As the Andromeda passed by the space station, she noticed that something was wrong, that something was not quite right about the place. She could feel the presence of a lesser evil in the space that they were in.

Trance walked into the command deck and saw that something wasn’t right. Dylan and Beka were fighting about something not worth fighting over.

Trance couldn’t really hear what they were saying but, it wasn’t really worth it. She could only hear the buzzing of the doors opening and closing.

The artificial gravity was out. Dylan and Beka were grabbing the slipstream chair and Trance was just standing at the entrance holding onto the metal rails. Harper was holding onto the weapons console and Tyr was beside Trance holding onto the metal rails.

Tyr turned slightly to Trance.

“They’ve been keeping up these shenanigans for some time now,” Tyr told Trance.

Trance just stared at the two fighting while listening to Tyr and the words that he said. “Their arguing about the little runt fixing the gravity levels, it went too high and then too low. What are you doing here, girl?” He asked.

“I felt that there was something to see here, and it proves that I am right again,” Trance answered.

Trance made her way to Harper. Harper looked up from beneath the console that he was under.

“And what the hell does prove mean anyway. See those two over there? They’ve been yapping on about everything! And the worst part is that the space station that we landed at had cut the gravity field,” Harper whined.

Dylan floated away from the slipstream chair and towards Harper. “Andromeda, ship wide,” Dylan commanded. There was a sound that indicated that it went to ship wide. “We are going to land at the space station to get supplies. I am going to put Tyr in command. If anyone disobeys him, then we’ll see what he’ll do,” Dylan clearly said.

Rommie turned off ship wide and went in front of Dylan.

“You really think that there will be supplies to repair the Andromeda on that station?” Rommie asked, anxiously waiting for an answer.

“Rommie, I don’t just think that it will repair the Andromeda. I depend on it,” as he said that, Dylan started to float towards Trance and Beka. They were at the entrance of the command deck.

Tyr and Harper had the gravity as low as it went. Harper was almost dragging his feet across the floor.

“Almost there…just a few moor steps…got it!” Harper explained as he got to the slipstream core. “Or should I say ‘slides’”.

Tyr rolled his eyes. This was not the time for joking, Tyr thought. Tyr was forced against the wall of the corridors. It couldn’t have gone worse for the two.

The Maru landed in one of the hangers of the space station. Space station 209, The Imperial Guard, was one of the largest space stations in the galaxy. It was a casino, bar, mall, everything in imagination.

Beka picked up one of the passes to get through the gates of The Imperial Guard. She handed one to Dylan.

“What about Trance?” Dylan asked.

Beka giggled. She looked at Trance, and then Dylan. “Trance will be able to get through without one. Because she’ll have to trick the guards, Trance can slip right through the gates with one of her riddles,” Beka told Dylan.

“That doesn’t make sense…” Dylan said to himself.

As they went near the gates, one of the guards stopped them. He looked at Beka, then to Dylan, then at Trance. He stared at her in the eye.

“What’s blue, but never seen? It is in the sky, who am I?” Trance told the guard the riddle.

The guard his eyes a little and looked out the window to see what she had meant. As the guard did, Trance, Beka, and Dylan slipped past as quickly and quietly.

“So what was the answer for that riddle, Trance?” Dylan asked.

Trance smiled. “What’s blue, but never seen? It is in the sky, who am I? A nebula or a galaxy?” she told him.

“Damn. That’s a good one!” Dylan explained as they passed the gates.

Beka rolled her eyes. And the only one too, Beka thought.