A/N: This is getting increasingly difficult to do.... I need to watch Space Cases again! ARGH! I need to be able to watch Radu and Harlan bicker! I must have all of the crew at my every beck and call, damn it! I need to watch this show again!
There is something severely wrong with me. I still have a small crush on Radu... He's just so... ADORABLE. The kid that played him wasn't that bad lookin' either. I liked that episode where Radu became human. It was the first time I had ever seen the actor without all the make-up. After that... my Radu obsession began.
And no... I don't remember where Miss Davenport and Commander Goddard slept... so bear with me. Same goes with Elmira. If it's wrong, as I'm sure it is.... don't say a word.. Or.. Give me a URL for an information site and a new computer.
Chapter Five
Admiral Chen waited patiently as his second frantically searched for the Christa. "Find anything, Commander?"
"No sir.... The Christa disappeared off our charts...."
Chen didn't want to hear that. He growled at the commander. "Find them! I want that girl alive...."
"Yes sir..."
Chen suddenly got an idea. "Can you track certain codes and signals?" He leaned on his fist and stared at the officer.
The officer gulped nervously and tapped the controls. To his surprise, something came up in the positive. "Yes sir... the code or signal you want to track....?"
"F..R...A...Y...zero... zero...nine..."
"Yes sir...."
Admiral Chen leaned back in his command chair. He smiled as something came up on the sensors. He would soon find her.
Suzee knocked on the door of the boys' quarters. They opened and she saw Harlan sitting up in bed. Radu and Bova were asleep. Harlan smiled at her and yawned. "Hello, Suzee... What brings you here....?"
"I was wondering if you have seen Freya...." she said. She shifted her weight on her feet nervously.
"Yeah... I saw her... she was in here talking to Radu when I came in. Gave him a nice little kiss and everything...." he said with a devious grin.
"She did not!" growled Radu from under his covers.
Suzee wasn't pleased. She narrowed her eyes at Harlan and shook her head. "Sorry for waking you... good night..." She smiled.
"Wait, Suzee..."
Suzee stopped in the doorway. Her breath seemed to stop as well. Harlan came up behind her. He didn't say anything for several moments. She didn't turn, for fear of him seeing pink slowly creep into her cheeks.
Then, Harlan gulped and grinned nervously. "Ah... um... Good Night, Suzee..."
Then, the doors closed as soon as Suzee stepped out. Suzee could hear Catalina screaming at her inside her head. Things about how Harlan was hers and she couldn't have him. Catalina could be infuriating at times.
She calmed herself down and started walking. "Now... where would I go if I were a malfunctioning twit with a furball...." Suzee had an idea. "Where the other malfunctioning twit is...."
Then, she jumped into a jumptube, hoping that she would come out at the right destination instead of falling into some strange pit no one ever heard about on the ship.
"You're really pathetic, you know that..." Radu said irritably to Harlan who he was walking behind. Harlan had dragged Radu out of bed to go find Suzee. "You had her there and you could have said... oh... I don't know... anything!"
"And what about you, oh so shy one!? You have this perfect girl, who may be a reptile, but she's at least cute! Why don't you ever do anything with her...." Harlan growled. "Then, there's Freya.... she practically throws herself at you and you basically walk away...."
"N-No I don't!" Radu stammered. His cheeks started burning again.
"Well, then don't talk about what I should've done!" Harlan hissed at him.
They walked in silence for about a minute. "She doesn't throw herself at me, you know... she just is there...."
"Oh is that what you call it.... It looked to me like she was tossing plenty of herself in your direction...." Harlan said with a devious grin.
"Oh shut up!"
Suddenly, the ship shook roughly. Harlan and Radu were tossed into a bulkhead. Harlan tasted blood in his mouth. It trickled out of the corner of his mouth. His head hurt horrendously as well.
"Radu... are you okay...?" Harlan choked out. Then, he saw it. It was a massive crack in the bulkhead, matched by other small cracks. The ship looked as though it were trying to tear itself apart.
The stunned body of Radu twitched. His head moved and the curly mass of blonde hair came up with it. Radu rubbed his head where he had hit it. "Ow... what happened...."
"Harlan! Radu! Bova! Rosie!" came Suzee's voice of the intercom. "I need help in engineering! The ship is tearing apart! I repeat! The ship is tearing apart!"
Freya stumbled into the bridge. Hunter jumped off of her and ran over toward the command console and disappeared. Freya ran over to find him. "Hunter! Where did you go!"
"I REPEAT! THE SHIP IS TEARING APART!" came Suzee's voice over the intercom.
Freya had only enough time to brace herself a massive shudder wracked the ship. The view screen came on. The same gaunt man with the spines appeared on it. He grinned maliciously at her. "Hello, Freya.... having a nice time over there....?"
"Dude... don't you ever give up? I told you once and I ain't gonna say it again! Go away!" she growled at him.
"I'm sure you all are having fun with the virus your friends' ship now has...." There was a demented gleam in his eyes.
"I don't know what you're talking about.... I was having a nice stroll around the command deck..." Freya smiled innocently.
Chen wasn't amused. He grimaced at Freya angrily. "Come, come... I'm sure you have some kind of inkling that your friends' ship is now a death trap...."
"No clue..."
Chen was looking a bit desperate. "But... what about the shuddering and the quivering... there's supposed to be quivering!"
Just then, Radu and Harlan fell out of the jumptube in the hall and ran onto the bridge. They saw Chen on the screen and growled. "What are you doing back!" Harlan growled at Chen menacingly.
Chen seemed to regain his composure. "I know your friends don't know... but I know you do.... you know what is happening to their ship..."
Radu glanced over at Freya. Her face was set in an angry glare. Harlan spoke again. "We know what's going on... Freya already told us about that weapon you used on her ship...."
Chen sneered at Harlan. "Really, now... Then, I'm sure you don't need me to say any more about it...." He turned to Freya with an ever increasing grin. "If you want your friends to survive, Freya... surrender..."
Harlan growled. "You can't hurt us!"
"On the contrary, little boy... I can..." Admiral Chen gave that smile that had the uncanny resemblance to a serial killer's. "The clock is ticking, Fray... I'm sure you'll make the right choice soon enough...." Then, the view screen blinked off.
Freya slumped against the command console defeated. She had an idea of what was happening to the Christa. She cursed silently to herself at her own arrogance.
"Freya... Freya..." Radu said to her. She looked up at him and sighed. "What is happening... I thought you told us that you and Suzee boosted the ship's immune system to fight the virus....."
Harlan now turned around and saw the defeated vision of Freya on the ground. She gulped and then spoke. "I thought I had figured out how to get rid of the virus.... He must have tweaked it somehow...." she said.
"What do you mean....?" Radu asked her. He crouched down to talk to her.
"The...." She breathed in deeply. "The only way it could be killing the Christa now... is that it mutated.... It must have a compensating system...."
"Why didn't you tell us this before...." came the irritated voice of Suzee. She had walked into the command room.
"I just now realized it...." Freya gave her a glare.
There was silence in the room. Then, Freya stood up. "We've got to compensate for the mutation...." Her face lit up like a light. "I'm sure we can do it!"
Suzee gave an irritated glare. "Right... you told us that it compensates for the compensations... uh.. Wait.. I'm talking like you, now..."
"If we don't kill the virus, then I'll have to surrender myself over to Spine-Head! I'm not about to kill you all, but I don't want to have to do what he wants me to...." Freya said.
Radu suddenly blushed and Harlan shoved his fist into his mouth. Suzee and Freya glared at them both. "STOP THINKING LIKE THAT!"
"What does he want you to do... Why are they after you...." Suzee asked her. Freya gave her a side glance. It was the one question she continually avoided.
"He wants me... I'm a sort of weapon for him... He could use me to penetrate any station... to hack into any system...." Freya sighed. "There were others before me.... I'm just the ninth to get the implant."
She lifted up her hair and leaned forward. Radu walked over and looked closely at it. He saw a number on it written in red. "Fray.. Zero zero nine...."
"So that's why he called you Fray...." Harlan stated in realization. "And here I thought it was some sort of nick-name."
"It would be... She seems to be a magnet for trouble...." Suzee said with a smile.
"No.. We are the magnet for trouble...." said Harlan. "In case you hadn't noticed, she fell in OUR collective laps!"
"Not that you minded it..." Suzee quipped.
"They make a cute couple, don't you think, Radu?" Freya said with a smirk.
Harlan and Suzee gaped at her. "WE DO NOT!"
Then, the ship gave a mighty shudder that threw Suzee into Harlan's arms. Radu and Freya held eachother to their spot, but it really wasn't necessary. "Uh.. Right! Suzee, Freya! You two go down into the engine room and sort out this problem... Radu.. I'll need you to help me with getting the other's awake..." Harlan barked.
"Admiral Chen.... Why are you giving them so much time... they'll figure it out eventually.." said the second officer.
Chen smiled at the boy. He was too fresh to know how to deal with a case like Freya. She was special. She had a soft spot for these people and that was her weakness. He planned to exploit it as much as possible.
He tapped his chair lazily. It was going to be fun for him when he finally took the girl with him. He could kill the others when she was on board. Then, he realized that she wouldn't cooperate if he did that. He gritted his teeth in frustration.
"Admiral Chen....?" The officer chimed in on his thoughts.
Chen glanced over and glared at the boy. "Yes.... lieutenant.?"
The boy gulped. He was really a commander. He didn't wish to be bumped down in rank. "Never mind..." he squeaked.
Chen sneered at him. "Good..."
Harlan hooked up the jumper cables to Bova's antennae. Harlan ran over to the switch and grinned. This was his favorite part. "Five... Four... Three... Two...ONE!"
He punched the button and three thousand volts of electricity surged into the cable. Bova jerked and shook from the wattage. Then, Harlan switched the power flow off.
Bova knocked the cables off of him. Then, he yawned. "Is it time for breakfast yet...?"
"No time, Bova... We've got an emergency on our hands... I need you to get to your post on the command deck." Harlan said.
"As always... The fate of the universe is in our hands..." Bova drawled. He jumped out of bed and got dressed.
Radu walked into the girl's quarters and found Rosie already dressed. She was trying to wake up Miss Davenport. "Miss Davenport... wake up... Suzee needs us..."
"Leave her... she'll want to miss this, Rosie..." Radu stated as he walked over to Miss Davenport. She was snoring.
"Where are needed, Radu...?" Rosie asked.
"Harlan wants us on the command Deck... come on!" Radu started for the door. Rosie ran after him. The ship made another shudder. Rosie was thrown into Radu.
Rosie hurt along her back from the blow. "Owie..." she whimpered.
Radu helped her to her feet. "Come on, Rosie... we need to get going..." Then, they started running down the corridor.
There is something severely wrong with me. I still have a small crush on Radu... He's just so... ADORABLE. The kid that played him wasn't that bad lookin' either. I liked that episode where Radu became human. It was the first time I had ever seen the actor without all the make-up. After that... my Radu obsession began.
And no... I don't remember where Miss Davenport and Commander Goddard slept... so bear with me. Same goes with Elmira. If it's wrong, as I'm sure it is.... don't say a word.. Or.. Give me a URL for an information site and a new computer.
Chapter Five
Admiral Chen waited patiently as his second frantically searched for the Christa. "Find anything, Commander?"
"No sir.... The Christa disappeared off our charts...."
Chen didn't want to hear that. He growled at the commander. "Find them! I want that girl alive...."
"Yes sir..."
Chen suddenly got an idea. "Can you track certain codes and signals?" He leaned on his fist and stared at the officer.
The officer gulped nervously and tapped the controls. To his surprise, something came up in the positive. "Yes sir... the code or signal you want to track....?"
"F..R...A...Y...zero... zero...nine..."
"Yes sir...."
Admiral Chen leaned back in his command chair. He smiled as something came up on the sensors. He would soon find her.
Suzee knocked on the door of the boys' quarters. They opened and she saw Harlan sitting up in bed. Radu and Bova were asleep. Harlan smiled at her and yawned. "Hello, Suzee... What brings you here....?"
"I was wondering if you have seen Freya...." she said. She shifted her weight on her feet nervously.
"Yeah... I saw her... she was in here talking to Radu when I came in. Gave him a nice little kiss and everything...." he said with a devious grin.
"She did not!" growled Radu from under his covers.
Suzee wasn't pleased. She narrowed her eyes at Harlan and shook her head. "Sorry for waking you... good night..." She smiled.
"Wait, Suzee..."
Suzee stopped in the doorway. Her breath seemed to stop as well. Harlan came up behind her. He didn't say anything for several moments. She didn't turn, for fear of him seeing pink slowly creep into her cheeks.
Then, Harlan gulped and grinned nervously. "Ah... um... Good Night, Suzee..."
Then, the doors closed as soon as Suzee stepped out. Suzee could hear Catalina screaming at her inside her head. Things about how Harlan was hers and she couldn't have him. Catalina could be infuriating at times.
She calmed herself down and started walking. "Now... where would I go if I were a malfunctioning twit with a furball...." Suzee had an idea. "Where the other malfunctioning twit is...."
Then, she jumped into a jumptube, hoping that she would come out at the right destination instead of falling into some strange pit no one ever heard about on the ship.
"You're really pathetic, you know that..." Radu said irritably to Harlan who he was walking behind. Harlan had dragged Radu out of bed to go find Suzee. "You had her there and you could have said... oh... I don't know... anything!"
"And what about you, oh so shy one!? You have this perfect girl, who may be a reptile, but she's at least cute! Why don't you ever do anything with her...." Harlan growled. "Then, there's Freya.... she practically throws herself at you and you basically walk away...."
"N-No I don't!" Radu stammered. His cheeks started burning again.
"Well, then don't talk about what I should've done!" Harlan hissed at him.
They walked in silence for about a minute. "She doesn't throw herself at me, you know... she just is there...."
"Oh is that what you call it.... It looked to me like she was tossing plenty of herself in your direction...." Harlan said with a devious grin.
"Oh shut up!"
Suddenly, the ship shook roughly. Harlan and Radu were tossed into a bulkhead. Harlan tasted blood in his mouth. It trickled out of the corner of his mouth. His head hurt horrendously as well.
"Radu... are you okay...?" Harlan choked out. Then, he saw it. It was a massive crack in the bulkhead, matched by other small cracks. The ship looked as though it were trying to tear itself apart.
The stunned body of Radu twitched. His head moved and the curly mass of blonde hair came up with it. Radu rubbed his head where he had hit it. "Ow... what happened...."
"Harlan! Radu! Bova! Rosie!" came Suzee's voice of the intercom. "I need help in engineering! The ship is tearing apart! I repeat! The ship is tearing apart!"
Freya stumbled into the bridge. Hunter jumped off of her and ran over toward the command console and disappeared. Freya ran over to find him. "Hunter! Where did you go!"
"I REPEAT! THE SHIP IS TEARING APART!" came Suzee's voice over the intercom.
Freya had only enough time to brace herself a massive shudder wracked the ship. The view screen came on. The same gaunt man with the spines appeared on it. He grinned maliciously at her. "Hello, Freya.... having a nice time over there....?"
"Dude... don't you ever give up? I told you once and I ain't gonna say it again! Go away!" she growled at him.
"I'm sure you all are having fun with the virus your friends' ship now has...." There was a demented gleam in his eyes.
"I don't know what you're talking about.... I was having a nice stroll around the command deck..." Freya smiled innocently.
Chen wasn't amused. He grimaced at Freya angrily. "Come, come... I'm sure you have some kind of inkling that your friends' ship is now a death trap...."
"No clue..."
Chen was looking a bit desperate. "But... what about the shuddering and the quivering... there's supposed to be quivering!"
Just then, Radu and Harlan fell out of the jumptube in the hall and ran onto the bridge. They saw Chen on the screen and growled. "What are you doing back!" Harlan growled at Chen menacingly.
Chen seemed to regain his composure. "I know your friends don't know... but I know you do.... you know what is happening to their ship..."
Radu glanced over at Freya. Her face was set in an angry glare. Harlan spoke again. "We know what's going on... Freya already told us about that weapon you used on her ship...."
Chen sneered at Harlan. "Really, now... Then, I'm sure you don't need me to say any more about it...." He turned to Freya with an ever increasing grin. "If you want your friends to survive, Freya... surrender..."
Harlan growled. "You can't hurt us!"
"On the contrary, little boy... I can..." Admiral Chen gave that smile that had the uncanny resemblance to a serial killer's. "The clock is ticking, Fray... I'm sure you'll make the right choice soon enough...." Then, the view screen blinked off.
Freya slumped against the command console defeated. She had an idea of what was happening to the Christa. She cursed silently to herself at her own arrogance.
"Freya... Freya..." Radu said to her. She looked up at him and sighed. "What is happening... I thought you told us that you and Suzee boosted the ship's immune system to fight the virus....."
Harlan now turned around and saw the defeated vision of Freya on the ground. She gulped and then spoke. "I thought I had figured out how to get rid of the virus.... He must have tweaked it somehow...." she said.
"What do you mean....?" Radu asked her. He crouched down to talk to her.
"The...." She breathed in deeply. "The only way it could be killing the Christa now... is that it mutated.... It must have a compensating system...."
"Why didn't you tell us this before...." came the irritated voice of Suzee. She had walked into the command room.
"I just now realized it...." Freya gave her a glare.
There was silence in the room. Then, Freya stood up. "We've got to compensate for the mutation...." Her face lit up like a light. "I'm sure we can do it!"
Suzee gave an irritated glare. "Right... you told us that it compensates for the compensations... uh.. Wait.. I'm talking like you, now..."
"If we don't kill the virus, then I'll have to surrender myself over to Spine-Head! I'm not about to kill you all, but I don't want to have to do what he wants me to...." Freya said.
Radu suddenly blushed and Harlan shoved his fist into his mouth. Suzee and Freya glared at them both. "STOP THINKING LIKE THAT!"
"What does he want you to do... Why are they after you...." Suzee asked her. Freya gave her a side glance. It was the one question she continually avoided.
"He wants me... I'm a sort of weapon for him... He could use me to penetrate any station... to hack into any system...." Freya sighed. "There were others before me.... I'm just the ninth to get the implant."
She lifted up her hair and leaned forward. Radu walked over and looked closely at it. He saw a number on it written in red. "Fray.. Zero zero nine...."
"So that's why he called you Fray...." Harlan stated in realization. "And here I thought it was some sort of nick-name."
"It would be... She seems to be a magnet for trouble...." Suzee said with a smile.
"No.. We are the magnet for trouble...." said Harlan. "In case you hadn't noticed, she fell in OUR collective laps!"
"Not that you minded it..." Suzee quipped.
"They make a cute couple, don't you think, Radu?" Freya said with a smirk.
Harlan and Suzee gaped at her. "WE DO NOT!"
Then, the ship gave a mighty shudder that threw Suzee into Harlan's arms. Radu and Freya held eachother to their spot, but it really wasn't necessary. "Uh.. Right! Suzee, Freya! You two go down into the engine room and sort out this problem... Radu.. I'll need you to help me with getting the other's awake..." Harlan barked.
"Admiral Chen.... Why are you giving them so much time... they'll figure it out eventually.." said the second officer.
Chen smiled at the boy. He was too fresh to know how to deal with a case like Freya. She was special. She had a soft spot for these people and that was her weakness. He planned to exploit it as much as possible.
He tapped his chair lazily. It was going to be fun for him when he finally took the girl with him. He could kill the others when she was on board. Then, he realized that she wouldn't cooperate if he did that. He gritted his teeth in frustration.
"Admiral Chen....?" The officer chimed in on his thoughts.
Chen glanced over and glared at the boy. "Yes.... lieutenant.?"
The boy gulped. He was really a commander. He didn't wish to be bumped down in rank. "Never mind..." he squeaked.
Chen sneered at him. "Good..."
Harlan hooked up the jumper cables to Bova's antennae. Harlan ran over to the switch and grinned. This was his favorite part. "Five... Four... Three... Two...ONE!"
He punched the button and three thousand volts of electricity surged into the cable. Bova jerked and shook from the wattage. Then, Harlan switched the power flow off.
Bova knocked the cables off of him. Then, he yawned. "Is it time for breakfast yet...?"
"No time, Bova... We've got an emergency on our hands... I need you to get to your post on the command deck." Harlan said.
"As always... The fate of the universe is in our hands..." Bova drawled. He jumped out of bed and got dressed.
Radu walked into the girl's quarters and found Rosie already dressed. She was trying to wake up Miss Davenport. "Miss Davenport... wake up... Suzee needs us..."
"Leave her... she'll want to miss this, Rosie..." Radu stated as he walked over to Miss Davenport. She was snoring.
"Where are needed, Radu...?" Rosie asked.
"Harlan wants us on the command Deck... come on!" Radu started for the door. Rosie ran after him. The ship made another shudder. Rosie was thrown into Radu.
Rosie hurt along her back from the blow. "Owie..." she whimpered.
Radu helped her to her feet. "Come on, Rosie... we need to get going..." Then, they started running down the corridor.