Ali broke her connection with Orla so she could focus on climbing up the support staffs. Suddenly, she heard a gunshot and looked up just in time to see Call falling off the platform by the door and Wren hurrying through the open door, locking it behind him. Ali smiled as she watched Wren turn traitor like Burke had before; it seemed that no matter where Ripley went, she was betrayed.

Meanwhile, Call had fallen down into the water and vanished beneath the surface. A moment later, a Warrior jumped out of the water and onto the support staff. He began moving toward Christie and Vriess, the cripple on his back. Christie was moving slowly because of Vriess, and the Warrior was catching up. Christie attempted to shoot at it, but the alien released a stream of acid from its mouth. Ali's eyes widened as she watched Christie scream in pain as the acid burned his skin. She had never seen an alien shoot acid from its mouth.

Christie lost his grip and started to fall, but Vriess managed to get a grip on the bar. The two of them hung with the Warrior still climbing up toward them. When the alien was within reach, it reached out and grabbed Christie on the ankle. He screamed and shouted and tried to shake off the alien, but the alien's grip was too strong. Johner tried to aide them and shot at the alien from above. After the fifth shot missed the Warrior, the sixth struck home, right in the middle of its forehead. The alien's head exploded with a screech, spraying blood all over the ground but missing Christie and Vriess by inches.

Even though the Warrior was dead, it still had a steel grip on Christie's leg and Vriess couldn't hold on much longer. Knowing the only way to save Vriess, Christie began unbuckling the straps that kept Vriess strapped to his back.

"No, Christie, don't do it!" Vriess shouted as the first buckle came free.

Christie struggled with the second buckle and eventually had to take a knife out to saw through it. Then, he and the dead Warrior fell into the water and disappeared.

Ali heard the sound of locks being released and she, along with everyone else, turned to the door where Wren had vanished. The men pulled out their guns and stared at the door, unsure of what was on the other side. The door opened slowly and everyone gasped, except Ali, as Call was revealed on the other side.

"This way," Call said. When nobody moved she shouted, "Come on!"

Once everyone had filed into the room and left the freight elevator room behind, Call was bombarded with questions as to how she survived.

"Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine," Call insisted.

"You got body armor on?"

"Yeah," Call said, "Come on."

"You took it in the chest; I saw it," Ripley insisted and she stepped forward.

Call didn't protest as Ripley moved a part of her shirt away to reveal the bullet wound. A white, creamy liquid was dripping out slowly.

Ripley gave a little laugh. "You're a robot?"

Ali already knew that, based on the sounds Call's body was making. But everyone else was struck dumb at the revelation that Call was an android.

"Our little Call is just full of surprises," Johner added in.

"I should have know, no human is that humane," Ripley said.

Ali rolled her eyes and tuned out the conversation just as Vriess pointed out, "You're a second gen. aren't you?

Ali looked at her fingernails and began shaping them back to normal. She was vaguely aware of Call and Ripley wandering off trying to find another way to open the doors through the main frame computer. Meanwhile, DiStephano, Johner, and Purvis were busy trying to get the door opened. The strain seemed too much for Purvis because he started coughing and choking. DiStephano and Johner immediately aimed their guns at Purvis' head, ready to shoot of the third stage burst out. But it turned out to be a false alarm, because Purvis managed to calm down.

Just then, Call and Ripley appeared and the group continued on their way. They had to run down the dimly light and fogy hallway. But about halfway, Ripley stopped, crouched down and put her ear to the ground.

"Ripley?" Call asked.

"I can hear them. They're so close." Ripley said.

Ali could hear them too and realized that they were right over the Hive.

"Ripley, come on, we need to keep moving."

"It's the Queen, she's in pain," Ripley said.

When Ali heard that she reached out for Orla. "Orla, are you alright?"

Orla didn't answer, but her mind was filled with rolling, white flashing pain. Ali almost fell to her knees as Orla's pain washed over her.

"Ali?" Call asked.

Ripley stood up and looked at Ali. Ali felt Call's hand on her shoulder just as the floor beneath Ripley caved in, sending Ripley into a lower lever. Call left Ali and rushed to the edge of the hole.

"Ripley?" Call shouted. Then her voice changed, "Oh my god."

Ali blocked out the Queen's pain as best she could and stood up. She walked to the hole in the ground and looked down. Beneath the floor was a big, pulsing black mass. There were alien bodies poking out here and there and Ali realized that she was staring at the top of the Hive. Ripley was lying in the middle and was getting sucked into the top. Without thinking, Ali jumped in after her.

"No, Ali!" Call shouted. She attempted to grab Ali as she fell but missed her by inches.