Part2 Chapter 3
John looked at Scorpious in disbelief. After what happened to him, they would actually send another human being out on another Farscape mission? But after a minute or so, all of those thoughts escaped his mind. Another human being, another like him, who knew of Earth, who has lived on earth, who shared the same general memories of it, who will know what he is talking about when he refers to a game or something, who will not raise his eyebrows in bewilderment when he says something about earth. "Well, where is he, or she, or them…?"
"They are here, on the planet, but they are contained, I was not going to let another one get away from me."
"You bastard! After all of the trouble you went through with me, you are willing to try it again, and at your age too? Pah, you even madder than I thought!" John leaned on the desk, folding his arms. Kira, the others, and the guards looked at from Scorpious to john and then at each other. They were confused.
"So," Aeryn said, "there is another human being on the planet? Right here in the same building?"
"Yes officer Sun" said Scorpious, "If you will come this way please, all of you, I will show you my newest experiment."
"Experiment!" shouted john, "Humans my be slightly inferior, but we are people, we have lives, you cannot perform you sick head games on them-us!" he (along with the others, save the guards, which Scorpious told to stay back) followed Scorpious down a wide corridor where at the end, they turned and went thru a small door, and into a narrow, damp hallway, where near the end, there was a somewhat large cell, much like the one they had all earlier stayed in. John poked his head in. He saw a young man, of about 23 years old, dressed in denim blue jeans and a black t-shirt; he had an orange NASA jacket over the top half. He had sharp male features: a hawks beak nose, piercing green eyes and short, black spiky hair, he had a sharp goatee. He was about 6'2'', had wide shoulders and narrow hips. He was definitely human, John thought to himself.
"Do you like what you see John?" asked Scorpious.
"He is a human, that's all I am worried about. Can I speak to him?" John asked Scorpious. Scorpious then proceeded to open the door. The young man looked up at Scorpious.
"What do you want beast!" spat the young man. The others heard his voice; it was like johns, the same accent and tone.
"You have some visitors."
"Like who? Another one of your 'doctors'?"
"No, a fellow human, and his family."
"You said that there were no more humans!" he rose from his seat with clenched fists and toward over
Scorpious.
"I lied, you should know better than to trust me Jasten," Scorpious walked out of the room and motioned for John and the others to enter. They all fit, surprisingly…
John just stared at him for about a minute, and the other man stared right back.
"Hello." Said Jasten.
"Hey," said Crichton, "How's Earth?"
"Not too good, almost all of the land is destroyed by nuclear wars, and most of the people are living on ocean, Moon, and Mars colonies."
"Mars colonies…heh, they actually did it, after all that time…" John smiled to himself, "Must be pretty neat, livin' on Mars and all…I didn't think that it would be colonized and lived on for a long time."
"It has been for over 327 years."
"What? How is that? I have only been out here for about 20…" John had a confused look on his face, "What year was it when you left?"
"2325, how about you?"
"1998…" John sunk down in his chair. All of his family was surely dead long ago, his home, all of his belongings, all of his favorite places, all gone…
"Wow man, that's wild! You must be that John Crichton person, ya know, they tracked you out here-well, they saw that your messages were coming from somewhere way beyond their knowledge, that started the whole deep space exploration thing." Jasten smiled at John, then looked over at the others. "May I ask who all of these beings are?"
"Yes, this is my wife, Aeryn Sun," John said, Aeryn nodded and smiled at him.
"Pleasure to meet you…Jasten," she shook his hand.
"And this is Aleki," Aleki nodded, John gestured to and introduced Zahn, then he came to Kira, "And this is my daughter Kira." Jasten's eyes widened as he looked at Kira, he took her hand and kissed the top of it slowly.
"A pleasure to meet you Kira…"
"Likewise," said Kira somewhat uncomfortably, with a small smile. Aleki rolled his eyes and raised an eyebrow as he looked away. Jasten turned his antention back to John.
"What did you think happened? Like, you just disappeared and everyone forgot about you?"
"Something like that…"
"Yea, right, like that would happen; one of NASA's finest astronauts disappears on a mission thru some strange portal in the universe and you expect everyone just to forget you?"
"Well, I never really thought of it that way…hmmm…" he had a deep-in-thought look on his face.
"Children do your life story for projects in school, some are even you for halloween. It's amazing."
John laughed out loud and looked at his family, they all had strange looks on their faces, like it was unbeleiveable that their own John Crichton was famous on his home planet. "What?" asked John, "Its not that hard to think about…. So how did you get here? Did they send you out on a mission too?"
"Yea, There were years of testing done on what you call wormholes, we found several of them out past Pluto and Aeros, and the second galaxy…"
"I am assumeing that Aeros and the second galaxy were discovered in the past 327 years…"
"Yea," he continued, "All of the tests that were run, said that the wormholes were unstable and not safe for travel of any kind. Then about a hundred years or so later, they decided to test different types of ships in the holes. They found that a certain type of metal found on Jupiter withstands the speed and heat of the wormholes-"
"But my farscape held up fine, its still in good condition!"
"Hmm… I don't know how that is, all of the metals on earth never held up…anyway…. So we sent some Apes thru it and stuff and we never saw them again, but we were getting signals from them-well, their ship anyway, and it said that they were still alive. So we knew that creatures didn't die in it, but no one had the guts to go thru with it, they couldn't get anyone to volunteer to do it, everyone was afraid. So the years passed and still no one wanted to do it. So when I got out of college, I got into all of the NASA stuff and I heard about the secret wormhole stuff, so I volentered, they all laughed at me and thought I couldn't handle it cause I was just out of school. But I did it anyway, when I got out of the hole, I couldn't contact Earth at all, I still cant. So I was jut floating thru space when this big Peace Keeper carrier scooped me up and took me prisoner, even though I didn't do anything."
"They are like that…ya just gotta deal with it and escape, if you can. We have a plan, we have done this before, I'll let ya know sometime about it. Would you like to come with us?"
"Hell yea! So whats the plan?"
"We have people up on our ship, they are gonna come down and storm the base, then wisk us away to never never land…"
"You make it sound so simple."
"Well, it is, Just knock off the leaders and the rest of the little guys get lost- so to speak."
"Oh. You know allot about them I see."
"I have had to deal with them over the years…"
"Ah, so when is this happening?"
"As soon as blue here gets up to Moya to get the others."
"Moya?"
"Yea, our Leviathan."
"Wow, a real Levaithan…"
"Yes. A real leviathan…" said John. He was pretty surprised when he first saw it too. "So anyway…"
Aeryn looked at all of her friends, "So this is what happens when SheRogue gets writers block! We all just sit her on a pretty yellow disk for 2 months! HA!" she stood up and then stood on her head for lack of thought. John looked at Aeryn with a deeply confused look in his eyes.
"Uh…Aeryn? What in the world are you doing!"
"I'm standing on my head, isn't that obvious? We aren't doing anything else!"
"Well, you do have a point there…" John looked out thru the computer screen at SheRogue. "Hey! Stupid! Get writing…dork…."
SheRogue look at John and all of the other characters, "I'm getting there! Geez…"
"Good!" said Zahn, "I have to get going up to Moya anyway. Zahn got up from where she was sitting and knocked on the door to leave. The guard opened it and let her out, and promptly locked the others back in. Zahn looked at Scorpious. "I am wondering if you would let me go. I had nothing to do in this affair and I have a daily routine that I cannot miss."
Scorpious eyed her suspiciously, "I suppose you could… I have no reason to keep you here… will you need an escort?"
"No thank you. I will be fine," she replied as she nodded thanks to him and walked away. When she was out side of the complex, she made her way to the transport pod. When she boarded she remembered all of the things that Aeryn ever told her about flying… and she took off into the sky and docked on Moya. When she got off, she say D'Argo, Chiana and Jothee waiting there for her and the rest of the crew. Their faces fell when they saw that it was just Zahn who returned empty handed.
"Where are the others? And where are all of the goods?" barked D'Argo.
"That is what I must discuss with you. They were captured by the Peace Keepers. Kira accidentally knocked over one of the stands that just happened to display an array of very expensive trinkets. When we couldn't pay for them, the very large and burly salesman called the guards. Now, everyone is in holding at the base. If we cannot pay the bill…John and…or…Kira are going to be forced into hard labor until their debt is repaid…it would take more than a life time to repay the man for all of the items…even if both of them worked. So we have to go down and get them out. Or, make a deal with Scorpious. It would have to be a good deal though".
D'Argo stared blankly at Zahn, "Something like this always happens when anyone goes planet side…I think we're all cursed or something," he growled under his breath.
"We don't have any money to pay them back with, and D'Argo, Jothee, you and I wont be able to take on an entire peace keeper base…its impossible…" Chiana thought out loud.
"We could like….sneak in, grab em, then sneak back out again, that always seems to work," Jothee suggested.
"Have you ever been in one of those things? Yes, you have. You know how tight they are. The only thing we can do, is make a deal…and since we have nothing to bargin with…" D'Argo trailed off and sighed.
"No…we're not just going to let them there. That's just wrong. Theres got to be something we can bargin with!" complained Chiana.
"We've got Moya," suggested jothee. D'Argo thwaped him up side the head.
"NO. that is simply out of the question. We are NOT selling Moya" said D'Argo, crossing his arms.
"No no, I mean…we could trade her for the damaged merchandise…then steal her back!" Jothee explained. Zahn, Chiana, and D'Argo just stared at him, "I mean…we know just about every single part of this ship…and pilot…well…we can explain to him whats going on, I'm sure he'll understand and co-operate."
"He has a point…and a very good one at that," said Chiana to D'Argo. D'Argo nodded in agreement, so did Zahn, Jothee smiled.
"Well, it appears as though we have a plan," said D'Argo, as he walked off to tell Pilot.
