It Ain't Easy...

[Nick Ryder]

"Yeah Newstead, listen to the nice Marine and get your tiny butt aboard my ship." Nick said over the comms. "Jack, Kinsey... don't relax too quickly yet..." he raised an eyebrow and then pounded his arm rest. "Dammit... Dominus... he's got your kids. He just sent an image of your twins. The son of a bitch... he's got them on the station. Bastard is taunting us. Get aboard the ship, we'll..."

"Ah ah ah... not so fast NIcholas." Dominus said, breaking in over everyone's comms. "You take a run at me, I take their tiny heads. Back the hell away from my station return my slaves and maybe... just maybe they'll live to see another birthday."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“You don’t give a shit about your slaves. What do you really want?” Kinsey asked bitterly clenching her fists. If Dominus hurt them there wasn’t anything in the universe that would stop her from unleashing her power and destroy everything. She wouldn’t care as long as she took Dominic’s with her.

[Dominus]

"Why my dear Kinsey... I don't want anything." Dominus said with a grin. "I already have everything I want, in fact, I don't even need to keep these children alive." Dominus put his hand behind Mackenzie's neck. "I just wanted you two to realize just how badly you've lost before you die."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“You’re full a shit.” Kinsey said bluntly. “I can’t believe for one moment that you of all people would carelessly throw aside two of the most powerful children you’ve ever met. I know you fantasized about the kind of children Jackson would make and there they stand. And I know after the brief power Solara displayed you started to wonder what that power and yours would make. I also know you wouldn’t have my children unless you were afraid I’d do to you what I did to those ships you sent Thessia. You crave power and I have what you want.”

[Ja'larin Yamour]

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[Jack Ryder]

"He's trying to buy time." Jack muttered as he watched the windows get darker from the section slowly drifting into space. "Listen... you don't know what you could be throwing away."

"Threats." Dominus said as he tightened his grip on Mac's neck. "One little snap and I will have one less threat." he glanced at Jason. "Besides, I work best with boys."

~Kinsey... once this thing is in range... we'll all be beamed to the Tigris... he's not bluffing, he IS going to kill our daughter.~ Jack mentally told Kinsey and glanced at the others. "Must by why all your other sons are dead."

"They were weak... this Jason... he seems like he's made of sterner stuff... I have seen what his older counterpart is capable of. The girl... who needs someone who can use a bow. This isn't the dark ages." Dominus scoffed.

~ On my signal... we're going to beam to my pod.~ Jack touched his multi-tool in his pocket. ~That's why I wanted you to bring that little box, it's a remote relay. We beam to the pod, use the pod to get on the command deck, get our kids in there and then burn the rest of the command deck down.~

[Kinsey Calhoun]

“You haven’t been paying attention.” Kinsey said matter of fact a smirk playing at the edge of her mouth behind her helmet. “And I really think you should threaten his sister. He stabbed me with an arrow just what do you think he’ll do to you?”

~Now or never.~ Kinsey told Jack as she pulled her rifle from her back.

[Jack Ryder]

Jack pulled out his multi-tool which activated the transporters, beamed off all the crew and refugees from the medical compartment they were in, materialized the time pod around himself and Kinsey a split moment before Dominus opened fire on the old sickbay and blew it to bits. Then, within a fraction of a second, the pod groaned and wheezed as it 'landed' on the Ops deck of Starbase Hel. Jack opened the doors and he and Kinsey came out with phasers blazing.

"Kids... pod. Now!" Jack said as he shot at Dominus crew.

"Oh good, I wanted that pod." Dominus said with a sneer.

"You'll get it when you pry it from our cold dead hands." Jack said as he dropped the last member of his command deck crew and raised his hand. "Kinsey. Bring the house down."

[Ja'larin Yamour]

Ja'larin wasn't going to be left out in the cold. Before the transporter tech could react she beamed herself back on to the station, only a few meters from Jack and Kinsey.

Her kliden activated with a deadly electronic buzz. She slashed down killing one of Dominus' crew, and then tossed the weapon in a wide arc that cut down three more before she used the ijulna to return it to her hand.

A whine of a transporter deposited Rebecca next to Ja'larin. Her own kliden humming, and casting a green glow upon her porcelain skin. She glanced at her master, "Whatever is it you are up to?"

Ja'larin glanced at Rebecca, "Destiny."

"And what the hell does that mean?"

"Just that," Ja'larin said as the two Jase'dasis closed into formation around Jack. The Jase master reached out with the ijulna and used if to loosen Dominus' grip on Kinsey's neck. "It is our fate to meet again Dominus. One or both of us will not see the end of this day."

[Dominus]

Dominus released his grip on 'little' Mac's throat and then glared at the Jase'dasis master. "Oh, really? You do realize there are others here..." he tapped his wrist and four 'alternate' Dominus came walking out of four mini rifts. "Which one of 'us' do you think that fate is talking of?"

"Oh goodie... another J'Larin... I could use a second, the skull of mine finally shattered and it's so tedious to glue back together. You Cardies have such complex skulls." Alt Dominus 1 said with a wicked smirk.

"You better not be using us as cannon fodder here Dominus." One of the alternates said to the one who summoned them. "Ohhh... there's a K'n'zy here...I love watching those lavander eyes pop when I pump electricity through their heads."

"You're all sick fucks." Jack snapped.

"We are... aren't we?" The Dominuses said in unison. "So... which one of you will be out next footstools?"