Jiri looked at the tube that housed his friend. Cypher's stomach wound looked much better, much like how Jiri felt when he was told that Tyken would survive. They only needed to wait for him to regain consciousness.

Jiri was getting impatient, agitated. He looked into the tube as he spoke to medical staff, 'is he going to be out soon?'.

The medical staff were busy, their answer blunt, 'he will be out in a matter of hours. As soon as he is ready for visitors we will let you know, perhaps it would be better to wait elsewhere for him to awaken'.

Jiri wandered out of the room, he didn't really have anything better to do. They had been on the station for three days now, hanging around the medical area was the only thing that he had left.

'You bored?', asked Plex as she approached. Jiri answered, 'yeah… but nervous too, I don't think i'll be at ease until I see Tyken standing on his own two feet again'.

Plex took his shoulder, 'he'll be fine, the staff here are the best. When does he get out?'.

'A few hours' Jiri replied, though his mind was more on the hand that laid on his shoulder than in his response.

'Told you I'd see you guys through this', her smile was beaming as she spoke.

Jiri's face turned slightly however, 'yes, you saved us… for no reward'.

Plex shrugged, 'yeah, so?'.

Jiri raised an eyebrow as he continued, 'So why? Do you know what I think? I think that despite your tough act, the way you don't trust others, the way you think they will use you the first chance they can… yet you saved me and my friend for no personal gain…'.

Plex glared at Jiri, suspicious of where he was taking the conversation.

'My point is', he continued, 'I think that despite all your pessimistic talk of people feeding off each other for personal gain, you don't actually believe it, or at least it's not who you are'.

Jiri took Plex's hands into his own, 'perhaps the reason you brought me here is because you want to be convinced that the universe isn't a horrible place, that there is good in people, even if you can't always see it. That perhaps, despite your claims to the contrary, you are one of those good people after all'.

Plex looked up at Jiri, his big brown eye's beamed down on her… she felt…

She threw his hands down, anger written all over her face, 'Really? You think you know the first thing about me?'. She was shouting, almost frantic, 'You sound just like Lyn, a bunch of pretty sounding words but in the end, that's all they are, a bunch of pretty words. When push comes to shove, everyone in this universe looks out for themselves…'.

Jiri was taken aback and lost for words. He stared at Plex, trying to work out why she was reacting like this.

Her face was a twisted and full of rage, but then… the scowl started to fade slowly from her face. Her lip begun to tremble, the beginning of tears welled in her eyes.

Suddenly, she turned from Jiri and stormed off down the corridor towards the hanger. The door to the Ninbus opened as she approached. She run up into the ship, the ramp closing behind her, sealing her inside her ship.

Jiri followed her, still not fully understanding what just happened. When the ships walkway retracted into the ship, he just stood staring at the ship in bewilderment wondering what went wrong.

Suddenly Roruk appeared, he made a bee line for Jiri. Jiri only saw the towering wookie seconds before he was grabbed and lifted off the ground. The wookies roar was one Jiri had made a point of remembering, he was angry.

Jiri tried o calm him, 'woah, dude… just... put me down'.

Jiri feared that he might have to live the rest of his life learning how to eat without any arms… until Plex's voice came in via Roruk's radio, 'put him down Roruk'.

Roruk's reply was a series of growls, Jiri knew the wookie was trying to understand what just happened.

Plex replied again, 'no, he didn't hurt me... Just…'. A silence followed. After a few moments, Plex's voice came back over the radio, wavering slightly, 'just put him down and come aboard, we're leaving'.

Roruk lowered Jiri back to the ground. He looked towards the ship, then back at Jiri, still unsure as to what was going on.

He then made his way to the ship, his slow, shambling manner made it clear that he was still confused by the situation. Jiri said under his breath, 'that makes two of us confused Roruk'.

Several hours passed.

Jiri sat outside the medbay awaiting Tyken's recovery. Any moment he would awaken, or so the staff had told him. As Jiri waited he ran the earlier events over in his head again, trying to make some sense of it. What had he done wrong? Was that the last time he would ever see her? His doubting and second guessing was stopped by Lyn's sudden appearance.

'Oh hey Lyn' was all Jiri came up with. Lyn happily answered, 'aah Jiri, good to see you. Where's Plex?'.

Jiri's reply was heavy with regret, 'she… um… left…'.

Lyn's head tilted, 'hm… it's unlike her to just leave without saying goodbye… did something happen?'.

Jiri answered as directly as he could, 'I tried to convince her that perhaps she embraced your ideals without actually realising it'.

Lyn was curious, 'and she… left? She was upset?'.

Jiri's head hung low, 'very'.

Lyn sighed, 'I've been trying to convince Plex of that for years, not once has she ever taken me seriously before. Certainly I've never had her react like what you just described. I think…'.

She paused before continuing her explanation, 'I think that perhaps she was upset because maybe she realized you were right?'.

Jiri looked up at Lyn in shock, this was something he hadn't considered.

Lyn continued, 'she has a painful past Jiri, I don't know how much she has told you, but she doesn't trust easily. I'd say that if she does have some trust in you, and has realized perhaps people are not all out to kill each other it might be hard to handle emotionally all at once'.

Jiri sighed, 'it might have been good if you were here to explain all of that while she was here'.

Lyn replied, 'perhaps look at the bright side, if she's upset at least it means she cares, if she didn't care do you think she would have reacted at all?'.

This was also something Jiri hadn't considered.

'And to continue looking on the bright side', Lyn continued, 'your friend should be up and about soon. Indecently that's why I'm here actually, to greet him to the station when he wakes up. Perhaps you can show me to him?'.

Jiri smiled and got up, a short talk with Lyn had raised his spirits a lot. 'Please allow me', almost with a sense of sarcasm as he offered Lyn his arm. 'Oh such a gentleman!' she replied in a dramatic voice. Jiri smiled, 'well at least your a better actor than Plex'. Lyn smiled, 'oh you saw her acting? Did…'.

Lyn's voice stopped as she saw the figure in the tank floating. Her face turned white. She grabbed Jiri by the shoulders and took him out of the room.

Her voice was frantic, 'do you have any idea who that is?'.

Jiri was confused by this, 'yes, it's my friend Tyken'.

Lyn quickly responded, panic in her voice, 'is that what he told you? You have no idea what - '.

Alarms sounded all across the station. Lights flashed. Lyn received a message over the telecom, 'Commander, a fleet has dropped out of hyperspace and is approaching the station'.

'A fleet? What kind of fleet? Can you identify them?' she replied hastily into her wrist.

'We believe so commander, the fleet is being headed by a black scout ship…'.

Lyn gritted her teeth, 'It's Cypher'.

Jiri interjected, 'no, it can't be. We killed Cypher on Spirious'.

Lyn gave him a look full of anger and shock, 'Did you?'.

The voice came through the comms again, 'what are your orders commander?'.

Lyn took a commanding tone, 'everyone to battle stations, man the turrets and scramble our fighters... And everyone get ready for the fight of your lives!'.