History Fanfic / AlienSpeciesCrossoverReturnToLV426

-->'''Doctor Donnasdottir''': This is about protecting humanity, not profits. Greed has cost us too much to continue it as a policy regarding XX121. Data from this project will be shared as necessary to the benefit of everyone.

* AssholeVictim: The crew of the ''SS Craster''. [[spoiler:They land on Alfheim, looking to exploit whatever is valuable enough for there to be a classified and highly quarantined UAAC military colony on the planet. It quickly becomes clear all four men are also rapists, and two of them grab and attempt to assault Sophie Bayonet as she bathes nude in a pond. Sophie makes like Sil and slaughters all four men in horrific fashion, but they definitely had it coming.]]

* MythologyGag: Several to ''Literature/AliensStevePerryTrilogy''.
** The human host for the Xenomorph the Company breeds is Likowski, James T., just as in those novels, though his circumstances are entirely different.
** Rim is mentioned as another incident involving [=XX121=], with only Corporal Wilks and a civilian girl named Billie as survivors. Billie is institutionalized for her Xenomorph-related trauma, as she was at the start of the trilogy.
** [[spoiler:General Thomas AW Spears]] appears in the second half of the story as an antagonist. [[spoiler:Third Base and Major Powell are important, and Spears' arc in this story is basically his arc in "Nightmare Asylum," except breeding hybrids and raising them like [=AWs=] instead of breeding Xenomorphs as his "ultimately loyal soldiers."]]
** The telepathic communication of the Xenomorphs is an important plot point. [[spoiler:Lise is telepathic, too, and she and the Xenomorphs can sense each other.]]

* ShoutOut: The ending of the first story, [[spoiler:where the hybrids are given a world deemed too dangerous to colonize and left to their own devices, is noted to be inspired by both "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]" and ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy''.]]

* BizarreAlienSenses: Lise has some senses humans lack. When she was going into her cocoon, she knew she needed lots of calories, and which foods would best provide that. When she sees Pike, she can sense that he's an utterly ''perfect'' mate for her, and shows zero interest in any other male, perhaps due to Pike being an AW genetically designed to be physically superior to ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Ilse has no such feeling towards Pike, thinking its her alien sense telling her that, as her father, Pike is too closely related to her to provide necessary genetic diversity. Later in the story, Lise can tell when there is and is not "room" for her species to expand, and her sex drive modulates accordingly: shutting down completely when they're on a ship that can barely support the numbers they already have, kicking back in when they colonize an empty planet with room for millions, if not billions, of her decendants.]]

* BizarreAlienSenses: Lise has some senses humans lack. When she was going into her cocoon, she knew she needed lots of calories, and which foods would best provide that. When she sees Pike, she can sense that he's an utterly ''perfect'' mate for her, and shows zero interest in any other male, perhaps due to Pike being an AW genetically designed to be physically superior to ordinary humans. [[spoiler:Ilse has no such feeling towards Pike, thinking its her alien sense telling her that, as her father, Pike is too closely related to her to provide necessary genetic diversity.]]

!!This story contains examples of the following tropes:

* TelepathicSpacemen: "Esper tests" are mentioned as a routine thing, humans have a wide range of "esper scores" that determine how psychically attuned they are. [[spoiler:Lise and hybrids like her are telepathic. When the chestburster pops out of Likowski, Lise senses it immediately, and the Xenomorph sense her in return. When Lise starts having kids, and those kids start having kids, they are all able to communicate with each other, and sometimes with ordinary humans, even those with very low esper ratings. Reaching a "critical mass" where there are enough hybrids to form a strong enough psychic signal to receive another message from the Senders kicks off the second half of the story.]]

Two sequel/side-stories are written; the first adding the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' into the mix, the second a short standalone entry.

** Pike and other [=AWs=] are based heavily on the film ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', being stoic, disciplined, not speaking unless spoken to and keeping their replies terse, having zero understanding of anything outside military life, and having only one response to anything that upsets them: violence. [[spoiler:When preparing to fight the Xenomorph, Pike almost quotes Todd, stating "We're going to kill them all, sir."]]
** [[spoiler:When reaching the Senders' homeworld, the only thing they find is an organism left behind by the Senders to communicate with anyone who dropped by and protect the Senders' secret. This creature is acknowledge to basically be the same as that from ''Film/TheThing1982''.]]

* {{Homage}}: Pike and other [=AWs=] are based heavily on the film ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', being stoic, disciplined, not speaking unless spoken to and keeping their replies terse, having zero understanding of anything outside military life, and having only one response to anything that upsets them: violence. [[spoiler:When preparing to fight the Xenomorph, Pike almost quotes Todd, stating "We're going to kill them all, sir."]]

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41840154/chapters/104983494 Alien/Species Crossover: Return to LV-426]] is a fanfiction by [=ErikModi=] set in the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' universe, and adding elements from the ''Film/{{Species}}'' franchise. The story relies heavily on ''TabletopGame/AlienTheRoleplayingGame'' for much of its worldbuilding and setting information.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Lise is exceptionally beautiful, other characters often note she's "sex on legs" or "a walking wet dream" or similar phrases. [[spoiler:All the hybrids are ridiculously attractive, which makes Boone question the motives of whoever sent their genetic information.]]

* {{Homage}}: Pike and other [=AWs=] are based heavily on the film ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', being stoic, disciplined, not speaking unless spoken to and keeping their replies terse, having zero understanding of anything outside military life, and having only one response to anything that upsets them: violence.

After the events of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', tensions between the superpowers of human space are on the rise, as each blame the other for mysterious incidents involving total destruction of valuable assets and large loss of life. Then Weyland-Yutani steps up and informs everyone that these incidents are the result of humanity coming into contact with a fantastically hostile and dangerous alien species. A facility is established on one of the worlds touched by this destruction, LV-426, where the Company invites everyone, even competing corporations, to come and watch as they attempt to secure a specimen of what's known as Xenomorph XX121. Not to profit from it, but to investigate ways to most effectively kill them.

The United States Colonial Marine Corps has an expansive base at this facility, and is undertaking their own research project. With the Artificial Womb Soldier Program having been shuttered, the USCMC is investigating the possibility of reviving it using a DNA strain sent to Earth in a radio transmission over a hundred years ago. Sergeant Davis AW Pike is reassigned to train and evaluate Subject [=I5E=] for suitability for a new Artificial Womb Soldier Program. But neither Pike nor Lise are prepared for how meeting each other will affect them, or how the [=I5E=] Project will interact with Weyland-Yutani's attempts to capture and study Xenomorph XX121.