A shot melted the controls on the console under Onnika’s fingertips. Growling she turned to see the crew of the Control Room pointing guns at her.

"I am your Matriarch!"

"Not any more, Onnika. You would use Nova Bombs against the Ancestor, knowing that they will destroy all of us! We don’t know what drove you mad Onnika but it stops now." The young tech that had melted the control panel moved forward. "Don’t make us kill you."

Onnika launched herself at the tech, for a moment there was nothing but sounds of fighting and biting before the tech managed to get Onnika down.

No one except Onnika noticed when Graha sneaked out.

"YOU PROMISED ME!!!!!"

* * *

Graha left the control room and headed down the hall. Walking past corridors with people dead and dying, he passed by a school room with less than ten children, four of whom were dead but that didn’t matter to him, it could have been a hundred or a thousand children and he still wouldn’t have cared. He entered the closest airlock and closed it. A minute later, the outer lock opened. Graha, who had really been dead for almost a decade, died again. A green light pored out of him and into the silence of space, away from Space Station Beagle.

Soon Kaeg, bounty hunter and its servant joined it and they left.

* * *

Tyr stared at the ships hovering in front of him. Laughing he opened up his com system. "Tyr to Tazenda High Guard. Welcome to the fight."

Telemachus Rhade appeared on Tyr’s screen. "Tyr. The space station is the target?"

"Yes. We cannot destroy it; we are trying to preserve lives. It’s Dylan’s clan."

Telemachus’ head jerked up from reading his display. "How?"

"Apparently Rhade made sure that his and Dylan’s genetic information would live on... now let’s go save the Gryphon Pride."

"Of course, Tyr. The rest of the fleet can catch up to us."

* * *

Harper stared at the recently hacked file. I don’t believe it. She may have been mad but she found it. She found it! Damn.

Turning he called his group together. "Ok, according to the Beagle systems, we have a bunch of Hugh Guard ships coming in. Probably from Tazenda so we are cool. Right now, lock everything up like I told you and we are out of here!"

Harper made sure every last one of his crew was back before getting himself out.

* * *

"Restrain her!" A missile control tech walked over to the com systems and opened a frequency to the Andromeda. "Andromeda Ascendant, this is Missile Control Fire Technician Lian. We surrender to the Ancestor. Onnika has been restrained. I repeat, Andromeda Ascendant, this is Missile Control Fire Technician Lian. We surrender to the Ancestor. Onnika has been restrained. We await you, Ancestor."

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