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Part 3

They found Dylan first, just a week after he had been taken.  He was the easiest to find because he was so well known.  It took longer to get the ship's engines on line than it did to take back its captain.  He'd been bought by a businessman who wanted to put him in, of all things, a circus.  So when you saw an ad with the phrase "300 year old High Guard Captain" in it, it didn't take a genius to figure out where Dylan was.

 The man, named Ofex, who owned the circus had actually brought Rev Bem as well.  There was a darling picture of a Magog foaming at the mouth, wearing a Wayist Medallion above a caption that read "Sector's only captive Magog!" 

Ofex was not a strong man.  Good at scheming, cheating and lying, but not so much fighting.  That is why he had Neitzchien Guards for his latest acquisitions.  Hunt was waiting for the right time, playing along to begin with.  He had seen his crew sold off to different buyers. It was disgusting.  The Neitzchiens, under new leadership, had brought them in chains to the main deck.  There, on the view screen were the faces of at least 12 alien bidders.  The crew had been humiliatingly auctioned off one by one; first Beka, to a drooling green blob of a man.   Harper was sold to a mining company- who made clear if Harper turned out to be more than 5 foot 5 he'd demand a refund.  Rev went to the zoo and that's where Dylan ultimately found himself too.  What an exhibit "Last Remaining High Guard- the 300 year old man!"

8 days Hunt waited.  Everyday he woke up in his tiny little 3-walled room.  A ration bar was slipped trough the slot in the door 3 times a day and people walked by the 4th wall, made of glass throughout the day. He would never go to a zoo again after this. 

Then Tyr showed up, creating more than an ample distraction.  Between a determined Nietzchien, a Highly trained officer, and a Magog who was more than a little frustrated after 8 days of having peanuts thrown at him, it didn't take long for the guards to decide, they weren't bring paid enough to deal with his hazardous situation. 

Tyr had shown up, bought his ticket like a good little boy, and when he came to Rev's exhibit, promptly ripped the lock off the door with his bare hand.  Rev had calmly left his cage and followed Tyr to Dylan, completely ignoring the screaming zoo goers who panicked and ran every which way all around them.  Tyr used equal finesse to rip the lock from Dylan's cage and let him out. 

It was only now that the zoo guards came out to see what the problem was.  Rev growled, Tyr handed Dylan a Force Lance from his pocked and extracted his own.  The guards backed down and let them escape they were Neitzchiens after all.  No job that paid so little was worth dying for.  .

They returned to the Andromeda.  It had been a while since Dylan was so happy to see it.  But the ship seemed so incomplete without Beka and Harper.  The information Rev and Dylan had about where their friends had been taken narrowed down Rommie's search considerably.  Harper had to be on Essic 9, a mining moon.  That would be the next place they went.