Steven: "Y-Yeah, it did...As much as I don't think anyone deserves to...well, d-die, he was a really evil person...And defeating him meant a chance to save everyone under his control..."
(...Wait, others have taken charge of the Alliance in his absence, correct? Did he lose the device? Or is it gone, now...?)
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-Ripley then pulls a safety bar over Newt and her doll and tells her to hang on, before starting up the APC's engine and steering it towards the power station. Only this is what finally snaps Gorman out of it and gets is attention, as he frustratedly asks her "Ripley, what the hell are you doing?!" He tries to tell her to stop and drive back, even repeatedly yelling at her that it's an order, but Ripley, refusing to risk leaving any more of those marines behind, outright ignores him, and Burke even shoves him out of the way, telling Gorman he's head his chance-
-As Ripley drives the APC towards the power station room, the marines continue to fire their weapons off at the alien swarm, with several being shown getting torn up by gunfire or spattering their acidic blood across the area as the marines continue to fall back, with Drake and Vasquez fighting alongside each other on the frontlines while the others make some distance, Hicks and Hudson providing support fire-
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-She
did fight in a war, and one that lasted a few centuries, no less...As proud as she is about combat, she likely witnessed more than a few of her friends either get shattered or otherwise Corrupted by whatever it was that mutated the various other Gems on Earth into monsters back in that day...-
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-She got even closer to someone with that, enough to marry him, have children with him, and even drive her to search the cosmos and beyond for him...But her husband is someone she forgot and has yet to remember alongside their two children...-