Revised 06.25.2022


"This extinguishing foam is seriously burning the gash on the back of my head." Nova said.

Nova's hands were cuffed together, as well as everyone else's.

"Let me see." Jack said, going up behind Nova and doing her best to wipe the foam off.

"Ah… ah!" Nova exclaimed.

"Sorry." Jack said.

"It can't be helped." Nova sighed.

"Have you ever seen anything like this before?" Imam asked, marveling at the inside of the ship while being led to where they would be held.

"Merc ships? Plenty. Just try to figure out how it all goes together." Riddick said.

Riddick was strapped down to a hovering chair.

"It is a plantation operation. A boat like this loads up at port, signs on as many men as it can hold, then goes out for months, sometimes years at a time. However long it takes to fill their stores." Imam said.

"Sent to merchant rigs, usually harvesting ore or maybe crops, not people." Riddick said.

"Captured bounties on one side, contracted man power on the other." Imam said.

"Just add heat." Jack said.

"You know a lot about this shit… for a holy man." Riddick said.

"I hear things." Imam said.

"Must be a special kind of desperate dick, signs on to this." Riddick said, to the merc on his right.

The merc was a heavy set man, had long brown hair with a connecting beard and mustache, and was wearing overalls over a grey shirt. He hit Riddick in the face with his gun.

"Shut up!" The heavy merc demanded.

"You're the exception of course. For you it's life experience." Riddick said, his demeanor never changing.

"So, what's the plan? It's not like we haven't gotten out of worse. The way I see it, we can take these jerks - Hey!" Jack said, when one of the mercs grabbed her shoulder.

"This is where we get off, princess." The heavy merc said mockingly.

"You too preacher." Another merc said, pushing Imam along.

"I will pray." Imam said.

"Not for me." Riddick said, before he started being taken away in an opposite direction.

"Let's go!" The heavy merc said, shoving Jack forward.

"I won't leave without you Riddick! I'll find you!" Jack called back at Riddick.

Nova didn't budge, the world was spinning too fast for her to walk.

"Are you deaf? I said move it!" The heavy merc yelled, pushing Nova forward.

Nova dropped to her knees after losing her balance and began emptying the contents of her stomach onto the floor.

"Ugh, sick." The heavy merc said, before kicking Nova in her stomach.

Nova gasped before landing on her side.

'At least I didn't land in my own vomit.' Nova thought, thankful for at least that much.

"Hey, Brick House. If I were you, I'd lay off the girl." Riddick said.

"Is that so?" The heavy merc said, smirking at Riddick. "What exactly are you going to do about it?" He finished, getting right in Riddick's face.

"You'll see once I get free." Riddick said calmly.

"Yeah, whatever." The heavy merc said.

The heavy merc had now picked Nova up by the waist and was carrying her the way someone would a jacket.

"Vomit down my back, and you'll be weeping blood next." The heavy merc threatened Nova.

Riddick stayed silent as he watched Nova being carried away, knowing what would happen the next time he saw the heavy merc.


Jack, Imam, and Nova were each standing on a giant ball with nooses around their necks and their hands still tied together.

"I said I'd find you, didn't I?" Jack said, looking concerned while addressing Riddick.

Sliding doors in the pit started to open, which concerned the group immensely. Riddick came flying down from where he was above the others, he had brought the heavy merc down with him.

"I was on the pilgrimage, just a pilgrimage." Imam said, to himself.

"Please let me live through this." Nova said, using all her strength to keep balance on the ball.

"This is bad, huh?" Jack said.

"Give it a minute." Riddick said.

Riddick watched as a pair of squid like creatures came into view, one was glowing green and the other pink.

"Imam, pray." Riddick said.

The heavy merc that had fallen with Riddick had started shooting at the creatures that were drawing near. It had become dark before the green creature grabbed onto the heavy merc and injected him with something. Whatever it had been, it made the heavy merc melt like ice cream on a scorching hot day. Imam, Jack, and Nova gasped at the sight of him.

"I think I just threw up in my mouth a little." Nova said, after smelling the heavy merc's melted body.

"That's the least of your worries right now." Riddick said.

Riddick got thrown into the ball that was underneath Jack's feet, by one of the creatures. Without the ball to support her, she started to hang. Imam came to her rescue with his own ball and got her feet grounded again. The green creature started heading towards them. Imam grabbed onto the rope and Jack grabbed onto him and he rolled the ball into the creature, causing it to roll along with the ball. Nova rolled her ball over to the others and they grounded their feet onto her ball.

"It's become a bit crowded." Imam said.

Nova let out a groan before having to close her eyes. The way the creatures moved their glowing tentacles about was too much for her eyes to handle.

"Nova!" Jack yelled.

"Really!? That was right in my ear!" Nova yelled back, frustrated because of the situation she was in.

The green creature had come back for the group and had grabbed onto Nova's leg, making her yell in surprise. The more the creature pulled, the tighter her noose got. She wrapped her hands around the noose and tried to pull her leg away; Imam and Jack were trying to help as well.

"Let go!" Nova yelled.

The creature kept a firm hold on Nova.

"Let go! LET GO! LET GO!" Nova yelled, continuously pulling her leg back as hard as she could.

The creature got out it's stinger and was ready to do damage. Jack and Imam gasped.

"Riddick!" Jack yelled, looking frantically in Riddick's direction.

"I'm a bit tied up at the moment." Riddick said, still fighting off the other creature.

"I said! LET! GO!" Nova yelled.

A surge of red energy traveled down Nova's leg and into the creature. It let out a blood curdling screech. Whatever had just happened also seemed to make the creature furious, because it slapped the ball out from under their feet, leaving the three of them to hang.