Pushing myself out of the ventilation systems, I dropped to the floor and looked around quickly.

    I stuck my proboscis out and tasted the air, and smelled different pheromones, I''d  guessed that''s what they were, and followed the trail.

    Coming across a human in black body armor, he aimed at me and fired a short burst of his gun, which looked futuristic.

    I leapt aside, but one bullet found it''s way into my body and burned like hell.

    Hissing, I charged at him, slashing the light with my tail, making the hallway fall into darkness.

    "Damn aliens are getting smarter, this bastard took out the light." I heard him muttering to himself in the darkness while looking around alertly.

    "Silly thing, I can still see with my night vision headset, it''ll only be a matter of time before -ahhhh"

    His voice turned into a scream as another Xenomorph crept up behind him and impaled him on it''s tail.

    It hissed at me and then dragged the body away, probably to consume...

    I followed the scent, and didn''t run into any more humans, only their bodies littered the floor, some in pieces.

    I followed the tug and came out into a chamber with a Xenomorph that stood twenty feet tall and commanded respect.

    ''Child, why are you here?'' I looked up and saw the Xenomorph with it''s head tilted while looking down at me.

    ''I felt the pull, so I came, is there anything I can do?'' I asked, for some reason wanting to be of use to it.

    ''They branded you, evolve some more and then you can be of use.'' Then my mind blanked.

    When I could see again, the twenty foot tall Xenomorph was gone, and the area deserted, no human or Xenomorph alike.

    ''How do I evolve? What do I do?'' I looked up and saw a hole in the ceiling, about twenty feet wide at the largest part, and I realized that probably how it left.

    I heard a hiss and a Xenomorph trotted out of the darkness and clicked a few times.

    Then I felt something pushing into my mind and then I heard it.

    ''Come, food, grow'' I looked as it nodded it''s head and walked off into the darkness.

    Though the base, or whatever we were in had sunken into darkness, I could still see as clear as day.

    We continued for about five minutes before coming to a stop, inside were a variety of scents that belonged to Xenomorphs, somehow I just knew.

    I watched as it strode inside and pushed a smaller Xenomorph aside.

    Then I saw what they were doing and nearly fled in fright.

    It was an all out melee, and bladed tails were flying around, severing body parts as they repeatedly clashed.

    I then saw a smaller Xenomorph advancing towards me and I took a step back.

    Feeling emboldened, it lunged at me and I acted on pure reflex and stabbed my tail out, I watched as it fell to the floor, burning a hole beneath it with the blood that seeped out of it''s head.

    My tail swung around and whipped another Xenomorph, yet it didn''t die, though it did lose focus for a second, then the others pounced on it and tore it apart.

    Then they started to circle me slowly, as I watched them alertly, wishing I was back in the simulation.

    Then one of them leapt at me, claws extended as it tried to grab me and pierce me through with it''s tail.

    I leapt back, tail slashing out at another Xenomorph, yet it blocked with a lazy flick of its tail, then it crawled to the side and watched us.

    I shivered at it''s gaze, then felt a burst of agony as a tail drew itself along my head.

    I hissed and through myself forward, stabbing down on the offender with my claws.

    Blood splashed my face as I raked the Xenomorph''s face with my claws until it stopped moving.

    Shaking slightly, I looked up, only to see the other Xenomorphs slink away or bow their head.

    Then I felt a burst of agony and then I slept.