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Title My one and Only Pearl

Author Ivory Core

Chapter 13: Dimensional Doubles – DD

BTW: This is before Harper was kidnapped.

Harper, with a gun at the ready, walked down the hallway with Tyr in front of him. He too was armed with a weapon, but knowing Tyr; he took the biggest weapon that could cause the most damage to an enemy.

But that was a good question for Tyr. Who was this new enemy? How did he even know that they were the enemy? As much as Tyr respected the inner fire inside Harpers sister, he still questioned her motives. Perhaps she was the enemy, disguised as Harper sister.

As Tyr pondered this, Harper was having thoughts of his own; but not as Tyr thoughts.

Harper on the other hand was scared shitless for his sister. Dimensional double or not, he had found his sister again. And be damned if he was going to loose her again.

He already lost her once; he wasn't planning on loosing her again. Harper too was wondering about this Gerksand fellow. Whoever he was, he had hurt Pearl greatly. And what was that all about the Captain? Had he been a close friend to Pearls? If so, why did she act the way she did when Gerksand said something about the Captain.

Harper had to smile at the memory of Pearls answer when Gerksand had ordered for the Ivory Core. He was quite proud of her answer, Harper was.

Suddenly they turned the corner, and Harper heard the grunt of a voice he heard to well.

He looked towards the sound and saw his sister, who had rammed right on Tyr chest. Harper took a hesitantly step back when suddenly Pearl jumped back and raised her forcelance like she was going to shoot them.

Harper watched as Pearls eyes ignited with a flame that he had never seen before. There was such sudden anger and hurt in those eyes that they sparkled like a crackling fire. It was like a battle was raging inside her eyes, a battle of old memories and wounds that still bled.

Pearls eyes suddenly softened when she noticed Harper, but her eyes were still raging with that inner fire.

"What are you two doing here?" Pearl suddenly questioned while staring straight at Harper.

Harper gulped down as he felt suddenly hot under Pearls piercing gaze.

" Pearl, we came to bring you back to Command Deck. It isn't safe…" But Harper was cut short by the sudden blasting of enemy fire coming from the other side of the corridor.

The shot whizzed past Harpers head, barely missing him by inches.

He didn't see who was firing, because he suddenly felt himself being shoved to the ground my Pearl.

Harper looked up and instantly his jaw dropped in amazement at the sight. After Pearl had shoved Harper to the ground, she had spun around with her forcelance at the ready.

Pearl aimed and fired with an accuracy that would make anyone drop their own jaws. There were two of them, and they both went down so fast that not even Tyr could register what had just happened.

Harper watched as Pearl lowered her weapon and started to slowly walk towards one of the fallen enemies.

One of them had a scorched mark on his chest were Pearl had fired on him. Harper knew that he was dead. Harper didn't know what to say. His sister had killed someone, but then again. It was either him or you.

He got up and looked towards Pearl who had kneeled over the other. She hadn't killed this one, but had stunned him.

Harper turned towards Tyr. His expression was unreadable, but inside Tyr was quite impressed with how quick and without a second thought Pearl had taken down the enemy.

For someone so young to do, he approved of her survival skills.

Harper turned away from Tyr and started to walk toward Pearl, who had started to remove the helmet from the enemy she was kneeling over.

But Harper was stopped when Try held out his arm in front of Harpers chest, blocking him from going near to Pearl.

Harper looked up and with a questioning look at Tyr, but Tyr merely inclined his head towards Pearl.

So Harper turned his gaze towards Pearl and silently watched as she removed the helmet.
When the helmet was off, he saw the enemy to be a young man. Probably the same age as Pearl.

Silver hair and golden eyes was all Harper could see from where he was, but he heard the shocked voice of Pearl as she said the young mans name.

"Erik?" Harper heard Pearl whisper.

Suddenly, Harper felt like all of his hairs were up on end. He looked down at his arm and watched as all of his hairs were raised up.

He was about to turn to Tyr but he suddenly felt a hand cover his mouth. That wasn't the only thing either, because the hand was holding a cloth that covered Harper mouth and nose.

He couldn't breath. He tried to warn Pearl, but he couldn't make a sound.

He had just elbowed his attacker when he felt an explosion of pain from the back of his head.

Harper didn't know what had happened after that, because his sight suddenly turned black.

Then…Harper knew no more.

A couple of hours later…

Harper slowly regained consciousness, and as soon as he did he immediately wished that he hadn't.

"Freakin OW!" Harper yelled out in sudden pain. His scull felt like it had been cracked open with lazersaw.

While squinting his eyes open, Harper tried to see his surroundings. He couldn't really see much because the room he was in was pitch black. The only lighting came from a blue beam that was right on top of him.

Ah shit! I've been kidnapped! Great and I thought I was to protect Pearl from being kidnapped. Who was protecting me!

Harper tried to look behind him, and it was then that he discovered that he was tied up to a chair. A very uncomfortable chair Harper might add.

His hands were strapped to the handles of the chair while his chest was tightly wrapped by a thick rope that was wrapped around the back of the chair and over his chest.

Harper tried to wiggle around to see if he could get the ropes loose. He had to get out of this place, wherever this place was.

"Don't bother to wiggle yourself out of this one Mr. Harper." A cold voice stated from behind Harper.

Harper stopped all together and tried to look over his shoulder.

"Who's there?" Harper asked his voice slightly caked with fear.

He heard the sound of footsteps to his right. Harper turned towards the sound and could slightly pick out the image of a man walking around the beam of light, his figure hiding in the shadows.

When the figure was right in front of Harper, he stepped into the light.

Harper knew immediately who it was. It was that jerk who had caused Pearl so much pain when he was talking about that Captain.

"You must be Gerksand." Harper stated as the man stepped up to stand right in front of Harper.

"Oooh, my sisters gonna kill you…" Harper teased with a smirk. He knew Pearl well enough to know that when she made a promise she would keep it.

But poor Harper didn't see the punch coming. Gerksand had punched Harper right across the face, breaking his nose right along with it.

Pain went up all across Harper face, and he felt blood trickle down from his nose.

Harper looked up at Gerksand with a pure hatred look, but stopped when he noticed his arm.

After punching Harper, Gerksand had raised his arm so that it was showed the side of his arm, unintentionally towards Harper.

Dark brown, pointed bone blades raised above Gerksands right arm. Gerksand was a pure blooded…Nietzschean.

Harper spitted out the blood and aimed it right at Gerksands face.

"I don't know what you did to my sister, but you just being a Nietzschean is all I need to know." Harper venomously stated.

But Gerksand seemed to be unfazed by Harper words. He merely wiped away the blood from his face and looked down at Harper once before turned around the leaving the room.

"HEY! Where are you going! I'm not through with you yet!" Harper yelled as Gerksand disappeared.

Suddenly the bonds that were holding Harper became slack. Harper quickly pulled off the robes and jumped off the seat.

He gently touched his jaw and winced in pain. "Oh, you're going to pay for that one you jerk." Harper said to himself.

"But you see! I'm free, and now I'm gonna…" But Harper was cut short when the suddenly the blue beam was shut off.

Now Harper was completely enveloped in darkness. Not that it scared him mind you, but it still gave the advantage for the bad guys to sneak up on him and kill him right where he stood.

And then the floor beneath Harper began to shift as it quickly moved to form a gaping hole to who knows where.

"Oh SHIT!" Harper yelled as he plunged into the darkness below.

The dumping me out into space! Harper thought as he kept on falling.

"How big is this ship anyway?" Harper asked himself as he was now on his back with his arms crossed.

Bad position for Harper though, because his back suddenly collided with a hard floor.

Harper stood like he was paralyzed, his legs were bent while his arms were still crossed. His back though, apart from being in incredible pain at the moment, was arched. Harper looked more like a bug on his back then anything else.

Harper opened his eyes and stared straight up. He could clearly see the opening, and it wasn't very far up.

Slowly Harper turned to his side, pain coursed through every part of his body as he slowly moved.

But at least he could move. He wasn't really paralyzed, just in a lot of pain at the moment.

"Got the wind knocked out of you? We all went through it the first time around." A voice said in the darkness surrounding Harper.

Harper looked up at the voice, he knew that voice. He knew that voice so well, that when he heard it he thought that he was dreaming.

Slowly a figure stood up and started to walk towards Harper. When the figure stepped into the small shaft of light, which was created by the gaping hole above, he stood absolutely still as he recognized Harper.

"Brendan?" Harper croaked out as he recognized his cousin from earth.

Harper had left earth years ago. Brendan had stayed behind, trying to fight off the Nietzscheans back. Why was Brendan here? Was this a slave ship? Was Brendan captured to become a slave?

"Holy shit!" Brendan stated in amazement as he rushed to Harpers side.

"I can't believe it! An actual DD!" Brendan said in awe as he slowly helped Harper up.

When Harper was on his feet, he took a good look at Brendan. And that's when he noticed it. Brendan had golden eyes.

"No way, you're a dimensional double!" Harper said in shock.

Brendan snapped up in surprise. "That's what DD stands for. But how do you know about us?" Brendan asked.

" Pearl explained it to me. But she thought you were all dead." Harper replied.

He just couldn't believe that Brendan was right here in front of him. Well, the dimensional double or DD of Brendan. But he was still his cousin just the same.

"Pearl? You mean Pearlana! She's alive!" Brendan excitably spoke up while he gripped Harpers right shoulder with his left.

"Ow ow!" Harper said through clenched teeth as Brendan gripped his shoulders.

"Oh, sorry. But you mean to tell me that Pearlana is alive!" Brendan asked shock mixed with joy as he let go of Harper.

Harper had forgotten how much of a grip Brendan had had, but he nodded his head while slightly rubbing his shoulder.

"Yeah, she's ok. Pissed off at the moment, but ok." Harper stated as he lifted up his head a little, since he felt blood begin to drip from his nose again.

"Bet that had to hurt. That asshole Gerksand broke my right arm." Brendan stated as he pointed towards his right arm that was in a dirty brown piece of cloth that was used as a sling.

Harper looked around and saw that he was in a large darkened room with only one door leading out.

"Don't bother with that door, unless you want to get a nice 100 bolts of electricity up your…well you get the idea." Brendan explained.

"How many of you survived the explosion of…what was your ship called…The Omega Orion?" Harper asked as he followed Brendan towards the other side of the room.

"Actually, none of us really survived. Many of us were kidnapped by those tesseracting freaks." Brendan explained.

"Tesseractiong freaks?" Harper wondered if he was talking about the same thing that that bounty hunter, Jeger use to do.

Brendan turned towards Harper. "They use a form of tesseracting that I have never seen before. It's powered by the Abyss no doubt." He explained.

That Abyss again. What is all this crap about the Abyss? First Pearl said it when I first saw her, and now this…

"Listen Brendan, would you mind explaining to me all this mumbo jumbo about some creature that everyone calls the Abyss?" Harper asked as Brendan led him to a large mirror that was directly standing in front of a wall.

"Why is there a mirror here?" The voice of Harper sounded strange when he asked the questioned.

It sounded like when someone else is saying exactly the same thing at the exact moment.

He looked at himself in the mirror, seeing the broken nose and messy spiked blond hair. He couldn't really see his face clearly, but he knew it was his reflection.

Brendan on the other hand was smirking to himself.

Harper and his 'reflection' turned towards Brendan. "WHAT is your problem?" Harper questioned as Brendan stopped smirking and started laughing.

Harper reached out and grabbed the scruff of Brendan's shirt…and so did his 'reflection'.

Harper immediately stopped and stared at the other hand, which was not his own, grip the other side of Brendan's shirt.

Harper followed the arm to the owner of it, and noticed that his 'reflection' was doing the same.

"No way…" Harper and his 'reflection' said at the exact same time.

Harper let go of Brendan's shirt and his eyes expanded when he had a clear view of his 'reflection'.

"You're….you're…" Harper stuttered as he stared straight into the golden eyes of his dimensional self.

"Holy shit…" Both Harpers said as their eyes rolled back.

They both then fell to the floor on their backs in a dead faint. The 'mirror' was actually the open doorway to the two cell rooms.

When Harper once again regained consciousness, he found himself lying on his back in what felt like…

…sticks?

Harper looked around and noticed that he was in a completely different room than were he was before. But he wasn't lying on hay though.

"AH!" Harper yelled as he jumped up from the huge, stick like bugs that he was lying on.

Someone started laughing in the far corner of the room. Harper turned towards the sound and noticed that someone was leaning on the wall while sitting on the floor.

"As much as they appear to be gross, they do wonders for your back." The voice stated while lightly coughing.

Harper dusted himself off and started to walk towards the stranger. He took a glance at the doorway that he had thought was a mirror.

"No, you weren't dreaming. You actually saw your DD." The voice once again spoke out. "I'm surprised myself actually. I wouldn't doubt it if I meet my own DD."

Harper turned from the doorway to stare down at the man. "Where is my…dimensional double?" Harper asked, the word coming strange out of his mouth.

"He woke up a little before you did just now. He was just as surprised as you were." Harper heard the man chuckle and then winze.

After he calmed down a bit he continued. "I mean, we all trained for the possibility of meeting our DD's. But we never thought it would be now." The man said.

"Are you ok?" Harper asked as he knelt down in front of the man.

Harper watched as the man nodded his head slightly, but Harper still could not clearly see him.

"Yeah, I'm just slowly healing…that's all." He explained as he straightened himself up.

It was then that Harper got a good look at the man's face, and it sent Harper to back away from the man.

The man noticed Harper sudden change in demeanor and looked up to see Harpers face turning chalk white.

"What's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost." He stated as Harper kept on shaking his head.

"It can't be. You're dead! You betrayed Dylan, and you're supposed to be dead." Harper said under his breath.

The man slowly entered the light and looked straight at Harper. "What are you talking about? I never met a Dylan in my life. And I'm most certainly not dead."

"But it's you. You're Gaheris Rhade." Harper stated.

Gaheris seemed shock at the moment that Shamus' DD had known who he was. No one had told him anything else, except that Shamus' DD was in the cell. Then they brought him over to the 'temporary' medic room.

This was crap to say because they didn't have any tools to heal the wounded. All they had were some old cloths and Medic Officer Shamus, who did wonders even without his equipment.

"Captain Gaheris Rhade if you don't mind." Gaheris corrected.

Captain? Could he be the captain that Pearl was talking about? Maybe he isn't the same Gaheris Rhade like the one that had betrayed Dylan. But there's no one else…

"Now Mr. Harper, would you be so kind as to tell me how you know about me?" Gaheris asked. "Or at least, seem to confuse me with someone else..."

Harper scratched his head as he thought of what he was going to say. So far this day started off pretty weirdly. Meeting his DD cousin and then his own DD was enough for one day, but now finding out that Brendan and his…DD…had thought that Pearl was dead.

Remembering the way Pearl had looked when Gerksand talked about the Captain, made Harper wondered if there was something going on between the two.

And that brought in another question. If Gaheris was a DD of the Gaheris that betrayed Dylan, then he must be a Nietzschean. And THAT did not go well with Harper.

"Before I answer your question pal…" Harper said in that cocky attitude of his. "I want to know what's going on between my sister Pearl and you."

Ok, well Gaheris' reaction wasn't exactly what Harper had been expecting. He was expecting more on the lines of he's the captain she was the engineering, a respectful response.

He wasn't expecting the man, or Nietzschean since Harper noticed the bone blades sticking out the sides of his arm, to suddenly pounce on Harper and grip his shirt color.

"Where's Pearlana!" Gaheris questioned as he stared down at the paralyzed in fear Harper.

"She's….on the Andromeda. Probably figuring out a way to save our butts." Harper answered with his hands up in surrender.

Gaheris suddenly let go of Harpers shirt and heavily sat down. He then placed his face in his hands.

"I thought she was dead. I had blamed myself thinking that she was dead." Harper heard Gaheris say to himself.

"Well she's not. We found her floating in space." Harper explained.

Gaheris looked up at Harper, shock read across his features.

"She has these gills…ciebis their called, which enables her to store oxygen. And then with her other pair of lungs she's' able to latterly recycle and breath oxygen without really breathing through her nose." Harper explained.

"It's all pretty cool actually." Harper stated as he remembered when for the first time he saw Pearls ciebis. Gosh how much he missed her now.

"I heard that she had four lungs, but never knew about these ciebis you speak of." Gaheris said as he thought about this.

Suddenly the voice of Gerksand could be heard from all the speakers around them.

"Welcome Pearlana. I see that you took heed my warnings. Did the mention of your Brothers bring you here?" Gerksand mockery asked.

Then the voice of Pearlana echoed all around them.

"Enough of your crap, Gerksand. I've only come here to trade for the freedom of my brothers. In exchange…I will give you the Ivory Core." Pearlana clearly stated.

"NO! Pearl/Pearlana don't give it to him!" Both Harper and Gaheris yelled out. But it was useless, no one could hear them.

Suddenly Shamus entered the room along with Brendan; both had heard the message being exchanged between Pearl and Gerksand.

Gaheris suddenly gripped Harper shirt once again. "She's in danger! Gerksand not only wants the Ivory Core, he also wants her!" Gaheris practically screamed at Harpers face.

"Why does he want Pearl?" Harper questioned while looking at his DD and cousin.

It was still weird to see himself standing over him, but that again, no doubt it was weird for Pearl to see him the first time.

"We don't know why." Shamus explained. "But if I know my sister, she always has a few tricks up her sleeve."

Harper nodded his head, it was true. Pearl was his sister after all. And great minds think alike, as the old saying says.

"But the Ivory Core, it was destroyed." Brendan suddenly stated. Shamus too nodded, thinking the same thing.

Both Gaheris and Harper looked at each other, already knowing that they both knew the truth of the matter,and then towards Brendan and Shamus.

"Well…it wasn't exactly destroyed." Harper began.

"It actually…chose a hostess." Gaheris finished.

Shamus walked up to Harper and stared straight into his eyes. When he found that Harper wasn't lieing, Shamus' eyes widened like saucers.

"You have GOT to me kidding me…"

MUAHAAH! Another chapter bites the dust! I actually like this chapter very much. Probably because neither Brendan, nor Gaheris is dead.

SURPRISE! Now in the next chapter, we fill find out what exactly happened back at the Orion.

If I can finish it in one chapter, then chapter 14 will be the last time we will have a flashback thingy.

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