The Inimical Prey [Doctor Who X Alien vs Predator]

Possible Solutions

Tevo glanced down at the device in her hands and then back up at him, a little confused. She'd thought it looked like a weapon of some sort, with its wide square muzzle and apparent trigger mechanism, but she doubted that if it was indeed a weapon he would have reacted like that. "Why? What is it?"

"It's a low-mass bioteleport," he explained, getting up off the floor and crossing to her to get a better look at it. "The yautja use them if one of their own ever gets impregnated by a xenomorph. The xenomorph reproduction works by fusing DNA with the host, and if ever yautja and xenomorph DNA was combined then that would be an abomination as far as the yautja are concerned. It happened once, on Earth a long time ago, so they invented these as a precaution to stop it happening again."

"Wait," Tevo said, suddenly realising why it was so brilliant, "So we could use this to get it out of you?"

He nodded, "It's got a remote teleport beam that locks onto anything containing xenomorph DNA. It'll pick out the larva and teleport it into that port dock you've just picked it up from while leaving all other tissues undamaged," he said as he pointed at the shelf behind her, and she glanced at it briefly before looking back to him.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" she said, raising the teleport to point at him, and for a moment he was just so desperate to get it out of him that he went along with it, but then he realised he was rushing into things and put up a hand to stop her.

"No, wait," he said, "Not yet, I need to think."

Tevo lowered the teleport gun and frowned at him. "Do we really have time to think?" she said, wishing they could just get it over with, but then she noticed the worried expression on his face and realised there must be something he wasn't telling her. "Why? Is it dangerous?"

She didn't much like how nervous he looked before he answered. "I don't know. It's only ever been tried on yautja before."

"And what happened to them?" she asked apprehensively.

"Well, of the few I know about, half of them died," he said, and then seeing the look of horror on Tevo's face quickly added, "But Time Lords are pretty tough, I've got a better chance of surviving it than any yautja."

"You mean you could regenerate?" she asked hopefully.

He gave an uncertain shake of his head. "I'm not sure. I'm full of regeneration energy right now but I can't regenerate fully while it's still in me. A lot of the energy's getting used up to fight it off, but if anything goes wrong then I might not have enough left to complete a full regeneration cycle straight away. I'd need time to replenish it."

"And we don't have time," Tevo said grimly. The more they thought about it the more they realised this wasn't going to be quite as straightforward as they'd hoped.

He shut his eyes slowly and then opened them again as he continued to think. "We've left it so long the larva's fully matured by now. There's been time for a lot of its DNA to be absorbed into my bloodstream. You'll have to do the teleport at close range, or the results could be pretty nasty."

She gave a nod, "Alright, anything else?"

"Well, just try and make sure you get all of it. We don't really want any bits of acidic xenomorph getting left behind."

"Making me nervous about all the stuff that could go wrong is not helping."

"Right, sorry," he said, looking first apologetic and then as if he was trying to be reassuring. "In that case, don't worry about it. It's not like we have any other options, so we may as well just get on with it and hope it goes smoothly."