Dwayne & Ellen & Newt

Dwayne & Ellen & Newt is the friendship between Dwayne Hicks, Ellen Ripley and Rebecca "Newt" Jorden from the Alien fandom.

Aliens
Jorden was born on the colony of Hadley's Hope. When Xenomorph's attacked the colony, they killed off her entire family, as well as the rest of the colonists, leaving her as the sole survivor. She spent her days hiding in the ventilation system. Eventually, a team of colonial marines, which included Dwayne Hicks and Ellen Ripley, came to Hadley's Hope to investigate. When the team arrived, they detected her using motion trackers, and she was almost shot by Private Mark Drake on accident. Ripley then climbed into the ventilation system to calm her down.

Newt was then examined by the team's Hospital Corpsman who found her to be malnourished. She then told Ripley her name. Newt continued to stay with Ripley as the latter travelled to the Atmosphere Precssing Plant in hopes of finding more surviving colonists. However, they were ambushed by Xenomorphs, and their dropship crashed, stranding them on the planet. Newt then gave advice on avoiding the Xenomorphs.

Hicks and Ripley took over leadership after Lieutenant Gorman had fallen unconscious. When the survivors began to fortify the area they were hiding in, she chose to help out. Carter Burke, Ripley's fellow representative, planned to obtain Xenomorph specimens for Weyland-Yutani by impregnating both Newt and Ripley. He then trapped them in the med lab with two facehuggers. However, they were saved by Private Jenette Vasquez. After learning of his betrayal, Hicks made the decision to execute him. However, before he could execute him, Ripley stated that she believed that he should be sent back to Earth, where he would face justice for his crimes. Soon after this, the Xenomorphs cut power to the building they are hiding in and began a large assault on the survivors, killing all of the marines except for Hicks, as well as Burke. Newt led both Ripley and Hicks into the ventilation shafts, but was knocked into the sewers through a shaft by an explosion. Ripley and Hicks then used a locator bracelet which she had been given to locate her. However, before they could reach Newt, a Xenomorph captured her and took her away. Hicks and Ripley were then forced to flee by another wave of Xenomorphs. Hicks was later placed into hypersleep.

By the time Newt had woken up, she had been cocooned in the Xenomorph hive. When a facehugger emerged from the egg in front of her, she began screaming. Fortunately for her, Ripley was close by, and shot the facehugger to death just as it pounced at her. Ripley then freed Newt from her cocooned and they found themselves in the Queen's chamber. After Ripley threatened to incinerate all of the Queen's eggs, the Queen called off all of the Drones. However, Ripley incinerated the eggs after an egg began to hatch. They then escaped to the second dropship, operated by Bishop, the android of the USS Sulaco. However, the Queen had stowed away on the dropship's landing gear, and cornered Newt. However, Ripley appeared, fought the Queen and ejected it out into space. Newt, Ripley and Hicks then went into hypersleep.

Alien 3
The ship later crash landed on planet Fiona 161. During the crash, Hicks was impaled by a loose beam in the EEV, while Newt was killed by flooding in her cryo-chamber, which drowned her. They were both cremated on Fiona 161. Ellen was later brought to the Fiorina 161 Class C Work Correctional Unit, where she learned of the deaths of Newt and Hicks.

Fanon
The ship is Newt's second most written ship, behind Ellen & Newt. This is largely due to how Dwayne, Ellen and Newt are the only human survivors of Aliens. Most written works choose to portray Dwayne and Ellen as a found family for Newt. Those works also incorporate Dwayne x Ellen. The ship has 9 written works under the "Dwayne Hicks & Rebecca "Newt" Jorden & Ellen Ripley" tag.

Fandom

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