Riddicks Pov.
I sat in my cryotube with myhead hung in defeat. At least that's what I hoped I looked like. A defeated
criminal. On the inside I was seething. I would get out of here. ANd I would kill Mcatyhey. The place on my
forehead where Noir kissed me burned. I would get them all for what they did. Mcatyhey had come to gloat
in front of my cryotube about how he had gotten rid of her.
" Sent her out of the garbage shoot." HE said. "Into deep cold space. She probably struggled for a few
minutes but the cold quickly froze her and then she ran out of air in her lungs. POP." I jumped at him.
Stretching myself as far as my restraints would let me. He just laughed and said I should get some sleep. He
had work for me to do.
Now I was quietly working on my cuffs. Testing them. They're duribility. Theses were good. But nothing I
couldn't get out of. It would just take some time.
Noir's POV
They shoved me into the garbage tube and slammed the door shut. Apparently they thought I would fall
but I didn't. I stuck out my hands and gripped the walls. Staying my fall. Suddenly all the air was sucked out
of the tube and I felt myself begin to descend. THey had opened the damn thing. I pressed my feet to the
walls and that helped a little but I was still going down. My lungs begged to be refilled. I gulped and caught
a little air as it was sucked out of the hole. Not much but enought o last me for a few seconds. Suddenly the
pressure stopped and I heard the distinct sound of doors closing. I relaxed a little and tried to breathe.
Hardly anything. I slowly crawled back up the shaft and waited by the door. THey would have to open it
sometime. And then I would get out and get Riddick and we would blow this ship. Maybe take Mcatyhey
out on our way.
It had to have been at least two days before anyone showed. My stomach was growling and I was growing
faint with my need for water. I had crawled down the shaft a time or two to sleep at the bay doors. But I
was still exhausted. Then. The second day. I was saved. Or rather. I was discovered. The doors opened
and I jumped out. Gulping in the fresh air. I looked at the man who had released me. He looked like he
had seen a ghost. I smiled and straightened. Floating in the low gravity.
"WHat's the matter?" I asked coyly." You've never seen a woman before?" I reached around his shoulders.
I felt around his neck for a moment watching him sweat and gulp. Then I pressed the spot that I knew
would knock him out. He slumped and floated freely. I smiled and dragged him to a dark corner.
I slid through the dark hallways and hid in the dark corners of the ship. I slunk into the kintchen sort of
thing and grabbed some food packs. I filled myself with water and then left. I floated around until I found
a unused room It looked to be the same as the room I had been locked in before but I knew that that room
was a few corridors down. I went to the back of the room and pulled the panel off the seat at the back. I
smiled at the crawl space under neath and crawled into it. I replaced the panel and curled up. I was asleep
before I knew it.
Riddicks POV
They were coming. Slowly. I pulled and another click on the cuffs went. Almost done. I twisted and
turned my wrists. The lights in the room blinked outside my cryotube. The door slid open. No one entered.
I listened for amoment until it closed. I sniffed but couldn't smell anything outside my cryotube. I went
back to my cuffs. A shadow blocked ou thte light and someone started to mess with the opening. The
airlock hissed as the door opened then soft hands were placed on my cheeks.
"Noir." I sighed. She pulled the blindfold off of me and smiled down into my eyes.
"Hi." She said. I smiled back at her.
"I thought that they threw you out the garbage shoot."I said. She smiled wider showing her perfect teeth
and traced a light pattern on my left cheek.
"There are some things about me that you don't know."She said. She leaned towards me and reached
around to undoe my cuffs.
As soon as my hands were free I reached up around her head and pulled her towards me. A small gasp
sounded from her throat then she relaxed against me and kissed me back. I pulled away.
"I've wanted to do that since that day in the storage room when they took you away." I told her. She
smiled and raised her eyes heavenward guiltly. I knew that she had wanted it to.
"Come one lets get out of here." She said taking my hand and pulling me up from my seat. I pulled her
back.
"What?" She asked. I smiled and pointed down at my feet. She looked down and saw that htey too were
cuffed to the floor. She smiled shyly and pushed herself back. I knelt and quickly did away with the chains.
"What about Mouse?" She said. I stood, holding myself there with my feet shoved between the doorway of
the cryotube, and looked at the cryotube that held a drooling Mouse. I seriously thought about leaving him
there but Noir was already moving towards the tube.
"He's asleep." She said. I rolled my eyes. She pressed the buttons and the airlock hissed. Mouse snorted
and dazedly opened his eyes.
"Woh. Are we there yet?" He said rubbing his eyes. Noir laughed and pushed herself backwards and flew
on her back to the floor and flew towards the door. Mouse stood and launched himself after her. I growled
and reached up a hand and pulled him back.
"I go first." I said pointed at myself.
"Are you two coming?" Noir said from the doorway. I looked at her and smiled. She still had blisters
going up her neck into her hairline and her face was still red but she looked two times better. I flew after
her out of the room.
"Where are we going?" Mouse called out behind us. Noir turned her head.
"The control room." She called back to us. "I've been out of the garbage shoot for about three days now.
and I looked around. I know where everything is." I watched her move gracefully through the air. We
reached the control room door and Noir hit some buttons. The door slid open and I pushed past her. I
looked around the room. Just a regular set of controls. No fancy new equipment. No nothing. I pulled myself
into the pilot seat.
"THey need to update they're stuff."I said. Noir leaned over me and looked over the controls. She nodded
her head and looked at me.
"Your right." She said and pecked me on the lips. I grinned and took a hold of the controls.
"So where were we headed?" She asked. I hit a button and a veiw screen up. I looked at the cordinates and
then I tightened my jaw and looked away from the screen.
"Riddick?" Noir said looking at my face." What's wrong?"
"I know that planet." I said pointing at the screen. She looked at the screen and then back at me.
"I don't understand." She said.
"Riddick died on that planet."I said.
I sat in my cryotube with myhead hung in defeat. At least that's what I hoped I looked like. A defeated
criminal. On the inside I was seething. I would get out of here. ANd I would kill Mcatyhey. The place on my
forehead where Noir kissed me burned. I would get them all for what they did. Mcatyhey had come to gloat
in front of my cryotube about how he had gotten rid of her.
" Sent her out of the garbage shoot." HE said. "Into deep cold space. She probably struggled for a few
minutes but the cold quickly froze her and then she ran out of air in her lungs. POP." I jumped at him.
Stretching myself as far as my restraints would let me. He just laughed and said I should get some sleep. He
had work for me to do.
Now I was quietly working on my cuffs. Testing them. They're duribility. Theses were good. But nothing I
couldn't get out of. It would just take some time.
Noir's POV
They shoved me into the garbage tube and slammed the door shut. Apparently they thought I would fall
but I didn't. I stuck out my hands and gripped the walls. Staying my fall. Suddenly all the air was sucked out
of the tube and I felt myself begin to descend. THey had opened the damn thing. I pressed my feet to the
walls and that helped a little but I was still going down. My lungs begged to be refilled. I gulped and caught
a little air as it was sucked out of the hole. Not much but enought o last me for a few seconds. Suddenly the
pressure stopped and I heard the distinct sound of doors closing. I relaxed a little and tried to breathe.
Hardly anything. I slowly crawled back up the shaft and waited by the door. THey would have to open it
sometime. And then I would get out and get Riddick and we would blow this ship. Maybe take Mcatyhey
out on our way.
It had to have been at least two days before anyone showed. My stomach was growling and I was growing
faint with my need for water. I had crawled down the shaft a time or two to sleep at the bay doors. But I
was still exhausted. Then. The second day. I was saved. Or rather. I was discovered. The doors opened
and I jumped out. Gulping in the fresh air. I looked at the man who had released me. He looked like he
had seen a ghost. I smiled and straightened. Floating in the low gravity.
"WHat's the matter?" I asked coyly." You've never seen a woman before?" I reached around his shoulders.
I felt around his neck for a moment watching him sweat and gulp. Then I pressed the spot that I knew
would knock him out. He slumped and floated freely. I smiled and dragged him to a dark corner.
I slid through the dark hallways and hid in the dark corners of the ship. I slunk into the kintchen sort of
thing and grabbed some food packs. I filled myself with water and then left. I floated around until I found
a unused room It looked to be the same as the room I had been locked in before but I knew that that room
was a few corridors down. I went to the back of the room and pulled the panel off the seat at the back. I
smiled at the crawl space under neath and crawled into it. I replaced the panel and curled up. I was asleep
before I knew it.
Riddicks POV
They were coming. Slowly. I pulled and another click on the cuffs went. Almost done. I twisted and
turned my wrists. The lights in the room blinked outside my cryotube. The door slid open. No one entered.
I listened for amoment until it closed. I sniffed but couldn't smell anything outside my cryotube. I went
back to my cuffs. A shadow blocked ou thte light and someone started to mess with the opening. The
airlock hissed as the door opened then soft hands were placed on my cheeks.
"Noir." I sighed. She pulled the blindfold off of me and smiled down into my eyes.
"Hi." She said. I smiled back at her.
"I thought that they threw you out the garbage shoot."I said. She smiled wider showing her perfect teeth
and traced a light pattern on my left cheek.
"There are some things about me that you don't know."She said. She leaned towards me and reached
around to undoe my cuffs.
As soon as my hands were free I reached up around her head and pulled her towards me. A small gasp
sounded from her throat then she relaxed against me and kissed me back. I pulled away.
"I've wanted to do that since that day in the storage room when they took you away." I told her. She
smiled and raised her eyes heavenward guiltly. I knew that she had wanted it to.
"Come one lets get out of here." She said taking my hand and pulling me up from my seat. I pulled her
back.
"What?" She asked. I smiled and pointed down at my feet. She looked down and saw that htey too were
cuffed to the floor. She smiled shyly and pushed herself back. I knelt and quickly did away with the chains.
"What about Mouse?" She said. I stood, holding myself there with my feet shoved between the doorway of
the cryotube, and looked at the cryotube that held a drooling Mouse. I seriously thought about leaving him
there but Noir was already moving towards the tube.
"He's asleep." She said. I rolled my eyes. She pressed the buttons and the airlock hissed. Mouse snorted
and dazedly opened his eyes.
"Woh. Are we there yet?" He said rubbing his eyes. Noir laughed and pushed herself backwards and flew
on her back to the floor and flew towards the door. Mouse stood and launched himself after her. I growled
and reached up a hand and pulled him back.
"I go first." I said pointed at myself.
"Are you two coming?" Noir said from the doorway. I looked at her and smiled. She still had blisters
going up her neck into her hairline and her face was still red but she looked two times better. I flew after
her out of the room.
"Where are we going?" Mouse called out behind us. Noir turned her head.
"The control room." She called back to us. "I've been out of the garbage shoot for about three days now.
and I looked around. I know where everything is." I watched her move gracefully through the air. We
reached the control room door and Noir hit some buttons. The door slid open and I pushed past her. I
looked around the room. Just a regular set of controls. No fancy new equipment. No nothing. I pulled myself
into the pilot seat.
"THey need to update they're stuff."I said. Noir leaned over me and looked over the controls. She nodded
her head and looked at me.
"Your right." She said and pecked me on the lips. I grinned and took a hold of the controls.
"So where were we headed?" She asked. I hit a button and a veiw screen up. I looked at the cordinates and
then I tightened my jaw and looked away from the screen.
"Riddick?" Noir said looking at my face." What's wrong?"
"I know that planet." I said pointing at the screen. She looked at the screen and then back at me.
"I don't understand." She said.
"Riddick died on that planet."I said.