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"Go get the others," LeRoy said, pushing me behind him.

"Right," I said, rushing back into Dragon's house to find Brennan, Jesse, Shalimar, Emma, and Adam. Finding them in Dragon's laboratory, I quickly filled them in on what was happening upstairs.

"You four go," Adam said, looking at his team. Looking at me, he said, "You stay here and help."

"What do you need me to do?" I asked. "Fair warning, I'm no super genius like you or the rest of Mutant X so you'll have to bear with me."

"Just hand me the things I ask for," Adam said, bending over Shalimar again.

Looking about, I saw that all of Dragon's guardians except Moochi were working on Nerissa Altsoba's computer and Nissa's android body. Moochi and Wynn were sharing the bio tube on the far side of the lab; Adam had gotten it to work feebly to heal Wynn's ribs and to remove the four green lumps from Moochi. Nogard was lying on a table wrapped in bandages and Adam was now helping Shalimar.

From the hole in the ceiling, I saw a rather familier looking salvage ship [+1] set down near by. Turning to Adam, I said, "Reinforcements just landed. Can I go get them?"

"Yeah, but hurry," Adam said. "I don't think that this one will make it."

Biting my lower lip, I scaled the wall to the hole and ran towards the ship. Raising my hands to show I meant no harm, I yelled to those inside, "Help! Please help! We're under attack!"

At that moment, four of the same kind of heartless appeared next to me and started to attack.

Suddenly, laser blasts filled the air as those on the salvage ship exited and opened fire on my attackers. Almost as quickly, one of the heartless grabbed me beneath my arms and lifted me into the air. When I was dangling twenty feet over the ground and rising higher, a well placed laser shot killed the heartless and I plummeted to the ground--and landing in the arms of one of the people from the ship.

Knowing who it was but unable to really grasp it, I became flustered and said, "Um. Hi. Rhade."

"Are you okay?" he asked, setting me on my feet.

"I'm fine," I replied, staring at the bone blades sticking out of his wrists. I thought to myself, Nietzschean bone blades.

"How did you know my name?" Rhade asked.

Snapping out of my trance, I blinked and looked up--and felt really small. There had been three people on the ship, two men and one woman [+2]. I myself was 5'4", and I was as tall as the woman's shoulder and she was as tall as the two men. "Out front there's a fight going on. Don't hurt the ones that look human; but have at the rest. Andromeda, I'm going to need you to come with me. And Captian Hunt, can you contact Captian Valentine and have her bring Miss Gemini down? We have injured."

"Why do you need me?" the woman asked.

"We're going to need your help to restore Nerissa's AI mainframe. It got blasted in an attack."

"Okay then," the man without the boneblades said. "Everyone, let's go."