“We need her back,” I said. “As she was. She’s the only one that can power our engines.”

“Ah, trouble, leader kaine. Understood.” The Vronel flashed amongst themselves for a few moments. “Can fix the Kayla unit for,” there was a pulsating buzz. “One thousand ton platinum units.”

They dare try to scam the King of scams!

“Arni,” I spoke into the communicator using our precoded plan. “Initiate, plan atomic explosion. Set controls specific to mine and Kayla’s DNA .”

“God, Kaine, you’ll kill us all!” Arni, with a suitable warble of terror to his voice, answered.

“Just do it!” I ordered. “Without Kayla we’re all dead anyway.”

“God, I’m going to pay you back in Hell for this. Atomic explosion initiated. Damn it Kaine, if you don’t get back here in ten minutes this whole goddamn system is gonna blow.”

Ignoring the fluctuating color changes in the Vronel I walked over to Kayla.

“If we get out of this alive,” I told her quietly. “I’m buying you the whole damn set of Cyberrock.”