Prometheus: Big things have small beginnings

Prometheus: Big Things Have Small Beginnings Led by David, Shaw journey the tumultuous terrain reaching another ship. Upon reaching the large vessel, David said, “Dr. Shaw, please be careful. I’m afraid we are not alone. I was hoping the elements would deter our follower.” “What is it, David? An Engineer?” “I’m afraid not. Please, give me my head.” “Oh, yes, of course.” David affixed his head and body. “Now, that’s better. Perhaps now I can be of better assistance.” Quick and determined sounds followed them through the dark corridors, slipping through each passage and doorway David opened, but remained unseen. This vessel also contained death. Thousands of containers riddled the chamber. As before, their existence began to change. David knelt down to examine one of the containers. “David, what are doing?” “It’s changing like before. Like the first time we encountered them. It’s sweating.” The two moved quickly to the launching chamber. As they slowly walked in, Shaw asked, “Can you do it David? Can you take us to the Engineers?” “Yes, Lisbeth, I believe I can.” They stopped and saw that six Engineers lie in stasis. “Should I wake them?” “NO! I want off this Godforsaken rock. You’re taking me home.” “Vickers! How? I saw you . . . ,” responded Shaw. “I know, I thought so too. It seems that sink holes do have a purpose. After the ship flipped I saw the pod was damaged and followed you here. So, let’s go home.” “We’re not going home, mum. Dr. Shaw has directed me to go to the engineers.” Vickers walked up on David with a firm face and grabbed him by the neck. Shaw was scared and yelled, “STOP!” “It’s o.k. Lisbeth.” “Shaw is not in charge here,” Vickers said firmly. “I am.” David turned his head loosen her grip and swiftly turned Vickers and placed her in a gentle yet firm kimura arm-lock. She groan in agony. “I no longer take orders, mum. Our maker is dead, and your ship is destroyed. So, you can be a good passenger or we can try permanent stasis,” he said while tightening his grip. Vickers acquiesced. “You have the same maker?” “Yes,” David replied. “I share her D.N.A., hence, the similarity.” David began to explain as he played the flute and set the coordinates. “Our father used her D.N.A., along with his to create me as the closest replica of a son as he could create. A mother and sister. Ms. Vickers is his last attempt and creating youth. He has slowed her genetic aging structure hoping to find a reversal agent for himself. Ah, here we are the Engineers,” he said while pointing to their system. “Were they going to earth too?” “No, it appears there was also another life bearing planet.” David closed off the doors and raised two stasis pods for Vickers and Shaw. “I’m afraid you must go into stasis. It should only take a few months’ time. While they slept, David studied the memories of the engineers, their ways, and their culture. He listened to the recorded data, the containers and the affect the substance inflicts on its subjects. He also watched as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw slept. Back in the darkest of corners the alien hibernated. Paradise: The Arrival David awakened his crew from stasis without the residual effects from the former stasis of the Prometheus. “Dr. Shaw, your Engineers.” Dr. Shaw walked over and saw the planet, surrounded in a canopy. It was as pure living light. She was filled with excitement, new vigor, and curiosity. “This is for you Charlie,” Shaw whispered. Vickers eyes widened with awe and fear, for she remembered what happened to Weyland. “Are you ready, Dr. Shaw?” David asked. “Yes, yes, take me there, David” Shaw replied with widened eyes. Vickers was hesitant and unsure, but with no choice she had to continue her companions’ journey. Once they entered the atmosphere, the vessel began to guide itself. Upon landing they were received by several engineers. As they looked around, the terrain was as a perfect world. It was cloudless with pure air, clean air, rolling mountains, and running rivers. The engineers were startled and surprised to see the old vessel, especially containing humans. They were tall and giant-like with a pale grey complexion. Their eyes glistened like onyx orbs floating upon the sea. The men were hairless. They wore long grey tunics tied at the waist with golden rope. “Why have you brought more death?!” one yelled. “How did you humans come here? Answer!” shouted another. “You are our makers. Why did you want to kill us?” asked Shaw. “Many of you were to be eliminated.” Meanwhile, inside the ship, the alien had come upon the Engineers in stasis and impregnated each one. It slipped out unnoticed as the Engineers took them to the Atrium. The Engineers told them to be silent until they reached the Atrium. The Engineers allowed them to understand their tongue. While they led them to Atrium, the Engineers (Urien, Ohlm, Kahed, and Baush) had others enter the ship. The scouts wore darkened grey suits that clung to the body and metal face masks and chest plates. Holstered at their sides were long blades and what appeared to be a type of baton. As the Engineers led them to the Atrium they saw dwellings of the human past and present. Tall sparkling silver towers tickled the skies with oval buildings with tall surrounding pillars and what appeared to be Stonehenge atop a hill transporting Engineers. Floating structures with dwellings clad the skies with small vessels transporting from place to place. David’s face was quite perplexed as they walked. When reaching the Atrium, the support beams were silver with a glass dome and glass walls. Two women stood at the twenty foot entrance, one with long black tresses and the other with long white tresses. Their eyes were pure light. They held out their hands to them and spoke. “I see your questions, and your answers lie here,” they said in unison and placed their hands back at their sides. Inside the Atrium was a tree bearing fruit of all kinds growing on what appeared to be a small island with a small bridge big enough for one person to cross connecting it to the other side. Underneath a circular river flowed around the island of the tree. They entered, and when they looked out, the world they thought they saw was grey and dismal, a battle ground and they were at base camp. “What is this?!” asked Vickers. “What’s going on?” “It’s what your kind does best; see what you want to see,” answered Urien. “I thought this was Paradise. David, you said they were from Paradise!” Shaw frantically said. “Yes,” Urien answered. “We are from Paradise, but we are condemned here. We, like you, tried to become like gods and was cast away. Your ‘Engineers,’ us Nephilim, tried to cultivate you into more evolved beings, but like so many others created, you failed and became arrogant and creators yourselves. Paradise sent One to help you long ago, but you humans rejected the notion. So, you became your own end.” “But the cargo. It never reached earth,” Vickers said. “No, death comes in another form. Paradise has other plans for you.” The Nephilim scouts came back and reported what happed to the bodies on board. “They have brought the stalkers of death with them,” Ohlm declared. “How many more? First, it was our own. Now, 2,000 years later humans bring it again. We had them contained. How many?!” shouted Ohlm. “HOW MANY!” “They will come too,” added Kahed. “Yes, they will come,” said Baush. “We searched the ship. We found nothing but the bodies already ripped opened. We burned what we could.” As the scouts spoke and explosion was seen in the sky. They had set the vessel away from the planet but in the heat of the explosion by a large sarsen was the clear outline of a tall creature. “Ripped open,” a stuttering and scared Vickers muttered. She had been sweating the entire time and looking as if something had followed her. “Are you o.k. Mum? Did you find something in your pod perhaps?” “What did you see in there Meredith,” asked Shaw. “Nothing, I got some supplies and ran out when I saw you riding off.” “It’s inside her,” Kahed said as he raised the firing unit from his side. “NO!” shouted Shaw. The alien sprung from a crevice and killed Kahed with its tail. David quickly grabbed the baton and hit it across the head as it hurdled toward him. Quickly, it recoiled and again attacked him. The ailien shot its second jaw at David and he grabbed the head and squeezed it until it burst. Ohlm shot the larger head disengaging it off of David. Urien set it on fire with his short range flame thrower. David’s hand had begun melting. “David, are you alright?” Shaw anxiously asked. “It’s alright. I can’t feel it. I’m a robot.” “Is it dead?” asked Vickers. “Yes, it appears to be completely incapacitated,” answered David. “,and thank you,” he said, looking back at Ohlm and Urien. “No soul withstands fire,” Urien responded looking at Shaw. “This is what killed them. This,” said Shaw. “Some, but there is far worse. Far far worse. But for it to protect her like that, she must have a queen inside her,” Baush replied. David’s injury intrigued the Nephilim. Urien ordered for them to go the Ecosphere. A small vessel landed for them to enter; it flew them to the landing where they walked across a long plane to enter the ecosphere. It was held by for large stone beings in the image of the Nephilim. The Ecosphere was true, pure life. Two guards stood at its entrance. They could see water falls, animals, rivers- it was like the beginning of time. As they walked, Urien turned and told Shaw and Vickers this is where they stopped, and he continued to lead David. He and David spoke, but Shaw nor Vickers could understand. Ohlm took Vickers and Shaw. They wanted to know where he and Baush were taking them. Ohlm stopped. “You can die by my hands, or let us remove the alien now so you can live.” They quickly followed the two Nephilim. Both were placed on a cold white slabs with an arc tracing over their bodies. The images of their bodies’ were 4-D and broke down each section layer by layer illustrating each ailment in detail and color. Both Shaw and Vickers lay naked with a white sheer silvery metallic cloth over them. Ohlm and three others walked over to Vickers and numbed her from the neck down. Another walked over to Shaw and numbed her re-stitching her wound and binding her with a compression material. She was dressed in a white compression body suit as she lay recovering. As she turned her head to look through the glass wall at Vickers, Shaw began to hyperventilate. She saw Ohlm pulling the creature from Vickers body. She remembered her own encounter. She quickly began to calm herself down by taking deep breathes and repeating to herself that it was o.k. Vickers’ eyes widened, and she screamed, “TAKE IT OUT! TAKE IT OUT!” The creature recoiled and snapped at Hagn as she held it with the forceps placing it in the container. Vickers placed her head back down in relief. As they stitch her wound and placed a white compression binding over her incision, Hagn is struck through the heart by an alien. Blood splatters everywhere. Another alien grabs the container. Vickers screams and tries to roll of the slab. A red beam shoots in three successive beams at the aliens missing two. Ohlm is flung through the wall and lands by Shaw’s slab. She tries to get Ohlm up. One of the Nephilim cut one of the aliens with a surgical blade. Acid ate through his chest and hands as the alien continued to try and attack from above. Another red beam marked through air straight through the dying alien and Nephilim. Ohlm got up and charged after the queen alien and her carrier followed by the translucent being. Shaw ran over to a shaking Vickers. “We have to get out of here,” Shaw said. “I can hardly move. I can’t feel anything,” Vickers replied. Shaw told her to move even if she can’t feel. They got up and dressed Vickers. There was blood shed down every corridor. There were more of them. As walked down the long white corridor they caught the eye of one of the aliens. Shaw and Vickers tried to turn a corner. It leapt at them and they cowered into a ball. As they clinched all their muscles they felt a scorching heat across their backs. It was Baush. The alien screamed but turned its attention on Baush. It jumped on him burning. Baush began to rip open it mouth with his bare hands as they struggle on the ground. Vickers and Shaw stood watching. Baush staggered up with his black blood dripping. He placed his staggering steps towards Shaw and gave her his blade and firing weapon. He fell pointing the way out. As the two made their way out, they found themselves at the entrance of the Ecosphere. They screamed for David and Urien. “Why are you seeking that which is being born? Have you not found your answers Shaw?” “Answers?! I don’t need any more answers. I want to leave,” she desperately pleaded. Led by Urien, David came out in a loin cloth. “What is this?” asked Vickers. Urien told them that David had been born, created anew as a man. Urien had taken his own D.N.A. along with David’s (from his hair) to create the human, David. The new David was imparted with all Urien’s knowledge and the data from the robot. David was placed between the guards at the entrance of the Ecosphere. They held their hands up and a glow surrounded him. David looked at Vickers with an insincere grace and a slightly raised told her, “I’m sorry Mum. There’s only one successor.” He then placed his gaze upon, Shaw and told her that he hoped she found what she was looking for, and he was gone. They stood in disbelief, shaking their heads no, as they looked up into the sky. Two Years Later “Welcome to Weyland Industries. I am David Weyland, and my father, Peter Weyland built this great company with a small beginning . . .”