A/N: Poor Harlan... He gets beat up on so much.... *tee hee* Sorry... ,y perverse sense of humor comes out....

I got Sakura: Master of the Clow #2 yesterday and I LOVE IT! @.@ It's sooo cute! I loooooove Eriol and Li! I also loooooove Yue! ::does Yue's-too-cool dance::

::does Eriol's-a-cutie dance::

::does Eriol-and-Sakura-would-be-cute-together dance::

::does Li's-so-clueless-but-he-is-meant-for-the-equally-clueless-Sakura dance::






Chapter Four





"Have you heard anything from them, TJ?" Commander Goddard said as Miss Davenport walked onto the bridge. He trying to see if the crystals would move for him. Of course, it was just wishful thinking.

"Not yet..." Miss Davenport looked severe. She walked over to Goddard and laid a hand on the command console. "They should've reported SOMETHING back in all of this time..." She folded her arms across her chest. "What could they possibly be doing right now...."

Goddard huffed with the effort he had put into the unmoving crystals. He turned to Miss Davenport and shook his head. "Probably having fun.... something you ought to learn about, TJ..."

Miss Davenport puffed up in aggravation. "Something I ought to learn about! Indeed!"

"Miss Davenport... if you are going to flit around in my way... I do suggest that you grab a screwdriver and help me fix some wiring...." Commander Goddard said with a distinctive smirk.

Miss Davenport huffed at Goddard and stalked out the door. "Just you wait, Seth Goddard! I'll get you for that remark!" her voice could be heard walking down the corridor.



Elmira had pain in her head and her body. She felt as though parts of her were being dug out by someone's hands.

She opened her eyes and stared around. She had been watching through the eyes of someone. It hadn't been Radu. It was definitely not Suzee, Freya, Bova or Rosie. She could only come to the conclusion that it was Harlan's eyes that she saw through.

She closed her eyes. A tall girl with long black hair and green eyes had punched Harlan repeatedly. She opened her eyes and stood up. She would need to get to Miss Davenport and Commander Goddard with this news.



Harlan woke up with a splitting headache and his arm hurt as well. He opened his good eye and glanced around, wincing painfully at the pain in his neck. His head had been whipped around too much by the green eyed girl. He silently planned how he was going to kill the girl when he got the chance.

He heard someone moan beside him. He glanced down and saw red and blue striped brown hair. Suzee was asleep in the cage next to his and he was leaning on the bars that separated them. She groaned again in her sleep.

"No... get away... get out.... leave me... alone.." she whispered frantically. They were the same words that she had screamed before they were captured.

"Suzee...? Suzee.... can you hear me....?" Harlan whispered to her. He noticed that his bottom lip was slightly puffy.

She didn't wake. She just kept on shaking her head and whispering. "N-No.... I won't do that! Leave me alone! Leave HIM alone!"

"Suzee.... can you hear me!" Harlan said a little louder. He couldn't move his arms. He remembered that his right arm was broken and his other was chained to something.

"She won't wake, you know...." came a familiar cold voice.

Harlan turned and looked up at Treya. He tried to glare at her, but only managed to hurt himself. Treya grinned maliciously at him. "What have you done to her!" Harlan managed to say.

"I? I've done nothing to her...." Treya said with a cold smile. She knelt down and took a lock of Suzee's hair in a gloved hand and gazed at it. "Such a pitiful girl.... can't even fend for herself... what use is she, really...." she growled. She tossed the hair back onto the sleeping Suzee.

"She can too fend for herself!" Harlan said through gritted teeth.

"Really... then why are you defending her...." Treya's smile came back. She opened Harlan's cage door and knelt next to him. She kept that cold smile on her face. She touched his cheek with a gloved hand. "Dark skin... We don't have any of that on our planet.... how exotic...."

Harlan tried to move his head away from her. She grabbed his chin and forced him to look at her. "You could fetch a nice price on the market...." she said. Then, she kissed him on his mouth. He couldn't get away from her face.

Harlan settled for kicking her. His legs didn't seemed to be damaged. She flew away from him in an instant. Treya fell onto her rear and gave him a glare. "You'll pay for that, dark one...."

He tried to get to his feet, but the chain holding his other arm stopped him. He flew backwards and hit the bars between Suzee's cage and his. Treya laughed horribly at him. "Hmm.... I guess I get to have you when Zanathos is through with his little plaything..." Then, she walked out of the room.



Radu broke the chains holding him in place and took off the bits of metal that still hung onto him. Tavik stared at him incredulously and Feera was still snoring away. He gave a weak smile and walked over to Rosie.

"S-so... you could've done that at any moment?" Tavik stammered out.

Radu smiled weakly. "W-Well... I wouldn't have if that Feera girl wasn't asleep. She's a bit scary...."

"Yes... she is to me as well..." Tavik said with a smile.

Freya finally woke up. She sat up in her cage with her hands tied behind her back. "Where am I...?" she said blearily. She noticed that she didn't have any use of her hands and turned her hands into water so the chains went through her.

Tavik stared at her through the bars as she walked through them. "Feera had told me that she stayed under the water for much longer than normal.... How...?"

Freya gave him a cheerful smile. "Hello! Who are you?"

"T-Tavik...." Tavik stuttered. He was blushing as he smiled at her.

"That's nice... Now..." Freya cracked her neck and smiled. "Who am I...?"

Radu slapped his forehead. It had happened again. Freya's implant had struck again. Rosie smiled and put an arm around Freya's shoulders, as well as she could reach them. "Sorry... she has a sort of... device in her head that malfunctions every now and then...."

Suddenly, Freya jerked and gave a yelp. "YEOWCH!" She shook her head frantically. "That fricken hurt!" she said.

"I think it came back online...." Radu said.

Feera was awake now. She yelped at the sight of Rosie, Radu and Freya being free. "W-What are THEY doing out!" She said as she went into hyperventilating mode.

Tavik walked over to Feera and placed a calming hand on her shoulder. "Calm down, Feera... These people aren't Zeeks...."

Feera gave him stare that made him take his hand off of her. "What about the girl with the Zeek type machine on her neck...." she said flatly.

Freya pointed to herself with a blank expression. "Who.. Me? I've had this thing since I was twelve.... and we all just got on your planet..." she said innocently.

"Likely story..." Feera grunted.

"As if!" Freya growled.

The two girls were locked in a glaring contests. Each growled at the other menacingly. Tavik stared incredulously. Radu watched with his wide innocent looking blue eyes. Rosie smiled cheerfully. "They look like they're having fun!"

"You call that fun?" Radu gave her a frightened glance.

Tavik turned back to Rosie. "Now.. What did you mean about there being another pair of you here...."

"Just what I said... We had another two people in our landing party. They went into that old abandoned city o--"

"ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE!?" screamed Feera. Freya stared at Feera with an eyebrow cocked.

Tavik was equally stunned. "You won't be getting them back anytime soon, I can guarantee that...."

"W-Why?" Radu said.

Tavik was considering what he should tell them. He settled on taking them to Derek. "Come... Let us give you a better greeting...." he said with a mysterious smile.

"Bu-But..." Rosie stammered.

"Come on... Derek will be waiting..." Tavik said as he gently ushered Rosie out of the small prison house.



Commander Goddard inched his head out from around a corner close to the galley. He knew that Miss Davenport was after him for the comment he had made. He slunk along the wall as he approached the galley. "Finally.." he sighed in relief as he walked into the galley.

He walked over to the food wheel and spun it. The little device read his genetic make-up and spat out a tube of dehydrated food. Goddard frowned at it. He didn't like the way he had to eat.

When he finished preparing his food, he sat down to eat. He had a sandwich and some mashed potatoes on his plate. He started munching on the sandwich when he thought he heard someone at the entrance. He turned and glanced at the door. Nothing was there.

"I'm getting paranoid... Davenport wouldn't do anything to me... she's more mature than that...." He grunted. He took another bite.

Elmira came into the room. She walked to Commander Goddard with a concerned look on her reptilian face. "What's the matter, Elmira...?" Goddard said with a mouthful of sandwich in his mouth.

"I saw Harlan...."

"Yeah.. You saw the pictures that they sent back... Were there any others that they sent back?" Goddard said as he continued to munch on the sandwich.

"No... you don't I saw Harlan and Suzee..." Elmira said with a little more desperation in her voice.

"Oh... so they sent back more pictures, eh? Let me guess... Miss Davenport sent you tell me, right? So what was going on in the pictures.... Harlan putting a native creature down Suzee's front?"

"No... Harlan was...." Elmira was cut off by something.

Commander Goddard turned just in time to have Hunter, Freya's pet selcar, thrown onto him. Hunter shredded Commander Goddard as he tried to get away. "ARGH!" screamed Commander Goddard.

"Ha ha ha...." said Miss Davenport deliberately. "Now the joke is on you... have a nice day!" She said with a smile.

Goddard stood up and glared at Miss Davenport angrily. "That was completely unfair!"

"Says you, Commander... I told you I would get you back for saying I was stuck up!" Miss Davenport grinned and ran away.

Commander Goddard gave a mighty yell and ran after her. Elmira stayed in the galley and rubbed her temples. She remembered something she had heard Miss Davenport say in class when she passed by one day. "When the mice are away.. The cats will play..." she said. At least, she hoped that was the right saying.



Inside Suzee's mind, a torrent of information flooded her every particle. She couldn't escape from any of it. She couldn't even hear Catalina scolding her for talking to Harlan. All she could hear was a single voice repeatedly resounding in her head.

"You must tell me where they all are...." said the voice.

"No... leave me alone! Get out! Go away!" was all she could say. Her head throbbed in agony.

"Give me your tribe and I'll leave you alone..."

"Leave me alone, now!"

She was faintly aware of Harlan next to her. She was also aware of someone else in the room with him. She heard Harlan's grunts as he was hit repeatedly by the someone in the room.

She felt the presence in her mind again. It was a boy about the same age as Harlan. She knew that much. "You brought them here.... you will hand them over to me...." he said to her.

"Go away.... no... leave me alone!" she said.

"Tell me where they are hiding...."

"No...."

"You know where they are...."

"I don't know anything.... leave me alone!"

The throbbing came back. It was as if someone was pounding on her head with their fist. "Tell me.... tell me... tell me..."