Author's Note: This is the first installment in the series. I am not sure how many chapters there will be or how often I will be writing more of it. This is my first go at a nonhuman story that is set in space. My use of advanced technology is minimal to keep it as simple as possible.
The story takes place in the future on an unknown planet that houses a cave that is inhabited, unbeknownst to the main character Bella and the crew of her ship, by a colony of male xenomorph aliens that have one thing in mind to do with their new catch: breed her.
All characters featured in the story are over the age of 18. Hope you enjoy it!
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The cave was pitch black and quiet. Bella could faintly hear the sound of water dripping against the cold stone floor in the distance every now and then. The silence was almost deafening to her ears.
She couldn't believe she had drawn the short end of the stick to be sent to the area for data collection. They had scanned the surroundings for lifeforms back at the ship but had seen none. In hindsight, this seemed a little suspicious, as there tended to be at least some type of life within the massive caves that spanned across the planet.
She was to collect the materials for the ship in the cave and then get out. It seemed like a simple mission but not everything is as it seems. Sometimes they went off without a hitch, other times not so much.
Finally, she found the materials she needed after moving through the cave for fifteen minutes. Or was it thirty? They all seemed to blur together on these types of escapades.
At some point, she lost communication with her ship. This wasn't very alarming and tended to happen quite a lot in the more remote areas of the cave. To gather the resources they needed, she had to travel quite far within the narrow passages.
Halfway through using her tools to get the ore she heard a strange noise from behind. She thought little of it and continued with gathering the materials for the ship.
It wasn't until a good two minutes or so later that she heard the noise again. Strange. She was supposed to be the only lifeform in the cave. So, what could be making the strange noises? It sounded like a distant growl, which was a bit disheartening. Could their scans have missed picking up some kind of alien creature in here? Wouldn't be the first time it happened or the last.
In general, most alien lifeforms they encountered were harmless. But a growling noise didn't sound all that friendly to her. She became acutely aware of every sound around her at that moment, hoping against hope that she could finish getting the mineral and get the fuck out of dodge. She was a little over halfway done.
Bella of course had a blaster at her hip to defend herself with, but she tried not to use it if it wasn't necessary. She'd gotten herself into a few hairy scrapes in the past that she barely escaped unscathed from, but she was hopeful that her imagination was just playing tricks on her.
Too bad she was wrong. But her tool had taken all the ore that it could hold. She urned on her heels and took a long glance around as felt like she wasn't alone. She couldn't have been more right about that. It felt like something was breathing right down her neck in the darkness of the dimly lit tunnel she was in.
Suddenly, Bella saw movement out of the corner of her eye. But it was too late. She was slammed into from the side of the cavern and knocked into the stone wall so hard that she thudded to the floor and saw stars. She was dazed by the force of it and found herself having a hard time concentrating.
What the hell had just happened? Had she been hit by the freaking Incredible Hulk?
She blinked a few times as she began to come to and raised her head. She wished she hadn't and had just played dead. Above her was a large xenomorph alien about ten feet in height. He was a massive, deadly creature. It dawned on her too little too late now that the growling noise she had been hearing was the beast hissing quietly in the darkness.
Xenomorph aliens were a species feared by many in the galaxy. Unfortunately for her, this specific type of them had no intention of killing her and giving her a swift demise. They wanted quite the opposite. This specific hive consisted primarily of males except for the Queen who ruled over the colony. The main goal of the males was to procreate with the Queen and any other unfortunate lifeform that was stupid enough to come near their swarm.
In lamen terms, Bella was going to be impregnated and turned into their breeding stock. It wasn't uncommon in this sick, twisted future for aliens to be able to have children with humans. These aliens lived for that very purpose and would have sex with the intention to reproduce with any type of being that could hold their eggs. This included male humans as well.
Before Bella could recover her strength, she was being hauled over the hulking beast's shoulder. She banged her fists on his rock-hard leathery skin but it was like hitting a brick wall. It did more harm to her than it did to him and she got a few minor cuts and scrapes on her skin from it.