A/N Sorry it took me so long to update! I am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so

Sorry! I will never take this long ever ever again! Just to let all you know, my pen name from now on is Majorum Nietzschean. Okie Dokie.

Chapter 2

Harper just stood there and looked from Beka to Vexpag (A/N some of you don't know this but he was Trance's predecessor. The one who "bought the farm") to the dead man.

"Why would you do something like that for me?" he asked.

"Cause he was annoying as hell and doesn't realize that manners are important." Fred said mock seriously. Harper had a hard time telling if he was joking.

"So can we talk to you. Er, in private?" Beka asked. Harper narrowed his eyes again, clearly thinking 'Do I wanna be left alone with these guys?'

"We could go back to the Maru. That's my ship. We can talk there." Beka suggested.

"Alright." Harper said.

They waked back in silence.

On the Maru....

"Bobby! Rev! Come here! You should be here when we talk to this guy!" Beka shouted.

"Who?" Harper asked.

"The rest of my crew." Beka answered.

Bobby appeared in the doorway looking smug. "This is who you found? An imp engineer?"

"Watch it bud. I may be short but I have gone through hell and back. Grew up on Earth, Magog raids and the Dragans everywhere so I got experience under my belt! Don't go questioning me!" Harper snapped.

Bobby looked taken aback but said nothing.

"Um, about Magog..." Beka started but stopped as Rev walked into the room. Harper saw him and immediately shrank back to the wall!

"You have a Magog onboard! Kill it!" Harper yelled.

"Whoa whoa whoa calm down!" Fred said. "This is a member of our crew. He is a wayist."

Harper looked like they all were nuts.

"He won't hurt you." Beka said. "He is the most civilized person I know."

Harper still looked skeptical. He was about to say something when they felt the ground shake. Harper ran to the airlock and peeked out. His eyes widened.

"It's the Aurolians! They drop bombs or run through the streets from time to time, just to make sure their ammo is working!" Harper said disgusted. "It only lasts 2 minutes but they do enough damage. No one should go outdoors. The Aurolians don't bother going inside houses or ships, just rich people's mansions."

Beka looked digusted, Fred angry, Bobby like he didn't have a care in the world but what interested Harper most was Rev. He went to a window and saw in the distance people being shot.

"Eternal life, grant unto them, and may perpetual light shine upon them." He whispered.

"You really are a wayist then huh?" Harper asked.

Rev looked at him and nodded.

After a few minutes, Harper looked and saw the Aurolians had gone.

"Look, I have to go home. You know, to see if it is still there." Harper said.

"Fred and I will come." Beka said. "Maybe we can talk on the way."

Harper shrugged but was obviously grateful to have them coming.

Beka was wrong. They wouldn't talk on the way. Death was in the streets. They would walk by a body of a young woman or a child and once in awhile a man's.

"Harper." Beka whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Why are the women and children mostly dead?"

"That would be because usually the men run inside their houses and lock the doors. Therefore locking their wives and kids outside." He said softly. Harper gestured to a door on their right.

Beka and Fred saw the look of horror still plastered on a woman's face as he and clawed at the keypad. She had a hole in her head with a steady stream of blood trickling down her face. Beka looked away. Fred put a hand on her shoulder. He seemed very angry. Fred had always been a strong advocate for women's rights, living beings rights and so on.

Harper walked on and lapsed into silence. As soon as he walked up to his area of town he looked struck. As far as anyone could tell, his neighborhood and been hardest hit. All the local shop gone. Harper closed his eyes and gasped when they came to his 'house'. All that was left was a pile of burnt metal.

A/N: Review and tell me what you think! PLeasE?!?!?!?!?