Harper untangled himself from Beka. "I can't believe that she did that! I mean of all the things to hold hostage it had to be that," Harper said fuming.

"What happened?"

"We, uh, were playing poker.." Beka cut him off.

"Lemme guess, strip poker."

"No, no Boss, just regular poker. If I won she would have to sit still so I could scan her, and if she won, I'd have to give her a Sparky. Weell, I lost, but I uh, didn't wanna give her a Sparky." Beka gave him that Omgosh-you-are-fighting-over-some-little-thing-you-idiot. "Hey, I have a very limited supply of them. Anyway, she is holding my Nano-welder hostage till I paid her."

"You can be sooo childish somtimes Harper, you know you need to fix the Slip Core controls. Hurry it up and give her the Sparky."

"Alright..." Harper mumble somthing under his breath so Beka couldn't hear. "Rommie, where is Paris?"

Rommie's holo-avatar poped in front of Harper. "She instructed me not to tell you Harper."

"Tell her I'll pay her what I owe her."

Rommie paused for a moment, "She says she will meet you in Machine Shop 17."

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Parisindy finally had the trap in place. She walked over to the consul and hooked all the moniters around the ship up to the sensors in the room. The next person, hopefully Harper, would get a very big surprise. Paris double checked everything to makes sure it would work. "Rommie, where is Harper? I'm waiting."

"Harper is near your position." Andromeda's voice rang out.

The door to the machine shop opened, and before Paris could realize that it wasn't Harper, her trap went off. A string that was attached to one of the doors tighten when the door opened. It was attached to a cup of small, round, marble-like, metal pieces. They fell out and landed in a bucket that was hanging half off the floor. It shot towards the ground, pulling the metal rod that was holding it up in the air, down to the ground. That caused a whipped-cream pie to rocket towards the door where Tyr was standing. Needless to say, it wasn't very pretty.

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