"How would Dylan have wanted you to react to this situation? Would he have wanted you to drown in sorrow? Or would he have wanted you to find out what you can about whoever is behind both Mat's threat and His death?" Trance said before turning and leaving not waiting for a response. I was shocked with that one sentence Trance brought into perspective everything that I had done in the past few days - which was nothing - and I realised that if Dylan was here he would be very disappointed with me. 'Ok we have to snap out of this our crew needs us and we also need to find out who did this to Dylan then exact revenge' I thought as I tried to figure out what to do first. Then it hit me, I have to make up with my ship self so I settled down back straight and called out "Andromeda we need to talk" and waited. She appeared right in front of me - as I knew she would - arms crossed and an angry look on her face 'Guess she hasn't forgiven me yet'.
"What do you want?"
"We need to talk"
"I've got nothing to say to you and I doubt you could say anything of interest to me either" she said still glaring at me
"Well let's see, I know your upset and so am I but we need to snap out of this" I started and waited for her reaction... It was silence, then I continued "Look we still have a crew to care for and they need our help"
"I know we have a crew to care for, and I know they need our help, I have been helping them. I've done everything that they have asked of me, which is more then I can say about you"
"True. You have answered their questions and kept the ship running but you haven't HELPED them in any way"
"What do you mean?" she was curious now which was a good sign it showed that I was getting through to her
"I mean you haven't talked to anyone, not even Harper. You haven't offered suggestions or advice, really you have done nothing more for your friends then be their ship."
"Well that's what I am, I'm a Warship you are the one with the emotions you should be out there helping them not me."
"Ok then if you haven't got any emotions why are you upset?"
"What do you mean 'why am I upset' you know damn well why I'm upset... Or at least you should know as it is your fault." those last scathing words cut me deep but I was not going to be baited by her. Not now when people were counting on us.
"Yes I know why you are upset. And yes I know it was my fault. There is nothing I can do to change that now no matter how much I want to, the only thing we can do now is make whoever is responsible for Dylan's death PAY FOR IT." 'Yes that's right get her angry, appeal to the warship side of her'
"Well what do you plan to do? How are we going to find whoever it was?" she asked with a fury burning behind her eyes, a fury I had never seen before and even though she was me and I was her it still frightened the hell out of me. I knew that once we had our hands on whoever did this they were going to suffer horribly.
"Well first of all what we have to do is try to...." I broke off as I saw her attention diverted towards the wall as if seeing something in the distance "What's going on?"
"Something strange is happening in Trance's room" she replied still looking at the wall "Wait she's asking for a ship-wide communication" then fell silent as we both listened to what was being said
"Ummm... Guys?.... You know how I said things are going to be bad for us?... Well... It's about to start" the speaker turned off but before Andromeda or I could say anything another ship-wide broadcast was initiated this time from Beka on Command.
"Everybody you had better get up her now we have a transmission coming in directed at all of us" she called out 'Hmmm this is so not good'. I leapt up opened the door and ran towards Command. I was the first of the rest of the crew to arrive as my quarters were the closest. I entered walked up to the Command platform and waited for everyone else to arrive. It was less the two minutes later when the other three ran in together and moved towards their stations.
"On screen" Beka said
What appeared on screen next horrified all of us even Tyr. We saw the face of our captain Dylan Hunt only it was very badly disfigured, his eye's and mouth were sewn shut, his cheekbone's were broken and he had a slit on his throat from ear to ear. After we had a good look at it Beka and Trance collapsed to the floor squeezing their eyes shut whilst looking like they were trying to keep their food down. Harper was in no better condition then them either. Only Tyr and I remained standing even though we had both turned our heads away from the graphic pictures.
"So do you like what my Master and I have done to your Captain Hunt?" came a familiar voice which caused everyone to look up and start.
"MAT?" I yelled out as I recognized the face behind the voice "You bastard why did you do that to him?" the fire inside me that was anger was hotter then all the suns in the universe. All I wanted to do was rip him to pieces.
"Oh Rommie you don't look happy to see me." he said sarcastically "and I was so hoping we could still be friends"
"Come on board and I'll show you how friendly we can get"
"Love to but can't... well not yet anyway. But please watch the rest of the video and it might explain a few things." with that said his face was replaced by the video of them picking up Dylan's body and carrying it back to the slip-fighter with which he had left the ship. It then showed how they ejected the slip-fighter and when it was far enough away they turned their weapons on it and blew it up. "So as you can see we have taken care of one of the biggest obstacles in our plans.
"And what plans would they be?" asked Tyr quietly.
"Never you mind about that, you will find out soon enough but for now let me just give you this message." The last four words he spoke before cutting of the transmission stunned Tyr, Trance and myself beyond all measure.
"Prepare Yourselves... RAGNAROK approaches."
"What do you want?"
"We need to talk"
"I've got nothing to say to you and I doubt you could say anything of interest to me either" she said still glaring at me
"Well let's see, I know your upset and so am I but we need to snap out of this" I started and waited for her reaction... It was silence, then I continued "Look we still have a crew to care for and they need our help"
"I know we have a crew to care for, and I know they need our help, I have been helping them. I've done everything that they have asked of me, which is more then I can say about you"
"True. You have answered their questions and kept the ship running but you haven't HELPED them in any way"
"What do you mean?" she was curious now which was a good sign it showed that I was getting through to her
"I mean you haven't talked to anyone, not even Harper. You haven't offered suggestions or advice, really you have done nothing more for your friends then be their ship."
"Well that's what I am, I'm a Warship you are the one with the emotions you should be out there helping them not me."
"Ok then if you haven't got any emotions why are you upset?"
"What do you mean 'why am I upset' you know damn well why I'm upset... Or at least you should know as it is your fault." those last scathing words cut me deep but I was not going to be baited by her. Not now when people were counting on us.
"Yes I know why you are upset. And yes I know it was my fault. There is nothing I can do to change that now no matter how much I want to, the only thing we can do now is make whoever is responsible for Dylan's death PAY FOR IT." 'Yes that's right get her angry, appeal to the warship side of her'
"Well what do you plan to do? How are we going to find whoever it was?" she asked with a fury burning behind her eyes, a fury I had never seen before and even though she was me and I was her it still frightened the hell out of me. I knew that once we had our hands on whoever did this they were going to suffer horribly.
"Well first of all what we have to do is try to...." I broke off as I saw her attention diverted towards the wall as if seeing something in the distance "What's going on?"
"Something strange is happening in Trance's room" she replied still looking at the wall "Wait she's asking for a ship-wide communication" then fell silent as we both listened to what was being said
"Ummm... Guys?.... You know how I said things are going to be bad for us?... Well... It's about to start" the speaker turned off but before Andromeda or I could say anything another ship-wide broadcast was initiated this time from Beka on Command.
"Everybody you had better get up her now we have a transmission coming in directed at all of us" she called out 'Hmmm this is so not good'. I leapt up opened the door and ran towards Command. I was the first of the rest of the crew to arrive as my quarters were the closest. I entered walked up to the Command platform and waited for everyone else to arrive. It was less the two minutes later when the other three ran in together and moved towards their stations.
"On screen" Beka said
What appeared on screen next horrified all of us even Tyr. We saw the face of our captain Dylan Hunt only it was very badly disfigured, his eye's and mouth were sewn shut, his cheekbone's were broken and he had a slit on his throat from ear to ear. After we had a good look at it Beka and Trance collapsed to the floor squeezing their eyes shut whilst looking like they were trying to keep their food down. Harper was in no better condition then them either. Only Tyr and I remained standing even though we had both turned our heads away from the graphic pictures.
"So do you like what my Master and I have done to your Captain Hunt?" came a familiar voice which caused everyone to look up and start.
"MAT?" I yelled out as I recognized the face behind the voice "You bastard why did you do that to him?" the fire inside me that was anger was hotter then all the suns in the universe. All I wanted to do was rip him to pieces.
"Oh Rommie you don't look happy to see me." he said sarcastically "and I was so hoping we could still be friends"
"Come on board and I'll show you how friendly we can get"
"Love to but can't... well not yet anyway. But please watch the rest of the video and it might explain a few things." with that said his face was replaced by the video of them picking up Dylan's body and carrying it back to the slip-fighter with which he had left the ship. It then showed how they ejected the slip-fighter and when it was far enough away they turned their weapons on it and blew it up. "So as you can see we have taken care of one of the biggest obstacles in our plans.
"And what plans would they be?" asked Tyr quietly.
"Never you mind about that, you will find out soon enough but for now let me just give you this message." The last four words he spoke before cutting of the transmission stunned Tyr, Trance and myself beyond all measure.
"Prepare Yourselves... RAGNAROK approaches."
