Throne for a loss
Today was a very eventful day we were going to carry some cargo for some money for a race called Tavleks, and Rygel was going to do the negotiating. We were making our way down to the hanger to meet them and Aeryn was insisting on bringing her gun with her we were trying to tell her that we didn't want them thinking we were hostile but she weren't having it. Anyway we got to the hanger and Rygel was on some barrels looking all high and mighty when the Tavleks turned up with weapons and started shooting Aeryn tried her best at shooting at them but their weapons were unbelievable and they were so fast. Everything was chaotic with them shooting and Aeryn shooting I managed to knock one of them out and then they started backing out of the hanger, we told pilot to close the hanger bay doors. Then I noticed that Rygel had been taken and said we needed to go after him, D'Argo was extremely angry and said it was Rygel's own fault and we should leave him and get out of there and hit one of the barrels Rygel was on and sent it flying across the room, that's when we noticed he had one of the Tavleks gauntlets on and it was injected him with something, we all told him to take it off but he wasn't having that and pushed me, Aeryn and Zhaan the same way as the barrel which was not very nice of him and as he stormed out of the room, he stated that he was in charge and we were leaving and that we weren't going to rescue Rygel either. I knew that D'Argo and be abit blunt at times but this was abit excessive even for him. Zhaan said that it had to have something to do with the gauntlet he had put on and that the Tavlek I had knocked out might have some info on it for us, so she woke him up. He found it quite amusing that D'Argo had turned on us and said that the gauntlet was injecting him with a stimulate that heightens strength and aggression and gives you an adrenalin rush, we asked how do we get it off him and then I realized it had come of him when I had knocked him out so all we had to do was knock D'Argo out (which is easier said then done). Zhaan said we could knock him out with a sleep mist which she got to work on, while we were waiting pilot came on the comms and said that D'Argo was insisting on leaving and that if he didn't do it he was going to rip his arms off, we told him to tell D'Argo that there was a malfunction and that we can't leave orbit, he said that he did say that and he didn't believe him, I asked him if there really was a problem and he told me that there was a problem with the propulsion and we weren't going anywhere. Aeryn told him to fix it and he said he couldn't because there was a piece missing we asked what it looked like and he described it to me and I informed him that Rygel was using it as a jewel in his sceptre to impress the Tavleks, Aeryn was not amused at this and said she was going to torture him and kill him. Zhaan had the sleep mist ready and it was a water balloon, totally wicked I loved them when I was a kid so naturally I took it even though Aeryn had some doubt at my ability to throw it with any accuracy (the woman has no faith in me at all its so annoying.) Me and Aeryn went looking for D'Argo when we found him I threw the water balloon and it looked like it was working for a moment then the gauntlet started to inject more stuff into him and he got very angry so we retreated, we needed to find a new way to knock him out. I got pilot to start propulsion so we could build up pressure so on my signal he could punch the engines to cause a shock wave to shake the ship, me and Aeryn lured D'Argo into a room and I gave pilot the signal and he punched it and D'Argo fell over and banged his head on the table and knocked himself out and off came the gauntlet. A brilliant plan if I say so myself which I do because as always Aeryn was unimpressed and insisted that the next plan of action was going to be her plan. Back in command we got a transmission from the leader of the Tavleks (Bekhesh) asking for a ransom that we just don't have and we told him we will gave him their boy back for Rygel but he wasn't having it he wanted his trinium and his boy back. That was Aeryn's que to go down to the planet gun hoe and get him back, I was trying to tell her it was a stupid idea and she hit me, I woke up in her prowler on our way to the planet "you hit me " I said she said we were now even. She was wearing the Tavleks uniform and was planning on putting on the gauntlet when we spotted a hunting party and that was it she put the thing on and left me with the pulse rifle, she was doing ok she had caught them off guard and knocked them all out except one which was being held from behind by Aeryn I could see the others waking up and putting their gauntlets back on so I picked up the rifle and tried to shoot but the bloody thing started to make a very disturbing noise like it was about to explode so I threw it and ran and it did blow up but it helped Aeryn because the Tavleks all ran off. But Aeryn as always was still not happy with me. We were making our way to the camp and Aeryn was going to go in gauntlet blazing to get Rygel back and when she got back I could use the sedative Zhaan had given us to knock her out and get the gauntlet of, which I told her was a bad plan and she insisted on reminding me it was my fault as I had blown up the pulse rifle and asked for the noculers (binoculars which don't look like ours very small weird looking very high tech) I was going to knock her out when she wasn't looking but she saw me and went for me, thankfully for me D'Argo turned up and he and Aeryn were getting into a fight and D'Argo knocked her out with his tongue (its a wicked move he has and its what knocked me out the first time we met). The gauntlet came off and she woke up I scouted the area and told them the camp was almost empty and the ones left in camp were asleep so me and D'Argo went to go and get Rygel back and Aeryn would cover our retreat with D'Argo's Qualta Blade which was also a rifle. When we got to the camp we found the cells and Rygel's sceptre with no crystal and no Rygel just some critter that said Bekhesh had moved him and to tell Rygel that the Consortium of Trao wouldn't be paying his ransom. When we got outside we were confronted by two Tavleks who weren't buying that we had come to talk about the ransom with Bekhesh, so we had to fight our way out Aeryn helped by shooting at them for us, we got away but D'Argo had been shot Aeryn was beating the crap out of his back were he had been shot and said that Luxans blood was toxic and it had to run clear, so she had to hit it to make it bleed (I'm so glad I'm human, that looked so painful). I got on the comms to Zhaan who said that there was a shuttle being powered up and gave us co-ordinates to it, the only way to make it in time was for me to put the gauntlet on and oh yes it felt real good I was buzzing I felt like superman. I caught up to Bekhesh and his men just in time I took down his men no problem, but Bekhesh was different he was too good and the juice in the gauntlet ran out, I told him in the end after trying to get him back through lies that we had nothing and Rygel was an obnoxious wind bag that was worthless Bekhesh said if we didn't pay the ransom that the Consortium of Trao would I also told him what the critter had told me, Bekhesh still looked doubtful, I told him to speak to his boy and he could tell him that I was telling the truth we had nothing to give. He spoke to his boy and was told that he had seen most of the ship and it was true we had nothing and all we had to eat was food cubes, Bekhesh still abit doubtful asked him if he was being made to say that and was he being treated ok, he told him that he was being treated fine and that Zhaan was trying to help him, Bekhesh asked him why and the boy said he didn't know. Bekhesh gave Rygel back and left us, I picked him up and asked him if he still had the crystal the little sod said he'd swallowed it and if I wanted it back I was going to have to take him back to Moya, the smug little slug I told him he had caused so much trouble that I was very tempted to cut him open, take out the crystal and leave him there, that took the smug look off his face. I got back to the others and it was like being hit with a sledge hammer and I collapsed. Back on Moya I went to command while we were waiting for the propulsion to be fixed Zhaan was on the comms to the boy we had kept prisoner, she was asking how he was doing he replied by saying "thanks to you I feel better" and lifted his arm up to show her he wasn't wearing his gauntlet and ended his transmission. She turned to me and smiled and said "I like to offer people the chance to choose". She left command looking very pleased with her self. Aeryn came in and said that we could now get out of this place no thanks to Rygel, so I said "no, but its thanks to me". I told her that I was tired of her putting me down all the time when it was me that had managed to knock D'Argo out and get the crystal back and just because I'm not a peacekeeper or a sebacean doesn't mean that I'm useless and I deserve some respect, and she said "fair enough you weren't totally useless apart from blowing up the pulse rifle you did ok". That was good enough for me so I left command and here I am telling you (who ever is reading this) all about it. That's it for today hope to get the chance to write more soon.