The men had been as upset with loosing the sight of her full tits and bare ass as could have been expected. A pair even lowered their weapons slightly, like the aim was a show of level of their spirit. They begrudged Josephine for it, but nobody said anything. Despite how tense things were, they weren't going to start a fight over some lost visual entertainment. It was clear who's image they'd be borrowing as soon as they were alone though. The suit itself wasn't all that obscuring anyway, and the light got to curl along her in a very intriguing manner. These men were lonely when they worked, and there was only so much you could do with the whores on the common stations.<br/><br/>Jonah was also intrigued by her shapes even if he'd rather not let anyone know. His self-appointed role in all this was to hate her, and he was doing a great job, he thought. He didn't know the things that had entered his bloodstream was learning their new place, and recognizing the strictures. The new state was spreading easily. It had tasted human before. He was loosing grip of his new-found pride when she answered him. His face wrinkled further into the angry grimace when she gave her condescending theory. He'd almost lost his mind over a guess she had? It made him hate her more, and that of course lodged her deeper into his obsession.<br/><br/>Nathan took away the rife just when Jonah was going to thrust it forward. Jonah had shown signs of a temper before, but this was obviously getting to him more than what the commander had expected. It was wise of Jonah to back down, and fall back with Josephine. He didn't like when she touched his weapons, but he didn't have time for such petty squabble either, especially if their captive was playing ball. The contact with her hand awakened something in him that wasn't appropriate for this whole situation, so he forgot about that quickly, nodding at her logic and encouraging the others to continue their aim at her. At some point it just became a courtesy. She wasn't really feeling threatened, if he had to guess. He hurried to get to panels once she left them open for him. He barely acknowledged Carl when he took her.<br/><br/>He had just been able to call off the vessel with the special codes he been told to memorize when he was needed at the medical bay. The commander hurried and then came to a soundly stop when he saw her naked again. He supposed that was to be expected, given the nature of the exam. Her belly was swollen, so he wasn't very surprised when Carl explained how far along she was to her. But the files on Zara Dawson and her medical information before this mission had said nothing of pregnancy. Even her scan hadn't shown anything growing in her, malignant or otherwise.<br/><br/>He moved closer to the propped up woman, and he felt two others crowding the doorway. Jonah and Josephine. They'd be curious too, and there wasn't anything left for them to do out there. He decided not to say anything about that yet. He gestured tiredly when Carl gave his rapport on her pregnancy. "I've dealt with things like this. Mr. Weyland loves this kind of stuff so I've seen my share. Usually, its more like that thing with the exo skeleton we caught, and not some mixture." he said and looked at the computer displaying her stats.<br/><br/>"That muscular pretty-boy freak was something else, and they seemed rather chummy." Jonah added and stepped into the room, rifle held ready but not aimed at her. His tone suggested he thought it was disgusting that she'd fraternize with another species, but there was also a bitter note of jealousy there. Josephine, though not as fanatic about it, nodded too. She was known to be able to keep cool at the worst of times, but she was coming undone from something now. Nathan noted all of this, but didn't say anything about it. They were all uprooted though, when she beat Carl down. Nathan was on her soon, but she'd decided punching the doctor was enough.<br/><br/>Nathan knew she was trying to gain control, and she was far more reasonable than the creatures he'd fought in the past, but he didn't need her climbing the latter here, so he lifted the gun she'd lowered before and drew half a circle through the air, aiming to collide the butt of the handgun to her cheekbone, and perhaps force her back to lean against the edge of the medical examining table. Either way he'd marked that she should not hurt his crew. He helped Carl up and brushed him off. The gun was back in her face soon. It might not be a rifle, which was at the ready around her anyway, but he was sure a few bullets nomatter caliber or velocity to her eye socket would dampen even her mother bear spirit.<br/><br/>"I can't even begin to tell you how low your motherly wishes are on my list, ms. Dawson. Now you have a payload worth my retirement in your gut, but I can still go on a few dinners and drink a few beers on what the corpses of both of you will pay." He waved at the doctor. "Carl here's just in it for his curiosity, so he doesn't even care about the money if he gets to see how you look like cut in half." Him chewing her out seemed to excite Jonah, who moved even closer. He had to shove the soldier away, but kept his eyes on Zara. "So whatever we decide, you can be damn sure it's not because we want to be invited to your baby's first birthday. You think I haven't shot down mothers and their kids doing this?" He holstered the gun and then grabbed her by her arms, lifting her and slamming her sitting down on the slab again.<br/><br/>"She's right though." Carl said, coughing out the last of the discomfort her punch had caused. He wiped his lower lip and went back to the screen, one hand propping up one of the more offensive looking probes. Jonah fidget with interest and Josephine was staring while the others held their weapons, eager to fire at Dawson. "We can neutralize the offspring as well as keep it alive." he explained and put up the schematics for it. This medical pod was equipped for most things, and pregnancy over long trips was one of them. "The protocol is to stimulate birth and then incubate the baby in a certain fluid, mimicking the environment in the womb. It's a kind of warm stasis, that can then be suspended when travel starts again."<br/><br/>Nathan listened and rolled his eyes at the sound of it, touching his temple. "You forget it's not a human fetus..." he muttered and then gestured to the ceiling when Carl went off on that it should be roughly the same. Nathan looked at Zara. "Alright. It's got everything to make everyone happy, right? You get your baby, alive though not kicking, and the doctor here gets to read all the numbers." he said and put his hand on her shoulder and shoved her back, forcing her to lay down. Jonah practically squeal when the bands locked around her wrists and ankles. "So all of this is gonna suck, but it's for your baby. And you're going to cooperate, yes?" He sighed and lowered his head with something that might have been an apology. Enemy or not, she sure as fuck looked like a human woman, and he was pinning her down and pushing her through one of the greatest tests a person could experience. "What are we going to do then, doc?" he muttered.<br/><br/>"Well, Sir. It seems by the DNA I'm finding floating around in the baby's body is from another person, and that it has grown exponentially from her stress. I would summarize we could speed up the alien protein genesis by adding the challenge that triggers rapid generation of..."<br/><br/>"Just tell us what to do!" Nathan roared. It made Carl hiccup.<br/><br/>"We need to cause her pain while feeding her human DNA, Sir. It will make the process go into self defense by producing the child, but the child can't be built without the preferred building blocks, which is human flesh." Carl was cold, saying all of it. This was why scientists made Nathan sick.<br/><br/>"So we have to force feed her dead person while torturing her."<br/><br/>Jonah squealed and gabbed the contraption that Carl had been fidgeting with. Josephine ran out of the room, most likely to find some of the bodies. She came back with what was left of captain Laura. While she'd been in the would-be secure room, she didn't notice that some of the flesh of Kaldeio's face had begun to restitch itself with bleeding proteins.<br/><br/>If Zara wasn't able to stop it, Nathan wouldn't either. He'd just look away as Jonah stuck the probe into her and started the surges of electricity, while Josephine was trying to cram cold, detached fingers down her throat.