"Leave him John" smirked Scorpius, "and come with me." Crichton wavered in his resolve, still screaming, unsure if the Scorpius coming towards was real or not. Aeryn and D'Argo appeared raining fire down the corridor shoving John towards cover. Crichton was frozen unsure what was real.
"Crichton, you want the chip gone?" came the voice from the neural clone. "You want the pain gone? You want me from your head? Go to Scorpius, he will save you" Without thinking, John found himself walking over to Scorpius, telling Aeryn that he was going to go with Scorpius. It wasn't until Aeryn lunged for him shouting at him "The frell you are John" that John realised that he had committed to a course of action. She only stopped because she noticed John still had Wynonna pressed against his skull with his finger on the trigger.
Walking backward John said with a certainty he hadn't felt in a while "Aeryn, I have to go with him. If you stop me, I will be forced to blow my brains out. I don't have a choice. I'm sorry."
"John, don't do this. Come back to Moya. Come back to me. We can fix you. Please." Aeryn said with more emotion she had ever felt in her peace keeper days.
John sighed, and turned to Scorpius whispering "You can't fix me."
"Hold your fire" Scorpius' voice broke through the turmoil. Both the peacekeeper force and Aeryn and D'Argo stopped firing; each side well aware of the consequences of what was happening.
"It seems John has made his decision, Officer Sun" Scorpius said, whilst firmly putting his hand on John's shoulder. "I think you had better call of Talyn's attack, I worry that John's finger is putting more and more pressure on the trigger of that gun as we stand here talking. And I can assure you, neither one of us wants that. If John's dies, I can promise you neither Talyn nor Moya will leave this system alive."
"Crais, pull back. Disengage." Aeryn mumbled over the make shift coms system.
"Please repeat Officer Sun" was Crais reply.
"Do it Crais."
"Confirmed. Weapons disengaged. Leaving system now, will meet at rendezvous point."
"You can all leave too; Officer Sun. You have my word that both Talyn and Moya can leave this system unharmed. Jothee is already aboard Moya."
"Frell this. I don't believe you." D'Argo snarled.
"It is true dad, I'm here with Pilot" came Jothee over the coms system.
On D'Argo's face was a battle, between leaving his friend who he had accused of wanting to abandon his son, and making sure his son got out of this alive. With a heavy heart, D'Argo turned to leave. With one last look at John, Aeryn said "I will come for you John"
As they left, escorted out by Braca and a small team, Scorpius moved in closer to John "Come now John, put the weapon down. You're with me. You're safe."
Slowly he let go of the trigger and passed the gun to Scorpius "Look after her" John said meekly. Scorpius took the weapon and a dozen officers swarmed around John, roughly tackling him to the floor and cuffing his arms behind his back. He felt a sharp prick in the side of his neck and the last thing he saw before blackness enveloped him was Scorpius smashing Wynona into pieces and chuckling "Sentiment won't do you any good John."