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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Alien Series, Alien Quadrilogy (Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Ellen Ripley, Joan Lambert, Dennis Parker (Alien Series), Ash (Alien Series), Amanda Ripley, Jones the Cat (Alien Series) Additional Tags: shrunken heist AU, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Ash Whump, Fix-It of Sorts, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, stuffing Ash in a jar and shaking him around until he turns into a smoothie, the Nostromo doesn’t explode, Lambert and Parker live, but so does Ash, Ash POV, Semi unserious, Crack Treated Seriously Series: Part 1 of Ash’s shrunken heist Summary:
Ash startled when he unexpectedly awoke once more, in a massive, unfamiliar room. He found himself laid supine on a soft foam block, perfectly hugging the contours of his body. Tugging at his limbs revealed he was secured to whatever surface constituted the floor by thick plastic wrapped wire twist ties, his predicament reminiscent of an action-figure or a character in an outdated alien abduction movie from the 20th century, the irony did not escape him. —-
By a strange twist of fate, the three remaining crew of the Nostromo manage, against all odds, to stumble their way back to Sol System, cargo intact, and with a terrible trove of leverage hanging over the company’s head. The company, with its equally huge repertoire of poorly executed employee retainment strategies, decides to include a rather familiar little gadget in the goodwill basket.
