Hello, We must be Going...
As the marauder shut down on the deck of Moya, John and Aeryn advanced. John had Winona holstered…Aeryn had her heavy gun out.
"That won't be necessary."
"Then it won't hurt, John." He sighed.
"Ahoy the Marauder!" John shouted. "We know you're unarmed. Come out and we can talk." A moment later…the hatch opened, and the tousled haired youth they'd seen on the vid appeared.
"Commander Ron, I presume?" Aeryn said.
"Un…yeah! And you have one minute to surrender!"
"I see…or what?" Ron looked at a strange little creature, and looked back up at them.
"Um….or I do this!" He said, leaping out of the marauder and taking off like a bat out of hell. Aeryn lifted her gun.
"No!" John shouted, blocking it.
"John, we don't know!"
"I know, and that's why were not going to shoot!"
"Remember the plan, little buddy!" Ron said to Rufus as he headed for the exits to the docking bay.
"Oh man!" The rat moaned.
"Don't worry—we get to Pilot, with Kim and then we can free him and Crichton from whatever…mind control they're using." Ron said. It was obvious that John was under their control. There, they were almost to the door and then they were home free...
Then the door opened, and Ka D'Argo was standing their, holding a BIG sword.
"That would be so cool if it wasn't going to hurt us." Ron said, and quickly assumed his fighting pose.
"Bring it on!" D'Argo looked at the human…sebaecan… whatever..and its strange little companion.
"I don't have time for this," THWACK, the Luxan fired his tongue. Ron looked down at the place where it had struck him on the throat, looked betrayed, and then collapsed. Rufus leaped out and prepared to defend his master.
THWACK. End of Rufus's defense. D'Argo shook his head and picked the kid up, tucking his pink naked companion in his pocket. Behind D'Argo, John and Aeryn came up the passage, both of them looking cautious.
"Any problems, Big D?"
"None John, I think this must be a human—no peacekeeper would have been so incompetent."
"Thanks… I think." Abruptly, Pilot broke into the Coms.
"Commander, the Intruder is loose!"
"Don't worry, Pilot, I've got the intruder." D'Argo said.
"No, Commander—the other one!" Pilot urgently spoke. "A hatch has been forced on Tier 21, and DRD's are reporting a single organism."
"Give me a visual." He said, and saw a quick image of a figure in a Peacekeeper uniform…right before a foot lashed out and terminated the image.
Frell him dead. That was no human. Boy still slung over his shoulder, he started to run.
"Chiana!" D'Argo shouted, "I'm heading to Tier 20—you go to Tier 22 and we'll catch her in a cross fire. John, you and Aeryn head to Tier 19, incase she's going for the primary neural clusters and the starburst units!"
"Fine, Big D—try not to hurt her!"
"I'll try not to kill her, John—hurt is another matter."
Kim leaped and spun around, kicking another one of those strange little devices into the wall. Nobody was in her way, but she hadn't heard from Ron since his ship had gone into the hanger bay, and why had Mr. Scorpius not told them the ship was unarmed and-
"YIIII!" Kim ducked back just as a pair of feet almost took her head right off. A white haired gray woman landed in front of her.
"Back off, Frellnik!" Chianna said.
"John, I'm on my way to join Chianna—you stay here." Aeryn said, taking off down the corridor.
"Aeryn-" John said and sighed. "Pilot—what's happening?"
"They are engaged in combat, John—unarmed at present."
"You hear that Aeryn? No guns—repeat, NO GUNS!"
"I hear you John." Aeryn said, as she dropped her heavy weapon, and pulled out the pistol.
"No guns..." John muttered, "Not, 'no big guns', but no guns period...what is it with her that she always has to use a gun?"
Meanwhile, in the corridor, Kim was having a hard time. She was better than this "Chianna", but the way the alien moved wasn't quite human, as she went through contortions that Kim would never be able to match. She couldn't beat Kim, but Kim couldn't lay a hand on her…
"Freeze!" Kim heard as something hissed over her head and left a sputtering hole in the wall next to her. The ex-Peacekeeper, Sun, had a gun pointed at her and was walking towards her.
"Get down, on the ground, now…" Aeryn said. Chianna came up and grinned.
"So, how you like that, eh?" She grinned at Kim's reddining face.
All right, that's enough of this! Kim thought. She was tired of losing.
"Chianna, get away-" Kim took the chance while Chianna was distracting Aeryn of grabbing and flipping the alien into Aeryn, before she could use her gun. The two women squalled and the gun went sailing across the room. Kim charged past them, not stopping for the gun, as Aeryn reached for her and grabbed her by the shoulder. Kim slammed an elbow back and felt something give under it.
"OW! FRELLING, LITTLE PIECE OF-"
Meanwhile, Crichton winced at the sound.
"Aeryn, what happened?"
"What happened is I think the frelling bitch broke my nose, John!" Aeryn snarled. "She got past both Chianna and me and she's on her way to Pilot!"
"Pilot! Shut down all doors."
"I'm trying commander, but she's bypassing them!"
"How?" John asked. Pilot paused,
"You have to see it to believe, it Commander…" He didn't believe it, she was moving incredibly fast, cartwheeling between the doors as they closed. If he'd started the lock down thirty seconds earlier…but who was to know she was going to be so incredibly fast, especially after the way her companion had behaved.
"Still think she's a human?" D'Argo asked as he caught up to John, heading to Pilot's position.
"I don't know, Big D."
"Commander, she is definitely heading for my location." Pilot said.
"I know, we're on our way—anything else in the area?"
"Negative, comman- no, wait. Commander, I am picking up the Command Carrier!"
"Crap…"
"Sir, the Leviathan has detected us." Braca said. "They're too far away to interfere with if they starburst."
"Excellent, Braca."
"Sir?"
"All will be explained in good time, Braca…In good time." Scorpius looked down at the readouts, and smiled. "Indeed, things are proceeding quite according to plan."
Kim cleared the last door, and found herself in a giant chamber, with the Pilot in his command center. Looking around, she noted that there were no other people there, yet, and ran up to the Pilot.
"I'm here to save you!" Kim said.
"Finally!" Pilot answered, "From what?"
"From the pirates on this ship—I'm here to rescue you and Mr. Crichton—Scorpius sent us!" Pilot groaned, and let his head fall.
And then the hatchways opened and there were a lot of people in them…all pointing guns at Kim.
TBC.