Cyber-Xeno

A Story by Abishai100

Isaac and James are NJ/USA business partners who decided to convene on a weekend to explore cyber-gaming for a customized Alien invasion.

Here's a quarantine-prayer vignette about finding inventive and exciting new media arenas in our new era of quarantine consciousness! God bless,

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Isaac Satan, a video-game and Alien comics aficionado, invited his business partner James, to his North Jersey home in the USA to test out his new custom-made Red Xenomorph: Colonial Marines PS3 video-game, delivered to him by Konami/Sega. Isaac considered the Alien media/movie franchise a hallmark of sci-fi horror in Western civilization and had ordered the customized video-game from Konami/Sega with his special dollar connections!

MENA: I don't understand Isaac's weird obsession with video-games, which is why I tease him I'll cheat on him.

James, Isaac's business partner, was the friend Isaac wanted in on the new online platform for Alien game-play he'd mount onto his home HD-TV. He had the program specifications to convert his video-game experience into an online gaming nexus and could therefore invite others to participate through a public PS3 terminal/server/portal. James wasn't a video-game fan but a huge Alien franchise fan and agreed to be Isaac's first gaming buddy for Rex Xenomorph: Colonial Marines.

The North Jersey community where Isaac grew up was modest and typical and offered both low-income and higher-income housing and real-estate. Isaac grew up poor but then developed wealth through dint of hard work and decided to stay in the North Jersey area where he grew up poor with his single mother Nina. Isaac invited James to drive through his neighborhood and find his secluded mansion but warned him to get a rental-car, since the area was quite unsafe due to some reports of car-jacks.

JAMES: I love Alien stuff, man!

ISAAC: Yeah, it's its own comic book universe, James.

JAMES: Comic book aesthetics are the new doorway to American media.

ISAAC: Indeed; comic book media speaks to our love of dystopian folk-tales.

JAMES: Yeah, Americans love weird stuff.

After Isaac wired up his PS3 system to his Hitachi Plasma, he mounted the Red Xenomorph: Colonial Marines video-game onto the public Alien gaming network online and then began playing public games, at first with just James as his partner and/or contender. The game was a big hit online, and Isaac and James were watching everything from Isaac's HD-TV in his room in North Jersey!

ISAAC: The Sony PS3 is the best video-game platform since the original Nintendo, since it's useful and convenient!

James brought a special Red Xenomorph action-figure as a gift for Isaac, since the video-game they'd be playing online through the cyber-PS3 network would feature this iconic and unique alien species, a variant of the standard 'Black Xenomoprh' alien from the Alien films and comics. The Red Xenomorph exhibited the same insect-dragon morphology and intelligent but fierce facial and head features and poses and claws and tails but was red in color and spit saliva that was explosive! This 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) symbolized all the drama of the Alien franchise, which is why Isaac had ordered a customized video-game for his PS3 featuring the RX alien as the dark protagonist.

JAMES: This 'Red Xenomorph' (RX) alien is not only a menace but it's also more sinister than its 'Black Xenomorph' cousin!

James and Isaac weren't alien to the cyber-playing arenas or to modern indoor technologies and toys conducive to new-era gaming experiences. In fact, the two were something of laser-gun aficionados and were prepared for the lethal graphic thrills and raw violence of Red Xenomorph: Colonial Marines (Konami/Sega).

As soon as the game started up, James and Isaac were pitted as disagreeing soldiers of the exploration company Weyland, sent to the uncharted and certainly hostile planet of LG-426 to deal with an infestation of Red and Black Xenomorphs engaged in a devastating Civil War on the eerie and dark planet. James and Isaac had to use their soldier-gaming avatars to deal directly with these leaping Red/Black Xenomorphs and used powerful laser-canons and guns to blow them apart.

ISAAC: Man, playing Alien games online is like feeling immersed in the environment of raw and dark dangers!

Of course, in the real world, media and computers and cyber-activity was now the quarantine-era hallmark of normal work and study, as businessmen and students had to access all info and academic resources through cyber-portals now that work-offices and school-houses were closed due to Coronavirus problems. Computers ran everything now, truly, and James and Isaac's video-game weekend in North Jersey reflected this modern drama.