"Who are you?" an ugly man asked Ali. He was wearing a sweater over a pair of scrubs so Ali assumed that he was a doctor of some kind.
"I think I'm lost."
"How did you get on the ship?" the doctor demanded, "There were no children here when we departed."
Ali shrugged. "I'm a little confused right now, I was just attacked by a big creature thing. But I managed to get away."
"What's your name?" A short haired woman asked.
"Ali," Ali replied, staring at Ripley.
Ripley's expression showed no signs that she recognized the name.
This is interesting, Ali thought to herself.
"My name's Call," The short haired woman said, "You can come with us; we're trying to get of this ship."
Call had a strange scent to her that was vaguely familiar to Ali. She struggled back, trying to remember when she had smelled someone like Call. Then she picked up the sounds of low whirling. Ali listened close to the sounds Call's body was making and realized she couldn't pick up a heartbeat. She suddenly remembered the smell; the android Bishop, Call was an android as well.
"You'd be taking an even more of a risk of you do," Ripley said, stepping close to Ali. She closed her eyes and breathed in deeply. "She's got one inside of her too. I can smell it."
Ali wasn't that shocked when she heard that. She knew she didn't actually have a third stage inside her; she had its DNA that was passed along to her when her mother was attacked by a second stage. Ripley just smelled the remnants of the alien from when it had been alive inside her mother. But the thing that interested Ali was that Ripley could smell her DNA; that meant that Ripley had indeed inherited some of the DNA from the Queen inside her.
"Shit! Just what we need. Another walking time bomb." A another ugly man said. He had a slightly comical monkey face and Ali had to surpress a giggle.
"Shut up, Johner!" Call said.
"I don't think we need another risk," A black man with long hair said.
"Yeah, I'm with Christie," the man named Johner said.
"We can do to her what we're doing with Purvis." Call insisted.
Ali looked over toward the man named Purvis and looked at his chest. The presence of the third stage was strong and overpowering; it was coming closer to the final stages before birth. Ali had to try hard to resist smiling eagerly.
"Let's just get to the Betty, and then we can decide what we're going to do with the two of them." Ripley said.
The group agreed with the idea and started to walk back down the hallway.
"Orla?" Ali asked while they walked.
There was a moment's pause before Orla answered. Yes? You have something to report to me?
"It would seem that the Ellen Ripley clone has some alien DNA like me. And she was able to smell the DNA inside of me; although she thinks that I have a second stage inside of me."
That is very interesting news. Thank you, Orla said, Stay with the humans for now; I will call for you soon, so be ready.