I stared at the xenomorph in wonder, I had given up a lot to be here and I didn't regret it.
"Amazing creature isn't it?" I turned over to the man next to me and nodded. "Enjoy the feeling while it lasts, once you see these things in action you won't ever look at them the same way again."
I stared at him for a few seconds before looking at the xenomorph again. It was shackled to a specially designed cage just for this creature, it wasn't meant for comfort to say the least. The only part of its body it could really move was its head and part of its tail, everything else was shackled into place.
"Hey focus, you can admire the creature when your shift starts." Content that my focus was now on him he started explaining my job to me.
"Your job is gonna be pretty simple at first then advance into more complex stuff, we've found out that new people don't really handle being thrown into the deep end right away." He walked over to a console then continued. "This thing is fed 3 times a day, your going to be feeding it during the night."
"Sure doesn't look like its being fed 3 times a day." The man chuckled then responded. "Don't let it fool you, a lot of people have died because they thought that. This thing is almost all muscle, its tail is able to lift 200 pound men off the ground with ease, it could lift you and me off the ground with no effort at all."
After giving me a second to take that in he pointed at a red button on the console that had a plastic cover. "This button releases the xenomorph, the cover is so people don't accidently bump it."
He moved to the next console and pointed at another button. "This one blows a jet of... very cold air at the xenomorph, use it if it is doing something it shouldn't."
he moved to the last console in the row. "This button here is basically a panic button, press it and armed troops will be storming this room in seconds, I shouldn't have to explain to you when you should press it." I felt an ounce of dread as the meaning of that dawned on me.
He then pointed to the only door into the cell. "There's 2 doors there, you open the door, walk into it then close the door, open the other door and you're in the cell." With that he began walking towards the exit.
"That's it? That's all I have to do?" He didn't even turn around to look at me.