Toxic ran onto the bridge, holding her pear and stopped,"WHO'S THAT?" Dokka blinked. "YOU don't know?" Captain Tkarro did NOT expect her 'Absolute Identity' ability to suddenly fail like that and it shocked him. Toxic asked,"Why is everyone else outside in the hall? Lime must have really broken the time-line! Wait a minute! Abandoned! I know him now!" The strange frowned and growled,"Abaddon. Hello Toxic. I'm a compatriot of Kali's. I wanted to meet you." Toxic sighed. "Ah. THAT'S why everyone else is outside because you are a--WAIT A MINUTE! Where's the hostess? I'm not supposed to say some things in front of her!" Abaddon said,"I removed her from linear time for the moment so we can talk freely without the Tapponok being aware." " 'REMOVED FROM LINEAR TIME'? Like the Abel! Who are unable to be able to be Abel? Can you bring them back from the Boneyard?" Toxic peered intently at him. He shrugged. "WHY would I want to, even IF I could? They had their day in the sun and were crushed by the Nephilhim. Better they should all die and pass to the dustbin of history." Toxic shook her head."WHY are all the Druaga SO rude? You all act so high and mighty and just teleport over and never call ahead to make sure we aren't eating! Being nice WILL NOT kill you, you know!" She hopped up onto the rail and sat there, looking at her pear. Dokka cleared his throat,"Toxic! This IS the Command and Control! NOT the Mess! No food on the bridge!" Toxic shrugged and watched Abaddon. He said,"What an alien mind-set! Kali told us many unbelievable stories about the NEW Celestial King of Heaven, and the sacrifice taught to one woman by another who's love could be conveyed to another. I wanted to meet that one. I was going to to just watch for a day or two, but that huge twist of probability forced my hand. My friend, Lord Glaen of Erhlu was quite apoplectic about it." Toxic blinked,"What was he apologetic about?" Abaddon said,"Apoplectic! Excited and upset and carrying on? What happened? What are you humans up to?" Dokka said,"Stopping the Four Brothers from blowing up all the inhabited worlds in the Five Galaxies! They are planning to detonate the Probability Transformation Engines, who are all networked together, as soon as they find some key one. It'll kill everyone, except for a couple of species." Abaddon looked shocked, as he stared at Dokka Tkarro and Toxic. "You certainly believe this story!" Toxic nodded. "Yeppers! We had time-travelers tell us! Lime decided to break the Time-line by doing something random and unexpected! You look down. Have a cookie! Well, pear... I don't have any cookies." Abaddon said,"Time-travelers? That MUST be pretty dire to do that!" He took the pear. His eyes widened in the grip of some nameless emotion. He dropped it as if it were burning his hand. He stepped back and stared intently at Toxic in fear. "INDEED! You are as dangerous as Kali warned us! If my brother, Apollyon, has not left for Exile yet, HE will want to meet him again! It has been SO LONG!" For the first time since Toxic came onto the bridge, Rose spoke up from the far end of her station and asked,"Who is this 'HE' you speak of?" Abaddon looked at her Hyper-frame breaker arm and looked irritated. He looked over at Toxic and said,"We'll talk again." He teleported away with a pop. Toxic hopped down from the railing and picked up the pear as the Hostess popped back in. She looked dizzy. Toxic said,"Poor thing! You must have low blood sugar! Have a pear!" Hostess smiled and started eating it, while Rose and Dokka stared at her. Toxic waved her hands and asked,"Guys? Is it just me, or does it seem our uninvited guests are getting more and more RANDOM? Abaddon didn't make ANY sense!" Rose asked,"Where did you get the pear?" Toxic said,smiling,"From the mess-hall! We don't have pear trees. y'know!" Dokka said to Rose,"Let's get Docked." Rose sounded the 'all clear.' --TO BE CONTINUED!--