>Mysterious Stranger: Enter Red’s Chamber.
I have no idea who you could be, but you enter Red’s Chamber.
Wow, so mysterious.
>Bloo: Enter Red's Chamber.
Your Praetorian Guard – excluding Magenta, Kirby and Badapple – have now situated themselves outside of the Supply Hangar’s entry way. Alpha Draconis is inside. They’ve geared up and have yet to exit, where they will no doubt be assimilated and turned into hosts. At least, you hope so. Nothing you plan ever seems to go right lately. You really hope those Hiveborn bastards aren’t planning on doing the same. That would really upset you, probably.
Hundreds of red Xenomorphs have died during your furious campaign to Red’s Chamber, which is conveniently hidden away at the top corner of The Hive.
You feel like you’re at the end of a journey, in fact. DONE! It has taken hours, but you’re finally here, and you think it’s going to be smooth cruising from now on. And no FireHunter anywhere!
Wow, what a shitty phrase. “Smooth cruising.” Horrible.
You could just die right now from all the happiness you’re feeling.
> Bloo: Consume Royal Jelly.
Hanging limp above you is Red’s decaying cadaver, curiously kept levitated by the cradle-like contraption. No signs of a struggle. You wonder what Halliday did to kill her? Not that you care. In fact, as I type this sentence, you immediately forget and force her body out of the imprisonment construct.
God. She’s held tight. Her limbs, having fit snuggly into the construct, stay in place as you force the rest of her body to come down. Barely any blood seeps through; a powdery green dust spills down in its place.
That’s… weird, you guess??
>Break open carapace and consume Royal Jelly.
There is no hesitation to do so. Goddamn, this stuff is really “runny” – no viscosity at all. And it’s really , really black for some reason? That shouldn’t be alarming, but it is. You can’t help but think about why black liquids should be alarming.
Black… Liquids…
Maybe it’s because you imagined this to be sort of like, you know, jelly, and not smooth applesauce?
Anyway, you… wait, who’s that?
>Bloo: Be the other guy.
You are now the Mysterious Stranger, which happens to be Magents Steaks. You never saw that coming.
Bloo’s standing right there, right next to the body of the enemy Queen, Red. Or, what’s left of her body, anyway – Bloo’s torn it up pretty badly. What a poor dead lady, you think. You can’t help but feel sad-daughter feelings. Even though Red’s not your mom??
HMMM.
>Bloo: Greet Magenta.
Wow, it’s your ARCHAGENT, Magenta. She thinks she’s a King. She’s horribly misinformed.
With a flick of your wrist, you let her know who’s boss and attempt to shush her away. It doesn’t work. Man! What a bitch. But you take that back because you’re supposed to be a loving mother even though she’s a bitch.
>Magenta Steaks: Mourn Red’s body.
This is disgusting, you think. You involuntarily howl and whine at the sight of the mangled corpse.
Magenta, this is no way for you to behave. Bad girl.
…
Magenta?
>Bloo: Be horrified.
You are horrified.
>Magenta Steaks: Enter.
A sudden urge for JUSTICE overcomes your fluctuating psyche. Something is wrong. If you had a soundtrack to your life, it would probably sound like
this right now.
Holy shit. That’s some really ominous music. You would listen to this through speakers with the volume way up as you read the rest of the post. The first 5 or so minutes, at least. The rest is some heroic bullshit that you don’t need right now.
In any case, the mood is set. Something
hard is about to go down.
>Magenta Steaks: Consume the Royal Jelly.
This feels incredibly silly. And yet…
…so right.
Bloo is
horrified as she gets back up and scoffs at your questionable judgment. The sleek edges of your fangs protrude from your gums even more prominently now. Saucy.
The black sludge is somehow leaking from between your teeth and spilling from any and every orifice available on your body. Good god, it’s making your exoskeleton bubble and pop – this is NOT the Royal Jelly your species is known to produce.
How… how exactly did Red die, again?
>Magenta Steaks: Rise.
Your tail, once dragging along behind you like a dead leg, now hovers above your head with its barb-tipped blade erect. It flexes to exaggerate your new size; your arms do the same, which curl downward to mimic your arched back. The black goo consuming your body finally begins to settle. What surfaces from the boiling goop is now an entirely different…
thing.
Fucking incredible.
>Magenta Steaks: Consume Bloo’s Royal Jelly.
You don’t like being this
thing. You need both pieces of the puzzle to becoming whole. And just as Red had her Royal Jelly “infected” with black liquid, Bloo did, too. You can sense that as your new form.
And you
want it.
>Narrator: Momentarily switch to the other Narrator.
You are now the Omniscient Narrator.
You are
so tired of the other narrator’s bullshit, and he knows it. You also know it. You’re omniscient. He’s omnipotent. It just works. The most notable difference is that you type with indents and he doesn’t.
As the Omniscient Narrator, you will describe the commands that the Omnipotent Narrator gives the characters.
>Omniscient Narrator: Illustrate Majestic Supremacy.
Magenta, now in an entirely different form, was poised sternly over the puddle of inky swill that just mutated her into a pugnacious savage. She has no idea what just happened to her or why, and really, she was shell-shocked.
Bloo viscously barked in retaliation, barging forward in attempt to knock the foreign threat down. Instead, Magenta, consciously or not, whipped Bloo’s neck and subdued the attack. Bloo couldn’t have anticipated this, which enraged her even more. Again she charged, but this time Magenta ripped Bloo’s jaws off. Her green blood shot out of her throat like water from a damaged pipe. She could only falter back and stumble across the ground in pathetic confusion, clawing at the ground for her missing jaw. As if nothing could go worse, Magenta squeezed Bloo’s neck and perforated her crown to pull her second jaw out through the back of her head. The soft and meaty appendage wiggled limply in Magenta’s palms. She even dangled it in front of Bloo’s face before swallowing it. Maliciously, Magenta then clutched Bloo’s shoulders and kept her there as she gurgled with satisfaction, cleaving into Bloo’s flesh deeper and deeper with each passing moment. She then dropped the damaged animal and tightened her muscles, heaving her shoulders back and inflating her jaw length. Bloo could only whimper.
This is it, they both thought. The
creature leaned her long head back, momentarily shuttered, and then
screamed. And never before had Bloo
ever heard such a ghastly wail.
If there was ever a defining moment in the old matriarch’s life, it was this: the grievous, soul-eating shriek of a vengeful banshee.
At that point, Bloo was still alive, barely managing to keep up with what’s happening. It’s amazing how much blood flows through a single Xenomorph, let alone an Empress. She was sprawled out on ground in frustration. More blood came. She could only think of her children – she genuinely cared for her last generation of Xenomorphs, and the thought they would all be murdered by Magenta was unbearable. She just wanted to die.
Magenta complied.
>Examine Bloo’s body.
At this point, we don’t know how exactly Magenta ended Bloo’s life, but presently, what’s left of her body lays with Red.
Ash Halliday, upon insistence from Michaels, injected Red with a foreign liquid found in the Derelict on Acheron in hopes of discovering a way to speed up egg production. What he found was much worse – Red showed signs of extreme hostility and immediately died. Perhaps because of her young age, Red’s trial simply killed her. But Bloo lived. Of course, it rendered her useless as it took away her ability to breed, among other things. But what’s so important about this is that it changed the Royal Jelly to become faster-acting – essentially like the black liquid itself.
And as such, when Magenta was finished violating the kingdom with a violent act of matricide, she tore open Bloo’s diamond-like carapace for the Royal Liquid. She is now residing in an unknown part of the ship, perhaps above, below or even
in the Neutral Zone. She’s simply waiting for Bloo’s Jelly to finish completing the puzzle. And when that is done, she’ll be biologically similar to a Xenomorph Queen, though mentally unstable and physically larger. She will be a King with no kingdom to rule over.
And she intends to sink this ship.