Harper was fleeing on foot behind Tyr.

The Nietzschean was running ahead of him.

The firing shots of the Drago pride struck the bark of the tree across from him.

"Shit, shit, shit!" Harper swore, getting back onto his feet then fled behind Tyr.

"Run faster, boy!" Tyr shot back.

"I am running as fast as I can!" Harper replied, with a huff. Harper tripped over a fallen piece of log landing onto his knees. "Uh, help!"

Tyr came to Harper's side then placed a hand onto the young man's waist and lifted him up to his side against the chainmail.

"Not fast enough," Tyr said.

"I can run pretty fast when there are no trees," Harper said.

"I think not," Tyr turned from the direction that he was running with a brief stop and fired dead on the firing Drago pride member. The not-well-camouflaged man collapsed to the ground floor without much of a scream. "You are fully incapable of outrunning a Nietzschean."

Harper folded his arms.

"Yes I can," Harper said.

Tyr stifled a laugh.

"Nietzscheans are far more superior than you," Tyr said. "In fact I can leave you behind and still get to the Eureka Maru without getting killed."

"I can fire pretty well," Harper said, as Tyr turned back giving another shot.

"If you can, then why did you not bring your gun?" Tyr said.

"Well, someone misplaced it!" Harper said.

"I did not," Tyr said.

"I bet it was Trance," Harper said. "She doesn't like my gun in the workshop. Acts like I can fire at her when she randomly appears in the workshop when I least expect it."

Tyr looked down toward the young man.

"Would you?" Tyr asked.

"Pppphh," Harper said. "As if. I would never do that to my purple lady."

"I seem to recall you did it to me once," Tyr said.

"That was Halloween," Harper said. Tyr was vaguely familiar to it with his time spent aboard the Andromeda. "Rommie was doing her two day contribution. Got a spare gun?"

"No!" Tyr fired back.

"Ah sucks," Harper said.

Tyr fled into the Eureka Maru. Upon arriving inside. He dropped the young man to the floor speeding toward the cockpit. Harper made his way toward the old Mar officers quarters. If he didn't take it with him to the mission then he probably left it behind. Again, by accident. Two years spent being fired at and he really needed to have them on him when he left the Maru. He climbed up to the bed then took the gun from under the pillow. Harper laughed as the Eureka Maru flew into sky heading to break orbit while he had one hand on the side of the rail.

"Oh!" Harper slapped his knee. "So that's where I hid it."