Author's Note
Spoilers for season 2 and plan to move onto season 3, just need to watch season 2 for now though, but suggest you get caught up :)
Summary: Adventures of the crew on the Raza a little after the start of the second season. Chose that spot because gives me enough cannon content to take off on my own, and I like how the characters are developed up to that point. Kind of focuses around Five, because that is whom I connected the most with, being a computer science major and interested in technology all my life myself, so I feel like I can do the best from her perspective. Also, point out if I ever go too technical, like I said, I'm a computer science major. Otherwise, I am mainly writing this in response to SyFy cancelling the show, I thought that was a horrible decision for this was the only legitimate TV show I watched, now I'm on here to fulfil my imagination of the potential of this show because SyFy does not care. (Mini-rant I know, but this was an amazing show)
Sorry to my followers that were hoping for me to update my other stories, I have had a busy last few months, organizing events while also make sure deadlines in other things are met, while also making sure those things don't lack in quality because of the events I'm organizing, while also making sure the events I'm organizing aren't crap. So yeah, endless circle there, but I'm hoping this story will help me get back in the swing of things, I'll do what I've done before, update each story in a chain, one after another. I watched this show to wind down, then heard of its cancellation, and my mind just couldn't leave the possibilities that could have been but never will, well at least never on screen. Thank you all so much for your patience, and as I said, I'll be updating my other stories soon.
The one shot series "Ship in a Bottle" by FiresofAnarchy helped inspire the tone and direction I am taking in this story. As I said, this show has a lot of potential, so ideas were just bouncing around in my head on what to do, and the one-shots helped me cement some of them into this.
I'm also trying to take advice people have suggested to me of my writing style in my other stories here (like longer chapters). I still don't have experience explaining OC characters, but hopefully, you guys will help me out when I do attempt to do so.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Matter (But I would love to fund the last 2 seasons, that's all SyFy had to do)
Chapter 1
One – he was the moral compass of the family, always trying to be the angel on the shoulder, telling us that there is always a better way of doing things.
Two – she is the one that always keeps a cool head, keeping goals logical while also making sure everyone she cares about ends up happy.
Three – he always is the one telling everyone to have fun, giving into temptations, which is everything opposite of one, the devil on the shoulder, but he is not so bad.
Four – running on cold logic and honour, always getting the job done no matter how it is done, never going back on his word
Five – always looking for a place to fit in, trying to make herself useful to anyone who needs her, she always tries to keep the family she just found together
Six – always jumping to assumptions, trying to find the right thing to do but brash in trying to get there when he thinks he has it
Android – always trying her best to make sure the crew is happy, safe, and loved, even though her logical circuits get confused when that emotion passes through her
They are the Raza, and they may have their flaws and differences, but they are family, which is if you ask a certain green-haired girl, at times others would disagree.
They only remember being with each other for a few months but they have been through a lot trying to find their place in the galaxy. They have also been through a betrayal of one of their own and had to deal with the death of One. Even with the whole galaxy out to get them, they make each other strong, complementing each other's skills.
Five was sitting at her desk in her room after she realized she could program before they thrown in prison, she has been interested in starting some projects but never got the chance to. She was looking through the source code of the system on the ship and seeing if she can remember anything or get inspiration from it for her project.
After scrolling for what seemed like ages she found what she was looking for, looks like the code used for the devices she used to look in the crew's memories. She quickly memorized where it was at in the source just in case she needed to look at it again. After reading the lines of code for the devices, she quickly opened up a separate document to create roughly what she wanted using the code in the systems and coming up with lines she had no idea she knew until she was done typing it.
After creating her first document of her project, she needed to create a safe place to put the final project, and make sure nothing else got to it, so back to scanning the system code it was.
After finding everything pertaining to the firewalls of the systems, and doing so quick patches in some holes in the firewalls, she then started another document to see how well she could put that knowledge to use.
It really should not have been surprising to her that this part of programming came easier to her, guess hacking into things really made it possible to make sure your code will not get broken into. After reviewing the code for any bugs, and making the system do a quick scan to make sure it was compatible, she took over part of the system's database (nothing anyone was going to use anyway, the database was huge and only the Android and herself would ever use it) she surrounded what she had with her firewall.
The first thing she did was make sure she did not change or break anything because it might not have been what she was aiming for, she has a feeling something like that happened to her before. Once she knew she didn't set anything on fire in the system, she then started to test her firewall, making sure it was standing, then that it could withstand the intrusions she could think of at it. After she tested it, assuring herself that it would take even an android a few hours to get through, she moved back to her project.
Right when she was going to make a toolkit for everything that could be manipulated her door's pad started to beep at her. So deep in the project, it jolted her a bit. She first pouted at it because she was doing something awesome, then straitened up to speak.
"Come in," She said over the beeping. The door opened to reveal Four, and as usual, he gave away no emotions on his face so she couldn't guess why he was there.
"You still wish for me to be your mentor?" He asked
"Sure?" was the very unsure reply from Five.
"Good, meet me in the training room in thirty minutes," was his only response before he promptly turned around and left.
Five just stared at the door blankly for a few seconds until she realized what she just agreed to. Before the betrayal, he was teaching her everything she needed to know to make sure she could defend herself. They only just started and never got to finish, and one thing she knows about Four is that he hates leaving something unfinished.
She groaned as she slouched in her chair, almost falling all the way to the floor, that means she's going to be sore forever because another aspect of Four was that he demanded your best when working with him, and he always somehow knew when she was slacking off. Getting back into her seat, she turned to the computer, saved her progress and notes, shut everything down and head-butted her desk.
After a minute of gathering her will, she got up to find her clothes she had for working out. Once she found them and changed, she started the pre-workout exercises Four and Six taught her so her muscles would not lock up. At least he let her have half an hour to limber up, there was one time he just sprung surprise training on her and that was a pain.
Half an hour later, a more limber and mentally ready Five jogged into the training room where was Four was doing his combat meditation, striking opponents that weren't there with his awesome sword. After he got done with some quick moves, seemingly taking the invisible opponent out, he put the sword up and faced her.
He then turned around to the supply closet and took out a punching bag, boxing practice pads, and a safety mat. Putting the mat in the middle of the floor, the boxing practice gloves next to the mat then set up the punching bag on the hook in the ceiling. Throughout the entire setup, Five was staring at Four, her eyes getting wider and wider with each passing second. "Soooooo, some of this is for you when you set me off to do my own thing right?"
He glanced at her, and just responded with "no."
"But I thought you wanted me to focus on one thing at a time," she asked nervously because as she said, even though it was one thing, he demanded the best and worked her to the ground. After making sure the bag was completely secure, he turned to her.
"If the last month taught us anything it is that we don't have the luxury of time, I wanted to take it easier on you last time, I think it might have been Six's constant concerns getting to me, but you've proven yourself just as capable as the rest of us. You can take on multiple challenges at once and still come ahead of the enemy which only had one or no challenges, I've seen you do it with your technology, trying to save our lives, or when the situation requires you to do both." Ah, he was in his lecture mood, this is not good, not good at all. Whenever Four speaks it's usually short, cold logic, but when he goes into his lecture mode, that means he is going to use that cold logic to convince you of seeing things his way, and usually, he succeeds.
"I need you to be able to defend yourself against anything because if you want to be a part of the Raza, you are going to be a target. You've already seen what and who's after us, you already know that those you know, even though they may think what they are doing is right, can end up with you hurt, and we both know that the rest of us won't always be there to protect you if situations become dire. You must be able to survive by yourself just in case anything happens, and I know you can, you have always been a survivor."
Five stood there for a second, for the second time that day with a blank look digesting the entire lecture she was just given. Sometimes she hates it when she is right, he used cold logic and made her see things his way. Yet again gather the will not to run and/or hide from her mentor, she squared her shoulders and nodded her head, accepting her fate.
"We are going to build up your skills so that what others think as your disadvantage will become your advantage. They will underestimate you, don't let your pride get in your way when they do, let them, so when they come close you strike fast, hard, and effectively, taking them down." He nods to the punching bag, "First we are going to work on your speed and strength, you are going to punch the bag as fast and as hard as you can while I correct your stance and form."
He then nods towards the boxing practice pads "then we are going to work on your speed and accuracy, I will be holding the pads and telling you which one to strike, and you have to do so immediately, while doing so I will be telling you what vital part of the body I am holding the pad over so you know where to strike in a fight."
After that he nods towards the safety mat "finally we are going to combine both of those skills, you are going to come at me and try your best to strike me, I will only be defending but that does not mean you will not feel pain, for mistakes have consequences and there are things as defensive strikes." After watching Five pale a little bit, he nods towards the bag. "Let's get started."
After what felt like an eternity, at least to Five, and through a haze of constant exhaustion and the soreness of her muscles she was really considering just falling asleep right then and then, the mat wasn't that hard of a surface, and she's slept on worst. She must have been staring at it too long because the same voice that has been correcting her all afternoon barked at her again, she looked up at Four and saw his expectant look. She then recognized that he said "again," oh, he wants her to try to attack him again. She takes a few breaths to centre herself and gain what strength she had and attacked using the stances she was taught. After a few strikes she messed up again and he threw her down on the mat again. Not feeling like getting up, she just starts groaning on the mat a bit.
"You did well little warrior, keep this up and you will be able to keep up with me sometime." He said as he crouched down next to her, holding a slight smile (the closest thing Four comes to smiling without being drunk). After helping her up and steading her, he steps off the mat then faces her.
"This will be our Mondays, Tuesdays it's going to be exercising, light sparing, with the main focus being melee weapons, knives to be specific. Wednesdays again exercising with light sparing, but I was able to get Three to agree to teach you all he knows about guns, he was adamant about getting you Wednesdays, something about his attitude would help you get over the hump of the week. Thursdays, starting the same then you will learn infiltration and manipulation, Nyx has volunteered for this when she overheard one of my conversations – this lesson will have a double lesson, one is to learn what is assigned, the other will be to learn Nyx, can we trust her or does she have an ulterior motive for staying with us. Fridays, yet again start the same, then you will be training with Two, learning her style of fighting and incorporating it with your own, while also giving you tips on flexibility while fighting. The weekends you will have free, but I still expect to see you in here at least an hour a day, you cannot let your muscles tense up after so much work throughout the week. That would be counterproductive." Five gulped after hearing the schedule, if she knew what was in store for her training, she would have never signed up, she would have never even thought about it. After realizing Four was waiting for a confirmation to the schedule, she nodded her head, still too exhausted to speak.
"Good, now you can return to your quarters," He said a bit too happy, is he enjoying her torture? After realizing who made up her schedule and who put her in this state in the first place she would bet everything she had and her life that he was enjoying this. Considering that she was the only one that actively hid things well enough that the Galactic Authority could not find it, she was the wealthiest on the ship, thus had a lot to bet.
Author's Note
Thank you for choosing my story to read. Hoped you liked it! Please REVIEW! I live off of your guys' reviews, tell me I did well to increase my head, or tell me I did bad so that I get better (just tell me where I did badly at though, just don't say "YOU SUCK" say something more like "YOU SUCK AT EXPLAINING (INSERT THING HERE)!" at least that one will be more helpful).
I love this idea that I'm heading down and like I said, I connected mostly with Five, so she will have the predominant role in this story.
Again to my followers hoping for an update on my other stories, I had to get this one out of my head first, now I'll be doing my finishing touches on Esgalwathon, then move back to Flash of Rose, then back to this. It will be a rotation because I know I got people hoping I update their favorite story soon, and it might not be the one that I just so happen to choose as my favorite at the time.