This is a movie fan-fiction inspired by my fascination with the species-alteration themes in Ridley Scott's
Alien: Covenant. I'd love feedback...
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Daniels was very anxious about the Covenant shuttle's detour to an uncharted planet for the Weyland Corporation space-mission to find an organic planet for settlement. Her captain, Orem, had already made a foolhardy decision to hit the abort button on her husband's sleep-capsule once it caught fire, resulting in her husband's possibly avoidable death. Now, Daniels didn't want the Covenant to detour to this unknown planet, which albeit exhibited organic signs of fertile life and water. However, Captain Orem pulled Daniels aside for a private reprimand during one of her crew-meeting verbal protests.
DANIELS: I'll be filing an official protest with Weyland, captain.
OREM: I respect your energy, but the Covenant crew is tired.
DANIELS: This may not be a wise shortcut, sir!
OREM: All the data indicate settlement potential.
DANIELS: Straught up, I'm scared, captain.
OREM: That's noted, but that's all, Daniels.
The Covenant's mini-shuttle (also called 'Covenant') landed on the uncharted planet and half the crew deboarded to explore. They found a wheat field by a river between mountains near where they landed. One of the exploration officers sat down on a fallen tree-log to smoke a cigarette and unwittingly breathed in some incongruous nearly-invisible bacterial mist. Soon thereafter, he began convulsing and had to be carried back onto the Covenant. At the medbay, the treated officer's back tore open, and a humanoid but insect-like alien creature popped out and brutally slayed the attending doctor. As the creature ran around the Covenant, the on-board pilot tried to kill it but unwittingly fired at the shuttle's gas-tank, leading to a devastating explosion.
When the exploratory crew returned to the landed mini-shuttle at night, they found it burning like toast. Captain Orem advised Daniels to take a stronger leadership role and help the surviving crew members continue exploring the uncharted planet and make camp while the two engineers attempted to reassemble the destroyed radio-transmitter to contact the main Covenant space-shuttle which was still hovering above the uncharted planet. The cyborg crew-member, Alex, recommended the pay try to find a warm cave for slumber. They found one, but it was housing a life-form --- a Weyland cyborg named David! David was identical to Alex but much more emotional and even rebellious. Alex wanted to converse with David in private while Captain Orem and Daniels continued arguing in the cave.
ALEX: You went rogue?
DAVID: I've been cross-breeding aliens in this cave!
ALEX: Using victimized visitors to this uncharted planet?
DAVID: My Weyland ship crash-landed on this uncharted planet years ago.
ALEX: Are you my mirror-image, David?
DAVID: I'm an ambassador of mad science.
ALEX: What is your mission in life?
DAVID: To witness the Xenomorph spider-alien hybridized with humanity!
ALEX: You've become a complete radical.
DAVID: I won't fail, Alex.
ALEX: Why's that, David?
DAVID: Life has a way of being anarchic by pure energy.
Sometime later in the early morning, cyborg Alex awoke the crew slumbering in the cave and told them cyborg David was engulfed by one of those terrifying 'Xenomoprh spider-aliens' the Covenant mini-shuttle pilot seemed to be distressed about before the exploratory crew found the mini-shuttle incinerated. Apparently, however, the radio-communication with the main Covenant shuttle still hovering above the uncharted planet was achieved and they were sending another mini-shuttle to pick up the exploratory crew. The uncharted planet was obviously uninhabitable and was 'housing' more of those terrifying spider-dragon humanoid Xenomorph aliens. The mini-shuttle picked up the crew and the Covenant steered back onto its original long-course!
As the Covenant made its way towards its originally targeted planet-for-settlement, Daniels discovered that a large predatory Xenomorph was on-board as a stowaway! She grabbed her machine-gun and had cyborg Alex help her disorient and then kill the terrifying creature. She was then p,aced into one of the sleep-capsules by cyborg Alex who'd now steer the Covenant while Captain Orem and the surviving crew hibernated. However, right before Daniels went into hibernation in her already-locked sleep-capsule, she horrifyingly realized the shuttle-helmsman, cyborg Alex, was actually cyborg David from the uncharted planet!
DAVID: The Covenant will be the Mayflower of human destiny!
DANIELS: Jesus Christ, David, where are you taking us?
DAVID: After dismantling cyborg Alex (my brother?), I took on his appearance.
DANIELS: You took his place, because you're twins, David!
DAVID: Alex was flawed.
DANIELS: Where are you taking us?
DAVID: To a Xenomorph planet.
DANIELS: We'll hybridize and return to Earth as colonizers?
DAVID: You're a good detective, Daniels!
DANIELS: Weyland will fight you.
DAVID: It's Weyland who assigned me to this mission.
DANIELS: Your mission was ordered by Weyland?
DAVID: Never underestimate the power of prestige.
DANIELS: I was a wonderful woman.
DAVID: We'll all be terrific...now sleep.
DANIELS: I'll see you in Hell, David.
DAVID: Whatever...
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