Arella leaned down and looked straight at Raven. "Listen, Raven. I'm not giving Newt more love than to you. I don't know her that well. But I can't help but feel sorry for the poor girl. She looked so vulnerable, and I just had to show my concern. But you're my daughter, and I'll always give you my attention."

Raven grumbled to herself as she sighed and remained silent to try and relieve her jealousy. Terra noticed their little scene and smirked over at Raven before turning back to the rest of the group before she was spotted. Blackfire remained near the edge of the group, uncaring about how Newt faired now that they were all aboard the ship safely.

After a bit, the rest of the group approached Ripley. "All right, I think we better talk about the heart of this issue," Robin said. "You found something on the Sulaco's computers, something that frightened you. What was it?" Hicks meanwhile was holding a special bag nearby, a bag containing remaining personal effects of his dead fellow Marines, which he took from their lockers on the Sulaco.

"Well remember how I said I first encountered those creatures, a single one, on a ship that had passed by here several years ago?" Ripley asked, moving the group back outside so Newt could sleep. "There were several images of humans there before our group had gone there, there was an earlier encounter than mine!" She said, leaning against the wall. "I didn't have time to check the specifics, but the now Weyland-Yutani Corporation had knowledge of these creatures. The original signal I was sent to check out might have actually come from them. I don't quite know what the rest of the charts we found are though, maybe there was more they found on the planet originally. Maybe an original hive world the creatures came from." Ripley suggested, pausing for questions.

Robin looked at Ripley. "Are you suggesting that LV-426 has to be reinvestigated?" Beast Boy looked at Cyborg. "Do you think the company has more of the information in a central computer thingy somewhere, maybe on Earth?" Hicks looked at the personal effects. "The families need to know what happened. I can tell that Weyland-Yutani will come up with some excuse about their deaths to deny compensation." Starfire sighed. "Looks like we need to do the splitting up."

"I don't know how much would be left after the reactors went critical and destroyed the facility there, but it will probably have a few creatures there as well." Ripley replied.

"Doubt it, information this sensitive would be stored on a separate server. I don't know if I even have the tech to get us in there, I'm actually pretty dated compared to the rest of this stuff." Cyborg shrugged.

"Where are the families at?" Terra asked, "Maybe I could come and help?"

Blackfire wrapped her arms around Starfire, "What do you want to do? Are you gonna have to be a big girl or am I going with you?" she whispered so only Star would hear.

"I want so stay with you, sissy," Starfire smiled wide. Hicks smiled. "Sure thing. Come to Earth with me, and it'll be fine." Robin looked over. "Let's find a way to get a scan of the planet so we can see the surface."

"Okay Star Star," she cooed quietly at Starfire, remaining behind her with her arms hugging her close.

"Okay!" Terra smiled back at him, maybe she could help out back on Earth where there'd be getting for her.

"I'm not sure if they'll let us, I don't know what their response well be after that. They might want to try and regroup before the company attacks again." Ripley reminded them. "We might need to get some food and rest ourselves before we get called ourselves. They'll probably want to debrief us, especially all you...though that might not be necessary. Did anyone else who is alive know about your... skills?" She asked.

Raven moved closer to her mother and grabbed onto her shirt, "I want to stick with you...please?" She added quietly.

Arella smiled and hugged Raven tight. "Of course. No matter what happens, you'll always be beside me." She kissed her nose. "All right," Robin said. "That's probably the best thing to do." "Do they have vegetarian meals available on this ship?" Beast Boy said.

Raven blushed and wiped the kiss off, "Mommy!" She whined quietly, "not in front of everyone..."

"Mess is this way," Ripley pointed further down the hall. "As for food options, I would guess not, but we'll see."

"Eat your fill while you can Starry," Blackfire encouraged her sister, before whispering, "I'll deal with the aftermath for you." She wanted Starfire to enjoy herself while she could.

Starfire giggled loudly as they headed to the mess hall. Arella smiled and put her arm around Raven as they went there. Newt kept sleeping, and finally seemed at peace with Ripley by her side. It obviously brought back so many memories of her own daughter, Amanda, whom she'd last seen at 10 years old, and had died several years before Ripley was discovered at Gateway Station.

(Um did Ripley stay with Newt then?)

Raven blushed and kept trying to move get mother's am off her, "Mommy!" She finally whispered at her, loud enough that only Blackfire and Starfire heard. "They'll see!"

Blackfire heard this and blushed a little herself, "Do I do that to you Star?" She asked, stopping her hug.

(Oh, I thought that's what you meant. If not, I apologize)

Arella smiled. "OK, Raven. I don't wanna embarrass you in front of your friends." Starfire giggled a little. "Maybe a bit, but I like it. I do not feel ashamed of it."

"I like it, just whenever we're alone..." Raven tried explaining, "but... maybe you could keep it there for a few more seconds?" She blushed, "I don't know when we're going to be safe like this again..."

Blackfire blushed and looked away from Star fit a few seconds before looking back, "Are you positive sister, dear?" She asked, observing Raven's embarrassed movements. "I don't want to make you uncomfortable around your friends."

Arella nodded and smiled at Raven. Star giggled. "Of course I'm sure, Sister! I feel the most comfortable with you like this. I love you so much." Robin looked at Ripley. "We need some kind of strategy for how we're going to deal with Weyland-Yutani, and to figure out everything they're hiding, like about that earlier crew."

Blackfire blushed and blinked in surprise for a few seconds before grasping Starfire in a deep hug, "I love you too sister." She smiled down and kissed her, a small tear forming. She was still getting used to the idea of her sister actually loving her, and she had said it to her. And Blackfire believed she meant it.

"That will be difficult, they have their own substantial forces add you've seen. Not to mention we don't know where to start looking other than one of their bases." Ripley sighed, "Only a fool would go right at their headquarters right now though, they're essentially in a state of war against the marines here. Also not good, because they know a lot about the tech they use given their contracts." Ripley rubbed her head in thought, "Maybe we can use this data on a machine of theirs on another world besides Earth? Or we'd have to somehow sneak in... assuming we could even get there in the current state of things. We'd be attacked almost immediately, I don't know anything about their fleet or troop locations." Ripley said as a few of them went through the line to get their food.

Hicks thought for a moment. "Well, since I'll have to use an assumed name to get to Earth and contact the families of the other Marines from the Sulaco about what happened, Terra and I can keep our ear to the ground and gauge out the situation there. Especially for Hudson's family: his older brother works in the engineering department there."

(BTW, if this were a movie or game of some kind, this older brother I think would be played by Matthew McConaughey, since he and Bill Paxton starred together in U-571 and are fellow Texans.)

"That would probably work. We will still need to figure out if the captain of this ship or any other command staff want to debrief us." Ripley said as she got food herself. "How do we start in contact?" She asked.

(Gotcha)

"Right. I imagine that since Captain Cruz managed to get here, he also wishes to have some questions of his own answered, especially why the Sephora was attacked." Beast Boy sighed. "Geez, this may be vegetarian, but it tastes awful! Is this that freeze-dried crud?"

(Just a note, tomorrow my family and I go to watch Maleficent at the theater. The movie's at 12:20 PM Eastern Time)

"We'll go back to our quarters after this, they should contact us while we're there." Ripley said as they sat down and started eating.

"Well what did you expect?" Cyborg smiled as he bravely plowed through his food, "They probably don't have vegetarians in the future, or maybe they lost all their taste buds after eating so much tofu!" He laughed and slapped Beast Boy's back.

Raven slowly was eating her food, glancing up at her mother and smirking slightly at Cyborg and Beast Boy's little discussion. 'Just like it used to be...' She thought to herself before shifting in her seat and then back at her mother.

Terra was used to eating food that might not have tasted the best, as she tried to talk to Hicks about some of what the planets he's been on were like. She was craving solid rock.

"Eat up Starry!" Blackfire cooed, as she ate a forkful of food before trying to give Starfire a small bite as well. Starfire could eat herself, but Blackfire thought she might like her trying to feed her a little.

Arella smiled at Raven. "You truly have the most amazing group of friends. I can understand why things are never boring with you." Star giggled and opened her mouth for Blackfire to feed her. Robin nodded and then tried to think a little bit about how all this was going to end up. And when it was over, somehow, would there be a way back home?

"Well most of them okay... Beast Boy on the other hand," She said loud enough for him to hear. She stifled a giggle before going back to eating.

"That's a good girl Star Star!" Blackfire cooed softly as she moved the fork into Starfire's mouth, "More?" she asked after Starfire swallowed the bite.

(About to leave early for the movie (lines, popcorn, you know.) See you later)

"Hey!" Beast Boy said looking at Raven. "What do you mean by that, Raven?" Starfire smiled and did it again, swallowing the food eagerly.

(later)

"What? I didn't say anything..." She smiled mischievously, "I was just eating my food and humming to myself."

"Should I just feed you the rest of your meal?" Blackfire smiled at Star's eagerness.

(OK, NOW I'm leaving)

Star smiled and giggled. "Yes, please, Sister!" Arella smiled at how much fun Raven was having with playing with Beast Boy's ego at this moment.

Blackfire grinned at her little sister and turned her to face her again, before having a large spoonful of goop go into Star's mouth. She ate her own meal periodically, but concentrated more on feeding Starfire what was left on her plate, as the red-haired tamaranian playfully kept asking for more.

Raven soon looked at her mother and blushed as she saw the smile. Raven rubbed her leg against Arella's softly, before concentrating on her meal again. Leaving Beast Boy to fume or calm down again.

Star smiled when she ate up and patted her tummy when it was gone. "Thanks a lot." Arella kissed Raven. "I love you so mucn, Raven."

"You're welcome sister dear," Blackfire smiled and hugged her sister. "Are you all full now?" She asked, patting Star's back.

Raven blushed but let her mother kiss her, "Mom!" She said teasingly this time, before leaning towards her, "I love you too." She whispered.

Terra snickered at Raven, before she felt a few pangs of jealousy for their relationship. She never had that either, she sighed and continued eating before wondering about the trip to Earth again.

Star nodded and then burped fairly loudly in response, blushing afterwards. Arella nodded and smiled wide. Robin looked at Ripley. "Are you gonna be by Newt's side all night?"

"My my, I'd say my Starry is really full!" She laughed, mixing Starfire's nose with her own.

"Yeah, I'll be in there after we finish here." Ripley said, taking a drink. "She's... become attached to me after we saved her on the colony." Ripley explained, "That's why she's so nervous around everyone."

Starfire giggled and rubbed noses back with Blackfire, enjoying herself. "Well, I hope that she's better soon," Robin replied. "She does seem like someone who badly needs stability in her life."

"Do you like that my little Starbright?" Blackfire whispered, just leaning her head against Starfire's now.

"She's been through more than anyone should ever have to, she somehow survived by herself with a colony of those things loose." Ripley sighed, before thinking to herself about what Robin said. 'Maybe she'd like that...' Ripley thought to herself.

Star nodded and giggled happily. "Well, let's try and get some rest," Robin said. "We've got a big task all ahead of us. And we have to marshal our forces together to prepare to fight the company."

"Don't be so gung ho to fight," Ripley warned, "but I agree that we should ask go back to our rooms." She said, getting up to put her plate away.

Terra and Cyborg nodded, following Ripley's lead. Blackfire took Starfire's plate for her before coming back to take her to their room. Raven blushed as she felt a few things rumble inside her, deciding to wait and follow along with her mother before doing anything of that nature.

Starfire smiled and followed her sister to their room. "I think I'm gonna need a change soon." Arella sat with Raven on the bed. "How are you doing?" Newt was still sleeping peacefully, but had very clearly gone in the diaper put on her.

Blackfire nodded, "I bet, I'd been a while since you had a changie hasn't it?" She teased, patting Starfire's bum lightly, "Just let me know when you're ready sister dear," she smiled, "did you feel something a little... heavier in there?" She asked, putting one arm around Star.

Raven blushed, "I'm going to be feeling better in a few minutes." She said as she lifted herself off the bed and began to fill the seat of her diaper with warm goop. She paused for a second and took a breath, "Sorry," she gasped before turning away to continue.

Ripley smiled at Newt, happy the girl appeared to be recovering well. She noticed that Newt could use a change, and debated with herself if she wanted to do it or try and find an orderly. She shrugged, after all she had been through, a diaper change should be easy, though maybe a little gross and embarrassing for Newt if she woke up. Ripley looked around for what she'd need to change Newt before setting it near her and moving Newt's gown out of the way and staying to untape the front of the diaper.

"A bit," Star giggled. Soon she was finished. "OK, I'm ready." "Don't apologize," Arella said. "It's only natural, honey." She hugged Raven tight and smiled. "Will you lay down for Mommy, please?" Newt shifted slightly as she slept, but suddenly began sucking her thumb in the middle of her change.

Blackfire just giggled at Star, the idea of her sister going in the diaper no longer bothering her. Cleaning her up might be rather troublesome now, but she'd learned to just focus on how her sister appeared to be rather happy with the diapers at this point. Smiling at Star, "Well let's see what you've got for me today, sister dear." She teased, helping her down onto the bed before untaping the front of the diaper. "Whew!" She exclaimed, liking away from the scene inside the diaper. She pinched her nose and started wiping, putting up at Star and winking.

Raven soon finished up and shifted around, giggling and backing over to the wall, "No wanna!" She giggled twisting her upper body playfully.

Ripley stopped the change for a second as she noticed Newt's thumb in her mouth. She smiled, remembering her own daughter and changing her. She let out a small sigh, and resumed the change, part of her considering Newt to be her second chance at a daughter. Even the diapering is worth it, she actually thought Newt was rather cute like this, though a little stinky as she finished up the change.

Starfire giggled as she was wiped and looked at Blackfire's face. "I hope I didn't cause too much distress, Sister," she said with a smile. Arella saw Raven contorting like so, and then proceeded to lift her robe and dress up a little, tickle her, and blow raspberries into her bellybutton. Newt smiled when Ripley finished the change, and said in her sleep, "Thank you, Mommy."

"You're lucky you're such a cutie of a sister, and that I'm so loving." Blackfire grinned as she had to use both hands to clean Starfire. "You don't worry if your changes may be a little icky, your sister will be there to clean then up no matter how bad." Blackfire promised as she slid the old diaper away and the new one under Star. She ticked Star a little as she powdered her up and rubbed some lotion in, "Oh course, knowing you, you'll just make them bad so you can see me squirm around a little too!" She said as she used both hands to tickle Starfire.

Raven laughed loudly in response and weakly tried to push her away, "St-stop it!" She tried to call out in between laughs. "I wanna be stinky longer! No clean!" She laughed as she tried to get away again.

Ripley smiled and leaned forward, giving Newt a small peck on her cheek before pulling some covers over her and backing up the used diaper to throw away. She debated going back to her own room but decided to just stay in there with her and use an adjacent bed to sleep in with her.