A/N: THANKS TO NICK MORRISON FOR DESIGNING THE Maj-91 ON AN ETCH-A-SKETCH! Don't mind me if I seem a little mmm... 'sparkly' in my replies, I just finished a research paper on the battle of Midway. :(

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Vee017: :sings: oh, I'm feeling evil- oh so evil- I'm feeling evil, and mean, and... and... I can't think of anything else for that song:P you should be afraid! MWA-HA-HA! Temple of Gaheris? where's my membership:P here's more of Boa, just for you!

L.C. Brotherton: omg! you did it again! I got up to chap22, and you've already got 3 more chapters! how do you do it? oh, no, not exams, a research paper. even more fun. :whispers: listen... see if you can hear the sarcasm... :P

Iara: well, here's more!

Jamieson Z: chap39!

eris: ok, I kept going!

Chapter 39

Xena was halfway into her meditation when suddenly the Shadowdancer jumped out of Slipstream with a whine, and she heard angry cursing from the cockpit.

"Boa, what did you do?" she yelled without opening her eyes.

Boa Fett poked his head into the small cargo area. "Damn Dragans," he cursed. "That Du'lakar bitch put in a time delay fuse that shorted out the damn Slip drive."

"Oh hell," Xena replied calmly. "Well, you'd best go fix it."

"Thanks for all your help," Boa said sarcastically. The sandy-haired Ursa male stomped down the hall. "Nemay!" he yelled. "Repair duty!"

"Don't wanna," came the response from a partially open door. The Shadow wasn't that big, but it had actual quarters that the two brothers had installed some time ago.

Boa growled and kept stomping down the corridor. "Nuria-Achilles-Jade-Rhade-Xena-Nemay!" he yelled in one breath. "REPAIRS!"

Alternating degrees of 'no' came from each of the individual quarters, leaving poor Boa to do them himself.

Jade poked her head into Nemay's quarters. "Aren't you going to help your brother?" she asked, hearing a muffled clang and an accompanying curse.

Nemay looked from where he was laying on his bed. "Are you?"

"Well, no," Jade admitted.

"He can handle it," Nemay added. "There's nothing Boa Fett likes more than repairing things."

"Yes, I've been wondering about that," Jade mused. "Why do the two of you have different last names, yet call yourselves brothers?"

"Same mother, different fathers," Nemay explained. "My father died shortly after I was born, and my mother remarried into the Fett family. I kept my father's last name, Flachar."

"A-ha," Jade nodded. "And Telemachus came to the Dragan's ship with you?"

"Full of questions today, aren't you?" Nemay smiled and sat up. "Have a seat." He motioned to a swiveling chair bolted to a desk.

Jade entered and sat.

"Rhade came on his own ship, the Rose I believe it was called. HE had the good fortune to meet up with me and Xena on our way to get you."

"where is my brother's ship now?"

"She self-destructed in the Dragan's hanger after they attempted to use her to pursue us. The Rose is destroyed."

"And Terla's going to kill me!" announced Telemachus cheerfully from the hallway where he was on his way to help Boa.

"Who?" Jade asked.

"Long story!" came the shouted reply, and the door hissed shut behind him as he made his way to the Slipstream core.

"How did you break us out?"

Nemay reached under his pillow and pulled out a flexi.

"With that?" Jade looked incredulous.

"No," Nemay looked at her oddly. "That's my journal." He reached under the pillow again and pulled out a handheld energy pistol. "This is how i broke you out," he said with some pride. "It could change warfare as we know it."

Jade paused a bit. "It's a pistol, Nemay."

"Yes, I know that," Nemay replied, grinning. "But the Maj-91 isn't just any pistol."

"Never heard of it."

"Good. IF you had, I'd have to kill you." Nemay grinned again. "I designed and built it from scratch. It'll fire pretty much anything you put into it. Bullets, energy bullets, flachettes, mini bombs, grenades..." he paused for dramatic effect. "Point Singularity and Nova bombs."

"Wait, what?" Jade's head whipped around from where she had been studying the desk. "Did you just say 'Point Singularity and Nova' bombs?"

"Miniature ones," Nemay explained. "Not as powerful as full-sized ones, but they still pack a punch."

"I want one," Jade said, somewhat in shock.

Nemay grinned. "Sorry girl, there's only one in existence. It's like a warship unto itself."

Preview of Chap40: Telemachus receives a ghostly visitor from his past. Dun-dun-dun!