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Loka was scared shitless when watching Alien. You woul** d think **** a monster like her who gloats about how scary she and her kind are would eat a scary movie like Alien for breakfast. **** A ***nd honestly, you’ve seen scarier movies than Alien. It’s really not that scary. The scene with the chest-burster freaked her out the most. She was holding you tight after that scene alone.* However though, y** ou and her **** had plans with Hans and the others, so **** you stopped the movie right around the point where they found out Ash **** is **** an android. You get up, but **** the scared monster **** refused to let go of you, **** she trembles with fear as her grip on you gets tighter ***. You pick her up and bridal carry her to your room. Her arms are hugging you tight as you carry her. You set her down on your bed and tell her to stay put* while you rummage through your closet to find her a hoodie. “I don’t want anyone at the university getting startled by you. S** o I’m gonna give you my hoodie and a face scarf to cover up **** your **** face, alright.”**

“Okay.” She says with fear still lingering in her voice.

You get your hoodie and your scarf and hand it over to her, the monster though is still shivering with fear. You take a seat next to her on the bed and put your arm around her back to co** nsole **** her. “ *Hey* , don’t be scared. It’s just a movie. I thought monsters like scary things?”**

“I have never seen a monster that scary before. Do you have those things lurking around in your world somewhere? Am… Am I gonna get one of those things inside me? I don’t want one of those things to rip through my belly?” Her arms wrap around you and hold you tight.

“Calm down, t** hat alien is **** all **** made up. It doesn’t exist. You don’t have to worry about any face-hugger impregnating you. Don’t worry, **** t ***hat won’t happen to you, I promise.”*

“It’s really not real?”

“Yes, in fact, the alien was made by some famous artist. It’s all for show, n** othing real.”**

“Thank god.” She says with relief as she hugs you even tighter.

“Loka, can you put the hoodie on for me now?”

She stops hugging you and puts it on. Like before with your bathrobe, it’s too big on her. The sleeves are too long and the hem of the hoodie goes all the way down to her thighs. She’s also having issues putting the hood on her head because of her horns. You held her head in place and pu** ll **** the hood **** over her **** head with force so you can poke horn holes through the hoodie for her. “I know it’s too big on you, but I promise **** I’ll **** buy you clothing that fits. I don’t want you to just suffer in my baggy clothing while you are living with me. You don’t have to put on the scarf right now. But, let us get a move on shall we.” **** While **** she takes you **** by **** your **** hand, you take your phone, your keys and wallet, walk out of the house and get her and you ***rself* seated in your truck. Right before you get y** ourself buckled up ***, you get* her seat-belt on to make sure she’s safe** ly **** inside your truck.**

“I know how to put on a seat-belt.” She rolls her eyes at you.

“I wasn’t sure honestly. Do you monsters have cars and seat-belts?”

“Yeah, we do. If a cop caught me driving without a seat-belt I would get a ticket.”

“Humans would get ticket too for that. I guess those laws are universal for monsters and humans.” You start your car’s ignition and drive out of your driveway. The car trip is pretty quiet. You notice that the monster still looks very tense during the car ride. The movie is still probably giving her the creeps. “** Hey ***?” You ask. “You said before that you have never seen a monster that scary before?”*

“Yeah, I have never seen a monster do that before. That’s absolutely horrifying. It’s just so vile and barbaric. Is that how you humans view monsters?”

“Uh, yeah. The common trope is that they are vicious killing machines. Sometimes you’ll get the trope where they are misunderstood and they are people like us, but usually, it’s the other one.”

“Was that how you viewed me when you first saw me?”

“Actually, we thought you were a furry when we first saw you.”

“** A what ***?”*

“Ahh… You don’t want to know. But, can I ask? How do you scare kids? Do you just jump scare them?”

“Jump scare? What is that suppose to be?”

“Well, uh a jump scare is an overused form of scaring in horror films where the person or monster that is doing the scaring just startles the person when they least expect it. It can scare people, but it’s only really scary the first time people see it usually. Jump scares can get pretty lame though. Too many horror movies have em these days. They never build up the fear and the scariness of the movie wears off because of it.** ”**

“Hmm, n** ow that you mention it ***,* I think that’s all the monsters do. No wonder why kids are getting less and less scared every year.”

“Kids these days are probably more desensitized to these kinds of things now because of ultra-violent video games they play and movies that their parents let them watch. Some kids can’t handle those things, but once they get older, they usually grow out of it.”

“Yeah, maybe we need to scare kids like how you humans scare adults through horror movies.”

“Maybe, Loka. But I want your kind to look for another way to power your gizmos. We can offer that to them** , we just need to make first contact with them. **** A ***nd Hans can definitely help you with that. He’s the smartest person I know.”*

After minutes go by** , **** the two of you **** make it to the university. **** The little monster **** puts the scarf around her face and walks with you through the university. “This is a nice campus. This really reminds me of my time at Monsters University.” She tells you.**

“Just remember, l** et's **** just **** walk through and not interact with anyone else. I don’t want people to know **** that you are a monster ***. It’ll make a scene.”*

Right as you’r** e **** about to walk into the building **** to **** Hans’ lab, you and Loka get stopped by a group of three who have fake tails hanging behind their backsides. They look like a bunch of weirdos. The girl of the group has a bunch of piercings on her nose and lips and has rainbow dyed hair while the two boys have those ear piercing that gives their earlobes a big hole in them. God, these are some unpleasant **** looking **** people. “Can I help you three?” You ask.**

“Yeah, we really like your friend’s fursona. Do you have a fursona too?” The weird girl asks.

The fuck is a fursona? “I ah, don’t know what that even is. I’m just a professor trying to get my niece through. She likes playing dress-up and stuff. Don’t mind us.” You try to get through them while holding her hand, but the weird girl stops you again.

“Wait, can me and your friend at least share ou** r **** Tumblrs and Furaffinity accounts?”**

“No! Where busy and she definitely does not have any of those!” You march right through them as you drag the monster past them. Once you get out of ear shot of them, you huff out weirdos and continue walking with Loka.

“Were those people friends of yours?” The monster asks.

“No, they were just some freaks, just ignore them.”

You and her get to the elevator. O** nce **** the two of you **** step **** in ***, you press the button for the basement. Hans works with a lot of* experimental materials that would be better kept in a basement rather than just any other part of this building. He works with all sorts of exotic materials. If anyone has a good chance of rebuilding Loka’s portal tech it’s him. Right before you’r** e **** about to close the door, Walter stops the door from closing with his arm. “ *Joey* , wait for us.” He says.**

Right behind Walter is Jane, they both step into the elevator with you and Loka. You close the door and you all ride the elevator down to the last floor together. Once the elevator reaches the basement, you are all are met with a hallway that has a locked door that says, “No entry beyond this point, hazardous materials, authorized personal only.”

“Is this going to be dangerous?” The monster asks.

“There’s nothing to worry about, Loka.” Walters says. “Hans works with a lot of experimental materials. So he has to get us through himself if he wants us to see his lab.”

You message Hans that you and everyone else ha** ve **** arrived. Then you see a **** tall, clean shaven, blonde **** man **** with half framed glasses on his face **** running from the other side of the locked door. **** He **** swipes his key card **** to **** unlock the door **** for all of you ***. It’s Hans. “Hello, Hello, please follow me to my place of operations.” He says to all of you* in his Danish accent.

The four of you follow Hans. He uses his key card again to open up the door to his lab. Once you step foot in there, you’** re **** greeted by a big white room with a bunch of gizmos everywhere and a ***nother* room that has a heavily shielded door that has a radioactive warning sign on it. A big white suit with a helmet stands next to it with a big pack that has a hose attached to it. The pack kind of reminds you of a futuristic leaf blower or the proton pack from Ghostbusters. The suit is strange though, y** ou’ve never seen a hazard suit like it before. It even looks armored and has what looks like exoskeletal attachments on each leg. **** It m ***ust be some DARPA project he is working on or something.*

Hans walks up to the little monster and lowers himself to talk to her. “This must be the extraterrestrial you were telling me about, Walter.” He reaches out for her hood and scarf. “May I remove these obstructions? I wish to get a better look at you.” He asks her. ** She **** nods yes in response. “Marvelous.” He replies. He pulls down the hood and removes the scarf from her face. “Can you smile for me, please.” Loka smiles awkwardly **** to the Dane ***. “Wow, you have some sharp teeth there. May I ask what is your name again. My name is Hans Hansen by the way.” His hand reaches out for a handshake.*

Loka grabs his hand and shakes it. “My name is Loka Iscennah, Doc. I heard you can help me get back to my world.”

Hans releases his hand from the handshake. “I’ll be honest with you here, little Loka. I do work with a lot of experimental materials and could probably build a nuclear reactor in my garage if I wanted to. But teleportation is something I have never worked with before.”

“So you can’t help me get home then?” The monster says with distraught.

“I didn’t say that. But I need to know what I am working with so I can get a proper idea on how we can build a teleportation device. You told Walter and Joe about the portal doors you work with. But, I need you to show me how it works and how it’s built. From there, I could gather the materials and help you build a new gateway back to your world. If you aren’t sure about building this portal teleportation device you claim to know about, then there is only so little I can help you with at that point.”

“Okay, I understand, Doc. What do you want to know first?”

Loka and Hans talked for two hours about scream and the portal doors that the monsters go through. The Dane was writing a ton of notes during the whole thing and was drawing schematics for the portal the entire conversation. The monster was telling him about how scream creates negative energy to create and stabilize the bridge to our world to hers. Hans didn’t question anything she said, h** e took everything to heart. You, Walter and Jane had skepticism about scream being able to create portals to worlds. So why is he not questioning anything **** she **** is telling him? You wonder if he knows more than he is letting on. Walter asked a few skeptical questions to Hans about scream and **** h ***e* told him he wouldn’t get what they are doing and he should just focus on his field of expertise. This pissed off Walter but the Dane shut him up by out braining him. The physicist was way too smart to be challenged on these kinds of things. Walter is smart, but he is not as smart as Hans though. But Walter did have good points about the scream energy source. How would it even be able to stabilize a portal at all? The man pretty much outwitted Walt with his high verbal IQ, gave him a vague answer and again just told him he’s not smart enough to understand it. He is definitely not telling us something, b** ut you doubt he will tell you what he knows right now.**

The physicist wanted to first acquire the scream energy source before building the doorway. He said we need** ed **** to first understand and experiment with the energy source at play before he and **** the monster **** can make a portal of any kind. He understood that we need to scare a kid in order to obtain the energy source. You told him you already have an idea on **** where to **** get th ***at* energy source. Stevie, your sleep patient would be the perfect candidate for the scream extraction. You also said you want to study the effects of the scream extraction process in action. Hans agreed, h** e wants to bring over some equipment to Stevie’s house to observe how the energy is extracted as well. “I’m going to bring some expensive instruments of mine over to your patient’s house today.” He tells you. “We need to see how the energy gets transferred over to their side. Once we get a good idea on how that’s done, I’ll be able to make a prototype for our own scream extraction. Now, you did say that you and your assistant were going to go over your patient's house today to sleep observe him again, correct?”**

“I wasn’t go** nna **** to go today. I wanted Walter and Jane to go do the observing while I watch Loka.”**

“How about I take Walter’s place. After all, you don’t want too many cooks in the kitchen, right?” Hans says.

“No! Joe, I wanted to see Stevie’s monster in action.” Walter whines.

“But, Walter, you don’t know how to use my equipment and even if you did you wouldn’t know what you would be looking for. It’s just not part of your job description. Sorry, nothing personal.”

“You smug fuck!” The biologist bursts out.

You hold Walter back. “Calm dow** n ***. You’ll get your chance to observe too. How about this, do you want to watch Loka with me today?”*

Walter breaths out a sigh of annoyance. “Sure, sure. But on one condition.”

“** A ***nd what will that be?” You ask.*

“Can I show Loka my lab?”

You take a minute to think about this, y** ou don’t want Walter scaring her with needles. He is most likely going to try to get a few samples from her. **** The monster **** will probably freak out if he **** attempts to do so ***.* she’s still a little tense after watching Alien after all, b** ut this was coming regardless **** a ***nd you’re kinda curious about her DNA and her biology too. Maybe it would be best to get some of* her examinations out of the way today. “Sure, why not. Just be considerate of Loka, okay.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll be considerate.”

Your assistant is going to stay with the physicist so they can get his equipment over to Stevie’s house while you, Walter and Loka will walk over to the biology building on campus and take a look at his lab. You all get over there in a few minutes and the biologist lets you and her in with his key card. After climbing a flight of stairs, you, the monster and him get to the second floor and are let into his lab. Once you and Loka step inside, Walter turns on the lights to brighten up the darkroom. All of the typical equipment is seen in his lab, a microscope, centrifuges, shakers, petri-dishes, a thermalcycler, autoclaves, a gene gun and other genetic engineering tools that you would expect in a lab like this. “What do you think, Loka?” Walter asks ** as he flaunts his arms out with **** pride.**

“It looks pretty impressive. But, I’m not really sure what I should think though. I don’t really know what all of this is and I don’t really know what you do with all of these gizmos either.”

“I am a biologist and a genetic engineer. I make better crops and animals by editing their own genetics. I also know a lot about molecular biology too. I know how proteins work, how RNA works and I know how DNA works on the molecular scale. This is my profession.”

“That sounds pretty cool, but how will this help me in any way get back home?”

Walter looks a little defeated with her response. I guess he wanted the little monster to appreciate his brains. However, she’s right, how will genetic engineering get her back home? He sighs. “It’s not about getting you home, i** t’s about the application of genetic engineering. Do monsters manipulate crops to make them yield more fruit or grains where you come from?”**

“Honestly, Walt, a lot of the things you guys are telling me are pretty new to me. I don’t even know what genetic engineering even is?”

You and Walter look at each other in astonishment and then look back to her. Monsters don’t know what genetic engineering is? ** She **** has told you and Walter that her world is just a cleaner version of our twenty-first century’s first world. So how do they not have genetic engineering? You’re really convinced that her kind are suppressing certain **** technologies **** at this point *. “* H ***ow about you explain to* her what genetic engineering is.” You tell the biologist.

“Sure. Sure, I’ll be glad too.” He says with bewilderment. “Just a quick question though. Have you ever seen a movie where a** n **** evil monster scientist creates a creature in his lab or anything like that?”**

She looked confused with the question. “Sounds kind of weird, I’ve never seen a movie like that before. No monster I ever heard of has created a creature in some laboratory somewhere with the stuff you have. I wouldn’t see any point to it.”

Walter looks really dumbstruck now. “Well, do you know what genetics are? Or know What DNA is?”

“I know what genetics and DNA are, but I never heard of genetic engineering before though. What is it?”

“Well, genetic engineering is when you change the DNA of an organism to make a new organism. We use it to improve our crops and animals. Like making corn that can survive droughts for instance is something we can do now. We do it by mixing the genes of desert plants with the corn.”

The monster turns around in place to take a quick look around at all of the tools and machines in Walter’s lab and then turns back to him. “Why do you need all of this equipment to make new crops. Can’t you just cross-pollinate the desert plant with this corn plant you keep talking about?”

“Loka, you can’t just do that with species that are genetically distant from each other. It’s not possible unless they are genetically similar to one another.”

“Why not though? Monsters do that all the time to our plants. In fact, our crops have to be sterilized all the time because they can just cross-breed with any other plant. Don’t give me that evolution, genetic distance bunk that Joe was giving me before.”

Walter looks really puzzled now. How can a different plant species just cross-pollinate with any other plant species like that? Can all of the monster plants reproduce with each other? “** Okay ***,* f** irst things first. Evolution is not bunk **** a ***nd secondly, did you just say that all of your plants can cross-pollinate with each other?”*

“Yeah, they do. The flowers we even breed are sterilized so they won’t make new plants in our gardens. Sometimes you can get some good combinations from the hybridization. But most of the time, you just these weird-looking plant hybrids that are an eyesore to look at.”

“What about your animals, can they be hybridized with each other to make new animals?”

“It can happen, but usually they stick with there own kind. Usually, that only happens when an animal species is dying out. They’ll just breed with any other animal at that point and those animals will make a hybrid.”

Interesting, even the animals can breed with other genetically different animals. Why bother with genetic engineering if every organism in your ecosystem is biologically capable of reproducing with each other. Their mutation rate must be high too a** nd what's even more interesting is that an endangered organism will just end up getting their genetics assimilated into another organisms genetic linage. Evolutionary failures won’t die out, they’ll just get assimilated into a more fit species.**

You then notice the biologist is deep in thought and looks very worried about the conclusions he is making in his head. He turns to the monster. “Loka, can you give me a few minutes to talk to Joe out **side***?” He says with worry.*

“Sure. I don’t mind.”

Walter walks to the door and waves you over. You follow him out of the lab. “You look like your about to sweat bullets.” You say. “What are you so worried about?”

“She was talking about how all of the organisms on her planet are able to hybridize with each other. It

got me thinking about their molecular makeup. Do you know what molecular chirality is?”

“Yeah, I do. In nature, you got left-handed molecules and right-handed molecules. I know this because I work with drugs on my free time for sleep medications. I can’t create right-handed chemical compounds for my drugs or they wouldn’t do anything.”

“Exactly. But, Loka is an alien. We as humans need left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. If she needs right-handed amino acids and left-handed sugars, then she is not gonna be able to survive in our world for long.”

Oh fuck, Walter hit the nail on the head. If her molecular makeup is completely different from all life on this planet, she will literally starve to death. Even if she eats the food you give her, her body won’t be able to absorb any of the nutrients because the sugars and the amino acids are not compatible with her amino acids and sugars.

“** I ***f her amino acids and sugars are the exact opposite to ours, she’s in big trouble. She’ll still be able to drink water, but any food we feed her will literally just pass through her and will offer no nutritional value to her system. If this is true, Joe, she’s gonna starve to death here. I need to do testing on her, ASAP!” He yells out at you.*

“Okay, Well, do your testing. But should we explain this to Loka or should we not tell her?”

“I would tell her.” Walter says without any hesitation. “If I was stuck on a planet with food that didn’t have the same chirality as mine I would want to know why I am starving even though I’m eating the planet’s food.”

“I don’t think most people would like to think about something like that.”

“If you’re gonna be a pussy about, then I will tell her.”

“If you’re going to be like that then fine. I’ll tell her.” Right as Walter is about to open the door, you stop him again. “What if the testing confirms what we are thinking, what then?”

“We’ll either have to speed up the portal building or find a way for her to get nutrition in some form. There are some bacteria that can break down right-handed amino acids and left-handed sugars. Maybe I can produce a bacteria or algae that can create a byproduct that produces those amino acids and sugars that her body will need. It would be like how we genetically modified bacteria to produce human insulin. But in this case, the bacteria or algae will be producing chirality compatible nutrients.”

God, you hope Walter will find that her molecular chirality is compatible with ours. You don’t want to reduce Loka to eating chirality insulin juice for the rest of her time her** e **** or worse. If she can’t leave our world, she’ll be eating that lab-made crap for the rest of her life. You wonder if she would still want to live if she can’t eat real food anymore. **** He **** opens the door and you and him reluctantly walk back into the lab to inform **** the monster **** of the possible bad news. She’s not gonna respond well to the theory or the testing. Dear God, **** have mercy ***…*