The ship was hit, once, twice, again. The ship shook. The crew fell from where they were standing as the ship was blasted again.

"Pilot!" called Aeryn "Hail them!"

"As you wish Officer Sun."

Pilot hailed one of the ships and Rygel stood ready to delegate with them. An image of an evil looking alien dressed in black leather appeared on the clam shell. The alien had a gaunt look to his face.

Rygel spoke "I am Dominar Rygel Sixteenth, ruler to over six billion subjects. Who are you?"

"I am Scorpius." said the alien "I have reason to believe you are escaped prisoners and you have two escaped children on board. Is that right?"

John suddenly appeared in the room.

"Hey, Scorpius come to frell with my mind again. Where's your aurora chair?"

"Ahhhh, John Crichton. Good to see you again."

"What do you want Scorpi?"

"You and your escaped prisoners. Oh, and also those children. They killed someone!"

"Liar! They hurt no-one, the poor children were being abused on the planet so we went in and saved them."

Scorpius walked over to one of his female Peacekeepers.

"Lt Pren, prepare for battle. They won't come out of this alive. Let the battle commence!"

"As you wish, Sir."

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Aeryn was in Zhaan's medical bay comforting the children as the ship begun to shake again.

"Are we going to die?" asked Randi looking worried.

"No, you're safe. Zhaan will look after you."

Randi produced a small smile.

"So when are we going home?" asked Alexia looking at her brother, who seemed to want to know the same answer.

"Soon. Once this battle is over, we'll set a course to your command carrier" said Zhaan.

Just then D'Argo was to be heard over the comms.

"Aeryn! You are needed in command, now!"

Aeryn left her post and headed to D'Argo.

"D'Argo, what is it?" she said entering the room.

"We need you to fly this ship. We still can't use starburst. Frell!"

"I'm on it" called Aeryn as she took control at the helm. She manovered the ship..

Bang!, kapow!, kapow!, kapow!, bang! The ships fired back with more force.

"Its no use" said John "They have more ships than us. We need our starburst feature, quickly."

"Frell me!" shouted Chiana as another blast hit the ship. She fell from her bed to the floor. She decided this wasn't the best time to have a sleep.

"Chiana" called D'Argo appearing at her quarters "Help me to get Starburst working again."

"Do I have to" Chiana whined.

"Yes!, now come on". Chiana followed D'Argo curing to herself.

"We will need to go down to the neural cluster and try and get the starburst back on line." explained D'Argo.

"Down there. No way. That's where the bat dren is. It's a felling toilet!" moaned Chiana.

"Stop being such a space trollop and follow me." Chiana didn't answer back she could tell she was already getting on D'Argo's nerves.

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John stood in command watching bolts of light flying into the ship. He looked across at Aeryn who was trying to steer the ship with the controls.

"Aeryn, honey. How is going over there?"
"Alright, John. But if we don't get the frelling starburst feature back soon, we won't last much longer."

Crichton swore to himself "Frell, why did I have to get stuck on a ship with no damn weapons!"

Another blast shook the ship and the ship was shaken hard. In the den Pilot and Rygel were being thrown around because of all the firings. After another blast Pilot couldn't keep awake anymore and fell into unconsciousness.

"What the Yotz!" shouted Rygel. "Pilot, wake up, you four armed alien. Wake up!"

There was no response.

"Somebody…John, Aeryn, Zhaan!" commed Rygel

Zhaan heard Rygel over her comm badge.

"Rygel what is it?"
"Zhaan. I need you in Pilot's den. He's fallen unconsciousness. I can't arouse him."

"I'll be on my way."

Zhaan told the children to stay where they were and not to touch anything. The poor children thought it was over when they had left the planet but now they were in the mist of another battle.

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As Zhaan went to distribute medical help to Pilot, another ship began blasting the other ships.

"What was that? questioned Crichton looking out the front window of command.

"It seems to be shootings from another ship." said Aeryn looking at Critchon

Suddenly a transmition was to be heard.

"This is Captain Bilar Crias. I found your ship and see you are in danger. I will instruct Tayln to keep firing at Scorpius' ships."

"Tayln? That was Tayln?" John let out a sigh of relief at least they were safe now.

John sent a transmition back "Hey, Cap 'n' Crunch. Thanks. We are trying to fix our starburst. Chi and D'Argo are on it now."

"Good. I should be able to hold Scorpius off. Talyn's weapons are very strong."

"We need more gun power. Crias is upon us. That was such bad timing. I will get John if not today, tomorrow. He won't stay out there alive." Scorpious set off an evil grin and growled.

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Chiana and D'Argo trudged through the bat dren. Chiana was whining because the slime was all over her. They reached a dry area of the neural cluster and began to work.

"Check the wires over there" commanded D'Argo as Chiana shone her torch.

"We'll need to connect these wires in order for starburst to be back online."

"umm….D…..which wires should I connect to each other?"

"I don't know. Just try OK and stop moaning!"

"I wasn't!" claimed Chiana.

"Just connect a few and see what happens."

Chiana followed D'Argo's order.

She connected the blue to the black wire and then the red to the yellow. Nothing happened. She tried again only this time she connected the red to the black. Still nothing.

"Frell me!" shouted chiana as she thumped her hand down on the floor in stress.

After about a quarter arn the wires were in place and this time it worked. Suddenly Moya had starburst back.

Scorpius couldn't keep firing anymore, his ships were beginning to look battered.

He hailed John.

"I am leaving, John but don't worry I'll be back and next time I will defiantly kill you or one of your shipmates……How about Aeryn?"

"Yes great idea, Scorpi, but then if I were dead how would you get the wormhole technology you so desperately want?"

Scorpius thought about the question for a miroct and then with out answering back the ships flew away.

The crew rejoiced once more. The children finally could relax and Rygel could get back to his food cubes. They celebrated with a huge meal that Chiana had kindly decided to cook. As they sat around the table munching on their food they agreed that Chiana was a very good cook. None of the food was burnt at all.

"Good news, Pilot has made a full recovery. The medication I gave him seems to be working."

"Excellent!" cried Rygel.

"So Crias. How did you find us?" asked John.

"Just luck. I was flying Tayln and came uncross your vessel on the long sensor radar. I saw that you were in danger and offered to help."

"Thank you Crias" said Aeryn smiling at him.

"So are you taking us home now?" Asked Randi.

"Yes" said Aeryn "And I'll make sure that that woman doesn't hurt you. You can trust me."

"Thank you, Aeryn and the rest of this crew for saving us." said Alexia.

"By the goddess. I am glad that you are safe. We were glad to be of some assistance." said Zhaan

The crew carried on talking as they enjoyed their food, especially Rygel who was already on his third helping.

Sorry this chapter took so long to be uploaded. I have been swamped with coursework that I needed to get finished. I hope you will enjoy this chapter. I hope to write another chapter after this. Thank you so much for the reviews. Keep them coming.