Ali wasn't interested in the "bad news" that Bishop had so she stayed behind while the rest went off to the observation window. She sat down in front of the screens and studied the cameras. Instantly, she noticed a weakness; an area that the cameras couldn't see.

"Aglaia?"Ali asked.

Yes?

"Have you found a way in yet?"

No, those guns are poising quite a problem for us and I can think of no alternative.

"I think I know a way that you can get in and past the guns. It will also prove useful if they try to seal themselves in someplace like the colonists did last time."

Tell me.

Ali finished relaying the information to Aglaia just as another alarm sounded. Hicks ran up behind Ali and studied the cameras.

"They're in the approach corridor," Hicks said into a mic. Ripley's voice replied that she was on her way.

As Ripley came up behind him Hicks said, "C and D guns down fifty percent."

"How many?"

"Can't tell, lots," Hicks replies. Suddenly, D gun blinks critical then stops. Only C gun is left and it ticked down to twenty percent. "Shit!"

"Wait," Ripley said frantically. She was staring at the screen; the gun had stopped at 10 percent, "It stopped them."

"Next time they'll walk up and knock," Hicks said grimly.

"Yeah but they don't know that; they'll be trying to look for other ways in. That will take them a while," Ripley said.

Ali knew the only reason they had retreated at that time was because Aglaia had reached them and told them of the alternate route into the complex. And they would be coming in quicker than Ripley would expect. But for now, she no longer needed to be here. She got up slowly and walked out into the hallway. The halls were empty, no sign that 157 people used to live and work here. She smiled, the silence was welcoming and for the first time in a long time she didn't have to worry about people staring at her strangely. After a couple of minutes she got bored and decided to make her way back to operations. On the way she froze, shocked at the sight in front of her.

The human, Burke, was pushing a cart with the two stasis containers containing the second stages to the door of a med lab. The room was dark and there was a faint orange glow coming from within. Ali was slightly shocked, why would the human want to get other humans impregnated? She realized she didn't really care about the reason; if he was going to turn against the humans then she was going to help him. She stepped forward quickly into Burke's line of sight. Burke froze when he saw Ali and started to stutter an excuse.

"What are you planning on doing with those?" Ali asked.

"Um, well, I—,"

"You do realize that they will try to attack you when you let them out?" Ali asked.

"I wasn't going to," Burke said but Ali could tell from the rhythm of his heart beat that he was lying.

"Let me do it, I know how to handle them."

Burke regarded Ali with a suspicious look. "What do you want?"

"I want to help you," Ali said and she smiled.

"Why?"

"Because I like you, you seem like a nice person," Ali said, "Now get out of here and leave everything to me."

Burke nodded and stepped away from the cart quickly. Ali grabbed it and walked to the door, smiling as she heard Burke's hurried footsteps. The door opened silently and Ali pushed the cart carefully inside. The bed was empty but Ali could hear the sounds of Ripley and Newt breathing deeply. She set the stasis containers down on the ground and pulled the lever that unlocked them. She left the lid on, knowing the second stages would figure out a way to open them when they sensed the presence of the humans. She then left quickly and locked the door from the outside.

Ali? What are you doing? Aglaia's gentle voice was soft in Ali's head. Why are there second stages with you?

"One of the humans turned traitor against the others," Ali said.

And you want to help him?

"Yes," Ali replied.

Be careful, this might come back to bite your shoulder, Aglaia said.