control of the compound for further development", Rook spoke, a smug tone in his voice.

"I don't think so," Rain replied. "There's been a change of plans."

"What? No! Andy, stop them! Reconnect us, now."

Rain had heard enough.

"I'm afraid I must deny your petition. Have a nice day", she said sarcastically, shutting the monitor off.

Then she turned to Andy, and the moment she did, she instantly saw the regret and despair on his face.

"Rain… I… I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry-" he was cut off as Rain pulled him into a hug.

"It's okay", she said, burying her face in her brother's chest, "I know that wasn't you, it's okay".

She tried not to think about Tyler and Bjorn. She was not looking forward to what Kay might have to say about that.

As Ben drove the ship upwards, out of the gravitational pull of the asteroid belt, he suddenly switched to autopilot.

"I'm gonna go put the hyperfuel in", he said.

Rain nodded, but as she saw Ben head down towards the engine and out of sight, she decided to follow him. After the day they had just had, she could not suppress a surge of terror that if she let Ben out of her sight for a single moment, something terrible would happen to him.

Clambering down the ladder, Rain set off for the engine room, letting out a sigh of relief as she saw Ben open the engine up and add the hyperfuel. As he closed the engine back up, he seemed startled to see Rain, as she shut the door behind her and locked it.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

Rain responded by slowly walking over to him and throwing her arms around his neck, pressing a very long, very deep kiss to his lips.

"Much better now", she smiled, kissing him again. And again. And again.

After everything they had seen and done today, this was all she wanted, and she felt herself getting wet as her sexual arousal started to spike. If there was one thing Rain had learnt about pregnancy during her first trimester, it was that you never really knew when the arousal was going to hit you. But when it did hit, it hit hard.

"Rain, we can't… they'll hear."

"I need you. Now. Right now. Let them hear", Rain replied, and she guided Ben's fingers down the front of her pants, so he could feel how wet she already was for him.

She saw his eyes darken with his own arousal, and he spun her around, pulling her pants down.

"Now. I need you now-"

Then Rain gasped out loud as she felt Ben's beautiful cock inside her, filling her up.

One of his hands reached around her waist to fiddle between her legs, while the other reached under her shirt, beneath her bra, cupping her right breast between his fingers and squeezing it lightly.

Rain stated to moan as she and Ben rocked themselves against each other, slowly at first, then more rapidly, her buttocks bouncing off his hips.

For the next few minutes, Rain's moans, Ben's grunts and the sound of their slapping flesh filled the engine room.

"Oh, God", Rain moaned. "Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop-"

Then, all too soon, Rain realised she was about to climax.

"I'm- I'm gonna-"

"It's alright. Let go. I've got you", Ben whispered in her ear.

Rain came with a scream, leaning her head back onto Ben to pull him into a kiss. As she did, she felt him finish inside her.

As the warmth of Ben's seed filled her up, Rain turned her head back to kiss him again.

"Thank you. For being alive, for saving me, for loving me. Thank you for all of it."

"If you're thanking me, I should definitely thank you too", Ben said, dipping his head to kiss her. "For showing me there was so much more to life than I ever thought-"

But Ben did not finish his sentence. For as he spoke, the lovers heard Kay let out an ear-splitting scream.

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Quickly disentangling himself from Rain, Ben pulled his jeans back up and sprinted out of the room. Clambering up the ladder into the cockpit, he was greeted with a sight he certainly did not expect to see.

Kay was sitting on the floor, nude from the waist down, and her belly was massive beneath her shirt.

"What- how- what-"

"She took the serum!" Aubrie barked. "Look at her neck!"

Ben did look, and was dismayed to see a small, black circle in the side of Kay's neck.

Aubrie was grasping Kay's hand. "Push- you have to push-"

Kay let out another scream as what looked like an avalanche of blood poured out from her.

Ben heard Rain retching behind him. "What- what's happening-"

"She took the serum", Ben said gravely, and he heard Rain moan in despair.

Kay let out a final, wailing sob, and pushed out what seemed to be a cocoon of sorts from her vagina, which was still attached to her via an umbilical cord.

"Get it- get it away, get it away from me!" She screamed, tears pouring down her cheeks.

Ben instantly activated his lightsaber and cut the umbilical cord as Kay howled in pain. He didn't know what Kay had just produced, but he knew where it was going. After everything they had been through today, he was not going to let anybody else get hurt.

Levitating the cocoon off the floor, he started to climb back down the ladder.

"What- where are you going?!" He heard Rain scream at him.

"I'm going to toss this thing out of the airlock!" He yelled back.

Still levitating the cocoon, he quickly sprinted down the corridor towards the airlock. But after the day he had just had, he had become very fatigued, and his fatigue led to a near-fatal mistake. Running on the grill, Ben stubbed his toe on the grating and fell face down, dropping the cocoon, which almost instantly melted the grate beneath it and fell straight down into the cargo bay.

In the moment before it dropped down, Ben could have sworn he saw a human face emerging from the cocoon, and he shuddered. He did not want to kill a baby, but in that moment, he did not know what choice he had.

Moving quickly, he clambered down the ladder into the cargo bay. Spying the cocoon, he ignited his lightsaber and stepped towards it, raising his weapon- only to find nothing within.

Ben stepped further into the bay, raising his lightsaber around him to see better… and was horrified to see footprints within the metal, steadily growing larger- and leading back towards where Ben had just come from.

Ben immediately swung himself back around just in time to see the creature climbing up the ladder and disappearing into the corridor.

For a moment, Ben thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. Though barely a few minutes old, the creature already looked bigger than he was.

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After telling Rain and Andy to stay with Kay, who was rolling around on the floor crying and gagging, Aubrie clambered down the ladder, setting off after Ben. Carefully stepping into the next room, Aubrie looked into the corridor ahead- and screamed out loud at what she saw. A gigantic, pale humanoid was crawling through the corridor towards her, and as it reached the room Aubrie was in, it stood upright, towering several feet above her.

I hope Kay forgives me for this, Aubrie thought, igniting her lightsaber.

The creature gazed at her blade, a fascinated expression on its face- and Aubrie launched herself upwards, swinging her lightsaber at her opponent's neck. But the creature ducked the killing blow, then slammed its fists into Aubrie's back. Aubrie hit the floor hard, the wind knocked out of her, then found herself picked back up and slammed back on to the floor, dropping her lightsaber as her head smashed into the ground.

No, she thought feebly, but she was already fading away. Then just as she was picked back up again, she saw a spinning green circle appear and slice off one of the creature's feet. The gigantic alien roared in pain and dropped Aubrie, her years of training kicking in as she twisted to land on her feet. Recalling her lightsaber back into her hand, Aubrie fought through her dizziness and drove her blade into the creature's stomach. Then her spinning head overcame her, and she collapsed to her knees.

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Ben summoned his lightsaber back into his hand and launched himself at the gigantic pale alien, slicing both its arms off, then its head. As its dismembered parts dropped to the floor, Ben stabbed the creature where he hoped its heart would be, just in case.

"Are you alright?" he asked his Padawan, who was wobbling to her feet.

"I think- I-" Aubrie managed to stammer out, before she bent over and vomited onto the floor, dropping back to her knees.

Quickly running over to Aubrie, Ben noticed she was bleeding from her head… and her left pupil was twice the size of her right.

Uh oh. Concussion.

Dragging Aubrie to her feet, Ben once again swept her into a fireman's carry as he clambered up the ladder into the cockpit.

"Is she alright?" He heard Rain ask.

Aubrie let out a confusing babble in response.

"No. She's not. We need to make the jump to Alderaan, right now."