Disclaimer: Chapters 2 and 3 were both so tiny that I made them into one, so anyone reading this that read the first version of ch2 will have to reread it. Oh and, I don't own it!

Cryos had a sensation of moving very fast and the blank whiteness around them started to darken. After a few seconds, they were shooting through space with galaxies flying past them.

Cryos glimpsed a black hole burst into light and turn back into a star as time rewound.

Then, without warning, the darkness of space turned into a blinding white light, it took Cryos several seconds to realize that this wasn't the same bright light as before, but sunlight. As his eyes adjusted, he saw that he was in a desert right in the middle of a burnt circle on the ground. About a mile off to the right was a small town, a few hundred yards in the other direction was a small building that looked like it was make of lopsided bricks and mud. And a few miles off into the desert, a lone mountain rise up like a grim monolith.

Cryos started over to the mud building. "Let's see if anybody's home. Maybe we can stay here, away from the village." He'd only gotten a few steps when a loud bang made him look up.

"What the…" He muttered as a small mushroom cloud rose over the town. "Draco, come with me." He snatched the little lizard before he could escape and turned to Pahrac and Kentra. "I need to check that out. Do you think that between the two of you you can hang on to Yamna?"

"I shall do my best." Pahrac said and bowed to him.

"We can handle it," Kentra told him. "Just go and be careful!"

Cryos nodded and held onto Draco as he flew to the town. Luckily, everyone was putting out the fire instead of looking up and he landed on a rooftop without being noticed.

He looked over at the group of people putting out the fire. They were mostly men and all human. It wasn't something he was used to seeing anymore. Aliens were everywhere back in the New Republic.

Then he noticed the smallest man working at the flames. There were younger people up there, but they were all big and strong for their ages except for this boy. He was small and scrawny and everyone else was giving him dirty looks.

Cryos watched as the flames grew smaller and smaller until, when they were almost out and he could see that it was some strange machine that had been burning, the men turned on the small young man.

"This is your fault, Tran!" The one yelled at him. "That was our last booster rocket, and you had to mess with it! Now we're all stuck here forever!"

The people rose up with angry shouts and swarmed all over poor Tran and dragged him off to a small building.

"Those guys were mean, that guy's good, he only wanted to help."

"Ya," Cryos agreed, "That's what I thought too." Suddenly he realized that he was talking to someone and spun around to find Yamna standing there!

"But I left you back at the shack!" He whispered angrily. "How'd you get here?"

"I don't know?" She answered. "How do I get anywhere?"

Cryos sighed and shook his head. Suddenly a shadow came down out of the sky, it was Kentra and she was carrying Pahrac.

"How did you escape?" Pahrac asked her.

Now the girl looked really confused. "Escape? What did I do?"

"This is fun!" Draco squawked. "Even I don't cause this much trouble." He stopped and seemed to think. "Well, most of the time anyway."

"I'm going to find out what's going on here. I want all of you, especially you two," Cryos said pointing at Draco and Yamna. "to stay here."

He punched up a hologram of a man like the ones in the town and dropped down into an alleyway before walking over to the building where they had dragged Tran.

When he got there, he was a little surprised to find a bar instead of a jail, but quickly realized that it made cense for a place like this to have the bar and jail in one place. Most of the problems are going to come from the bar, so why fight it? Just put the jail there so you don't have to drag them far.

Cryos sat down and requested their strongest drink. His immortality powers wouldn't let him get drunk anyway, so he could fake being drunk and sometimes get more information from people than they would normally give.

It only took a minute before someone went and sat next to him.

"Haven't seen you around before." The man commented.

"Nope, I live a ways off." Cryos took a gamble, hoping that there were other people on this rock.

"In Traddelburg?" The man asked.

"Yep." Cryos told him without looking up from his drink.

"That's at least two days walk from here." The man said. "And without even a gereibo to ride either, I have to say I'm impressed. You bring any news? How's old Kain?"

Cryos thought for a moment on how to answer, he wasn't sure what to say, but in the end, he didn't have to say anything, because at that moment Yamna came running through the door with tears in her eyes.

"Daddy!" She wailed and hugged his leg. "Draco was making fun of me!"

Cryos was torn, he wanted to find out about that Tran fellow, but he had to help Yamna. He picked her up and held her, unfortunately, the whole bar got a real good look at her, and very few of them were drunk enough to not realize that she wasn't human.

"Your kid's a damn alien!?" One man roared at him.

"Ok, we'll cut to the chase." Cryos set Yamna down behind him. "You're going to lay off the girl and we're going to walk out of here with Tran. Let us go and no one will get hurt."

There was scattered laughter.

"We're not the ones who should be worried about getting hurt." A large man said as he pulled out a knife. "It's you who should be worried!"

The man rushed forward and jammed the knife right at Cryos's neck.

Cryos grabbed the man's wrist and twisted, breaking the wrist and bringing the man to his knees. Then flicked the man in the forehead and sent him flying across the room. "I guess I don't need this anymore." He said and turned off his hologram. He turned to Yamna and said. "Go back to Mommy, she'll take care of you, I have something I need to do." He gave her a little push and she ran out. One man made a move to stop her and found himself hanging upside down by his ankles with Cryos's long tail holding him up.

Cryos lightly whipped his tail and sent the man flying, and then he strutted confidently into the back where Tran was sitting in a jail cell. He seemed strangely unafraid as Cryos used his blades to quickly remove the bars. "Come with me." Cryos told him.

"Why are you helping me?" Tran asked.

"I'm not exactly sure really." Cryos admitted. "You seemed like you're a good person, and we need someone to show us around anyway. So you're elected."

"We?" Tran asked. He seemed a little afraid now.

"Sure, you'll like them. Come on." Cryos grabbed Tran and dusted the soot and dust off him and led him back out into he bar.

Three men rushed at Cryos with swords the second he entered the slightly brighter aria of the bar.

Cryos pushed Tran back, but otherwise didn't move a muscle. The three swords struck him and shattered into a thousand tiny metal shards.

He shook his head to get the slivers of metal out of his hair and leveled one hand, palm out, at the two men standing on the right and left of him.

His hands glowed for a moment and then, with a small burst of energy, sent the two men flying. The third man fell to the floor and Cryos stepped over him on his way out.

Once he got outside he grabbed Tran around the waist and jumped to the rooftops where Kentra, Yamna, Draco and Pahrac were waiting for him.

"Who lives in the shack outside town?" Cryos asked Tran.

"Eh, me." He was looking a little wearily at Pahrac. The Kelbrid mutant gave him a big, sharp-toothed smile, but it didn't' seem to help. "It's my workshop."

"Good, lets go then. And Draco, no funny business, you can torment the town later, right now we need to set up a base." Cryos grabbed Tran and Yamna, Kentra picked up Pahrac, and they flew off over the heads of the astonished townspeople.