Two hours later everyone was doing their separate things on the beautiful warship, Andromeda Ascendant.
Trance was locked in her room trying to decide how the crew would deal with Beka's news when she returned. She hoped that Beka would be all right. And that it wouldn't stop a relationship between her and Rhade from occurring.
Dylan was locked in his room getting some much needed paperwork done. Treaties, bills, yes, even the great starship captain has to pay for things.
Rommie was offline while her systems were cleaning themselves. No holograms of Rommie or Andromeda would appear. For the next few hours the ship would have no actual contact with the crew.
Beka and Rhade had left almost immediately after they left command. Rhade packed a bag as Beka paced in his doorway. He, of course, found this amusing, said a little quip, and got hit by Beka.
Harper, in some various machine shop, was trying to devise something that showed his genius, worked, and didn't mess up like the tesseract, which was painful for him to remember, literally.
"Hmmm" I wonder what I can do; I mean I'm a fricking genius, not a miracle worker. 'Just build anything', geeze Dylan, could you be any less specific? Oh well. A flash of light appears in a teeny crack in the wall. Ah, what's that, wait, where'd it go? "Get a grip Harper. All right. I can do this. Okay, I got it! Electrocution! Sure, it's an old trick, but it's a good one, and, more importantly, it will send those giant, furry, evil teddy bears, also known as magog, back to hell and that freaky man made of fire!"
A loud crash it herd from where Harper saw that flash of light before. He goes over to look and sees tiny slivers of holes in the wall. He knows that there is no room behind the wall because of Rommie's schematics. So he simply assumes that it's a secret lab that was not known to Rommie, like the room that they found their 'ghost' in last year. Luckily, the ghost turned out to be an android of one of Dylan's old crew, who helped to kill the slimy, acid-spewing slugs.
Harper gets some tools and pulls down the wall. As soon as it is down he looks inside. The room is filled with tools. And worktables line most of the walls, and a giant rectangle table was in the center of the room.
"Well, looks like at least one of Rommies old engineers was a messy as me. Ha! And she says I'm the only one that's a slob. Doesn't she know an organized mess is easier to work with, and a sign of creativity?"
Harper gets the feeling he's not alone, brandishes a wrench as he left his gun on his workbench, and jumps to the other side of the table while he screams "HAH!"
"AAAHHHH!"
An unconscious Tyr is lying naked on the floor. He seems unhurt, except for a few scratches and burns.
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Dylan was sitting in his office when he heard the scream. He immediately jumped up, grabbed his forcelance, and started running to where he thought he heard it come from. Trance then came over his communicator and told him to come to med deck right away, it was Harper and, well, he just had to see the other person for himself, she didn't think that he would believe her.
As he got to med, he saw Trance standing outside waiting for him. Before he could speak though, she started talking.
"Dylan. I got a bad feeling, so I went to check on Harper. I heard him scream as I was halfway across the room to him. So I ran the rest of the way, and saw him passed out on the floor, he must have fainted from the shock. He was next to a table in a hidden room. I knew something was wrong, so luckily I had brought some bots with me and they were able to carry Harper here. Dylan, the abyss was here. They have a plan but I don't know what, and that uncertainty scares me. Either they are blocking their plan from me, or they are making it up as they go along. Anyway, the reason Harper fainted was,…Tyr. He was lying unconscious on the floor next to the table. Harper must have seen him and passed out from the shock. Dylan, Tyr was minorly cut, burned, some 2nd degree, one 3rd, and naked. The abyss must have transported him there. Either they are done with him and we may have him back, or. Or they have control of him and plan to use him for our destruction. Either, I am worried about what will occur from this. Dylan, Beka will be back and will not need this added stress. Plus, we still don't know if Tyr is acting of his free will or being controlled by a great evil. Now, you may go in, I'm going to try to track down Rev, I believe that we may soon need his counsel, goodbye."
Dylan stood confused and blinking for a moment. He then opened his mouth as if to say something, turned to where Trance had disappeared down the hallway, and closed his mouth. Dylan then quickly walked into the room to see what was going on for himself.
He took in Tyr on a med table with a white sheet from his waist down, with a gray-blue pillow under his head. Trance had obviously had someone go into his old room because some of the clothes he used to wear around the ship were on an empty exam tray next to him. He looked as if someone had hit him on the left temple with a sharp rock. There was a bandage over the cut, with some blood showing on it. A few scratches, as if he had a run-in with a thorn bush or an annoyed cat, were seen on his chest and arms. A minor burn was on his right cheek. His feet were scratched and also held minor burns. Dylan could see the 3rd degree burn to the left of Tyr's belly button. And a 2nd degree on his right pec. Also, burns were scattered across his arms, and Dylan assumed, Tyr's legs as well. Dylan was staring at Tyr trying to figure out how he got there and what to do with him when he heard a moan.
"Dylan", Rommie's hologram popped up, " I have just finished my diagnostics test, everything is running smoothly. I am, however, concerned about something. Am I having technical difficulties and imagining Tyr, or do you see him as well?" Android Rommie walked into the room with a confused look on her face as the hologram finished talking and pooped out
"Haha, no Rommie, he is really here. Tyr, is really here."
"Captain?"
"Hmm? Oh, right, sorry Rommie, Trance found Tyr, err, actually, Harper found Tyr. And then Trance found Harper and Tyr. Harper passed out from the shock."
"He fainted?", Rommieasks while smirking.
" I did not faint'" Harper says groggily as he sits up, " I just got overloaded from being overworked and the shock of seeing Tyr so I decided to take a quick nap. Ya know, ta reenergize and keep you in tiptop shape. I mean, I love ya Romdoll, but you're one big-sexy-assed ship, and I'm only one loveable-god like- grease monkey. Now, what do we do with old and restless over there?"
" Good question Mister Harper, good question."
And they all look at the unconscious Tyr.
