I sat off to the side as I started thinking about everything we had learned, including details from the colonists that have now just started waking up. They didn't know too much about how the situation came about, but that doesn't really matter since I know what happened and that it's on the computers somewhere. In fact since I know it's somewhere there, but not where, I asked the Marine who was doing all the hacking to go and look through all the Data logs within a few months so we could go and pin it on Mr. Company Man himself, maybe even have him do something that'll give me an excuse to shoot him.

I was also taking stock of everything, which I think is a lot more than the movie was at in this point, however apparently even though we have the device to signal the ship there is atmospheric interference or some shit like that according to the pilot and tech, will persist for at least another 14 hours according to the satellite imagery that they have. I just sighed when they told us this and when it was brought up, the other plane was pretty much scrapped because it wouldn't be able to leave the ground, they also told us that it'd take well over 2 weeks before we are noted as missing and can hope for rescue.

Besides that well, right now Mr. Texas himself came up to me just moments ago while I was trying to contemplate things, and surprise surprise he came up to me to yell at me and of course went for the cheapest shot that wasn't even accurate, "Now listen here you French motherfucker, you are a merc. Meaning you are hired help, not hired help to take charge of the mission, not the person to have us retreat, and definitely not the motherfucker that is able to get 2 of my best goddamned friends killed while you get to live god dammit!"

I sigh since I've seen this guy before a lot. He's just trying to get the herd mentality going to gang up on me, and as I can see they are already all congregating with a couple actually nodding their heads. I sigh and put my index finger up, "Number 1, I'm a Finnish motherfucker, not a french one. Our accent is a different kind of sexy than theirs and, in my opinion a bit more fluid." I then sigh once more seeing him look around with a look of 'Can you believe this guy?', then I put up my middle finger along with my index, "Second, I've been a citizen of America for years now and, follow up to the first one, lost my accent. Now I can still have my Finnish accent, but why would I when people like you will call me french." I then cough and raise my ring finger, "Which leads me to the last point before I let you get a free hit in. Since I have no accent, you must've read my file and known I was in fact, not from France, and you just picked a random country in Europe where men are supposed to be sexy, so I must say that flatters me a bit. Now bit of last warning, knock me out in one hit eh? If you don't I will headbutt you quite hard."

I smirk a bit, everything I said was true but just me spouting nonsense to get him flustered and hit me. I don't really care about any of that shit but I want him to hit me so I can get his trouble making ass out of the way, especially since he's likeliest to get us all killed in the upcoming chaos.

He looks at me then at the people around him for a moment, then when he looks back at me and sees my smirk, he cocks his fist back before sending it right out at my right eye, and I am by no means a small guy, but this man was big! Easily 2 meters tall and definitely has trained hard so I go limp at the touch and slide a meter on the ground, how do I know this? Well I'm still awake, there's a reason I don't feel scared going and dealing with him, and that's because I've been hurt by bigger and by worse.

Smirking still I stand back up, well aware of the fact that I am in pain, but I push myself back up without trying to be quiet at all, in fact I owe the son of a bitch a headbutt like I promised. Now you may wonder why a headbutt? Well I have had to do this many times and learned that knocking someone out with a headbutt is a good damn way to earn respect because it seems so much more personal than a fist, plus I feel your head is harder than a fist, but I am not qualified for stating that at all and just have my own personal experience to fall back on for this.

When I walk up to him and stare him dead in the eyes I say, "Hey, you didn't knock me out in one hit so now it's my turn. If you apologize I won't headbutt you in the face and will instead hit you somewhere that'd hurt a hell of a lot less." To this he laughed like he didn't think I would do it, well never say I don't step up to plate. I tap him on the nose to make him look towards me before I lean back and swing my head forward while tucking my chin close to my chest so I don't hit him with forehead and knock myself out... Yes I've knocked myself out with my own headbutt, it was a rather embarrassing time back when I was in my very early 20's.

This headbutt however carried my years of experience with it, and even though it has been neglected for a similar time as I perfected it, my body remembered the movements and I firmly struck him, making him go limp. In fact he would have been hurt worse, but I grabbed his strap as he collapsed while the other went to my head that was pounding. It seems a lot of my pain tolerance from training has been lost a bit over time. I then let the other marines take care of him as I went off and sat down by where I had my rifle when I received a notification:

Congratulations!

You have earned skill -Aura Viewing (F)-!

Due to specific requirements being met you have unlocked system upgrade -Respect Tracker- !

-Hidden parameter

-Aura Viewing (F)

-Achieved max respect from a single person

Try to collect all system upgrades and even more skills~!

I blink a couple times and look at the people while blinking a couple times to see what the hell these notifications are about only to see that around every person was an array of coloring, with a predominant color in everyone's set of coloring being yellow with the second most being red, and one person had blue inside of the yellow instead of red, and the pilot's being a green hidden inside of the yellow coloring. I shook my head and thought of ignoring the colors. I need to go and figure things out first and don't want to deal with this shit right now.

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After a moment of me closing my eyes and inhaling I felt a hand on my shoulder and saw that there was the medic standing in front of me with her bag, "Hey, I'm here to check out your head. It took 2 major blows there, though I suppose I should commend you for having the sense to use the top of your head instead of your forehead like most amateurs." I just nodded and let her carry on with the test, following the light with my eyes, seeing if my pupils are fine, the standard shit, then she tossed me a packet of pain relievers to take so I thanked her before letting her go off to handle dingus.

After sitting for another half an hour, which right now is precious moments, but everyone is using this as a breathing period to get their bearings and check on things so not that much of a loss I guess? After I was done I opened up my briefcase and looked at the little tubes, on the back of a honey glazed ham one it said it has enough nutrients for one adult to have a full meal, so I grab a handful and give everyone here one, and tell Newt and the other kid we saved not to eat more than 3/4ths of it since, well I don't know what'd happen if they ate too much. If you're wondering if asshole got one, yes he did. I discovered that there is also badly flavored foods so I couldn't help but thank the system. The lucky winner, in fact, got some asparagus flavored paste~! So if he wants to eat he gets that or something else, and given how everyone is so happy to get these tubes everyone must be pretty hungry.

That'll be my last but of revenge though since I think after that it'll be even. Tit for tat if you know what I mean.

Anyways, after I passed out the tubes I was in less pain and full on lasagna flavor, and I have to say, it did taste like lasagna and indeed made me feel full, I went up to the table where there were 2 of the Marines talking over the layout so I decide to voice my opinion since I'm not really in charge of this operation as Tex put it. I tell them how we need to start fortifying this place since it'll be night in a few hours, and as Newt put it, is when they come. Well I personally am not a fan of that so after they realize that they will actually have to fight a horde of these things they nod and begin quite seriously looking down at the layout before calling out to various marines to do tasks, some were in charge of sealing doors, some setting up turrets, and before they forgot I reminded them about vents and a couple spots they had missed in the movie.

There was so much stuff for us to take care of that we actually only finished around half an hour before night actually fell, but I feel satisfied that we will be able to hold out alright. We set up all the turrets at choke points, we had more than 5,000 rounds for our rifles, our flamethrowers were doing decently, and we had 20 or so grenades, not to mention all the food paste that I have. With this we can hold out for a decent while waiting for the storm, and maybe even for the whole time that it'd take for us to be noted as missing, though I wouldn't want to go that far if I'm being honest. Well actually, there should only be a limited amount of these things so maybe after killing enough of them we'd be solid?

I decided to put it off for a bit and lay my head down to take a bit of a nap since its been well over 24 hours since I last slept when suddenly an alarm went off, which surprised me a lot and reminded me of what scene it was so I grabbed my gun and ran off towards the science room which I was not too far from. As soon as I got to it and saw that the other marines were trying to open the doors that were locked I called out, "Shooting out the glass!" And giving them a moment to ready themselves I fired at it, causing the whole window to crumble. Three of us then jumped in and saw that a facehugger was actually almost on Ripley, and another was approaching Newt which I quickly shot since I felt safe enough that the acid wouldn't hit her before I went to help Ripley.

There were already 2 marines helping her, but I saw that neither were removing its constricting tail from around her neck, so I took up that role myself before eventually being handed off the whole thing as I had the best grip on it. I called out where I was going to throw it and saw that they all had their guns pointed in the area so, with a fair amount of my strength I chucked it and saw the thing turn into paste.

I helped carry Newt back into the main area since she was very visibly shaken up, and Ripley was helped out by the Marine she was flirting with earlier in the day before she said what she thought happened, Mr. Company Man apparently planned to go and put the creature in both Newt and Ripley before freezing them for the trip back to earth where they would be used in the company for making more of them. Apparently he didn't even bother defending himself and saying that she was a fool for not taking the opportunity to make this insane amount of money, and then as if on queue the guy I asked to check all the data spoke up saying that awhile ago they actually had received a notification for the Company Man to investigate an area, to which Ripley spoke up and asked why he sent them to the coordinates she specifically warned him about?

After 5 minutes of being pressured by everyone he pulled a pistol out and pointed it at Ripley, which caused everyone to go and point guns at him as well, he then ordered bishop to help him out since, I guess bishop was made by the company or brought by the guy I guess? I don't know I never saw this in the movie, but Ripley was giving them both eyes, eyes to Company Man of blame, and eyes that she expects nothing less from an android. We all visibly tensed up as Bishop walked behind Burke (A/N: I can only keep writing company man so long before it gets annoying to type it.) and said one line, "A man chooses, a slave obeys." which caused him to turn around and see a pistol from bishop pointed right in his face.

It was also the last thing he saw and that is something I wish I didn't see, but thankfully covered newts eyes as she was standing right by me. His pistol actually flew out of his hands and slid right to my feet so I crouched down to pick it up when I got a notification:

Treasure found - Company Man

Unable to analyze, take to person with Analyze © or above!

I don't know what it is good for, but I'm sure it's better than my pistol so I decide to keep it in my backpack.

Before I can get anything else ready though I got another notification:

Emergency Quest Received-

Survive the night until the Electrical storm passes!

Reward: Unknown

Fail Condition: User Death, Ripley or Newt Death

Penalty: 300 credits, removal from world, world restarts, treasure and upgrades lost

My eye twitches a bit at the last one, why do they need to keep threatening me with restarting the world! God damn, well I guess it's a good punishment given the fact I definitely don't want to go through all of this shit all over again since that'd just be annoying. Now though, we need to get ready to survive the onslaught that would be coming soon.