Revised 06.25.2022


Fry, Riddick, and Nova went back to get Imam and Jack. Riddick moved the rock and Fry stuck her head in. Fry stepped back to let Riddick look inside, and he smiled at Imam and Jack

"Never had a doubt!" Jack said confidently.

"Anyone not ready for this?" Riddick asked.

"There is my, God, Mr. Riddick." Imam said.

They all started running back to the settlement with Riddick in the very front, and Imam in the very back. Riddick stopped in his tracks. There were a few bioraptors in the way, and they had to wait for the right moment to run through the middle of them. They all got close to the wall of the canyon and locked their hands together to make a chain so they wouldn't lose anyone once they got through. Once Riddick thought the moment was right they all started running again. They all made it through unscathed, but the bioraptors came back down.

"Don't stop, don't stop." Imam said, helping whoever needed it up the steep slope.

"Come on! Move! Move! You know the way." Riddick called out. "Go!" He finished.

"I'm not leaving you out here by yourself!" Nova called back.

Nova let out a quick yell when she heard and felt one of the bioraptors land not too far in front of Riddick.

"Get up!" Nova yelled.

Riddick started pushing himself backwards up the slope as fast as he could. Once she was close enough to reach him she pulled him up and they started running in the direction of the skiff again.

"Damn, this thing won't quit!" Nova yelled, hearing the creature chase after them.

"It's hungry. What do you expect?" Riddick said.

"Right." Nova said.

Nova was able to get ahead of Riddick while they were running. She heard one of the bioraptors fly overhead, so she made a sharp turn when she sensed a corner. He was still behind her when one of them landed, and ended up getting in between them. She immediately got into a crouched position, hoping it would make her slightly harder to detect. He stopped short when he saw it hadn't seen him right away. It turned around to face him and her heart felt like it exploded in her chest. He had gone right up to its head and made sure to stay in the middle. The way it didn't attack him made her realize that that's what he was talking about when he mentioned a blind spot he found on the skeleton. It had turned around to leave after a few moments of not being able to see anything in front of it, unfortunately another one had spotted Riddick and landed right behind him, alerting the previous one to turn around. He was caught between both of them now.

"Fucking shit!" Nova exclaimed in a hushed voice. 'I need to do something quick!' She thought.

Nova closed her eyes and listened for where the bioraptor was. When she heard the rain was no longer in a free fall in a spot not too far from her, she had a better idea where it was. She felt near the containers until she found something she could use as a weapon, it just so happened to be a metal pipe, it felt about three-fourths of her height long. She moved out of her hiding spot and tried getting the bioraptor's attention.

"Hey, you stupid fuck! Over here!" Nova yelled.

Nova heard the bioraptor turn its head and the water that had been on it got flung in her direction. She shivered not knowing that the creature had been that close. She closed her eyes to get a better idea of how it was moving. Without light there was no reason for her use her eyes. It tried to stab her with its tail, but she moved her body sideways just in time. When the its tail made contact with the ground she took the opportunity to swing the pipe as hard as she could, making it let out a pained roar. She had almost dropped the pipe with how much force reverberated through it, she had not been prepared for just how solid its skull had been.

"Nova!" Riddick cried out, sounding like he was currently struggling.

"I'm fine. Pay attention to your own problems right now." Nova tried reassuring Riddick.

The bioraptor pulled its tail back and tried to stab Nova again. She rolled out of the way before attacking it again from the side. It roared out in pain and frustration.

"That's what you get for acting on impulse." Nova said, taunting it.

Nova used the pipe as a shield as she heard it try and hit her by using its tail as a whip. She was able to stop most of the force, but it still ended up knocking her down. She scrambled to get back to her feet and regain her composure. Before she could comprehend what it had done, it had spun around and used its tail to knock her legs out from under her, then it wrapped its tail around her legs and began to spin her around until it had enough momentum to properly launch her into a container. She landed not too far from where Riddick was.

"Nova!" Riddick called out surprised.

Nova was in and out of it as she started to feel the back of her head get warm.

'Am I bleeding?' Nova thought, before touching the back of her head.

Nova felt warm liquid ooze onto her hand, along with a sharp pain that came when she touched the spot.

'Yeah, that's definitely my blood.' Nova thought, before passing out.

Nova was woken up by Fry's voice.

"Riddick!? Nova!?" Fry called.

"What? She's still here?" Nova said, looking around "Riddick?" She called, uncertainly in her voice.

Nova heard a gasp and turned to see Riddick lying next to two dead bioraptors.

"Riddick!" Nova exclaimed, trying to stand up.

Standing up made Nova need to vomit.

"Fuck. My equilibrium is off." Nova said, closing her eyes to try and stop the world from spinning.

Nova slowly made her way over to Riddick and tried to help him up.

'If I hadn't gotten my ass handed to me by that stupid thing, he wouldn't be in this bad of shape.' Nova thought, feeling guilty that Riddick was left to fight both of them.

"Nova!? Riddick!?" Fry called again.

"Come on." Nova said, trying to help Riddick walk.

They stumbled over to a container, all bloody and torn up, before he collapsed by it, startling Fry.

"I can't do this by myself!" Nova yelled over the rain, she was down on her knees due to exhaustion.

"Okay, hold onto me. Hold onto me, we're going to get out of here." Fry said, helping Riddick get to his feet.

Fry struggled to help Riddick up, he fell onto his stomach.

"Nova! Help me!" Fry said.

Nova did her best to channel whatever strength she had left to get back on her feet.

"Come on, Riddick! Get up! Get up! Get Up!" Fry kept urging him on. "I said I'd die for them, not you." She finished, doing her best to help Riddick back on his feet.

Nova got on the other side of Riddick to help support some of his weight. After a while she collapsed on her back in front of him from having no energy left.

"Fuck! I can't do this!" Nova yelled frustrated.

There were sounds of wings flapping, and then Fry gasping, and then the smell of fresh blood. Human blood.

"What just happened!? What just happened!?" Nova exclaimed, starting to panic.

One of the bioraptors had stuck its tail through Fry's torso and lifted her up into the sky. Riddick had tried to save her, but couldn't hold onto her hand due to the rain making friction nonexistent, as well as him being near death. He collapsed onto the rain soaked, muddy ground alongside Nova.

"Not for me. Not for me!" Riddick yelled into the sky.

Nova wanted to cry more than anything at that moment. Fry had made an effort to get everyone off this death planet, and now she would never be able to do it herself.

"Come on, we have to get to the skiff." Nova said, getting up off the ground.

They managed to make it back to the skiff without anymore serious bioraptor encounters.

"Where's Fry?" Jack asked.

Nova helped Riddick get to the pilot's seat before looking back at Jack, and giving her a mournful look before shaking her head. Riddick started prepping the skiff for take-off.

"I don't think I've ever been this relieved to leave someplace before." Nova said.

Nova was sitting in the co-pilot chair next to Riddick, eyes closed.

"There's so much prayer to make up for, I scarcely know where to begin." Imam said, fiddling with his prayer beads.

"I know where I'd start." Jack said.

Riddick switched on all the lights of the skiff and started up its engine. He started to ease the throttle up, then abruptly pulled it back down in addition to turning everything in the skiff off, including the lights.

"Riddick, what are you doing?" Jack said.

Nova grabbed onto Riddick's arm.

"Whatever you're planning, please don't let it be something stupid." Nova said, trembling from exhaustion, being cold and wet, and being stressed out by the current situation.

Riddick stayed silent and watched the bioraptors start to approach the skiff. They started climbing on top of it, their claws making horrible dragging noises.

"Can we just get the hell out of here now?" Jack said, in a hushed voice.

"We can't leave - " Riddick said.

A bioraptor bumped its head against the skiff windshield before clawing and biting at it.

"Without saying goodnight." Riddick finished, before turning the engine on full throttle, killing as many bioraptors as possible before they finally left the planet.

The planet with two rings came into view.

"For fuck's sake." Nova said, before getting out of her seat to sit in the back of the skiff.

Jack strapped herself into the co-pilot seat.

"A lot of questions, whoever we run into. Could even be a merc ship. So, what the hell do we tell them about you?" Jack said, addressing Riddick.

"Tell em' Riddick's dead." Riddick said, turning to face her. "He died somewhere on that planet." He finished.

"And you?" Jack asked, addressing Nova.

"I don't know, just make something up." Nova said, too tired to think. "Hey. Don't let me go to sleep for at least three hours, I think I may have a concussion." She finished.