Shots began to fire above us. The mercs that brought Riddick in started a shooting war with the warrens. Who knows what about?

Then one of the mercs jumped onto the rope and slide down toward us. He stopped in front of Riddick and his eyes grew wide.

"No, Riddick. No," the merc yelled. It was too late, Riddick had jumped and landed on the merc.

"Should have taken the money Toombs," Riddick said before climbing the rope and entering the warrens department.

Soon afterward a noise sounded throughout the room, Riddick opened the doors to allow the inmates out. Kyra and I rushed up top to see what was going on.

We saw a lot of people dead, mercs and guards.

"This can't be all of them," someone said. Suddenly Riddick appeared and started explaining what happened during the attack. He was very precise.

"How do you know all that? You weren't even here," said Toombs, who had just climbed up the rope.

"Cause it was my plan," Riddick replied.

After a bit of discussing it was decided what to do with Toombs, locking him downstairs with the dogs.

"Riddick," he yelled. It was the last thing we heard from him. Riddick had a plan to take us across the terrain and get to the hanger, to the ship.

"It'll be one speed: mine," Riddick said.

I turned to Kyra and sighed. She placed a hand on my shoulder and said she would watch out for me. I could feel eyes on my back and turned to see who they belonged to.

Riddick was watching me. He walked over to me and whispered in my ear, "I hope that your running skills have improved."

I nodded and we started off. Riddick was leading the way, followed by Kyra, then me, then four other inmates. We ran as fast as we could.

I had a hard time keeping up. It wasn't the first time my running skills were going to get me into trouble.

We jumped down into a maze of sorts trying to find Riddick.

"Riddick," Kyra yelled continuously. Then she ran into a dead end. "Riddick," we said together. Then Riddick's cloak fell between us. We looked up and there was Riddick waiting on us. He waved his hands telling us to come on.

We pushed Kyra up and then I was pushed up. We were running against time and the sun.

We took off across the land. I was dying, but knew I had to keep up.

Ash began to fall as we started off across the volcanic fields. Suddenly shots began and a couple of the others were shot. Riddick got one by hitting him in the head with something heavy.

Kyra and Riddick took off. I was stuck with the others, trying to keep up. We reached this giant mountain type object and started climbing. I am a better climber than runner, and soon caught up with Riddick and the other two inmates.

"Kyra," Riddick yelled. "Kyra…"

"What?" she yelled back. Riddick reached down and pulled me up.

"Get that ass moving." I looked at the horizon while helping Riddick pull the other men up.

"Riddick…the sun," I said. He looked up and we were blinded by the sun and the instant heat that radiated from it. Riddick and I huddled together behind a pillar and the other men crouched on the ground.

"Riddick," Kyra yelled. My eyes went wide as I remembered about Kyra still below.

"Remember what I said about not caring? If I lived or died? You know I was just kidding, right?"

One of the men looked at Riddick with an angry look on his face. "One speed," he said. Riddick stood there contemplating the idea and I watched him. Then he looked at me.

"Take the others and stay in the shadow of the mountain. I will find you; I don't plan on leaving you again."

He kissed me then, for the first time in five years. It was just like I remember. He pulled away and turned to the other guys.

"Give me your rope," he said calmly. "It is too late, we'll never make it," the other inmate said.

"Give me your rope now. And your water, all of it," Riddick yelled. The men complied immediately. "Go, stay in the shadow of the mountain. Don't wait for me, run," Riddick said yelling. I took one last look at him before running off.

"Stay safe," I yell back at him while following the men to the back of the mountain. We got to where the hanger was located about five minutes later.

"There it is, we made it," one man said. I looked back and saw Riddick and Kyra, both fine, running up behind us. I opened my mouth to say something but suddenly Riddick grabbed the other man's leg.

"Listen," he said. We became silent. Last time he told us to be quiet it didn't end well, and I didn't think this time was any exception.

Sure enough, there was the sound of movement over the ridge, as well as a ship. First I thought that we were too late and we would be stuck on Crematoria for the rest of our lives.

We moved up a little and glance over the ridge. Necromongers were on the other side. Around thirty of them with their guns. I was relieved and terrified at the same time.

"Let me guess, Necros?" Kyra asked. Riddick just sat there and nodded. "And a whole lot of Necro firepower."

We sat there for a few minutes. Kyra and I pulled our hair back out of our faces. "I'd say we have about five minutes before the sun hits us again."

"Wait," Riddick said. "Are we going to do this?" Kyra asked pulling out her guns.

"Just wait," Riddick said again. We sat there in silence for a few more seconds. The inmate next to me looked at Riddick while looking at a ring on his finger.

"Her name was Helen. I never really forgot," He said. Riddick seemed to understand. He looked at me through his goggles. I felt his eyes on me.

"Billy's first word was 'Daddy.' He said it to Iman. I was so happy for him, even though I had to correct him. I never thought he would ever see his father, so I left with Kyra and we went out to find you, each for our own reasons. She wanted to find her hero and I wanted to find Billy's father, so he could at least know him."

Riddick took my hand and nodded. Then he turned to Kyra.

"Remember your favorite game?"

"Who's the better killer?"

"Let's play." With those words we took off over the ridge and began fighting against the Necros.

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