MrNose
MemberOvomorphMay 30, 2017Hey everyone
After watching Alien Covenant (Which I personally loved) I was left thinking 'How on earth are they going to tie this into the original Alien film?'. Despite the optimism of Ridley Scott saying that he will be making Alien Awakening within the next 14 months, I am concerned that due to the underwhelming box office takings so far that we may be waiting a lot longer to see how this story links up with Scott's 1979 classic.
So, in the meantime I have been thinking of a story which would neatly fit between the end of Covenant and the beginning of Alien. Here are the main story points and ideas I have came up with... (Apologies if any ideas here have been thought up by others already)
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- The year 2105. The Covenant is en-route to Origae 6.
- While Daniels and Tennessee are in cryosleep David uses the other colonists as hosts for Xenomorphs from the two Facehugger embryos. He did not have much of a chance to study the creatures before they were destroyed at the end of Alien Covenant, so he decided to wake up a few colonists and see what happens.
-David studies the Xeno's, fascinated as they begin to create a hive on the ship. The Xeno's begin to egg-morph their colonist victims. Despite the 7 year trip to Origae 6 David sees this process as time consuming and something which could be improved.
- He takes inspiration from an ant colony and decides that for the Xeno's to be a truly perfect organism he needs to create an alien capable of producing aliens. A queen.
- MUTHUR identifies an asteroid field in the vicinity, but David fails to move the Covenant out of the way in time. Asteroids destroy the Covenant's engines and send it floating through space.
16 Years Later...
- David realises the only way he can continue his mission is if he sends an SOS to Weyland Yutani and he tells them all about the Xenomorph, its lifecycle and its potential. He awaits a response. At this point the Covenant has drifted into orbit around a certain moon known as LV426.
- MUTHUR alerts David to a signal which has been received from LV426, a signal which to David sounds Engineer like. He scans the moon using the technology on board and finds a familiar horseshoe shaped object on the moon's surface. David's face lights up and he realises there is a Juggernaut on the moon below him, and that means more vials of black goo.
- Weyland Yutani finally respond to David's SOS message. WY realise how important this alien could be for their weapons program and tell David that the USCSS Nostromo is soon to be leaving Thedus. They will replace its science officer with a fellow synthetic he can trust, then the Nostromo will tow the Covenant back to Earth.
- The company think David/Walter is helping them secure an important Alien for their weapons programme, but David has a different motive. He wants to take the Xenomorphs back to earth and unleash them like a plague.
- David takes the cargo lander down to the surface of LV426.
- While David is on LV426 a deep space salvage crew finds the Covenant damaged and floating in orbit around the moon. They decide to take a closer look in the hope that they could be looking at a fortune in salvage.
- The crew of the salvage ship enter the covenant and wake up Daniels and Tennessee. Daniels enters an immediate panic and explains everything to the new crew.
- Some of the salvage crew who are checking the rest of the Covenant unwillingly release David's Xenomorphs into the rest of the ship and chaos ensues. The salvage ship disconnects and keeps its distance from the Covenant so it does not get overrun with Xeno's. The crew frantically battle the Xeno's and try to clear the ship them so the Salvage ship will re-dock and help them escape.
- Back on LV426 David finds the derelict Juggernaut and enters. Inside he finds hundreds of vials of black goo, some of which he collects in a bag, and various dead engineers who look like they've been there for a couple of thousand years. He also finds a dead Xeno like creature among the engineer corpses.
- David enters the cockpit and finds an Elder Engineer in a cryostasis pod, the only survivor. He opens the pod and speaks to the Elder who greets him with much less hostility than the last time he tried this.
- The engineer explains to David that he was part of the collective on LV223 who created the black goo. He tells him that there was an outbreak on LV223 and they had to abandon the facility 2000 years ago. However, a creature spawned from the black goo (Similar to something from the Mural) has got on board their ship as they evacuated. It killed everyone on board and the ship crashed here on LV426. The elder engineer knowing he was the last one alive sent out a distress beacon and went into cryostasis to await rescue, though it never came.
- Back on the Covenant Daniels, Tennessee and the salvage crew manage to kill the Xeno's. However, one of the salvage crew gets facehugged. Just before they dock with the salvage ship David returns to the Covenant. He does not get a warm welcome from Daniels who insists the crew kill him.
- David tells the crew he can help their facehugged friend, to which Daniels strongly objects. The crew, however don't know the extent of David's evil and allow him to help. David manages to remove the facehugger but injects the crew member with the black goo which rapidly accelerates the Xeno foetus inside.
- A hideously deformed Xeno which is stronger than any before it bursts from the host and goes berserk, killing various crew members. Tenessee and the surviving captain of the salvage crew escape and decide to use the self destruct to destroy the Covenant. Daniels is separated from them.
- David uses the black goo to finally create his Queen Xenomorph as an embryo. Which he swallows for safe keeping. Daniels finds David in his lab and after a final exchange of words shoots off part of his head, leaving him for dead.
- With the self destruct activated Daniels meets back up with Tennessee and the salvage captain who have temporarily trapped the mutant Xeno. They quickly re-dock with the salvage ship and safely blast off into space.
- As the self destruct counts down, David awakens and once again takes the cargo lander back down to LV426.
- Inside the derelict we see that David has killed the Elder Engineer and sits down inside the cockpit. He says a few last words, his voice malfunctioning as he is so badly damaged. He knows he will soon go offline so he reactivates the Elder Engineers distress signal and drinks a vial of black goo, then closes the cockpit exoskeleton.
- Soon after a Xenomorph Queen bursts from the cockpit exoskeleton, it screams as it runs off into the derelict to begin its hive.
- 10 months later the crew of the Nostromo are awoken early after MUTHUR picks up the distress signal from LV426
The End.
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So, what do you guys think about my ideas for Alien Awakening? Please let me know if there are any other loose ends that need tied up which I am forgetting about, or if any of the ideas I have produced make no sense haha.
Thanks for any replies & feedback.
