The Purple Xenomorph

Chapter 23.

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I released my grip on the arms of my seat as the ship came to a much more tolerable speed. With a heavy and relieved sigh, I leaned back into the seat and watched the shining stars as the ship flew by.

"It would have been kind of the P'Tuera Leader if he had told me where exactly I was going." I thought to myself.

He hadn't even hinted at where I was being sent to, and he seemed quite eager to be rid of me as soon as possible. Perhaps this mission will be more dangerous than I previously thought, but I must succeed if it's the last thing I do. If I fail, Kritos and Karna will be killed by the P'Tuera clan once thought to be extinct. Standing from my seat, I approach the control panel to examine the coordinates. On a small screen above the autopilot controls, the Yautja symbols presented before me read the numbers of:

:4, 2, 6:

Ironic. Those are the very same numbers of the planet my home asteroid had been separated from. Lv-426. Am...I returning back to my asteroid? Or...Am I going to the original LV-426? Either way, it's a long way to go and plenty of time until I arrive there. Perhaps a few hours, if not days until then. I return to my seat and sit back down, leaning back and careful of my sharp spine. It may not be my vessel, but I am not intent on wrecking it.

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I had fallen asleep sitting in my comfortable seat, an agitating beeping awoke me from my slumber. Growling in annoyance, I shake my head and stand up to stretch. The ludacris sound was coming from the control panel, I snorted and approached the cursed noise. A red light was flashing next to the screen which read the coordinates, looking up and out the window I saw it.

A large dark grey planet, I could see it's surface was much like the asteroid in which I came from. I chittered curiously as the ship entered the planet's atmosphere, the vessel starting to shake. I stumbled a bit, clinging onto the control panel as the ship continued through the atmosphere. Once the vessel was through, the shaking ceased. I sighed of relief as I could feel the vessel slow it's descent. Looking out the ships gazing window, I could both see and HEAR the high winds stirring up the black sooty dirt of the planet.

The ship set down on the planet, seemingly unaffected by the winds somehow. I grab the communicator the Yautja had given me, as I am sure he would like to know that I have arrived. Before exiting the vessel and entering the screaming winds, I looked for a button upon the device and found one on the underside. I took a deep breath and pushed the button, a few seconds later a life sized hologram of the very same Elder appeared a few feet from me.

"Serpent? Have you found my son so quickly?" He asks.

"No, not yet. I am contacting you to inform you that I have arrived, this planet is known as LV-426 correct?" I question.

The hologram nods, "Correct."

"May I ask what exactly I am looking for? For example other Yautjas? Xenomorphs? Etcetera?"

"Yautjas don't preferably travel to that planet unless to complete the ancient rite of passage. Which is once every few months, the latest was a few weeks before your arrival. But you may find other serpents upon that planet as well as humans."

"Humans? What do they look like?"

"You will find out soon enough. Remember, you bring my son home dead or alive, or your Yautjas suffer the consequences." He went to end the transmission.

"Hold on, how are they doing? Are you medically treating them as you promised?" I hissed.

The hologram nodded once more.