"I'm kinda hungry." Newt smiled. In fact, she clearly still needed to put some weight on. Arella smiled and poked Raven's nose while oiling, powdering and then rediapering her.

Ripley sighed in relief, "Good! Let's get you some num nums!" She giggled and picked Newt up and held her in her arms as they headed to get Newt some food. Ripley thought Newt would like some real food for now, not just milk.

Raven giggled and wrinkled her nose, "Silly mommy!" She laughed and waved her hands in front of her face. "Now my face is dirty," she kicks her feet lightly, "ohh well..." She ruled her eyes playfully, thinking Arella might nuzzle her face to 'clean' it off.

Newt smiled and followed Ripley as they went to the commissary. She was amazed at all the choices. Arella looked at Raven. "Oh, you're right. You are dirty. Well, Mommy will take care of it." She used her face to nuzzle it all away.

Ripley smiled as she saw Newt's face brighten up as she saw all the options, "Alright baby, where should we start?" She asked as they moved to the start of the hot meal line.

Raven blushed and started to giggle at her, "Thank you mommy." She said cutely, giving her mother a small little kiss on the cheek in return before laying back down. "All clean... for now." She giggled more at her.

Newt smiled when she grabbed a chicken fingers platter with fries. Arella smiled and looked at Raven. "I love you so much, honey."

"How about some veggies sweetie? You need a few greens if you can manage." She advised softly as she got a salad for herself and a plate of meatloaf and potatoes.

"I love you too mommy," Raven giggled up at her and stretched a bit. "How much longer do we have together mommy?" She sighed, giving her mother a weak smile.

Newt smiled and grabbed some of those as well. Arella looked at a clock nearby. "Well, I heard the message from both groups an hour ago. They should be here within the next half hour, when Newt's down for her nap. That way she won't hear what they've found."

Ripley smiled as she helped Newt grab the rest of her food and then make their way over to the tables to eat. "Alright, we'll get nice and full then take a nice long snooze." She giggled and poked Newt before starting to eat her salad.

Raven nodded and blushed, grabbing her tummy a little bit, "Okay mommy... what umm, do you want to do now then?" She asked.

Newt giggled and began to eat up eagerly. She ate like she was absolutely possessed, which was good to see that her appetite was returning. Arella shrugged. "I dunno. You have any ideas?"

Ripley ate her food much slower than Newt, "Easy honey, I don't want you to choke alright?" She smiled as she finished her salad and started on the rest of her food. Ripley wanted to finish before everyone else came back.

Raven blushed and put her hand on her tummy, "Umm... maybe more story time? I.... can cuddle on your lap again, if that'd be okay with you?" She asked, eyes avoiding eye contact.

Newt heard Ripley and managed to eat a little slower. Soon she finished, hugged Ripley, and yawned. Arella nodded and put Raven on her lap. This time she told the story of herself, again in much the same way she'd said it about Raven. "And do you know who she grew up to be?"

Ripley smiled and put an arm on Newt's shoulder, "I think it's time my little baby takes her nap." She sings at Newt. Ripley expertly takes all their dishes and puts them on the conveyor to be cleaned, before picking up Newt and bouncing her in her arms. "Does mommy need to give you a paci or anything?" She asked quietly as she enters their room.

Raven put her hand on her chin and hummed, "I want to say.... queen of the planet?" She started to giggle and brought her arms around her mother once more.

Newt nodded. "I'd like a paci, please." She yawned again and closed her eyes. "That's right!" Arella said, rubbing noses with Raven. "You're a very smart girl, Raven."

Ripley smiled as she laid Newt down and rifled through a drawer. She pulled out a bright red pacifier and lowered it into Newt's mouth as she leaned down to kiss her forehead, "Night night baby, sweet dreams." She said softly.

Raven giggled even more, "Thanks mommy, you're the nicest mommy ever." She sighs and cuddles into her before letting go. She slowly started getting off of Arella's lap and onto her feet, as Raven was expecting they'd go back to meet Ripley before the others came. 'Time for the baby to go away for now,' Raven thought to herself, regretting that she hadn't done the other thing in her diaper before now. There wasn't any time now, so she'd have to hold it, or hope the smell locking is still functional on the diaper around her waist.

Soon she was out like a light, sucking on the pacifier, lost in pleasant dreams. Arella and Raven then went to meet up with Ripley right before the others came back from their investigations, where they'd pore over all the footage and data. "How is she doing?" Arella asked.

"She's all tucked in, I think this'll help her a lot now that she's had a good meal beforehand as well." Ripley sighed, before looking down at Raven, "What about your's?" She chuckled at Raven.

Raven blushed and covered her head with her hood again and let go of Arella's hand, "I'm fine thank you." She huffed and squirmed away a little bit.

Arella nodded and smiled as they sat down and got comfortable. Within a few minutes, both teams arrived back on the New Orleans, and shook hands to celebrate achieving their goals. "All right, so which team's data should we look at first?" Captain Cruz asked with dead seriousness.

Cyborg raised his hand, "Why don't we go first?" Cyborg offered as he pressed a few buttons on his wrist before inserting a datapad into a slot in the table. "As everyone knows, we went to Earth to try and find more information about these things and what The Company knows that we didn't. Now, we didn't have a while lot of time to go over the data beforehand, since we can't exactly go through data like this on transports well..." He paused a bit to catch his breath and motioned for Robin to come up and join him.

Robin nodded. "Well, to make a long story short, most of what we found deals specifically with this summary." It was a summary sheet of the mission of the USCSS Prometheus. It specifically mentioned that a mysterious starfield had been mapped on Earth, and its mission was to follow it in search of the origins of humanity. They had found a race known as the Engineers, which were responsible for creating planets and life. According to analysis of the warning signal from the derelict on LV-426, First Officer Elizabeth Shaw was the only survivor and was warning that no one should arrive on the planet. A summary showed the proof that Ripley's ship, the USCSS Nostromo, was sent there because 'Officer Shaw's warning beacon signal has been found after all this time. Nostromo is to be reassigned there to discover secrets of derelict Engineer ship."

"They knew..." Ripley said quietly, a mixture of anger and frustration booking inside her, "they knew and didn't warn us? I lost everyone on my ship for some science project?" She asked the room, not to any particular person. She slammed her hands on the table, "Damn them! We were carrying a refinery, we weren't equipped for that kind of mission!"

Cyborg remained silent throughout her tirade, not bothering to even try defending Wey-Yu at all. "It appears the Engineers, as they are called, created the creatures, called xenomorphs." Cyborg said. "Now, we didn't find much about the Engineers themselves, other than they might be hostile if they are alive at all." He admitted, "It sounded like most of that data was located on the ship, They hadn't had time to retrieve it all from the wreck on the planet." He said, putting up his half if the puzzle.

"I suppose this is where we come in?" Blackfire sighed, looking over at Starfire and completely ignoring Beast Boy.

Starfire nodded and turned to Lieutenant Reid, who hooked up the camera footage from inside the derelict. When they reached the center of the ship, where the strange creature was draped over the machine. "Best guess is that that is the corpse of an Engineer right here. We've also analyzed two audio recordings found here." She played one by a scientist. "Extraction of eggs on schedule. Our success in creating xenomorphs has been going on spectacularly, especially in recreating the Queen. Thanks to analysis by Wey-Yu's bio-weapons division, it is believed that the company can create an army big enough to take to the Engineers' homeworld and subdue them. Soon, worlds can be created in the blink of an eye."

"Woah woah woah," Cyborg interrupted, "you mean they can literally create entire planets? I thought they were talking about terraforming planets again, where do they come up with the materials?"

Ripley fumed and her mind started playing scenarios of chestbursters coming out of people, she shivered at the thought of thousands of people being used as incubators for those things.

"Could those things even cause any damage to them?" Terra asked, "I mean if they can make planets, surely they have advanced enough technology to kill the monsters, or at the least just evacuate a planet and send people to a new one?"

"Yeah, but then they could just send more xenos to that planet," Cyborg pointed out. "Do you think they were storing more xenomorphs somewhere? I don't know how many you'd need to take out a planet, but I'd guess at least a hundred thousand or more. That might be overkill, this sort of thing isn't really my specialty." Cyborg shrugged.

"Do we know why they don't like us?" Raven spoke, "Maybe we might be able to reason with them somehow." She offered, looking to her mother a little bit before scooting a little closer to her. The idea of an entire army of those things attacking a planet like Earth was not appealing, she knew there'd be no way they'd be able to save everyone back on Earth if that happened.

Robin looked through the data report. "It says it right here: the Engineers are responsible for creating worlds." Lieutenant Reid played the other audio recording, this from a colonist at Hadley's Hope, made shortly before the xenos invaded it. "Status report: This is Anne Jorden, lead surveyor and examiner for Hadley's Hope, planet Acheron LV-426. My husband Russ and I went to investigate a grid reference by company official Carter Bruke, who said this order came directly from Michael Weyland himself. Anyways, we approached what looked like a derelict ship. Suddenly a strange pincer like creature attacked Russ and...it seemed to put him in a coma. Strangely the creature died, and Russ says he's fine, but..." "Mommy? Dad's in the cafeteria," a familiar voice said. "OK, Newt, Mommy will be right there." Arella held on tight to Raven, stroking her hair, while the recording stopped.

Ripley covered her mouth as she heard Newt's voice, it was unmistakable to her. "Oh my god... oh my god." She breathed through her fingers before she stood up and leaned against the wall, away from the rest of the group. She had several decisions to make with this information with Newt.

"Well... it looks like we know how the colony became infected..." Terra pointed out soberly, "And that that company was behind everything..."

"Yeah, but it sounds like those Engineers are a larger threat to humanity than anything, not to mention those xenomorphs." Cyborg pointed out, "We have the coordinates for where the xeno army was supposed to go, right?" He asked.

Lieutenant Reid pulled up the star charts Ripley had found from the computer on the Sulaco. "These charts show the path to the Engineers' homeworld. We can easily follow them and head there ourselves. But what you wish to accomplish, I have no idea." Robin cleared his throat. "I found one last thing in all this information." It was a summary made by Michael Weyland, apparently around the time Ripley wanted to know what happened to her daughter, Amanda. It said that 15 years after the Nostromo was destroyed, Amanda had joined the company, and went on a search for the ship's flight recorder. On a space station called Sevastopol, a xenomorph had been found and killed off all but her. In order to prevent her from going public, the company had transferred her to a maintenance job, where it showed she'd been purposefully exposed to develop mesothelioma.

(This is based on the forthcoming game Alien: Isolation, which has the same plot and is now approved series canon)

Cybrog cracked his knuckles, "Oh I think I've got few ideas..." In truth, he hoped that Raven's idea might hold a bit more merit. It was a bit different going after a whole planet to fight something they knew almost nothing about aside from they were hyper advanced and hostile towards humanity, for some reason. But... that was the whole point, wasn't it? That no one would be safe until the Engineers and the xenomorphs were subdued.

Ripley looked back at the group as they revealed what happened to Amanda. She was still coming to terms with her death but... like this? She stared at them all for a brief moment before calmly leaving the room. Ripley would find out what they planned to do later, she couldn't handle what was going on inside her as she entered her's and Newt's room and began to sob softly. She sat on a chair and continued for several minutes, careful to not wake Newt up. Ripley realized Newt was her sole focus now, the only thing keeping her tethered away from total despair and vengeance. She wiped her tears away and scooted closer to her, slowly letting herself nod off with her as well.

Starfire looked at Cyborg. "Well, we don't necessarily have to fight the Engineers. Just because this Elizabeth Shaw woman didn't successfully make amends with the Engineers doesn't mean that we can't. We have to get there before the Wey-Yu does, and ask them to ally with us and fight them." Robin and BB were a little stunned by Star's proposal.

"We don't know why they're mad at humans though," Raven countered, "What if there was a huge war or something long ago, or what if they found out about We-Yu killing one of their own?" She asked.

"Well... we probably don't have much of a chance fighting them anyway Raven..." Cyborg admitted. Blackfire smirked at this and nodded a little, refusing to speak unless it was absolutely needed.

Robin nodded. "Well, either way, it's clear that we have to head off to their homeworld and get there before the company does. We'll try and figure things out when we get there. But one thing is for sure: Wey-Yu cannot subdue them and make them their world-creating slaves."

"Or create an intergalactic war..." Raven muttered before turning quiet and squirming a little in her seat.

"Well, when do we want to try going there then? And how are we gonna get there?" Cyborg asked the collective group.

"And will we all be going?" Blackfire spoke up, though her question wasn't to get herself out of going, but for Starfire.

Reid piped up. "We can follow these star maps to find our way to the Engineers' homeworld. Like has been said before, it's only a matter of getting there before the company does. As for who will go and meet with the Engineers personally, that's up to all of you. You will choose whether you will stay here on the ship, or follow us in the dropship when we go down to the planet's surface."

"What if they have ships that fire upon us?" Cyborg asked, as Terra's eyes widened at the prospect. No way she was staying up in this ship if it might get fired upon.

Raven squirmed a bit more and looked to her mother, unsure of what to say or do. She felt obligated to go with... but wasn't sure if Arella was right in how they'd all treat her.

"Well, Starfire will not be going!" Blackfire stated, putting one arm around Starfire's shoulder and pulling her in close.

Robin sighed. "Well, the derelict is one of their ships, so they clearly have them But whether they'll be orbiting the planet, we'll have to find out." Arella looked at Raven. "It's up to you. If you wanna stay, you can stay. If you wanna go, I understand." Starfire looked at Blackfire in surprise. "But sister, why ever not?"

"Here's hoping..." Cyborg sighed and rubbed his temples, trying to think of what they might be able to do if it came to that. 'Pray?' he rolled his eyes at himself before contemplating further.

"I don't know mom..." She whispered, "What if they try coming up here? We wouldn't have a way to get back to Earth if something went wrong or..." She squirmed a bit more and scooted closer to Arella, as her face turned pinker underneath her hood. 'Not now!' She thought to herself as she tried to keep herself from showing what was wrong.

"Because, you've done enough hazardous tasks! I'm supposed to keep you away from dangerous things, I can't condone my dearest loved one to go to such a planet where you don't know anything. You lucked out on Earth Starbright," Blackfire sighed, "but I don't think you will on this one."

Starfire smiled a bit when she saw the concern that her sister was showing her, and hugged her tight. "I love you very much, dear sister." Arella smiled. "Are you OK, Raven?" "Well, we're not getting anywhere by staying here,' Captain Cruz said. "Let's move out."

Blackfire hugged her sister back and nuzzled her cheek against Starfire's forehead, "I love you too, sister dear. But... I know you're going to be the one to choose what you do." She sighed and closed her eyes, pulling Starfire closer to her.

"I'm... fine..." Raven managed to stammer a bit as she pressed down firmly on her seat so her diaper was pressing against her bottom, in a desperate attempt to hold everything in until at least after they left the room. She sighed inwardly as people started to file out of the room, she remained seated, rigidly holding onto her mother's hand and looking down to avoid eye contact with everyone as they walked out.

"What're you gonna do Terra?" Cyborg asked politely, as he retrieved his data stick from the projector , before following her on out.

Terra laughed nervously, "I'm gonna go down there. To be honest, I can't stand being in these things..." She shrugged and looked away when some of the crew looked at her, "Uhh, no offense or anything." She blushed, before chuckling and looking back at her teammates, "Umm, what about you guys?" She asked, not really noticing that Raven was still sitting down.

Robin sighed. "Of course I'm going down there. I want to see the Engineers with my own eyes. Also, I'm fully committed to seeing this through." Beast Boy nodded. "Same thing goes with me. Besides, who knows? Maybe they're vegetarians too!" Starfire smiled at her sister. "I'll stay with you. I don't want you to worry." She hugged her tight, by which time she had filled her diaper. Arella looked at Raven, saw what she was doing, and they walked back to their room. "All right, go."

"What if they eat rocks or something like that Beast Boy?" Terra asked, running up next to him and punching his shoulder playfully.

Cyborg raised his eyebrow at Terra before turning to Robin, "I'm with you there. How are we gonna communicate with them? The only one of us might have been Starfire and it sounds like she's not going." He whispered to him.

Blackfire smiled and hugged Starfire tighter, giggling a little as she saw Starfire's rump had a few more lumps and was ballooned out a bit more than usual. "You're such a good girl Star," She laughed before lowering her voice, "filling your diaper for sissy like that." She teased and nuzzled Starfire's nose.

Raven sighed as her mother took her back to their room, she had filled the seat of her diaper a little as soon as she stood up and then finished whenever they got back. "Go?... go where?" She giggled playfully at her. "Ohh.... do you mean 'go' in my diaper? I guess I can 'go' again..." She giggled more and started to grunt loudly just for her mother's benefit.

Starfire giggled and lay down for Blackfire to change her. She looked at her face as her messy diaper was opened. Arella smiled and laid Raven down after she finished. "Who's a stinky girl?" she asked after opening the diaper.

Blackfire wasn't terribly phased by Star's diapers by this point, and started wiping her up before noticing Starfire was looking up at her. Her eyes looked sideways for a second before she reeled back away from Star for a second, "Oh my stars! Baby Starry's diaper is soo stinky and messy! I don't know if I can change it!" She covered her nose and pretended to despair dramatically for Starfire, winking at her to let her know she was kidding.

"Mooomm!" Raven pouted as she was laid down, "I wanna stay in it and play with Starfire!" She pouted, "I only told you a bazillion times now I like them..." She huffed.