(Disclaimer: I do not own Riddick or any of the Chronicles of Riddick, or Pitch Black characters.)
"Put your hands were we can see them." The Soldier in the front said pointing to the both of us.
Riddick and I put up our hands as three or four guys cuffed, chained and gagged us. I closed my eyes to try and freeze the men mentally. Nothing happened.
It's not working I thought in confusion.
We were being escorted to a big room. They had Riddick laid on a large sheet of metal about 10ft. long and 4ft. wide. As we entered the room florescent lights lit our path to a long dining table, where a man sat eating.
"Sir, we have brought you the passengers off the skiff." The soldier with a big gauge said stepping forward. The man didn't turn from his food he was stuffing in his face.
"Good. Bring them closer." Said the man, a mouth full of food.
The man rolled Riddick up to the table and stood him upright at the opposite end of the table, placing me in a chair next to him.
"Ah, Riddick. I will get a plentiful bounty for you. But who is your young friend you brought to the party?" Riddick recognized the mans voice, I could see it in is eyes.
I tried to wiggle my hands out of the cuffs but it's hard when your hands are a foot away from each other, some how I managed to slide my hand almost halfway out before Riddick noticed. He shook his head. So I slid my hand back in the whole.
"Take the bit out of his mouth." A soldier removed the bit placed in Riddick's mouth. "Now Riddick, answer my question."
"Toombs." Riddick said with disgust. "He's a stowaway. Wanted for murder on New Mecca." Riddick said with his face towards me.
"So I will get more for my catch. Take them to the holding chambers, put them in the same chamber, but make sure they are far apart so they can't escape." Toombs smiled an evil smile. Riddick's bit was replaced and we were taken to a dark room and chained to opposite walls.
we will never get out of here. Of course Riddick has gotten out of worse spots then this. I thought closing my eyes to remember some sticky spots that Riddick had been in before. I heard chains fall and hit the metal that was the floor; I opened my eyes to find Riddick undoing the buckle to his bit. I rattled my chains, jestering that I wanted out as well. He walked over and stood in front of me.
"What?" He asked un-buckling the bit.
"I would like out too."
"Would you now?" I said smirking at me. "First you want to kill me and now you want me to save you? Again."
"Well, um...yeah. I wasn't really gonna kill you when I saw how large and musculent you are." I said trying not to laugh at my remark. He unchained me. "But there is still the fact that we are in a six by eight sell with a four inch think door and no windows." I looked at Riddick. "Ok I know you've gotten out of worse, but?" I said looking around at the four metal walls that made the room.
"But... we wait. They need to feed us right? We wait for the food to come and then we make our move. You take the guard on the right and I'll take the two on the left."
"Ok. You said that Riddick died on that planet right. Well if he did why didn't the new Riddick try to find his love after she left him with child?"
When the food came there were no guards at the door but one man picking up the two plates that lay on a cart. We could only see his back, the door opened and Toombs walked in.
"I thought I would pay you two a visit. Riddick if I know you, and I do; you would kill the guards bringing the food and try to take an escape pod from the docking bay."
"Toombs you know me oh so well. And if you know me so well you would know that I would get passed you no matter what."
I came out of hiding behind the door from behind Toombs and slit his throat with the shiv. I watched as his body fell to the floor with a splat as the food hit the cold metal.
"Why should I take a piece of the cake when I could have the whole thing?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Right now all the guards and men should be in the mess hall. I can purge that half of the ship and we can keep the cabins."
"I like that. And how do you suppose we get to the controls? Just waltz right up there?"
"That's the plan."
So we took the five minute walk up to the bridge. Riddick purged the mess hall, docking bay and the men in them. Riddick sat in the pilots chair while I sat in the co-pilots chair just sitting there when a yawn came upon me.
"I'm tired. I'm gonna go and try to get some sleep." I walked to the first cabin I saw and took the only bed in it. The time went by but I didn't go to sleep. When I finally got to sleep I woke up in a stardal but I didn't move. I felt I was being watched. I just laid there on my side facing the wall. As Riddick stood there watching me.
"I know your there. You were there when I was six. I thought the boogie man was watching me; he then jumped out my window. But it wasn't the boogie man was it?" a moment of silence stood by the darkness of the room. The stare of his shiny mercury eyes mad my spine shiver.
"Yes. It was the boogie man. A boogie man that doesn't care. Didn't care."
"If you're the boogie man like you say, you wouldn't have saved Jack and Imam. You wouldn't have gone into hiding to protect Jack. You're not a monster like you think you are, say you are. If you are a monster you would have left me in that slam to rot. If you didn't care you would have never even bothered to watch me in my sleep."
"You're right. The new Riddick does have emotions he needs to cope with. And that is what I need you."
"So you do need me."
"Only to help deal with new emotions. I've suppressed my emotions for too long. For too long have I maimed and mutilated without regret. Now I see every face of every person I murdered. I can still hear him saying it in my head." Riddick gave no mask of emotion on his face.
"Who, saying what?" I asked with curiosity.
"On the planet, Johns wanted me to ghost the girl. -Doctors decide who lives and dies its called triage-. Called it murder when I did it." Riddick sat in the only chair in the room removing his goggles and setting his bald head in his large masculent hands.
"But you had a soft spot for her, didn't you. That's why you went back to the cave to save her. You weren't really gonna leave them there. Why you saved Jack is because she idolized you." I threw the blanket that covered my bare chest and sat up facing him. I wanted to cry.
"I went back for her because she needed me." His voice rumbled the room. "I wasn't going to let those things get to her. I loved her like a sister."
"Mom loved you too. I love you. But only because you're my dad. There's one thing you need to do. You should have done it when Kyra died. You need to cry."
"I will not cry! It is a sign of weakness." Riddick stood up and looked at me as if he would kill me. His voice made the room rumble.
"I don't' care when you do it but you need to. You did know about me. You just didn't want to corrupt me. I guess being the son of Richard B. Riddick, has its down side. Cryo sleep. The primitive side. The animal side. That's what took over like instinct when I killed those two cops. I want you to remember this moment."
"What did you say?" Riddick looked at me.
"I said that the animal side took over."
"No that last part." Riddick shook of his emotion.
"I want you to remember this moment." I said scratching my tan chest.
"Where did you hear that?"
"I dunno. It was in a dream I had. Some big guy was holding a gauge to the head of a blue eyed devil if I remember right." I stood up and put my shirt back on. "What happens now?"
"We wait." Riddick said walking out of the bunk. I followed.
"Wait for what? For another merc to find us." I said holding back hysterics.
"Find a planet, dock and supply."
"I know what makes you tick. Which is why I think it's very full of character what you did. You didn't kill for five years. I honor you for that. I'm also honored to share DNA with a great man who could have left no survivors on that hell of a planet, but went back for them."
"I need to check the stats." Riddick started heading towards the bridge.
"Wait. One more thing. Kyra... she isn't dead."
AN: I thought I needed a twist. Hope you liked it. Plz R&R