not the best chapter yet, but at least we get a death
Chapter 3
Pets
John sat in the chair with his head in his hands. Jane had left with Alex to stay with her mother in Cardiff until she calmed down, so he wasn't expecting to see them for a few weeks. He looked out of his window into the dark, metallic looking London, to see the Xenotech building, a large, mushroom shaped structure, reaching into the clouds. He leaned back to relax, when the phone rang. He pressed the button on the table, and Mr. Ashlings face appeared on the holoscreen.
"John, sorry to call you this late, but we need you hear now"
John gave a short, tired sigh "what's happened now?"
"something revolutionary, we have a new plan"
John raised his head to look at the screen "what do you mean, not the xenomorphs?"
"yes, a new idea was......., I cant talk hear, you need to come in"
John nodded his head and stood up.
"John, this is goi..."
John turned off the holoscreen a picked up his car keys.
John watched the xenomorph drones move the eggs up to the latest victims. The queen was asleep and the guard were curled up underneath her like cats, fast asleep.
"so your telling me that you want to sell these monsters to the public"
Ashling was remotely controlling the robotic xeno that collected the dead bodies that the xenos left. It picked them up and took them over to the incinerator hatch, which opened to reveal the shaft that led down the furnace.
"yes, we already have altered xenomorphs that are set to help humans"
"how can you sell these things to people, not only are they too creepy for people to buy, but everyone knows what they do, what they have done in the past"
"I know that, we want to sell these to teens, they always want something cool"
"what about the acid blood?"
"well, we could not get rid of it, so we increased the xenomorphs armour to a near impenetrable strength"
John was shocked, if anything went wrong, they would be indestructible.
"you are a fool ashling, you've doomed the earth"
Ashling was famed for his short temper, and those first five words had pushed him over the edge. He made a swing as John, but his arms were still in the robotic xenos control gloves. The robots arms swung around and hit a nearby drone, smashing its head open. The hive suddenly came alive, and thorn, slash and Picasso woke up. They ran at the robot, hitting it into the wall. Thorn picked it up by the tail and swung it around. The robot, now motionless as Ashling had removed himself from the controls, was thrown into the glass screen. The scientists had underestimated the royal guards power, and the robot, and the glass, shattered. For a moment, everyone stood still. The scientists, because of what had happened, and the xenomorphs, because they had just found an escape. John, Ashling and the rest of the scientists ran to the bulk head, and the royal guard jumped through the hole. As everyone ran out of the closing bulk head, slash grabbed one of the scientist. He fell to the ground and was pulled into the hive. As the bulk head was about to close, a face hugger and two newly born chestburster sped out, and split up into different directions.
"what the hell have you done John, Adam only started yesterday, and he's already been killed, what do I tell his family, and if that wasn't bad enough, we have three potentially lethal animals loose in the building"
John started to shout.
"how dare you blame me, you're the one who cant keep his anger under control, you're the one who wants to sell them to the public, do you see what I am on about"
Ashling started to calm down
"well, even if I wanted to stop it, they have already been shipped around the world, and we are going to put them on sale tomorrow"
John was to angry to talk about it anymore, so he changed the subject.
"what are we going to do about the escapees?"
One of the chattering scientists was quick to answer this
"well, the newborns cant grown to full size without food, so that may buy use some time, and the face hugger will need to find a host, so I have already sent out a message to inform everyone to stay in large groups"
Ashling gave a small smile
"good work Grant, see if the cameras in the hive are still working, we can still keep an eye on the occupants"
"will do sir"
Ashling turned to John
"you are lucky this is under control, or I would fire your ass on the spot."
"thank you sir, it wont happen again"
Ashling looked into Johns eyes
"don't think you have gotten away with this, not only will you not be paid this month, but you will have to sacrifice 30% of your wage to pay for the robot that was destroyed"
John clenched his fists in anger
"yes sir, I understand"
Ashling turned around and set off down the hall
"and John, get home and have a sleep before I decide to send one of them after you"
John glared at Ashling, then set off down the other hall, keeping and eye out for any sine of the escapees
