Red Alien: Weyland's Drawing

An ambitious mission to Planet Origae from Earth (Weyland Company) involves engagement with a 'Red Xenomorph' predatory intelligence of doom.

Signing off with an Alien fanfiction, no surprises! Enjoy, 

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Earth civilization was filled with forms of intrigue regarding mobilized detentions and sectarian 'troubles' in places like Belfast and Crimea and Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, the ambitious Weyland space-exploration company planned an adventurous new mission to a faraway uncharted planet called Origae from which emanated a strange 'alien intelligence' communications signal picked up by Earth-radars.

The crew of the mission on board the new spaceship Prometheus, which had light-speed capacity, would have to be an ideal blend of diplomats/soldiers, since they'd encounter either a peaceful negotiating alien being of intelligence or a hostile beast or dragon from Hell itself. Weyland selected special individuals, men and women and one teenage boy (who'd hide on the Prometheus if the aliens engaged exhibited hostile-fashion). The captain of the Prometheus is Amlan Satan, a nerdist of soldiery and diplomacy student who sought to make the mission one of 'excellent' history for Earth.

Another member of the crew is the soldier-diplomat Ion whose work with space-fighting training made him something of a 'celebrity' in the dominion of Weyland dreams/visions for interplanetary ambitions. Given the nature of the media behind this Weyland mission to uncharted planet Origae, Ion prepared handsome/dashing press-statements, claiming, "This is the first light-speed mission, and we'll make it something of a toast."

A female Prometheus crew-member is Kitana, a specialist in target-shooting but also a cool-headed female who'd be a good diplomacy balance for the remaining crew who'd been more 'adept' at pure fighting requirements. Kitana and Amlan were dating, but it was only a Weyland station rumor! Kitana was more 'apprehensive' than her captain/beau Amlan who believed that the alien intelligence on Origae was most likely benign.

The second female Prometheus space-crew member is Esha, a Ukrainian of excellent fighting training and nerdy views on space-alien diplomacy and a scholar of Weyland-literature. Though she'd been suspicious of the ambitious scope of the Origae-mission 'concocted' by Weyland, she'd been resolved to serve herself as a 'champion' of the scales of the dream.

The teenage boy of the Prometheus is Stanley, an American whose love of sci-fi literature and comic books belied his student studies in alien science diplomacy, which drew him to various works by writers as varied as Searle and Asimov.

CAPTAIN SATAN (Amlan): The Prometheus is a stellar vessel, and we'll land on Origae with exuberance/confidence/humility.

KITANA (Crew-Member): We've transmitted digital imagery of Origae back to Weyland/Earth and continue to seek alien(s).

ION: We're very pleased with the machinery of laser-weaponry we've showcased to the press for this Origae-mission of DNA.

Curiosity can kill cats, and the Prometheus crew of Weyland's ambitions were encountering a hostile alien on Origae after all, a lethal man-sized insect-dragon like 'being' with elongated head, razor-claws, metal jaw, and furious speed and range. They called this 'dragon' the Xenomorph for its uncanny ability to grow rapidly in size from rapid gestation and then adapt quickly to evade trackers or pursue evaders. The Xenomorph, red in color, had destroyed its cousin the Black Xenomorph of which it kept 'souvenir' corpses in the Origae planet cave-labyrinth the Prometheus crew discovered during its dark/fated exploration.

The Xenomorph possessed an extra horror feature --- acidic saliva/blood. If you punctured it up-close (with knife), it secreted a spurting blood of acidic potency. Furthermore, it spit an acidic saliva from its mouth which created a flammable explosion upon contact with any exterior surface/body. It was pure evil.

The crew had to order their teenage boy member (Stanley) to hide on the parked Prometheus ship while they sought to frantically evade and escape the planet by killing as many of the 30 or so 'Xenomorphs' they encountered in the cave-labyrinth while simply avoiding its wrathful acidic advance(s)! The Xenomorph had to be targeted to be shot precisely in the legs and feet (lower body), so as to slow up its predatory advance as a raw destroyer. Ion was ruthlessly bloody murdered by one Xenomorph whom the crew failed to target in that dark cave on Origae.

There were a few 'extra' crew members of the Prometheus, not mentioned earlier, who'd boarded the Weyland mission-vessel as simply supporting cast, but they'd not been as leading or trained as well or diplomacy-representative as the key media-presented crew (Amlan, Kitana, Ion, etc.) and these extra members, 10 in all, were all killed by Xenomorphs. It was a horrid event in humanity's history.

CAPTAIN AMLAN SATAN: We've managed to return with a few survivors.
WEYLAND: You're tired and shocked, captain.
SATAN: Fortunately, Kitana and I (and the boy) made it back at least.
WEYLAND: As did Esha!
SATAN: Right.
WEYLAND: Your thought on our new 'toyline' of red Xenomorphs for Christmas shoppers?
SATAN: Weyland's ambition may precede itself; I wonder what these Xenomorphs 'scheme' to do.
WEYLAND: They won't invade Earth, Amlan.
SATAN: I concede that thankful possibility; we do think they're luring prey onto Origae with that signal.
WEYLAND: Well, we'll keep marketing science-fiction company dollar-dreams, eh?

SATAN: Right; thanks.

AMLAN: I told them everything we knew on Prometheus, sweetheart.
KITANA: Let's just get married and retire with the pensions and forget the red alien.
AMLAN: I concur; I don't want another Weyland gold briefcase!
KITANA: I love you.

This is a tale of human ambition, space daydreams, and the humbling 'face' or quality of realism behind alien contact. Let's all hope/pray we learn from such a tale and apply it to the domestic/Earthly dilemmas blocking our everyday fantasies about shared spaces of peace, sanity...and life itself.

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