Riddick worked throughout the night and most of the following morning repairing the skiff. His mind never completely left the event last night, killing the creatures hadn't been hard but he was he was a little perplexed, he'd never seen any humans act like this they seem to be, no they were more like animals. Why were they acting like this?

Riddick held the metal plate into place then finished welding it. He put those questions aside for now, his main concern was finding Jack and Imam and getting away from this strange planet and it's, monsters. The skiff was able to fly period but Riddick hadn't been able to give it the full repair needed for it, he didn't know if it would be strong enough now to make it out of the atmosphere and the travel back to New Mecca, if he did try, it would be very chancy.

Stepping into the cockpit, he started the skiff up and slowly it roared to life. He steadied her to about fifteen hundred to two thousand feet above the ground and cruzed along, scanning the ground for any signs of the two. He guided her over to the spot the parachutes and foot prints had been, he could still see the parachutes laying there. Riddick flipped a switch for a special tracking devise and was able to tack their foot prints and any other traces of them even the most microscopic thing. It gave Riddick an uneven trail for him to follow. For almost an hour he followed the path, at times he thought he may actually lose it, on the way he saw some signs he'd seen the night before. Some sort of over turned, rotting vehicles lay everyware, he even saw a couple of those, human like creatures he'd seen, they were either moving quite slowly or sometimes even rushing as if chasing something.

Then it looked to Riddick that he was stumbling onto something, a full battle. There were men on the ground, dressed in green with some sort of guns and they were battling what looked like the creatures Riddick had fought, many faces turned up at his skiff. Then the skiffs tracking started to go off as the ships computer stated that it found Jack and Imam. Riddick quickly followed the tracker and sure enough the two were there, and they were running. They had been separated by the main group and were running deeper into the forest, and it looked as if they were being perused by the human-creatures. Riddick accelerated the skiff and sped over to the ground he turned it so it faced between the two and the creatures then sped towards the creatures and ran through several. The creatures went spinning through the air and one cracked the windshield. "Dammet!" Riddick yelled then brought the skiff to a sliding halt. There were no damage alarms so Riddick assumed the skiff should be alright. He exited the ship and quickly found Jack and Imam who'd stop momentarily but were now running again, towards Riddick. Immediately one creature jumped from a section of bushes at Riddick, skillfully though Riddick turned, hitting the creature in the neck with his left forearm, knocking it on its back. Riddick then stomped the side of its head, snapping its neck. He peered over to see the creatures coming upon Imam and Jack. He quickly ran head forward towards them, there were four creatures perusing them and one caught up to Imam and leapt on him trying to maul him. Imam let out a terrified shriek but Riddick was just as fast. He tackled the creature off, then pinning it face down, snapped its neck jerking his head around he saw the other three leaping as well. Pulling out his curved knives, he charged at the creatures the first one spotted him and Riddick narrowly avoided a torrent of blood shooting out its mouth. Spinning he brought his left arm around and with the end of the knife cut the creatures throat then spun again and brought his right knife down and buried it in the skull of the second. Looking up he saw the third one was leaping at Jack as she screamed. Leaving one knife in the creatures skull he leapt in the air, corkscrewing then came down right at the creature's side, just a few feet from Jack now, then killed it the same way he had the first. He brought his left arm around in a powerful swing and when it struck the creatures neck, it fell backwards on the grown, a clean cut through its neck.

Riddick glanced over at Imam and Jack as he recovered his knife and wiped them on the ground, "The ship, now!" he barked and all three sprinted for the skiff, strangely there was no more noise or gunfire. Then there were a number of clicks and calking noises as they approached the skiff, "Halt!" someone yells and the three turned to see the men in green with helmets and rifles at hand gathered around, muzzles pointed at them. "Who the hell are you?" Riddick asked in annoyance, "Here, come with us into the shelter" "No thanks we'll be leaving" Riddick replies. "I have orders to bring you in" the leader continues, "Well that's an order you won't be able to complete" Riddick says and opens the door to the skiff. "Come with us or we will use deadly force!" the man speaks and Riddick slowly turns his head and starts to walk towards them. "Riddick" both Jack and Imam speak but Riddick doesn't listen, he pulled his knives out again, "You pull those triggers, you lose your life, you'd be no more of a challenge then those creatures" Riddick speaks. All around the men look horrified and no one is able to speak, the leader starts shaking in fear then a voice finally speaks out.

"Hold on hold on" a man speaks, walking past the group towards Riddick. He had black skin and a large mustache and was the only one not wearing a helmet. "I'm sorry if we threatened you, call me general Stones, you are" Stones held out his hand, Riddick glared at it then debated in himself weather he should tell him or not. He decided they probably didn't even know who he was, "Names Riddick, what do you want?" Riddick asked and Stones smiled a little, "Well I've never seen a your um" he pointed at the skiff, "just a skiff" Riddick finished for him, "Yeah that, well it looks like it got a little damaged, why don't you take it into our base to get repaired?" Stones offered, "No thanks we were just on our way" Riddick replied. "Look, those creatures you fought, they're everyware and you'll barley get anytime to fix your ship if you stay out here. Bring it to our base, safest place within miles of this place and we can get you any supplies you need. Riddick glanced over at Jack and Imam, they gave him puzzling looks then he spoke, "We stay there and work 'til night fall, by then it should be ready to go then we leave! No questions asked." Riddick ordered and Stones nodded, "Agreed."

Stones and his men were able to get the skiff onto a trailer pulled by some ground vehicle the three had never seen and within the hour they arrived at the near by base. The base started out with high stone walls and giant wooden doors let them in as they walked by, Riddick noticed guards up top with some of those guns, this time mounted. There some crumpled down buildings close to the walls then more towards the center were many camps and tents then one large building, higher then the wall stood out in the very center. The skiff was parked next to the building and Jack and Imam were taken to a door in the other direction "Where you taken them" Riddick spoke loud, poised to strike, "Calm down, they just requested some food and water, look I want to talk with you inside they will join us shortly" Riddick stood there for a minute then hesitantly walk inside with Stones and several guards, there were large crowds of soldiers outside and even as they entered inside.

Stones brought Riddick into a windowless room with three guards and sat him down, "Can I get you anything?" he asked but Riddick just glared at him through his goggles, "What did you want to talk about?" he asked. "Alright well do you know what those creatures are and what's going on here?" "No, and I don't care, I just want to repair my ship and get off this rock with the others" "Ok, ok I just thought you might be curious" "I was but I put it away so I could go on with more important stuff" Riddick replied crossing his arms. "Let me explain everything here then I'll let you and your friends do all the work you want" Riddick glared again for a minute, suspicaly then spoke "Fine, make it quick though" he ordered and Stones smiled. "Alright well, those things were humans but they've been infected with a rage virus" Riddick raised an eye brow, "Yeah a Virus that turns them into complete vicious creatures controlled by rage and the hunger for everyone…else. Well it started when some animals being tested with this uh rage, infected a few people and from there it spread like wild fire, after almost a month, all infected starved to death and we tried repopulating Brittan-" "I don't know what your talking about what's Brittan?" Riddick interrupted" "Well it's a large island, were on it now and then there's continents east and west of here. Well we started to repopulate this island and things for a while were looking good" Stones explained.

For a little while Stones explained the story of how a mindless father visited his wife, previously thought dead, when she was found by his children outside the city limits, he kissed her not knowing she was a carrier and was himself infected and brutally killed her while she could do nothing, Riddick had lived a pretty violent life himself, but hearing this actually disturbed him, he was surprised at that. Stones then explained that the virus now broke out again and spread to the mainland.

Riddick began to notice that Imam and Jack had never come in then grew angry and glared at Stones. "Enough of this, where's Jack and Imam?!" "Jack? That's a strange name for a girl" Stones commented as he slowly drank from a mug of coffee. Riddick yelled and the guards took aim "Where are they?" he yelled "Alright look I'm tired of this rude bull shit Riddick, now here's the thing, you friends are under armed guard and so is your skiff, now your not goanna get them back unless you do one thing." Stones yelled back and Riddick spun his leg tripping all the guards then attempted to reach for Stones neck but Stones simply stood and aimed a pistol a foot from Riddick's Face. "Sit down and we can continue this" Stone spoke sternly. The two glared at each other for several minutes before Riddick, very reluctantly sat back down, "Now, some miles from here there's a valley, in the valley's a city, the city's over run by infected, there's some scientist boarded up in a building, we've communicated with 'em and they say they're close to a cure, I want you to go there and get the scientist back over here then, you can get the hell out." "You've got a lot of men why haven't you done it?" Riddick asked, pissed, "There's some really bad weather, haven't been able to get an extraction team out and the terrains simply to rugged for any high armored vehicles to rescue them." "And you think I alone will do any better" "Judging on how you fought today, yeah…you killed those infected like it was barley a challenge, you look like you can handle it." Riddick's eyes went from Stones face to the pistol pointed at him, his hands were tied, "Fine but you let us go when this is over" Riddick spoke as he got up, "Agreed your friends can work on the skiff while your gone."

Stones gave Riddick directions to the town then all five men exited the room and went outside. They offered Riddick supplies but he refused, saying he'll be fine on his own, Before he went through the open gate he turned to Stone and spoke, "By the time this is over, I'm goanna dig one of these knives…in your balls" Riddick said then turned and started to walk, he could here Stones laughing behind him. Riddick sighed at what he had to do, things had just gotten more complicated but he decided to get this over quick, he'd have his revenge eventually, then he began to run.