Title: Barley Alive
Author: Shakia
Spoilers: None
Sequal to: Frozen Nightmares
Summary: Harper is kidnapped by aliens who claim they worked with the Dragons on the Ice Kludge project and they force him to do things he will never forgive himself for
Authors Notes: Thanks so much for the reviews guys! :3 Like in the last chapter I'll have to do the anoying weird thing for the symbols representing flashes back in time, present time, and just elapse with time -.- Oh, and as for why Dylan's being so mean to Harper this chapter will clear that up! So, hope you enjoy the next chapter!
Dylan sighed as he sat in his quarters. Although he knew Beka was right, he just couldn't let up on Harper's restriction. Not after what he had seen. It all seemed to just be so scrambled. He had not only killed that Neitchian back on the planet, he had sloughtered him...then before with the rest of the Neitchians on the planet. He had killed everyone of them. It wasn't that Dyllan liked the Dragons, on the contrary he knew Harper had every right to not like them since they had ruled Earth; but he had sloughtered all of them. That was a small reasons he couldn't get past it, but it wasn't the real reason. He shut his eyes as the memory came back to him.
The once white snow now drenched in a crimson red. The bodies scattered over the land. The blood splattered across the room and on Harper's claws. But the one thing that got him, the one reason he couldn't let back on his restriction was the madning anger that flared in his eyes and the overpowering hunger for destruction that lingered within them. That look, it just brought back too many memories. Memories of him and Rhade being sent after to capture a mad man. The man went across the galaxie, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people for his own enjoyment; to satisfy the overpowering hunger for destruction and gruesom death that consumed the man. He hadn't just killed them though. He had done far worse to them. He had been a sick and inhuman man who went by the name "The Monster". He would tortured his victims in the most inhuman ways possible. He would desire their fear and their sobbing forms. He would watch with pleasure as the blood spilt from their veigns. He'd watch as they begged for their lives as he slowly killed them. Dylan shut his eyes and took a deep breath. He had ended up being captured by the man...Rhade had saved him, but not after he had spent four days with The Monster. He didn't remember much of the details, mostly only flashes, but Rhade had said he had barley made it. Through those four days the one thing he clearly remembered, the one thing that haunted all of his dreams was looking into those eyes and finding the inhuman hunger within them. The hate and horrible madness that dwelled there. Dylan surpressed a shudder at the memory. He hadn't been back to that dark room until he had seen the look in Harper's eyes. They were the same ones he had seen in The Monster's. He scrubbed his hands over his face and got to his feet, trying to take his mind elsewhere. He never wanted Any of his crew to have to go what he went through those four days. Even though knew they might have been through worse he knew that no one should have to live through something like that. Without warning a loud explosion errupted through the ship, causing him to fly backwards. He slammed agianst the wall and fell to the floor with a thud. His thoughts were immidiatly focused on the situation at hand and as he scrambled to his feet and yelled to his ship,
"Andromeda report!"
"D-Dylan..." She began, her voice skipping slightly. "Explosions-in the ship-" She said before suddenly everything shut off and he was thrown into darkness.
"Andromeda?!" He yelled to the room. There was no responce. After letting out a curse he ran out the door, heading toward the bridge. What the heck was going on?! "Andromeda report!" He tried agian. The ship remained silent and instead another explosion rang out, rattling the ship. Dyllan fell agianst a wall beside him for support before abandoning it and racing foreword. What had she said? Explosions in the ship...Why would the explosions be originating in the ship?
He swerved around the corner and through the bridge doors. Rommie turned around to see him and Tyr stood beside a consul.
"Dylan!" Rommie said, looking very troubled but somewhat relieved to see him.
"Rommie, what the heck is going on?!" He demanded as without hesitation he headed to the closest consul to him.
"The explosions are in the ship being caused by a virus." She explained quickley. Dyllan looked up from what he had been doing.
"A virus?" He asked uncertainly. She nodded, her face still lined with worry.
"Yes and it was transfered into the ship within it!" Tyr explained angrily as he rapidly looked over the damage.
"Within the ship?" He asked in disbelief. Rommie nodded agian, somewhat reluctantly. "Do you know when it was transfered?" He continued, returning to the consul as he talked.
"Yes..." She said reluctantly. "In engineering this morning. It was transfered through the sensors." She told him grimly. Dyllan stopped dead as he went slightly pale. No.
"Harper was the only one in there." It wasn't a question, but a statement. She nodded.
"And he had been working on my sensors." She continued regretabley. Although Dyllan had lost his trust with Harper he truley would have never expected this. He didn't even know if he could bring himself to believe Harper did it.
"Rommie is there anyway I can send a message across the ship?" He asked after regaining control of himself. She nodded and quickley activated the comms.
"Beka, Rev, Trance, report to the bridge immidiatly." He said before turning the comms off. The comms had been nearly the only thing not effected by the power loss.
"Rommie go to Harper's room..." He heaved a sigh, not believing what he was about to say. "Make sure he doesn't leave it."
"Dyllan, you don't believe-" She began. Dyllan shook his head.
"No, I don't, but we can't afford to take that risk." He explained wearily. Did he really believe it? He found with dismay that part of him was pursuaded to the idea. But Dyllan promised himself he would not believe it until he looked into it. He felt even more tired than before as he realized just how harsh he had been on Harper. Harper had pulled them through so much. Why did he just realize this now when they were in the midst of posible destruction? Dyllan felt weary and drained. He expected most of the crew did after everything that had happened. He sighed and turned to Tyr.
"What's the damage report?" He asked.
"Sensors are gone, as is slipstream. The ship has been completley drained from it's energy." He sighed. Yet another explosion rang through the ship, making it shake voilently. Dyllan grabbed the consul as he tried to stay on his feet. Trance and Rev burst through the door, nearly stumbling over eachother from the recent explosion.
"Dyllan, what's going on?" Rev asked immidiatly, his voice filled with worry.
"Andromeda's shut down because of a virus and we need to find a way to nutralize it." He explained quickley. Suddenly Beka stormed into the room with Rommie not far behind her.
"Dyllan you have just gone way too far this time! How idiotic could you possibly-" She started furiously.
"Beka. Beka!" He yelled as he tried to get his attention.
"What?!" She snapped, fuming. Dylan flashed a worried look to Rommie before returning her gaze to the woman before him.
"Before you say anything promise to let me finish." He said. Beka seemed very reluctant to do so and hesitated. "Please." He added wearily. She nodded hesitantly.
"Ok, but only till your finished." She agreed.
"The ship has been infected with some kind of virus. The explosions going on our being caused by a virus. Andromeda was able to record when the virus was put into her and found out that it was put through her sensors in Engineering this morning. Throughout the entire day Harper was the only one to ever enter Engineering." He continued calmly.
"Dylan, y-" Beka started.
"I haven't finished yet." He told her. Beka gave him a death glare, but said nothing. "I can't believe Harper would do this either. I know he's saved us dozens of times, but we just can't risk it at this point. When this is cleared up though we'll look into it and I'm sure there'll be a reasonable explanation." He told her.
"Are you done yet?" She asked bitterly.
"Yes." He said, but raised a finger. "Yell at me later, right now we have to try and save the ship." He said. She gave an agressive sigh, but nodded all the same. Dyllan looked over to Rommie. "Alright, let's get started. Rommie, where's the virus right now, and what's it's nature?" He demanded. Rommie paused and seemed to be reading something when clearly nothing was there. She frowned.
"It's very, very high tech." She paused agian. "Very, very hightech." She repeated worriedly. "It's duplicating itself twenty times per second; Dyllan if we don't stop it soon we'll be dead within the hour." She told him. Just great.
"Ok, do you have any idea how we can nutralize it?" He asked quickly. She shook her head regretably.
"I've never seen anything like it Dyllan." She said. Crud, why did Harper have to be the one who was suspected to releasing it when at this point he was the only one who could've destroyed it.
"Alright, Trance, Rommie, Beka, take a scamatic of the virus and go to Medical to try and figure out how to kill it; Tyr, you and I will try to do something to slow the viruses from within Engineering." He ordered quickley. Everyone nodded and raced out the door, all heading toward their posts.
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Dyllan sat beside an open panel, feverishly working on it. So far they had thrown everything they could think of at the virus, but it appeared to be unstopable. By this point they only had twenty minutes till life support shut down.
"Got anything else up your sleeve, captian?" Tyr asked.
"Well, check in with Beka and Trance?" He sighed. Dyllan hated to admitt it, but at this point Harper was there only hope. Even if he had put it in there was a good chance he hadn't and they'd be dead anyways. "Alright, let's get Harper." He said as he got to his feet. Tyr raised a brow.
"I never thought I'd hear you say that." He stated. Dyllan shrugged and ran out the door.
"You stay here and continue." He yelled over his shoulder as he left the room -r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-
Dyllan slowed as he aprouched Harper's quarter's. These were the moments he was glad he took runs through Andromeda every morning. Suddenly something caught his eye and as he turned to see what it was he found the door to be open. He felt a sudden uneasness fill him and cautiously headed into the room, scanning it over as he did.
"Harper?" He asked uncertainly. No responce. Dyllan's foot clanged agianst something and he immidiatly pulled it back. As he looked down he found it to be a panel cover. His eyes travled upward to find the open panel itself, glowing dimly. He realized with a sigh that Harper had broken out. Things were just getting better and better. He thought irritabley. Agian Something caught his attention and he turned to see what it was. Although things were strewn across the floor he managed to spot a flexi sticking out of what appeared to be a dressor with a broken lock on it. The reason it had caught his attention was because it was glowing. He furrowed his brow before cautiously making his way through the mess toward it. The dressor itself was on it's side so he had to bend down to pull it out. As he pulled it up before him he froze, his face paling. No. He couldn't believe what he saw.
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TBC. I'm glad I finally got Dyllan's whole side of it up. Anyways, please review! :3
Author: Shakia
Spoilers: None
Sequal to: Frozen Nightmares
Summary: Harper is kidnapped by aliens who claim they worked with the Dragons on the Ice Kludge project and they force him to do things he will never forgive himself for
Authors Notes: Thanks so much for the reviews guys! :3 Like in the last chapter I'll have to do the anoying weird thing for the symbols representing flashes back in time, present time, and just elapse with time -.- Oh, and as for why Dylan's being so mean to Harper this chapter will clear that up! So, hope you enjoy the next chapter!
Dylan sighed as he sat in his quarters. Although he knew Beka was right, he just couldn't let up on Harper's restriction. Not after what he had seen. It all seemed to just be so scrambled. He had not only killed that Neitchian back on the planet, he had sloughtered him...then before with the rest of the Neitchians on the planet. He had killed everyone of them. It wasn't that Dyllan liked the Dragons, on the contrary he knew Harper had every right to not like them since they had ruled Earth; but he had sloughtered all of them. That was a small reasons he couldn't get past it, but it wasn't the real reason. He shut his eyes as the memory came back to him.
The once white snow now drenched in a crimson red. The bodies scattered over the land. The blood splattered across the room and on Harper's claws. But the one thing that got him, the one reason he couldn't let back on his restriction was the madning anger that flared in his eyes and the overpowering hunger for destruction that lingered within them. That look, it just brought back too many memories. Memories of him and Rhade being sent after to capture a mad man. The man went across the galaxie, slaughtering hundreds of innocent people for his own enjoyment; to satisfy the overpowering hunger for destruction and gruesom death that consumed the man. He hadn't just killed them though. He had done far worse to them. He had been a sick and inhuman man who went by the name "The Monster". He would tortured his victims in the most inhuman ways possible. He would desire their fear and their sobbing forms. He would watch with pleasure as the blood spilt from their veigns. He'd watch as they begged for their lives as he slowly killed them. Dylan shut his eyes and took a deep breath. He had ended up being captured by the man...Rhade had saved him, but not after he had spent four days with The Monster. He didn't remember much of the details, mostly only flashes, but Rhade had said he had barley made it. Through those four days the one thing he clearly remembered, the one thing that haunted all of his dreams was looking into those eyes and finding the inhuman hunger within them. The hate and horrible madness that dwelled there. Dylan surpressed a shudder at the memory. He hadn't been back to that dark room until he had seen the look in Harper's eyes. They were the same ones he had seen in The Monster's. He scrubbed his hands over his face and got to his feet, trying to take his mind elsewhere. He never wanted Any of his crew to have to go what he went through those four days. Even though knew they might have been through worse he knew that no one should have to live through something like that. Without warning a loud explosion errupted through the ship, causing him to fly backwards. He slammed agianst the wall and fell to the floor with a thud. His thoughts were immidiatly focused on the situation at hand and as he scrambled to his feet and yelled to his ship,
"Andromeda report!"
"D-Dylan..." She began, her voice skipping slightly. "Explosions-in the ship-" She said before suddenly everything shut off and he was thrown into darkness.
"Andromeda?!" He yelled to the room. There was no responce. After letting out a curse he ran out the door, heading toward the bridge. What the heck was going on?! "Andromeda report!" He tried agian. The ship remained silent and instead another explosion rang out, rattling the ship. Dyllan fell agianst a wall beside him for support before abandoning it and racing foreword. What had she said? Explosions in the ship...Why would the explosions be originating in the ship?
He swerved around the corner and through the bridge doors. Rommie turned around to see him and Tyr stood beside a consul.
"Dylan!" Rommie said, looking very troubled but somewhat relieved to see him.
"Rommie, what the heck is going on?!" He demanded as without hesitation he headed to the closest consul to him.
"The explosions are in the ship being caused by a virus." She explained quickley. Dyllan looked up from what he had been doing.
"A virus?" He asked uncertainly. She nodded, her face still lined with worry.
"Yes and it was transfered into the ship within it!" Tyr explained angrily as he rapidly looked over the damage.
"Within the ship?" He asked in disbelief. Rommie nodded agian, somewhat reluctantly. "Do you know when it was transfered?" He continued, returning to the consul as he talked.
"Yes..." She said reluctantly. "In engineering this morning. It was transfered through the sensors." She told him grimly. Dyllan stopped dead as he went slightly pale. No.
"Harper was the only one in there." It wasn't a question, but a statement. She nodded.
"And he had been working on my sensors." She continued regretabley. Although Dyllan had lost his trust with Harper he truley would have never expected this. He didn't even know if he could bring himself to believe Harper did it.
"Rommie is there anyway I can send a message across the ship?" He asked after regaining control of himself. She nodded and quickley activated the comms.
"Beka, Rev, Trance, report to the bridge immidiatly." He said before turning the comms off. The comms had been nearly the only thing not effected by the power loss.
"Rommie go to Harper's room..." He heaved a sigh, not believing what he was about to say. "Make sure he doesn't leave it."
"Dyllan, you don't believe-" She began. Dyllan shook his head.
"No, I don't, but we can't afford to take that risk." He explained wearily. Did he really believe it? He found with dismay that part of him was pursuaded to the idea. But Dyllan promised himself he would not believe it until he looked into it. He felt even more tired than before as he realized just how harsh he had been on Harper. Harper had pulled them through so much. Why did he just realize this now when they were in the midst of posible destruction? Dyllan felt weary and drained. He expected most of the crew did after everything that had happened. He sighed and turned to Tyr.
"What's the damage report?" He asked.
"Sensors are gone, as is slipstream. The ship has been completley drained from it's energy." He sighed. Yet another explosion rang through the ship, making it shake voilently. Dyllan grabbed the consul as he tried to stay on his feet. Trance and Rev burst through the door, nearly stumbling over eachother from the recent explosion.
"Dyllan, what's going on?" Rev asked immidiatly, his voice filled with worry.
"Andromeda's shut down because of a virus and we need to find a way to nutralize it." He explained quickley. Suddenly Beka stormed into the room with Rommie not far behind her.
"Dyllan you have just gone way too far this time! How idiotic could you possibly-" She started furiously.
"Beka. Beka!" He yelled as he tried to get his attention.
"What?!" She snapped, fuming. Dylan flashed a worried look to Rommie before returning her gaze to the woman before him.
"Before you say anything promise to let me finish." He said. Beka seemed very reluctant to do so and hesitated. "Please." He added wearily. She nodded hesitantly.
"Ok, but only till your finished." She agreed.
"The ship has been infected with some kind of virus. The explosions going on our being caused by a virus. Andromeda was able to record when the virus was put into her and found out that it was put through her sensors in Engineering this morning. Throughout the entire day Harper was the only one to ever enter Engineering." He continued calmly.
"Dylan, y-" Beka started.
"I haven't finished yet." He told her. Beka gave him a death glare, but said nothing. "I can't believe Harper would do this either. I know he's saved us dozens of times, but we just can't risk it at this point. When this is cleared up though we'll look into it and I'm sure there'll be a reasonable explanation." He told her.
"Are you done yet?" She asked bitterly.
"Yes." He said, but raised a finger. "Yell at me later, right now we have to try and save the ship." He said. She gave an agressive sigh, but nodded all the same. Dyllan looked over to Rommie. "Alright, let's get started. Rommie, where's the virus right now, and what's it's nature?" He demanded. Rommie paused and seemed to be reading something when clearly nothing was there. She frowned.
"It's very, very high tech." She paused agian. "Very, very hightech." She repeated worriedly. "It's duplicating itself twenty times per second; Dyllan if we don't stop it soon we'll be dead within the hour." She told him. Just great.
"Ok, do you have any idea how we can nutralize it?" He asked quickly. She shook her head regretably.
"I've never seen anything like it Dyllan." She said. Crud, why did Harper have to be the one who was suspected to releasing it when at this point he was the only one who could've destroyed it.
"Alright, Trance, Rommie, Beka, take a scamatic of the virus and go to Medical to try and figure out how to kill it; Tyr, you and I will try to do something to slow the viruses from within Engineering." He ordered quickley. Everyone nodded and raced out the door, all heading toward their posts.
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Dyllan sat beside an open panel, feverishly working on it. So far they had thrown everything they could think of at the virus, but it appeared to be unstopable. By this point they only had twenty minutes till life support shut down.
"Got anything else up your sleeve, captian?" Tyr asked.
"Well, check in with Beka and Trance?" He sighed. Dyllan hated to admitt it, but at this point Harper was there only hope. Even if he had put it in there was a good chance he hadn't and they'd be dead anyways. "Alright, let's get Harper." He said as he got to his feet. Tyr raised a brow.
"I never thought I'd hear you say that." He stated. Dyllan shrugged and ran out the door.
"You stay here and continue." He yelled over his shoulder as he left the room -r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-
Dyllan slowed as he aprouched Harper's quarter's. These were the moments he was glad he took runs through Andromeda every morning. Suddenly something caught his eye and as he turned to see what it was he found the door to be open. He felt a sudden uneasness fill him and cautiously headed into the room, scanning it over as he did.
"Harper?" He asked uncertainly. No responce. Dyllan's foot clanged agianst something and he immidiatly pulled it back. As he looked down he found it to be a panel cover. His eyes travled upward to find the open panel itself, glowing dimly. He realized with a sigh that Harper had broken out. Things were just getting better and better. He thought irritabley. Agian Something caught his attention and he turned to see what it was. Although things were strewn across the floor he managed to spot a flexi sticking out of what appeared to be a dressor with a broken lock on it. The reason it had caught his attention was because it was glowing. He furrowed his brow before cautiously making his way through the mess toward it. The dressor itself was on it's side so he had to bend down to pull it out. As he pulled it up before him he froze, his face paling. No. He couldn't believe what he saw.
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TBC. I'm glad I finally got Dyllan's whole side of it up. Anyways, please review! :3