The PROMETHEUS Novelization Project

  CHAPTER 13 The Engineer Dr. Shaw sat in the larget of the buggies, lost in thought, when the android David approached and sat across from her. “I didn’t know you had it in you…” David said, immediately realizing his verbal slip. “Oh… sorry, poor choice of words. Extraordinary survival instincts, Elizabeth.” Dr. Shaw scowled at the synthetic excuse for a man; trim, smooth and laughably eloquent. “What happens when Weyland is no longer around to program you?” Shaw posed. “I suppose… I would be free,” the android replied in a distant stare. “You would want that?” “Want? Hmm… not a concept I am familiar with. That being said, doesn’t everybody want their parents dead?” “I didn’t,” Shaw responded meekly. At that moment, the rest of the ‘team’ filed into the buggy. “Dr. Shaw,“ the wheezing voice of Weyland filled the cab of the vehicle, “So pleased you could join us.” The buggy drove quickly through the sickly afternoon light of LV-223. Elizabeth Shaw wasn’t sure...

  Chapter 12 Unholy Revivals Janek was a captain through and through. At times he felt as though the pulse in his veins matched the ambient rumbling of his mighty ship. His breath and the fluctuation of his ship’s engines were so often as one while the Prometheus moved through space. Even the tiniest of details did not slip the seasoned captain’s senses. As such, when one small monitor crackled out of blackness and into focus, Janek spotted it among the spanless array of screens, buttons, displays and the like. He moved closer to the image, which showed a combination of rocks and industrial metal – the loading ramp just outside! His heart skipped a beat when he pieced together what the source of the feed was; it was one of the in-helmet cameras of an environmental suit. In the lower right corner of the screen was the name FIFIELD, S. “Bridge to Hangar- this is the Captain!” “Yes, Captain,” Wallace returned as he carefully set himself down from a scaffolding. “Fifield just p...