Hello again!! sorry that it took forever to review, my life has been crazy, beetween almost dying of food poisoning and my crossgrade, my hands have been full. that reminds me,

NEVER EAT JUNK FOOD UNLESS YOU ARE 100 PERCENT SURE THAT IT IS COOKED RIGHT!

Disclaimer: no, i don't own andromeda, and i wish that i was getting money for this fic, but i'm not.

When the man came in, Janeta was on the ground, pretending to be unconscious. Behind the man came a boy a little older than herself and a woman in her late 20's. Klara was huddled up in the corner, too afraid to move. The man grabbed her arm and lifted her up onto a chair, then he shot her with a green liquid.

"Klara, stand up"

Janeta opened one eye, and almost gasped. Klara was staring straight ahead, her eyes wide and unblinking, looking almost hypnotized. She stood up, and the boy pointed his force lance at Klara, and shot. That was all Janeta could take.

She yanked the force lance out of his hands and shot his right hand, after all she didn't want to kill anyone. Then she knocked both the man and the boy against the wall. Then Janeta stopped breathing. Although the man and the boy really were lying in a heap against the wall, she hadn't moved at all. Quickly she stood up and ran towards Klara, who was asleep, but alive.

"Did you do that?"

Janeta looked behind her to see who had spoken. She had forgotten about the woman.

"N-no I didn't. Who are you"

"My name is Trance Gemini, and you are Empress Janeta Siri, correct?

Automatically Janeta responded,

"Don't call me Empress, my name is Janeta. Can you please help my friend Joy?"

"Yes I can. I can get you both out of here, but it will be dangerous."

Janeta sighed; Trance was speaking to her as if she was a child. Then she let out a small chuckle. She was a child. She walked over to the boy and took his force lance, then took the man's and put it in her pocket. Trance Gently picked up Klara, who was surprisingly unharmed, and took an old fashion key out of his pocket. Janeta never trusted strangers, and told Trance to go first and that Janeta would do the fighting, Trance objected.

"But Empress, you are only ten."

"Please dont call me Empress. I am twelve. and can fight quite well. "

Trance just shook her head and led the way. They did not encounter many difficulties. Empress shot down every guard she saw before they could sound the alarm. Eventually Trance brought them to a large slipfighter, and used the key to get inside. Janeta followed her, staring at the ship in awe. In her entire life she had never seen a slipfighter. She wandered around until she saw Trance injecting something into Klara.

"What is that?"

"An antidote to Desperance, the chemical that the professor put inside her."

Empress walked around for another minute, and found herself in the cockpit. She gasped in amazement as she saw a plant in the center of the room. There were no plants on earth, and as far as she knew, there never had been. She slowly walked towards it in awe, wondering where Trance got it from.

"Please don't touch that"

Empress turned around and saw Trance at the door. Trance smiled and walked over to the slipstream control, never taking her eyes off Janeta.

"It is an ancient Vedran plant, That erases your memory. There are only two of its kind left in the universe"

Empress looked at Trance as if she was crazy, a plant that erases your memory?

"That's impossible."

"Well, it is also impossible for a human to grow a tail."

Janeta glared at Trance and her hand automatically reached for her force lance. Trance saw the movement and her smile grew wider.

"Do you think that I will attack you?"

"No, but it is a possibility. How did you get a ship in here without it being detected?"

"This is the professor's ship, I am his Alpha slave, so I have access to it."

Janeta chose not to respond, and started wondering about where she was. Trance started the ship and left the dock. Looking back Janeta saw that It was a slaveship that looked remarkably like the old Commonwealth ships that she saw in historical records. Trance looked at Janeta with curiosity.

"How did you get so…cold?"

"What do you mean?"

"Back In the Slaveship, you shot down those guards as if they were nothing."

"They were slavers."

"But they are still living beings"

"Not anymore. You have never been to earth have you? On earth, you kill, or you be killed. Its cliché, but true."

Janeta watched as Trance prepared to enter slipstream. She had never traveled Slipstream before, but Brian had, and he said it was amazing. She clutched her fists in fury as she thought of Brian, Viririsy, and the trap. Suddenly they entered slipstream, and Janeta gasped. The feeling was amazing. Trance laughed at Janeta's reaction, and the next moment, they left slipstream, and Janeta could see earth.

"Empress, where would you like me to land?"

Janeta froze, she had never really seen a current picture of earth, and she had no clue where Boston was. She wondered if she could contact Andrew or Mira from space. She asked Trance, who thought it could work, and tried contacting Andrew on his personal communicator. To her surprise, it was Tanra who answered. Tanra had dyed her hair blonde again, and looked at Janeta in surprise.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Tanra! It's me, Janeta"

"You can not be Empress."

"why not?"

"Well for one thing, your purple."

"Some scientist did that to me. Anyways Tanra, you have to believe me."

"Empress is dead"

"I am not!"

Tanra looked Janeta in the eye, and smiled.

"Well, according to Viririsy, you are."

Janeta could not believe her eyes. She saw Andrew enter through the door behind Tanra. Tanra wiped the smile off her face, and replace it with an angry glare.

"You killed her didn't you?

Janeta stared, dumbstruck.

"killed who?"

"Empress! How dare you kill her, then claim that you are her! I do not know who you are, but you are not Empress."

Tanra shut off the communicator, leaving Janeta shocked. A long silence followed, Trance didn't dare speak. Janeta looked up just as five slipfighters came out of slipstream and fired. Trance stepped up to try to out-maneuver them, and silently, Janeta went up to the weapon controls and fired. The battle lasted a while, then without warning, the weapons shut down. Trance Ran out to fix them, leaving Janeta in the cockpit.

Janeta had no clue what Trance was doing, and stood there, helpless. The ship was on a collision course with Earth. For the first time in her life, Janeta cried. She was still crying as she took control of the ship and tried to at least make it a landing that she could walk away from. As they landed, Janeta was thrown backwards into the Trance's plant, and the last thing she was Trance limping out of the ship, carrying a heavily bleeding Klara, and dropping her identification card as she left.

It might be another long while until I get my next chapter up, i have a 2 finals to prepare for :French and English.

Please R&R!

-kate