The vortex appears once again in the darkness of the galaxy, ships and air jets travel in high speed around the puny vortex, none of them taking much notice of its odd appearance, it was something people saw there quiet often. Ed fell out and fell on her backside.

"Weeeeee! Owie!" She comes to a stand as Faye too falls out of the vortex and lands on her feet.

"You alright Ed?" Ed smiled at Faye and nods her head dramatically, her messy red hair flaying in front of her eyes. Spike appears from the vortex and lands by Faye, Darien still over his shoulder. The vortex collapses behind them, disappearing completely, a delayed flash appears and blinds them, there hands covering there faces, followed by a large thunderous clap.

"BOOM! Ed's ears are ringing!" She squeeled out, her hands wrapping over her ears, Spike looked at Ed, and rolled his eyes.

"Come lets lock him up until Hotaru returns," Faye starts walking back to the hanger and soon back in the lounge room. She spread out on the couch, and made herself comfortable. Spike dropped Darien against a wall and cuffed his hands, his arms dangled above his heads, as the cuffs were looped over a metal beam above his head.

Faye looked up at Spike with a questioning expression.

"Where did Hotaru go anyway?"

"She said she had some business to attend to" Spike replied with a smirk.

The sound of murmuring is heard as Darien comes to, he raises his head and glances up at Ed with a dazed expression. Ed seemed to have got herself occupied putting a radio back together, she gives the top a loud thud, the radio screaming static for a few moments.

"Oo Good one" She squeeled, and pulled a screwdriver out of her pants.

"Wh-where am I?" Darien said weakly, Faye's head pops up over the couch and smirked as she saw Darien's face.

"It was about time you woke up" she stood up and walked over to Darien, and began to kneel in front of him. Darien looked at her with curiosity written all over his face, he starts tugging at his handcuffs, making the pipes ring loudly, he starts yelling,

"Where am I? What do you want with me!" Spike smirked a moment at Darien's desperation, and said nothing. Faye slipped a hand under Darien's chin, the warm touch on Darien's face makes him uncomfortable for a moment, his eyes catch onto Faye's and he sunk into them. There is a long and drawn out silence, which was broken by Faye.

"Now I know why she wants him so much, he is a sexy man." Darien gritted his teeth and pulled his face away from her hands, Faye took a harder grip to his chin and pulled his face to her, Darien screamed out.

"Tell me!" he whaled, Faye's hand draws away from Darien.

"A feisty one too" She smiles coming to a stand. Her eyes looked at Spike "you may have the honors." Spike stood where Faye was once kneeling. He pulled out a cigarette and slipped it between his lips, he then pulled out a lighter, flicked it a few times until a healthy flame lashed out from it. He lit the end of his smoke, and breathed in deeply, and blew smoke out in Darien's face.

"Don't worry too much about it, you'll find out sooner or later" Darien growled at him, and started pulling on his cuffs again, the metal grinding against his skin, the sound of the cuffs banging against the pipes once more, it ringing out. Ed turned around with a displeased look on his face,

"Quiet! Ed thinking!" Darien suddenly stopped pulling on the cuffs and looked at Ed. In return Ed stuck her tongue out at him, "thankee you'