Despair has its own calms. –Bram Stoker

Gloomy Tranquility

Vassy eyes snapped opened when a soft buzzing sound was heard. He picked up a small, metallic device and smiled evilly.

"Well, well my little lab rat is here and moving. I just might have to take a tour of this wonderful ship after all," thought Vassy.

He quickly picked up the tracking device and put it in his pocket. He slipped into his coat making sure to cover his bone blades completely. He silently slipped out of his ship and walked toward Anwen.

"I was wondering if you could give me a tour of the ship?" asked Anwen.

"I'm not really the person you should ask," replied Beka.

Anwen grabbed her head and sank to the floor.

"Get it out! Please, get it out!" she mumbled.

Beka crouched down and asked "Get what out, Anwen?"

"The chip, the chip. He knows I'm here. Oh, god he's going to find Seamus!"

"Chip?"

"Tracking chip, he puts it in all of science experiments."

Beka crouched there in stunned silence. She didn't know how to respond to something like this.

Anwen let out an ear piercing scream and said louder "Get it out, please do something!"

"Oh god, let's get you to the med bay," said Beka as she helped Anwen up. Beka struggled to keep Anwen up as they made their way to the med bay.

"Andromeda…….." Beka started to say when a shot whizzed by her. She dropped down and hid behind a wall.

"Give me my property," yelled Vasco as he fired off another shot.

Beka looked at the woman lying beside and at Vasco. She fired off a shot nearly hitting Vasco.

"Andromeda, get Dylan, Tyr over here pronto," ordered Beka. She looked up and saw Vasco standing above her with a creepy grin on his face.

"Two for the price of one," the man said as he snatched Beka gun. He placed it in a pocket and in the processed revealed some bone blades. Beka let out a little gasp causing Vasco to grin even more.

"Help her up," he said.

Beka hesitated.

"Help her up now," he said pointing the gun at her head.

Beka helped Anwen up into a standing position.

Vasco pointed the gun at Beka head and said "Help her to my ship, and if you don't I'll kill you."

The trio its way slowly toward de Leon's ship.

"Tyr, there is a situation on level 30," said Andromeda as the Nietzschean walked out of the galley. Tyr picked up his pace and was on deck 30 in a matter of minutes. He saw at the far end of the hall Vassy pointing a gun at Beka who was holding up a blonde haired woman. When the women weren't moving fast enough he shoved them with the gun.

"What's going on?" asked Dylan.

"It appears that our guest is in the process of kidnapping Beka and that unnamed woman," said Tyr as they followed the trio closely.

"Harper's older sister," said Dylan as he readied his forcelance.

Both of them fired at Vasco. The man ducked behind a wall and returned fire.

"You're dead now," said Beka smugly.

Vasco slapped Beka and said "Get moving."

Once again the trio started to make its way to the hanger but at a quicker pace. There were several more small firefights but with no hits on either side.

Vasco shoved Beka and Anwen onto his ship and locked the door behind him. He forced the two women into a room and pointed with his gun to lay Anwen on a bed.

"You sit down," he ordered Beka. She sat down in a chair to find her wrists and ankles clamped down. He then proceeded to tie down a now unconscious Anwen.

"I'll be back later ladies," he said before leaving the room. He readied his ship and took off. He artfully dodged the missiles that were fired at him and causally went into slipstream.

"I promised Anwen that he wouldn't get her and you let it happen," yelled Harper.

"Mr. Harper, I know your angry but yelling at me isn't going to bring Beka or Anwen back. Besides we don't know where this Vassy is going," said Dylan.

"Earth," replied Harper.

"Andromeda, ready a course for Earth," ordered Dylan.

"Aye, Captain."

"You know Dylan is going to get you," said Beka defiantly.

"Oh, is he now," said Vasco as he readied a needle. He walked toward Beka with the needle in hand.

"What the hell are you doing?" she asked.

"Oh just a little experimentation," he replied as he jabbed the needle into her.

Beka tensed as she felt fire consume her body. She let out an ear piercing scream and blacked out.

"Thank god, now I'll have some peace for a while," thought Vasco as he left the room.