(Disclaimer: I own none of the Pitch Black or the COR characters. I wouldn't mind owning Riddick though.)

"If I don't have to substitute the parts I need." Riddick finished, still rummaging through the rubble.

"What parts do you need?" Mom crouched down and started through the metal as well.

"I need three power cells, a cutting torch, a tool box, and a bottle of whiskey."

"What's the whiskey for?" mom stopped the noise she was making, moving the metal and looked at Riddick.

"Keep the cutting torch going. If we can find one. And to keep me in tune." He grabbed a few pieces of metal and headed back towards the beast.

"Slice. Go grab three power cells from the hunk-o-junk." He pointed to the scrap heap that was the engine room of the Hunter Gratzner.

"Ok." So I walked over to the pile of scrap and went inside to grab the three power cells. It was dark and I wasn't paying attention; something jumped out at me. "AAAAAAHHHHH! It's got me it's got me!" It had me by the shirt. "DAD!!!" I screamed trying to get away from the monster. He came running up behind me, he pulled the knife mom gave him and opened the creature up, its guts went everywhere. "Yuck." I stood there with sticky blue stuff all over me. "Gross."

"You Ok?" he wiped his knife on his pants. In the middle of wiping the second side he stopped. "You...called me dad." His gaze went from his knife and pants to me.

"I did? No I didn't. Did I?" I stood there covered in the creature's blood dripping from my body dumbfounded.

"Parts, guys. You can go goo-goo later." Mom yelled at us, as the monster started to simmer in the sun.

"I'll get those power cells." I headed back into the hunk-o-junk.

"I'll look for a cutting torch." Riddick headed towards what looked like trees. I dragged behind me the power cells to the Beast and set them down near the small door He barley fit it, that lead to the engine from the outside. I ran after Riddick.

"Wait up." I said panting in the hot dry day.

"The first sun will set soon." He said facing a blue sun.

"Are those trees?" I pointed to the tree looking figures.

"No, they're bones." As Riddick and I walked over the hill that made a deep well into the bone yard there was stuff scattered all over the place. Metal, bone's, and red & blue bloodstains.

"What happened here?" I looked at the field of bones and other things.

"Our first trip to hell." He started down the hill.

"You mean this is the planet you escaped?" I slide down the hill on my feet looking at everything.

"Here it is." Riddick picked up a dusty piece of metal.

"What?" I said coming up behind him.

"The cutting torch. Don't know if it still works."

"And what happens if we don't get out of here before all three suns set?"

"We supply what we can from the Gratzner and lock up our ship till the sun comes up or..." he cocked his head to the side. Staring at a place among the bones where a flare laid alone four feet from a large blood spurt.

"Or, what?"

"Or we get eaten." He walked over to where his stare had been.

"Great. Perfect. Tuck and hide or get eaten. Nice." I walked over and knelt down next to him. "What?"

"Johns and I walked 10 feet ahead of the sled carrying the cells. Doctors decide who lives and dies its called triage. Called it murder when I did it. You do the girl and I'll keep the others off your back.There's only one rule: Stay in the light. Before you were a Billy-badass, chains, gauge, badge." Riddick spoke in a whisper; I didn't catch most of it.

I drug my hand over the blood stain. It was suddenly dark and I could hear screeching and wings flapping, and I saw Johns and Riddick talking. Then they started fighting. The green flare flickered in the night.

"Two guesses who's gonna win." I whispered to myself. Suddenly Johns was on his back and Riddick was backing away into the darkness, his voice fading with him. A creature flew up and skewered Johns, the mouth of the creature came down and bit off Johns head like an apple. It was daylight again and Riddick was looking at me. I had a grip on his arm.

"What?" I said acting like nothing happened, letting go of his arm.

"What happened just now?" he gestured to me.

"What do you mean?"

"You Just repeated what I said, with a little commentary. Two guesses who wins. Who won?" He just stared at me.

"You did. You're here instead of Johns and I'm glad." I smiled at his emotionless face. "I saw you, and Johns fighting, on that horrible night 22 years ago. I don't want history to repeat itself."

"It won't. I promise" He said, the sun hit his goggles and revealed a person was standing behind me.

"I thought I was the only one who was here." A man walked up behind me. I turned around to find he looked like Johns.

"Who are you?" I reached for my shiv.

"I'm William J. Johns Jr. I was on my way to New Mecca and I ran out of power. So I landed here." He was tatty, his clothes ripped and dirty. His face dark, he stood about 5ft.

"I'm Slice, and this is...R...Richard." I thought it would have been better to introduce him as Richard then Riddick.

"What business you have in New Mecca?" Riddick asked as I took a step forward.

"I had a lead on the were a bouts of a man named Riddick, Richard B. and his son."

"You're a merc."

"Yeah, what of it." He too took a step forward standing his ground.

"I hate mercs. You said you were a Jr.?"

"Yeah. My dad died on a planet much like this one 22 years ago. He was killed by Riddick. The first encounter he had with him, he escaped with his life."

"Johns was a blue eyed devil and so are you." Riddick spoke up, looking the torch over, and then walking away towards the beast.

"You killed my father!" Jr. started running after Riddick; I pulled out my shiv and slid it across his left side. He fell on the ground; his blood mixed with the sand and dried blood on the ground. I picked up Johns Jr. and carried his sorry ass back to the ship and tied him up outside. Riddick walked up to Jr. and squatted in front of him and stared into his blue eyes through his goggles.

"Yeah, I killed your dad. He wanted to kill my wife, who at the time was 14. Not much younger then you."

"I still want revenge."

"You get near my dad and I'll kill on the spot." I walked out of the ship and stood next to the two on the ground. "This fight is history."

The week went day by day. There was not enough water so Riddick had little more then a five o'clock shadow by this time and his hair started to grow back. It was Tuesday and it started to get dark. The four of us were at the 44 year old mining town gathering the last we needed to get off that planet. I walked out of the mess hall.

"Um...You guys might wanna take a look at this." The suns were going down. Riddick ran out of the coring room holding Jr. by a rope making a leash.

"We better get back to the ship." But it was too late the creatures started breaking out. They screeched and yelled at each other. Riddick and I ran ahead looking for paths through the bone yard. I slowed down and waited for mom to pass me, I took the leash connected to Jr.

"Let's dance." I took my shiv and cut the rope around his neck and hands. We started fighting; I was on top of Jr. with my knife at his throat. "Do you want to be like Johns?" it started to poor. I grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt and pulled him to his feet. There was a small jerk, as I looked down blood fell to the ground and mixed with mud and rain.

AN: Another cliff, but I didn't kill Riddick so be happy about that. Hope you like.:)