บท 125: Xenomorph (2735 words)
I wiggle my body around and immediately notice the lack of any limbs.
'Reincarnation it is, and it seems likely that I became some kind of snake or worm.' Trying to move with my new body I come to the conclusion that there is only one way to escape my current prison which feels wet and mushy with some pulsing and hard parts.
Without hesitation I open my mouth and take a bite from whatever was in front of me.
It tastes delicious, overcome with a strong hunger I continue to eat my surrounding's.
At some point I heard screams, but I ignored them in favor of eating a bit more.
I don't know how long or much I ate of my prison, but finally I felt full.
With my hunger satisfied I once again focus on freeing myself.
Instead of eating everything around me, I instead start digging a straight path in hopes of breaking through to freedom.
A wet sound was heard when I breach the last layer of my prison and I instinctively let out a screeching sound.
My reasoning kicks in just a second too late and I snap my mouth shut, it is pretty dumb to announce my presence without even knowing the general situation.
I look at my surroundings and realize that I'm in some kind of medical ward.
Looking down I finally understood what exactly my 'Prison' was.
A human corpse with a from pain distorted expression lies underneath me.
My brownish snake body comes straight out of the burst open chest of the human corpse.
'Well… looks like I'm a Xenomorph.' I think as my current situation is way too similar to that of Chestburster from the movie 'Alien'.
'If I'm really a Xenomorph then it would be the best to hide for now and wait till I'm fully grown, it should only take some hours if what is told in the movies is right.' Exiting the corpses chest entirely I first clean off all the blood on my body on the clothes and sheets that cover the corpse before slithering towards a ventilation grill.
I use my tail to pry it open and disappear inside.
'Am I on a spaceship? or on an unfamiliar planet? Maybe I'm on earth, I really need to figure this out in order to plan some general course of action.' Slithering through the ventilation system I look out from some of the ventilation grids in order to gain a better picture of my surroundings.
'Boya! Jackpot.!' I cheer as I look out of ventilation grid at a map on the opposite wall.
I carefully study the layout of the different rooms and corridors connecting them.
'From the looks of it this is a space station with multiple facilities and a fully self-sufficient life support system.
I need to figure out if I am the only Xeno or if there are more, maybe there's even a queen.' With lots of stuff to do I make my way to one of the storage areas.
On my way there I molted multiple times leaving pieces of my shed skin in the ventilation system, with each molting my limbs become more pronounced and my body size increases.
By the time I arrived at the 'Storage Zone13' I already reach a height of 1,80m and a length of 3.60m with my tail that has a sharp bladed tip.
'Damn I grew fast. It seems like the movies were right. It only took me around three hours to grow to this stage. One or two more and I should be fully matured.' I push open the ventilation grid in front of me and silently enter the storage zone.
My black biomechanical armor smoothly blends in with the shadows and hide me form the surveillance cameras.
Im planning to use this storage are as my temporary base, in order for that to be possible I have to block the security without destroying them because that would alarm the guard or whoever is in charge of the surveillance.
I approach some of the many boxes full of resources and equipment and start searching through them for something useful.
After a while I found something useful.
A gun that sprays a sticky foam that is used to seal cracks or holes temporary.
With this gun in hand, I climb up to each camera and seal the microphones shut so that they can no longer record any sounds from inside the storage room.
Now that I no longer have to worry about being silent, I'm able to search through more of the boxes and containers and only need to make sure that I'm not seen.
Eventually I came across some uninstalled screens, combined with some extension cables and a camera I somehow managed to place the screens in front of the cameras while playing a picture of the storage room on the screen.
It did take me multiple hours because I had to read through all the instruction manuals and some other guides and books about electronics.
Luckily it seems that my transformation into Xenomorph has drastically increased my memory capabilities.
Standing at an impressive 2.50m tall and 4.80m long I curiously inspect my fully grown body.
To my surprise I notice that different than the normal Xenomorph drones I do in fact not possess those protruding tubes on my back, my whole body has a lot more streamline and sleek design to it.
My libs are also covered in smooth matt black armor with only some small spaces where one can see grey skin.
The banana shaped head of mine is also very smooth with the same matt black at the upper side and dark grey on the lower.
When I have my mouth closed it is covered completely by two smooth armor plates that retract to the side when I open my mouth.
'I surely don't look like a normal drone, I'm not sure why but I surely don't complain about it.' After familiarizing myself with my now fully grown body I once again move up to a ventilation grid and carelessly tear it off before climbing inside.
'It is really surprising how easy it is for me to move around in here even with my size.' Silently but with a considerable speed I mover through the space station following the map which I memorized.
While moving around I made sure to not get into contact with any of the humans around the station, it wouldn't bring me any benefits to reveal myself to them right now.
I got something much more important to do.
'I need to find out if I'm the only Xenomorph on this station, the easiest method would be to get access to the stations log and search for any information about an alien lifeform that has been discovered.
For that I need a high enough access key and actually know where to search.' I turn left on an intersection and make my way to the surveillance room.
The goal there is to get access to the security system and also interrogate whoever is unlucky enough to be there.
Communication shouldn't be much of a problem, the manuals and guides I read in the storage room were written in English, so it shouldn't be hard for me to understand what my prey is saying, as for my incapability to speak? That is easily solved by a simple device with keypad that I found in the storage room.
The device is easy to operate, and I can strap it to my forearm, pretty convenient if you ask me.
On my way to the surveillance room, I passed one or two labs which I checked out to make sure that there aren't any eggs, Facehuggers or the like stored there.
To my disappointment and relive I didn't find anything the like, it would be bad I the people here started researching my kind, but it also makes it harder to find any allies.
Eventually I arrive at my destination and carefully spy inside the room in which three people are chatting carefreely.
They all wear uniforms making me belief that they are guards.
I'm able to identify three tools that look suspiciously like guns on the belts of each guard and a single rifle which is held by one of the three.
'Why does only one of them have a rifle? Wouldn't it be normal to equip all the guards with the same set of equipment?' I change my focus from the three individuals to the surrounding and look around for a bit.
It didn't take long for me to notice the two rifles standing in a corner near the door.
'They should belong to the remaining two guards, maybe I can use them to finish them all off faster.' I think for a moment before discarding the idea, the guns would make too much noise, I'm trying to be sneaky after all.
'I need to cause a distraction if I want to catch them all by surprise, otherwise one of them might start shooting and alarm others nearby.' For a few minutes I try to come up with something that could work.
'Wait! Can't Xenomorph drones produce some kind of resin from their mouths?' I immediately try it out, if it works then I can use this to cause a minor distraction.
Opening my mouth which was covered by two smooth armor plates I spit at one of the walls in the ventilation system and watch the translucent liquid slowly slide downwards.
After a few seconds the translucent salvia turned blackish grey and took on a gooey consistency.
Prying the resin off the wall I form it into a small ball around the size of a baseball.
Weighing the ball in my hand for a moment I decide that it should be enough to distract the three guards.
With that I silently open the ventilation grill which is located in upper right corner of the wall where the door is located and crawl out keeping myself close to the ground.
Craning back my left arm I prepare to throw the gooey ball of resin directly at the guard farthest away from me.
At the same time, I make sure that I'm ready to instantly jump froth once the guards are distracted.
My arm shoots forth and the gooey ball crashes with a wet sound into back of the guard's head, attracting the other two guards attention.
The muscles in my legs already sent me forward before the ball even hit the guard.
I whiz by the closest guard and swing my clawed hands at the second closest one's throat.
The guard which I passed looked shocked and terrified at me but before he could make a sound my tail wraps around his neck and lifts him off ground.
Blood gushes out of the guard's throat as my claws cut through it cleanly and before he even hit the floor I was on my way to the last one.
Turning around with an angry expression the guard hit with the resin was ready to shout some curses, but they all got stuck in his throat when he saw the 2.50m big creature with equally long tail rushing at him.
Clawed hands clasp around his throat and cover his mouth before he got roughly pushed to the ground by the strange creature covered in smooth matt black armor.
The room is silent except for the struggling gurgling sound of the guard whose throat was cut open.
I slowly increase the pressure on the two captured guard's throats in order to make them pass out form the lack of oxygen.
It doesn't take long for their faces to take on a bluish color before they went limb under my grip.
After confirming that they still have a pulse I start making more of the resin and begin webbing the two guards mouth shut.
The resin has a surprisingly many ways of application, in the end I webbed the two guards onto a wall not allowing them to move.
Finished with taking care of the guards I go over to the door which leads out into the corridor.
Prying open the access panel for the door I search for the power cable and cut it with one of my claws.
Now the door has no longer any power making it impossible for any one to enter or leave through this door without being strong enough to bend reinforced steel or heavy metal cutting equipment.
Just to be safe I also add multiple layers of resin and reinforced them with pieces of chairs and tables to give me the maximal amount of time once someone is trying to enter.
A muffled cry was heard in the silent surveillance room, and I turn to the two guards webbed to the wall.
One of them, the one I chocked out with my tail, is starring wide eyed at me with fear and despair in his eyes.
His eyes flicker from me to the still fresh corpse of his companion on the floor before focusing back to me.
'Well, looks like it's time to interrogate some people.' I approach the guard with slow steps and intentionally let my claws hit the floor, producing an eerie clicking sound with every step I take.
Once I'm only a meter away from him I raise my arm on which I attached the device with the keypad and start tipping in my question.
[Do you have any information about my kind?]
I show him the device with the question.
At first, he just stared on in confusion and fear, but eventually he understood and desperately shock his head as much as he could.
I tilt my head a bit to the side and start tipping a new question into the device.
[Where there any recent discoveries/interaction with possible alien life?]
The guard reacts faster this time and hesitantly shook his head.
My tail twirls around and impales the left leg of the guard with the bladed tip.
He screams form pain but it all got muffled down to an indistinguishable sound.
I calmly tip something new into the device.
[Don't try to lie to me, if you try again I'm going to eat you starting from the legs and work my way up, understood?]
The two smooth armor plates hiding my mouth open up and I bare my teeth at him, just to give him some extra fear I also extend my inner mouth which is a lot longer and more dexterous than a normal Xenomorph's.
All the remaining color drains form the guards face, and he nods his head rapidly.
[Let me ask you again. Where there any recent discoveries/interaction with possible alien life?]
The guards slowly nod.
[Did that discovery entail fleshy eggs or spider like creatures with long tail that tried to jump onto people's faces?]
Surprise covers the guards face as he once again nods.
After a moment an expression of realization appears on his face, and he stares wide eyed at me.
'So they did discover some Xenomorph eggs and even experienced the Facehuggers, I need to act fast before they can get their hands on too much research.
Turning away from the guard that is now bleeding from one of his legs I walk over to one of the already activated computers and start searching through the space stations database for information about the eggs.
To my surprise they actually named the eggs and Facehuggers the same way as in the movies.
When I tried to access the files, a window popped up and asks me for a password.
'Looks like the information is protected after all, luckily I got two hostages that I can squeeze dry for information.' With that I turn my attention back to the two guards on the wall.
With swift movements I tip a new question into my forearm mounted device and show it to the bleeding guard.
After making sure that he read the question I raise one finger and place it before my mouth in a shushing gesture.
The guard nods fearfully and I then proceed to carefully remove the gooey resin covering his mouth.
Just to be safe I keep one of my hands around his throat so that I can squeeze it shut if he tried to scream.
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