Chapter 16: The Alien Legacy

Looking at the image the girls were in pure awe of the message, the engraving had an image of tall humanoid things finding an ancient birthing ground. It showed them taking something from this ground and taking it across the galaxy; they imprisoned it here when it unleashed a deadly outbreak. Zathena then told Leala; look… there… Leala looked and the outbreak showed hundreds of dark insect-like creatures massacring these humanoids, then in the final image it showed the creatures sealing this chamber and crystallising what they found. Venturing further into the spaceship the pair of inquisitive xenos found early versions of the creatures that the humanoids had captured from the original source. They looked almost identical to Zathena except they had a pointier head and smaller teeth; they also lacked the sharp tail and claw spikes on both Leala and Zathena. Lastly these creatures were barely six foot from head to tail; Zathena then realised precisely what these things were, they were the early stages of xenomorph evolution. Meaning that the crystallised creature must have been the original Queen, Zathena told Leala; the big rock in the middle of this hive, come on…

Returning to the crystal Leala and Zathena stood in awe of it; Leala moved her claw close to the crystal and touched it. Suddenly a burning feeling swarmed through Leala causing her to convulse and shake, she began screeching and screamed in agony. Zathena held her tightly and witnessed her hand smoking, eventually the pain stopped and Leala got back up; Leala then looked to her hand and it had turned very dark red, bordering on maroon in colour. Zathena then asked; what happened? How did your, your hand turn? Leala just growled still recovering from the intense pain; then Zathena touched the crystal and received no such pain or punishment. She moved her hand into the crystal; it had a very thick gel texture on her hand, and also seemed to be glowing where Zathena's hand was positioned. She forced her hand further into it and the whole crystal started glowing deep blue, the light was blinding and then Zathena's hand made physical contact with the Queen.

A small electric shock then ran down Zathena and she retracted her hand; the crystal then fell apart and flooded the ground with thick blue gel. Then the two girls saw her, a giant Queen; beginning to rise out from the ground the Queen was massive. She wasn't just a regular Queen though; she was around twice the normal size, she had four hands and a seven spike crest above her head. Her skin then reacted with the immediate atmosphere and turned pale white; she stood at her full forty foot height and peered down at Zathena and Leala. Without reason she smacked Zathena away from her, she crashed into a wall and fell down completely immobilised by this Queen. Leala attempted to retaliate but was grabbed at her tail and thrown across the chamber, she too smashed into a wall, then she fell to the ground badly injured and screeching in absolute shock from the impact. The Queen then left the chamber most likely to find a hive spot; slowly the two girls regained their strength but were severely weakened by the ordeal.

The girls managed to find their way out of the maze of tunnels, as they made their way back to the community they were horrified by what they saw. It was Weyland Yutani; they'd followed Arran and his lovers by getting tipped off on their hiding place. There were two ships outside the cave entrance and everyone inside was being killed or taken prisoner, among them Zathena spotted Arran being beckoned along with everyone else the company felt were important. Zathena and Leala ran after him, they started striking down and killing the Weyland troops but soon they too were subdued and tranquillised. Whether or not they wanted to they were going on this spaceship. Arran, Zathena and Leala were put in a cell and left to ponder what had happened, they assumed they were safe in that refugee camp but apparently not. Then once the ships had left the atmosphere they seemed to be heading back to BG-367, or at least that's what they'd been told.

On board the ship Arran asked the girls, "Where were you? What took you so long to get back?" Zathena replied saddened by their situation; Leala and I went to find somewhere you'd enjoy, but we found a strange metal thing. It looked black and circular, inside was a Queen, our Queen, it got away though, I don't know why it was down there. Arran didn't know what to make of this but he was interested at how there was a Queen down there and if it had something to do with their current problem. Arran, confused by Zathena's statement asked, "So, what was it? Aside from just a Queen." Zathena responded at odds with herself; I don't know. It seemed to have been down there for a long time, possibly hundreds of years. After a few hours had passed the three of them were prompted by guards to leave their cell, Zathena and Leala were tranquillised, Arran was merely escorted.

They were taken to a massive main hall that had four bridged paths, his companions were restrained but Arran simply had handcuffs, his two xenos were hung up in huge metal clamps. However before Arran could comprehend everything that was happening Weyland entered the room, "Hello son, enjoying your stay? I thought I taught you better than to steal other people's things." Arran wasn't surprised to see Weyland so simply said nothing, not a single solitary sound. Weyland spoke again sounding very pleased with himself, "Nothing. Well, in that case I'll do the talking. Have you ever wondered why my family organised all this? Have you ever wondered about the purpose of this company? No. Well let me explain. You see around 100 years ago Earth was visited by two species, the first was a tribal race of hunters, the other was a disease of immense, potential. Now around thirty years ago, I sent a cargo vessel to investigate the secondary location of the xenomorphs. LV-426 it happened to be, but the plan failed, and that stupid bitch killed our specimen… So we had to try something else, we sent probes down to extract eggs from that Queen. We found some 'test samples' and here we are." Arran didn't find this information too hard to comprehend as he knew his father well, however Arran wondered where Zathena fitted into the picture so he asked, "And what about Zathena? Where does she or myself fit into, your 'dream'?" Weyland was furious at his son's attachment to that creature, "Zathena! Zathena! I don't give half of a shit about your new best bitch. She is of no concern anymore, now that I have this." Weyland then slowly, confidently pointed to a screen off to the right of them; on the screen was the enormous pale Queen that Zathena had met earlier.

Arran then asked, "Well, if you have her, why do you need me or any of the people you captured today?" Weyland responded maliciously, "Zathena and Leala are up there for, incentive shall we say. In case you don't cooperate, everyone else? If the experiment fails they'll be turned into more xenos that we can use for experimentation." Arran replied very confused, "What, experiment?" To this Weyland then told Arran his plan in a very unsettling joyful tone, "Why the crossbreed experiment, I intend to have you, the only known xenomorph copulation companion, 'bond' with my Queen here. If you refuse then we're back to my incentive point. Let me put it this way, if you don't have intercourse with the Queen, I will personally torture and kill your 'lovers' over there. You make the choice. I'll be back later, until then think about your impending appointment." Arran was then left alone with his two companions asleep and feeling trapped between betrayal of his love, or letting those he loves die.

Why? Why is this happening to me? I can't betray my love, no matter what situation I'm in. That sick fuck wants me to have sex with that thing, I mean I know I've had sex with both Zathena and Leala, but that was different. It was loving, consensual, even sexy for me. They enjoyed it, I enjoyed it. But this… This is something else entirely. The Queen is just a bigger version but I can't have sex with something as monstrous as that, I just can't. I love Zathena and Leala; I don't care for or love this Queen, why does he have to have me do it? Why can't one of his cronies, soldiers or scientists do it? Ugh… I'm feeling ill by the mere thought of doing this. It'll be alright, right? It won't be some horrible ill-fated experience that'll haunt me for all my years, right? Oh shit, oh, shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. I can't do this; I won't be able to do this. I'm going to get myself killed, and my, lovers. Zathena, Leala… Arran let out a small whimper, the sound of a broken person. He knew he'd have to do this and as far as he could see there was no way out, no escape and certainly no rescue that would save him from this fate.

Arran was then taken into the lower levels of the ship, his lovers were also taken down; Weyland presented him with his Queen. She was restrained in a laid down position and Arran was now expected to mate with her but he couldn't do it, he couldn't betray his emotions for this beast. Stopping the experiment he returned to his restrained girls but this only angered Weyland, he came down to Arran's level and had him restrained as well. Now Weyland was fed up with Arran's resistance so he ordered the two xenos beside Arran to be woken up, then as they did Weyland spoke to Arran much less aggressive this time "Listen Arran, I'm giving you one last chance, to do as I say peacefully. If you don't decide in the next five minutes, I will take this gun, and shoot one of your two girls through their head. And to make this all the more interesting how about you decide which one 'bites the dust'." Weyland then stood up and told his chief on-board officer "Start a five minute timer up on the board." Arran turned his eyes up at the clock and could only watch in pure unaltered, unchanged agony as it started to count down. Each second that passed felt like someone ripping a part of Arran's life away from him, he felt cold inside and his body was practically screaming at him for any possible way out of this nightmare. But no such luck fell upon Arran's situation and as that four minute mark came and went, Arran felt himself almost simply surrender to whatever torture or punishment Weyland could concoct, if only to spare Leala and Zathena.

Then in the last moments before Arran had to make a choice a wonderful noise was heard, the security alarm, 'Warning! Containment alerts on levels 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 25 and 28. Unauthorised breaching at gates 4, 7, 12 and 13. Weyland, not taking any chances fled for his escape pod, but before he did he activated the self-destruct mechanism for the ship and jettisoned the escape pod for the Queen. Then bursting through the main doors, Yahim and several armed rebels spread through the room. Yahim yelled to Arran, "You three alright?! We could use some help!" Yahim then shot off Arran's cuffs and helped Arran find a way to get Zathena and Leala down; Arran dashed over to the control panel and released the now wide awake girls. Once the hall was cleared they made a break for the hanger to try and escape the now doomed ship; on the way though the ship had become unstable. A bridge Zathena, Arran, Leala and Yahim had to cross was missing a chunk of its supports; Yahim went first and made it. Then as the two xenos followed they fell as the bridge came away; Zathena dropped down to an edge of a steel pipe while Leala held onto what was left of the bridge. Arran helped Leala up and she jumped across but Zathena couldn't find her footing so was stuck on the pipe, Yahim called to Arran "Come on, there's no point. The place is falling apart!" Replying confident in his ability Arran returned "I'll be fine, get Leala to your shuttle, I'll be along shortly!"

Preparing himself Arran readied for a jump, then he ran full force off the railing and landed on top of the steel pipe. He reached his hand down to Zathena but couldn't quite grip her hand, the whole ship was falling to pieces so he had to think quickly, then he had an idea "Zathena, can you swing your other arm up to me?!" He then heard her shout in his mind; YES! I THINK! Zathena started swaying, one hand on the pipe and one hand off, Zathena was terrified but trusted absolutely that Arran's idea would work, it had to. She built up her momentum till she had a shot then with all her strength she let go of the pipe and swung herself up just high enough for Arran and herself to lock arms. The pipe was coming away so Arran pulled as hard as he could to get Zathena on the pipe but it wasn't working, then she dug her claws into the pipe. This was her best chance, Arran then yelled to her "ON THE COUNT OF THREE! ONE! TWO! THREE!" Arran pulled up as hard as he possibly could; Zathena pushed her claws in and lifted to her upmost strength. With all that will for each other Arran got her on top of the pipe, they couldn't stay there for long though as the ship was still collapsing. They ran along as the steel came away behind them, then Arran helped Zathena climb the machinery until they found themselves just two decks from the hanger. They ran as fast as they possibly could down the stairwells finally making it to the hanger, and just there was Yahim's ship, Zathena and Arran bolted for it. Making it to the ship they sped off away from Weyland's domain, then as Yahim just got out of the blast radius the ship exploded coming slightly short of engulfing Yahim's ship in a fiery death.

This should have been the end but then they saw Weyland's escape pod, he noticed them and for his tyrannical acts Arran demanded with consensus from everyone else on board, "Send the fucker to kingdom come." Yahim fired upon Weyland's ship and sent the piece of garbage on a one way trip straight to hell. Then as they returned to BG-001 Arran just sat with the two best things in his entire life, the two xenos that made him into a man of compassion and love. They returned to BG-001 and gathered all the evidence they needed to put Weyland Yutani down and out of the commercial business market. Yahim and his refugees continued to live in their home in solitude from the outside world and Arran was commemorated as a national hero for his acts of value in bringing Weyland's company to justice. He and his xeno lovers returned to BG-367 where they rebuilt their lives in privacy, Arran was recruited as a military advisor for his colony and military overseer. Weyland Yutani suffered a two trillion credit loss in stocks and shares making the company go into the shadows for a while, they lost all their military standing and influence but weren't completely wiped out.

Back in the lives of Arran and his two concubines they continued as normal until about four months later, Zathena noticed something very out of the ordinary. She had felt quite ill that entire week but hadn't a clue why; she started feeling sick that morning and needed to lay down. Arran began to worry as there wasn't exactly a doctor he could go to, so he took a small sample of Zathena's saliva and examined it. He was shocked to find the blatant, obvious signs of pregnancy, he checked them again, the same results. He brought this information back to the girls that Zathena was pregnant with a direct link to himself; Arran was without a doubt the father of these unborn children. It was overpowering news but one of them was really overjoyed about this, Leala was in hysteria over the news. Zathena and Arran weren't so thrilled, Arran was worried about what they would look like or if pregnancy could even happen successfully. Zathena was terrified about becoming a definite Queen, she'd never thought about raising children, or a hive under her influence. She also held concerns about what they'd look like but this was happening and she needed to accept it. Leala was extremely supportive throughout the entirety of the pregnancy, she was glad to have a balance to the hive as a new royal guard, a fully achieved praetorian.

Another four months dragged on and the big day finally came, Zathena started moaning in pain, Arran had setup a make shift area where the birth could happen. Arran and Leala positioned Zathena in soft restraints and spread her legs in preparation; Zathena started screaming in agony as her muscles contracted and expanded getting ready for birth. Leala would act as midwife while Arran would deliver the child; he put on his sanitised clothing, plastic gloves and face mask. Leala held Zathena's claws back and would chant to her; Zathena breathe, just breathe. Hold your temper, just breathe. Let yourself relax. Zathena really tried to remain calm but the pain was too intense, she could feel her own lower abdomen muscles constricting and vaginal muscles opening. It was an unknown level of pain for Zathena and a window of time she wished would just end, Arran saw her opening, her legs twitched and flexed at the pain. Arran readied himself for whatever would come out; boy, girl, xenomorph creature or whatever else…he tried to be ready for it. Then with Zathena screaming at a deafening volume the head emerged, Arran was quite surprised, the head looked human. It wasn't black, slimy, scaly or any other variation apart from just a regular human; Arran asked Zathena as lovingly as he could "Push, push. Zathena I can see the head. Push, push." Zathena then gave an almighty growl and pushed as hard as she could manage, then Arran collected the baby as it came out, it was a beautiful baby girl. He cut the umbilical cord and she cried out subtly, Zathena had achieved full birth; nothing at all went wrong, in Arran's eyes it was some kind of miracle. Truly something Arran never thought possible or even achievable in all of nature's majesty, but here he was holding the product of himself and of his xenomorph companion.

A couple of minutes passed as all three of them admired and marvelled at the baby but then Zathena started moaning again as another baby needed delivered. Her volume increased past normal levels, she sounded like she was being tortured her screams were so intense. Arran wondered precisely why her cries were like this, but then it was very apparent why. Arran could see the head of one baby but when he got a close look he could see the tail of another, Zathena was now giving birth to a set of twins. Once Arran had delivered them they were very different, the first one was another beautiful baby girl while the other was a boy. However the girl looked the same as the other; still very human except this one had blond hair instead of dark brown hair. The boy was another story; he was essentially a one hundred percentage chestburster stage xenomorph, however he had a human male's genitalia while also behaving more humanlike. Arran handed all three babies to Zathena who was now the Queen in Leala's eyes so she had a natural instinct once again, to protect and love Zathena and her three beautiful new children. Arran was dumbfounded by this unbelievable event but was overjoyed by having children with the woman of his dreams. This would be a dysfunctional family at best but it was a family Arran had always wanted in his life.

Author's Note: This is the last chapter of the story everyone, thank you for reviewing and viewing my work. I know some of you were hoping for a longer story but this is a good place to end it. I really enjoyed writing this and seeing all of your feedback. I hope you'll stick with me on future stories and enjoy them too. Thank you very much for reading.