Disclaimer

I don´t own any of the Lexx characters…Atlantis Alliance does. I don´t want to earn money with the stories etc., it´s just for fun.

The story takes place after season 3, didn´t bear the 4 season in mind. I reprogrammed 790 to be in love with Xev again, cause it fits my story better. But you´ll see when you read….

Please review if you like the story, I plan to write a LOT…so it´s always important to get a little feedback!

Thank you!

Have fun!

Chapter 9

Dreams

He was back again on Brunnis. Together with some other children, in total they were nine or ten, he walked along a wide corridor. The corridor was decorated with beautiful paintings, inscriptions and many other things of art. Kai remembered that day. He and his friends of the same age had been the only children on Brunnis at this time. Children had been something unusual in their society, but they were taught everything a BrunnenG should know, because someday, these newborns would be old enough to become a regular part of their society – and for that it was necessary that they knew everything. This day, they had visited the memory hall . A huge museum, built to preserve their history. They reached the entrance and Kai saw again the wonderful carved inscription on the huge wooden door.

They walked through the door and entered a gigantic room. The view was terrific. Kai remembered every detail. Display cabinets, brimming with objects of art, science and other strange things. Attached to the sidewalls of the hall, he could see weird, foreign objects and in the rear he recognized the tiny insect crafts. Except of them, it seemed that no one had been here since a very long time. Important evidence was the thick layer on most of the exhibitions. Of course, no one in the BrunnenG society cared any longer of their past. In some places, one could reap sharp glances if he talked about their great past. So no one had really understood why the newborns wanted to come here. But children were always curious, so they had let them. Their teacher, she seemed to know everything about their past, had been very happy to guide them. She had been relieved that at least someone wanted to go there and be informed about their history. The elders had been the opinion that over time, they would lose interest, but they had been at fault. Not less than one had been amongst them, who never forgot that day.

Kai heard the voice of his teacher: "What you see here, is part of our great past, a past we want to learn more about today. We discussed some issues during our lessons at school, but this place is more than appropriate to learn more, and…" she smiled and glanced at their curious faces. He remembered her friendly gaze like it was yesterday. "…so to satisfy your hunger for knowledge. The artefacts you can see in this hall date back to the days when our people still inhabited the DarkZone, our origin planet Brunnis. In those days we fought great wars and had quenchless scientific curiosity. As you know, it´s something that has changed." Her smile faded a bit. When he remembered that, the thought that she didn´t seem pleased to what their people had changed to. But of course, at that age he was far too young to understand something like that. But now he realized many things he hadn´t that time. Maybe it was a form of protest of his teacher to teach them far more than it was necessary about the past, …

She continued: "Most of everything you can see here, are relicts of the insect wars. Our ancestors developed a kind of hybrid technology out of insect technology. So these ships and weapons were created. We were in need of a new advantage badly in those days, the insects were dangerously close to a victory over humanity. But with this new kind of technology we had the required advance to defeat them. So human kind finally won this most important war in history." She guided them to the tiny insect crafts in the rear. "But we shouldn´t forget that the courage of our warriors had been an important part in this war. War is a horrible thing we can´t imagine any longer in our days. But this war had been a horrible one. We should be very proud of our ancestors, and of course, of all the other humans involved in this war. You must know that many people fought in this war, we hadn´t be the only. Alright. So take a look around, write down the most important information you can extract from this exhibition, note down your questions – we can talk about them later." She scattered them and smiled happily about her inquiring students. Kai saw, how his younger self examined the insect ships totally fascinated. No, this younger self didn´t sense anything of the incidents that would bring him and his friends back again, many years later. To take those ships and start their defence attack against His divine shadow, the only survivor of the insects, in the meantime he was aware of that. How an irony that after millennia these ships were used again for the same purpose they had been built for – to fight against an insect! The scenery faded and his dream continued somewhere else in the museum. He saw himself standing in front of a huge holographic star map. It showed the DarkZone. "This is the explored part of the DarkZone, like our ancestors knew it. I´ll show you now a specific segment of the map…" she touched some symbols and with a golden shimmering the map changed. Planets and stars were much larger now. "This is the part of the DarkZone where the final battle between humans and insects took place 15000 years ago. Far away from Brunnis, the planet of our ancestors…" "How far?" asked Dragomai, Kai remembered the name of his comrade. "Oh, very far away, you needed two weeks to get there from Brunnis," the teacher answered. She pointed at two star systems: "Exactly here, between Varion and Arcannea the battle took place. It had been home of two very high developed human races and allies in this war. This war destroyed planets and whole star systems. This battle had been enormous, it covered both systems and alongside the destruction of many planets, including the home world of the Varion, many human died. It had been a very high price for a victory." "What happened to the Varion?" he heard himself ask. "They all died, like so many other nations. As I said, the victory demands an immense sacrifice, without it, we maybe had lost this war." "And what about the alliance between humans, after the war?" he had asked. "It went the usual way after such wars – the alliance went to pieces. Space is much too big to control everything. Finally we had to abandon Brunnis to relocate into the LightZone to a new home. But in those days the contact between the old allies had been completely gone. I don´t think that anyone would have noticed our disappearance," she explained. "What happened to the BrunnenG warriors? What did they do after the war?" he asked on. "That´s a very short story, too short as measured by their deeds and merits. The warrior guild wasn´t required very often after war. There were no enemies to fight against. And after we had crossed over into the LightZone, the guild broke up. There was no interest in war any longer, no interest to get involved into a new one. Like those took place in the LightZone. Men fighting against men…an issue we don´t want to get involved in. So we advanced backward, under our huge defensive shield…which protect us from everything evil outside our world!" This in fact, had been a bitter fallacy, but who would have known it in those days? Maybe he himself. He had been sure that someday they would be in trouble because of their retreat from everything outside - and he should be right. Kai remembered his huge juvenile fascination for his ancestors. Not only during his youth, he corrected himself. The urge to explore had been part of his nature his entire life. He wanted to learn more. His whole life he was geared to the old BrunnenG, those BrunnenG who were full of adventuresomeness, pride and glory. His environment never understood him – like he never accepted the way of life his people lived now. It made him a misfit. But he followed his ideals without hesitation, against all antagonism of this decadent and dull society. A fight against the bonds the society had placed around them, especially the newborn. Maybe Xev was right and at all times he truly was a warrior in his heart. Anyway, facing death and destruction, he and his friends lit all the glory and pride of the BrunnenG up for a last time, before the deathless dark shadow engulfed and killed them all. Kai felt a bit pride deep at heart for a moment – they truly had been warriors, but no one of his people had been there to witness and give an account of the newborn's heroic deed. How they tried desperately to avert harm, harm that couldn´t turned away – like he learned from the time prophet before. Mourning and sorrow crept into his mind and the dream faded.

A rebel and warrior in life – an eternal dark existence as assassin in death –

what would become of him now?

Then he woke up.

Kai opened his eyes. A weird dream, more half memory, half dream, but the last question bothered him most. He had experienced both extremes, death and life. He even remembered his own death, the very moment he had died. An experience that let him shiver. Now he was alive again. A second life. But why? What purpose does this life has, that he was here? His first life served to fight, against the rules of his society, against His Shadow, and it ended like most warriors ended: they die. His death on the other hand served to fight in a different way. As reanimated corpse he killed numerous innocent people, finally His Shadow in person. It was clear to him that a living human being hadn´t had the possibility to do that. But if he had to be dead for only this purpose – why couldn´t his existence have ended? Why does he have to live again? He didn´t know. Destiny he thought down. His thoughts went back to his dream, it showed him again the little boy he once had been. At least he remembered being young, something most BrunnenG seem to have forgotten. No wonder after thousand of years. Kai shook his head. He now had the same age like the oldest of his people, but he reached it under different circumstances – it was an irony, his people sentenced him to die slowly, by aging, but now he had a similar age without aging visibly. Kai asked himself for a moment if his now returned life would end when he grew old enough to die … if he ever…He stopped this thoughts. He won´t end up in this terrible circle of thinking and re-thinking about a valuable or worthless life again. Kai sighed, sometimes he wished to be the little boy again. He had to smile when he remembered his serious interest and curiosity about history and his ancestors. Why did he remember or dream of exactly their visit in the museum? He analysed the memories and stopped suddenly when he saw again the star map. What were the names of those star systems his teacher had mentioned? Varion and … Kai rocket upwards when he recalled … Arcannea! Could it be that it was the same system they were now going to? He had to check on that, immediately. He put on his clothes, his boots and left the bedroom.

"790?" he asked for the robot head, when he reached the bridge. "What do you want? Where´s my Xev? Have you killed her?" snarled 790. "No. I want to ask you something. Can you check on something for me?" "Why should I?" Kai sighed. "I try to find a new home for Xev, do you remember? This could be important to reach this aim!" Kai hated to lie, even to lie partially, like in this case, but he knew that he would never find out anything without 790´s help. But his insults were far better than the addiction he had shown before. Even for the dead had it been an enervating situation. Admitted, he had shown an unfamiliar motivation when he reprogrammed 790, but now, alive, he was relieved that 790´s love-slave programming was focused on somebody else. "I hope it´s really the reason for your question, so let me know what you want to know!" growled 790 after he considered Kai´s request. Kai nodded and gave him every data he knew about the part of the DarkZone he had dreamt or better remembered of. The information mainly consisted of planetary configurations and distance specifications between Brunnis1 and Arcannea. Not much, but there weren´t many planetary systems with this typical formation. After all, they had the coordinates of their destination and where Brunnis1 had been located before it was destroyed in this supernova they witnessed. Maybe this was helpfully enough for 790. "Well, that´s not much, and if I´m right, I count 792 billion 562 million…possi…!" "I know, 790, please try to find out if both Arcannea are one and the same thing, and tell me immediately after you´ve found out anything!" Kai put 790 down to the bottom of the command pedestal and connected him to Lexx´s data flow. "Only for the sake of my darling Xev!" 790´s digital eyes changed into binary code and he started to compare data.

Arcannea Kai thought. It would be a weird coincidence. He had never thought about the old alliances and if some of them could have survived until today. When he looked at their high developed ships on the other hand, it appeared logic that they might be this old people, the BrunnenG had fought with against the insects. He sighed ever so slightly. What could that mean? Such a weird coincidence must have some meaning, he was sure about it. But first he needed 790´s confirmation about Arcannea, as long as this was unsure, he wouldn´t mention it towards Xev or Stan. At least he hoped that this Arcannea would be a place where they could find some rest. Xev all above. He just wanted to leave the bridge, when 790 switched back into normal mode and announced some results: "Ahem, the data you gave me seem to fit perfectly to our destination. The distance calculation is highly accurate and the configuration of the planetary systems is nearly the same as our destination. Noticeable is the unusual degree of destruction of planetary systems in this part of the DarkZone. I can detect a lot of debris, maybe planetary debris, and they are not natural! But this must have happened a long long time ago, 20000 years plus or minus!" Kai turned. He wasn´t surprised. "The destructiveness of the greatest war human kind had ever fought in!" he murmured. "Can you show me our destination?" he asked aloud. 790 projected a solar system onto Lexx´s view screen. "It´s a planetary system with eight planets, three of them, the third, fourth and fifth are inhabited, whereas the fourth and fifth form this significant double-configuration." 790 commented shortly. Kai closed his eyes for a moment, recalled the pictures he saw in his dream. He had seen a ten-planetary-system, but the position of the three inhabited planets was exactly the same. Maybe two of the once ten planets had gone or were destroyed during time. Much could happen in thousands of years. "What about their neighbour system?" he asked on. "Four planets and a lot of debris. I can´t detect any life there." Kai nodded slowly. This was right, too. Varion had been destroyed, as well as nearly all the other planets of the system. Now he was virtually certain. This must be the same Arcannea. But what would await them there? He asked himself. Did they know about their past? About the old human alliance against the insects? Whatever, one thing was sure, they were potentially one of the last human nations who survived the past 21000 years, different from those who were extinct, had emigrated or, like his own, had been destroyed. He decided to act with caution. If they remember their past, he wouldn´t be recognized as BrunnenG, at least not now. "How long, until we reach Arcannea, 790?" "About half an hour!" "Thank you for your help, 790!" Kai left. "Yeah, yeah," 790 growled.

Kai woke Xev. "Did I sleep for long?" she asked. "Mh, we have some minutes left," he watched her thoughtfully. "Everything alright?" she asked and started to rearrange her hair. "Yes, I think so." Kai started to comb his own hair quickly and braided it into one single plait. "New hair style?" she asked and smiled. He cocked his head and answered: "It feels unfamiliar, but it´s not bad at all." Even his traditional hair-do would have given away too much, when they met the Arcannea. The BrunnenG had had this hairstyle for millennia, just like him. No wonder it felt odd to him. "That´s right!" Xev agreed, "I like it!" She crawled forward on her bed and pulled his lovelock out when she reached him. "But this is something I missed!" Kai smiled slightly. Xev left her bed with a sigh and put her clothes back on. Her gaze dropped to the weapon she had kept since the day he got alive. "Kai…" she started hesitating. She took the weapon and held it out to him. "Do you want to take it with you? I mean, we don´t know what will await us…" Kai looked down to her outstretched hand, where the deadly, weak glittering weapon lay. He touched it hesitantly with his fingertips. Memories flooded through his mind again. He closed his eyes and swallowed hard, tried to push the emerging outrages back. Abrupt he retracted his hand. "No…I…I…cannot. If you´re the opinion we´re in the need of a weapon, take it." He looked sideward. Xev let the object fell down on her bed. "I´m sorry, I didn´t want to…" she touched his arm softly. "…It´s alright," he interrupted her, he had to control his memories badly in future, whenever he would be confronted with objects or situations referring to his past. "Why did you keep it?" he then asked. "I´m not sure, I had this...feeling that we may need it someday."

Like all the other equipment she added in thoughts. Normally she should have thrown them away, but something, a weird feeling she couldn´t ignore, distracted her from it. The thought scared her, why should he still need those parts? Kai was living, and so not relied on his old equipment. Xev didn´t mention her thoughts to Kai, it wasn´t necessary to remind him of this part of his past.

"Maybe, Xev, but not today, let us go!" he interrupted her thoughts, put forth his hand. Xev took it and both head for the bridge. Stanley arrived with them, still rubbing his eyes. He noticed Kai´s new look "Nice hair-do," he said and climbed on his command pedestal. Kai only furrowed his brows. "Lexx, how is it? Are we there?" Stan wanted to know. "Yes Stan, we are. And Stan?" "Yes Lexx?" "The planet we´re approaching to is looking very delicious, may I eat it?" "No, no, Lexx, you won´t eat any of this planets, you hear me?" Stan said sternly. "Ok, Stan, but I soon have to eat, I´m very hungry!" Lexx answered. "Alright, we´re looking for something to eat for ya, Lexx," Stan calmed the huge ship. "Thank you Stanley," "Do I mention that Lexx is really greedy at the moment?" he asked his crewmembers. Kai shrugged his shoulders. "I don´t know when he ate for the last time." "Well, that´s a couple of weeks ago…when we stopped at this space station." Xev reminded him. Stan grunt and watched the approaching planet, better said planets. Xev lifted 790 up and asked him: "Can you tell us something about those planets?" "Always my honey pie…. The third planet of this planetary system is at 95 covered with water, only a few islands, the fourth planets, they were circuiting each other, are different. One of them is a very fertile planet with lots of vegetation, water, high share of population and of course, very high developed. The other one is less beautiful, it seems that it´s a resource planet, low population, high industrial facilities, something that the other planet lacks completely." 790 reported detailed. Xev put him under her arm and thanked him. "At least not a desert planet or something else…" Stanley muttered. Xev nodded: "I think I like it…" Suddenly the planets disappeared and Te´ran appeared on the screen. "Welcome to the Arcannea system, the home of our alliance. If you have any possibility to get to our space station between Arcan´s and T´uara, they´re the double planetary configuration you can see, I´ll suggest one of our fighters will escort you there. The area is very crowded at the moment, as you soon will see. Our larger ships are staying away from the station and planets and we´re using small shuttles to get there.

Our president will greet you in person – it seems that your little demonstration had caused a stir." He smiled mischievously. "I think everything else you will hear later. I´m pleased to meet you in person." The screen turned black and then it showed again the planetary system. For a moment there was silence on the bridge, then Xev smiled and said: "Well, let´s go, I´m curious why their president will greet us in person!" Stan shrugged his shoulders. "So, why not, at least they seem to be friendly." "Yes, captain, maybe this time we have a little bit more luck with a planetary government!" She bounced forward and jumped into a moth. Stan and Kai followed her. The moth left the Lexx and they met one of the small, pitch-black fighters outside. It was Te´ran himself, who flew it. "Stay close, just follow me!" Te´ran instructed them. Xev navigated the moth into the same direction. "These ships are looking really unfamiliar and weird, never seen anything like that, " Stan said, when they passed some of the real big warships, orbiting the planets in huge distance. They were pitch black, (I´ll insert a picture of those ships later), but their shade didn´t remind him of something he knew. But a relationship to the Lexx or another insect ship he couldn´t deny. They had something that commemorate at it, even if he couldn´t tell what. "They´re made of organic material," Kai answered, whilst watching them fascinated. They remind him of a crossing between the old insect ships and modern non-organic streamlined ship designs. "Organic? Like Lexx?" asked Xev. "No, not similar to the Lexx. Lexx is a living organic ship, with very little inorganic material. These ships are made of bioorganic material, with regenerative skills, they´re not living creatures like Lexx, they even don´t have a life of their own. It´s a different kind to the technology my ancestors used, but a very high developed one, too. It needed a few thousand years to get to this level of development." "So, you say, that they´re maybe an older civilization?" Xev asked. Kai nodded. Every detail he discovered fit more and more into his assumption that they were the descendants of the old ally of the BrunnenG. "I hope they´re wise enough to treat us friendly!" Stan muttered. "Well, they didn´t shoot at us, that´s a good start, isn´t it?" Xev smiled. Stan nodded. "Even when I´m sure the Lexx is superior…I don´t want to mess with their ships!" He added. "Yes, they look really dangerous, but if they are at war, they need this demonstration of power. What do you mean, Kai?" She peeked at him. He nodded absent, watching the approaching planets with the space station in-between. Te´ran didn´t understate. An enormous traffic dominated the space around the station. As big as the space station even was, it would never carry this huge amount of ships outside. Many of them showed heavy damage, and so some repair ships supported those, which weren't able to fly any meter. Their escort flew skillful through the teeming mass and navigated to the station. As closer they got, the better they could see details of the station. It was an interesting construction. The center of the station was the hugest segment as well as the largest level, because above and beneath every following segment was smaller than the precedent. So the station could be described as diamond-shaped. Otherwise it was made of the same material than their space ships. The communication-system cracked and Te´ran reported: "Please follow me to segment 37, level 12, hangar 305. Stay close, because we don´t have a guide beam." Xev confirmed and decreased the speed of their moth slightly. After a moment they raced over segment 37 and they could see numerous hangars. Kai assumed that the space station contained thousands of those small space fighters. After a sharp turn around one of the four edges of the station, Te´ran tilted his fighter and dived into one of the small hangars. Xev followed without hesitation and landed the moth next to the fighter. The flight deck wasn´t very big, and Xex asked herself how many accidents might happened in the past, if one of the pilots hadn´t found the right angle to land. She sighed and wanted to abandon the moth. Kai caught her arm before she could lift the lid. Puzzled she looked at him. "Wait," he said. "Why? Is anything wrong?" she asked startled. Kai pointed with his head at the rear. "Don´t leave the moth before the hangar doors are closed, otherwise…" "…it´s getting a bit uncomfortable inside!" Stan finished the sentence, whilst watching the closing doors. "Oh," meant Xev, she hadn´t thought about it. Kai loosen his grip and let go of her. Xev sighed inwardly, as always, she felt his touch resonate for a long time. Almost entreatingly her glance begged for another touch. But he wasn´t responsive to her.

When they saw movement next to the small fighter, they also left their vehicle. "Wow!" Stan said in awe. "It seems that nearly everything is built of this organic material!" He drew nearer to the wall and touched it carefully. It wasn´t very different from those inside the Lexx, this one vibrated softly, too. "I´m also fascinated every time about this material, isn´t it unbelievable what can be built with it?" Te´ran approached them with a curious look on his face. "I´m pleased to meet you!" He put forth his hand and greeted them individually. Both sides examined each other. Te´ran was of middle height, slim with a well-fitting uniform. A smile appeared on his chiseled face and he stroke back his unruly brown hair. Despite his warm smile, Xev could see many worries shining through, his bright green eyes weren´t laughing with the rest.

Te´ran wondered about this remarkable bunch standing in front of him. This scantily clad, beautiful woman, the man with the red jumpsuit, who seemed to be nervous all the time and finally his direct opposite, the tall, slender man in black, who observed his environment with the cool and calm behavior of an experienced warrior. And of course, there was this robot head. He had so many questions he wanted to ask them, but no time for it. He pushed his curiosity back and asked them to follow. He guided them into a neighboring meeting room, where the announced greeting committee awaited them.