A Very Unusual Stepmother

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The view before me completely took my breath away. The mountains of stone and sand rolled on for miles on end interrupted only by the canyon that cut through them like a scar in the land. The endless expanse was simply beautiful. I could stare off at the distance for hours.

"Jessica, come on! We got work to do!" a man called out to me from a ways behind me.

So much for staring off at the distance. I turned away from the scenery and walked back down the large landing pad where my coworkers were emptying our ship's cargo. That's who I was, Jessica the red haired delivery girl. Great. Walking up to the ships ramp, the man who called out to me reached over to hand me the ships manifest. Before I could grab it from him he pulled it back.

"You sure you're up for this strenuous line of work," he said with a grin gesturing to my enlarged stomach. I just rolled my eyes in return. Honestly couldn't he be mature for a moment?

"Yeah yeah, give me that ya freakin jack ass," I said with an annoyed huff as I took the manifest from him.

"Come on Jess, I'm just kidding-ah!" He exclaimed in surprise as I grabbed on to his ear.

"Mark, what have I said about calling me that?"

"To not to! Ah Ow come on that's still attached, it's still attached!" His voice cracked a few octaves as I continued to pull on the man's ear. Believing he's had enough I let him go. I chuckled at his mumbling as he went to continue unloading. Mark wasn't that bad a guy; he just doesn't know when to shut his mouth. It doesn't help him that I've become easily annoyed ever since I became pregnant. Any one even comes close to mentioning anything that has to do with weight or my inability to do a job and I go ballistic. Honestly I even scare myself sometimes. God damn hormonal imbalance. The sound of something crashing brought my attention to the ramp. A vein on my forehead pulsed so hard I thought it would burst if I got any angrier. I know those idiots aren't stupid enough to damage the oh so precious cargo we are being paid so very handsomely for. Turning around I see just that. Shit.

"The hell is wrong with you idiots!" I walked up to the two who crashed two stasis pods together. Looking down at the cargo I released a sigh of relief when I saw they weren't damaged. I clenched my jaw. Undamaged or not, someone is getting an earful for this and it is not going to be me.

"You idiots! Do you know how much Wey-Yu is paying us to deliver these pods?! Enough for me to toss you over the edge if you two screw up again!"

"Sorry Jessica," they said in unison before walking off with the pods. I let the rest of my anger out in a deep sigh. This job is way too stressful. A hand on my shoulder caused me to look behind me and see Mark with a half amused half fearful expression.

"You know you shouldn't get too worked up. It's not good for you." As much as I hate to see his smug face all the time he always has a way of getting me to calm down.

"Shut up," I said trying to suppress a chuckle. "You know, with how well you're able to keep me calm, you should get a girlfriend, have your own kid."

"Oh no, I get enough of that looking after you and I don't even get the benefits."

"Mark," I growled. I really didn't like where his train of thought was going. He chuckled raising up his hands in surrender.

"Alright I get it. Come on, let's go get paid." With that we walked towards the facility.

The Erde Five Weyland Yutani Research and Development facility. It was a pretty big place, the whole thing made of a black colored metal, making it stand out in the lightish brown desert mountains that surrounded it. What they researched I have no idea. When it comes to these places it's best I don't know and as long as I get paid, I don't really care. When we reached the entrance a pair of soldiers started to escort us to the financial office for the transaction. I did find that kind of weird though. Why would they need soldiers? Seeing Mark place his hand on the pistol on his hip, I knew he was thinking the same thing. When we reached the office, we got our money as soon as possible. Something was wrong about this place and we couldn't wait to get out of there. The moment we stepped through the door on our way out, everything turned red and a loud siren blared in our ears. 'What the hell's going on?!' I thought to myself. Something tells me this isn't supposed to be happening. What's worse is down the hallway we heard a sympathy of screams, gunfire, and un Godly screeches. I was jerked to the side as Mark grabbed my hand.

"Come on!" He yelled over the noise.

We ran down the hallway past the frantic soldiers and panicking scientists. We ran faster as the screeches and gunfire got closer, but due to me being a twenty-two year old and eight months pregnant, I was falling significantly behind. We made it out onto the landing pad where the crew was running up the ramp into our ship. In the chaos, a pod was knocked off of one of the gurneys and out came rolling a man wearing colonist's cloths. What the hell?! Those pods were supposed to be empty! Mark made it up the ramp while I was still only half way across. He turned back to face me.

"Jessica come on!" I saw his eyes widen in fear. "Holy shit! JESSICA RUN!"

He pulled out his pistol and pointed it at me! What the fuck was he doing?! Taking the risk, I turned back to see what was behind me. My heart nearly burst out of my chest in fear as I ran even faster. I don't know what was chasing me but it was big, black, and definitely not human! I heard Mark fire his gun just a few times before everything went black.

The first thing I felt was the pain. I guess it's better than nothing. At least I'm alive. That's right Jessica, just keep that positive attitude. The next thing I realized was that my arms and legs were bound. I opened my eyes to see that they were covered in some kind of pale goo. Not the worst thing I've woken up covered in, there was that one time Mark introduced me to drinking. Looking around, I could hear my heart pound in my chest. The entire room was covered in pale goo and a black, almost bone like substance. On the ground were dozens of these brown oval egg things. Some of them were opened and seemed to be empty but the rest were still full. My head pounded one question. What came out of that thing? Looking to my left my question was answered as I tried to suppress a scream.

There attached to the wall by the goo was one of the soldiers. Attached to him was . . . I don't even know what it was. It looked like a big brown hand grabbing onto his face with a long tail wrapping around his throat. Looking around the room again, I saw there were more people, some of them with those creatures on their face, but others without them; instead the creatures were below them curled up and dead. Grunting noises to my right brought my attention back and I had to suppress another scream. On the wall next to me a scientist was struggling in the goo's grip, arching his back as he groaned and then screamed in pain. His chest became red as blood soaked through his clothes until finally some . . . thing burst from his chest, screeching as the man died. As the creature ran off, I looked around again at the people in the room. Was that going to happen to me? Hell no I say in my mind as I struggle in my bonds. I'm a pregnant woman who barely turned 22 there is no way in fucking hell I'm dying here! I cheered in my mind again as I managed to get one of my hands free. The sound of I don't even want to know brought my attention to the eggs. Oh shit one of them was opening! I yanked on my bonds even more, pulling with every bit of strength I had. I wasn't just fighting for my life I was fighting for two. I struggled for what felt like hours but what could only have been five minutes, fear taking a stronger hold of me as each minute went by. Wait, five minutes? How am I not dead yet? Glancing at the creature that came out of the egg, I noticed it do something strange. It just sat there, not doing anything. I flinched as it moved again but not towards me. Instead it moved to the other side of the room where someone else was waking up. The moment they looked up it latched onto the persons face. They struggled for a moment before falling unconscious again. I stared at it in awe. What just happened? I was right here and wide awake why didn't it latch onto me? A hiss caught my attention once again and as I turned my head toward the noise I had to, for what felt like the thousandth time today, suppress a scream.

The creature that entered the room was big with a smooth black exoskeleton. It had a long banana shaped head, two large spikes jutted out of its back and it had a long tail that ended in a terrifyingly sharp blade. It walked up to me and stared at me with its eyeless face. It pulled its lips back in a human like snarl and I whimpered a moment as it stuck out a tongue with a second mouth at me, its teeth coming dangerously close to my neck. It backed off a moment and tore at my restraints. I yelped as I fell towards the ground. It caught me in its arms before my face was introduced to the ground. Not sure which would have been worse: falling to the ground while pregnant or being in this thing's arms? With almost little effort it ran out of the room and down the hall with me still held tightly to its rough chest. I couldn't see much around me as he was moving too fast and I clung tightly to him to make sure I didn't fall. It hissed in what seemed like annoyance as I clung to his chest. After a few minutes of running we finally came to a stop where he dropped me on the ground, luckily I landed on my butt. I looked back at the creature before I heard another hiss behind me. This one was different though; it was deeper and somehow even more menacing. Slowly turning around, my eyes landed on a massive black creature before me. One that was so terrifying, I finally let out the scream I had suppressed for so long.

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