The sensors had recorded that a modified freighter attacked the ship. Readings had indicated that they had not managed to harm the other ship given the consistent reading of that shield. So the attackers could be anyone, the size of the ship indicated that there were probably a dozen or so attackers.

Sweeping through the ship proved to yield little. The mess hall had half eaten meals that were still warm and the living quarters had been intact. Drugs were still fully stocked in the med bay and their was a medical droid but the trio would find that the droid knew nothing beyond this room save for hearing things passing by that shouted out directions as people were rounded up.

When they got to the labs they found that it was fully stocked, nothing had been touched though from one they had thought that they heard a sneeze or some other muffled sound from the locker …

Krisna did here own odd ball things befor leaving the bridge, swiping that consol and gaining any noteworthy knowledge downloaded to the hummbug but as she was sure to hit any consols she passed on their way through the ship to search.

The mess hall yielded little results as did the living quarters and med bay besides the medical droid the trio encountered. Krisna was sure to swipe it too just becuse why not? befor catching back up to her lovers befor they made it to the labs.

The labs looked fully stocked, untouched by anyone as Krisna cursed her self for not having her omni tool as she took a quick look around the room. Moving around the large rectangular table to have a better look at all the neat stuff with dozens of scientific tool befor she passed a large lock on one end of the table only to suddenly jump being startled by a sound that came from inside.

" W-want was that!!" Krisna yelled afraid as she quickly moved to the other side of the table with Hope and Destiny.

Hope was going through the back of the lab when she heard the sund and whirled in that diretion, rifle pointing that way as she heard that sound coming from within. She would have used hand signals though realized that she was not with her fellow Sweepers.

“Open it,” she mouthed as she covered the locker.

Scorch heard the sound as well though she had not had any knowledge of hand signals and little in the way of reading lips it was obvious what Hope was trying to relay. Getting her plasma pistol ready she enured that Krisna was clear of the locker before moving to the side and opening it.

The count down was near complete at this stage, the engines had taken a bit to power up enough energy as the procedure was near complete the pause in the cycle meant that it had to begin anew once again.

She opened the locker and out spilled a blond in a lab coat and glasses her hair was shoulder length, her body drenched in sweat as she let out an 'Epp' if surprise as she was covered and immediately cringed as she expected the worse.

“Don't shoot!” She pleaded before realizing that these weren't the aliens that had been on the ship, the woman sounded like the one who sent the distress call in the first place, Dr. Evens?

She blinked up at the three, her gaze roaming to each as she rested there on her knees, blue eyes wide behind the lens of her glasses.

Krisna cleared out of the way of the locker door quickly, taking refugee behind Destiny for safty. Peeking from behind her lovers sholder nervous by what awaited them inside the lockdoor befor Hope gave the single to open it. Dessy move to one side of the locker while Hope was on the other while Krisna remained nervous standing infront of the locker befor she snapped out of it and fallowing Dessy to one side to watch befor the locker came swinging out.

The build up of nervous tension forced Krisna to scream out loud from behind her red hair lover (or is she blond?) as the locker cames swing open, the travler couldnt look as she covered her eyes afraid of what was hidden.

"GuhAHHH!! SHOOT IT!! SHOOT IT!!!" Krisna screamed, jumping up from behind her lover, screaming out in fear afther hearing the sqeek of the locker and the sound of a cute Eeep! IT WAS TERRORFING!!

"SHOOT IT!!Ahhh!!" Krisna screamed more, her blue eyes closed tightly befor the fearful travler opened them only to peek and see, being probly just as suprised to see a mousie looking blond sitting their on the floor infront of the locker gazing betwen the three. She looked tired and afraid or mybe clueless? covered in sweat like shes been inside the locker for a while as Krisna sighed from behind the safty of her Dessy shield.

"Oh...T-thank goodness....its only a cute girl...." Krisna said with a laugh befor she paused abruptly as if in deep thought. Afther amomment her face lite up as if realizing somthing very important and she looked at the new face then to the locker... "Wait? Are there more of you in there?" Krisna said sounding cmpletly seriouse befor she came out from behind her lover only to look inside the locker for more locker people. "Hello!? Anybody els here!?" Krisna's voice muffled from side the locker.

It showed that Krisna had lacked any form of training as she wanted them to shoot. She held her fire expecting the worse but hoping for the best as always. A woman tumbled out, her training kicking in to determine if she were armed though when she registered that this had to be one of the scientists she lowered the muzzle of the rifle so it was not pointing at her.

“Are you alright? What happened here?” Krisna seemed to be busy looking for others though Hope had figured that there was just her in their.

Fifteen minutes had not been too long but crammed into a tiny space she could only surmise that some of that sweat was from recent exertion too or maybe it was warmer cramped into a tiny space then she had though, this room's temperature didn't seem so bad.

(It's still blond since she dyed it as part of the disguise while they were at the base and they're still technically there)



Scorch too lowered her weapon shaking her head slightly at her lover who lacked the experience of doing things like this she imagined. To tell the truth the boarding party dealt with this sort of thing and when she embarked on a craft it was usually all cleaned up.

She shook her head a little a Krissy though not in disgust. “There are no more people in there,” she assumed though she did have a quick peek into the locker before paying attention to the area s no one snuck up on them and leaving Hope with the questions. It was her operation after all.

“Y-Yeah … I'm alright ...” Shelia answered. “I'm to only one ….” She assured Krisna. She breathed heavy sucking up fresher air.

“The others were taken … that lupine … and the aliens … they were after the drive we were transporting … Mercy, Murk, Mercer was his name -”

“MERCER!” Scorch exclaimed, her eyes wide, her head spinning in that direction. The drive had to be important if the crime lord was getting it himself rather then blackmailing her to do it. “What else do you remember?”

"You will be suprised! some times things are weord!" Krisna would say as she Investigated the locker for more.... locker people but afther a good peak inside she was sure that it was infact empty. But really it could not be said Krisna lacked expertise in this kinda of thing, no bodies seen her perform any thing remotly tactical but then agin she sure was no soldier.

"Thank goodness your ok!" Krisna would say as she turned to face the new comer. Doctor Evans she recalled from the distress signal as she camly approched, kneeling beside the distroat scientist as she struggled to catch her breath it seemed befor she come out with more information that shed some light on this mystery.

Aliens attacked the vessel, the trio knew this but Krisna was more intreasted about this drive about anything els but agin she recoild in suprise by a name that sounded strangly familure. "Mercer?" Krisna said out loud at the same time as her lover Destiny. Quickly flicker her eyes to her dyed blond lover as she seemed to be angered by this new information of this Mercer character. " Whats wrong?" Krisna would saylooking up to Destiny with a confused glare. "Whos Mercer?" Krisna asked.

That certainly drew some attention. As a Sweeper she had not been as versed in the MOST WANTED lists of some of the agents. She went where here team was assigned and cleared the area out of hostile beings, often aliens, sometimes pirates. Such knowledge had not mattered much to the agent though she ran the name through her memory.

Nope. Nothing there. She would have asked though Kris asked first. She glanced to Scorch seeing that she knew something that the pair had not. It looked as if matters were resolved so to speak save for the clean up and getting the doctor back to the base to check her over as a precaution.

If the other scientists were taken and the drive then another team was likely to be sent after this Mercer. She then recalled that it wasn't her ship out there and the surprised exclamation Scorch used so it was either stay put here with the doctor or be swept along. Hope waited for some answers ...

Even Doctor Evans paused as Scorch explained who Mercer was.

“He's the head of a powerful crime syndicate. He's got lots of wealth, lots of power and he's got my sister Selena. I tried to brake her out of his clutches once but that did not go so well. He could have had me enslaved at the time though I was more useful free getting things for him, fighting in the arenas throughout the galaxy often in fixed fights, whatever generated the most profit for him.

“He kept my sister to further blackmail me though this drive had to be important for him to come here himself. Normally he would have sent me to acquire it or a ton of his goons. He just had the one ship?”

Shelia nodded. “He refereed to a Selena, that she was still on his ship I gathered.” Scorch went wide eyed again, surprised by this, that Mercer was so exposed now for whatever reason. “I cannot say that there were no other ships out there. Things were a mess and I barley got hidden before he boarded. I was chased for a bit too, spent some time in the ventilation system until they decided to gas it to fore anyone out. Fortunately they got what they came for and with me managing to elude them as well as get that transmission out they were pressed for time.

“Some of them came in here and I heard them. They were with Mercer, one guy kept calling him the Esteemed and Most Exultant Mercer, the other one just called him Boss. They stole some of my notes on the drive though I wasn't sure that they left and remained in here. I could hear them speaking about the drive and collecting data on it. But it's only one of tw -”

Zero. The energy field surrounded the ship and it launched it into subspace through space and time so the trip was instantaneous. Scorch's ship still where it was, the docking tube connecting the vessels destroyed leaving 92 to scramble and close down the area as the hull was breached.

The back up drive had been activated, the navigator had tried to get them away but the count down to charge up the drive which was fried now took longer then they had, the idea was to get someplace that Mercer could not follow.

Currently the trio had no idea where they were …

“DAMN! We launched! My theories have yet to be tested but this isn't good!”

Krisna looked between both Shelia and Dessy as the two both gave their storys. Recalling that name now, Mercer was that bad man she works for, the one who had her sister Krisna remainber as she gazed up at Destin. " Do you think we can still catch him? " Krisna asked seriously as she stude up from Shelias side befor looking back down to her as she began to talk about what happened on board the ship, how Mercer and his crew collected anything and everything on this mystery drive incuding the scientists them selfs but as she reached the end of her story Krisna eyes grew wide, her brain processing the words befor they even left Shelias lips almost knowing what was going to happen. "Theres two?"

"UHOH!!.." Krisna said nervously befor she quickly ran to to door way shouting. "NO NO NO NO!!" Befor the ship suddenly launched and who was left on board was thrusted back from the recoil of the engines jetting off as Krisna was knocked to the ground and throw back agiest te large lab table.

The jump was quick as they came out of sub space safely as Krisna pulled her self off the ground onto her hands and knees and looked to Shelia quickly crawling to her to her quickly to take the blond by the callor of her blouse. "WERE IS THE DRIVE!!" Krisna screamed but she didnt sound angry more scared as she shook Shelia for the where abouts of the device. " please! Quickly take me to it!"

She had been piecing together what was being said when all of a sudden she was thrown to the deck plating of the ship. “What was that?!” She picked herself up having a few bruises though nothing serious, her gaze shifting to draw in Shelia and Kris as she blinked.

Second drive? What was going on here?

The ship launched for a few seconds and yet the distance it covered was enormous. There had been some damage now from where it tore away from the docked craft and Scorch had pulled herself up t her feet by the table.

“Mercer is the guy I was telling you about earlier, the one that has my sister,” Scorch confirmed though with that jolt she would have to check the damage to the drive to see what damage was done.

Krissy approached Shelia getting the scientist up to her feet. She nodded before she lead the trio to the engineering section.

“Yeah, there were two drives. We set one up as a back up here encase of emergency and the other was being transported, which Mercer took.”

When they got to Engineering the back up drive had been switched on and now a smoking heap, having been burnt out to Shelia's dismay. At first the doctor just stood there and blinked. “Nooooooo ...”

She slumps down but seems to pull it together only with some prompting by Scorch.

“You don't understand … we're stuck ...”

“What do you mean? We're s close, we have t figure out how to get to Mercer. I got to figure out how to get my sister back!”

“We are stuck between here and there. We got to fix the drive if we are ever to get out of this dimension.”

“Dimension?”

Doctor Evans nodded. “We just went through a worm hole connecting our dimension with theirs. A bridge … that is the best explanation. We are stuck n that bridge and the door to either side has been slammed shut … we are both here and not here. From our earlier tests we are where the Xagi exist, mindless creatures directed by a great force ...”

Helping Shelia to her feet Krisna quickly moved her along, not wanting to doddle as the fate of their lifes ment ever possible seciond was precious. But Krisna could not help but sigh as Shelia explained the driver, what were these people thinking. "Why would you install a functional worm hole driver as a back up!... do you realize what kind of energy it draws! I'm suprsed the lights are even still on..." Krisna shouted at Shelia as the four girls quickly moved to engieering department to check the damage

Once there the four enter the engine room they saw the drive. A some what large and intraget device now shattred, smoking in a heep of broken parts and magled sparkig wires. Krisna along with Shelia gazed at the machine only to sigh with little sound of annoyance as she slowly approched to look over the the device from a safe enough distance, waving away smoke befor going just a little closer. "Oh no.... its fryed.....umm...The phase strainer is shattered, the power cuplink is melted, the smasher is just gone... this isnt good. " Krisna rambled on as she peaked at the drive befor moving a panel and looking inside afther carfully moving some wires aside to take a closer look as she partialy entered the machine, her rear end still on the outside.

"Goddess this is bad....*choff*... ehh...well this might still work....huhmpp...errh!" Krisna would grunt befor there was what sounded like a loud snapp of metal and befor she arfully crawled back out hugging a large component agiest her chest. Krisna appeared to tug out a sphereical innernal device covered in cube like riddged 1/2 inch blocks as Krisna seemed to examining it afther taking a seat on the floor by the drive.

"What she means if the driver is defective.... It closed befor we made it through the rift and now we are stuck.... but hay! the good news is the gravity well didnt crush us.... so theirs that." Krisna stated while examining the device she pryed from the wrecked drive..

Worm holes? She did not understand all the science more the point and shoot or in her case slash sort of agent. Now they were who knows where, the lights here hadn't dimmed though they were already dim in the corridor s she did not know about power drain.

She swallowed though with the explanation. “Xagi ...” That was all that she truly needed to understand, not the whole dimension between dimensions, just that they were not fully in one reality or the next, whatever that meant …

She dealt with the things before and closed down a bridge that a team of scientists opened. She might have been immune to their aphrodisiac but they were dangerous. Did the others know? Her grasp on her rifle tightened so much that her hands went white.

“This isn't good. The Xagi are relentless … but they have a weakness in electricity from my last encounter with them. They also have slime attacks that can immobilize prey and from my understanding some that acts as an aphrodisiac … I am immune to it … I was born addicted to it or some other creature's aphrodisiac and I'm immune to them and pheromones. The Sarge even made a Serum out of my blood though I have no idea how -”

She was babbling but that was what she did when she was afraid such as now. She needed to say more but what was there? What wouldn't alarm the girls much. “Grenades where effective in taking out a lot of them at once too ...”

Then as if it just dawned on her was Kris had just said. “Gravity well … oh man … OK so what now?”