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Valkyrie XI - Valkyrie Rides Again by unohoo
Season Two of the Valkyrie Round Robin Series
Valkyrie XI - Valkyrie Rides Again by unohoo
Subtitle: “What really happened to Scorpius after John Crichton left the collapsing Command Carrier”
Acknowledgement: Runnik for beta reading.
Disclaimer: They’re not mine, I don’t own ‘em, just please let me use your characters for a little while and I promise to return them as well as they began this ficlet. Thanks in advance.
(Disclaimer mine)
Location: Escape Pod
Grid Coordinates: Don’t Know
“You’re taking her with us?” Braca stared incredulously at, Scorpius. “We won’t all fit into the escape pod!”
“Exactly! You will find another pod. Come my lovely.” Scorpius helped Zavtig into the Escape Pod and left Braca to fend for himself. Unbeknownst to Braca, Scorpius had been training Zavtig to change his rods, *He thinks he is indispensable, does he?* Scorpius chortled to himself, glad to be rid of the loyal, but sycophantic Lieutenant. Zavtig was a refreshing change; she didn’t loathe him. He would just have to get used to her occasional vocal outbursts, as the rest of her was quite pleasant.
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Drifting through space, Scorpius had time to reflect on what went wrong. He thought he had handily deflected Crais at the Gammak base and thus left in his Command Carrier to finish the research. The Gammak base had become a stationary target, as it were. How could he know Crais would go to the top and get the likes of Grayza on his ‘you-know-what’. And he had just secured cooperation from the real John Crichton. He had all the security in place, how could Crichton have sabotaged him like that. He didn’t suspect a thing!
*Ya-wl were dealing with Yankee ingenuity.* PI John crooned.
Scorpius was about to rebut the statement when he noticed the instrumentation flashing a warning. They were speeding towards a lone asteroid. Before Scorpius could correct the pod’s path, Zavtig looked out the portal and saw the rock. In panic she let go with a most magnificent pure tone, the likes of which she had never before produced.
“IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE… (Oh, it goes on for pages, but I’ll spare you the details, dear reader.)
* POP… POP… POP….**** POP… ***
“CRAIS! Are you dead?” Zhaan asked.
“I… I don’t know. I thought I was going to die when I pulled that little trick with Talyn, but then, I thought I saw stars; I thought we somehow cleared the mess. Where am I? And what are you doing here Zhaan?”
“Crais, old buddy! How’s it hanging!” Talyn John slapped Crais on the back and sent him sprawling to the floor.
“Gasp! Again, where am I?” Crais found his feet and stood up.
“You’re in Scarpy’s head, so you must be dead.” PI John said.
“Two of you?” Crais sputtered.
“Yeah, it’s a long story, we’ll tell you later.” Talyn John and PI John said in unison. PI John continued, “It seems Scorpy baby has got himself a girlfriend, Zavtig. She’s a species called a Valkyrie, and he is quite smitten… “
“I am not!” Scorpius interrupted.
“Okay, then why’d you take her instead of Braca with you?” PI John smirked.
“**Sigh** John, just how long would you last in the presence of that smarmy Peacekeeper? Zavtig, at least, isn’t smarmy.” Scorpius sat down. He looked resigned to whatever fate had to deal him.
“Uh, Scorpius, it looks like Zavtig altered the pod’s path. Do you know where we are going?”
“Wha… ?”
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Zavtig had indeed altered their course. They were heading straight for her home, Valkyr. When Scorpius tried to correct the trajectory, Zavtig smiled quite sweetly and enveloped Scorpius in her ample bosom, and planted big sloppy kisses all over his person. Zavtig continued this loving treatment of Scorpius for many, many arns until they landed on Valkyr. Not only was Scorpius in an extremely debilitated state when they landed, but the crowd in his head couldn’t stop laughing.
As soon as they landed on Valkyr, Scorpius & Co. knew they were in deep dren. For it turned out that the pure tones, the tones Zavtig uttered sparingly, were, in fact, the way Valkyries communicated with each other. As soon as the pod’s hatch opened, they were greeted with a cacophony of pure tones, each a third note off the next. It sounded like a million Chinese opera’s competing with each other simultaneously, with a little Wagner tossed into the mix.
Scorpius was afraid his head would explode. Then he hoped it would explode. Complete strangers began taking up residence in his noggin. Scorpius passed out.
He came to in a magnificent room on an even more magnificent bed with Zavtig hovering attentively over him. He cautiously looked inside his mind and only found PI John slouched against a street light, smoking a cigarette.
“I don’t know how they did it, but it seems everyone but me is gone. **Sigh**” John’s shoulders sagged.
“Surely you don’t miss the horde? It was really crowded. I don’t think I had any more room.” Scorpius said.
“I don’t miss the horde, just my friends.” PI John sulked. “What are you going to do now? We seem to be trapped here.”
“I don’t know.” Exhausted, Scorpius fell asleep.
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