A/N: I think I might have got the timeline completely wrong with who is on the ship etc. but I'm afraid that this is how it's going to stay.Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Please let me know what you think of this chapter.

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Chapter 2

Okay think. You were with Dylan, Rommie Harper and Trance on the bridge. You left the bridge. You fell asleep. You can't find anyone. Does this help at all?

Different approach, I'll go back up to the bridge and look through the logs manually. But first things first, med bay, someone has got to invent better painkillers!

Everything looks normal, the Hadr's hailed us, we listened for eternity, I left the bridge, another transmission received, a… just a second that doesn't look like a normal hail. Where did it come from, why is someone sending a transmission from the middle of the desert? It seems to have suppressed Andromeda somehow, there's nothing in the log after that.

So if I can get Andromeda back up I can scan the area and see if there's anything here. I wish I had Harper here to help I hardly know where to begin.

/Several hours later…/

Finally almost there and… Rommie at last!

"Rommie. You have no idea how long I have been trying to get you working, do you know what happened to the rest of the crew?"

"I can't detect them on the ship but there is a faint signal from my avatar on the planet but, that's odd, it seems to be coming…"

"From the middle of a desert?"

"Yes how did you know?"

"You received a transmission from there just before your AI shut itself down."

"My memory banks seem to be faulty. I can remember a hail, Dylan said to put it on screen then, they were fading and now it's only you here. All the details seem to be missing I can just remember vague images."

Well this is weird Rommie has forgotten something. But fading, what could have caused that? Any tesseract or other transporting devices would have to have been quite powerful, wouldn't they? Oh well worth a try.

"Could they have been transported somehow?"

"Maybe, in theory it would be possible but I can't tell from my data logs. All I know is that my avatar appears to be in the middle of that desert but my scanners don't detect any buildings or features on the surface."

"What about under the surface?"

"My scanners don't seem to be able to penetrate,"

"Which means there's something there,"

"Yes."

"Great so I'll go down in the Maru and check it out. You stay here and look after yourself."

I still get confused sometimes with the whole hologram, screen, ship thing but normally I'm alright with Rommie, the avatar, except when she talks with herself then I just get confused all over again and she doesn't seem to fare much better.

"I'll see you later then hopefully with everyone else."

"Be careful, if you can't do it by yourself come back up here and we will try to sort out some semblance of a plan."

"I'm sure I'll manage. Bye."

Some people have no faith in my abilities; believe me, for making me go through all this when I should be relaxing, those guards stand no chance.