"Of course." She said directly and made a move to release her side arm.
"Commander Crichton, we have a small problem." Pilot's voice echoed from
behind him.
"What is it Pilot?" Aeryn was the one to step up and ask.
"It seems, Moya can not close the bay doors." The pilot said mildly
surprised.
"What do you mean she can't close the bay door, the drd's repaired that
door." D'argo said, now stepping towards him.
"Actually the drds were called to another duty." Pilot replied simply.
"Rygel." D'argo huffed. "What did you do you little Hynerian toad?" He said
grasping him from the ear, as so often everyone did.
"I didn't know her sister would show up with peacekeepers, how the yutz was
I suppose. I needed my bunk repaired." He squealed.
"Got ta, get that rest sparky, you might have just made it permanent." John
replied. "Are the prowlers docking on Moya?"
"Yes there are two already in the process." Pilot said his arms quickly and
effortless moving over his control center.
"Zhaan, call the kid tell him we need help." John said as he turned to his
kid and picked her up. "Time for you to play with pilot." John said heading
from Moya's command.
Aeryn started to follow, when her sister caught her arm . "Aeryn I really
didn't know."
"Like John said, then help us." She pulled free to find her husband and
daughter.
Tayln's lights continued to flash, giving Chianna cause to believe there
was more then her absence to complain about. She walked over to the control
panel and switched on the communicator. Zhaan's voice flooded Tayln's
command. "Chianna, where are you?" Her voice pleaded .
"Zhaan, I 'm here, what's......" Chianna's voice trailed off as Tayln began
starburst, throwing her and her packages to the command floor. "Frell." She
said as her packages collided all around her.
"I will protect her with my own life." He said as the little girl with the
black bobbing ponytail was placed into his arms.
"Thank you Pilot." Aeryn said moving towards him to brush one of his arms.
"You do as Pilot says." John ordered to his daughter.
"Yes, I will." She smiled bravely, even though she wished she was still in
bed, suddenly it didn't so bad to be there.
"We'll be back." Aeryn said knowing her daughter's thoughts as if they were
her own.
"You ready?" John turned to Aeryn.
She nodded and they left pilot's chamber.
"Well I just hope Mom and Dad kick butt fast, I'm suppose to be in bed."
She said sternly and mostly to herself.
"John, I've made contact with Tayln." Zhaan's voice came over the
communicator.
"Good news." John smiled.
"Commander Crichton, they are heading straight for your tier." Pilot
replied.
"Bad news." John said losing the smile as he the others ducked behind a
bend in the tier.
"What the frell." Chianna said as Tayln came out of starburst into a field
of prowlers.
"Thank the Goddess." Zhaan said as she caught sight of Tayln through Moya's
command view. No sooner had she said those words when one of the prowlers
fired on Moya. The leviathan rocked from the blast, Zhaan grabbed hold of
the command as did Rygel behind her.
"Did you see that Tayln." Chianna said through narrowing eyes. "Go get him.
he hit your mother."
Tayln's guns flared at his sides and a maze of bright fire and blaze shot
out through the darkness of space, turning that prowler and others into
fireballs.
They had taken the peacekeepers by surprise, but the battle had just begun.
"Did they just fire on Moya." John yelled over blasts as he returned fire
on the peacekeepers. "Are they freak in crazy, their own people are on
here."
"They're peacekeepers Crichton." D'argo said as he swung around the bend
firing.
"They're not trying to destroy Moya, only disable her." Alana said between
blasts.
"That sounds better." John smirked.
"We can't keep this up." Braden said as he changed cartridges in his gun.
"Then lets not." Aeryn smiled and looked at her sister, who smiled and
nodded back. Before anyone could say a word, Aeryn and Alana ran straight
on into the blasts and fired continuously, managing to avoid the blasts and
take out two peacekeepers as they dove into another bend of the tier.
"Are you out of you freak in mind?" John yelled and swung back missing a
blast, that flew right past his face.
"Not today." Aeryn smiled and so did Alana.
"Not today." John mimicked, "During a gun battle you decide to get funny."
He swung around firing. "You and I are really going to talk."
"Promise." Aeryn said as she to swung around firing.
"Sebecean women." John muttered to himself.
"Tell me about it." D'argo and Braden replied at the same time.
"Aeryn." Alana said. "The air duct." She looked over at the duct's grate.
"Sister Shadow." Aeryn smiled and they moved towards the air duct.
"Where the hell did they go?" John said when he no longer saw Aeryn or her
sister.
"Frell." Braden muttered, when he couldn't see Alana.
"I hope they got a plan." D'argo growled. Blast fire all around them.
Aeryn slowly removed the grate and Alana, counted to three. They jumped
down, taking the peacekeepers by surprise, they fired.
"Dammit." John swore as he saw Aeryn and Alana He , Braden and D'argo took
the opportunity, the peacekeepers backs were turn, they stepped out and
began firing.
Aeryn and Alana took yet another dive, when the men began to fire. By the
time they straightened up it was over. The peacekeepers were all down.
Aeryn walked out followed by Alana. "Sister shadow." She smiled and they
linked hands in victory.
"Nice Job." John said looking at Aeryn. "A little warning might have been
nice." He said a little ticked.
Aeryn only raised her eyebrows and smiled.
An arn later they were all standing on Moya's command.
"How many things did you buy?" D'argo asked Chianna leaning in close.
"I think you should ask, what I bought." She smiled.
"Are they still angry with me?" Rygel asked Zhaan.
"Rygel, I am amazed that they haven't chosen to make space your new home."
She replied softly.
"What will you tell high command, when you return?" Aeryn asked her sister.
"That we never came in contact with Moya, Tayln engaged us first." Braden
supplied.
"Are you sure?" John asked them both. "There's always room for two more."
"We can be more help to you, if we keep in contact with the underground."
Braden said.
"We'll take care of the other prowlers." John said thinking of Tayln and a
little target practice.
"We've already checked them for transmissions, they never informed high
command." Braden said.
"We will see each other again." Aeryn stepped close and hugged her sister,
who was monetarily surprised. Emotions, especially public displays were
unusual for her, but she returned the hug.
"Yes, we will sister shadow." Alana whispered.
They walked up to Pilot softly and leaned over his control panel to see
their daughter sound asleep.
"She's our kid all right." John whispered. "She's also got the right idea."
He said sinking down to the floor.
Aeryn took a seat next to him, placing her head on his shoulder.
"What did that whole sister shadow thing, mean?" He asked leaning his head
against hers.
"Its the password we used to use, we would sneak through the air ducts, on
what ever command carrier we were on, when were kids." Aeryn smiled at the
memory. "When we reached a safe place, and would hide waiting for the
other, we needed something to know it was each other."
"Not much family life." John said softly.
"I have one now." She smiled moving closer and closing her eyes and maybe
someday she would have even more. Her sister.
The End.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters and I have no intention of doing
anything illegal with this story. It was written strictly for fun.
Copyright2000: Stowaway wrote it. JMC.
"So are you going to help us?" John Crichton
looked intently at Alana , his newly discovered sister-inlaw.
"Oh, come on Tayln, I wasn't on the planet for very long." Chianna said as
Tayln's flashing red lights complained at her long absence. She had been
shopping as usual and it didn't amuse Tayln anymore then it did any of the
others on Moya.
John handed Arianna over to Pilot. "Pilot.."
Pilot had placed Arianna beneath his control panel, she looked up at him
wide eyed. "I don't like this." She said softly.
"I have never liked it Arianna Crichton." He said as he returned to his
control panel.
John, Aeryn, D'argo, Alana and Braden made their way down one of Moya's
tiers, towards her bay. "Ok, Pilot now would be a good time to give us a
location on our friendly neighborhood peacekeepers." John said into his
communicater.
"Quiet." Pilot said as John and Aeryn entered his chamber.