This is for all the people at have reviewed, and all the people that are actually reading this. THANK YOU!

Yea... I wasnt so happy about that last chapter. I had writers block, so you can count that as a filler.

OMG!!! I dont own Andromeda! Thats something new! -sarcasim-

heres your chapter.

-Chapter three-

"Are you sure we're going the right way Rhade?" Rommie asked, raising an eyebrow at her friend. They had been walking for almost three hours and hadnt come across anything. He said that it was a long walk, but it couldnt have taken him three hours, there and back.

"I know what I saw." he grumbled, ever so offten looking left and right. He had just taken this pathway and it did NOT take him this long to get to that village he found! Its was a small village just beyond a cliff. Villages do not just get up and walk away!

"Okay..." Rommie said, glancing over at Dylan. He too was looking around. Not that he was doubting Rhade's words, but something just didnt really feel right to him. Like something was wrong with the woods they were stepping through.

There was a rustling of leaves behind them, making the three CommonWealth officers stop in thier tracks, and spin around, weapons raised to...

Nothing.

There was nothing behind them but trees and bushes.

Unexpectedly, Rommie quickly turned around and kick someone in the jaw, only to have them grab her foot and twist it, making her fall onto the forest floor. Dylan and Rhade turned around, aiming at the man before them, only to see a young boy, looking no older then 14 with a gun to Rommie's head.

"Andromeda are you sure?"

"For the last time Beka, I'm positive!" Andromeda's hologram said forcefully, yet trying to sound somewhat soft and proffesional. After all, Beka was her first officer. Even thought she had been asking her if she heard any news for the Maru for the last 30 mintues, she was her first officer...

"I'm just worried about them..." Beka trailed off, looking around the deck. She was up there alone, with only Andromeda. Harper was keeping himself busy in his machine shop, and Trance was relaxing in her quarters.

"I know." Andromeda said soothingly. "I am too, but you have to believe in them. They'll get back. And if they arent back in another four hours, Trance can take out a slip fighter with Harper and go to the drift, and see if anyone saw anything happen."

"I dont know... Harper has a big mouth, and might get beat badly down there..."

"Then you can go, and Trance can stay."

"Thats true... Trance will be okay here, right?"

"Of course. And I'll program the slip fighter so I'll see everything. If anything happends, I'll be there before you can say 'help'."

"Thanks Andromeda." Beka smiled, the first relaxed and happy smile for a while.

"Who are you?" the child asked. For only looking around 14, he sounded much older.

"Who are you?" Rommie asked back, not taking in the appearence of the young child. There was no way he was human. No one could flip her like that. The only person she could remember getting that close to shooting her was Tyr, and this child wasnt Tyr.

"I dont have to awnser anything you ask." he said, looking down at the android he was currently aiming at.

"We just crash landed, and are looking for some help to get back home." Dylan said calmly. Both him and Rhade were surprise at his show of strength.

"Raki!" a vocie called. Soon, an older looking man came running towards them, but stopped seeing the sceen. "Raki, report!"

"These are the ones that crash landed. They all have some minor cuts and bruses. Shes android. Kicked me, hard. Broken jaw on self." the child, Raki, said, as if he was nothing but a solider talking to his CO.

"Good. Get back and recover the troops. Lead them back to base five, I'll be behind you. Dismissed." he barked out.

Raki gave Rommie one last glance, then lowered his weapon and turned around. With a nod, he jogged back into the woods, leaving Rommie, Dylan, and Rhade with the older man.

"I'm sorry about his non-existent hospitality. I'm Ron Alnar. CO of base 5, for the Kajaku Village." he introduced himself. "That was Raki, our youngest and strongest troop. Android. Its amazing you heard him, even more so you were able to break his jaw."

"Thanks." Rommie said dryly, grabbing Rhades outstreched hand to help pull herself up from the ground. She stood, then once again almost fell.

"He broke your ankel?" he asked, seeing her helplessly fall onto Rhade's shoulder. "If you come follow me, I can take you to village and help each one of you get cleaned up."

They walked for a few hours, finally coming across the cliff Rhade was talking about. Carefully, they walked down the steepness, and into the city.

Done chapter three.

Chapter four -

Harper and Beka get awnsers

Dylan, Rhade and Rommie learn more about where they are

And Raki and Rommie have somethings in commen

Read and Review! Thanks! Byez for now.

Kasumi.

P.S.

Im sorry about the formating, if its a little confussing, but they wont let me do anything better then this at the moment... sorry!