Alien: Cyrax

A Story by Abishai100

Weyland sends two explorers to an uncharted planet to discover the quality of an unidentified diseased alien called the Red Xenomorph.

Alright one last Alien fanfiction, and this one focuses on my most favorite 'avatar' in that dystopian iconic sci-fi horror franchise, the elusive and terrifying Red Xenomorph, so I really hope you read through this last ambitious vignette and like it. Thanks,

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The Weyland space-exploration company sent its finest shuttle, the grand Nostromo, which was a giant hotel-like floating complex, flown miraculously and wondrously by only two space-pilots, Amlan and Debbie. These two soldier-scientists of the Weyland Company were sent to the uncharted planet LG-426 to investigate a communication signal sent by an intelligent alien creature calling itself the 'Red Xenomorph' for its red color and adaptation flexibility. Amlan and Debbie flew the giant space-ship Nostromo towards the uncharted planet.

Now, it was known that Amlan was a Buddhist philosophy student on Earth and followed the ninja-aesthetic of combat and military ideology. In fact, Amlan was descended from some ancient unknown ninja 'clan' in Asia Minor. When Amlan joined Weyland as a scientist and soldier and space-pilot, he maintained his special ninja-ideas about combat and self-awareness. This gave him a special attitude towards human consciousness. Weyland however was simply interested in Amlan's skill with fighting and alien sciences. Nevertheless, Amlan really was an interesting ninja individual and perhaps ideal for this rather enigmatic mission to make contact with the mysterious 'Red Xenomorph' on planet LG-426. Amlan considered himself an eccentric ninja!

AMLAN: I'm prepared to deal with this Weyland mission on the Nostromo about this 'Red Xenomorph' with objectivity!

The Nostromo was designed to be a floating hotel, really. That's why Weyland sent two handsome and dashing soldier-scientists, Amlan and Debbie, to make contact with this Red Xenomorph alien and invite a host of them to the Nostromo to fly back to Earth to greet humans. Their flight to Earth would therefore be planned as a hotel-like space-cruise. The entire thing was a designed diplomacy effort envisioned by Peter Weyland himself. The Nostromo really did look like a hotel in space, complete with fitness centers and eating areas and bathing centers.

Debbie was the female co-captain of the Nostromo mission for the Weyland Company. She'd studied at Oxford and West Point and joined Weyland as a soldier-scientist just like her mission comrade Amlan. However, Debbie was a devout Catholic and didn't really understand or follow Amlan's weird brand of 'ninja' hieratics. She considered herself rather amusingly a 'Christian inspiration' in Amlan's side during their flight to LG-426 while the two were secretly courting a private and intimate love affair.

AMLAN: We'll train with these miniature laser-guns in the event of hostility.

DEBBIE: Do you really think these 'Red Xenomorphs' intend to lure/attack us?

AMLAN: Anything goes, really, so these mini-guns will serve to prepare us mentally!

When the Nostromo landed on LG-426, co-captains Amlan and Debbie noticed there were huge mega-structures already built there, apparently by the 'Red Xenomorph' aliens who'd lived there for eons. These aliens were apparently both adaptive and intelligent, as these mega-structures spoke well to their intention to mine and extract rich minerals from the ground and sea of LG-426.

When the two started roaming around the underground discovered tunnels of LG-426, they met to their shock a stranded human from Weyland Company! This stranded man claimed he'd been sent on an earlier but 'secret' mission to make contact with these Red Xenomorphs but was stranded with his crew to serve as pawn sacrifices to the Red Xenomorph aliens which turned out to be incredibly hostile. This stranded Weyland employee was the only survivor of his expendable mission and explained to the horrified Amlan/Debbie that he'd been hiding in these underground mining tunnels erected by the ambitious Red Xenomorphs who would simply feed of human 'ants' sent by Weyland in vain missions just to store photos of the aliens themselves for company records. The stranded man showed Amlan/Debbie blood-spots of the murdered crew members of his damned mission in these dark tunnels.

The man also showed Amlan and Debbie drawings of the Black Xenomorphs, which were the 'standard' strain of this intelligent but highly dangerous and ferocious insect-dragon like alien species. The drawings were of the black strain, since the man was clearly frightened of the Red Xenomorphs into a state of complete metaphysical submission, refusing to even draw the red variant alien. The drawings of the Black Xenomorph variant however showed Amlan/Debbie that these insect-dragon 'Xenomorph' aliens clearly looked hostile in demeanor...and stance!

In fact, the man only desired to generate 'comic book' art for the Red Xenomorph variant. These rather cartoon-like renditions and portraits of the Red Xenomorph, often engaged in warlike alignments against the Black Xenomorph strain, were exhibited by the Weyland man to be a species of great fury and wrath. Amlan and Debbie now knew fully that these flighty 'Red Xenomorph' aliens were nothing less than hellraisers bent on pure colonization.

AMLAN: Well, at least this guy's art reminds me of something dreamy.

DEBBIE: I doubt the art stands the test of time against the reality of this red-alien evil, darling.

AMLAN: Right!

Amlan and Debbie decided to sneak back on board the Nostromo, but the stranded Weyland man refused to join them and instead chose to stay in deep hiding in those dark underground mining tunnels on planet LG-426, waiting for more military resources from Weyland to finally arrive. Amlan/Debbie honestly didn't have the heart to tell the stranded man that Weyland may not have any intention to come scoop up any stranded stragglers but had no choice but to leave the stranded man on the planet. Amlan and Debbie scurried back onto the Nostromo.

AMLAN: I'm going to walk around the Nostromo inspecting every corner with this primary fire-gun.

DEBBIE: Good, dear.

Debbie meanwhile checked all the electrical and mechanical functions of the Nostromo, preparing to fly to Earth!

Debbie decided to perform one last gesture, a flight on the mini-shuttle off the Nostromo's deck. During this flight, Debbie would just try to catch any glimpse of this terrifying 'Red Xenomorph' alien and just take shuttle-photos with the two attached super-digital cameras. This would have to suffice any Weyland demand for Red Xenomorph records or evidence. Debbie put on her helmet and prepared to find the alien for quick photos.

DEBBIE: These cameras are sophisticated and should do the trick, and they're snugly fit to the shuttle-wings!

AMLAN: I've seen some artistic renderings of the Red Xenomorph, and I have to say the alien is rather...eerie.

Yes, indeed, the Red Xenomorph is eerie as hell. It possesses claws and metal teeth, similar to its Black Xenomorph cousin/variant. However, the Red Xenomorph not only contains acidic blood like its Black cousin, but it also possesses a toxic saliva that when touched on any surface creates an immediate explosion, albeit a small explosion. These 'spit-bombs' the Red Xenomorph can emit is a clear sign of its ability to induce pure death on any planetary surface or condition of war.

AMLAN: Oh God, I found a 'Red Xenomorph' infant that crawled onto the Nostromo deck, and I must warn Debbie.

Amlan ran around the Nostromo chasing the Red Xenomorph infant which was scurrying through the halls of the Weyland space-ship. Amlan didn't want to take off for the return-flight to Earth with this Red Xenomorph infant running around the ship with its menacing nature. He tried to find the damn alien while Debbie still scoured on her mini-shuttle for any photos of Red Xenomorphs possibly running around the surface of the planet. Amlan searched and searched through the hallways and labyrinth of the Nostromo for this Red Xenomorph infant!

Unfortunately, what Amlan didn't know was that this Red Xenomorph infant had the ability to grow rapidly and became a full-blown mutated adult red alien in just 1 hour. This red mutated Red Xenomorph was obviously some kind of 'drone' of the red alien species sent to stowaway on the Nostromo and make it back to Earth perhaps to try to send back some kind of colonization blueprints of recorded schemes!

Amlan and Debbie made it back to Earth safely. They never found the grown Red Xenomorph that stowed onto the Nostromo on their return-flight to Earth. Amlan simply assumed the 'infant' simply vanished and didn't worry about it at all and didn't report it or tell Debbie. Meanwhile, Weyland deified Amlan and Debbie in a series of comic book art prints depicting the two LG-426 return-explorers as modern-day 'costumed' crusaders.

The Red Xenomorph on Earth meanwhile, now a full adult, hid in the Grand Canyon, awaiting any Black Xenomorph cousin variant to arrive on Earth to outshine its red cousin in a future colonization scheme.