When The Guardian had ordered her dead, Danni had no choice but to flee the city. Unfortunately, fleeing meant she ran into the invaders believed to be the adults, who were in fact The Technos. They had given her a choice, join or there would be consequences. In desperation, having only just escaped slavery, she chose to join The Technos.

Because she was a passionate and purposeful being, it hadn't taken her long to move up in rank to an officer. And while she had been offered to become a commander, she politely declined. Thus she was shipped to Techno Island, the Techno headquarters, which on an old map was once called Tasmania.

Danni was happy there. It was a beautiful and natural place, most of the people were friendly, and she found working in the hospital therapeutic.

Today the hospital was quiet except for the machine monitoring her remaining patient's heart. Danni looked at the unconscious man lying before her. The yellow linens looked as if they could swallow him, he was so thin and pale in complexion. He was sporting a beard and mustache lying there and his hair had grown out quite a length since he first arrived in her care.

Kyra had dropped him off during a shipment months ago, but she hadn't cared to leave the man's name. She had ordered Danni to take care of him and insure he received proper medical attention.

He was obviously of some importance to the Technos or to Kyra, or both, but she didn't see how if he were in a coma.

"You have no clue who he is, do you?" Danni jumped. She was unaware she wasn't alone.

She turned to face Dragon, "Is it highly classified information?"

He nodded, "But for the right price I could tell you."

She rolled her eyes, "You're a pig," she pushed his arm from around her shoulders. He reminded her so much of Lex, only she feared Dragon's showboating was worse than her old acquaintance, if that were at all possible.

"One day you're going to wish you'd have given me a go."

Danni scrunched up her face in disgust, avoiding looking into his chocolate eyes, "In your dreams."

"Every night," he smirked, "That's why I think we should play things out in real life."

"Don't you have anybody else to harass?"

Before he could answer, someone else spoke, "Danni is my best doctor, I can't have you scaring her off like the others, Dragon."

The two turned to see Kyra standing there. She was tall in stature with cinnamon-brown skin and light brown, naturally curly hair that held great volume, even while swept into a sloppy pony-tail. Her chocolate eyes held no emotion, neither did her face.

"Welcome back sis. We weren't expecting you back so soon," Dragon spoke.

"Well plans changed. We lost Jaffa. He and two others managed to escape the Prison Camp there before we released the others. I hope they didn't die in the storms."

"What makes you think they would've drowned?" Dragon questioned his twin.

"Well when we went back to search the resort after the storms had cleared, it was deserted. All we found was a child's rattle."

Jaffa? Danni cringed. She hadn't heard that name in a long time. In fact, she strived everyday to forget it. She tried to forget anyone from her past existed, even Bray and especially her father, the creator of the virus that left the world in chaos.

She knew talking was still going on around her, but her mind had escaped her. It was Dragon who brought her back to the present.

"You look like you've seen a ghost," he shook her shoulders gently.

She shook her head, "I'm fine, I probably shouldn't have eaten Patsy's cooking this morning," she lied, though it was partly true.

"I reckon not, I don't know how to tell her this, but her dishes are…well…too different for my palette."

Danni rubbed her stomach, "Tell me about it."

Kyra by this time had taken out some supplies and was standing over the man lying in the hospital bed, "If you two are done…I say it's time we awakened our friend here, he's been sleep long enough."

~0~

It hadn't taken Ryan and Lex long to get reacquainted, even if things were different between them. They both had matured in tremendous ways, Ryan more than Lex. But their friendship was still alive.

"I still can't believe you and Khail are together, and having a kid," Lex told him over lunch.

"Believe me I pinch myself every morning I wake up next to her. I am glad she took me prisoner when she did."

"She took you prisoner?"

Ryan nodded, "Yeah. After escaping from The Guardian, I was taken hostage by Technos. I joined them, but you know me Lex, I'm a bit of a chucklehead. The Pirates were raiding us and I let my guard down too easily. Khail knocked me out and I woke up here on Fleur Isle. That woman is one tough chick."

"I don't need you tell me, believe me, I know."

They laughed, finishing up their lunch, and then Ryan began to speak again. "I may be a lucky man, but she's been kind of down lately, I want to do something special for her, and I need your help getting it together."

"What did you have in mind?"

"A party…but not just any kind of party, a baby shower."

Lex wanted to laugh. Two men organizing a baby shower? It was preposterous, but he held in the humor, "I'll tell you what, why don't we get Tai-San to help us."

"Good idea, we do need a feminine touch on this, just so long as Khail knows it was my idea."

Lex nodded, "I can't believe I am saying this, but maybe we could make it a surprise for Ebony too, she's been kind of down lately."

"Why? Do you owe her something?" the other man questioned.

"I don't owe her anything. I'm not doing it for her, but for Siva."

"That would be the dead sister?"

"Yeah. I've been kind of giving Ebony a hard time about Siva's death, but I know she takes it as hard as I do. A little baby shower might help cheer her up."

"You're a good man Lex!"

"Just don't mention to anyone it was my idea, okay?"

Ryan laughed, "You're a good man who just doesn't want anyone to know it."

"I've got a reputation to keep," Lex shrugged, standing, "I'm going to run this by Tai-San, not a word to anyone mate, I mean it."

Ryan made the motions of zipping his lips, locking them, and throwing away the key. Lex stared at him hard, giving him a stern eye before going in search of his wife. She was going to make fun of him for including Ebony as well, but unlike Ryan, he trusted her not to tell anyone else.

~0~

He opened his eyes as something stirred in him and he no longer felt trapped in a void of darkness. He took a few deep breaths, but was unable to move. His body felt like a dead weight, he couldn't even manage to lift a finger.

"Good morning," a woman with dark eyes hovered over him.

He fought to find his voice, but he had to pry apart chapped lips first. His mouth felt dry as a powder house but his raspy voice was audible when he spoke, "Where am I?"

"Alive thanks to me," Kyra smiled at him.

He tried again to sit up, but to no avail. A woman with dark hair came and propped him up slightly with a pillow, and gave him water, "Is that better."

He drank greedily nodding. The coolness of the water going down his throat was refreshing and awakened him. "Yes, thank you."

Danni nodded, "I am going to ask you a series of questions now. Answer them as best as you can."

He was confused. Why would she be asking him questions? Where am I? he thought looking around.

"Do you know where you are?"

"A hospital?"

"Correct. Do you know why you're here?"

"No."

"Do you know who you are?"

He searched his brain for memory, but all he could remember was the name Tai-San. It was a name he was sure was not his own. It was a female's name. Who she was? he didn't know.

"No… I don't."

"I'll take it from here Danni," Kyra stepped forward getting real close to the bed.

"You have amnesia, but I'm going to help you remember. Your name is Mega and I've re-programmed you. You had a vision Josh, a good one. You wanted to bring order and peace out of the ashes of the adult graves, but instead you were corrupted. I was going to leave you for dead, but everyone deserves a second chance, and you did something extraordinary."

"I did?"

"You saw the error of your ways Josh," she took his hand, "You saw the chaos created by this empire and you defeated a computerized Zoot to save the population. So I saved you. You were fine at first, but your body was too weak, you fell into a coma and I had to bring you here."

"How long have I been sleep…and where is here?"

"You were sleep almost a year and here is home. This is Techno Island, home of The Technos."