"Find Crichton." Kaarvok said to his precious Xarai. "Alive."
The Xarai obeyed.
"You may eat the other one." Kaarvok added witty.
FLASH
Harvey stuffed the popcorn in his mouth like a man who has been hungry for his entire life.
The entire cinema was empty. They were the only people in the audience.
"TRAPPED WITH NO WAY OUT" a dark and loud voice said as the last frame of the movie, a car falling of a cliff, froze all of a sudden and the same words appeared on screen.
"HOW WILL OUR HERO ESCAPE?" another sentence of large yellow letters read.
"This is really good!" Harvey said as he kept on eating the popcorn.
"You want some?" Harvey said as he kept the box of popcorn under John's nose.
"I'll pass." the uninterested John Crichton said as he pushed the box back in Harvey's hands.
"I'm only interested in how this is going to end."
"Suit yourself." Harvey said as he leant back into his seat again.
FLASH
The darkness was overwhelming.
Trees and bushes seemed like monsters and ghosts.
Fear was everywhere.
And the Xarai were out there, hunting them.
"I'll create a diversion." Aenos said cold. "You run."
Crichton's mind started to work on top speed.
Xarai were Peacekeepers, Sebaceans, soldiers who served their commanders.
But their minds are destroyed by Kaarvok's device, which destroyed not only their minds but their identity too.
The only thing which remained was their primal instincts.
And their Peacekeeper training.
The training which learned them to serve their master; the only master they knew since the day they were captured. Their torturer and superior: Kaarvok.
Crichton pondered about this over and over.
How could this information help him?
It couldn't!
A part of him hoped Harvey would show up with advice, but the bigger part of John Crichton refused his help completely.
He didn't need that sunnavabitch to help him out.
"No!" Crichton said to Aenos.
"I'm sick of running."
Aenos grabbed Crichton's shoulders out of protest, but John pushed him away.
"And I'm sick of your Peacekeeper attitude." John added.
John drew his gun from his pocket and aimed it at Aenos.
He shoved it right in his face.
"Now frell off."
He aimed it at Aenos for a second, before stepping out of the hut with his gun at the ready.
Several Xarai saw him standing in the encampment and ran to intercept him.
John shot the Sebaceans down with deadly accuracy which surprised even himself.
"Kaarvok!" he shouted. "Let's finish this!"
Silence engulfed them as a strange figure appeared from the shadows.
Followed by dozens of Xarai.
"Lets." Kaarvok simply replied.
As Aenos joined Crichton in the centre of the encampment, which was slowly surrounded by the Xarai, John aimed his weapon at Kaarvok's head.
"You like blood?" Crichton asked him with an insane glow in his eyes.
"You're not looking to the future, John!" Kaarvok said.
"The end does not justify the means." John simply said.
His hand trembled, but was unnoticed in the darkness of the woods.
"Whatever." Kaarvok said from the darkness.
His device glowed with an unnatural light, which made Kaarvok visible in the darkness.
"You will die anyway." Kaarvok said.
He nodded and several Xarai responded to his command.
They attacked from the darkness, jumping on Aenos's back and trying to bite both men.
Crichton shot them before they could reach him and also killed the Xarai which attacked Aenos.
Kaarvok smiled as he watched them fight.
Although Kaarvok cared for the Xarai like a father would, he felt no remorse or sorrow watching them die.
He could always make new family...
After the first wave of attackers were decimated, Crichton turned to Kaarvok, who smiled from within the shadows.
He knew what Crichton was thinking right now.
Crichton's gun would eventually run out of ammo, and if that moment should come, then he was defenceless against the Xarai, who would either tear them to shreds or give him to Kaarvok.
Death awaited both Crichton and Aenos either way.
FLASH
"Primary instincts, John!" Harvey said to John.
His senses were numbed as he felt his mind spin.
"Primary fears!"
FLASH
"Fear." John mumbled.
As Crichton pulled his gun towards himself, both Aenos and Kaarvok thought he was about to surrender.
But they were wrong.
As a high-pitched beep slowly grew louder and quicker, the Xarai panicked and Kaarvok stepped towards John.
Aenos did nothing, but began to fear for his life as he saw the insane and suicidal Crichton holding the overloading pulse-pistol in his hands still.
If he held it in his hands any longer, it would kill him instantly.
Aenos almost tried to stop Crichton, but before he had a chance, John threw it in Kaarvok's hands, before jumping away in the opposite direction, pulling Aenos to the ground.
The explosion echoed through the woods and made even the largest predators of the forest look up and wonder.
Several Xarai were caught in the blast.
Their mutilated bodies laid dead on the floor around where Kaarvok used to stand.
The other Xarai panicked at the sight of the flames which were created by the explosion.
The flames grew as it touched the trees and the wooden huts.
"Primal fear." Crichton said as he grabbed a broken branch of a tree and held it in the fire.
When he pulled it out, Crichton held a burning branch in his hand.
"Primal fear of FIRE!" Crichton shouted.
"You don't like that, do you?" John said to the Xarai as he drove them away with the fire.
Aenos followed him, thinking that Crichton was the most luckiest man alive.
They ran through the forest, leaving the encampment behind and scaring the remaining Xarai away with the burning branch in John's hand.
Dozens of angry eyes followed them through the woods, but left them alone.
"We did it." John thought to himself. "I did it."
He escaped mortal danger once again.
"Crichton!" a voice suddenly hollered behind them.
"You won't get away with this!"
Crichton recognised the figure which stood in front of him, hidden in the darkness.
"You son of a bitch!" Crichton said. "You're still alive."
Kaarvok emerged from the dark.
The three moons shined on his shoulders.
He was burned, wounded, and dying.
The device on his wrist shook and glowed a blue and electric shock, like it was damaged.
"You will pay." Kaarvok whispered.
His voice sounded weak and damaged, but spoke to Crichton with a bitter wish for revenge.
Aenos stood silently in the shadows of the trees as he watched Crichton's movements.
As Kaarvok raised his battered arm, the blue glow of the device revealed his face from the shadow.
The words 'skeleton' and 'bones' sprung to Crichton's mind as he saw Kaarvok's molten and black face.
The metal plate in the side of his skull was the only thing undamaged.
The little blue lights seemed to glow like nothing had happened to it's owner.
"YOU WILL PAY!" Kaarvok shouted as he powered up his weapon and aimed at Crichton.
Crichton did not hesitate to throw the flames of the burning branch in Kaarvok's face.
As he reached for his face, the flames sprung to his arms and the device began to shudder and shock.
The damaged device electrocuted it's owner.
Kaarvok fell to the ground. Dead.
Silence.
Nothing but the sounds of bugs and fire.
Suddenly Aenos saw something familiar in the corner of his eyes.
The Peacekeeper vehicles, stashed away in a hole which was dug in the hillside, beneath the giant roots of the trees.
But Crichton walked in the opposite direction.
He seemed almost intoxicated or drunk.
But as a matter of fact, he was in shock.
And slowly recovering.
And he would never truly recover until he had left this planet.
"Crichton!" Aenos said. "I found the bikes. We can speed out of here!"
Aenos's eyes carefully followed the human through the dark woods.
"I don't really care anymore." Crichton replied. "Bikes can't go into space, can they? Or are these specially modified? Probably not."
Aenos followed Crichton, and approached him carefully as the human stopped to gaze at his reflection in the small pond or river which flowed in front of him, which seemed to cut through the land like a knife.
Two of the three moons reflected with a strange blue light into the still water.
It was the last thing Crichton saw before Aenos knocked him out.
