Title: My one and Only Pearl
Author: Fox of the Nova
Chapter 11: Phenomenon Part 2: Revenge
Determination, anger, sorrows; all of these emotions were all bundled up within Pearl as she slowly walked towards Deck 16. Her eyes were ablaze with such intensity that one wondered if both, Ivory and Pearl were seething in great hatred.
Pearl gripped tightly the forcelance until her knuckles were turning white from the grip itself.
She was going to kill him. She was going to make Gerksand suffer for what happened to her friends…to her Captain.
Her mind replayed every word that Gerksand has said to her. When he brought up the Captain…Gaheris…all Pearl wanted to do was to rip out Gerksands face off.
This alone made Pearl grip her forcelance even tighter.
Tears began to fall from Pearl's eyes as her mind went back to what happened to the Captain, but she brushed away the tears.
No was not the time to cry. Just use the memory as a fuel for revenge.
That's it Pearl…use the memory for fuel…use those final moments as a fuel for revenge.
Pearl turned the corner and slammed right unto something incredibly…hard.
She quickly jumped back and raised her forcelance, but stopped when she saw who it was. She had rammed right into Tyr who was accompanied by Harper.
"What are you two doing here?" Pearl asked her eyes fixed on Harper.
Harper, unknown at first, took a step back as he looked towards Pearl. Her eyes were really ablaze, but at the same time solid. Like within her eyes a battle was going on from memories...solid…and anger…fire.
"Pearl, we came to bring you back to the Command Deck. It isn't safe…" Suddenly a fire blast erupted from the other side of the corridor, barely missing Harpers head.
Pearl shoved Harper to the ground while spinning on her heels towards the enemy, her forcelance at the ready.
Tyr didn't even get the chance to shoot. It all happened in a flash that was too quick for even Tyr to register until it was already done.
There were two of them. One of them, seeing the chance to surprise them with open firing, took the opportunity. He went down first.
After he took his shot, he was soon after on the ground, dead; smoke rising from the scorching wound on his chest.
A second later, the enemy's companion soon joined him on the ground. But this time...Pearl didn't aim to kill him…but to neutralize him.
Tyr looked towards Pearl, his expression unreadable. Yet one could tell that within his eyes he noted that Pearl had some skills. Boy was he in for a surprise.
Pearl didn't even blink when she fired. She knew the math; she knew where to point…when to shoot. It was like training. Take a target, aim…and shoot. No holding back…because they won't for you.
Pearl slowly brought her arm down, while holding her forcelance, to her sides; and walked towards the one that was still alive.
Harper, who was completely in shock at how quick Pearl was in her shooting, shook himself out of his stupor. He then pulled himself up from the ground by grabbing unto the ladder.
He watched Pearl walk towards one of the enemies, and kneel beside him. He too slowly began to walk towards Pearl, but was stopped by Tyr who held out his arm.
Harper looked up at Tyr in confusion, but Tyr merely inclined his head towards Pearl. Harper turned his gaze towards Pearl and watched as she placed her forcelance on the floor and soon after brought her hands up on either side of silver helmet the enemy was wearing.
Inside Pearl, she was shaking. She didn't know who could be underneath the hood. It could be one of her childhood friends, one of her teachers; it could be even one of the guards.
She just didn't know who it was, and that scared her. The Abyss did a good job in manipulating even the strongest of minds, and when some of the crew members on the Omega Orion started to mutiny, all hell broke loose.
They had bargained with the Abyss…the reason…she was not sure. Their people had everything…technology…good homes…family…friends. So the reason they would sell their own people to the Abyss was beyond Pearl.
That was why she left this one alive…so that she could get some answers. She knows she just killed one of her people, and it tore at her heart. But he didn't hesitate to shoot at them…so Pearl could not hesitate either.
Pearl removed the helmet, and looked at the one person she did not expect. Silver hair, golden eyes, slightly pointed teeth, and a nose that had been broken too many times to count.
"Erik?" Pearl whispered.
"Hey Pearlana…long time no see." Erik coughed. Erik was Pearls number one childhood friend.
"Erik, what have you done?"
"Gerksand said that we were saving out people…by giving the Ivory Core to the Abyss." Erik breathed, but didn't continue.
Pearl roughly grabbed Erik's collar and pulled him up to her face as she screamed at him. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?
THE IVORY CORE IS THE MOST POWERFULL & DESTRUCTIVE ENEGRY SOURCE IN THE GALEXIES! YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE THIS TO THE ABYSS?
HE WILL WIPE OUT ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT!"
"Not without the other pieces…" Erik whispered.
"What…?" Pearl dangerously whispered.
Erik's eyes widened as he understood what he had said.
"Pearlana, I can't tell you…he will kill me." Erik pleaded.
Pearl grabbed for her forcelance, powered it up, and placed the pointer underneath Erik's chin.
"No Erik, I will kill you if you don't tell me what you know." Pearl threatened.
Erik's eyes winded until they looked like saucers. "Pearlana…but we are friends! You wouldn't kill me…I know you too well. You are bluff…"
Erik stopped speaking as Pearls forcelance was pushed against his Adams apple.
"You stopped being my friend when you betrayed your own people. You stopped being my friend when you tried to kill us all! You stopped being my friend when you chose to side with the Abyss!" Pearl screamed.
She then placed her thumb on the firing button, but was stopped by Erik's plea.
"WAIT! Please Pearlana! I'll tell you anything you want…just please…don't kill me." Erik pleaded.
As he stared up at Pearl and looked at her eyes; Erik knew that this was not the same Pearlana that he had grown up with.
The old Pearlana was a regular prankster; always wanting to play a joke or to have fun. But this Pearlana, this one was different.
This Pearlana looked like she had been stripped of everything she was. Like she had grown up too fast, lost too many companions, seen things that no one should have to see, been through something that no one should have to go through.
Erik knew that he was going to die, but not by Pearlanas hand. But he was going to tell her everything…before his time came. He owned that much to Pearlana.
"Pearlana, Gerksand was already an agent of the Abyss long before the choosing for the crew of the Omega Orion.
The Abyss ordered him find a way for him to obtain the Ivory Core." Erik explained.
"The Abyss could not pass our borders. Until the eclipse."
Pearl let go up Erik's shirt collar and sat down heavily on the ground.
That was it. The Abyss used the Eclipse to enter the ship. That was what I scanned and what I questioned.
"The Abyss entered the Omega Orion and gave us the order to strike during the second shift. After your shift was over and you went to your room, is when we striked."
Erik stopped as he heard rapid gun fire, and Pearl knew that Dylan and Rommie were taking care of others on the other side.
Erik suddenly grabbed for Pearls shirt and pulled her down. Pearl didn't struggle but let Erik bring her down until her right ear was beside his lips.
"Pearlana, the Ivory Core…it is the second piece to the Engine of Creation. That's how it was able to bend time as we traveled from our dimension to this one." Erik urgently whispered.
Pearls eyes widened at this piece of news. It all made sense now, the power it held, yet at the same time how simple it was. The being was a part of the Engine, and that being was inside of her.
Pearls life just kept on getting better and better.
Pearl was jolted out of her thoughts as Erik whispered to her again in a silent yet urgent plea.
"Pearlana, I know you hate me now…but please…forgive me for what I've done…forgive me as a friend." Erik asked.
Pearl looked down at her old friend. She did forgive him, long before he had told her everything. She thought she could kill him, but she couldn't.
It's a different story when you don't know who's under the hood then when you do. Besides, he didn't shoot at her. His partner did.
Pearl gripped Erik's hand into her own and smiled softly down at her childhood friend.
"I forgive you Erik, Erik Princeton, I forgive you." Pearl whispered.
Erik smiled up at Pearl. He nodded to her in a silent thank you. As he smiled up at Pearl, with his right hand he reached over to his left wrist. There was a device like bracelet strapped to Erik's wrist.
"Thank you Pearlana, it means a lot to me that I at least have your forgiveness." Erik said.
"I just hope you can forgive me for this." With that Erik twisted the bracelet to the left.
Immediately Erik seized up and Pearl watched the veins in his arm pop out as a green liquid seeped into his blood stream.
"Erik, you son of…!" Pearl screamed, but she wasn't able to finish as Erik suddenly went limp. His breathing stopped, his golden eyes dilated.
Erik Princeton, Second Security Unit of the Omega Orion, left this world.
"Why Erik, why did you do it?" Pearl asked as she choked on tears.
"Because he knew that he was going to die sooner or later." Came a voice from behind her
Pearl quickly whirled around, forcelance in hand, and fired at the intruder.
Gerksand stood before her, but her shot went right through him. Almost comically, Gerksand looked down at himself where the shot went through.
"Don't you just love holograms?" He asked pleasantly.
"Where are my friends?" Pearl questioned. She didn't mention Harper because he would undoubtedly know.
"Oh you mean your brothers dimensional double and Mr. Bone blades? While Erik was spilling his guts to you, I took the liberty to have them transported to a secured deck." Gerksand explained like chit-chatter.
Crap! He knows about Harper.
He then placed his hands behind his back and began to circle around her.
"So, Erik told you what my Master is looking for and my part in it? What do you think of that?"
"I think you are a deranged psychopath that is looking for a death warrant if you sided with the Abyss." Pearl stated clearly.
She then turned her gaze to face him. "All those who serve the Abyss, die a horrible death in the end."
Gerksand merely smirked. "So far Pearlana, it is those who are closest to you who have died a horrible death."
Pearl lunged at Gerksand, who merely laughed as Pearl went right through him.
"Now that you are on the ground, let me ask you once again. Hand over the Ivory Core, and I will leave this ship and your friends alone." Gerksand stated.
Pearl cursed in her people's language towards Gerksand. (Do to the rating of this story; use your imagination on what she said.)
"I'll take that as a no." Gerksand stated.
He then leaned over Pearl, and sneered down at her. "I'll give you some more time to think about it as I kill each one of your friends."
With that he vanished, leaving a seriously pissed off Pearl behind.
Pearl leaned back and did a back flip. She straightens her self up, and grabbed for her forcelance.
Before she went off to find Dylan, she slowly walked towards Erik's body.
She gently kneeled next to him and brought her hand up to cover his eyes. As she slowly closed his eyes, she spoke in her people's language. Almost like a prayer she was speaking as she paid her respects to Erik.
When she was done, she got up, took a one last look down at Erik; turned around and walked up the ramp towards where Dylan was.
She didn't have to look for long; the sound weapons fire was enough to lead her straight to Dylan and Rommie.
They were both hiding behind a corner unit, weapons at the ready and quickly turning the corner to fire at the enemy then to quickly pull back as the enemy fired back.
Rommie was the first to notice Pearl walk towards them.
"We thought you were kidnapped." Rommie stated as Pearl joined them.
"No, but I got some valuable information from an old friend." Pearl replied.
"What are we dealing with?" Pearl asked.
Dylan turned to face Pearl, and noticed that she looked…well dangerous.
"They captured Tyr and Harper. They are holding them on different decks. Tyr is around the corner. He appears to be covered in some kind of silver goo." Dylan explained.
"OZ." Pearl stated.
Dylan gave her a quizzical look. Pearl looked up see Rommie and Dylan looking at her in question.
"It is an organic substance that my people found. It can take the shape of anything. It is not harmful to us, because it carries the same brain frequency as us, but those that don't are paralyze by it.
If we don't release Tyr in time, he could be paralyzed for the rest of his life…or worse." Pearl explained.
"Ok, time for action." Dylan stated.
"How many are there?" Pearl questioned.
"There are too many to count." Dylan stated.
"Let me have a look." Pearl said.
Dylan nodded and moved away so that Pearl could take his place. Pearl leaned on the wall and slowly inched towards the edge.
She slowly peaked around the corner and quickly counted. She then quickly pulled back and heavily leaned on the wall.
"Twelve at the right, seven at the left." Pearl stated.
She then gripped her forcelance, powered it up and without a word to Dylan; quickly turned the corner and fired simultaneously with deadly accuracy.
Dylan and Rommie watched for exactly twelve seconds in complete amazement before Pearl came back and slid down to the ground.
"Six at the right, four at the left." Pearl stated as she took in gulps of air.
"Who taught you how to calculate like that and to know where to shoot?" Dylan asked.
Pearl looked up at Dylan. "I've been trained combat skills since I was thirteen."
Suddenly a voice spoke out from one of the enemies.
"We wish to negotiate. We will trade the alien for the Ivory Core." A voice stated.
"Damn, I hate negotiating with the enemy. They never keep their end of the bargain." Dylan stated.
"May I try Dylan?" Pearl pleasantly asked.
Dylan looked down at Pearl, and knew that her voice was a mask for what was really going on in her mind.
Already proving herself more than capable to take care of things, Dylan nodded his head.
Pearl gripped her forcelance, but pulled it back behind her back. She then confidently walked around the corner and faced the group.
She was right the first time; six on the right and four at the left. The one who had spoken was the leader of the group, because only the leader could request for a negotiation.
He was gripping the neck of an unconscious Tyr while the end of a gun was pointed at Tyr's temple.
As Pearl witnessed all of this, it only took exactly five seconds. She began to walk towards the leader.
Before the others could react, Pearl brought up her forcelance…aimed…and fired.
The leader dropped to the ground dead an instant later; a bullet hole to his head.
Pearl pointed her forcelance at the remainder of the group.
"Anyone else want to negotiate?" Pearl asked.
"Where did she learn to negotiate like that?" Rommie asked.
Dylan just shook his head as he and Rommie got up and walked towards where Pearl was.
Dylan and Rommie took away the weapons from the enemies and pretty much stunned them until further notice.
They then watched Pearl in silence as she walked up to Tyr. She placed both of her hands on top of Tyr shoulders that were covered with OZ.
"OZ…accumulate." Pearl ordered.
Instantly, OZ oozed itself away from Tyrs body and just seemed to shape itself into a large ball, kinda looking like a baseball, only silver.
Pearl then placed her fingers on Tyr's neck, checking for a pulse. She sighed and turned to face Dylan and Rommie.
"He's ok." Pearl stated.
Dylan nodded and requested that Rommie take Tyr to medic bay.
"And what about you?" Rommie questioned.
"We need to find Harper. Pearl will accompany me." Dylan stated.
"Wrong Dylan, you will accompany me." Pearl countered.
She then turned around, forcelance in hand, and walked down the corridor towards the next Deck.
"I wonder if she will always be like this, or this is just now." Dylan asked himself.
Rommie just shrugged her shoulders and watched as Dylan caught up with Pearl.
Dylan and Pearl walked down and up exactly five decks until the finally came up on the second group. But this one was a lot worse then the first.
Dylan watched as Pearl quickly counted them all, and watched her face turn pale.
"Well, how many?" Dylan asked.
"Forty at the right and twenty at the left." Pearl stated.
"Oh." Was all Dylan could say.
"Harper is unconscious." Pearl said in a whisper.
Dylan looked at Pearl and noticed that she was exhausted; emotionally and physically. He rested a comforting hand on Pearls shoulder, who looked up to face him.
"We will get through this Pearl, don't give up." Dylan said.
Pearl did a small smile. What Dylan didn't understand was that Pearl was not afraid of not giving up. On the country, it never crossed her mind. What was scaring her was the possibility that she could loose another loved one.
"NO!" Pearl suddenly screamed. She was not going to let that happen.
Dylan was taken back by her sudden out burst, but was even more stun with what happened next.
Something emerged out of Pearls chest, like a ghostly gold and blue energy. It hovered above them for second then turned to face Dylan.
Dylan stayed absolutely still as he watched the energy look him over. This was stupid to say since the being had no eyes, or any body parts for that matter.
"Dylan, meet the Ivory Core. Ivory, meet Captain Dylan Hunt." Pearl whispered in a raspy voice.
"Please to meet you." Dylan said towards the being known as Ivory.
"Ivory, I know you don't like being outside; but please…I need your help." Pearl whispered.
Ivory turned towards Pearl and hovered inches away from her face. Blue and gold spectacles danced across Pearls face as the light from Ivory shined.
Dylan could not understand what Pearl was saying, he could only guess that she was speaking her people's language to Ivory.
After speaking, Pearl pulled out a lump of that silver stuff…OZ from her pocket. She then presented the OZ before Ivory.
Immediately the liquid oozed out of Pearls hand and unto the floor, from there it began to grow.
A small lump of silver soon became a large puddle. From the middle of that puddle shot out a long stream of the silver liquid.
Dylan watched in otter fascination as OZ shaped itself into an exact double of Tyr. Complete with bone blades and braided hair of Tyr's.
OZ/Tyr blinked once towards Dylan and Pearl. To be frank, Dylan was a little freaked out about all of this, but looking at Pearl; he knew that she knew what she was doing.
He watched Pearl motioned for Ivory to enter OZ/Tyr. Ivory did just that.
The strange thing is that it was not Pearl who decided on the shape that OZ should take. It was Ivory.
"Good idea Pearlana Orianna Harper, creating my own host was an exceptional idea." OZ/Tyr/Ivory stated.
"Glad you approve, now lets save my brother." Pearl urgently stated.
Pearl then readied her forcelance and prepared herself. Dylan went next to her, while (lets just call him Core for now) Core stood at the ready. While looking at the bone blades.
"On three. One…two…THREE!" Pearl screamed out as she jumped the corner and started firing with accuracy that left anyone hit by it alive.
Dylan fired too, dodged many fires that were fired at him, but kept on firing. He pushed Pearl to the side once as a stray fire went directly at her.
Pearl gave him a nod of thanks before continuing the business of taking down the enemy.
The strange part was that Core was doing an excellent job in battling like Tyr would have…minus the fact that whenever he was shot the shot would go right through him…leaving a ripple of silver.
But whoever shot him…well let's just say that was the last thing they did.
They were winning…almost half of the enemies were gone and they were pushing the other back.
For a precious moment, Pearl thought that everything was going to be alright as she finally reached Harper.
Her happiness vanished when she came to rest a hand on Harpers shoulder, only for her hand to pass right through him.
"NO!" Pearl screamed as she desperately tried to grab unto Harper, but he was a hologram of the real Harper who was still captured.
Suddenly an echoing laugher rang all around them, and soon later a holographic image of Gerksand appeared before them.
"Well…well, I'm surprised by your skills Pearl. Never in all my years have a witness such amazing combat techniques. Maybe you should join us." Gerksand stated.
Pearl replied by spitting towards Gerksands face, of course only for it to pass right through him. But that didn't mean it didn't infuriate him.
"For the final time Pearlana, hand over the Ivory Core…or I will kill your brothers." Gerksand stated.
"You have thirty minutes to decide." With that he vanished, along with the image of Harper.
The surviving group of enemies transported themselves, leaving a distraught Pearl behind, a determined Dylan and a surprised Core.
Core walked to Pearl, who had fallen to her knees in defeat.
"Pearlana, did you not hear what Gerksand said? He said he will kill your brothers." Core stated.
To Dylan it was an odd sight. Seeing Tyr lean over Pearl and gently place a hand on her shoulder for comfort. But he had to remind himself that this was not Tyr but the Ivory Core.
"Yes Ivory, I heard. And I don't know what to…" Pearl suddenly stopped and thought through what Ivory had restated.
"I will kill you brothers." I only have one brother…unless Shamus is alive!"
Pearl quickly got up, a new kind of spark brightening within her eyes. This spark was determination as well as a clever plan forming. But she was going to need the help of her new found family as well as a ship.
And she knew just the right ship to use. But it was not going to be easy to ask the owner of that ship if she could burrow it. Especially for the purpose that Pearl had in mind.
Ok, I expect a lot of reviews for this chapter. This is the longest of any of my chapters…so please send lots of reviewers.
The next chapter will be continuing were I left you all on Chapter 9. And it will come real soon.
A special thank you to reviewers:
Zelinia – Hello! You send me two reviews for chapter 10. THANK YOU! You were the only one. Oh well, I didn't like the ending I had for chapter 10. Revised it and look what happened turned out to be my longest chapter every written. Until this one that is. So glad that you are enjoying the fic. Everything now is kinda going into action mode here, and kinda fast pace. But I hope you like it!
P.S. About Gaheris. All will be explained on what happened to him in either the next chapter or on Chapter 13.
Lostlondi – Thank you for reviewing. As for Rhade…well he won't exactly be joining the crew yet. But don't worry. My plan won't make sense now, but in future stories it will. I hope you will still read the fic though.
Warlord Harrsk – Hey there! If it isn't The Weapon of Atlantis author. Thank you for reviewing. I glad that you are enjoying the fic. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ON YOUR OWN FIC!
Kaitins – Yeah, the Ivory Core actually what started me on this fic. Then after that Pearl entered my mind…and well there's a fic. Sorry about chapter 10 being so short. I hope you liked the revised edition. And I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. Since the Andromeda series is officially over, I believe it is my duty to fill in the gaps. If you have any ideas on gaps in show that I may have missed, please let me now. Thanks for reviewing!
Jade Rhade – Did I ever tell you how much I love your name? Well I do. Thank you so much for reviewing! It means a lot to me. As for the Ivory Core, I just came up with it from the start. Then one idea led to another. Then…barabig-baraboom, you get fic. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
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