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(By Hull_Lass) Rating: PG This is just a random story that I’ve set after ‘Bad Timing’ and John & Aeryn have been reconstituted. There is no spoilerage for Peacekeeper Wars in this fic…..well not that I know of anyway. This is my first attempt at fanfic. So I’m still learning).
The next chapters:
Space….the final frontier…..this is the record of Commander John Crichton. His on-going mission…..
Harvey sits on a box, wearing a gold jersey and stupid looking half-mast trousers in the Maintenance Bay
“Harvey!!! Will you get the hell out of my goddam brain!!!!
“Aeryn comes up behind John to console him. She always seems to know when the neural clone is making a visit in John's head as his face becomes more strained and tensed along with the rest of his body).
“John, John come on, snap out of it!! John are you alright?”
“Whoa, What’s happened? What’s gone frelling south now?” John turns around and sees her, the former peacekeeper commando, turned renegade and about to become ‘his wife’.
‘His wife’, hell now that’s the Uncharted Territories, he’s been brain-chipped, statueized, mind cleansed (the temporary type), neutralised and now reconstituted and he’s about to take Aeryn as his wife. (If the frelling universe doesn’t screw things up first).
“John are you ok?” She asked
“Oh yeah Aeryn he’s just back again, driving me nuts as normal.” Smiling as he saw her. They were on Moya, the leviathan vessel that was a prison transport, and has now become their home.
For so many cycles it was John’s goal, no, his obsession to go back to Earth, to go home. But when he finally did go home, he realised that his home was not with his family or friends or the place where he grew up, but with Aeryn, wherever she went, whatever she did, that would be home, and that would be good enough for him.
He kissed the bump on her belly gently and smiled, thanking god for this woman and was about to kiss her when Pilots face came on the clamshell. "Commander Crichton, Officer Sun, you are both needed on command." His voice sounded urgent as if something huge had happened.
A quarter arn later John & Aeryn both arrived on command and saw that D’Argo, Chiana, & Rygel (Noranti was in the galley making dinner) were already there looking astonished, as if they had seen a ghost.
‘Yo Cap’n D what’s up”? John asked in a very bad scottish accent, (trying to mimic a certain chief engineer from a well known earth tv programme).
“Ummm take a look for yourself’ came the reply.
As Crichton looked out at the approaching vessel, he could not believe it. The vessel was a Leviathan, nearly as big as Moya, but it was visibly different from any other Leviathan. How could it?? No, it couldn’t be,
"Pilot, is this one of Ulams friends? Are they here to finish us?" He asked.
"Negative commander. All readouts confirm that it is, is, Talyn!"
John was shocked "How the hell can it be Talyn, Pilot? The last time we saw him was on Scorpys’ command carrier going into starburst?"
"Moya confirms that it is Talyn as well."
"And we buried his remains in the leviathan burial ground.” Chiana added.
“How the hell is he / it here?”
D’Argo went to the communications console “Leviathan vessel, please identify yourself”.
I READ YOU LOUD AND CLEAR CAPTAIN D’ARGO…… HELLO MOTHER
* Astonishment *
Chiana looks around and the expression on her crewmates faces are all the same, shock, how can Talyn talk, let alone be here with them now!!
‘Ummmmm he’s really grown.’
HELLO OFFICER SUN, COMMANDER CRICHTON, I REQUEST THAT YOU COME ABOARD
‘Whoa, whoa, hold your horses!’ Crichton butted in, ‘Talyn, how are you here?’
COME ABOARD AND I WILL TELL YOU!
‘Ummmmmmm no, not until we get some answers.’
Aeryn came to the console. "Talyn, can you tell us what happened to you?"
Aeryn knew that Talyn had a soft spot for her in the past when Crais was aboard. Crais, where the frell is Crais?
“Talyn, where is Captain Crais?”
‘YOU SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT FROM WHAT HAPPENED ON THE COMMAND CARRIER’
‘So he is dead then?’
Aeryn moved nearer to Crichton. He could visibly see that this was becoming very uncomfortable to her. Probably from the time spent on Talyn with the other Crichton and then after his death.
YES
"But you’re alive, how?"
There was no answer
Aeryn turned around and headed off to the transport hangar, she wanted answers and she was going to get them.
Crichton came along side her and saw the look in her eyes. ‘You confused about this as much as I am?' He asked his wife.
‘Mmmmhmmmm, I want to know what happened to him and if it really is Talyn.’
She stopped just outside the Hangar Bay and went up to John ‘I love you’.
‘I love you too’
After the transport pod docked on Talyn, Aeryn ran an initial scan of the area, and it was all clear, except for two transport pods docked and a Sebecian male stood in the doorway waiting for them. Aeryn & John exited the transport pod. “My, my, my our little, well big PK/Leviathan half breed has been a busy boy hasn’t he?” While walking by one of the two docked transport pods John & Aeryn saw what looked like a cannon on the front of the pod, although they wasn’t sure what type of weapon it was. They passed the pods and went straight up to the man with pulse pistols drawn.
“Who are you?” asked Aeryn.
“TALYN!”
“No Talyn’s the ship, who are you?”
“TALYN.”
Crichton went up to the Sebecian, got hold of his collar and pinned him up against the wall of the hangar bay “Look you dumb frellnik, you’re pissing me off, who the hell are you?”.
The man smiled, pushed John away, adjusted his collar and said “COME WITH ME.”
John & Aeryn just looked at each other, shrugged and walked behind the man.
After walking what seemed like forever, they finally came to what looked like a briefing room.
The man stopped in the centre of the room “PLEASE, SIT.”
Well that didn’t sound like an order, more like a request….is it possible that this Talyn has grown up!
John & Aeryn sat down as let the man talk.
I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MANY QUESTIONS, LIKE HOW AM I HERE, HOW AM I ALIVE. BUT YES, I AM TALYN OR RATHER A NEW TALYN. THIS IS MY STORY.
After I destroyed the medical ship carrying the Scarran, I was racked with guilt, guilt for the murder I had committed, for the innocents I had killed. And worse still because I could do nothing about it. I didn’t want to give up my cannon as it was my primary weapon and as all of you know, a peacekeeper never gives up his weapon. And then on the command carrier, I was enraged that the peacekeepers had captured my Mother. I wanted to blast everything in sight. But I couldn’t, my main cannon was gone, I felt so helpless, that there was nothing that I could do.
When Crais came back on board and suggested what he had planned, I knew that it was the right thing to do. But I also wanted to see mother, I wanted to care for mother, I wanted her to care for me, I didn’t want this peacekeeper half of me anymore. I wanted peace, the peace of leviathans, to be a leviathan and not some sort after freak who had two feet (so to say) in both worlds.
As I went into starburst, I saw light and felt intense pain. Pain like I had never known pain like it. Then darkness, I don’t know how much time passed, but someone, spoke to me.
Talyn, Talyn, wake up, can you hear me….Talyn
“Talyn can you hear me?”
“Mmmmm yes, I can hear you…..the pain, the pain.”
“Ignore the pain, rise through the pain.”
“Who are you?” I asked.
“Do you not know?”
“No, who are you?”
“Rest now Talyn, rest, recuperate and you will see.”
I did as I was told, the voice seemed authoritative, kind and familiar, though I did not know why.
So I rested.
When I awoke, I had no idea on how much time had passed, the thing that immediately struck me was the pain was less than before. The being came to me again, he asked me how I was, I said that the pain was not as bad as before, but I didn’t know where I was or who he was and everytime I asked, I got the same answer, to rest and that I would see.' Time passed, and again how much time I do not know, but I guessed that I was being healed both mentally and physically.
The being came to me again, he asked me ‘Do you know who I am?’ During my time asleep, I felt things that I had never felt before, circuits that weren’t there before but were there now. I felt different, yet the same, but more importantly I felt at peace, there was no conflict within me. Why?
“Talyn, Talyn, it is time, wake up Talyn.”
I did as I was told wondering, where I was and what had happened to me.
“Talyn, it is time for you to know what you are, time for you to know your purpose. You are different now, you are healed, you are risen from the dead.”
‘Who, who are you?’
the being smiled and said “Kahaynu.”
I knew that name, my mother had told me when I saw her last, that she had had an encounter with the god.
"You have had a troubled life, Talyn, son of Moya, you have struggled with emotions that you did not want. I have given you peace. I heard you and I have healed you."
Kahaynu had told me that I am new and reborn. That he had accelerated my growth and also introduced an evolutionary new feature. Crais had become the first, and now here I am, a symbiont.
I am the vessel and the vessel is me. I have the ability to see space, but also to walk, to talk and to feel, to actually walk on the surface of other planets while simultaneously orbiting that world and to talk with the crew rather than having to rely on a pilot to do it for me. I am struggling to master what I am now and it can be disorientating for me, and another reason for finding you is to learn the multi-tasking abilities from Pilot.
But I am Talyn.
Kahaynu has given me and all of my transport pods EMP cannons. So now as well as starburst I can now fire an Electro-Magnetic pulse to disable an enemy vessel. Much in the same way as a Flax net. I am my own captain. Now I must learn from Mother what it means to be a Leviathan.
John and Aeryn just looked at each other, confused, bemused and very nervous. Hell when this was old Talyn he even took pot shots at Moya to get what he wanted. Now Talyn is re-built and re-vamped. There goes the frelling universe!!!
Talyn came back in the transport pod with John and Aeryn, after docking in the Transport Hangar back on Moya, Talyn looked out of the pod window, awestruck. “Talyn, what’s the matter?” Aeryn asked. “I have never before seen this, it is beautiful but yet strange at the same time." “How do you mean, Talyn?” Aeryn asked. He looked at her and smiled. “I have DRD’s to service and maintain the ship part of me, to check for any damage to my larger self as I like to say. But to just do this simple action (he runs his hand along the control console). There are no words.” Outside Noranti was waiting for them, with a smile on her face (as normal). What crazy recipe has she concocted now. “Hello Crichton, Aeryn. Who is this beautiful being with you?” She asked. Crichton signalled to Aeryn to begin taking Talyn to see pilot and that he would join her shortly. ”Ummm what’s for dinner granny, I’m starved?” “Oh Crichton, dinner will be ready in another couple of arns. How is Aeryn and the baby?” “She’s fine, thanks for asking. Has anything happened while we were over on Talyn?” “No, nothing, why?” “Ok come with me to pilots den, you may need to hear this”. Crichton commed “D’Argo, Chi, Buckwheat can you meet us in Pilots Den please, we have a visitor?” Aeryn went first to see pilot “Hello Pilot” she said, we have a visitor here to see you. Talyn walked in and the fear on Pilot’s face was clearly visible, and Moya herself was scared as she shook with fear. “Pilot, please calm yourself. Mother, please don’t be afraid. I am Talyn and I am here, I am your son. I need you to teach me. “T, T, Talyn how are you here, how are you alive?” Crichton, entered into Pilot’s den followed by the rest of the crew. “Who is that person with Aeryn & Pilot?” D’Argo roared as he took out his qualta blade. “D” Shut up and listen, you ain’t gonna believe this. To Be Continued......
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