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This is from a quick little ramble post I put up on Reddit just now. How does it sound?
Newt's pod is jettisoned due to a fire on the Sulaco and crashlands on one of the border worlds. Ripley, Hicks, and Bishop remain in hypersleep. Newt grows up on this backwater planet, a tough and unforgiving type of environment not unlike Fury 161. Newt's life is hell in the mines, but her prior experiences on LV-426 have given her a sharp edge. She escapes the confines of her reluctant foster parents by enlisting in the Colonial Marines, where she takes part in an expedition to recover the Sulaco. Ripley, Bishop, and Hicks are woken up. Soon after the discovery of an expired facehugger on the dropship that Bishop used to fly to the Sulaco from LV-426, Hicks' chest bursts open to reveal an infant alien. This Alien stalks the crew and picks them off, and because it came from a sharp-witted, battle-hardened marine, it is considerably more resilient and resourceful than the creatures of Hadley's Hope or the Alien on the Nostromo. The big hanging threat over the entire movie is that the Alien must be found, killed, and its body annihilated before the Marines' ship returns to Earth.