Dr. Alec Tennilman typed quickly on the keyboard of one of the many computers in the room, his body leaning over the table it sat on and his face drawn down into a deep frown. This was wrong.<em>Everything</em>was wrong; it was all just...wrong. The tentative connection between the computer he was currently using and the main system interface was wrong, the fact that only two other living people occupied the room besides himself was wrong, and the fact that they still weren't certain as to what had happened was wrong. The two marines in the room, Alec still didn't know their names, were on either side of him as he worked. Weapons in theirs hands, they were constantly sweeping the room for any sign of movement.<br/><br/>Though there was light enough to see, a fair number of the room's power circuits had been knocked out, making most of the lights and computers within it useless. A quick bypass code had allowed Alec to reactivate the security locks on the room's three doors, and all of them were now shut and sealed, able to be opened from the inside only.<em>How the hell did someone get through</em>my<em>security system in the first place?</em>Alec's eyes tightened as the unbearably frustrating fact surfaced in his mind once again; someone had hacked<em>his</em>system. Several bodies, all bloodied and torn to pieces, were scattered on the floor, and a few were draped across tables. Some form of alien species, Alec thought they were Xenomorphs, and his suspicions had been backed up when another marine, dead now, had nearly wet himself when he saw the body of one. Apparently, someone had either been keeping a few on base, or the creatures had taken their sweet time in showing themselves.<br/><br/>Alec suspected the former though; Xenomorphs couldn't have disabled the security system, someone on the inside had to have done that. As it was, the base's entire communications array had been knocked out, and all of Alec's attempts to get it functioning again were being met with utter failure. It had taken the better part of an hour just to reactivate the security system in a local area, a process that should've taken no more than five to ten minutes. For the time being, it seemed that the only option left was to try and wait it out; an option whose most likely outcomes weren't very promising.