He looked around. "Where am I? Trance? How did I get here?"

"Harper, you are no longer in the same universe, we need you in this one. Now, go help Hohne, he needs you."

"Hohne? Hohne is dead!"

She shook her head. "It is true, one of you died in every universe. But I fixed it." She said matter-of-factly.

XXX

"Boo."

Hohne almost jumped out of his skin. "Harper! But you're dead!"

"Yeah, I thought the same of you. Now what's the problem?"

He just pretended it didn't bother him. "Ummm… I can't figure out how to make this go undetected."

Harper took a quick look at it. "Turn this the other way, switch those two valves, attach these here."

"These" were the devices Hohne had built to blind the Worldship's sensors. The problem was, they weren't powerful enough to work on such a huge device.

"Mr. Harper, there is no way these will work…"

"If you put them where I said to, it will."

"Okay."

Harper left, he had other places to go. He wanted to see the big sister he hadn't seen in years.

XXX

He walked onto the Maru. She was there, just like she always was. God, she was as beautiful as ever.

"Beka." He whispered.

She turned around, Gauss gun raised, and promptly dropped it when she saw who it was.

"Harper!" She ran and embraced him. "I don't care how it happened, but I love you. I've missed you so much."

"Same to you, big sis." She had died in his universe five years earlier. Refused to cooperate with an Uber who wanted her body, so he killed her. Neither one of them wanted to let go.

"I see you've found each other."

Trance was behind them. Beka looked at her in awe.

"You did this, didn't you?"

The purple pixie shrugged and walked out.

"I'm going to go say hi to everyone else."

"Wait."

They walked onto the Andromeda together. "Rommie, Beka here. Tell everyone to meet me in command ASAP."

"Sure thing, Beka."

"There now Harper, I made it easy for ya." They walked the whole way there with their arms around each other.

XXX

"Beka, we're about to encounter the Worldship. This better be – HARPER?"

"The one and only! How ya doin boss?"

He hugged Harper almost as hard as Beka had. "Hey, missed you too big boy."

Tyr even allowed himself a smile. Rev, however, refrained as not to scare them.

"So, I hear we have a bunch of Magog coming at us. Since I tweaked Hohne's bomb, it should be good enough to take out that ship once and for all."

Dylan did not look happy. "Hohne's bomb?"

"Ummm… yea."

"Dylan, Hohne has snuck parts by blinding Rommie's sensors. He's built something powerful and stealthy enough to defeat the Worldship, with Harper's help. I couldn't tell you, because you would've stopped him. This is the only way."

He still wasn't pleased, but it would have to do. "Trance, how long until they get here?"

"A few weeks, a few days, a few hours, a few minutes. There's no way to be certain, but it's soon. Very soon."

"It's never easy."

XXXX

The crew passed the days in anxiety. They just wanted it to be over. The fact that they had Harper back was wonderful, and was probably the only thing that kept them from going crazy. He spent most of his time with Rommie and Beka on the Maru. For some reason, the android was spending more and more time there. She felt more than she was programmed for toward the return of Harper. More than she would admit.

"Dylan, I'm detecting a slipstream event. It's swarm ships."

"Oh, shit. Battle stations!"

The crew was there in record time. "It's here, isn't it boss?" both Harper and Hohne were standing toward the back.

"Yes. Now Tyr, take out the swarm ships."

He didn't need to be ordered.

"Swarm ships gone."

"More are coming."

"Dylan, there's another slipstream event. It is the Worldship."

"Power up the bomb NOW!"

"Ready to deploy in two minutes."

"If we live that long!" Harper did not like Magog.

"Dylan, they are breaching my hull."

"In ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, waiting for your mark, Captain."

"Mark!"

"Bomb deployed."

"Now get us out of here!"

"Aye Aye, cap'n."

Beka took them into slipstream.

"The Magog have been knocked off of my hull, and my internal defenses have taken care of the few who did get in."

"Good."

Trance was smiling. "We won!"

XXX

The aftereffects were what they all expected. There was nothing but debris left, which was good. At least the system was uninhabited.

The crew stood arm in arm, facing what they had done. Hohne included.

"Everything is perfect now." Beka was in awe of how well things were going.

"Well… not quite." Harper stepped out. "You see, there's the matter of engineer…"

"Mr. Harper, the position is yours." Hohne didn't intend to keep it anyway, it was Harper's work, his passion.

"With you as my assistant, of course." The persied smiled.

"I would be honored."

Dylan interrupted. "Now that that's all settled, how about we go celebrate?"

As they were walking toward the mess hall, Harper noticed Rommie hanging back. He let the others go on without him.

"Hey, Rom-doll. What's wrong?"

"Harper, have you ever had feelings you couldn't explain, and that you know you shouldn't be having?"

"Of course."

"Well, I'm having those now. And I don't know if I should act or just ignore them."

He didn't know what to say. "Rom-doll, whoever it is you feel that way about, tell them. They're crazy if they reject you." He looked at her with longing.

"That's a good idea, Harper. But I think I'd rather just act on it."

She advanced toward him.

"That works too," he managed to get out before she kissed him.

XXX

"Hey, where are Harper and Rommie?" Surprisingly enough, Hohne was the one who noticed their absence. The rest were too preoccupied with food and victory.

"Right behind you." They had just walked in, hand in hand. The mess hall went quiet.

"Rommie, Harper, something you want to tell us?" Dylan asked.

"Nothing you don't already know." It was a bit hard to miss. Harper turned to Trance. "Trance, I have to thank you. You took me out of a hellhole where my family is gone. Now, not only do I have them back, I have the woman I've always been in love with, too."

Beka smiled. "I'll toast to that."

And as they did so, Harper pulled Rommie to him and kissed her.

THE END

So what did ya'll think? This was my first fic, so I know it wasn't that great. But I still want your opinion…