More than research [Al-An X Reader]

Secrets, sleeping and scanning

(( Bruh I went to sleep and now came back to ten or so people having seen this! Who are you people XD Anyways thanks for reading my story, I kind of thought I was the only that liked Al-An ;-; But I'm not :D I'm not gonna make a pure A/N chapter since I know I don't like those so I'm just writing a tiny one at the start and the end. Anyways hope you enjoy this mess :D ))

Al-An's dialog

Robin's dialog

Marguerit's dialog

Your dialog

Al-An stepped into Robin's base his long tail splitting into two legs. Luckily for him Robin had specifically made her base's roof higher so Al-An could walk around without needing to bow down or hit his head a million times. 

"Look who decided to show up" Robin joked. "Where have you been these last two days?" Robin followed. "Ha ha, I have been observing" Al-An answered. "Observing what?" Robin asked curious. Al-An thought for a second if he should tell Robin about (Y/N). Al-An decided it wasn't a good idea. He didn't know why you were here. Maybe you worked for Alterra and was researching Robin's disappearance? Maybe they had picked up energy signals from Al-An's ship?

"Sea monkeys" Al-An simply answered. "Sea monkeys? What do you need from them?"Robin asked even more curios. "Well..." Al-AN started not knowing what to say "They both steal your equipment and give you materials. I wanted to find out why they go from taking to giving so fast" Al-An said starting to get curios about this. "Did find anything?" Robin asked excited. "No"

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Once again you sat down at your desk determined to document your experience with Alan. You had to find out what he was and you had come up with a couple theories.

"Theory 1:

Alan is some sort of intelligent species evolved in the deep twisty bridges.

The lights are camouflage and color changing is a natural reaction to predators to maybe scare them away or alarm others of his kind.

He may have confused me for a female or another of his kind when we first met but understanding I'm not? He seems social and intelligent so their kind is most likely in very close packs so he may have lost his pack and therefore wants to stay close to something that reminds him of his people.

His long long tail is obviously for swimming. His arms may be for guarding judging from how he reacted when I first met him. His horns might be from earlier more primitive times when they fought for females? Maybe they're for ramming things?

Theory 2:

Alan is a like the warpers. Both biological and mechanical. Built to protect something down in the deep twisty bridges like the warpers. 

It would explain all the lights and the color changing. It would also explain the intelligence. But the warpers weren't social like Alan. And they would never engage in contact with living beings that wasn't infected with the khaara. 

Maybe he was used for therapy? Since it has been proved that the Architects were also infected with the khaara and since so many died Alan's kind was used for therapy and the lonely?" 

You recorded your theories on you PDA for scientific purposes. You decided to try and sketch Alan once again having a renewed memory. This time you finally succeeded. You decided to sketch what you thought a female version of him would look like to before deciding to go to bed.

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You tossed and turned in your bed wanting to sleep more but not being able to. You groaned and sat up in your bed. Once again you were startled by the sight of Alan but this time he was inside your alien containment. "Hello there" you said still rattled after the shock you got. Alan seemed to get excited by seeing you awake.

You got up from you bed and walked over to the giant tank crashing down at your desk. "What do you want today?" you say groggily. Alan only tilts his head. "What ever I wanna do? I wanna sleep" you say knowing thats what you want. 

From the materials you and Alan had collected yesterday you had built a scanner room. It would help you look for Robin or anything human. You walked over the scanner room located at the same end as your bioreactor. "Lets see what this picked up" you said entering the scanner room.

Alan looked at you from the alien containment seemingly curios of what you were doing. He quickly swam from the alien containment to the window of the scanner room. You sat down in a chair looking at the scans. It had picked up an energy signature from an ice berg! You leaned forward in you chair trying to see where it was. Only one kilometer away!

"Looks like I have a lead!" you say excitedly getting up and running to your moonpool. You jumped in your seatruck since it would be quicker than swimming. When you drove away you noticed that Alan was gone. Maybe he was scared of the seatruck? Maybe he was hungry? You didn't think much of it since you were say to excited about that signal. You drove away completely forgetting about your earlier tiredness.

(( I know it's a bit shorter than the usual chapter but I felt like it would be too crowded if I continued it. I have nothing to do so you won't be waiting long for the next chapter. Sorry if the scanner room was confusing... because I thought so XD Anyways again thank you people for reading my stories it means a lot to me :D ))