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// Chapter 3: Regrouping 
// Story: The dead breath of of Space. 
// by TheDoctor 
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Damon opens his eyes slowly, as he his looks around he finds himself on a table in the infirmary of the serenity. As he trys to sit up there is a sharp pain in the back of his skull.
As he regains his scenes he hears a voice say from behind him."Hello captain, good to see you awake."
As Damon turns around to see who is speaking, as he does he sees dutch standing next to dream. The colt smiles and says. "You took a nice hit to the back of your head, but other than that you should be fine!"
Damon nods his head and asks."Where are the reavers...?"He blinks a few times trying to block out the pain than asks."And...where is Carrot?"
Dutch frowns as he says."The reavers left, we killed about thirty of them and i guess they just thought they would just cut there losses...but...they have Carrot."
Damon get out of the bed and stands up and says. "Than we are going after them. We cant leave carrot..."
Dutch frowns and says. "I understand what you are saying but you are in no shape for another fight, there managed to put a nice crack in your skull, you need rest."
Damon shakes his head and looks over a table full of medical supplies and grabs a morphine needle and jabs it into his leg, he winces and says. "Im fine... let just get to work finding them..."
Dutch nods and says. "Fine...just let me finsh up here, i will meet you up on the bridge."
Damon nods and stumbles out of the room, the effects of the morphine already setting in...




As the bag on Carrotcakes head is removed she gets her first look at her surroundings, She is in a dark room that is only about square feet around, she chained to shackles on the wall, as her eyes adjust to the dark room she sees blood stains allover the room, as yells out untell her voice is horse. 
After a few hours the door the the small room opens and a rough looking pony walks in. "Hey there sweetcakes, you know you caused quite the little fight, your group killed over half of my crew. But dont worry, we can replace them, but dont think that will make it any easier for you. Yes we are going to have ALOT of fun with you..." He leans in close, right next to her face and says. "So are you ready?"
Carrot does not say anything, she just headbutts the pony and he jumps back. After staggering for a second he comes back and lands a punch on her face, than Knees her in the ribs which result in a loud crack of breaking bones....


The guard outside the door shutters at the loud screams coming out of the cell, he has seen alot, he has been on this ship for almost a year but the noises comeing out of the room are still enough to send chills down his spine. 




Damon staggers up to the bridge and leans on the control panel, he blinks trying to focuses and pulls up the radar, as he does that Dutch enters the room behind him, he sighs as his captain staggers around the room trying to perform a simple task, Dutch says." Damon...how about you let me do this..."
Damon spins around and says."No...Im...Uhh...Im fine!"
Dutch puts a hoof on the druged captains shoulder. "I know you are upset but you need rest, dont worry... I wont let her go."
Damon staggers around the some and mumbles something unintelligible before passing out.
Dutch who is somewhat shocked drags to body out of the way of the control panel and gets to work tracking Carrots captors...



Carrot trys to clear her mouth of the taste of blood once the pony finnly leaves, he did unspeakable think to her, and right now not even Carrot is just trying to think about her time back on the Serenity, her time with Damon and the rest of her friends.
She coughs and spits out another mouth full of blood. About an hour after the first pony left the door opens once again, Carrot trys to get her blood soaked mane out of her swollen eyes. A smaller voice comes from the far end of the room and says. "Its ok, i am not here to hurt you, just brought some food..."
Carrot who is in no mood for any form of contact yells. "JUST KILL ME WILL YOU?"
The soft spoken pony says. "Im sorry for what is happening to you... I know what its like..." As It says this It moves the blood her blood soaked mane out of her eyes. She blinks a few times and sees a very young unicorn with a light green fur, She is very small and is missing alot of fur, it looks like he has been whiped countless times, she is also incredibly thin, she just looks like a bag of bones and fur.
Carrot chokes back tears at the sight and asks. "How long have you been on this ship?"
The small filly sighs some. "About a month, they hijacked are ship and took a group of us, I am the only one left at this point..." Tears flow from here eyes as she says. "My... My sister killed her self last week... so now its just me..."
Carrot lets her head down. "Im...so sorry...Umm..."
The green filly smiles some." Its ok... I heard what they have been doing to you... I should be the one who is sorry..."
Carrot trys to smiles." You know I have some friends who are going to save me, and when they do You can come with us!"
The green filly sighs."My sister would say that al..."As she is saying this the door is flung open and a large colt walks in. "Ok run along little one, us two have things to do." The colt says with a smug smiles. 
The green filly shows herself out of the room and the colt says." You know your friends killed my brother, but you might be worth it!"
Carrot spits a mouthfull of blood into the colts face and he lashes out at the mare...
As the green filly walks down the hall she hears her newfound friend let out a scream, she trys not to cry as she makes her way back to the small cell that serves as home for her...