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I don't own Andromeda. Sucks huh?

.Chapter Seven.

"What is that and tell me why it's in the city now" Ron yelled, pointing at the alien a few feet in front of him.

Rhade looked at him. "We hailed Andromeda and asked her to shoot down one of Rommie's extra lab rats just to scare the villagers and see you squirm." he easily said, making it sound like it was the only obvious explanation.

"Wh- wha" Ron stuttered. Never had he heard anyone say something like that to him! Everyone in the city respected him!

"Rommie." Dylan said, raising an eyebrow.

"I was able to shoot down one of the attackers." she said loud enough so Ron would stop his stuttering. "It was in a tree. It could be how they're attacking the city without being seen, due to the full leaves and many branches."

"They're like snipers" one of the soldiers asked, stepping forward. "If we knew that, we could have made a new plan to find their weaknesses."

"No, they're not acting like snipers." Rhade said, addressing the soldier in camouflage. "They don't even have gauss rifles." he said, pulling the aliens weapon from its now slightly twitching hand.

It had the shape of a gauss gun, but it was smaller, and more slender, with a silver chamber and black handle. (Think the kind of guns we have today... . )

"It's close range, and fires 9 mm bullets. The magazine holds sixteen, though this one is empty." Rommie supplied as Dylan took the gun from Rhade.

"How do you know it only holds sixteen" Ron asked, taking the gun and examining it after Dylan was done.

"Call it first hand experience." Rommie said, only getting a confused looked from Ron. Inwardly sighing, she slowly turned, showing all of them the sixteen bullet wounds through her shirt, and across her back.

-

"So, tell me, ho"

"I won't tell you one thing"

"Alright, then at least"

"Not one thing"

"Alexander" Andromeda finally cut it. Without her avatar here to listen to the whining organics that they ran into from time to time, she was now stuck with him, as well as the very quiet Beka, in the conference room. "If you just tell us what you did now, you'll be out of here a lot quicker and I won't have to shoot you"

Beka looked at Andromeda's holographic image. She knew that the avatar, Rommie, and the hologram were both part of the main AI, the actual smart, all knowing, high authority high guard war ship, and had their own slightly different personalities, with the hologram being most like the AI. But not once had she seen Andromeda yell, let alone threaten someone like that. Maybe some of Rommie's emotions were rubbing off on her ship counter parts?

"You wouldn't dare" Alexander shot back, standing up from his chair so fast he knocked it over. "You kill me and my crew with rip your wiring out and laugh as you blink out of your pitiful existence"

Andromeda stood there, back straight, shoulders squared, and hands held tightly together behind her back.

She turned to Beka.

"Trance and Harper are looking after our guests in Observation Deck 4. I'm going to get back to breaking the planets security lazars. If you need me, just say the word." she said, sounding like Rommie whenever she was telling the crew valuable information, and then disappeared.

Beka turned to the now sitting Alexander.

"We'll, you've just made your stay a walk in hell."

-

"Tell me what it is Rommie." Dylan said, sitting down in a tent set up in one of the cities outer military bases. In front of him, Rommie stood on the other side of a table, which the new found alien was lying on, trying to find its pulse.

"I seems to have both Magog and Kalderan attributes." she said, giving up after checking its throat, chest, both wrists, and even its forehead. "Other then that, I can't tell."

"So, it's a mix between a Magog, and a Kalderan." Dylan stated, trying to make himself believe what he had been told.

"Yes. Which means the Magog are getting stronger."

-

Rhade sat on the edge of a cliff, flicking rocks off his thumb and watching as the made other small rocks move as they landed on the side of the cliff until they all stopped at the bottom. It was a very boring process to watch for the Nietzschean.

Letting his mind drift off, he wondered if those things that were attacking the village had found the Maru yet. Maybe if they destroyed it a bit more they could say it was the evil aliens after them again, and escape the wrath of the evil that is known as Valentine.

Maybe they could find a way to get a stable connection with Andromeda, and she could pick up the Maru along with them, saving them, and his poor, poor mind.

But then Beka would see the ship, and she'd kill them in a fit of rage.

That would not do.

Or maybe Rommie could fix the ship so that it could at least fly?

She could do that! She was the Andromeda's avatar! She can do anything. But Dylan wouldn't send her out there alone. Hell, Rhade wouldn't either. She might be strong and in control of war ship, but with the way they attack in packs, she'd only be able to do so much. And the fact that her wounds were still yet to fully heal over was proof of that.

That wouldn't do either.

Dylan maybe?

Please. Rommie won't let him out of the city now that she knows that what they found was mixed with Magog.

He could go... right?

Hah. Both Rommie and Dylan would hold him down until he found some common sense.

So now, he was left, watching rocks bump other rocks, bumping other rocks, which later made it to the bottom of the hill. The excitement of the kinetic molecular theory.

Sighing, Rhade wished something worthwhile would just, pop up. Like and simultaneous 'bang'. That would be good. Looking around, Telemachus sighed. Nothing like that was going to happen in this run down, no good, boring as hell, piece of -

Rhade stopped his inner rant, looking around. He heard a twig snap. Finally standing up, expecting to see some very ugly, highly disfigured, blood lusting face behind him, he was surprised to see quite the opposite.

"Hello Commander Rhade." Raki said, nodding his greeting. "I didn't startle you, did I"

"No." Rhade said, shaking his head. Being bored made him slightly paranoid. "What are you doing out here"

"Looking for you." Raki said. "Captain Hunt and Miss Andromeda are down in the base, and they said when I asked, that you were probably off thinking somewhere." Raki paused. "Well, that's what Hunt said; Andromeda said that you wouldn't be thinking, but rather sulking in boredom."

Rhade growled. He wasn't sulking! Telemachus Rhade never sulked!

"I was wondering" Raki began, catching the Nietzscheans attention. "If you'd follow me, I could show you what I and the rest of the soldiers usually do when were off duty. It's pretty fun."

Rhade smirked.

"I'd love to."

-

Harper looked at the big man in front of him, and shuddered.

He was Curtis Carlo, one of Alexander's personal body guards. Also, one of the dumbest people he had ever met. The one who initially poked Holo-Rommie.

Harper had quickly learned that Curtis' brain was the same size as his pinky fingernail, and talking to him only proved that Harper was wrong.

His brain was smaller.

"Dude! Look at this" came a voice from behind him, making Harper quickly turn around, and almost jump twenty feet into the air.

There was Darren Carlo, Curtis' younger brother by two years. Just as big, and as stupid as his older brother. Alexander's second body guard. Their family didn't have a very high achievement status did they?

Harper watched as Darren wove the small silver pole like thing in the air above his head, looking like a total idiot.

"What is that man" came Curtis's deep voice from behind him, followed by a laugh.

"I dunno dude, but watch." Darren laughed again, and held the item in his hand. Harpers eyes felt like they were three feet outside of his skull. Darren was holding a force lance.

Darren - Clueless idiot.

Force Lance - Very powerful weapon.

Darren + Force Lance?

Harpers downfall.

-

"And this, is the Observation Deck." Trance said sweetly. Behind her, the three people she was making sure didn't get into any trouble around the ship, instantly ran straight to the window and looked out at all of the stars in awe.

"This is amazing Miss Gemini" one of the men, Matt Oliviera, said.

"It is pretty beautiful." Trance said, nodding her head as the young man turned back to his star gazing.

From what she had been told, and had seen, these people weren't that bad. A little rough around the edges, and, considering the Carlo brothers, a little dumber then others, they weren't that different from other humans.

"Trance." Andromeda said her holographic self forming in the corner. "I have to ask a favor of you."

"Of course." she said, walking over and dropping her voice, as to not be over heard.

"Harper has" she sighed. "Who am I kidding? Darren got hold of a force lance and is currently running around chasing Harper and shooting at him. As funny as it is, I'll need Harper alive tomorrow." Andromeda looked at her pleadingly, something she didn't normally do. "Please help him."

"Don't worry Andromeda." Trance said. It unnerved her a bit to see the strong AI almost breaking. "I'll go get Harper; can you make sure these guys don't leave the room for me"

"Of course Trance."

"Alright, I'll be right back."

-

"This is amazing"

"I thought you might like it"

"What do you use these for"

"Getting around in a hurry"

"What do you call them"

"Motorbikes"

-

Rommie stood up in a tree, on one of the bigger branches.

It had gotten dark a little while ago, the sun setting and the moon rising. Once she was sure the alien would be knocked out for quite some time, she told Dylan that he should get some sleep. When he asked where she was going, she said that she was going to go make sure Rhade made it back alright, since they hadn't seen him for sometime. That was a very big lie. Once he was inside one of the buildings, she asked the watch guard not to tell Dylan or Rhade where she was going. He quickly obliged.

Now she stood there, lightly jumping on the branch, watching as it barely moved.

'The trees here must be very old.' she concluded to herself, stepping out a little farther. Then, she jumped again, resulting in very little movement again.

She continued until she was near the edge, where the branch was getting thinner and thinner fast. Then, she heard a snapping sound. Looking down, part of the branch was breaking under her.

'Crap.'

-

Rhade walked back beside Raki through the trees. It was very dark by now, and they had just put the bikes away in a special spot, a small place in the woods. They walked back slowly, not sharing any words.

Truth be told, Raki was actually a nice guy. He was smart, cunning, and knew how to ride a Motorbike.

And damn were those things fun. They were pretty much like a bike, something out of history from Earth, but these were faster, and able to go off road. Very fun.

Rhade sighed, seeing the military base come into view. Then, he heard a twig snap. Though, this time, it came from above him.

He looked up, and instantly caught the young women that fell into his arms.

"Staying up late, and falling from trees" Rhade asked, Rommie's eyes snapping open.

"Shut it." she said quickly.

"Why" Rhade asked, raising an eyebrow. If he could poke fun at Rommie for two seconds, he'd let the sulking comment drop.

"Let me down Rhade."

"Why"

Rommie paused. "Better question. Why are you and Raki out this late"

"Having some fun." he said, slowly letting her onto her own feet. "Now, why were up in that tree? Planning to fall into open arms"

"You wish." she smiled and looked up. "I just found something very interesting."

.End Chapter Seven.

Yay! I haven't had ANY homework! ( Watch, tomorrow I'll have eight pages in each subject XD )

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