Chapter one title: A new crew member.
Disclaimer: I don't own Andromeda or it's crew.
Authors note: Harper's an alien, who is more mysterious than Trance. I've always thought about this and finaly decided to write it.
Summary: Harper's an alien who is more mysterious than Trance. There's an original character who is the same type of alien as Harper. Please read and review.
Sy-la has come aboard the Andromeda and Dylan keeps her around to help Harper. She seems somewhat of a recluse and stays in her room when not working. One day Harper runs to her room to tell her the slipcore's acting up.
Harper: Sy-la, we need to fix the core.
Sy-la comes out of her room. They run to the core and start repairing the malfunction.
Sy-la: Are you sure you should do that?
Harper: Trust in the Harper.
Sy-la: The Harper is good.
She whispers the end of his saying and smiles at him. He looks up at her.
Harper: What'd you say?
She blushes and looks away.
Sy-la: Nothing.
They finish fixing the core and Sy-la goes back to her quarters. Harper goes back to his quarters and sits on his bed.
Harper: Andromeda, what did Sy-la say?
Holo-Rommie appears.
Holo-Rommie: Be more specific, Harper.
Harper: After I said 'trust in the Harper'.
Holo-Rommie: She said 'the Harper is good'.
Harper: Have I ever said that infront of her?
Holo-Rommie: No you have not.
Harper: Thanks.
Holo-Rommie nods and disappears. Harper leans back on his bed, to think. He falls asleep. Sy-la is staring at the wall of her room, while she sits on her bed. She leans back on her bed and closes her eyes. She falls asleep. She dreams she is with Harper fixing the slip core and all the other minor problems that occur over time. Then her dream switches to a planet with alien creatures. She's with them playing and dancing. Then she's running from unkown adversaries, she falls down. Someone helps her up and into a tunnel to escape. She hears a voice tell her 'I will find you' and a bright light. She wakes up with sweat dripping and her heart racing. Holo-Rommie appears.
Holo-Rommie: Are you all right?
Sy-la: Fine. I'm fine.
Holo-Rommie: Very well.
She disappears. Sy-la tries to go back to sleep. She succeeds five minutes later. Harper wakes up, he walks over to the sink and washes his face. Then he notices the time. He sighs and goes back to bed. Two weeks later Harper is walking down the corridor toward his room when alarms go off. He runs to command. He and Sy-la get there at the same time.
Dylan: Harper, Sy-la go to engineering and make sure internal defences are functioning properly.
Harper and Sy-la run out. They almost reach engineering when the ship is rocked by missiles. They're thrown against the wall, they fall to the ground unconcious. When they wake up the ship is running on emergency power. They're in a corridor that's pitch black.
Sy-la: Harper?
Harper: I'm here.
Sy-la: What do we do now?
Harper: Let's get to command and figure it out from there.
They get up and stumble around in the dark until they find the door to command. They walk into command to find it empty, but the lights are on.
Harper: Where is everybody?
Sy-la: Andromeda?
The main screen is flickering. Harper runs over to a console and re-routes the power. Andromeda comes on the screen.
Andromeda: Harper, Sy-la, the crew has been abducted by Nietzscheans.
Sy-la: Why?
Andromeda: They have been framed for stealing some secret file from them.
Harper: Where are they at?
The screen changes to the view of a planet.
Andromeda: Here.
Sy-la: Are we near there?
Andromeda: We are just outside the orbit of the planet.
Sy-la: How'd we get here?
Andromeda: While you were unconcious, I was piloted here.
Harper: So everyone's down there?
Andromeda: Yes.
Sy-la: Time to plan a rescue mission.
To be continued.
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