Disclaimer: Not mine. Never have been, never will be (until I dominate the
world of course). You know the regular drill.
Timeline: Season One. Trance is still the purple pixie Trance.
Rating: R (for language and violence)
Warnings: There will be some gore in the near future. You're safe for a chapter or two. You have been warned. There will also be lots of angst.
Summary: An attack on the Andromeda leaves Harper in a very compromising position.
Author's Note: Just a bunch of thoughts that were running through my head so I decided to get them on paper. Well, I hope you enjoy and please review. This chapter kind of sucks, but I just needed to get it out before I forgot the idea. It will get better. Also, I don't have someone to read this before I submit it, so work with me and my horrid spelling/grammar. Now, I'll shut up and start with the story.
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Those Nightmares...
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Chapter One: The Attack
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The crew of the Andromeda stood on command deck and watched as the view screen flickered to life. The face of their missing crewman, Rev Bem, came into view and they listened as he relayed his message to them. The message had been sent from Wecard Drift explaining why he had to leave so abruptly.
"To my crew and friends. I am sorry for my abrupt leave, but I got a message from an old friend asking for some help. He is having some spiritual problems and requested for my help. I could not say no. I will return in a couple of weeks. Until then, farewell." The transmission ended.
"Well, he could of at least said bye in person. How bad can a spiritual problem be?" Harper's usual sarcasm came through.
"Harper." Beka warned. "Don't start. You know Rev is just trying to help those in need."
"Yeah, yeah. I know, Boss. Sorry." Harper replied as he made his way to leave.
"Harper, have you finished those sensor repairs?" Dylan asked before Harper had the chance to leave.
"Not yet. I'm working on it though." Harper replied and left command before anyone had the chance to say anything.
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As Harper sat inside a conduit working with wire and that wire, the Andromeda Ascendant suddenly jerked sending Harper to the ground.
"Ow. Andromeda, what the hell was that for?" Harper groaned as he pushed himself off the floor, only to be sent flying down again as the ship jerked again.
"That was not me." Andromeda replied as her hologram flickered to life in front of Harper. "We're under attack, and I can't tell by who without those sensors."
"I'm working on it!" Harper snapped. He didn't like to be pushed like this.
Andromeda sensing this replied as calmly, but with authority, "Okay. Just get them back on as fast as possible." With that, she flickered out of view.
Harper continued to work as quickly as his hands would allow him to. The rocking and jerking of the ship sent him to the ground a couple of times, which only made his work progress slower. He grabbed a blue wire and tried to piece it in with a yellow one, and that's when it happened.
Andromeda took a hard it, causing a few circuits to fry. Unfortunately for Harper, he was holding one of them.
"AHHHHH!" Harper screamed out in a pain as a few hundred volts of electricity were sent ripping through his body.
When the circuit was fully fried to the max, Harper was sent backwards, head first into the wall.
The last thing Harper saw was sparks flying from the place he had been working before everything went black.
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"Andromeda, report." Dylan ordered his ship.
"The ship is slipstreaming out." Andromeda flickered into view on command.
"Any idea has to who our lovely new friends were?" Tyr asked with his usual blank expression.
"No. My sensors still aren't at full capacity and I couldn't get a good reading. That and I've lost 5% more of my sensors. They are at 43% working capacity right now."
"Harper should have had them back online by now." Beka stated worriedly.
Andromeda was silent for a moment, scanning the conduit Harper was in.
"Dylan, the conduit Harper is in," Rommie said in a panicked, yet calmed voice, "The circuits were overheated. I'm not sensing any life from Harper."
Everyone was out of command in a second and racing through the halls.
"Trance! Get to medical and prepare. We'll be there in a few."
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With Andromeda's directions, Dylan, Beka and Tyr made it to Deck 72 and Dylan crawled into the conduit.
He saw smoke coming from the over-fried circuits coming closer and closer, and then he slipped inside the conduits junction point, and his breath caught in his throat.
There, on the other side of the junction, was Harper's lifeless body. Blood dripped out of his nose, mouth and ears. His head to was bleeding. Dylan realized Harper had been thrown backwards. His engineer's hair was standing at ends, and when Dylan approached the man, his eyes were wide and unseeing, staring up at the ceiling.
"Andromeda, tell Beka and Tyr I'm on my way and to take Harper to medical as quick as possible." Dylan said as he lifted the boy easily and began crawling through the conduit to where Beka and Tyr were waiting.
"Dylan. Get out quick. The circuit board is going to explode." Andromeda's voice filled Dylan's already panicked mind.
Dylan didn't even bother to turn around; he just pushed forward as he felt the ground beneath him shake and a loud sound filling his ears.
He was pushed forward as the explosion behind him knocked his arms from underneath him. Unfortunately, he fell right on top of his fallen engineer and lay dazed for a moment.
"Dylan? Dylan, are you all right?" Beka's voice was calling from the entrance, which was around the next turn.
"Dylan?" Andromeda's voice came through Dylan's ringing ears.
"I'm okay. I'm going." Dylan forced himself forward again, ignoring the pain.
He wanted to succumb to the darkness that was threatening to take him, but one look at Harper forced the Captain onward. Once he reached the exit, Harper's body was pushed into Beka's waiting arms. From inside the conduit, Dylan could hear vaguely as Beka gasped at Harper's lifeless eyes.
Forcing himself out, Dylan saw Beka running towards medical as he finally let the darkness envelope him, stopping that damned ringing in his ears.
Tyr caught him before he hit the ground and followed Beka's gradually retreating back towards medical.
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Timeline: Season One. Trance is still the purple pixie Trance.
Rating: R (for language and violence)
Warnings: There will be some gore in the near future. You're safe for a chapter or two. You have been warned. There will also be lots of angst.
Summary: An attack on the Andromeda leaves Harper in a very compromising position.
Author's Note: Just a bunch of thoughts that were running through my head so I decided to get them on paper. Well, I hope you enjoy and please review. This chapter kind of sucks, but I just needed to get it out before I forgot the idea. It will get better. Also, I don't have someone to read this before I submit it, so work with me and my horrid spelling/grammar. Now, I'll shut up and start with the story.
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Those Nightmares...
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Chapter One: The Attack
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The crew of the Andromeda stood on command deck and watched as the view screen flickered to life. The face of their missing crewman, Rev Bem, came into view and they listened as he relayed his message to them. The message had been sent from Wecard Drift explaining why he had to leave so abruptly.
"To my crew and friends. I am sorry for my abrupt leave, but I got a message from an old friend asking for some help. He is having some spiritual problems and requested for my help. I could not say no. I will return in a couple of weeks. Until then, farewell." The transmission ended.
"Well, he could of at least said bye in person. How bad can a spiritual problem be?" Harper's usual sarcasm came through.
"Harper." Beka warned. "Don't start. You know Rev is just trying to help those in need."
"Yeah, yeah. I know, Boss. Sorry." Harper replied as he made his way to leave.
"Harper, have you finished those sensor repairs?" Dylan asked before Harper had the chance to leave.
"Not yet. I'm working on it though." Harper replied and left command before anyone had the chance to say anything.
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As Harper sat inside a conduit working with wire and that wire, the Andromeda Ascendant suddenly jerked sending Harper to the ground.
"Ow. Andromeda, what the hell was that for?" Harper groaned as he pushed himself off the floor, only to be sent flying down again as the ship jerked again.
"That was not me." Andromeda replied as her hologram flickered to life in front of Harper. "We're under attack, and I can't tell by who without those sensors."
"I'm working on it!" Harper snapped. He didn't like to be pushed like this.
Andromeda sensing this replied as calmly, but with authority, "Okay. Just get them back on as fast as possible." With that, she flickered out of view.
Harper continued to work as quickly as his hands would allow him to. The rocking and jerking of the ship sent him to the ground a couple of times, which only made his work progress slower. He grabbed a blue wire and tried to piece it in with a yellow one, and that's when it happened.
Andromeda took a hard it, causing a few circuits to fry. Unfortunately for Harper, he was holding one of them.
"AHHHHH!" Harper screamed out in a pain as a few hundred volts of electricity were sent ripping through his body.
When the circuit was fully fried to the max, Harper was sent backwards, head first into the wall.
The last thing Harper saw was sparks flying from the place he had been working before everything went black.
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"Andromeda, report." Dylan ordered his ship.
"The ship is slipstreaming out." Andromeda flickered into view on command.
"Any idea has to who our lovely new friends were?" Tyr asked with his usual blank expression.
"No. My sensors still aren't at full capacity and I couldn't get a good reading. That and I've lost 5% more of my sensors. They are at 43% working capacity right now."
"Harper should have had them back online by now." Beka stated worriedly.
Andromeda was silent for a moment, scanning the conduit Harper was in.
"Dylan, the conduit Harper is in," Rommie said in a panicked, yet calmed voice, "The circuits were overheated. I'm not sensing any life from Harper."
Everyone was out of command in a second and racing through the halls.
"Trance! Get to medical and prepare. We'll be there in a few."
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With Andromeda's directions, Dylan, Beka and Tyr made it to Deck 72 and Dylan crawled into the conduit.
He saw smoke coming from the over-fried circuits coming closer and closer, and then he slipped inside the conduits junction point, and his breath caught in his throat.
There, on the other side of the junction, was Harper's lifeless body. Blood dripped out of his nose, mouth and ears. His head to was bleeding. Dylan realized Harper had been thrown backwards. His engineer's hair was standing at ends, and when Dylan approached the man, his eyes were wide and unseeing, staring up at the ceiling.
"Andromeda, tell Beka and Tyr I'm on my way and to take Harper to medical as quick as possible." Dylan said as he lifted the boy easily and began crawling through the conduit to where Beka and Tyr were waiting.
"Dylan. Get out quick. The circuit board is going to explode." Andromeda's voice filled Dylan's already panicked mind.
Dylan didn't even bother to turn around; he just pushed forward as he felt the ground beneath him shake and a loud sound filling his ears.
He was pushed forward as the explosion behind him knocked his arms from underneath him. Unfortunately, he fell right on top of his fallen engineer and lay dazed for a moment.
"Dylan? Dylan, are you all right?" Beka's voice was calling from the entrance, which was around the next turn.
"Dylan?" Andromeda's voice came through Dylan's ringing ears.
"I'm okay. I'm going." Dylan forced himself forward again, ignoring the pain.
He wanted to succumb to the darkness that was threatening to take him, but one look at Harper forced the Captain onward. Once he reached the exit, Harper's body was pushed into Beka's waiting arms. From inside the conduit, Dylan could hear vaguely as Beka gasped at Harper's lifeless eyes.
Forcing himself out, Dylan saw Beka running towards medical as he finally let the darkness envelope him, stopping that damned ringing in his ears.
Tyr caught him before he hit the ground and followed Beka's gradually retreating back towards medical.
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