Untitled, Chapter 2

emoras: Thanks for your review. The long awaited chapter has arrived : ) I hope you like it.

Benesound: I must say I had always hoped she would be! Harper would have been great with Rommie!

"…" speech

'…' thought

You can't outrun Death forever, but you can make the bastard work for it. – Major Korgo Korgar

'I knew I should have paid more attention to that feeling!' Rommie thought to herself as the Andromeda Ascendant began to spiral out of control, again. The Andromeda had just entered slipstream when it began to buckle. The ship had lost power and was taking heavy damage. There was no hope in trying to navigate slipstream, they just wanted to get out.

"There is a vortex up ahead," Andromeda yelled over the commotion to her captain, Dylan Hunt.

"Do we know where it leads?" asked Dylan as he held on to her to prevent himself from falling.

"I have no idea Dylan. All I can decipher is that there is a time difference on the other side. I can't tell anymore than that. But Dylan, if we keep this up, the ship will be in pieces before we can get out, as will we.

Alright Beka, take us into the vortex, and lets hope we can find a way back from there.

"Ugh, that was one ugly vortex," said Beka as she tried to stand back up. The entire bridge ( AN: I don't know what they call it, so I used bridge. If you know the right name, please tell me) was in smoke, and the crew on the ground in various shades of injury.

"How exactly can a vortex be ugly?" asked Tyr in his usual condescending way as he brushed himself of. The Nietzschean had managed to remain uninjured during the entire ride.

'Stupid genetically engineered I'm-better-than-you jerk' Beka thought to herself as she looked for the other members of the crew. "Dylan," she said as she found him and turned him over. He had a large head wound. "He needs to go to Med Deck," Beka called to Tyr.

"As do Trance and the Magog. Rommie will also need repairs," Tyr replied as he lifted Trance up and dragged Rev behind him as they headed for the doors. "And the ship will need extensive repairs before we can even think about going anywhere."

As it turns out, when your chief medical officer is among the injured, it is very hard to heal anyone else. Beka and Tyr didn't even know what half of the things in Med Deck did, let alone how to use them properly.

The ever logical Tyr said, "We will need to get Harper. He can fix Rommie, who can heal the rest of them."

"Alright, Harper," she called over the intercom (AN: I don't know what that's called either.) The duo were met with no reply. "Where the hell is he?" asked Beka just as they both came to a realization. "Slipstream core!" they shouted together and took off down the hall to try and find the missing member of their crew.

When they found the slipstream drive, the doors were fused closed. Tyr set to work on repairing Andromeda so she could open it. Beka, meanwhile, had taken to talking to the door to an unresponsive Seamus Harper.

"Why are you whispering those incessant words of comfort?"

"Because he's in there alone Tyr and likely hurt. I don't want him to be scared. I want him to know we're coming for him."

"The boy will surely know that we are trying to get him out without all of the annoying words from you."

"Annoying to a Nietzschean maybe, but comforting to a human. So you go back to repairing Andromeda while I deal with the human aspect of this," replied Beka as she went back to whispering through the door.

A few moments later there was a sound of triumph as Tyr finished fixing the ship's AI. The door swung open to reveal…nothing. There was extensive damage, but no Seamus Harper.

"Ship!" Tyr called angrily. "Where's Harper?"

"Harper is not on board," replied Andromeda.

"Then where the hell is he?" shouted Beka.

Unknown was the only reply they got.

There ends chapter 2. I hope you liked it and I hope that unknown is not the only reply I get. hint hint. I hate cliffhangers, so I thought I'd try one. Twisted logic I know.

I am going to work on trying to update once or twice a week but if you'd like updates more frequently, than review or email me and tell me and I may be able to increase the frequency of updates.