Peepyn woke up after a few hours, rubbing her sore back as she did so. She looked around the room with a sigh, wondering if Moo had calmed down yet. Her long and thin antenna twitched at the sound of Moo's voice, muffled by the steel door. She sighed again, her antenna dropping to the floor. Maybe Moo was talking to her SIR about ejecting her. Peepyn's eyes watered, her vision going blurring from the tears forming in her eyes. She blew it. She...what did she want? Peepyn looked at her skull necklace thoughtfully, trying to get a meaning out of it. It had a meaning, and she knew what it was...but she still looked at it, thinking about the events of her past. She always looked at the necklace, knowing that it symbolised something much more than it seemed.

Alaro...the name echoed in her head, her body shuddering as memories hit her. Alaro was always her better half, a spunky young Irken...one who had shining red eyes. That's all she could remember about the Irken's appearance, except for the necklace that was given to Peepyn before she ran away. Their memories would always be kept in that little trinket; Peepyn swore she would never forget. But she knew her memory was fading fast, and there was nothing the young Irken could do about it.

The doors whooshed open, bringing Peepyn out of her daydream. Moo looked at her sternly, her Irken spider legs making her seem bigger than usual. At Peepyn's shuddering, Moo brought herself down to Peepyn's level. The two Irkens looked at each other, blue eyes facing red. Peepyn couldn't help but blush; the Bounty hunter's shimmering eyes where making her feel rather nervous.

"I-f you want me to leave...I...I will." Peepyn stammered, "I didn't want to bother you in the first place, honestly I didn't!"

Moo's eyes lowered, seeming softer than usual. "No." Moo lowered her shoulders, "I...I don't desire to."

"But why not?" Peepyn looked at her, wide eyed, "After all I have done to you and everything!"

"I..." Moo whispered, her voice straining to make a noise at all. "I liked it."

Peepyn blushed heavily at this point. "Uh...well..."

"I just want to ask one question." Moo said softly, looking around. "Why did you do it?"

Peepyn looked away, trying to find answers in her head. One niggling answer hit her, and after a short pause she decided to come clean. "You..." She gulped, "remind me of...Alaro."

Moo looked at her curiously. "Who?"

"Alaro..." Peepyn seemed to sing the name, her eyes going soft and mushy at the thought of her old girlfriend. "She was supposed to be my servant...but...anyway, when my parents found out...they went to have her executed."

"What!" Moo shouted, quite astonished by this.

Peepyn nodded, "Before she died, and before I ran away, she gave me this." She held the skull necklace, "She liked Gothic stuff, and kept this necklace on her at all times." Peepyn fiddled with the necklace. "All I can remember about what she looked like...was that she had red eyes, the same shade as yours."

The two Irkens looked at each other for a few seconds, before a loud beep snapped them out of the moment. Gigta walked in, glowing a bright red as it did so.

"We are reaching the planet!" Gigta yelled, "But we have received a transmission from the leader..." A screen jumped out of the SIR unit's head, forming static that quickly formed into a strange humanoid shape. The figure was hidden in shadow; the only thing that was seen was the almost glowing red eyes of the strange humanoid in front of them. The being gave a small cough, and started to speak.

"We have spotted Irkens on our planet." The creature growled, "Your kind promised us this land for us to live the rest of our lives on; it is unacceptable that you are now trying to take over this planet. Please evacuate as soon as humanly possible." The creature panted heavily; a strange heavy tail could be seen in the background. "Our past has been a tiring one, as you will recall." The eyes looked at Peepyn, widening a little. "We have been oppressed for what you have made us, and we have put up with it till now. Now, please get rid of all Irken life on this planet before we declare war on you all. Remember, we are still just like you." The transmission then ended, the screen forming static yet again.

"Who...what was that?" Peepyn shivered.

"I don't know, I haven't seen a creature like that before." Moo looked on with a frown, "Oh well, its the least of our worries. Let's get onto the planet."

"Good idea." Peepyn shivered, "I don't like being off land for too long. Makes me homesick."

Moo nodded, looking at her shipmate with a knowing grin. "That's the worst thing about being a bounty hunter." Moo said softly, "The loneliness."

The two looked at each other as the ship raced off, past the three golden moons and towards the green coloured planet that was their destination.

They soon landed on the planet gently, looking around the green grass outside the ship with confusion. Peepyn looked on in awe, while Moo looked on with skepticism. Peepyn quickly ran out of the ship, rolling on the grass playfully and running around with Gigta. She ran up the strange giant purple flowers, picking fruit from the side of the tree sized plant. Moo watched with amusement, and then stepped out of the ship. The bright light hurt Moo's eyes for a second, but as she looked around she smiled at the familiar plants that grew on the planet. It was as if the Irkens kept this planet as a zoo; all the plants that had become extinct on Irk were here. She walked around behind Peepyn, picking up fruit the blue eyed Irken had dropped. The fruit looked like little oranges with strawberry pips on the outside. A Juicy Podicon, Moo thought it was called. She peeled the skin (which held the seeds), showing off a small tan coloured fruit that appeared to be cut into sections. She played with the fruit for a while before chucking it in her mouth. The sour taste surprised her; these were normally sweet. Moo continued to walk on, following Peepyn until she noticed a strange green lizard.

"Peepyn, get down!" Moo said, jumping on her partner. Peepyn looked up, blushing a little.

"What is it?" Peepyn asked, "I was just gonna check out that creature there. This is so exciting!"

"Going up to stuff you are not familiar with is gonna get you killed." Moo hissed, "This is a Three horned gattler. It kills on sight."

"Well, who is that next to it then?" Peepyn asked, pointing to a strange hooded figure.

The figure was covered in a huge cloak that covered their entire body except for the feet, which were three toed and clawed like the Three horned gattler. The creature turned around, showing a face that was covered in a veil. The veil was designed so only the eyes were seen, red eyes that were very similar to the ones in the transmission. But this creature had no tail, just what seemed to be three horns jutting out of the cloak. The creature looked at the two hiding Irkens with what seemed to be hate. The creature looked at the Three horned gattler, and whistled and roared at it. The green rhino like lizard charged, bellowing and growling at the two Irkens. Moo rose to the ground, picking Peepyn up as she activated her Irken spider legs. The strange humanoid whistled again, and more of the creatures thundered down the hill that Peepyn and Moo had been walking up.

"Gigta, help us!" Moo yelled at her Sir unit. Gigta nodded, and flew in front of the creatures. It held its metal arms up and braced itself as several heavy creatures raced into it, battering and flattening it until it couldn't be seen anymore. The bright red glow slowly turned to grey as the creatures thundered past, trying to catch up with the two Irkens.

"Oh no..." Peepyn looked at the fallen Sir with teary eyes, "Gigta is down..."

"We have to get out of here." Moo said, trying to hold back tears, "These things want us dead..."

"But why?" Peepyn asked, "We did nothing to them..."

The two continued running, the creatures still racing after them. Soon enough, the spider legs began to get worn from all the running, and the two slowed down considerably. Moo looked on with tears in her eyes as she saw the green blur behind her grow closer.

"This is it." Moo said, looking down on the Irken she was holding. "Game over."

"It can't be." Peepyn frowned, climbing up Moo's back and onto her PAK. "There has to be something in here!"

"Look, don't." Moo frowned.

Peepyn opened the PAK, throwing out what seemed to be an onion on the ground as she searched for an item. The Three horned gattlers crowded around the onion curiously, seeming to forget why they were chasing in the first place. Some tried to eat it, but the others would always headbutt them out of the way. Moo walked up to the creatures slowly, and saw their humanoid leader on top of the only one that was still.

"Why are you doing this?" Moo asked.

"You are fully aware of why, Irken scum." The creature hissed, "We are unlucky to share such a common bloodline with you."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't play dumb with me." The creature frowned, the Gattlers now finished with their game and crowding around their master protectively. "You made me who I am, you and your..." The creature shuddered, and whistled again. The Gattlers seemed to grin as they circled around the two Irkens, horns seemingly at the ready.

"Ok, now it is game over." Peepyn sighed. The two embraced as the creatures closed in. They knew that nothing could save them now; these creatures were known to take a bomb to the face without complaining. Moo looked to the sky, hoping for a miracle to happen. And that it did.

Another strange creature flew through the sky, dropping to the ground in the middle of them all. This creature was also hooded and had red eyes, but also had a beak and strange feathery hands that poked out of the cloak. The creature gave its own small cry, and strange birds landed on the ground. These birds had the heads of lizards, but still had beaks. The talons of the creatures were webbed, suggesting it was a water dwelling creature, but nothing else was really obvious.

"Flrit." The horned creature hissed, "Let me kill these intruders."

"Not today. Give them a day to leave." The feathered creature explained, the birds cawing as he spoke.

"Rules are rules." The horned creature frowned, "Though I have been seeing a lot of their kind around...sounds like a trap to me."

"We can deal with them at a later time. We outnumber them in natural resources, as we respect the nature they have given us." Flrit stroked their beak, "The blame can be pinned on me if they decide to intrude, but I have heard of a bounty hunter coming to sort out the escaping ones anyway."

"I am that bounty hunter!" Moo shouted.

"You?" Flrit rolled their eyes, "Is this what they call pro these days? Good luck surviving...Three horned gattlers are not the only dangerous things here, and there are more nature leaders out there." Flrit rolled their eyes again, "Honestly, I was expecting artillery, tanks, the works. Not just a crappy SIR."

"I have other methods." Moo said, getting out her knife, and showing them the onion shaped device. "The knife cuts off PAKs, the Drabaliser can distract wild animals for a short amount of time. They are all I need."

"That's a bit short sighted." Flrit sighed, "Whatever. You'd better get out of here and find that...those...yeah. Scum." The creature nodded, and then took off. The Gattler leader looked at the two with hateful eyes, but started to walk off with their pack.

"That...that was lucky." Peepyn shivered, clinging on to Moo. "What now?"

"We have to find those Irkens." Moo said softly, putting the Drabaliser and the knife away, "Come, let us search." And the two began to head north, into land that hadn't been explored by Irkens like them in eons.