Holla Amigos... well, it has been a couple of what? month? that I´ve updated.but I´m Lila. and. I would never leave a story unfinished. well, maybe if peoplz would say, OMG, what trash are you producing here. but I hope you still like what I´m writing. Talk to ya..

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Harper's eyes twinkled oddly. He looked at her with a mix of worry, cockiness and caution. Finally, he offered her a hand and pulled her to her feet.

"How can you nap while we're all in danger." he asked her, twitching, one hand going through his messy hair.

She looked him over. "You're feeling it too, aren't you?"

He nodded, but before she could reply Dylan's voice echoed through the corridors. "Trance, we have a medical emergency at the gym."

Both stared at each other for a moment. Then she called: "I'm on my way!" and left Harper to himself.

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"Oh my goodness! " Trance whispered in amazement as she entered the gym. It looked pretty similar to Harpers quarters right now. The only difference was that Harper's room was just messy. not destroyed.

"Trance!" she jumped at Dylan's voice. "We have to sedate him! We have to.."

A loud crash could be heard as Dylan was thrown and landed in a heap on all of the destroyed inventory. It was coincidence that he didn't hurt himself. but Tyr was about to change that. With a loud roar he bolted forward only to feel something jumping on him and an arm that started to cut off his air supply.

Rommie decided to enter the room exactly at that moment.

"Come on and help me! You're not on vacation here!" Beka screamed as she tried to keep her hold on the raging Nietzschean.

But Rommie ignored her and walked up on her captain. With a strong pull she put him back to his feet and asked: "Are you okay?"

Dylan shook his head to get rid of the dizziness, as he looked at Rommie and saw her frown he hurried to answer: "Yes. I´m fine. Let's try to calm down Godzilla."

He turned to look at Trance who still stood near the entrance and watched frightened. "Are You ready?" he asked her.

She nodded cautiously.

"Heeellloohoooo! Beka to all the others, who are just staying around having a fun time! Do you mind helping me out a little?"

Beka was still trying to keep her grip on Tyr. And only seconds later she collided with the wall behind her, lost her hold on him finally and slid down the wall exhausted. Dylan and Rommie used the opportunity and threw each other forward to stop Tyr.

"Trance! Now!" Dylan shouted as he and Rommie had managed to wrestle Tyr down.

Trance reacted immediately and gave Tyr the injection. From then it only took seconds and his movements weakened and then ceased all together. With a sigh Rommie and Dylan loosened their grip on the Nietzschean and relaxed on the wall. They got it.

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at the Machine-Shop

Holo-Rommie showed up before Harper making him jump. "Hey, Rom-Doll!" he greeted her with a cocky grin. "Guess what I'm gonna do."

"Harper, are you all right?"

"Huh? All right? Hey, Mrs. Super-Starship... if you didn't recognize it yet. nothing is all right. Trance beats you up, Tyr sits in a corner and plays hide and seek. and you're asking me if everything's okay? I think something's wrong with your sensors. but don't worry, Babe, I'm gonna fix you." He raised his brows and grinned, then grabbed his connection-cable, and inserted the pin into his data-port. "Are you ready for the Harper-Man, Darling?" he asked as he connected with the ship.

In crazy circles he started his way into Andromeda's brain. As it stopped he blinked one or two times and turned around, just to be greeted of Rommie's virtual-self. He flinched. "Uhm! Hello! Okay, where are we going to start from? "He asked and rubbed his hands together.

At exactly this moment he felt it. It was as if his Data-Port would start to burn. "Ehhh, Rommie, what are you doing?" he asked and his hand went to clasp his neck, but before he was able to do so, he broke down. Never- ending number-codes sleeked their way out of his Data port and spread in amazing speed.

"Harper! What are you doing." with brutal force Harper was kicked out of Rommie's virtual world. and gasped. He watched with panic the world around him. It seemed distorted and full of shadows. he felt something missing. something that was with him the whole time before.

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Tyr was laying on one of the medical beds. He was still heavily sedated and Trance was frowning over her last scan-report.

"I don't understand." she mumbled to no one in particular. As she turned to inform Dylan and Beka, Rommie popped up in front of them. "Hurry! Machine- Shop 5! I can't even explain it."

Beka rolled her eyes. "Can't you give us a break!!" she queried and started her sprint to the Machine-shop.

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meanwhile on a Well Known Planet

Texus sat on his bunk as a shrill beeping gained his attention. He smiled. Humans,. they're so.. predictable. He took the little receiver and pushed hard. The beeping continued for a moment, then there was a little cracking noise and the sound stopped. Slowly he stood and left his room.

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"Harper!" With two steps Beka was at his side. "What happened?!"

While she spoke she gently removed the pin from his Data-port. He whimpered.

"Harper!" again she called his name.

His eyes opened finally and it took him a short moment to focus on her. He felt empty and exhausted. and for a short moment he knew the answer to what was going on on the Andromeda Ascendant. His fortune. or unfortune was that he had a Data-Port which could extract the unbidden visitors. his thoughts got foggy and he felt how his conscious left. Suddenly a thought came up. a thought that forced him to open his eyes again. He felt Trance injecting him with something, but before everything went black again he whispered to Beka: "Artificial virus. Rommie."

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TBC ~Lila