Legacy
Part 2 – The Genesis Device
It will be mine, oh yes Farscape will be mine.
Until then I write fictions which makes no money so don't sue me
Pain was patient, waiting in the shadows.
Slowly Rygel opened his eyes, instantly regretting it as he was hit with the bright light of the medical bay and pain found its opportunity to run through his fortifications, fly through his brain like fire.
"Dominar". Pilot's voice…so far away. His head was swimming Rygel could almost picture the green blood filling his skull…pressure building.
"Eme…hurry Zhaan…'inar can you hear me…" Rygel tried to stand but pain increased the intensity of its attack and the injured Hynerian fell to the ground again. His last defence against the onslaught took hold, and he drowned the pain in darkness, the shadow chasing it into hiding while Rygel took shelter in unconsciousness.
Crichton had come through here, and he had made no effort to cover his tracks. Aeryn made a mental note to teach him later.
If they survived the next 24 arns that was.
She continued quickly, her sense of urgency heightened by the presence of the Sebacean ship only mere microts away, maybe already here, and then there was the abrupt cancellation of her communication with Crichton as she had landed the prowler beside the abandoned Farscape Module.
True John had a strange tendency to get himself into trouble and his behaviour made even the races of the uncharted territories look normal, well maybe not all of them, but THIS show of behaviour was out of character for the Human. He had shows little or no violent action towards the crew of Moya before, no expressed desire to leave save for his wish to return to Ert…Eyerth…his home planet.
Maybe it was a result of his encounter with Maldis, or delayed shock from the incident in the chamber she was passing now. She quickly looked in and the statue stared back at her through the now permanently open doorway. Aeryn couldn't help the uncharacteristic shiver that ran from the base of her spine to the back of her neck. She didn't linger, but it appeared that Crichton had, some of the debris from the door had been disturbed, thrown across the room.
The corridor followed round and began to slope down, disappearing into the depths. She hurried down, expertly running without making a single sound, even her breathing was quiet.
"…except the promise of rebirth".
Aeryn quickened her pace at the sound of John's voice.
"Emergency on medical deck. Hurry Zhaan. Dominar can you hear me".
Zhaan knelt down next to the painfully still body of the Hynerian, and despite every fear pulsating through her placed a gentle hand on his head, feeling how hot it was. He had obviously been thrown, leaving his hoverchair behind entirely and hitting the wall hard. Internal bleeding was a certainty.
This meant that unless Zhaan acted fast Rygel was going to die
Lenner / Crichton stood at the end of the corridor, staring at an ornate door of sorts, but with no clue as to how to open it except a small statue in the corner, similar to the one in the water chamber only male, larger and far more muscular. The recess that would have held its heart was empty.
Wonder what goes there Crichton quipped, trying to keep his humorous defence mechanism up despite the increasing freakiness of his situation.
In their hand, Lenner / Crichton held the fateful red ruby. This they placed into the hole of the statue. As the ruby was returned the eyes of the statue glowed. "Only my hand could take the heart stone from the Goddess safely to transport it to its final resting place". Lenner explained.
And you couldn't have left a warning for…say… ME
"Not at the time".
The ornate door silently slid open behind them, and another, steeper slope was revealed.
"The meteors came on the day of my ascension into priesthood. We believed it to be Gods at first, patterns of bright white forming across the night sky in sweeping lines, and welcomed it, but then the fire fell from the sky and we saw it was the work of Demons. My people knew not of danger, of weapons, we were ignorant. Even our best scanners could only see the orbit of out world, not the worlds beyond. Our only defence in the face of the end was the promise of rebirth".
The slope became gentler, flattening completely at the base of a huge cavern, filled with a great machine taller than most of the buildings on Earth. Its main components were bulb like containers, thousands, each containing a calm, dark blue liquid.
Cool
"This was once our shelter from the monsoon rains, then out shelter from the sky fire. But after the meteor showers came the Destroyer, much larger than anything before it. It removed out planets ability to fight the radiation of our star; we were all suffocating within our shelters and food was scarce. So in what years we had left we created the genesis device".
Pipes led to numerous consoles, containing data banks and what looked like small, cylindrical storage containers, only about the size of a scientist test tube, but all holding strange samples.
Lenner / Crichton took one, holding it up at eye level. "The Falnek Eagle, the king of our sky". Replaced it, took another. "The Polten, who lived in the trees and never saw ground".
DNA
"I was chosen to wait in cold sleep until the radiation was gone, until the destroyer had left our world, then I would activate the genesis machine. Within this device is the power to alter basic particles, replace atmosphere, and create life from death". Lenner / Crichton climbed onto a catwalk around the device, staring into the bulb containers. "Sea, vegetation. The animals and people of Nioloth".
Clones
"The first generation would be born of mitosis yes. Only a few to start, grown within the safety of the machine, educated by its matrix to care for the many that follow until enough are available for natural procreation",
So what happened...why didn't you wake up?
"I was placed in the cold sleep, stopping the work of time until I was ready, but there was an unforeseen malfunction in the system. I was released early, helpless to the radiation.
Images, terrible images of blood…pain.
"Don't move". The unmistakable click and whine of an arming Pulse blaster came from behind.
Aeryn
"This orbit will not hide us for long Ka D'Argo".
"We can't starburst without Aeryn and Crichton". D'Argo said, clenched fists resting on the console as he watched the sandy planet below, saw through it to the peacekeeper ship on the other side. Moya encircled the planet with it, trying to stay on the opposite side, but the faster ship was gaining on her.
"Crichton. When you're done conversing with yourself tell me what the frell that is, a weapon?"
"No, it is not designed to take life but to restore it where it had been lost".
"What…you're not making sense".
Lenner / Crichton turned to face her, slowly, hands above their head. "It is the hope of my people".
"YOUR people! Crichton have you gone completely krishool?"
Let me speak to her
'Very well'
"Aeryn". It actually felt weird for Crichton to hear his own voice out loud. "The people that lived here, they arranged their own resurrection, through this…machine. They…I don't know, they're talking to me now, they need to make it work…"
"What?" Aeryn lowered the gun, but kept her finger firmly on the trigger.
"Please, I know it sounds completely insane, but you have to believe me".
Aeryn looked at him, and John waited for her response. It never came.
An alarm filled the room and Lenner instantly took control again as they looked at the sensor screen on the wall beside the catwalk.
"The Peacekeepers have detected your Leviathan".