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This is a kind of side-story to One Crazy Life; it’s about Makoto and Shisome’s journey to rebuild their hive and lives after Kurai and co. help them to escape. This one won’t be incredibly long, but their may be a collection of random fics featuring some of the strange and random goings-on of the new hive.

Because I used bold italics in OCL, I will be using regular font for this one. I only used the other one to distinguish the Xeno’s thoughts and, since they are “talking” to one another, I’ll just use italics.

Part 1

A New Home

The two Xenomorphs watched their friends walk away, feeling both happy and sad. They were happy at the knowledge that they now had a brand new home and plenty of resources, if Hoshi Yamamoto was to be believed, but they were sad, too. Kurai had been a true friend to both of them; the human girl had saved Makoto and his Queen from horrific experiments, and then she had allowed herself to be used as a willing host for Shisome! The Praetorian couldn’t help but quietly marvel at that child; no other human he had ever met had treated him as anything other than a monster, but she, along with her companions, had helped them beyond anything they had ever expected.

Now Shisome, as she was now called, was sitting quietly on the ground, making a noise that her guard knew was their species’ way of vocalizing sadness or displeasure. It was a sort of whimpering noise that made him a little depressed. “Come now, my Queen; we will certainly see her again. Kurai is not one to say she’ll come back and just forget us. Now is the time for you to take your rightful place as a true Queen of this hive! I’ll go get you something to eat and you can begin to grow; there’s no point in you staying so small anymore.” He comforted her as best he could.

“I suppose so; I’ll see her again, it’ll just take awhile. Very well, I’ll eat, and then we must begin preparations for the children.” She agreed.

Her guard carefully inspected the entrance to the cave and, with the intent on getting back as soon as possible, rushed off to hunt something for him and his young Queen. Shisome, meanwhile, sat quietly and focused, willing her body to resume growing at its normal rate. She had had to make her body stay in its small state in order to fit on the ship that brought her and Makoto to the planet the humans christened Pluvia, but now that she was no longer on that ship, there was just no point. After awhile, she could feel her body begin to obey her mental commands. Her skin began to feel a little tight, and soon began to actually crack in places. She felt her muscles begin to grow, as well as her very bones; and hoped that this wouldn’t hurt too much. She would have to ask Makoto about growing, although he had not stopped his body’s natural progression as she had.

Makoto was back after an hour, dragging some sort of bovine creature with six legs behind him. The thing was almost bigger than he was, and covered in shaggy brown hair. Its horns looked like they could pose quite a threat if it was significantly angered. They ate together, finding the meat of this creature to be very good indeed; not too tough, but not a lot of fatty parts, either. There was nothing but bones, hooves, and horns left after their meal; and Makoto left again, but this time it was to hall the skeleton far away from the hive, so no insects could begin to feed on the tiny bits of meet and marrow that were left. Something that humans did not know about their kind was that they didn’t actually leave organic matter, food, waste, and egg cases and dead facehuggers, inside the actual hive. This could lead to the spread of diseases, which, from his gathering, it had taken humans years to figure out for themselves. Nor did they use the rivers that they were near for toilet uses; that was just disgusting! Makoto had to shudder at the human’s practice of using the toilet in their own homes, where they slept, where they ate!

Another thing humans often got wrong was their notion that all his species did was hunt for food and hosts all day. That was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard. In fact, many things had to be done to keep a hive running smoothly. First, the Queen had to be tended to at all times by the Drones, eggs, if there were any, had to betaken care of, and the whole place had to be cleaned almost constantly. Despite what some thought, the resin they secreted and put on the walls for various purposes was not waste; far from it. The stuff was actually very clean, and kept heat in when it was cold, held hosts in place, and provided camouflage in case of attack.

Makoto returned later to find that Shisome could barely keep from falling asleep. This was normal for them; emerge from the host’s body, find something to eat, and then sleep as they grew. Picking her up carefully, he took her to the chamber that they had explored earlier. The place was absolutely perfect for a Queen. Another good thing about these caves was that they were actually big enough for Shisome to get around in. Many humans thought that a Queen was attached to her egg sac for life unless she tore free of it (a painful process.), but in fact the thing withered every couple of months to give the Queen some freedom to move around for about two weeks. And Queens didn’t lay eggs constantly, like some Earth insects. What would be the point in producing more children when there was a famine or something? The simple truth was that the Queen only laid eggs when the hive needed more members. If there was not enough food or hosts, then no new eggs would be produced.

Shisome finally fell into the deep sleep of a hatchling going through her metamorphosis into an adult. She wouldn’t wake up, need food, or use the toilet until she was done. Looking at her, Makoto was glad that the prolonged period of keeping her growth at bay didn’t inhibit it. Giving his growing Queen one more check, he walked to a spot a little ways away from her and fell into his own sleep.

Well, hope you guys like this one. Please R&R!