I would like to thank everyone in advance for reading my alien novel, this is just the beginning the novel will get further into it, I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to leave any comments or follow me I will always keep you updated on what's happening, it took me a while to come up with this idea in my head but now they are flowing out, thank you again readers.

Regards Brodie Whitburn
Alien : Lurking into Darkness

Book 1

Written by : Brodie Whitburn

CHAPTER ONE - THE MISSION

september 21st - year - 2180

In deep space of the zeta 2 reticular system not far from the planet calpamos floats the weyland-yutani lesiure ship, hovering above a space station the size of a planet not round but as big, it looks like mountains floating through space with lights shining through to the darkness beyond, ships are docking into the giant space station battle damaged from unknown origins could have been a war between ships or they landed on a planet and something else went down it could be anything.

Inside that planet sized space station through the darkness and into the lights of a room Michael weyland speaks in secret about a transmission recieved 86 years ago, general Rilldo in whom Michael weyland speaks with pours himself a drink, he picks up a cup made of trilomite, one of the most hardest compounds known to man Michael weyland had cups made from the trilomite melted down to the right cupped shape, as general Rilldo pours the whiskey from a crystal bottle, Michael weyland walks up behind him with an aura around him of hate and greed, and says

"Thank you general is this drink for me" michael weyland says in a arrogant and stuck up tone

"Well I guess it is now" the general replies with a bit of annoyance in his voice although he always sounds like that even when speaking to a superior

"Remember who funds the U.N.C.S colonial marines general don't give me attitude cause I can take everything you love away" mr weyland says in a straight voice to get his point across that he is the hunter and the general is just a play toy that he can dispose of.

"What did you call me here for weyland I am a busy man I have Marines out on missions that I haven't heard from in over 5 months so I kind of have a limited time if you don't mind" the general says filling up another trilomite cup with throat burning whiskey and lifting the cup to his mouth, taking a sip waiting for mr weyland to tell him why he's here.

"Alright general" weyland says puting the trilomite cup down onto his desk and staring at the general with his arms crossed
"I'll get straight to the point general I am in need for a group of marines to complete a mission for me"says michael weyland

"Where would this mission be heading mr weyland, is it life threatening, and how many marines would you need?" replies the general

Michael weyland refills his cup as he speaks to the general
"This mission is to the planet lv-223, I have recieved information about the planet i need it checked out I have scientists lined up to head to the planet aswell and I'll need about 12 marines in total and two pilots,oh and general you should know by now being in this business as long as you have that every mission is life threatening" Michael weyland says raising his left eyebrow looking at the general and finishing his whisky with one gulp from the trilomite cup.

'i will ready troops for you mr weyland when will this mission start"
general rilldo says in a stern heavy voice
michael weyland replies instantly as he places the trilomite cup down on his desk
"immediately i shall have the troops standing by and ready by 0800 tomorrow ready for docking to the uss delta which will take them to there destination, i want contact on anything that happens or anything you find down on lv-223 and i want contact to be on a hourly basis and general, you will contact me on everything, do not miss your hourly update you only have one warning"
general rilldo replies "yes sir mr weyland contact every hour on anything that happens i will gather the troops immediately when i get back to the U.N.C.S deck"

"and general rilldo if no contact, i will strip you of your rank and send you to the ends of the universe till a black hole finds you and rips you and your little bucket i leave you in, into little tiny pieces'

"general rilldo replies in a stern strong voice
"your message has been recieved sir"

"good leave now i have work to do i will meet you and your troops at 0800"
michael weyland replies with his straight monotone voice while sitting down behind his desk, pouring himself another drink.
general rilldo salutes his superior then leaves weylands office, the steel door slides open with a gentle hiss and closes the same way when the general walks out. michael weyland stares at his trilomite cup filled with whisky for a second before taking a sip and swinging his chair around to face a medium size circular window.

Gazing out to the stars mr weyland says to himself
"i will find you, you will be mine".

As the general walks away from mr weylands office, down the dark damp corridors filled with pipes going in all directions and lights on the walls flashing every now and then, he thinks to himself
" I have heard of lv-223 and I know of the planet lv-426 to well, I'm pretty sure I had video coms somewhere from the marines sent down to that planet in search for the uss sulaco, and the marines that went missing from the mission when they were sent down to investigate the hadleys hope facility, weyland yutani, threw it all under the desk when I asked about it, and I never asked anymore about it, didn't think much of it to be honest, I had heard what had happened, but the seniors and myself were told everything was under control, they said 1 surviour a marine unnamed and 2 civilians were picked up on fury 161 apparently the cryotubes were ejected into an eject shuttle and sent to fury 161 and had crashed landed, but that's all we were told"

The general gets to his dorm and touchs the keypad on the wall next to his door, the door slides open with a hiss and he walks in and go to the kitchen area grabs a glass and a bottle of whisky then sits down in front of his computer.

He turns the computer on and waits for it to load up, in the mean time he pours himself a whisky, gulps it down then pours another, the general grabs his video com phone and makes a phone call to a friend of his in the filing department of weyland yutani,

A girl answers the phone, her image showed up on the generals video com screen, she had looked like she just arrived for work, her brown hair tied back in a pony tail, wearing glasses that match her face she probably looked about the same age as the general, mid - 40s early 50s but very healthy looking for her age,
" good morning candice" the general says
" good morning general" candice replied
"How may I help you at this time of the morning, you look like You haven't slept yet"
" I haven't yet" replied the general
" I was just wondering if you were able to send me some old files I want to look at"
"Sure what do you need me to send through"
"I need files from the planet lv-426 from hadleys hope, anything on it files, images or video" replied the general
"I'll see what i can do general, just give me a minute".

The general while he waits drinks from his whisky only taking sips now while he is on the phone to candice,
"Ah yes here we are general, hadleys hope they are files from scientists, and colonists, from hadleys hope some of them say classified though, are you sure your aloud these files" candice said looking back to the video com screen.
"I can't really tell why i need them candice, all I can say is that michael weyland is sending me and my team to the planet lv-223 and I need some information from files of hadleys hope"
"Do you want me to look for anything g on the planet lv-223 aswell then," candice replied
"Yes please that would be helpful mr weyland told me he recieved a transmission message from someone that was recorded 86 years ago so maybe try around then" the general said
"Yep give me a sec"candice said
The general could hear clicking noises from the keyboard that candice was using it was so fast it sound like an assault rifle going crazy.
"No sorry general, the only thing I found was just the location of the planet, coordinates and such"
" I thought as much I figured he might have kept that to himself, and then reveal what we are doing during the de-briefing, maybe he will tell me before at least I know what's going on"
" maybe"candice replied "or maybe he is just going on a hunch, I know that I have heard of something a long time ago of a ship called prometheus going to lv-223 but I don't know why, or what happened that was all that was said"
"Hmm I'm not sure we'll just send me the information. On hadleys hope it is the neibouring planet to lv-223 maybe it will have someone I can learn" the general replied
" ok general I have sent through the file and you should receive it any minute did you need anything else"
" no that is all candice thank you I will talk to you soon be safe"
"You to general"
They both hung up the phone, the computer screen clicks on to the main menu, the general then clicks on the folder that just came in from candice saying hadleys hope and the derelict ship, he opens the folder and clicks on the file, he starts reading,

Classified file

Date July 21st, 2179

Reports came back from hadleys hope, the colony down on lv-426 a search team of weyland - yutani found something out in there search past the border, they reported in of a derelict ship they had found and wanted to know if they would be receiving any extra money for there find of the derelict, they were told what ever they find is there's to claim, which is what they had done, they said they were going into the derelict to find anything else they could claim, we hadn't heard from them in a while maybe 2 hours, then we recieved a call from the wife, there was a little girl screaming in the background we had assumed something was happening, the lady was saying something attacked her husband attached itself to his face and would not release its self she called for help, we sent the marines out to find them and bring them back into us so we could help them.

The marines found them and brought them back the little girl and her brother were ok, the mans wife was in shock though, we took him to med bay with this thing attached to his face, the scientists were trying to study the creature to see if there was a way to remove it without harming the patient, but they couldn't find a way, the doctors were there to try and keep him alive, but there reports said that he was stable, that the thing on his face had stuck a tube down his neck and was feeding him oxygen to keep him alive.

Eventually the thing fell off and was dead, our scientists removed it and put it in some glass tubes, in sterile water to keep it for studies, the scientists were curious if there were more where this one had come from and the wife had said when she was asked that there were millions of eggs but advised them to stay away, they didn't listen of course and we had a crew of marines and scientists sent out to the same coordinates of the derelict to retrieve these alien creatures and bring them back for study, of course with approval from the weyland -yutani CEOs it was there coordinates in the first place maybe they had known that the derelict was there, who knows.

Over time the man woke up and he seemed perfectly fine his wife was happy he was ok, and asked if they could go and see there kids now, the doctors said they still wanted to monitor him for a while just in case for reprocussions. They wanted to know for sure he was alright.
Everything checked out with him and he was sent back to his apartment in hadleys hope with his wife to meet up with his daughter and son, the doctors continued studying the creatures carefully making sure not to get latched on to or scratched you never know what could happen with unknown species, infections, infestations you never know, they found out from the dead one that it has acid for blood maybe a defence mechanism of some sort fascinating creatures very fascinating.

"How did I not read this report" the general said to himself taking a drink from his cup then pouring himself another and opening up the next file

July 22nd 2179

The scientists found out that these creatures lay eggs inside of there host while keeping them in a calm stasis, that is why they keep them alive by feeding them oxygen, the scientists insisted on the man to come back in to receive a X-ray of his abdomen to see if the creature had layed eggs inside of him,

Two marines were sent to pick him up from his apartment, they said his wife answered the door and said that her husband wasn't feeling to good he had only been at home for 2 hours, he agreeded to come back for an X-ray, and his wife came along to there 2 kids had stayed behind, when they got back to the med bay the wife stayed on the other side of the glass as the 2 doctors were telling him to sit down on the table behind him, but he just stood for a second jittering, I watched the whole hing his wife a bad look of concern on her face she was worried, I could tell, the doctors both walked up to him and grabbed him by the arm just as they were about to move him he started flipping out and screaming in intense pain holding his chest from time to time, his wife I could see was freaking out slaps the glass calling his name and crying her tears were splashing onto the glass and sliding down in little drops.
He fell back into the table and the doctors were trying to hold him down but not with much success, his wife still beating on the glass and now screaming his name,
Her husband stopped moving for a second and thrust upwards holding his chest in the air, he had fallen silent for not even a split second then all we see is a crunch through his chest something impaled him from the inside, he started freaking out again, the doctors backed away slowly from him and he fell to the floor, flopping around like a fish out of water, blood was leaking from his chest,and mouth he looked like he was in pain, and so did his poor wife having to watch this whole thing, another crunch happened form his chest and he had his final scream, as did his wife, the tears still fell though her tears of hurt and now fear from what I am seeing in front of my eyes now, poking out of his chest was a creature different to the other not spider like but more slick I find it hard to explain what this creature looked like the best I could say would be alien.

The doctors didn't know what to do, the creature just stared at them, eyeing them off, and then it was gone it had jumped out of his chest and made a run for the vents it had escaped, we sent the marines to search for it but they could not find it the motion sensors they had just kept picking up rats those bloody things escaped to, damn things but it was not the rats I was worried about but this thing, we should have contained it more, but how were we supposed to know that that's what was gonna happen, his wife now a mess, falls to the floor crying her eyes out saying his name over and over we need to find this thing and we need to find it fast it doesn't look that dangerous but if that's what the spider like thing had been able to do then what the hell is this thing capable of doing.

I pick up the mans wife from the floor and told her that we will sort out his funeral right away and that we can send someone to take the kids to a safe room and let them know what happened, abviously not the full extent of what happened but they need to know what happened to there father, she insisted on telling the kids her self, and asked for a request for a trip back home to earth she wants to get her kid away from this planet. Personally I don't blame her, there names were Anne and Russell Jorden, they were former employees of weyland yutani on hadleys hope, her request has been accepted her and her 2 children will be on the next ship to come here and take them home, the next ship though isn't for another 2 months, Russell's funeral will be held next week he is to be cremated mainly for safety reasons, but also for Anne as she had requested it, I will have the marines always searching the hadleys hope until they find this creature I just hope it's still the same creature and hasn't become.... something else.

That was the last written file from hadleys hope there some pdf image files, and one video com recorded on September 3rd - 2179 the general pours himself another drink and skulls it back then leans back in his chair trying to take in what he had just read, he cant believe what he read, the pain and torture Anne Jorden must have been going through seeing her husband die like that, and her kids there's name weren't mentioned but imagine how they must have felt, the general felt a kind of sorrow for them, one of the generals friends was a general sent down to lv-426 to investigate hadleys hope his name was Apone, general rilldo didn't know much of Apones mission, all he could tell him was that there was a situation that needed to be investigated, that the colony had sent word back to head quarters In a while, and the corporation thinks it might need to be looked into, there was more to it but Apone couldn't say much else, because the information he had been told was classified and were only to be heard by his marines, and the CEOs of weyland yutani.

The general poured him self another drink into his glass which was the last drink of the bottle, there was only half left in it to start with, and he leaned forward again taking a sip and then clicked on the pdf image files,
There were only a few pictures to be shown, one of the spider like thing attached to Russell Jordens face while he lay on the med bay bed, must have been when he was first brought in, the general take a close look at the picture and says to himself,
"What a ugly thing no wonder the kids were screaming i'de be shit scared to, I will have to admit, I have never in my entire life seen something ...like that".

The general continues looking through the pictures, there were pictures of the scientists trying to dissect the spider like things, pictures, of the spider like things in tanks, there were six tanks in this picture 3 in front and 3 behind them.
"Ugly fuckers" the general says
Scrolling through the pictures still he comes across photos of Russell's body with his chest imploded from that creature, he's laying on the floor with a pool of blood surrounding him, there were a few pictures of Russell taken from different views, in one of the pictures you could see the blood trail of the thing that came out of his chest, it follows right to the vents, just like the report said.

The last picture was of the Jordens, Anne and her two kids a boy and a little girl, the boy only looked about 14 and the girl maybe 10 the photo showed them standing together crying over Russell's body while it's being cremated, must be his funeral maybe, the little girl is holding a doll close to her hugging it tightly, the general just thinks again 'poor kids', the general may be a hard ass at times but he is still human, and still has feelings like the rest of the human race.

At the bottom of the photo it read there names Anne Jorden, Timothy Jorden, and Rebecca (newt) Jorden.
The general sits back in his chair again and finishes his drink, he gulps it down, and then just stares at the roof thinking to himself, 'what a horrible way to go'.

The only thing left in the folder for the general to look at is the video com dated : August 31st 2179, and it looks like this was the latest and the last video recorded message that had come from hadleys hope.

The General leans forward again at his computer and clicks on the video com, the video started buffering then the image starts up on screen, a man shows up on screen sweating, crying he looked scared out of his mind,

"It's trying to get me, they are trying to get me, I'm scared everyone is dead please please send help no one is left alive I couldn't find anyone I tried as best I could but they were coming out of the walls, the floors the vents every where I went I couldn't do anything, they got my wife I seen them drag her into the vent I tried to save her but there was nothing I could do' I have locked my self in the control room, and I blocked the doors, but I'm sure they will find a way in, I covered the vents, so maybe I'm safe"
There was a thud behind him, the man on the screen looked behind him breathing heavily, panicking,
"Oh fuck there here, they know where i am, I have to hide please if you recieve this message send help as soon as you can please I be.."

The man was cut off as he heard a thump behind him, the sweat and fear pulsating from his face, even the General could feel his fear watching this video,
"What the fuck", the Man says on the camera, looking around furiously and scared, the man looks back at the camera.
"Alright I think I'm safe my name is Jerry Smith, I am a biology scientists sent, to Hadleys Hope by the Weyland - Yutani corporation, to study these things that were found, by the search team,but things got out of control the one that had escaped from Russell Jorden grew it got big and I mean big, slowly people started disappearing, and then they showed themselves, a whole load of them, they were coming from everywhere, and they were grabbing people, impaling people with there tails, they also have a retractable second mouth I seen it go through my friends face, it was horrifying please if anyone gets this send help, again my name is Jerry Smi.."
Jerry stopped mid sentence, blood started running from his mouth drooling out onto the keyboards in front of him, then a black figure appeared behind him long head sharp blood coated teeth, a spiny figure, it was terrifying it purred like a cat as it looked at its prey it had just killed, Jerrys body was pulsating the creature grabbed Jerrys head with its wet disgusting black exo skeleton hand and pulled his head towards its mouth.
The General was sitting on the edge of his seat mesmerised by this creature, frightened even just from watching this video, the creature slowly opened its drooling mouth, Jerry still awake, crying, shaking and bleeding from the mouth stares his fate in the eyes, and breathes his final breathe, the creatures retractable second shoots out of its mouth, and punches through Jerrys forehead once the crunch of jerry forehead breaking inwards was so horrific it was like the General could feel his pain, the retractable mouth went back inside the creatures drooling mouth now coated in Jerrys blood, and brains, it dropped Jerry to the floor with a thud.

The creature turned it black long head, and stared at the camera, it stared like it knew what it was looking at, it stood for a moment staring, the General could see death and hatred in its horrifying face, it's like the creature was staring at him, drooling for his blood, the creature then looked up and made a dreadful screech it was was piercing, it lasted a couple of seconds, then it stared at the camera again and hissed, it hissed like a cat does when it's scared, but this thing was not scared it was calm, liked it succeeded in killing all its prey,
All of a sudden behind the creature more of them showed, two, then three, it must have communicated with the others, called for them to come and feast on its prey, the creature still staring at the camera, the General could hear it's heavy breathing, it then looked away and bent down in front of the camera where it had dropped Jerry, the general could hear crunching noises, it was feasting on jerry eating away at his dead corpse.

The general had enough, he clicked the video closed, there were tears emerging in his eyes, for someone who seems like an asshole, felt sorry for jerry even though he never met jerry just in the video he felt sorry for him, even close to him by just knowing his name and seeing his face and seeing what had happened to the poor man, also thinking about what he must have gone through with his family and friends, it is true that fear, and hate are one of the same , and that they come in all different shapes, and sizes.

The General in shock after what he had seen turned off his computer, got out of his chair and walked over to his bed which lay on the far side of the room, on the way as he passed the kitchen bench he placed his cup down, then layed down on his bed.
He unbuttons his shirt and takes it off, he folds his shirt and places it on the end of the bed, then place his hat, on top of his shirt, he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight,after watching what he had judged witnessed I don't think any one would sleep, also he knew he had to be up soon to meet his marines for de-briefing on this mission Michael Weyland is sending them on, he lays down on the bed in his socks, pants, and his white singlet scars could be seen on his top left breast just poking out of the top of his singlet and another on his right arm, bullet wounds maybe he has been through war, for many years now and each scar tells a different story all together.

The General just lays there staring out of his square window into the deep space filled with many stars and moons, and now knowing what can live among them, he heard stories of aliens, wars between aliens beings, but never has he ever seen anything like what he had just seen,
Staring out still watching the different stars he says to him self
"What are we going to be getting our selves into down on lv-223".

The General rolls over, and just stares to the cold steel floor of his compartment, wondering about the mission,and what to expect, or not to expect, the could be nothing, or worse there could me more.

CHAPTER 2 - All of These Nightmares