Wormhole For Dummies

Author: Mark Nixon
E-mail: marknix2000@hotmail.com
Rating: I would think 12a (pg-13) with some mild sexual references.
Spoilers: Well only if you haven’t seen season three.
Notes: This episode takes place shortly after “Crichton Kicks”. Also please e-mail me to tell me what you think! I forgot to mention that in my other story “Loose ends”.
Summary: The dieing Leviathan takes Crichton, Chiana and Rygel to a planet where they think the rest of Moya’s crew may be…

“Commander it has been a pleasure,” the female pilot said through the communicator on Johns Module “Fly safe Commander John Crichton…”

“Thank-You for everything you’ve done for us…this is John Crichton signing out…” The communicator clicked off, and as the Leviathan flew away gracefully John’s Module started to fly towards to planet along with a transport pod, which carried Rygell, Chiana and Sikozu. John had emptied the fuel in one of the Leviathan’s transport pods to fuel his module; he had also started to wear his Peacekeeper like uniform. They hoped they would find Aeryn at the planet and if all went well some how find the where about of where Ka D’argo had gone.

As the two small ships flew closer toward the planet one thing caught the glimpse of the Astronaut’s sight, a Wormhole…

“Chiana, Rygell, Sikozu! Is it me or is that a…”

“Oh Yotz!” Rygell cried.

John’s voice shrunk to an excitable whisper, “Wormhole…” a smile crept along his face.

*

A Bright blast of red light flew across the clearing it was soon returned with two more coming from the opposite direction.

“Officer Sun! I offer you no harm!”

“That’s funny you just returned my fire!” Aeryn Sun crouched on top of a grassy hill holding a pulse pistol; she was in a vast countryside. The countryside was near to a Lake and was populated by grassy hills all standing unorganised around the country.

Apart from the two battling no signs of life could be seen what so ever.

Aeryn waited for a few minutes to see if more crossfire would follow, “Scorpius: show your self! A Peacekeeper would never be so cowardly!”

While trying not to make a sound, Scorpius crawled down a steep hill; he also carried a Peacekeeper Pulse pistol.

“Scorpius!” Aeryn shouted whilst scanning the area for any sign of the enemy “Scorpius you coward!”

Scorpius had reached to bottom of the hill; he now stood by a lake and smiled, “ Officer Sun, I approached you under a flag of peace!” a rock fell own the hill above him and he held his Pulse Pistol at arms length. “So this is how you treat peace is it?”

Aeryn Jumped down from on top of the hill but as soon as she could be seen Scorpius fired two bright red shots from his Pulse pistol and hit her shoulder, Aeryn rolled helplessly down the hill to Scorpius’s feet…

*

As Johns pod flew closer the wormhole seemed more promising, unlike most wormholes he had seen this one did not bob from side to side it just stood still glistening.

John’s face started to light up and for a few minutes he stared at the blue light. Soon he spring into action flicking switches around him to scan the wormhole.

Suddenly the Human felt the pod shake and as quickly as a Leviathan in starburst he and his pod where sucked into the wormhole.

Blue light shone all around John, deeper and deeper he was pulled into the Wormhole occasionally rotating, soon the pod stopped moving and hovered in one spot; John grabbed the control sticks and the pod was once again under his control.

Sikozu commed the astronaut. “Crichton are you, are you ok?” For a moment all she got was static.

“YEEEEEEE-HAH! Hey folks! Guess what?” Crichton yelled loudly.

“All right, all right you’ve had your fun!” Rygell managed to shout over the coms.

“Sparkey! This wormhole is STABLE! S-T-A-B-L-E stable!”

Chiana pushed Rygell away from the communicator “Crichton, where’re looking for Aeryn, D’argo and Moya not Wormholes. We can barely keep away from this frelling thing without being pulled in so we’re keeping our distance.”

“Pip, listen this Wormhole is stable maybe I can find traces of Moya if there’s…” John paused a red light flashed above him.

“John?” Chiana started to worry, “Crichton?”

“No, this can’t be right...” Crichton looked out the view screen of his module while several more lights started to flash around him.

“Crichton!?!”

“Chi! My sensors are detecting another ship…”

“Moya?”

“No, something bigger.” John couldn’t see any ship but his sensors said one was approaching fast. He turned his module around and stated to head back for the entrance. “Chiana I’m coming back, there’s a ship coming I don’t know what…”

Soon John caught sight of the entrance and his pod zoomed out with a flash of blue light, the Transport pod hovered near the entrance of the Wormhole…

John’s Module turned around to face the Wormhole along side the pod; soon a shadow set across the Wormhole entrance and out of it flew a colossal ship, a Peacekeeper Command Carrier.

*

Scorpius knelt by the lake his coolant system opened, he needed a new coolant rod and had resorted to taking at out his used one and dipping it into the cold water every now and again. He had dismantled Aeryn’s Pulse Pistol and used the battery to improve the use of his coolant system so for a short time he could get more out of the used coolant rod. Soon he put the old coolant rod back into the system and he cringed as it drilled its way back into his brain.

Aeryn awoke to find her gun wounds bandaged up with some torn cloth of her trousers. “I don’t know whether to thank you.”

“Officer Sun, my apologies for the inconvenience,” he paused “ but you left me no other option.” Scorpius’s head gave a slight twitch, the coolant system wouldn’t work for much longer.

Aeryn tried to get up but fell strait back down “ Ok then, what do you want?”

“I want to negotiate.”

Aeryn interrupted “You? Talk?!? Did you ever let John talk?”

“I’ve done in the past what I’ve thought necessary…The information he hold locked in his brain was vital to the galaxy’s survival.” Scorpius turned away as continued to talk as he opened his coolant system and repeated as he had done before. “I had to get to him by any means possible.”

“By trying to kill us?”

Scorpius’s Scarran voice arose and he scowled at Aeryn “ To kill the Scarrans! They can do far worse than me! If Crichton hadn’t tried to avoid me most the things I have done wouldn’t have happened!” Scorpius calmed down and his soft evil voice returned “So as you can see Officer Sun I’ve had a reason.”

“What now then? Hm? Hold me hostage? Kill me?

“Neither!” Scorpius paused and smiled “ You see thanks to Crais my Command Carrier is gone and if I return to Peacekeeper jurisdiction then I will be most definitely killed by the commandant.”

“So why should I care?”

“Officer Sun,” he paused “I offer you a deal.” Scorpius gave an evil smile.

*

The module: Farscape 1 and the Transport Pod flew down towards the planet as the Command Carrier followed, the two small ships started to enter to planet’s atmosphere then the Carrier broke pursuit and seven prowlers perused after exiting to carrier.

“Why are they following us?” Sikozu shouted.

Before John could answer Chiana did it for him “Because there’s wanted beacons everywhere for us offering a large bounty! Plus there’re Peacekeepers”

“Why haven’t they launched there’re Fragg cannons?” Rygell asked over the coms.

“Sparkey I’m just glad they didn’t! Hey who’s driving over your end?”

One prowler fired twice at the transport pod so it took a few seconds for Rygell to answer “ That Sikozu girl, apparently she studied flying too.”

“People have you scanned them have you seen what’s implanted along their hull?”

“No…” Jool replied.

“They have Phase stabilisers. That means they can travel through wormholes! So this means.”

Sikozu interrupted. “That the Galaxy is in some serious dren.”

Suddenly Crichton’s head felt light his eyes flickered then his brain tingled and new information flowed into his brain, he saw a bright blue light, he had now pieced some more Wormhole information together.

“Sparkey, tell her to meet me down on the planet at coordinates…” John scanned the area for any Sebacean life signs, “Two four, nine eight In half an arn.”

“Were are you going?”

“I’m saving your ass”! John clicked the communicator off. John turned the pod around and flew toward the carrier. None of the prowlers followed him but that was the plan, he now understood a little more about Wormholes and smiled to himself.

Chiana commed John “Crichton what are you doing?”

“You’ll see.” He said and once again ending the conversation.

He flew strait past the carrier at top speed to avoid getting hit and headed for the Wormhole, he flew in circles around the edges of it. The Wormhole fed off the Module’s excess fuel and gravitational pull suddenly it grew bigger; it started to pull the command carrier in slowly, the large ship could do nothing to stop it.

All the Prowlers following to Transport pod broke pursuit and headed for Crichton.

“We did it John! We did it!” Harvey sat behind John with a wild grin across his face.

“Listen Harv, I only know how to make them bigger, you know: what makes them more powerful. I think though because of this great pull it might tear the command carrier apart when it gets pulled in too far. I haven’t unlocked all of it yet.”

“Yes but this is one step further towards it all! HOORAH!”

“Shut-up! I have to get rid of these guys now with some John Crichton-like expert Wormhole training…”

Harvey suddenly wore a fighter pilot mask; he stuck his thumb to John and smiled.

John’s Module flew in circles out side the Wormhole waiting for the Prowlers because of the module moving and at a distance away; it could not be pulled in.

“Now, let’s hope these prowlers still can’t take Wormhole travel… Hey harv.”

Harvey unclipped his breather mask “Yes John?”

“Is this an original Peacekeeper command carrier?” He paused to laugh. “Man it seems a bit sloppy!”

“I doubt it john, you see the Prowlers are too disorganised to be Peacekeeper and Peacekeepers would have developed a better plan to defeat you than Prowlers.”

“So who do you think it is?

“I don’t know obviously these people know something about wormholes… Could it be the Pathfinders?”

“No idea... Here they come!”

John flew strait into the Wormhole and the Prowlers followed, after about five minutes of being chased John few out of the Wormhole again and was not followed.

There was a crackle over the Communicator then a deep voice followed “Alien ship we are willing to negotiate if you stop the Wormhole.”

“No, no, no you don’t get it I’m running to show you have a quarter arn until you are swallowed so we’ll talk now …”

A single Marauder was released from the carrier and headed for the planet. “Release us our I will order that Marauder to kill your Crew!”

Harvey looked at John and whispered into his ear “ I don’t trust them talk now, pretend like you’re friends could easily take care of them.”

“Command Carrier: we’ll talk now or never.”

There was a pause “Very well but quickly or your crew will exist no longer…”

“Fine, who are you?”

“We are all ex-peacekeepers.”

“Wait a minute my friend was going to join you!”

“Officer Aeryn Sun?”

“Yeah.”

“We where arranging to meet her at these coordinates.”

“Why did you leave the Peacekeepers?”

“We have been treated badly by our-ex superiors we escaped and then, we met a mechanic named Ferlow who sold us our Wormhole knowledge.” Crichton smiled he had always wondered where Ferlow had gone after what he had been told by Aeryn. “She joined us.”

“This just keeps getting better and better!” John shouted.

“Ferlow spoke over the comms “Hey Johnny, thanks to you I’m now pretty rich, and powerful as well, these guys err treat me very well.”

She was interrupted by Crichton “Ferlow you big bitch! You screwing these guys or what?”

“Err John I’ve achieved what very few have.”

“Yeah, and you know what?”

“What’s that John?”

“Your times up!”

“No!”

“That’s right baby!”

“John we need time to recharge the Stabiliser! We’ll die!”

“Not if you don’t escape! You’re so screwed man!”

“John! John! You’ll destroy something I can’t recreate! John! JOHN!” There was a pause “We have Moya!”

“What?”

“We have been destroying all Pathfinder ships to avoid competition…”

“Yeah?”

“Well Moya has a pathfinder beacon so to a scanner she’s a pathfinder ship. So we err found her, opened a Wormhole, swallowed her up but before we launched her into a star (which is err what we do to all enemy ships) we noticed who she was and just kept her.”

“You mean imprisoned!”

“Probably, what ever you call it.”

Soon another Wormhole opened and Moya was pushed out and as quickly as it had been opened it closed with a bright blue flash.

“Now release us!”

“Ferlow! You can’t be trusted!

“JOHN! LISTEN TO ME JOHN! JOHN!”

“Bye Bye now!” John and Harvey both smiled.

The Command Carrier was pulled in completely by the Wormhole, its hull started to breach and fly off bit-by-bit. Soon the entire ship had slit in two and it didn’t take long enough for it to implode in a massive blast, which pushed Crichton’s module away. The explsion forced the Wormhole to close with a bright blue light, it quickly dispersed.

“WELL DONE JOHN!” Harvey shouted then the two gave each other a high five.

*

Scorpius Fired continually at the two ex-Peace keepers with his pulse pistol, they fired back so he took refuge behind the hill.

“So let’s think” Aeryn said to him, still injured “If we let you stay on Moya even if you’re locked away you’ll help John by removing the neural clone and give us maps of Peacekeeper Jurisdiction?”

“Indeed” Scorpius stood up again and managed to kill both solders this time.

“Well,” she groaned as she sat up “John won’t like it but I’ll ask him.”

Scorpius smiled “Now, officer Sun.” Scorpius smiled thinking his following act would win Aeryn’s trust. “Stay here while I go help your friends, if it was their transport pod.”

“No!” She stood up with difficulty “I don’t trust you fully yet I’m coming with you.”

After about ten minutes of walking the two found the transport pod, it was indeed Aeryn’s friends seeing as Chiana battled two Peacekeepers outside, Scorpius ran over and shot the two men from behind.”

“Aeryn! It’s Scorpius!” Chiana shouted.

“Kill the frelling Basted!” Rygell shouted.

Scorpius snarled as Chiana aimed her Pulse Rifle and with a blast of red light she shot Scorpius’s Knee Cap, the explosion sent him flying.

Aeryn managed to Catch up to the pod “Chiana don’t shoot him again,” Aeryn looked down at the wounded Scorpius and smiled “Let’s just find everyone else.”

Scorpius laid on the floor cradling his injured knee and snarled at Chiana while Rygell, Chiana and Aeryn started to laugh.

*

“No Officer Sun, we where not harmed,” Pilot smiled “ It is good to see you all here.”

John, Chiana, Sikozu, Aeryn, the old woman: Noranti, Jool and Rygell and stood around Pilot in his den.

“By the way Aeryn, where are not a bed and breakfast! I don’t care what Scorpius did for you guys down there on the Uncharted Territory’s version of Scotland but no!” Crichton shouted.

“John, we’ll discus it later.” Aeryn replied.

John rolled his eyes “It is good to see you all here though. Where is Scorpius any way?”

Chiana smiled “I handcuffed his arms behind his back and put him in a cell a DRD is watching him.”

“For the love of God will someone please feed me? I haven’t eaten in days!” Rygell shouted.

John hit him over the head “Shut-up Sparkey! Aeryn later we NEED to talk.”

All of the crew talked for a while then left to enjoy a long awaited meal, Moya started to fly away for a commerce planet so the crew could re-stock.

John sat outside Scorpius’s cell holding a Pulse Pistol, for a while the two had stared at each other for ages until finally Scorpius spoke “I’ve no intention of hurting you John, I mean look at me!” he turned his head to John could see ooze running from his coolant system. “John if I don’t get help soon, I will die…”

“Listen Scorpy Jool says she’ll help you, she’s a doctor of some kind but I’ve said only if you’re a good boy…”

The two returned to staring at each other their eyes locked in sight.

Scorpius thought to himself.  Everything, gone, gone, all thanks to this man and here I am seeking his help. I’m Helpless. As annoying as it may be I’m totally dependant on his kindness, all my dreams are gone; and the Scarrans are free to rule the galaxy…

THE END