Kistios strode briskly down the hallway and turned a corner, completely ignoring the fact that seven or eight soldiers were having trouble keeping up as they scurried along behind him. As he turned another corner, a soldier bolted up to him, pointing at a communicator in his hand.

"Captain, Sir, I'm receiving reports that the two females have been spotted running along corridor B, towards the lab, Sir," he said carefully, doing a little side-skip as Kistios kept his fast paced walk. Kistios growled lowly and pushed the man out of the way, then stepped over to a door in the wall and punched in the code. The door shot aside into the wall, and Kistios led his small battalion of men through the doorway and into a second corridor. He stopped and turned, a sour look on his face.

"Three of you go to the lab and seal it off. I don't want those two to get anywhere near the Saiyajins. The rest of you, I want you to drive them towards Corridor G. I don't care how you do it, just don't kill them, they're mine. Understood?" Kistios said. The soldiers snapped to a salute and ran off, three of them going back through the door they had come from, and the rest spreading out and filtering into different doors. Kistios spun on his heels and left the corridor, heading off to Corridor G to intercept the two girls.

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"Hey Rejhan, where do you think we are?" Myshel asked as they turned yet another corner, only to come face to face with yet another long hallway. Rejhan just shrugged as the two girls kept running through the complex.

"We have to find the ship. Without it, we're stuck. However, if we find my dad and the others, that wouldn't be too bad either," Rejhan said.

As they turned again, the two girls skidded to a stop. They had come face to face with three soldiers, holding very sinister looking weapons and blocking their path.

"I don't think so, girlies," one of them said, shaking his finger. Myshel smirked evilly, and both her and Rejhan sunk into defensive stances.

"If we were you, we would get out of the way," Rejhan hissed, mimicking Myshel's face with a smirk of her own. The three soldiers fidgeted a bit, backing up slowly as the girls started to advance on them. Thinking quickly, the soldier in the middle reached into a pouch on his belt and pulled out a little capsule. Taking a deep breath, he hurled it at the ground as hard as he could.

It was like an explosion went off in the corridor. A bright flash of gold light made the two girls shield their eyes as they fought to hold their ground as the force of whatever was in that capsule started to push them back.

"I don't like this, Myshel, let's go back the other way!" Rejhan yelled over the noise. Nodding in agreement, both girls turned around and bolted off down the other way. They ran for about two or three minutes before slipping into a crease in the hallway to catch their breath. Myshel leaned heavily against the wall and slowly slid down into a sitting position on the floor.

"That was a close one, eh?" she said, looking at the floor. When she didn't get an answer, however, she looked up to find Rejhan staring out of the crease with a curious look on her face. Myshel looked at her in tentative annoyance before finally speaking.

"Hellloooo…Myshel to Rejhan! This isn't exactly a good time to be daydreaming, you know…"

Rejhan shook her head from side to side before sliding down across from Myshel. She looked at Myshel for a couple of seconds, almost studying her face, before finally finding the words she was searching for.

"That was my father's power."

"That's impossible, Rej, your father wasn't that guy! He just had a … bomb thingy, and used it to cover his escape is all."

Rejhan shook her head again before staring back out of the crease. "No, I'm telling you, I don't know how, but whatever was … fueling that capsule had my father's ki signature all over it."

Myshel shook her head before letting a low whistle escape her lips. "That's seriously messed up, Rej. If … what you're saying is true, the only conclusion is that these people are sapping up your father's power and storing it in those capsule things. That could only lead to the fact that they either want to save it for little jobs like the one we just saw … or …"

"… MUCH bigger ones," Rejhan finished. Myshel nodded in agreement. "Well, we should get a move on anyhow. We can't stay stationary for too long."

Both girls climbed to their feet and Myshel peeked around the corner. After looking both ways, she signaled to Rejhan that the coast was clear, and the two jogged off in the direction they had been heading before being forced to retreat.

After three or four more minutes, the two girls skidded to a halt in front of a T-hall. There was a sign on the wall in front of them, but the writing on it was in some sort of language that neither of them had seen before.

"Well, left or right?" Rejhan asked Myshel. Myshel stepped forward and peered down the left hand hallway. It seemed to go on forever in the distance; she couldn't even see the end of it. Turning, she looked down the other way. This hallway was strangely shaped, and had funny sounds echoing in the distance.

"I say we go right, I don't like the looks of the left hand turn …" she said conclusively. Shrugging, Rejhan took off down the right hand hallway with Myshel right on her heels.

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Glaring down at a device in his hand, Kistios laughed evilly. He pressed a button, zooming in on the video feed of two young females weaving their way through corridor F.

"Corridor F leads directly to my position. For once, those morons got something right," Kistios said to himself. Pressing another button on the device, he slipped it into his pocket and looked around. He strode over to a corner and leant up against it, facing the hallway that connected with corridor F. Taking out a pistol-like weapon, he aimed upward and took out the light directly above him, shielding his eyes and face with his left hand. When the debris from the light had stopped falling, he took out three more lights, casting himself in complete darkness. Holstering his weapon, he crossed his arms and sighed, his eyes fixed on the exit of corridor F.

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"Decision time again, Rej," Myshel yelled as she looked on ahead of her. "Do we try some of these doors, or go into the next never-ending hallway?"

Rejhan looked around to catch glimpses of each of the doors as they passed. She closed her eyes and reached out with her Sight, checking each of them as they passed.

"There isn't anything behind any of these doors," she said, eyes still closed. Suddenly, she skidded to a halt.

Myshel, who had been staring straight ahead, looked around to find that Rejhan had disappeared from her side. She looked behind her to see that her friend had stopped in the middle of the hallway with her eyes closed, and had a funny look on her face. Turning on her heels, she took a few quick strides and stopped in front of Rejhan.

"Rej, what's wrong?" she asked, a trifle concerned.

Rejhan opened her eyes and looked up, but stared beyond where Myshel was standing and down the hall, towards the slightly darkened passageway into the next corridor. "There's someone in there …" she trailed off. Myshel looked at her, now in mingled concern.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive," Rejhan said, nodding her head. Myshel bit her bottom lip apprehensively.

"How strong a ki signature are we talking about?"

"Pretty decent if you ask me."

Myshel nodded. "Well, do we proceed anyways, or retreat to find another hallway?"

Rejhan closed her eyes again and stared at the glowing red ki form in front of her. It looked like it was leaning up against the wall, almost like it was waiting for something. She studied it a bit longer, before snapping her eyes open and taking a deep breath.

"Let's go for it. Whoever it is, it shouldn't be anyone we can't handle together."

Both girls stared at the connecting passageway and started forward. They stepped into the next corridor and looked around. It was smaller than the last one, and veered off to the left after about sixty feet. The corner was darkened to the point that you could not see the wall. Rejhan gave Myshel a little nudge, who acknowledged it with one of her own.

Kistios watched the two girls apprehensively enter the corridor and held his breath. "Finally, this little game comes to an end …" he thought to himself. He opened his mouth to speak, but one of the girls beat him to it.

"Alright," Rejhan said steadily. "Whoever is hiding in that little corner over there, come out. There's no use, we already know you're there."

Sorry this is so late, you all, but both Rej and I have had a LOT going on. I can say for myself at least, I haven't had much time to do anything too lengthy online. But, I'm back in a computer class at school, so maybe in my free time I can get some writing done, but, I don't want to get too optimistic. Anyhoo, hope you're getting excited, the big climax is coming up. Keep a heads up, Rejhan is next!

Tootles!

Myshel