The Secret of Her Alien Monster

I'm tasked with analyzing a few rare mushrooms on a supposedly abandoned space station-a couple of soldiers being my only company. However, the captain and his crew aren't interested in mushrooms at all-they only care for the alien that cultivated them. And when I say "alien, " I mean a crossbreed of the universe's strongest species that was meant to become some kind of super soldier killing machine.
So much for the "abandoned research station." If someone had asked me, I would have told them immediately that such a creature, equipped with artificial intelligence to make things even worse, is an extremely bad idea. But what do I know? After all, I'm only here for the mushrooms... Dark sci-fi romance with a fast-learning alien, an overly diplomatic biologist, and a dash of humor.