First [official] contact

Ali feels it's rather stereotypical that they send him and his hunt brothers in first " bloody typical - send in the scarey aliens, see if they get shot up, then send in the humans".

They leap from the hovering drop ship, cloaked up, invisible , land on the facilities roof and stalk towards a fire door, handily labeled " pull to enter" typical human lack of care for their own safety. Ali cautiously steps through the door way and down the stairs. His hunt brothers follow. The light is low but the stench is unbelievable. It's excrement, human excrement.

As they reach the bottom of the stairs the stench is almost overwhelming " do they have a drainage issue" Ali wonders? In the dim light, a light too low for human eyes, he can see row after row of cages lining the floor. They are low compared to his 7 foot 2 stature, maybe a small human height? .

Based on intell they had expected clandestine activities involving some lower life form, cattle or the like being illegally ranched or perhsps synthesised mest protein. Not this, anything but this.

He can see shapes moving in the cages, the stench is now mixed with human sweat. They are farming their own pups and younglings, the bloody dishonourable pauking humans are farming their own kind for meat.

Ali stalks along the cages. One small filthy arm reaches out and tentatively touches his knee. He looks down and a small very pale face looks up at him. It shows no fear - perhaps, Ali thinks, it has no exposure to any kindness from its own species so why fear his?

Out of the gloom a bot appears, it moves silently down the row of cages, it doesn't react to their presence, it is programmed only gor it's specific function. It stops at the one nearest Ali, the cage door slides open and the bot grabs the child by the waist and lugs it out into a container it is dragging along.

Ali and his team cloak up and stalk behind the bot further into the facility. They can see that the bot is approaching a line in the centre of the plant with long conveyor belts running out towards a large trap door.

At the start of the belt is a table with straps and a large circular saw. On it lies a small body, it has been gutted, dismembered and is about to be sent down the conveyor belt to be plastic wrapped, packed and frozen.

The whole plant is automated, no humans or other species appear to operate it. No one to hear the children screaming, Ali thinks grimly. He taps his wrist gauntlet," site clear, prepare to extract intell and refugees".

The human space marines lead by Leon are truly shocked but also conflicted, they wish to rescue the children but lack the resources to provide sufficient food and aid for so many additional bodies.

The choice is grim, leave the children to be processed as they track the owners of the plant down or simply terminate them. Ali and his hunt brothers can see the logic - but where is that much vaunted humanity?

The choice is taken out of their respective hands/ paws. They are being observed from afar , from a control centre, moonshadow side of the planet. The observer triggers a fail safe cleansing [of all evidence] protocol. As they watch frozen momentarily in horror a thick toxic foam begins to roll through the facility over the cages and towards them, smothering the children as it envelops them.

They all spring into action, the few children close enough to rescue before the foam reaches them are grabbed and man and yautja handled to higher ground. They cannot walk having been confined for so long.

Ali breaks open the container, picks up the child within it, tucking it under his arms and leaps upward grabbing an over head gantry, pulling himself and the child up to safety as the foam rolls on suffocating and dissolving all flesh in it's path.

Later as he sits in the passenger area of the drop ship Ali leans down to the child, pats it's filthy head and asks it if the child would like an energy bar, it's all he can offer.

" 'K" says the child shyly and that is how K comes into Ali's life