Rose exclaimed,"I just lost communication with Neblae! She said they had just been boarded and she passed out. She's still alive, just not responsive." Dokka turned to ask his second-in-command about details, when someone said,"She wasn't well trained. A quick poke to the neck pressure point and down she went." Floona gave out a surprised cry and jump out of her pilot seat. Rose leaped forward over the command station and rolled forward to land in the helm pit. She stood up, her right arm transforming into the rod-like shape of a weapon. A force shield formed around her left fist. She leveled the weapon at the intruder. The reptilian woman blinked and asked, while waving a golden weapon identical to Neblae's,"A VORP ROD? A weapon that can blow this ship in half, pointed at me? If you miss, you'll kill everyone on board." Rose growled,"I won't miss." The woman moved her left fingers slightly. Rose moved forward and said,"Telekinetic powers won't work on me! I have a dampener on to nullify them! Try something else and I WILL vaporize you!" Captain Dokka Tkarro stepped forward into the helm pit and pointed at the woman and said,"Brandishing weapons without cause is very serious! It dishonors you and us to act so unseemly!" The woman's ear fans folded down and she growled, "How dare you take such a tone with me! You have no clue who I am, or why I do what I do!" Dokka played the only card he had. "You are Grand Battle Admiral Haen H'Gael of the Sururin 13th tactical Battle Fleet. You were born on a primitive human planet of Nabooya, some 1400 years ago. You were an orphan and got adopted by Tyyee the White after you were stabbed by her body guard after trying to kill her. You were involved with the Previous Generation of the Four Sisters about two hundred years ago." He asked,"Am I close?" The Haen blinked. "The Scourge are right to fear you, Dokka Tkarro. You are too clever. You see? I know your name,too. Now call the Sister of Fire up here. The fire is always the odd one out, the atypical. I want to gauge her with my own eyes." Dokka said,"Call Toxic to the bridge. 'Odd-ball, odd one out'? Going from your resume, that fits you too! Since the Four Sisters attract oddballs, I made a point of reading up on all I might encounter....like YOU." Rose said to the PA,"Toxic to the..." Toxic ran in and stopped, eyes locked on Haen. After a long moment, Toxic spouted off in a foreign language and flapped her arms as if wings and laced her fingers over her breasts and looked at the shocked Haen. Haen put out her glaive and made it disappear into her hyperspace-storage-device. She said, with bright eyes,"You are not my grand-daughter, dead for all these years, though you have part of her spirit. You have the eternal bird of life and fire within, don't you? Just like Larka did? Toxic nodded. She said,"I'm Toxic Panchetta, not Larka. I remember you, through Larka...I think. It's fuzzy. How do I remember people I never met before?" Haen nodded. "The immortal spirit reborn inside you." Dokka exclaimed,"Are you talking about REINCARNATION? I do not believe in any such a thing!" Haen said,"For all, but a few, that IS correct. One try and when you're dead, you are not coming back. There were some in the dim past, ancient beyond counting, that were given immortal spirits that get reborn into vessels able to stand their power. The Druaga and the Nephilhim tried to copy that success. They weren't entirely successful." Rose asked,"WHAT are you? Really?" Haen looked at Rose and said,"You're the One Mother system Factor, aren't you? Just like Toxic is the Sister of Fire for the Four Sisters? You are warriors of probability for the human species." "Just like I am for the NAGA SPECIES. Really? You thought you were that unique? People are always copying other's success." Haen threw back her head and laughed. Dokka said,"Get the Measure up here. This got more complicated." --TO BE CONTINUED!--