INT. EGG CHAMBER: Newt is cocooned in a pillar-like structure at the edge of alien egg cluster. Her eyelids flutter open and she becomes aware of her surroundings.

The egg nearest her begins to move...opening like an obscene flower.

Newt stares, transfixed by terror, as jointed legs appear over the lip of the ovoid one by one. She screams.

INT. CATACOMBS: Ripley hears the scream and breaks into a run.

INT. EGG CHAMBER: Newt watches the face-hugger emerge and turn toward her.

Ripley runs in just as it is tensing to leap, and fires, blasting it with a burst from the assault rifle.

Out of nowhere, the figure of an adult warrior comes bounding along a corridor's walls like it was a spider. Firing from the hip, Ripley drills it with two controlled bursts which catapult it back.

Two more warriors show up. She takes them out as well. Her expression is murderous.

NEWT: Ripley! Ripley!

Ripley runs to Newt and begins tearing at the fresh resinous cocoon material, freeing the child. She pulls her up onto her chest. Strands of the sticky resin stretches between them.

RIPLEY: Grab onto me! Hold on!

EXT. PROCESSOR STATION: A huge fireball billow out of the center of the station. The structure begins to self-destruct.

INT. EGG CHAMBER: Ripley turns to retrace her steps, only to have an explosion on a lower level engulf the passageway in an enormous fireball. She retreats, moving through another steam-filled corridor.

She and Newt emerge into a large chamber.

TIGHT ON RIPLEY: As she enters the chamber and stops. Her expression changes to worry as she turns. Ripley is standing in a room full of eggs. Dozens and dozens of them line the floor everywhere around her.

She hears something and turns around slowly.