Silver and the crew looked up to see an asteroid tear a chunk from the Donovan as an array of phaser fire exploded on the surface of Thados' ring.

"That's impossible how did they find us?!" Jim yelled running to the side to get a better view.

"Well it looks like your hiding place wasn't as good as you thought Alia said with a glower towards Jim. Jim looked back angrily but then noticed a plasma cannon on the deck and ran over to it.

"What are ya doin' ya can't fire through this ring wi'that!" Silver yelled

"We don't need to get through the ring we just need to get out of the way!" Jim shouted as he aimed the cannon at the large asteroid and fired. It hit the asteroid dead center and caused the giant rock to split releasing the anchors that held the Donovan and the Candice which quickly lost momentum and drifted closer to the fast flying rocks behind the two ships.

"Hurry we need to rescue everyone we can!" Jim yelled when suddenly there was a loud whizzing noise that came through the artificial air. They turned and watched the tracer signal from a depth charge as it fell through the outer most layer of the ring and right onto the center of the Donovan. Each member of the crew on the Candice rushed to the side just as the ring lit up in an orange blaze.

The blast was so powerful that the entire section of Thados' ring blew right out as the gravity pulled the objects closer and closer to the deadly planet.

"We Need to get out a here!" Silver called running for the wheel as the gravitational pull of Thados started to drag the Candice faster and faster downward.

Silver pulled at the engine lever but there was only a faint buzzing that could be heard. "Uh-Oh!" he said which was promptly and excitedly reiterated by morph, "Jimbo we've got a problem here!"

"For heaven's sake there's been nothing but problems since we left on this stupid voyage!" Jim yelled and ran down the steps to the engine room. The hallways were dark and cluttered which caused Jim to have to move slower every once and a while there would be a light that flickered semi-lighting up the way as he moved down the corridor alone.

He found the manual control panel to the engines and opened it wide to see that each and every strand had been severed.

"PERFECT!" He shouted slamming his fist on the side of the wall and he quickly started to re-piece the wires. As he got several of the wires together he heard a strange clanging elsewhere in the empty halls. He finished connecting the wires and could hear the sputter of the solar engines as they started to turn. He wandered slowly down the corridor and turned the corner to see Pokros opening a panel on the side of the ship.

Jim hid slightly as he watched a metallic hand come from under the overlong coat it looked very similar to the one Silver had. He watched as the metallic hand grabbed a bunch of wires and pulled them taught and then, to Jim's surprise, a long blistered claw came out and snipped the wires clean just like the one's Jim had come across earlier.

Pokros is Sabotaging us! Jim said to himself and ran up the corridor. He tripped over some of the debris in the way which caused a sickening echo to reverberate down the halls. He quickly took shelter in a small entryway as he heard the odd, clicking, footsteps of Mr. Pokros as he turned the corner down the hall. Jim could see the red beam of his scanner go down the hallway as he crowded to the side. Pokros slowly walked down the hall and Jim could hear him click and whirr as the servos moved his eye in one direction or other.

Jim pulled himself tighter into the corner as the footsteps grew closer. Jim could see the shadow cast by a small light from the other side of the corridor as Pokros came closer. He suddenly saw the shadow of Pokros look to the side then disappear to a shadow on the side. Jim dared not turn but the whirring and clicking stopped and there was definite need out on the deck so Jim slowly started to peer around the corner unaware that directly above him a set of golden eyes was looking in his direction.

Suddenly the ship turned right on the side and Pokros fell from the ceiling onto the side of the ship as the debris from the hallway slammed against him. Jim just barely dodged a huge canister as it flung it's way down the hall.

"Grab Hold!" Came a shout from above and Jim looked to see Silver standing at the entry way with a rope that was tied to the mast and rigged through a pulley system on his arm Jim grabbed hold and was quickly lifted on deck where everyone was going everywhere.

The ship was heading towards the surface of Thados with alarming speed and the Candice was at the last edge of the ring before the gravitational pull was too powerful for anything to escape.

"SILVER!" Jim yelled, "POKROS HAS BEEN TRYING TO RUIN US!"

"DON'T BE DAFT HE'D DIE TOO IF ANYTHIN' WERE TO HAPPEN TO US!" Silver shouted back

Suddenly Alia's father flew past Jim and rammed into the lip of wood where the cannons were mounted. He cried out in pain but as he was still tied he couldn't do anything. Jim looked up and saw Alia fall and enter the same trail right towards her downed father. Jim quickly reached out his arm and caught her right around the waist. It almost ripped his arm off but he managed to keep hold of her.

"WE'RE LOST JIM!" Silver yelled as the hull of the Candice started to grow red with the entrance to the atmosphere.

Jim looked down, he knew that Silver was right there was no way to get out of this the gravitational pull of Thados made him feel like a thousand pounds and made Alia feel unbearably heavy. There was no escape so Jim closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable to happen.

"Sir!" The voice of a lesser officer yelled over the bridge to the commissioner, "The Donovan sustained a direct hit with a depth charge though the interference of the ring makes it impossible to scan and check for survivors."

"And how could there be any survivors?" Commissioner Hanz asked placidly

"Well... I... uh... sir!?" The officer started to stutter but then one of the other officers chimed in, "Commissioner there seems to be a small vessel that has been sucked into the pull of Thados from the blast. It's small and old but our readings show faint signs of life still on board!"

"It is true what the professor said, this boy is very resourceful." Commissioner Hanz smiled, "Good I never did like an easy chase!"

"Sir that pull is too powerful for anyone to survive there is no way they could have made it!" Came the worried officer's voice

"Good!... Then you won't mind proving it."

"What!?"

"You heard me officer we never abandon a mission until there's a body and besides I promised the widow Hawkins to bring her son back to Montressor." He turned to the officer, "You wouldn't want to make me a liar now would you?"

The officer gulped, "B-b-b-but sir!"

"Hmm it's too bad that your family will have to endure a traitor's burial." Commissioner Hanz said without turning around.

"B-b-b-but... yes sir!" The officer stopped objecting

"Good now let's bring her down to Thados!"

Thanks everyone for reading I was hoping to get to the Daeus cluster but I unfortunately did not get as far as I wanted in this chapter. I am sorry that it took so long to write but I have had to work 2 jobs for a combined total of 20 hours a day for the last 2 months to get ahead in my bills so I have not had time nor energy nor health to be able to write. Now I am back down to 1 job so I should have more time to write. I won't be writing steadily as I am learning animation so I can work for Disney so my time will be dispersed between writing and animating. The title for this chapter was The Fall but the next chapter will be the Daeus Cluster Ultima S.