Authors Note: I need a beta reader...desperately. I am writing on a computer that doesn't have Microsoft Word so I am working with a primitive word processing program that doesn't have grammar check. I desperately need a beta reader. If you can help either post a review or e-mail me. Thanks.

Lost Souls & Changing Fate Part One: Lost Souls

Chapter One: Please God

She didn't know why she was still alive, logically she should have died of something by now. Six days floating on this godforsaken piece of scrap metal with no food or water and something should have killed her. Of course, Nietzscheans are remarkably hard to kill.

"Please God, deliver me from this hell and I will do anything you ask me to do."

This was the only thing she had said in days, a continual prayer to the Devine to save her, somehow. It all started almost a year ago...

The world seemed to explode into a continual blast. Crashes, screams, and bombs seemed to blur into a single sound...death. Everything was in chaos, she couldn't see where she was or where she was going...Trance. Where was Trance? If anyone could help her get out of this slice of hell it was Trance. She stood on tiptoe trying desperately to peer out of what was left of the window. There was no sight of the little pink girl. Where the hell had she gone? Didn't she know her best friend was in trouble? There. Just at the edge of the building...a tail. Trance came quickly, having spotted her friend, dodging rubble and fallen people.

"Anna!"

"Trance!"

The two young women embraced as another mortar shell exploded in the building next to them.

"I have to get you out of here Anna" said Trance, pulling on Anna's arm

"I can't! I have to find my family!" Anna pulled back firmly, trying desperately to turn and look back out the window

"Anna, they're gone."

Suddenly the world went quiet. Everything seemed to recede until there was nothing but the expanding silence ringing in her ears.

"Anna stop! Anna! You're going to hurt yourself." Trance tried to hold the screaming Nietzschean down while she raged against the world.

"Anna you have to pull yourself together. If you don't come with me right now, everything your family is will die with you. You have to survive Anna. Please"

Anna shook her head, there was nothing she wanted more right now than to lay down and die. Everything she had was gone.

"I'm so sorry Anna, I hope when we meet again you will be able to forgive me." Trance looked so sad that Anna tried to comfort her. Pain. Something bit into her shoulder. Trance had a nanoinjecter in her hand.

"What...Tran.."

Sucking blackness. She was floating in the darkness. Nothing was real and what was real didn't matter. Peace was finally hers. Cold. Why was she suddenly so cold.

"She's seizing, somebody hold her down."

Blackness. Death? No, surely death would be less painful than this.

She awoke some time later lying on the floor of what looked like a cell. Where was she? The last thing she remembered was...Trance. What the hell had her little pink friend done this time? She was always causing trouble. Someone was coming.

It got easier to cope after that first visit. Apparently she was found on a small moon in the outer rim in a chriochamber fast asleep. No one knew how long she had been there for, but when they tried to revive her she had a massive seizure. She couldn't bring herself to ask what year it was or what had happened to her family...not then at least. It was many months before she could speak to anyone and she had been having nightmares of her last moments with her family. When she did ask, the answers she received were not what she had expected. Over 300 years had passed since that fateful day and no one believed her when she tried to tell them who she was.

A loud explosion rocked the ship, throwing her across the small room. The ship was under attack.