This is my first fanfic, hope you all enjoy. Please review if you can and will be appreciated. Disclaimer: I do not own any portion of the Alien or Akame ga kill! Franchises.

Prologue : Escape or Embark

Atmospheric Processing Station. Hadley's Hope, LV-426 "Acheron"

"Attention. Emergency. All personnel must evacuate immediately. You now have four minutes to reach minimum safe distance."

Says the PA voice echoing it's warning throughout the lengthy corridors and winding walkways of the atmosphere processor as the station began to shake violently from the many explosions that were being set off within the complex structure due to the various system failures caused by an overloading reactor going critical.

Ahead of the fiery blasts ran a middle-aged woman and a young girl straddled to her side, both clinging to each other despite evident exhaustion from what they've been through. Fear was all that gave them strength to keep running. Fear of the fires raging out from the lower levels, racing along vents and conduits as it spreads towards the top of the building. Fear of the increasing explosions from all over the station and the impending final one that will annihilate everything within a 20 mile radius. But the first and foremost fear spurring them on, is of the two story high monstrosity rampaging its way through the sub level corridor in pursuit.

The two humans reached the station's service elevator and the woman, Ellen Ripley jabbed at the control switch to call the platform down. She looks up past the elevator's safety gate and watches in frustration as the platform begins its descent at a slow pace. She tries the other platform's switch in hopes the second elevator can reach her and Newt sooner.

Suddenly a shrill screech sounds off behind them, not far from where they came running. "Come on Goddammit!" bellowed Ripley while hitting her fist against the elevator controls in an effort to speed up its arrival. In response the pursuing creature sends out another furious scream from within the burned remains of her nest. A scream filled with rage, so primal but also strange and unnatural. So Alien.

Terrified and desperate, Ripley looks around for an alternate route to reach the landing platform located atop the upper levels of the station. Where Bishop and Hicks are waiting with the last dropship that can take them off planet and away from this hellish nightmare. To her left, she spots the emergency ladder that goes up along the shaft. Not wasting another second, she steps on the bottom rungs, telling Newt to hold on as she makes ready to climb. Movement out the corner of her eye made her stop her ascent and start to back away as she sees her pursuer round the corner of the sub level corridor. Lumbering into full view the Alien Queen gives a threatening hiss as she steadily approaches the retreating humans. Behind them, a mechanical hum sounds off as the elevator platform finally arrives.

In a sound of winding machinery, the lift's safety gate part before Ripley and Newt as if beckoning them to come inside for one last chance to escape oblivion. Even while hoisting Newt back on to her shoulder and dashing for the elevator, Ripley takes one more look back only to see that the Queen already came half the distance between them.

Stepping inside the lift and setting Newt down behind her, Ripley turns around brandishing her weapon to face the immediate threat. Thankfully the gate already started to close as the Queen paused a few feet from elevator to crouch under the low ceiling and smash the impeding ladder and random pipes out of her way like they were twigs. "Oh Shit!" Thought Ripley "She's too strong! The gates aren't gonna hold!".

The Queen makes ready to charge and utters another ferocious scream, Ripley quickly points her weapon out the gates' mesh opening and sprays fire with the incinerator unit. Squealing in pain, the Xenomorph staggers back from the intense heat and recovers immediately as the flames die down after the flamethrower runs out of fuel. The elevator begins to ascend, taking the humans up to the landing platform and out of the Queen's reach.

"Attention. Emergency. All personnel must evacuate immediately. You now have two minutes to reach minimum safe distance. Warning. Temporal anomaly detected in the vicinity."

"Almost there" Ripley thought "I don't know what Temporal Anomaly means, but it doesn't sound like it's gonna stop this place from blowing up".

Meanwhile, down in the sub levels the Alien Queen turns to face the second elevator platform as it arrives and opens its safety gates to allow passage inside. She tilts her crested head in instinctual recognition and reasoning. The humans used it to get away from her. She can use it to follow them and kill the woman, as well as recapture the girl for impregnation to rebuild her hive and brood.

After the elevator reached its destination Ripley and Newt step out onto the landing platform and looked on in horror as the dropship wasn't here. "Bishop! God Damn You!" screamed Ripley as she scoops Newt back up into her arms and began looking everywhere for a way out. Fire has now completely engulfed the processing station, leaving only the landing platform and the nearby elevator shaft untouched.

Noticing the winch still operating, Ripley peers down the shaft and sees the second platform making its way up to their level. "It can't be." Ripley tried thinking it might be something else, whether it was a glitch in the system caused by the station's reactor meltdown or maybe the control switch activated from debris. But the horrid fact remains in her head. She underestimated the Xenomorphs. The same way the crew of the Nostromo underestimated the first one. And both the colonists and marines, here at Hadley's Hope. So too, will the corporation Weyland-Yutani if they ever got their greedy bastard hands on the Aliens.

Ripley examines her weapon, the flamethrower is empty so she checks the pulse rifle. Two zeros on the ammo counter tell her that the weapon is useless as well and she remembered that she's out of grenades, having thrown the whole bandolier into the burning egg chamber in order to destroy the nest. Ripley drops the guns onto the floor and backs up towards the landing platform's safety railing, still holding Newt close to her shoulder.

The other elevator arrives and the gates begin to part, revealing the abominable creature inside. The Queen begins to unfold her legs and arms as she leaves the confines of the lift. Cornered now, with the station mere seconds away from thermonuclear explosion, Ripley resigns to her fate. Going over what she believes will be her last thoughts and prayers, her only regrets were not being there for her daughter all those years and failing Newt here and now for the same reasons. She was not strong enough, not fast enough, not brave enough to face her fears and guilt while everyone around her died. "Close your eyes baby." she tells Newt, hoping the blast will consume them before the Queen could get at them.

"Look!" Newt calls out amidst the fiery explosions and the rising sound of jet turbines. Ripley turns around to see the dark angular shape of the dropship hovering into view and about an arm's length from the railing. Bishop peers at them from the behind glass of the cockpit and presses a switch to extend the emergency boarding ladder from the ship's port side.

As Ripley raises Newt over the railing to place on the ladder, a bright blinding light shines throughout the entire processing station.

"No" Ripley says helplessly. "We were so close…" she squint her eyes but all she sees is white. She then tries to step forward to continue attempting to get Newt aboard the dropship, but she no longer feels the platform beneath her feet. Neither does she feel the heat of the fires or the rush of air from the outside blowing winds and the dropship's thrusters. The only feeling left to her was the dirt and slime that were still on Newts clothes. Her mind flashes back to the first time they met, "Can't believe there's a little girl under all this. A pretty one too." How long ago did she say that? Hours, days, weeks even? She no longer cared, somehow she felt like time itself no longer mattered. "Is this eternity? Have I finally ended?" She can still feel Newt with her hands and so she pulls her closer into one last embrace in this world.

"I hope I see you in the next life Newt" Ripley says into Newt's ear.

"I knew you'd come" was all that Newt said in response. Behind them Ripley hears the enraged scream of the Alien Queen quickly growing distant as if they were flying away from it, or it was flying away from them...

Prologue : End

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