Rating: R for profanity and violence
Disclaimer: The Pitch Black characters are not mine, so don't sue. My characters are mine so please don't steal them.
Story outline/authors note: 5 years after the PB issue Jack and Riddick meet up and fall into some trouble. First story on this site. Please give me feedback, but don't be too harsh.
Vendetta
Chapter 9
Jack was locked in what looked like a small cafeteria. Some tables and chairs, a stack of trays in the corner and a pop machine. No vent for her to escape out of and no soft spots in the walls, floor or ceiling. She was there for about an hour before Jimmy came to get here.
"Hey. Sorry about the long wait." He came in and closed the door behind him.
"Hey, It's no problem, I've just been sitting here, board out of my mind for the past hour."
"And I'm sorry. But it was very important. But now we can get back to business." He went over to Jack and linked her arm.
"Right, so what's my job."
"Impatient aren't we?"
"I ran out of patients an hour ago."
"Ok." He laughed. "Well me show you where your going to work."
They left the room and headed back down the hallway of doors. After a few corners, a bridge and many doors they stopped. Jimmy opened a door that said 'Hack' on it. He opened it and they walked in. It was a small room, but it was filled with the biggest computer Jack had ever seen and a little chair. Or maybe it was a big chair and it just looked small compared to the computer.
"This is our main room for hacking into big corporations. Your assignment is to hack into FAP headquarters."
"What's FAP?"
"Umm, It doesn't matter. What's important is I know you can do it. And don't worry, you'll get nicely paid." He went over to the chair and turned it around for her to sit in.
Jack grinned then sat down and Jimmy twirled her around. "This is nice equipment." She was somewhat curious as to how and where he got this.
"Top of the line, just for you to work your magic love." Jimmy pushed a buttons and all the buttons and screens came alive. "All you have to do is get passed this wall. And in case you don't know what something is -which I'm sure is nothing- push this button and a live manual will be at your service."
"Where will you be?"
"Around. If you need me, which you shouldn't, I'll be reachable If you ask.'
"Ok."
"Well I gotta go. Have fun." He left, and locked the door.
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Riddick and the Queen of spades were headed up the elevator when it stopped at level B-12.
"I have some quick business to take care of. Hope you don't mind?"
"Was that a question?" Riddick adjusted his goggles.
"Course not."
They walked into a room with a big spade shaped table in the centre. The table was surrounded by men, women and others that looked ready to kill.
The Queen pointed to a chair in the corner. Riddick sat in the chair and studied the shady looking characters. There was a camera and guard in every corner but his. Riddick didn't recognize any of the characters around the table and it didn't look like any of them recognized him although most of them were staring.
"I'm sorry ladies and Gentlemen for the long wait. And I'm sorry I cant stay." Actually I'm not very sorry. The folders in front of you will tell you what you need to do and what your getting out of it. Since I'm sure you've already read through them, are there any questions."
"whe-" Someone began.
"No? Good. My assistants Dany and Nico will answer any other questions you may have and fill you in on what I think you need to know."
Two men came out of a door Riddick didn't even see was there and stood beside The Queen. She exchanged whispers with one of them.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, 'Evnin to you all. Riddick lets go." She went into the elevator and waited for him.
Riddick noticed when she said his name everyone stared at him in disbelief. The whispers began. He shrugged his shoulders, gave the people a sly grim and joined the Queen in the elevator.
They headed up the elevator to the first floor. When the doors opened the little door boy handed The Queen a black bag.
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Within a half an hour Jack had hacked into FAP headquartes. It still didn't answer her question to what FAP was. It just said welcome to FAP headquarters. Jack pushed a button and a man in a blue uniform cam through the door.
"Yes?"
"You can tell Jimmy I've hacked FAP. Although it doesn't seem to go anywhere."
"You what?" The man had shock slapped across his face.
"I've got in into FAP. Oh, your shocked because I did it so fast right?" Yah, I'm a quick one."
"Uh, yes. Well, I'll go tell Jimmy, just wait here."
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"She what?"
"She got in Sir."
"How?"
"I don't know, but she did."
"Damn. Call Andrew tell him to send the PAC file. Hopefully that will take longer. I'll be down in a minute."
"Yes Sir."
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"Jack darling." Jimmy came in the room. "Great job."
"Thanx. Don't think you guard thought I'd be done so fast."
"No. I didn't either."
Jack only smiled.
"Well, since you did that so fast. Want to do another one for me?" Puppy dog face again.
"Sure."
"Great."
Andrew came breathless into the room and handed Jimmy a disc. Andrew then left but not before gawking at Jack under his dirty blonde bangs.
"This is PAC." He put the disc in the computer. A series of numbers, lines and letters appeared before Them. "Pac is the…Personal, Addict……Cuke."
"What's a Cuke?"
"Too many questions Jackie Darling. All you need to know is that you need to get in there."
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Riddick and the Queen stood Twenty feet away from Jimmy's factory. Riddick took off his goggles. It was dark enough for him to see now. The Queen could see but took out some night vision goggles just in case.
"So what's your big plan?" Riddick tucked his goggles into his pocket.
"Get in there, get your girl, get the hell out." She scanned the are with her goggles. "Let's go." She crouched down and ran, fast, towards the side of the factory. Riddick followed.
"What about cameras?"
"Jimmy's to cheap for cameras. And the inside ones, don't worry about those. Just stay close. It's a maze in there." They scaled the walls until they came to a door. She squatted on the ground and began digging through her bag.
"First obstacle." The Queen pulled out a little black box. She then pulled out a cord and attached it from the box to the door. The box began making clicks. The door buzzed then opened.
"Nice." Riddick stood up and grabbed the door handle.
"Thanks. Gotta love technology." She put the stuff back in her bag and they went inside.
A long hallway with numerous doors faced them. Security cameras above every other door shifted around.
"Second obstacle." Riddick stood perfectly still, staring at the cameras.
"No problem. I have a guy on the inside who let me hook some systems up. We're safe on this floor and in a few other areas."
"Huh." They began walking through the maze of hallways. He was getting a little edgy. "Do you know where your going?"
"Of course."
"Gunna let me in on it?"
"Of course not Mr. Riddick. Then this would be no fun. Plus I like to be in control. I know you do too, and this is probably pissing you off."
"Just a little."
"Well, first we have to get to the camera room so we can figure out where they've got your girl."
They silently walked through the silver maze.. Making lots of turns, Riddick had a feeling they were going in circles and wasn't sure if he should be trusting the Queen this much.
"So Riddick…" She began in a soft voice. "Now that you've gone soft," She new that word would stab him. "What are you going to do with your self?"
"What?! I haven't gone soft!" He viciously grabbed her arm and they stopped.
"Well, your attempting to save a damsel in distress. Plus you need help to do it. I'd call that soft. Unless it was your mother." Stab number two.
Riddick just glared at her. A pool of anger bubbling up inside him, but he tried to control it. "She's not a damsel, and I'm sure she's not in distress. Jimmy's probably got her working. Hacking or something." He decided to leave the mother and help comments alone. Jack was more important right now.
"You sure about that? You sure she's not tied up somewhere? Being tortured or raped, you sure she's not dead?" The Queen enjoyed messing with peoples heads as much as Riddick did. Which is why Riddick really didn't want to go to her for help.
"Shut the fuck up!"
"Her last struggling breath, screaming out your name. 'Oh Riddick save me. Where are you, save me!'" Stab three.
In the blink of an eye, Riddick pinned her to the wall. Anger raising up, fire ragging in his metallic coloured eyes, a shiv against her neck. "Shut the fuck up right now or I'll kill you."
She began to laugh. "No you wont." She was very calm.
He pushed against her harder, getting angrier by the second. The shiv began to draw blood.
"Why Riddick," Her tone happy and bubbly. "How kinky of you. Right here, right now, I don't know." She began to laugh, then cough from her lack of oxygen from the penetrating shiv. "Let me go. You cant kill me. You need me to find her and get you two out of here. Got off ma, now.'
She had a point. Riddick let her go. She put her hand on her throat to stop the bleeding and stared at Riddick.
"Lets go."
Disclaimer: The Pitch Black characters are not mine, so don't sue. My characters are mine so please don't steal them.
Story outline/authors note: 5 years after the PB issue Jack and Riddick meet up and fall into some trouble. First story on this site. Please give me feedback, but don't be too harsh.
Vendetta
Chapter 9
Jack was locked in what looked like a small cafeteria. Some tables and chairs, a stack of trays in the corner and a pop machine. No vent for her to escape out of and no soft spots in the walls, floor or ceiling. She was there for about an hour before Jimmy came to get here.
"Hey. Sorry about the long wait." He came in and closed the door behind him.
"Hey, It's no problem, I've just been sitting here, board out of my mind for the past hour."
"And I'm sorry. But it was very important. But now we can get back to business." He went over to Jack and linked her arm.
"Right, so what's my job."
"Impatient aren't we?"
"I ran out of patients an hour ago."
"Ok." He laughed. "Well me show you where your going to work."
They left the room and headed back down the hallway of doors. After a few corners, a bridge and many doors they stopped. Jimmy opened a door that said 'Hack' on it. He opened it and they walked in. It was a small room, but it was filled with the biggest computer Jack had ever seen and a little chair. Or maybe it was a big chair and it just looked small compared to the computer.
"This is our main room for hacking into big corporations. Your assignment is to hack into FAP headquarters."
"What's FAP?"
"Umm, It doesn't matter. What's important is I know you can do it. And don't worry, you'll get nicely paid." He went over to the chair and turned it around for her to sit in.
Jack grinned then sat down and Jimmy twirled her around. "This is nice equipment." She was somewhat curious as to how and where he got this.
"Top of the line, just for you to work your magic love." Jimmy pushed a buttons and all the buttons and screens came alive. "All you have to do is get passed this wall. And in case you don't know what something is -which I'm sure is nothing- push this button and a live manual will be at your service."
"Where will you be?"
"Around. If you need me, which you shouldn't, I'll be reachable If you ask.'
"Ok."
"Well I gotta go. Have fun." He left, and locked the door.
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Riddick and the Queen of spades were headed up the elevator when it stopped at level B-12.
"I have some quick business to take care of. Hope you don't mind?"
"Was that a question?" Riddick adjusted his goggles.
"Course not."
They walked into a room with a big spade shaped table in the centre. The table was surrounded by men, women and others that looked ready to kill.
The Queen pointed to a chair in the corner. Riddick sat in the chair and studied the shady looking characters. There was a camera and guard in every corner but his. Riddick didn't recognize any of the characters around the table and it didn't look like any of them recognized him although most of them were staring.
"I'm sorry ladies and Gentlemen for the long wait. And I'm sorry I cant stay." Actually I'm not very sorry. The folders in front of you will tell you what you need to do and what your getting out of it. Since I'm sure you've already read through them, are there any questions."
"whe-" Someone began.
"No? Good. My assistants Dany and Nico will answer any other questions you may have and fill you in on what I think you need to know."
Two men came out of a door Riddick didn't even see was there and stood beside The Queen. She exchanged whispers with one of them.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, 'Evnin to you all. Riddick lets go." She went into the elevator and waited for him.
Riddick noticed when she said his name everyone stared at him in disbelief. The whispers began. He shrugged his shoulders, gave the people a sly grim and joined the Queen in the elevator.
They headed up the elevator to the first floor. When the doors opened the little door boy handed The Queen a black bag.
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Within a half an hour Jack had hacked into FAP headquartes. It still didn't answer her question to what FAP was. It just said welcome to FAP headquarters. Jack pushed a button and a man in a blue uniform cam through the door.
"Yes?"
"You can tell Jimmy I've hacked FAP. Although it doesn't seem to go anywhere."
"You what?" The man had shock slapped across his face.
"I've got in into FAP. Oh, your shocked because I did it so fast right?" Yah, I'm a quick one."
"Uh, yes. Well, I'll go tell Jimmy, just wait here."
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"She what?"
"She got in Sir."
"How?"
"I don't know, but she did."
"Damn. Call Andrew tell him to send the PAC file. Hopefully that will take longer. I'll be down in a minute."
"Yes Sir."
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"Jack darling." Jimmy came in the room. "Great job."
"Thanx. Don't think you guard thought I'd be done so fast."
"No. I didn't either."
Jack only smiled.
"Well, since you did that so fast. Want to do another one for me?" Puppy dog face again.
"Sure."
"Great."
Andrew came breathless into the room and handed Jimmy a disc. Andrew then left but not before gawking at Jack under his dirty blonde bangs.
"This is PAC." He put the disc in the computer. A series of numbers, lines and letters appeared before Them. "Pac is the…Personal, Addict……Cuke."
"What's a Cuke?"
"Too many questions Jackie Darling. All you need to know is that you need to get in there."
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Riddick and the Queen stood Twenty feet away from Jimmy's factory. Riddick took off his goggles. It was dark enough for him to see now. The Queen could see but took out some night vision goggles just in case.
"So what's your big plan?" Riddick tucked his goggles into his pocket.
"Get in there, get your girl, get the hell out." She scanned the are with her goggles. "Let's go." She crouched down and ran, fast, towards the side of the factory. Riddick followed.
"What about cameras?"
"Jimmy's to cheap for cameras. And the inside ones, don't worry about those. Just stay close. It's a maze in there." They scaled the walls until they came to a door. She squatted on the ground and began digging through her bag.
"First obstacle." The Queen pulled out a little black box. She then pulled out a cord and attached it from the box to the door. The box began making clicks. The door buzzed then opened.
"Nice." Riddick stood up and grabbed the door handle.
"Thanks. Gotta love technology." She put the stuff back in her bag and they went inside.
A long hallway with numerous doors faced them. Security cameras above every other door shifted around.
"Second obstacle." Riddick stood perfectly still, staring at the cameras.
"No problem. I have a guy on the inside who let me hook some systems up. We're safe on this floor and in a few other areas."
"Huh." They began walking through the maze of hallways. He was getting a little edgy. "Do you know where your going?"
"Of course."
"Gunna let me in on it?"
"Of course not Mr. Riddick. Then this would be no fun. Plus I like to be in control. I know you do too, and this is probably pissing you off."
"Just a little."
"Well, first we have to get to the camera room so we can figure out where they've got your girl."
They silently walked through the silver maze.. Making lots of turns, Riddick had a feeling they were going in circles and wasn't sure if he should be trusting the Queen this much.
"So Riddick…" She began in a soft voice. "Now that you've gone soft," She new that word would stab him. "What are you going to do with your self?"
"What?! I haven't gone soft!" He viciously grabbed her arm and they stopped.
"Well, your attempting to save a damsel in distress. Plus you need help to do it. I'd call that soft. Unless it was your mother." Stab number two.
Riddick just glared at her. A pool of anger bubbling up inside him, but he tried to control it. "She's not a damsel, and I'm sure she's not in distress. Jimmy's probably got her working. Hacking or something." He decided to leave the mother and help comments alone. Jack was more important right now.
"You sure about that? You sure she's not tied up somewhere? Being tortured or raped, you sure she's not dead?" The Queen enjoyed messing with peoples heads as much as Riddick did. Which is why Riddick really didn't want to go to her for help.
"Shut the fuck up!"
"Her last struggling breath, screaming out your name. 'Oh Riddick save me. Where are you, save me!'" Stab three.
In the blink of an eye, Riddick pinned her to the wall. Anger raising up, fire ragging in his metallic coloured eyes, a shiv against her neck. "Shut the fuck up right now or I'll kill you."
She began to laugh. "No you wont." She was very calm.
He pushed against her harder, getting angrier by the second. The shiv began to draw blood.
"Why Riddick," Her tone happy and bubbly. "How kinky of you. Right here, right now, I don't know." She began to laugh, then cough from her lack of oxygen from the penetrating shiv. "Let me go. You cant kill me. You need me to find her and get you two out of here. Got off ma, now.'
She had a point. Riddick let her go. She put her hand on her throat to stop the bleeding and stared at Riddick.
"Lets go."