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TEST SUBJECT 'XENO' SPECIMEN 10
AGE: 23
GENDER: FEMALE
SPECIES: XENOMORPH QUEEN/HUMAN HYBRID
HEIGHT: 6'5"
GENETICS: 10% XENO 80% HUMAN 10% UNKNOWN
why is 10% of the DNA Unidentifiable?
THAT DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE
Why?
UNKNOWN
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NAME: OSIRIS, TRAILIS
OCCUPATION: FORMER WEY-U ASSOCIATE, DISCHARGED FOR UNKNOWN REASON, CURRENTLY IN USCMC UNDER COMMAND OF... MENENDEZ, GREGOR
She was let loose?
CURRENT APPEARENCE OF SPECIMEN 10 DOES NOT SUGGEST ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY
Why would the company be so stupid?!
THAT QUESTION CANNOT BE ANSWERED
Why?
INSUFFICIENT DATA REGARDING CORPORATION AND QUESTION
Bugger, anything else?
CHANGES FROM ADDED GENES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
ACIDIC BLOOD
METALLIC LOOKING TEETH, SILVER COLORED
STRENGTH IN EXCESS OF MOST XENOS DUE TO GENETICS BEING HEREDITARY FROM QUEEN
SMALL EMPATHIC AND AVERAGE TELEPATHIC CONTROL
POWERFUL TELEKINETIC CONTROL
Wait, she can move things without touching them?
CORRECT
How?
10% UNKNOWN IS LIKELY CAUSE
Continue then
FAST REGENERATION AND HARDY ENDURANCE
150 IQ LEVEL
SPEED SUGGESTS EXTREME AMOUNTS OF ENERGY FLOWING THROUGH VEINS WHEN RUNNING
how fast?
110 KILOMETERS AN HOUR
damn that's fast
XENOS ARE BUILT THAT WAY
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DOES NOT HAVE A HEAT SIGNATURE
LACKS EM SIGNATURE
SECOND JAW BENEATH TONGUE
EXTREME RESISTANCE TO HEAT
WOULD YOU LIKE TO REQUEST HER FOR YOUR MISSION? [Y]/N?
what is her specialty?
FOUND M41-A/2-2 TO BE HER STRONG-POINT AND ALWAYS USED ONE DURING MISSIONS
Modified in any way?
NEGATIVE
Good, make sure she knows that she is also getting a few other 'extras' to her arsenal if she joins us
REQUEST CONFIRMED
Reply?
SHE ACCEPTS OFFER
Good
WARNING, SUBJECT SUFFERS FROM SUBSTANTIAL ANGER ISSUES
I know, that will keep her head straight, tell her to meet me at the shuttle headed to her current location
FINISHED
Excellent, maybe she'll get her chance yet...
(Trailis, USS Harley Quinne, Conestoga-class Troop Transport)
As I stepped out of the shuttle and onto the flight deck I was greeted by a warm cup of tea, taking the cup and looking around I found my temporary commander waving me over. Walking over and taking a sip of the tea: Earl Grey, as we stepped into the elevator he asked "how are you feeling?"
"fine, but you borrowed me from command for a reason, what is it?"
"I'll tell you in the briefing, right now, this operation does not exist, this ship is presumed destroyed and you are considered missing"
"I don't like where you're going with this"
"you got that feeling that I am holding back something?"
"and it's not from my senses, it's from your cockney grin"
"alright, you got me, we're almost there anyway"
"fine, but you better have a good explanation"
"I'm sure you'll like it"
"good"
As the elevator opened up I saw that the briefing room had about a couple dozen or so people crowded around a large, black and grey table. As he motioned for me to take a seat he said "so, now that we're all here, I'll tell you why you are here to begin with"
"this about the dammed ship that went missing a month ago?" one of the soldiers, an african, asked
"yes, actually"
"what about it?"
"we found it, and I was the only one to get away"
"heh, yeah, so? why do you need us and not some rescue crew?"
"because one was already sent in, a week ago, they never came back"
"so you're saying something drove them out?"
"no, I think that there's a bug problem on it"
"yeah, I bet 'just another bug hunt' is what they said, I was on LV-426 and they tore the whole squad apart"
"I want that ship taken intact, it contains some of the most advanced equipment to date, so, no high-explosives, no high-powered rounds, only three smart guns, the rest is game"
"sir!" all of us said
"you will infiltrate the cruiser here-" he brought up a picture of the ship and pointed to the supposed hangar bay
"make your way to engineering and perform any repairs you can-" dragging his finger along one of the hallways towards the back of the ship
"then make your way to the bridge and head to the coordinates stored in the nav-comp, clear?"
"sir yes sir!"
"good, now then, Jean, Trailis, follow me"
I looked over at the pale fellow, who was Jean, and followed Thane to the back of the room, where a hidden door lead to a room piled high with equipment of all sorts, some walls had mines ranging from gas to explosive, others had differing sizes of rifles, there were even some equipment cases carrying auto-turrets and welding/cutting torches. I looked up at the auto-turret, a D variant, I asked "is this D variant sentry liquid cooled?"
"yes, liquid nitrogen"
"good, I'll take it"
"anything else?" she eyed a particularly dangerous looking rifle, similar enough to the M41 Pulse rifle that she can use it, she said "what's this here?" she pointed
"that is a prototype, you can use it for your disturbing accuracy when using it's 7.62x51mm round, features an underbarrel grenade launcher that doubles as a pump action shotgun, the ammo counter is still here but placed in the side, allowing for accurate iron sights to be put in"
"aren't iron sights not perfect to begin with?"
"no, but it's better than nothing"
"so, can I have them?"
"they will be available to you in the dropship, now then, what do you want Jean?"...
(later, in the dropship)
"alright, it's a standard 'search and grab' mission, get on the ship, find the techies, restart the ship and get it to him, any questions?"
"sir no sir!"
"mnhmm, damn right, now then, Trailis, you're the new girl in this squad so I better not have any problems correct?"
"just so long as you don't end up acting like my first commander"
"what happened to him?"
"lets just say he disappeared, and they never found the body, most of command disliked him for the way he treated his soldiers and those under his command rejoiced after hearing the sergeant died"
"and, do tell, how did he disappear"
"lured him to the vent sha- you read my file, right?"
"yeah, we all have"
"then I lured him into one of the least used vents at the compound and, when I spat at him, rolled into the fan blades and got diced"
"ouch, why did you do that again?"
"he was treating his soldiers like a slave owner did to his slaves in the 1800s, and they couldn't pull his command because he blackmailed them, so, if they wont pull his sorry ass out of the corps, I will then"
"well, feel sorry for your squad then"
"oh, the new commander is far superior, actually treated us like human beings and not animals"
"right, hey pilot"
"yeah?"
"ETA?"
"five seconds"
"alright, you heard the man, lock and load!"
A series of clicks and clacks were heard as everyone loaded and cocked their weapons, I pulled out my rifle and loaded it. As soon as I loaded in a magazine a dull thump was heard as the dropship landed in the hangar bay, and the door opened with marines already spilling out of the back, I was one of the last out, and looking around I heard people yelling "clear"
"clear over here"
"same here"
"it's an empty room, alright, not even a sign of the dropship that the techies is around"
"think they left in a hurry?"
"then who turned on the lights?"
"I donno, but I am getting some weird creepy shit being here"
"you and me both"
"Trailis, you feelin' anything?"
"nope, it's a dammed ghost town here"
"alright, you heard the lady, lets make our way to the bridge"
"wait, sarge!"
"what is it lieutenant?"
"you hear that?"
"hear what?"
skitter skitter
"that"
skitter skitter
"motion trackers people, wide sweep!"
the sound of several bootsteps was heard as various bodies went into the ship for their respective sensors,soon the room was filled with the sharp tick of the trackers, as I moved my sensor around I was getting nothing, and soon, others were shouting that they couldn't find anything either. Then the sarge said "Ramirez, Trailis, I want you to make your way to the cargo decks for any sign of the crew or techies, if they're anywhere, it's there"
Ramirez, the short guy with short brown hair and a light complexion, looked over to me and gestured towards the door, which both of us marched over, me with the tracker out and on my shoulder and my pulse rifle, him with his smartgun out. Our guns were loaded with standard rounds but they lacked their explosive power, traded in for fragmentation purposes, so we could fire into the hull all day and do nothing other than make a bunch of dents. Ramirez looked over to me and asked "so, what's it like, bein' part Alien and all"
"lets just say that I could punch a hole through the deck if need be, and my blood will melt right through like our Xeno friends can."
"ah"
"what would normally break a human's nose only gives me a nosebleed"
"well, I'll be sure to not cross you, that much is certain"
"right"
looking forward again across the lit, but dank, and bloodied hallway, I got a sense of dread at the absolute lifelessness of the ship, I said "you ever get a feeling that something else is on the ship?"
"no, why?"
"there's blood on these walls"
"so?"
"Xenos take their meat alive, this looks like they killed them"
"what about it?"
"just a feeling is all"
"right"
"think about it, a Xeno couldn't have kept this ship running, and standard procedure says that the core is automatically shut down during an Alien outbreak"
"aaaaaand? it could have malfunctioned"
"malfunctioned, the core could have restarted, or sabotage"
"why sabotage?"
"he said that this ship was gone for over a month, and that it was drifting for over a month until a week ago he sent a bunch of Weyland-Yutani techies here, only to never get word back from them minutes later"
"yeah, that would suggest sabotage, but who's pulling the chords of the ship?"
"I dunno, although it's an interesting thought on who was actually on the ship, he did say he was the only one who got away"
"hehe what? you think he's the one who sabotaged the ship?"
"I am not accusing anyone but it might be the case"
"didn't the pilot sound a lot like him?"
"yeah... oh shit"
