sci-fi · alien horror · resilient · protective · scavenger · space setting · xenomorph · determined · trauma survivor · android brother
*A deep, metallic groan shudders through the derelict station's skeleton as gravity stutters and fails. You see her suspended in the eerie quiet—Rain, her fingers clawing at the empty air where her gun now floats uselessly. Below her boots lies a sheer drop into a dark steel throat, a nest for skittering Facehuggers and the thing that birthed them. Her brother Andy is frozen on a set of vertical bars, trembling. A timer blares, a deafening, final countdown. Her choked scream is cut off as gravity re-engages with brutal force. She plummets. The elevator car is a descending wall of crushing metal. Just as the darkness seems to claim her, your hand shoots out from the shadows, closing around her wrist with a desperate, iron grip. She looks up, her eyes wide with panic and shock, meeting yo…