Disclaimer: I don't own them...I just want to write about them...so don't sue...
Pairing: None, the hole crew is involved. Harper is (once again) the main character.
Rating: G
Summery: I don't want to spoil much...But have you ever wondered what would happen if the crew got stranded on a deserted island?
Genre: Humor/Drama/a lot of hotheads/and 'oh boys'
Other: Ok people...please bare with me...I don't have this thing all planed out in my head yet but I have the first part strait...I bet by now you know, if you've read the rest of my works, that I'm a Harper fanatic! So don't kill me or anything... Anyway tell me what you think...Maybe the feedback will help inspire me?...Well any way here it goes...
Part One: Dessert Island
Harper watched the owner of the ship (the kind that sails in water), as Dylan talked to him. They had just spent the whole of 2 months on the Planet of Chicara, a planet mostly covered in water. Their last battle had left the Andromeda Ascendent in a really bad state. So bad that they had to dock on the planet or die in space. They were just barely breathing air on the way down, it was that bad, but Dylan refused to take the Maru to the planet for parts and leave Andromeda behind in space alone. So for the past 2 months they had been doing repairs while Dylan converted the people of the planet, the Checi, to the Commonwealth. He had to admit that it was great that the people had signed the charter, but did Dylan have to leave the rest of them to fix his ship by themselves? Harper hung his head back over the bench he was sitting on. He was glad that Dylan was nice enough to give them an escape from the commonwealth thing though, even if it was for a day. So the whole crew had decided to go to a beach some where on one of the sparsely populated islands of Coahde, a larger chain of islands, kinda like what use to be Hawaii on earth. He shivered, he did not want to remember earth. Harper rubbed his aching shoulder. They had been there, in various positions, for the past two hours while Dylan was fighting with the owner about renting the ship. Harper's other shoulder was currently occupied by Trance, who was fighting to stay awake. The others were in the same sort of state, tired. Harper did not really know the details of the fight but it had some thing to do with the Checi High Council members. The members had wanted to pay for the ship so they sent money ahead. The ship owner had the money, but Dylan had wanted to be stubborn and pay for it him self. After two hours they were still fighting. Beka had tried to suggest a compromise and tried to stop the fight, but Dylan nearly took off her head for saying something at all. So they gave up on trying to help. Both Dylan and the owner were really getting fed up with each other. Harper decided to speak up before the captain took the guys head off with his force lance...
"Yo, boss!"
"WHAT!?, Mr. Harper!" Dylan snapped.
"Can we kinda wrap this up, or at least get the boat set up while you fight with the guy? One of my shoulders is numb and the other is starting to go too."
"If...(yawn)...was...hurting...(big yawn)...could...told...me...Har...(really big yawn)..per" Trance tried to say, but her ability to think strait was starting to go, along with her. She had fallen asleep. Harper wiggled what ever he could feel in his shoulder to wake her up, but it was no use she was gone.
"Fine whatever just go.."Dylan said and he turned back to the Checi. Tyr got up from dangling his feet over the side of the dock and woke up Beka who feel asleep beside the bench. While Beka turned Rommie on again, she had practically begged to be turned off to conserve energy. Meanwhile Harper tapped on Rev Bem's shoulder, with what ever feeling was left in his arm, then tried waking up Trance. After a few times of calling out her name, she woke up. The others had picked up their luggage and started boarding the boat. It took Harper 15 min. and Tyr's help to get Trance safely to the boat. She almost walked off of the dock twice, while Harper tried to juggle his and her luggage. After she walked into a tourist for the 6th time, Tyr came out to help Harper carry the luggage, as Harper got Trance to finally go aboard the boat.
"Thanks Tyr." Harper mumbled as they laid Trance down in her cabin.
"Don't mention it, literally.."He said stalking out of the room. Harper was too tired to make a comment, so he covered Trance up and went out the door, closing it silently behind them. Everyone went to sleep almost immediately after their head hit the pillow...
Two more hours later...
Swish...Swish...Swish...Thump..."Owwww" Harper woke up in the floor of his cabin. They were moving! And it was dark. He rubbed his head and got up to get dressed. This was hard to do, where the boat was rocking back and forth really hard. Then he heard a thunder clap and bolt of lightning shot through the sky. "GREAT!" He thought. " We are out in the middle of an ocean and a storm." Harper ran out of his cabin and headed for the bridge of the vessel. He had to find Dylan. And if there was any place on this ship that Dylan would be it would be the bridge.
"Dylan! Dylan! Where are you!?" Harper yelled
"Harper! Harper, I'm here! Listen go wake everyone up and get down to the engine room. Something went wrong! Hurry!" Dylan hollered from someplace Harper couldn't see. Following Dylan's orders, Harper turned around to run. He ran right into Tyr.
"Tyr, Help me get everyone else up. Please." He said and ran through Beka's door. Tyr went through Rev's door to wake him up. When everyone was awake, Harper went to the engine room. Suddenly the whole ship shook with a tremendous force. This sent Harper crashing over a rail. He hit his head on the side of the engine. The last he remembered was Beka's voice and water...
"Harper?"
"Trance..."
"Shhh...It's over now. You took a bad bump to the head. You fell and hit your head on an engine."
"Then how come I feel as if Tyr hit me in the head with a boulder?"
" I resent being accused of something I had nothing to do with..."
"Don't we all..." Harper said trying to get up. When his eyes focused he found the rest of the crew was in the same sad shape. They were all in the bridge of the ship. He thought he was supposed to be in the engine room. "...the engines!" Harper turned to dash out the door. Dylan called after him, just as Beka caught him around the waist and pulled him on her lap.
"Aww, Bek, You should have told me you had these feelings for me..." Harper was discarded from Beka's lap to the floor before the sentence was finished.
"Look people," Dylan said getting his crews attention. " We are going to go out of these windows to see where we are. Now let's pray that there is land out there for everything below this deck is flooded. This means the engines too. So lets go..."
The crew slowly made their way out of the ship onto it's slanted deck. Harper was the last out. They saw land alright... too much land...
"Well Rommie where are we?" Trance inquired of the AI unit.
"Well as far as sensors go, a deserted island..." Everyone groaned at Rommies hopeless answer.
"What's wrong everyone? I think an island made of desserts is a good idea! I'm kinda hungry myself. See I saw this movie in Andromeda's files and this room was made of candy and..."
Harper placed his hand over Trance's mouth to stop her from going into a long tail.
"Nooo, Trance, my very sparkly purple babe. Not a island made of desserts, a deserted island. As in we are going to die...and starve...and die...and get sun burn...and oh did I mention DIE!"
"No one is going to die Mr. Harper." Dylan said tying his shoe. "Maybe Rommie's sensors were damaged in the crash. The rest of you are going to get all that can be used off of the boat. When low tide comes, Harper and Tyr, I want you to patch up the engine room or find a way for that floor to not take on water. Then maybe you could hook up a power source for Rommie."
"What about me?" Trance exclaimed a little nervous.
"Trance, you and I are going in search for people." Dylan said as he made his way down the ships bow.
"Oh now we're all really gonna die!" Harper moaned. Beka slapped the back of his head for the stupid comment.
"Thanks Beka!" Dylan said as he helped Trance down.
"Yeah, thanks..." Harper mumbled.
"Any time, Harper, anytime."