D'Argo felt the room getting
hotter.
The ice in the room started to melt.
"You think
it's the same Scarran?" Chiana asked D'Argo as she looked
around the room.
"You think he survived the explosion?"
"I
am sure of it." D'Argo answered.
He fired a shot with his
Qualta Blade, only to hit nothing.
For a while, nothing
happened.
Chiana and Rygel thought D'Argo was becoming
paranoid.
He shot at several things in the room, to no
avail.
"D'Argo?" Chiana said.
D'Argo fired again.
He
knew it was there.
He could feel it in his blood.
"D'Argo,
perhaps you ..."
D'Argo fired again, but only this time he hit
something.
For a microt a great big blur stood in the centre of
the chamber.
A blur in the shape of a Scarran.
It faded away
instantly, but it convinced them of the Scarran's presence.
Chiana
drew her gun as well.
"I hate it when you're right." she
said to D'Argo.
She feared the worst, as she knew that neither
of them stood a chance against the Scarran.
Rygel looked desperately for another way out, but there was only one, and the Scarran was blocking it.
The Scarran attacked, hitting Chiana
with a full wave of heat, which emitted from his hand.
The ice
behind the Nebari melted away instantly.
"Chiana!"
D'Argo
fired dozens of shots at the Scarran, destroying his cloaking device
on his belt, but it did not hurt him.
So instead, D'Argo tried hitting the Scarran with his blade, forcing the Scarran to release Chiana from the heat, and concentrating his attack on the Luxan.
Artokh growled as the Luxan smashed him onto the
table.
He did not expect him to resist so strongly.
They
ran out of the room, running towards their Transport Pod.
"Where's
Rygel?" Chiana asked, as they ran through the long and cold
corridors of the facility.
"I don't know." D'Argo
answered, with his Qualta Blade at the ready.
"He probably ran
away to the Transport Pod. Frelling coward."
As he looked over
his shoulder, they saw the Scarran following them.
"This way."
Chiana said, remembering the way to their Pod.
They turned the
corridor, and took the second hallway to their left.
"Dead end."
D'Argo said.
It turned out Chiana was wrong.
The
Scarran was on his way.
D'Argo quickly thought of a plan.
"Stay
here." he said to Chiana. "Hide."
"What?"
"I'll distract the Scarran, make him follow me, so that you can escape to the Transport Pod."
"D'Argo, I won't do it!" Chiana
said.
She would not abandon her friend.
"You must!" D'Argo said. "Moya needs help! If we don't give her what she needs, she'll die!"
Chiana understood.
She had to take
the supplies to Moya.
She hid behind a cryo-pod, waiting for
D'Argo to distract the Scarran.
She didn't know she was
accidentally pushing a button on the cryo-pod, which executed a
procedure to open it.
Artokh followed the Luxan and the
Nebari.
Crichton's friends.
As he turned the corridor, he faced the Luxan, who fired upon him again, and tried to fight him.
D'Argo tried to slash the Scarran with his Qualta
Blade, but it's skin was too thick.
The Scarran simply took the
weapon and threw it on the floor.
D'Argo shouted as he punched
the Scarran in the guts, but it had no effect.
The Luxan ran.
D'Argo found several doors. One of them lead
outdoors.
"Freeze or fry." D'Argo asked himself, knowing
that this door lead to the cold, freezing wastelands beyond this
facility.
"Freeze." he said to himself.
He opened it and
stepped through, hoping that Scarrans hated the cold more then he
himself did.
"The patient is ready for transport,
sir."
"Good." Scorpius said.
Crichton's celldoors
opened.
Several doctors stepped in, followed by an equal amount of
Peacekeeper soldiers.
To escort him to his new prison.
"Bring him to the Marauder." Scorpius commanded.
The human was
pushed ahead.
Many guns were pointed at his head, and therefore
John did everything they said.
His arms were forced to the back of
his head and tied together .
Together this band of people looked
like a silly parade, with Crichton as the main attraction.
Thunder
roared through the mountains.
It still hadn't stopped
raining.
Sometimes it rained for months at a time on Yo'brakh,
and this day was not different then any other day in the rain
season.
The sunlight was blocked off by large, big clouds which
swirled above their heads and covered the mountains with mists.
John
looked up, knowing that Scorpius's Command Carrier lay beyond those
clouds, awaiting his arrival.
But John wasn't going to give
himself up that easily.
He pushed over one of the Peacekeeper
soldiers, grabbing the gun which he held in his hands.
The
Peacekeepers aimed their weapons at Crichton, but Scorpius stopped
them.
"Don't shoot him!" he shouted.
If they killed Crichton, all would've been in vain.
"You heard the man."
Crichton said.
He held a pulse-rifle in his shaking hands, which
were still tied together with ropes.
"Approach me, and bye bye
wormholes..."
John played with the idea of killing himself,
right there in front of Scorpius.
Then Crichton would have the
ultimate revenge, as Scorpius wouldn't have the
wormhole-knowledge.
The knowledge in his mind, the chip in his
head, they would all die with him.
"Stop this insanity, John!" Harvey said to him.
John laughed.
He laughed so
hard.
He hadn't laughed so hard in years.
"Do I see fear in your eyes, Scorpy?" he said.
The Peacekeepers tried to surround him, but Crichton backed away.
"Suicide is
painless..." John sung softly.
The look in his eyes was mental.
Insane.
"A life for a life, Scorpy." John said.
Scorpius's eye twitched.
With a quick twist of
his arm, John shot Scorpius, and ran to the Marauder.
He closed
the doors and waved off Harvey's threats as he shot the pilot and
took control.
"Capture him!" Luitenant Bracca shouted. "Don't let him get away!"
But it was already to late, as the Marauder lifted off from the ground and Crichton disappeared into the night sky.
"Carrier, this is luitenant Bracca speaking. John Crichton has stolen the Marauder and escaped our custody. I order you to shoot him down, but do not kill him. Repeat: Shoot him down, but do NOT kill him!"
The Command Carrier dispatched twenty Prowlers to begin the pursuit of Crichton.
Chiana
slowly began to walk through the corridor, leaving her hide-out.
She
had heard the fight between D'Argo and the Scarran, and realised
that the plan was a success.
Chiana found D'Argo's Qualta
Blade on the floor.
She lifted it up and held it in her
arms.
Suddenly a strange sound filled the room.
As Chiana
turned around, she saw smoke coming from one of the cryo-pods, and
she heard someone coughing.
A woman.
A figure walked out of
the smoke, towards Chiana.
Her hair was red, and she wore a
strange leather outfit.
Her eyes were small and yellow.
Chiana pointed the Qualta Blade at her, not knowing if this was a friend or a foe.
As the woman realised she was being targeted, she freaked out, and began screaming so hard and high that Chiana reached for her ears.
Chiana hit her across the head with the Qualta Blade, so that she would shut up.
The woman fell to the ground, covering her wounded face.
"Please don't kill me..." the woman cried. "...Please, please-I don't know where I am. I don't know what happened-please don't kill me!"
