Okay, here's just a little something for all you crazy kids out there. Seems I was right. My muse came back.. Oh, but don't expect much…it's just a little teaser.
Ciricose let out a snarl as his screen went blank. He pursed his non existent lips and strode into the cock pit of his ship. He hated being taken by surprise and when Riddick felt he could find his own answers, it no longer meant that Ciricose had the upper hand. Riddick was his lab rat, his toy. He could crush him with one hand if he so desired. Riddick needed him, god damn it.
Ciricose sat down and sneered as his spidery gray fingers maneuvered gracefully across the buttons. " No more games." he spat to no one in particular as he locked onto Kyras ship and began to increase speed.
Kyra still didn't understand what Riddick was talking about, and she urged him to turn around once more as she spoke. " Home? Riddick, I'm not quite understanding what's going on. What the hell went on in the com room?"
Riddick did not turn as he busied himself with the ships controls. " Don't worry about it. We have to hyper jump, maybe we can loose him in another galaxy-" Riddick replied as he pulled up a screen of outlying planets and galaxies and began scanning through them.
" Hyper jump? Jesus. Why?"
" Because any minute now Ciricose is going to try and jump our ship. I might have pissed him off a bit." But as he spoke and scanned, something caught Kyras attention on the screen.
" Wait, go back !" Kyra cried suddenly.
Riddick frowned but went back to a screen that showed a cluster of two large orange planets and a smaller blue one.
" Is that near us?" Kyra asked, her voice slightly urgent.
" Yeah, but I don't-"
" Corbin. I have allies on that planet, they can help us get a new ship, get this asshole off our tail." The wheels in her mind began turning as the instinct to stay alive brought out her genius.
But Riddick simply let out a bark of laughter. " Allies? You mean ones that will shoot and tag me the minute I step off this ship. No fucking way kid."
" Get over yourself , I have a plan."
" You have a plan?" Riddick asked mockingly.
Kyra sneered. " Yeah, I do. Now my ship has one hyper booster, one. That means we can afford one hyper jump, but then the plasma has to rebuild, and with the tracker on the ship, we can't afford to the time to reset. We could loose him in two jumps, but not one. He can just lock on and hyper jump with us, it would be pointless."
" Go on." Riddick replied slowly.
" So, if hyper jumping to loose him is out, the only way to get away from him is to loose the ship, period. Plain and simple. We hyper jump into the planets atmosphere, ditch the ship."
" But there's a flaw in your plan, kid. When he's alerted that we are about to hyper jump onto the planet, He can lock on. It's the same problem." Riddick said with a shake of his head.
" Yeah, that's why we have to catch him off guard. I know a way. But you have to let me out. I'm flying." she said matter-of-factly
Riddick snorted. " No."
" Yes, because you are going to get Ciricose on the halo com and hold on for dear life, cause when he's out of his cockpit, we hyper jump. He can't follow us if he's not locked in the same time we jump. It'll buy us enough time to get off the ship and into the city. It can work Riddick, you know it can."
They stared at each other for a long moment. Silence filled the hull as Riddick absorbed everything she spat out and knew she was right. Though hyper jumping without being properly strapped into a chair with safety harnesses was a really bad idea, he knew her plan would work, and it pissed him off. But at the same time, he was slightly proud. He thought about it for a long moment, using up time he was sure he didn't have, before he replied.
" Fine." was all he said as he walked over to Kyra and got down on his knees. He took out a small key from his pocket and then looked her in the eye.
" From here on out, you're my prisoner. Try anything and-" But before he could finish a piercing beeping resonated in the cockpit.
Kyra cried out as a screen lowered, flashed a picture of Ciricoses ship gaining, " Shit, he's coming. Get him on the halo com, now!!"
Riddick snorted defiantly as Kyra shouted commands. But she looked down at him and for a moment something real peered through her eyes and he realized that it was fear coming from her, not of him, but of Ciricose. With that he unlocked her and she stood, the chains falling from her wrist and ankles. " Good luck." she said as she walked over to cockpit and sat down.
Riddick watched her walk for a long moment before turning to the com room. " Don't fuck this up, kid." he called over his shoulder. Kyra glared as she strapped her self in…tightly. She took a deep breath and locked in the coordinate. She prayed that Obie and Pixen were still on Corbin, or else this was going to be a bad idea.