Alien

A sci-fi horror tale about space-exploration, divine engagement, and reports about surprising Earth...descent.

An homage to Christmastime movie-watching, inspired by the sci-fi horror franchise Alien, a great toast to 'demo' storytelling! 

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Two West Point soldiers were vacationing in Amsterdam when they're called up by the secret US space-exploration development company called Weyland. They'd board a KLM flight to JFK from Schiphol airport and arrive to get briefed on the new mission to an uncharted planet and hence left Amsterdam immediately.

The two solider-pilots are Amlan Satan and Marcus Raki, cousins actually but of different ethnic colors. One's Algerian-American while the other is half-French, and they're about to board the new experimental light-speed Weyland spaceship called Nostromo to head to the uncharted planet Origae from which an 'intelligence' signal was detected by human scientist radars. Amlan/Marcus were told they'd have to prepare for the worst.

AMLAN: According to these Weylan digital imagery, this 'planet' looks organic but foreboding!

MARCUS: We'll have to read carefully, brother, but we're told we're given great firepower/weaponry for the journey.

The Nostromo successfully reached the external atmosphere of uncharted Planet Origae and did its commanded routine atmosphere-diameter tangential flights for monitoring and recording for distance-diagonal detection of any intelligence signal complementing/following those recorded by human Earth scientists before having to actually land on the uncharted planet in the spaceship Nostromo!

AMLAN: We're to board the land-tracking ship-docking/interior rover car called the Hubble, Marcus!
MARCUS: The Hubble has adequately-potent headlights for distance-navigation for the dark terrain areas, brother.

WEYLAND: We've thankfully armed our valiant explorer-soldiers Amlan/Marcus with target-enhanced laser handguns!

The two explorers are not the only humans on the Nostromo. In fact, the Nostromo has a space-crew of 5 individuals, besides Amlan/Marcus. One of them has to stay with the parked/landed Nostromo while the others explore the terrain after sunset on the roving-car Hubble. One night, after exploration/recordings, they find the man/crew-member guarding the Nostromo has been brutally murdered, with half his body/torso submerged into a ventilation grate and simply chewed off from waist-down. This crew-member, Michael, was the only mechanic on the Nostromo, so Amlan/Marcus have no choice but to disclose to the surviving crew-members that they're now being 'stalked' on this eerie planet by an unnamed 'hostile' alien of some kind. Michael was mourned before being burned to ashes with a funeral-ceremony on the Nostromo.

AMLAN: We've lost another crew-member, Marcus; I'm seriously disturbed...even deranged now.

MARCUS: This one was a beautiful woman, brother --- Shelbye; it seems from post-mortem wounds she was punctured.

AMLAN: What the hell kind of an 'alien' would kill a woman by puncture, Marcus?

MARCUS: I don't know.

This hostile 'alien' claimed one more crew-member life, the only scientist-doctor of the Nostromo, Walter. It simply spit some kind of explosive saliva onto Walter's head which made his skull burn open and implode. Now, Amlan/Marcus had to inform Weyland back on Earth that this hostile 'alien' is some kind of fast-adapting speedy insect-dragon like 'creature' which they'd decided to call the bloody 'Red Xenomorph' (RX).

AMLAN: I see it, my God!

MARCUS: It looks like some kind of upright elongated-headed lizard but with intelligent motions; Jesus.

AMLAN: It reminds me of some kind of lizard with a dragon-like feature, Marcus; we have to kill it!

MARCUS: Just aim at its head and fire constantly before it destroys the Nostromo.

AMLAN: It's spewing some kind of acidic saliva which explodes when contacted onto a surface, Marcus.

MARCUS: That's clear; just shoot at its head relentlessly.

AMLAN: This is worse than a horror-film; it looks like a man-dragon!

Amlan/Marcus decided to confer with the crew-member Ash who turned out to be an android and not a human being! Ash was built by Weyland you see to serve as merely a 'recorder' for this 'human-crew expendable' space-mission intended simply to bring back any signs of intelligent life at the 'expense' of human casualties. Amlan/Marcus demanded to know just what the Company (back on Earth!) knew about this 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) hostile alien, and Ash, completely decapitated by an attack from the RX hostile alien, strangely whispered to the two survivors, "It's an organism of intentional malice and murder, bent on pure devastation for the sake of species-subversion or destruction; it's purely/simply evil; which is why we should (like Weyland!)...admire it...its deformity."

When the Nostromo returned safely to Earth with only Amlan/Marcus as the lone-survivors, the two valiant explorer-soldiers reported they'd attempted to execute the terrifying/hostile 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) alien with laser-handgun shots to its skull but succeeded only in hobbling it with shots to its limbs/legs before fleeing from its bloody sight. They explained the hostile 'alien' on previously uncharted planet Origae was an 'insect-dragon' like 'manslayer' with acidic saliva which explored upon contact after spray and had to be carefully 'evaded' while shots were targeted/attempted. They also presented their horrific 'theory' that this hostile 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) alien may not be the only 'kind' of its species but its bloody-signature certainly suggested that it was the most 'virulent' version of the 'Xenomorph' species, perhaps having already overcome or outcompeted its less 'hostile' cousins/relations.

WEYLAND: The report(s) submitted by the valiant Amlan/Marcus will certainly establish future missions worthy of diagram.

AMLAN: What does this spell for 'future' of exploration in the known universe, man?

MARCUS: I do believe our 'endurance' is only seen now as a 'stepping-stone' for future missions involving more fear.

Meanwhile, Weyland marketing specialists ordered the sale of a handful of Alien video-games for American youngsters on Earth during Christmastime shopping, hoping to bolster promotions/sponsorship/support for future exploration-missions to 'deal' with this new 'presence' in our universe --- this leaping 'hostile' Xenomorph of lizard-like fury. That's cyber-capitalism for you.

WEYLAND: We envision great missions for the future, including a new one called Ted, intended for psychiatric queries!

What exactly is this hostile 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) alien discovered/engaged on Planet Origae? Amlan/Marcus certainly ain't going back there, but will other 'valiant' humans/explorers take their valued place at the Company? Is this a 'stepping-stone' for future missions marking humanity's unending curiosity about the 'scales' and 'darkness' of organic/intelligent life?

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