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The Sereni-Tree, More Shopping, and Some Peril

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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 16:08
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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:22 AM

THEREALME


On Commerce, at the Leighton Docks spaceport:

After investigating the Dagger, TheRealMe sits down in a chair in that ship’s lounge, and sighs. He keys his com-link to broadcast to the Sereni-treers. “Hello, this is Me. I’m still in the ship of Serenity's captors, the Dagger. I'm going to attempt to find Serenity with one of my dimensional portals.”

TheRealMe grabs the weapon he brought along, stands, and concentrates. He thinks about Serenity. Winged. Pregnant. Probably in distress, uncomfortable. He fixes that image in his mind and reaches out with his free hand. A spot of light appears.

Suddenly, a noise interrupts his concentration and the portal collapses. Someone is trying to enter this ship! TheRealMe hides in a closet in the Dagger’s lounge.


TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:29 AM

CITIZEN


OOC: TRM, hiding in the closet is not the way... Sorry I was too weak to resist...

"Right!" Citizen exclaimed. "Can't wait any longer for the others." He turns too Mai.

"Let's get moving, I've got a track on Seryn and we don't want them getting too far away, oh and take this." He said handing over a small compact sub-machinegun. "You can't ever have enough weapons."



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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:35 AM

JAKE7


**jake7, upon hearing TWG's communication, realizes there will be no one left behind to defend the 'TREE, if she leaves.**

Soul, I'm sorry to do this, but it looks like I should stay behind to help defend the 'TREE in case of trouble. There will be no gunners left if both Jazaf and I leave.

**she addresses the group**

Please, everyone, be careful and bring Serenity back safely! I'll be with you in spirit.

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
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"They just float out there, sending out raver breeding parties..."

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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:53 AM

THEREALME


SUMMARY:

Okay, there is still a lot of confusion, so I will try to do this again.

On the planet Garrison, Quincey has been abducted. It seems that her father has promised her in marriage to the son of the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Four of her captors have bound and gagged her, and are carrying her up stairs to the roof of a grand palace, where there presumably is a shuttle waiting to depart. Inside the palace, running up the same staircase, are Deuce, Jadehand, Wisp, N0Skills, and N0Skills’ tiger0 Shadow, who all plan to rescue Quincey. They just barely defeated an old martial arts master, and Jadehand sealed the way behind them with grenades to keep the master away. Jadehand has his shuttle, the Ocean Cloud, waiting at a hanger nearby if they ever get Quincey away from the palace. All of this is on Garrison. Nothing else of note is currently happening on Garrison.



On Garrison’s moon of Commerce, Serenity has ALSO been kidnapped. She is being held in a cell with an electrified floor by her arch-nemisis Heinz the scar-faced guy, who is watching her from behind a glass wall. Earlier, Heinz had turned on his three partners from the Dagger, and shocked them into unconsiousness. The three men were taken away somewhere.

Seryn has purposely gotten herself captured, and was taken to the same area near Serenity. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that Heinz cares about her, and is likely to execute her. Citzen and Mai are together on the Commerce City streets, trying to track down the homing beacon that Seryn swallowed.

ScorpionRegent and McQ the cyborg have taken the shuttle Admiral Nelson to Commerce, along with drunken passengers LightMeDark and Cozen. They land and are (I think) going to follow Seryn’s signal, too.

TheRealMe lands the shuttle Napoleon at the Leighton Docks starport near the Dagger, the mystery ship that we think is involved in Serenity’s kidnapping. TRM searches the ship and is about to make a dimensional portal to Serenity, but is interrupted by noises outside the ship. He hides inside.

Sparky the Robot is wandering the streets of Commerce City, abandoned by TRM.

Soul, Ath, Safe, Kelly, Needy, and perhaps others are staging a rescue mission and are about to depart from Sereni-Tree in Safe’s stolen dropship.

PsychicRiver is elsewhen in time talking to his future or past self.

Most everyone else is on the Sereni-Tree.



TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

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Monday, April 17, 2006 6:59 AM

COZEN


*hic!*

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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:07 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Safe appears from the back of the ISSCV and tosses Needy a holster containing a modified Berretta. “I’m not sure even your winning smile will diffuse this Needy, best be armed just in case.”

Safe slaps the close button on the door and walks up to the cockpit.

Ath looks up as Safe walks in. “She’s warmed up and ready to go.” He says as he hops into the co-pilots chair.

Safe nods appreciatively dropping into the pilot's chair, releases the docking clamps, and guides the ISSCV towards Commerce.

In flight they hear TRM
Quote:

"I currently have the Napoleon in shrunken mode hovering over the Leighton Docks spaceport, the nearest to where Serenity was abducted. I'm trying to match the ships there to the sketchy data that ThatWeirdGirl picked up when the mystery ship jumped in system. About a dozen candidates so far. It's also possible that they didn't park here, but then their journey back would be longer. I'll stay here as a backup, to try to intercept them if they try to make for orbit."

Ath keys the com. “TRM we’re en-route. ETA 45 minutes.”

About 20 minutes from planet side TRM broadcasts again.
Quote:

"Hello. I've found their ship. It matches ThatWeirdGirl's description, and its engine core shows recent use. It's called Dagger. They landed it within sight of where our own Nelson had been parked. They must have been tailing us. Seems like the work of pros.”

"Anyway, I over-rode their security and got in. Nobody home. It's engines aren't even online, so they aren't planning to leave any time soon. They aren't bringing Serenity here. There is another destination for her that they had in mind.

"Say, here is a recent note about some kind of payment expected from a man named 'Heinz'. Does that mean anything to anybody?"


Safe curses out loud.

OOC: I specifically didn't name who was on the ISSCV in case anyone wanted to go but missed it

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:12 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Citizen puts his arm out stopping Mai. He holds a finger to his lips and backs them into a darkened doorway. Mai, the question forming on her lips, finally hears Citizen's reason for caution. A motley group of thugs and Alliance soldiers walk past.

Three armed men lead the group followed closely by two groups of two men dragging an unconscious man each, a tall thinish man and a shorter slightly heavier man. Citizen recognizes the thin man as the security officer. Mai catches his recognition and nods silently in agreement. The group is followed up by four men struggling to drag a third large man.

After they pass by, Citizen is torn. Do they follow his suspect or investigate the area to find where they came from. It can't be far as the men dragging the large man weren’t winded yet.

**

TheRealMe listens from his hiding spot as the outer hatch opens.

“Shoot ‘em, t’row ‘em in the ship and lock ‘er up. By the time someone realizes it’s been ‘ere too long, we’ll be done with this place and long gone. The pay ‘ad bett…..”

The last sentence is drowned out by the roar of an approaching dropship.

**

“I’ve pinpointed TRM’s signal to that ship” Ath shouts over the engine roar coming in through the open hatch that Soul currently leans out of.


Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:17 AM

KELLYOFLUTHIEN


Quote:

Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeAth:

He turns to Soul and asks, "Is this everyone? Once the sequence is done, we're leaving."



Soul looks around at the group. Jazaf. Jake7. Safe. Ath. And the newest one, Needy. The show of help actually brings a smile to Soul's face.

"I think this is everyone, Ath. Let's go get Serenity."

______________________

Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.

Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Kelly rushes up at the last second and looks at Soul, sees the hardness in his eyes. There's pain there, but also resolution. She knows the feeling well.

"Care for one more? I was going to stay with the Tree, but now that Jake7 is staying, I think TWG will be fine. She's watching the girls for me."

Soul gives a barely perceptible nod and Kelly steps on the shuttle, slipping Narya around a slender finger.



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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:58 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Jennings shakes his head as he comes to. He looks around. His hands are tied and he lies on tarmac beside Grunt and Bear. Whatever hit them had to have hit the gorram hard for Bear to be out. He looks over at Grunt. The other man’s one eye is open.

“You took your time, sleepy head” Grunt hisses.

Jennings finally realizes that the white noise he attributed to his headache was in fact engines of a hovering dropship. Their captors all stood shielding their eyes from the wind looking up.

Not being one to just lay there, Jennings lashes out with his feet catching the closest captor behind the knees. The man’s arms windmill to keep his balance, bringing his gun up. Apparently, that was all the people in the dropship were waiting for. An arrow catches the off balance captor in the throat, capitalizing on his tenuous balance, pinning him to the ground. The man frantically claws at the arrow to no avail, his arms, finally falling limp.

The remaining 10 men scatter. Some take refuge under the Dagger, while others just crouch and open fire.

Grunt and Jennings scramble under the Dagger as well.

One of the captors yells out “You! Go get the guns from that ship on line!” The man indicated, slings his gun over his shoulder and scrambles through the Dagger’s hatch.


Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Monday, April 17, 2006 8:13 AM

SOULOFSERENITY

The Man They Call Soul...


Soul drops from the ISSCV, falling the distance to the tarmac and landing in a roll. Bring up his bow, he fires an arrow through the shin of a retreating gunman. The man collapses to the ground in pain, and Soul hears a voice cry out.

Quote:

Originally posted by safeat2nd:
One of the captors yells out “You! Go get the guns from that ship on line!” The man indicated, slings his gun over his shoulder and scrambles through the Dagger’s hatch.



If they get those guns online, this fight is gonna get a bit too messy.

Soul looks around at the confusion and makes a break for the Dagger.


______________________

Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.

Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."

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Monday, April 17, 2006 9:25 AM

THEREALME


By this time, TheRealMe, still hiding in the Dagger, hears the scream of Safe's ISSCV dropship as it is landing. He leaves his hiding place and takes a look out the window, seeing Soul's arrows scatter the bunch of goons. It seems that they had been carrying three unconscious men.

One of the thugs seems to be making his way inside. TheRealMe readies his pistol. As the guy enters, TheRealMe takes aim, then presses the button to shut the hatch. The thug is surprised. TheRealMe smiles. "Hi. If you stay REALLY still, you might not get shot."

Into his com-link, TheRealMe says, "Soul? Safe? This is Me. The guy who just entered the Dagger? I got him covered. I'm sure he'll have lots of interesting stories to tell us once you are done outside."




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Monday, April 17, 2006 11:33 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Commerce moon in the back of a very large cab:

As SR and McQ are rolling at high speed across town SR turns to McQ "You are all sorts of large are you aware of that? Not your choice I'm sure." SR looks out the window and sees a familiar site. SR taps on the glass for the driver to pull to the curb. He then opens the door and leans out. "Hey sparky! If you're lost, you should come with us we can get you back to TRM as soon as we find Miss Serenity and Miss Seryn."

Sparky rolls over to the cab recognises SR and McQ and climbs into the back seat.
The ISSCV screams by over head.

SR tells the driver, "Were late now and my friend here will be very upset if he misses his sister's birthday party so better dial up the speed."

As they careen across commerce city McQ asks SR should they forward the maps and coordinates of groundside Tree crew the ISSV dropship. SR says he couldn't think of a better idea. He toggles up his comm-link to connect with the ISSCV, while McQ sends the information.

"SR to ISSCV McQ is sending you maps with GPS coordinate ans sattelite imagery of the locations of all groundside Tree personel on Commerce. I am making my way across the city in a cab with McQ and Sparky. Citizen and Mai are together near the market place. TRM is in the Dagger. The remaining two locating cursors on the map would likely be CMS and Seryn! We are heading towards that location now."

Scorpion Regent

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Monday, April 17, 2006 12:44 PM

SERYN


(ooc- EEK! What? No body said anything about executin'! Seryn is simply sitting there, beeping away, providing a nice blinky light on screen for you to all converge on and pick up Serenity, then she's getting up and leaving, no one said nothing about no executing!) oh, and Sparky was doing the admirable job of rounding up all of our dropped shopping bags, It was a hard days shop and I think I speak for both of us whan I say that we are not leaving the planet without those shoes!)

Seryn shifts her weight from one dead butt cheek to the other, keeping her ears pressed against the door, listening out for any sounds of movement or action. An idea occurs to her, slowly she feels along the edges of the door, finding the locks, than she crosses to the other side, finger probing the old wood until she finds the hinges. She smiles "It's my lucky day..." The hinges are old, rusted, but also simple, a classic loop and pin design. The pins are rusted in place, but slowly she begins to work them free, using the ropes from around her wrists to cushoin her finger tips. She works them both loose enough to pull out quickly, then sits back and waits again.

(ooc- sorry, I just can't sit around waiting for someone to decide to write me a death scene! )

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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:35 PM

SAFEAT2ND


Heinz looks up from the cortex and notices that Serenity is awake.

“Glad to see you are finally back among the world of the living.” Heinz says with a nasty grin. “Now we can get down to business”

He is interrupted by a knock on the door. And a soldier enters.

“Excuse me sir, but we found a woman snooping around outside.”

“So? On this miserable plant, most people snoop. It’s their lives.”

“Ummm... she seems to be connected to the winged woman.” The man stammers as Heinz continues to look on, unimpressed. “She may have a communicator or friends…”

“So what? She could have a satellite GPS device with her. It will do her no good. You think the Blue Sun would want anyone the least bit skilled at electronics snooping on one of their labs? Do you??” Heinz yells spraying spittle on the soldier “No they wouldn’t. This place is so shielded we could set off a large explosive in here and no one would be the wiser, you imbecile!! Now get out!”

As the soldier turns to leave, Heinz casually pulls his gun and shoots the man in the back of the head. Two guards appear at the sound.

“Change his clothes, douse him in liquor and toss him in the alley with the rest of the empties. If you’ll look in the hole in his head, you’ll find it quite empty. Make sure no one else suffers from the same ailment”

Heinz thinks for a moment “A friend of the winged girl eh? Hmmm… Keep the other woman close. I may need her yet…”


Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Monday, April 17, 2006 1:46 PM

SERYN


(ooc - oh cheers...)(half/ooc - Seryn gets a sudden inkling, and starts looking around for a piece of paper upon which to write her last will and testament)

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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:45 PM

MAI


Quote:

citizen wrote: "Let's get moving, I've got a track on Seryn and we don't want them getting too far away, oh and take this." He said handing over a small compact sub-machinegun. "You can't ever have enough weapons."


*stares at the new weapon like it may jump up and bite*

Oh God, please don't make me have to find out how this thing works.

*watches as the crimnals pass by* Well, it's now or never. Thinking of Serenity and the baby, steals herself to come out from hiding. *Looks to Citizen and gestures toward the evil men then makes the move across the alley to follow them.






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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:34 AM

CITIZEN


"Don't worry." Citizen said falling in behind Mai. "Just point that bit at them and pull the trigger."

He checked that the alley was clear and ducked in on the trail of the guards.



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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:16 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

originally posted by Seryn ...through the arch Seryn sees the most welcome sight since Green & Blacks brought out their drinking chocolate. Serenity, sat in a chair towards the centre of the room. Seryn struggles, trying to give herself time to make sure that Serenity is pretty much unharmed. Apart from being tied to her seat she seems to be coping. Rather than scared the expression on her face seems to be defiant and controlled.

Seryn smiles, "it worked, the damn stupid plan worked!" as long as the others got there soon, she was close enough to Serenity for them to track down this building. She stops struggling, letting the guards pull her away, she even keeps still when they whack a strip of tape across her mouth.

She listens to the sound of the door shutting and the lock sliding into place, then slips her hands around in front of her, pulls the tape off her mouth and sits with her ear against the door, listening out and amusing herself by trying to remember the words to old pop songs and weighing up the merits of the various theories over what the island from Lost actually is




*Serenity gets a quick glimpse of Seryn being dragged past the room she is in.*

Oh no! They’ve got Seryn, too! I hope she’s the only one they’ve found.


*Serenity is very glad that Heinz has been so distracted in the controller room. After several agonizing minutes where she nearly cuts off all circulation in her right hand, she manages to free her left. Now, she is just waiting for the right moment...*


Quote:

Originally posted by safeat2nd:
Heinz looks up from the cortex and notices that Serenity is awake.

“Glad to see you are finally back among the world of the living.” Heinz says with a nasty grin. “Now we can get down to business”

He is interrupted by a knock on the door. And a soldier enters.

“Excuse me sir, but we found a woman snooping around outside.”



*Serenity uses the distraction to slip her freed hand into her pocket, searching for her comm link. Her hand, however, finds something else first. Her pocket knife! She'd forgotten she had it on her. She quickly grabs it and brings her hand back behind her, slipping it through the ropes once again. She fumbles a bit, but manages to open it, while trying to pay close attention to what Heinz is saying, all the while looking like she's not doing anything.*

Quote:

"She could have a satellite GPS device with her. It will do her no good. You think the Blue Sun would want anyone the least bit skilled at electronics snooping on one of their labs? Do you??” Heinz yells spraying spittle on the soldier “No they wouldn’t. This place is so shielded we could set off a large explosive in here and no one would be the wiser, you imbecile!! Now get out!”


Well, then, guess it doesn't matter that I couldn't get to my comm link. And it's no reason to panic. Soul will find me anyway. *She tries to comfort herself with this thought. She is very uneasy at hearing Blue Sun mentioned. *

Quote:


As the soldier turns to leave, Heinz casually pulls his gun and shoots the man in the back of the head. Two guards appear at the sound.



*She nearly cries out at seeing the man shot so casually. But she pushes back the fear rising in her and forces herself to think only of keeping her baby safe. *


Quote:

Heinz thinks for a moment “A friend of the winged girl eh? Hmmm… Keep the other woman close. I may need her yet…”


Oh dear! A grand entrance and a daring rescue would not be amiss right about now!

*Serenity forces herself to remain calm as Heinz turns back to face her. She clenches the knife in her hand and steels herself for what she knows she must do.*

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:34 AM

ITSAWASH


From MUCH earlier (the last thread, in fact):

Quote:

Originally posted by TheRealMe:
On the Sereni-Tree:

After plotting some courses away from Garrison, just in case, TheRealMe leaves the Sereni-Tree’s Bridge. He turns right, and walks along the balcony overlooking the Common Room until he approaches the North Wing entrance. Then he takes some stairs down to the main level. He buzzes the door to Washie’s quarters. Presently, she opens the door.

“Hi, Washie. Can I come in? Since the Captain is paying attention again, I expect that I’ll have a bit more free time, so...”

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*Washie stands facing The Real Him wrapped in her burgundy colored top sheet wiping sleep from her eyes. "Hey. Good ta see ya," she smiles as she opens the door. They sit on a bench at her table, her tucking the trailing end of the sheet between her breasts as he pretends not to watch.

"How's life been? I've enjoyed the heck outta my rest. Needed it more than I needed to deal with some of the shipboard intrigue. I do have some great ideas for a wedding present for the happy couple and baby gifts for those who are enceinte. Sometime in between naps somebody waved me a message about a choco-jacuzzi and a shopping trip. You get in on that action at all?"

TRM clears his throat, ignores the jacuzzi question and just says, "I've missed you. Good that you got the rest you needed but we could use your services as Ship's Counselor when you're of a mind to get back to work."

"Yeah? Ready to report to duty, Sir," Washie gives a poorly done salute owing to her using an elbow to keep the knot at her chest secured.

Washie raises one arm and yawns, her palm politely covering her mouth as she does. The First Officer and Ship's Counselor seem terribly drowsy all of a sudden, TRM yawns too and sways a little on the bench beside the touseled woman.

"Can I get you some tea or something? Sweet Buddha, but I'm fixin' to pass out here on this seat, don't know why, don't need anymore sleep, certainly. Can't imagine wha.." She ends the commentary on another yawn.

TRM stands up to catch Washie as she slumps down, her head caught on his arm instead of on the hard table it was aiming for. He carries her to the bed, his arms angling her feet down to be tucked beneath the comforter. She's sound asleep bunched up in the sheet she had earlier tucked around herself to answer him at the door.

TRM hesitates, warring with his concern for her modesty and her need for comfort, smiling as he realizes what she'd say about that, and takes that grinning thought as impetus to bend to her form, untucking the wine-colored sheet from her chest and unrolling the sleeping woman from the cocoon. Her hair is wrapped around her now after the sheet is half off, and in untangling her from the long strands, TRM accidentally awakens her.

Washie murmurs sleepily, smiles and pulls him down to the pillow next to her head. TRM feels more drowsy the closer he gets to the bed and suddently has neither the will nor the energy to rise. He fades from consciousness partially prone on the bed, booted feet hanging off the edge, his face pressed half on Washie's pillow, half into her neck, her wavy hair against his cheek.

They sleep. For almost a week.

~One week later~

TRM wakes to find himself naked, his clothes scattered hither and yon like so much flotsam and jetsam on the shores of Washie's quarters. If the state of his limbs twined with Washie's equally unclothed ones is any indication (and his memory tells him it certainly is), their chakras are likely in finer tune than even the last time they were in this bunk together.

He presses a good morning kind of kiss on her lips and waits for her to rouse. Nothing.
"Washie, ummmmm, time to get up, gotta figure out what day this is, for one thing, and what jobs we've both got left to claim, for another." The woman slumbers on. He checks her vital signs, sees nothing to indicate she's anything but sleeping. He carries her to the shower and turns it on both of them quite warm and pulsing. Washie inhales sharply and stretches in TRM's arms, finding her feet as she slides down his naked body under the stream.

She stands on tiptoe for a long kiss, murmuring, "G'morning," and gathers lather from the dispensor on the shower wall for some body cleansing. Looking up at the chronometer near the door TRM sees that it's been a full week since he rang the buzzer outside her door.

"Something's odd about this."

"Odd? You saying that you and me here are odd? 'Cause I was thinking we're fairly well, might even say evenly matched in a lot of ways, TRM, and if you need some more convincing, well then,"

"No, Honey," he laughs. "All the sleeping. Hell, you've been out cold for I don't know how long, even before I came to check on you and ended up Rip Van Winkleing in your bunk right with you."

Washie smiles slowly up at him, lathering luxuriously, and ventures, "Wasn't all sleeping, though, was it?" He catches her smile and his own broadens.

"No, no. You have the right of it. And no complaints here, don't want you to get the wrong idea, I'm nowhere near complaining. My chakras are more than happy with the sleeping. And with the after-sleeping. What with the twining and the holding and the...all of it."

Rinsing off, Washie steps out of the shower to give TRM time to himself. She grabs a thick towel for herself and hangs one on a wall hook for TRM. Absent mindedly toweling off, Wash pads barefoot from the shower room to her bedroom, yawning the closer she gets to the bed. When TRM finally comes from the shower, towels off and then dons his errant clothes from the floor as he goes, he reaches Washie's bed to find her adrift upon it, asleep again. Wrapping her in the comforter, he carries her out of the room down the hall, planning to take her to medical, maybe com them first to let them know her symptoms, get her a thorough check-up.

Casting one last wistful glance at the bunk and yawning again just before her door closes, TRM feels his memory of what they'd shared inside the cabin fading to black and by the time he leaves Washie in a side storage room that nobody ever goes into and closes, then locks the door behind him, he's completely forgotten that he did anything other than stand outside her cabin door for an entire week waiting for her to answer the buzzer. The man strides off down the corridor about his First Officer-type business.

Inside the Ship's Counselor's cabin, a faint miasma of blue emanates off the sheets and the bunk the pair had occupied for so many days and nights. It lingers close to the surface of the bed, sending up tendrils of sensual wanting and needful sleepiness. A small laugh is heard in the foggy vapor.

Washie sleeps on behind a locked storage room door down the hall, one arm tucked under her head for a pillow. The faintest blue haze wafts up from the comforter to drift around her eyes and nose.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:37 AM

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges


Wisp hobbles after Noskills and Jade but quickly loses ground. He stops and crouches to the floor.
"Are we gonna have to leave you?" says Jade halfway down the corridor

"No. Give me two ticks" Wisp looks at the blood seeping from his leg. "Blood loss is low Femeral Arteries intact" He then pulls the Blade from his leg with an obvious wince and throws it to one side. He puts his hands in one of the lower pockets on his jeans and removes a small aerosol can with a thin wire attached to the head.
"What the hells that?" asks Noskills
"Everything a hole in the thigh needs, Artifical clotting, Antibiotics and most important...Pain killers" He sticks the wire into the wound and sprays shouting and writhing in pain as he does it. He then stands up puts the can in his pocket and picks up the sword. "she'll want this back" He checks his power cell on this pulse rifle then nods to Jade and the crew continue down the hall

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:15 AM

ITSAWASH


Quote:

Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
Wisp hobbles after Noskills and Jade but quickly loses ground. He stops and crouches to the floor.
"Are we gonna have to leave you?" says Jade halfway down the corridor

"No. Give me two ticks" Wisp looks at the blood seeping from his leg. "Blood loss is low Femeral Arteries intact" He then pulls the Blade from his leg with an obvious wince and throws it to one side. He puts his hands in one of the lower pockets on his jeans and removes a small aerosol can with a thin wire attached to the head.
"What the hells that?" asks Noskills
"Everything a hole in the thigh needs, Artifical clotting, Antibiotics and most important...Pain killers" He sticks the wire into the wound and sprays shouting and writhing in pain as he does it. He then stands up puts the can in his pocket and picks up the sword. "she'll want this back" He checks his power cell on this pulse rifle then nods to Jade and the crew continue down the hall



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*Sending her thoughts out and about as she slumbers behind the locked storage room door, Wash senses her younger sexier brother easily dealing with a thigh injury before going on to handle the task at hand alongside his comrades. 'The guy's certainly worthy,' she ponders. 'Anybody'd be proud to have him as a brother, younger and sexier or not.' Washie fades back to insensibility on the heels of her approving thoughts.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:14 PM

SERYN


Having gone through all of the Lost theories and rejected each one of them on the ground of not being bonkers enough, Seryn finds her self at a loss for something to think about.

Idly she starts rooting around in her pockets, looking for something to amuse her self with. In one of the front pockets of her trousers, she feels a small peice of paper, quite thick and smooth. She pulls it out, and swivels round on the floor in order to see what it is by the strip of light showing underneath.

She grins, slowly she carefully smooths out the nametag. "next time you see Jadehand, give him the biggest damn hug you've ever given anyone..." She reads the name written on the tag again, then carefully slips the tag just under her bra-strap, easily reachable for when she needs it.

Then she lays back, humming pop songs again and biding her time.

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:05 PM

BRIDE2


In the fancy palace in Chinatown on Garrison:

Deuce was ahead of the rest of the rescuers, running up the stairs, taking them two steps at a time. At the top of the stairway was a door, which seemed to lead to the outside, perhaps to the shuttle pad on the roof. That door was open and one of the thugs who had carried Quincey away was there looking down, observing Deuce as she closed the distance between them. Almost casually, he lobbed a grenade at her and backed away, letting the door slowly pull itself shut.

Deuce dropped her sword and dove forward to catch the grenade on its third bounce. From a semi-prone position, Deuce whipped the grenade back. It flew through the narrowing opening just as the door slammed shut and locked. The resulting explosion blew the heavy door off its hinges. By the time Deuce recovered her weapon and got back on her feet, the others had joined her on the stairs.

“Heh! I was the starting pitcher on my high school baseball team.”


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:28 AM

MAI


Quote:

"Just point that bit at them and pull the trigger."


Right. Got it.
I'll apologize now for the inevitable-accidental-shooting-of-things/people that-I-wasn't-aiming-at.



*stands behind a pile of crates and trash bins looking out as the creepy guys meander just ahead*

So what's the plan? You do have a plan right?

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"Hiding ain't a plan?"


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:51 AM

CITIZEN


"Plan, erm yeah, we erm follow 'em till they get where they're going then we take them by surprise and erm extract the required information." Citizen said. "You can shoot knee caps right?"



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:57 AM

MAI


Knee caps? Sure. No problem. Just so long as I'm aiming for say the shoulder. Maybe we should...

* her speech is interrupted when suddenly the scuffling ahead stops and one of the goons looks back*

*Diving behind the dumpster Citizen and Mai peer out as one goon drops his "load" and begins to back track down the alley way.





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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:59 AM

SAFEAT2ND


The goon starts back towards the garbage container Citizen and Mai hide behind.

Mai swallows nervously, thinking over and over, knee caps, knee caps.

Citizen produces what looks like a wrapped piece of bubble gum.

Mai looks at him funny, candy?

"It's a sticky flare" Citizen whispers. "It sticks to anything and the compound reacts with the air causing it to burn with the intensity of a blast furnce. Leaves neat little holes... and it comes with a comic." He grins proudly at her.

"C'mon, quit screwin' around, this guy's heavy." The goons partner calls.

The goon takes one last look around, shrugs his shoulders and goes back to dragging the large man. (Bear)

Citizen and Mai continue to follow. Soon they find themselves back at the Leighton Docks.

Citizen and Mai stay sheltered in the alley while the goons continue on to a black ship.

The goons drop their captors unceremoniously on the tarmac as an ISSCV screams in, Soul hanging out the open hatch.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:30 AM

JADEHAND


*JadeHand, NOSkillz, Shadow (the cat, not the little girl), and Wisp join Deuce in the stairwell to the roof just as the door is blown free of it's hinges thanks to Deuce's expert pitching skills. JadeHand puts his left hand on Deuce's right shoulder to steady himself, wiping more blood from from his brow with his right arm. He gives her shoulder a little squeeze.*

"Good job, now we can't let them take off. 4 guards and maybe a pilot out there. Plus our pilot, Let's not shoot her."

*Looking around at those in the stairwell, each nods their readiness and JadeHand pushes himself up the stairs. He hears gunshots and shouting from the guards who have turned to face them. Diving to the leftof the exit, he fires several rounds at the first guard who rocks backwards and falls to the ground as the rounds penetrate his shoulder, chest, and gut.
Deuce follows behind JadeHand, spining her blades in her hands and throwing one forwards. The Blade sails through the air towards the guards, taking one of the guards in the throat, he stumbles back clutching at his throat, falling lifeless to the rooftop.
NOSkillz and Wisp are right behind them, opening fire on the final two guards. Each aiming high to avoid the squirming Quincey, now between the two guards on the rooftop. The last two guards are hit several times in the shoulders and one in the head. Just as the pilot comes around from the helicopters cockpit, fumbling with his pistol. he his immediately taken to the ground by Shadow who pounces on and growls at him.
Deuce runs to her 'sister' and slices her bonds free.*


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:39 AM

THEREALME


There are tears in Quincey's eyes as Deuce cuts her loose. "Hi, there, Bride2!"

Deuce smiles. "Hi, yourself, Bride5. Ready to take us all out of here in that chopper?"

"Oh, YES! And thank you all for coming for me!"


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:52 AM

THEREALME


As the rescuers are dragging the wounded Jadehand to the helicopter, a figure appears in the doorway to the stairs. The person seems bloody, burned, and beaten. It is Mister Chin.

Deuce, Wisp, and N0Skillz jump forward as Quincey keeps dragging Jadehand. Shadow the tiger growls. Wisp and N0Skillz level their weapons at the old martial arts master.

Deuce is shocked. “No way! No gorram way! You can’t be alive.”

Wisp aims, “I’ll see if I can fix that!”

Mister Chin shakes his head. “There will be no need for that, young sir.” To Quincey, Mister Chin bows deeply. “Mei-ling, Kuin, I shall convey your regrets to Mister Lu Chin and your honorable father, and inform them that your wedding is off. Fare you well!” Mister Chin backs down a few steps, then turns to walk down the stairs.

Quincey rubs a tear away, then says, "Let's go while we still can. I love you all for rescuing me!" As she looks from face to face, her gaze settles on Wisp. "Uh, hey, who are you?"

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:26 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Under the Dagger, Jennings retrieves a small knife from the sole of his boot and cuts his hands loose. As he cuts Grunts hands loose, they both cast worried glances at the soldier downed by the arrow. It wasn’t worry that the soldier wasn’t dead, it was what the arrow represented.

“You don’t think…” Grunt starts as Jennings finally frees him.

“Nah, can’t be…”

“How many people do you know that voluntarily carry a bow into a fire fight?”

As if in answer to Grunts question, a man jumps from the hovering ISSCV, rolls once and comes up firing a bow, taking out another soldier.

“If he’s here… does that mean we’re on his list?” Grunt asks. Jennings just shrugs.

The two men creep up behind the soldiers also hiding under the Dagger, firing at the newcomers. Using the ropes that once bound their hands as garrotes, Jennings and Grunt incapacitate the soldiers.

At that point gunfire erupts from an alleyway between hangers across the tarmac.

**

Heinz curses from the control booth as his comm.. interrupts him again. Keying the speaker, Heinz growls “What?!?!”

From the other end gunshots and yelling can be heard. “Sir we’ve come under attack at the Docks.”

“So?”

“Send reinforcements…”

“I’m sorry, do I know you?” Heinz hurriedly breaks the connection, looking up at Serenity, his face a mix of puzzlement and worry.

He thinks a moment then keys the comm. “Bring the other woman to me.”

**

Alarms bells on the bridge of the Sereni-Tree go off as a light cruiser with the Blue Sun logo painted on the side drops out of warp and heads towards Commerce.


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:08 AM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions


OOC: Backtracking ever-so-slightly

Earlier on the Sereni-Tree
Quote:

Originally posted by safeat2nd:
"Safe looks at the faces assembled and gets the answer he was hoping for, put to voice by Soul.

"Time for action. I'm not sitting here while my wife and child are in danger, and not one of you can stop me." Soul says glaring at them, daring anyone to argue.

"You'll not get an argument out of us." Safe says and the others nod in agreement. "It just needed to be said is all. It's not like we were going to sit idly by. The ISSCV is here, we can take that, but you have to let the rest of us help."

Jake7, Jazaf and Needy run in. Soul takes a deep breath and looks at the faces around him. With the exception of the strangers Safe and Needy, these were his friends and more importantly, Serenity's friends. The worry was evident on their faces too. His eyes settle on Ath. Seeing his own grim faced determination mirrored on his future brother-in-law's face made up his mind.

"Ok, but we have to move fast. I don't want the trail to get cold."



Barely moments after, the team disassembled and began to make preparations for the mission at hand.
Needy, an amateur soldier at best, could merely walk back and forth as he contemplated his role in the rescue operation. He had trained for basic combat as part of his Companion training, but he never in a million years would have thought he’d need to put it to use. Who knows, maybe he still won’t. But if it’s anything like his comparatively straight forward escape from Boros, then he needed to prepare himself, certainly a lot more than he has.

He casts his mind back two years, when he was serving under the direction of Master Woden.

****

"That’s it." The silver-haired man told the young companion after he has knocked over his blonde opponent with a staff.

As the defeated female gets to her feet and walks off to the sidelines, the master rests his hand on the victorious companion’s shoulder.

"You have completed stage one. You’ve mastered the basic techniques. Only now, you will have to get to grips with the rest, if you wish to continue your training that is. You may know that your training stipulates that only the basics are mandatory, but you may progress if that is what you wish. Only, I tell you now, you will have to do battle with men, not just women as you have. So what is your answer?"

Needy looked up at his master, his weary eyes providing the answer long before actual words did.
Battle was not something he was eager to get tied up in. Although he wasn’t a pacifist, he could not foresee a time in his life where such combat training would be necessary. He was a companion, not a soldier.

"That will not be necessary" the companion respectfully replied.

****

Needy stopped pacing as those words he had spoken to his master suddenly hit him. He had refused the training that he now felt he needed. “You damn fool” he told himself.



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:14 AM

CALLMESERENITY


*Serenity realizes that the time to act has come.*

So, Heinz, things not working out as you planned?

Shut up! *He says, turning to her with a look of rage on his face.*

Ooh, big talk for a man who has a pregant woman tied to a chair!

*This accomplishes what she wants. He lashes out at her, smacking her across the face. She tastes blood.*

Heinz, *she says, her voice much calmer than she feels.* you are going to pay for that.

*But he just leers at her.* I think you'll be the one doing the paying.

*He grabs at her, tears at her shirt, and she acts without thinking. She pulls her hands free of the ropes, stabs up with her knife with all her strength, piercing Heinz' throat, then pulls the blade across, using both hands. He clutches at his throat, at her wrists, her arms, her neck, his hands scrambling for some hold as the blood pours from the wound. Serenity fights back, stabbing at his wrists as his hands clench around her throat. Finally, his grip loosens and he falls forward onto her. She shoves at him and he slides to the floor.*

*Serenity quickly slashes the bonds tying her legs and stands up. She wipes her blade on her pant legs and puts it back in her pocket. She takes the gun from his holster and then feels his legs. She finds another gun strapped to his calf and she takes that, too. Heinz lifts a hand to her, trying with the last of his strength to grab her, but she brushes it aside as she steps over him and moves as quickly to the door as she can, leaving a bloody trail of footprints behind her.*

*She reaches the door just as it opens. Two guards walk in dragging Seryn between them. Serenity raises her guns.*

Let her go. Now!





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One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 6:53 AM

SOULOFSERENITY

The Man They Call Soul...


Soul stands just outside the hatch to the Dagger. From the comm message, Soul knows that TRM has the soldier inside covered, so there is no worry that the Dagger itself will join in on the fight. Firing another arrow into yet another guard, Soul takes a step to the side and sees someone emerging from underneath the ship. He raises his bow and prepares to let loose an arrow, when a face from years past rises up to greet him.

"You!" Soul cries, seeing Jennings. He hears a soft click behind him. "Let me guess: Grunt?" Jennings nods. "Where's Bear?"

"Got himself knocked in the head pretty good," Jennings replied. "Now the one thing we need to know is this: do we have a reason for shooting you right now?"

Soul stares back at Jennings, and then lowers his bow. "I haven't worked for the Expendables in a long time. I've got no mark here. I just came to rescue the woman I love, and my unborn child."

At that, Jennings' eyes widen. "Wo de ma! Your girl have wings?"

Soul nods. "You saw her?"

"Yeah, we did," Jennings replies, his teeth now grinding. "Come on, we'll take you to her. Besides, we've got a score to settle."

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:19 AM

SERYN


(backing up a bit)

She paces the the small space, really really tired now of not being able to see anything.

She'd tried the door again, the hinges were loose enough, the door constructed in such a way that...

she pauses, voices, then planting one foot firmly on the floor she drives the other with all her strength into the door. One of the guards is caught, the heavy wood pushes him down, but the other guard nimbly steps out of the way. She attempts to run, find her guns and hide, stay close to Serenity until the others get here, but he catches her, forcing her against a wall, her head bouncing off the crumbling plaster, while he waits for the other to pull himself out form under the door.

They drag her, a little dazed, to the room she had seen Serenity in earlier. She cooperates, wanting to find out the situation before she makes the situation worse, but as the door swings open, a huge grin lights up her face.

"oh, so we can fight back now?" She lifts her arms above her head, the guards arms unprepared for the direction, duck and pirouettes as far as she can around, driving the heel of her foot into the back of one guards knee. He falls forward, releasing his arm in an attempt to check himself. Before the other guard can make a grab for her she brings her arm down and around as hard as she can, driving her elbow into his face. She grunts at the shock in her arm, then turns expecting the other guard to advance, but Serenity stands over him, wiping her blade.
She kicks the second guard between the legs and he drops, moaning slightly, the look on his face promising them no more trouble.

"Serenity! oh gods, sorry, I was waiting for the others, I didn't want to take them on just you and me. I've set a beacon, they should all be here soon, there are more guards, loads more. Aw hell"

She grabs Serenity and hugs her tightly. "I though we were looking at our last shopping spree ever for a moment then"

She catches sight of Heinz, bleeding out on the floor behind them. Crossing over she squats beside him, surveying the damage, "Ick... I'm almost sorry we stole all your platinum... it made a lovely ship you know."

She stands, idly kicking the man in the gut, and wonders what they do next.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:34 AM

WASHSYOUNGERSEXIERBR

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges


"I'm the new guy. Names Wisp" He says holding out a hand. Quincy quickly shakes it then begins setting up the shuttle for launch.
"Your Bride5 right? Is anyone on your boat single?" Quincy didnt answer so Wisp shut up and found himself a seat near the back.
His leg had started bleeding again so he reapplyed Deuce's makeshift tournique and decided to leave it. They were quickly airborne and headed off somewhere.
'Why the hell did i take this Job?' Wisp thought to himself. Last week he was living the highlife with many different women and now he'd been shot at, had grenades thrown at him, and his personal favourite, had a samuri Sword thrown through (thats sharp bit on both sides of) his leg. 'And now They're all married!'

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:08 AM

CITIZEN


It was mostly over by the time Citizen joined the fight. As he approached he saw Soul and the men the guards had been carrying talking.

"Big happy familly?" Citizen asked as he approached, looking casual but ready to lift the muzzle of his Assualt rifle in a split second. "Now I believe we've got some more rescuing to do, and I'm guessing some leads on how we're going to do it."



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:40 AM

JADEHAND


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
*He grabs at her, tears at her shirt, and she acts without thinking. She pulls her hands free of the ropes, stabs up with her knife with all her strength, piercing Heinz' throat, then pulls the blade across, using both hands. He clutches at his throat, at her wrists, her arms, her neck, his hands scrambling for some hold as the blood pours from the wound. Serenity fights back, stabbing at his wrists as his hands clench around her throat. Finally, his grip loosens and he falls forward onto her. She shoves at him and he slides to the floor.*






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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:48 AM

CALLMESERENITY


ooc: lol! Thanks. I think.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:02 AM

THATWEIRDGIRL


*comm* I got a cruiser coming in for Commerce. Jake7’s got her in sights, but that’s just one gun. I need some help here...my sky’s gonna get crowded again....I don’t like that!

Shadow, hon? Can you press that green button over there. It’s a buzzer for Tre...she’ll know what it means.

Ah bugger, I left the comm on...sorry. *comm off*



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:08 AM

LIGHTMEDARK


Quote:

Originally posted by cozen:
*Sobering up as best he can, cozen suggests to LMD:*

Ought we not immediately volunteer for anything TWG asks?



umm, like, sure...and stuff.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:54 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:

She stands, idly kicking the man in the gut, and wonders what they do next.




*Serenity walks over to Seryn.*

Is he still not dead yet?

*She pulls out one of her guns and aims it at his head. She pulls the trigger....and nothing happens.*

Um..the gun's not working.

*She hands it to Seryn, who looks at it briefly.*

The safety's on.

Oh. Well. Maybe you could...?

*Serenity looks down.*

I'm sorry. I got blood on your shoes.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:27 PM

SERYN


"oh no worries, they've had much worse on them, I remember this one time this guys brain just exp...

ok, lets not go there. ...Serenity? You doin ok? Don't wig out just yet."

Serenity continues to look down, not answering, and Seryn can't tell if she feeling shock or just examining the patterns in the blood.
She walks over to a couple of tables heaped with stuff, happy to find her own guns there, and... well, a few others besides. "oh baby...." she breathes.

"The way I figure it, between us and the Tree folk, are a whole bunch of hired goons. *Indicates Heinz* Guys like that need a lot of people to order 'bout. No idea where they are or how loyal to that pile of dren they are, but... until they get told, they're gonna keep fighting.
So the question is, do they exist, how many, and do we fight our way out, or do we wait for the Tree-folk and meet half way? Personally, considering the kids, i'm for the second option..."

She picks up her belt and hangs it round her hips again, then picks up her hip flask, the one time whiskey now replaced by cordial, and hands it to the other woman.

"But more importantly, how is junior? Oh, and your shopping is safe, Sparky picked it all up for us."



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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:19 PM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions


Moments Earlier:

The ISSCV rumbled as it flew through the skies of Commerce towards it's destination. The tremors did nothing to calm Needy's already unsettled stomach. Maybe it was nerves. Or side-effects of his recent trauma... or possibly he had just ingested too much chocolate in the chocuzzi, whatever the reason, it wasn't making him feel too good.
The fact was, he feared what exactly he was getting himself into. He had been handed a Beretta by Safe which seemed to indicate that he would indeed need to be armed for possible battle.
Considering what happened the last time the companion handled a weapon, it's no wonder he's more than a little worried.
But surely there was no reason to be.
He had seen the doctor prior to joining the rescue who had pretty much told him, as unfamiliar a situation he was in, that he was in no real danger. Even he was to be shot, past experiences had proven that they did not affect him. Whatever had happened on Boros seemed to have altered his body chemistry permanently.
Bullets couldn't cause any real damage, not anymore. The doctor had simply told him that he must focus his mind so as not to be overcome by what he thinks he should be feeling.

"Mind over matter" Needy repeats to himself, again and again.

The ISSCV stops and Needy watches as Soul prepares himself to be lowered from the hatch. The companion looks on in admiration, respecting the courage and confidence displayed by the man in question.

Quote:

Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
Soul drops from the ISSCV, falling the distance to the tarmac and landing in a roll. Bring up his bow, he fires an arrow through the shin of a retreating gunman. The man collapses to the ground in pain, and Soul hears a voice cry out.

Quote:

Originally posted by safeat2nd:
One of the captors yells out “You! Go get the guns from that ship on line!” The man indicated, slings his gun over his shoulder and scrambles through the Dagger’s hatch.



If they get those guns online, this fight is gonna get a bit too messy.

Soul looks around at the confusion and makes a break for the Dagger.



Now it was Needy's turn.
As nervous as he was, something in him told him that all would be well. Sure his instinct's hadn't been right in the past, but for once in his life, he felt confident that he could do this.
Whatever waited for him out there could be no worse than sitting waiting inside the confines of that ship, doing nothing. At least this way, he could make a difference.

He approaches the open hatch and, after looking down at the ground, realises that it's not so far down as he had expected. In a moment of adrenalin, he takes a chance and jumps from the ship to the harsh ground, rolling as he lands.


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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:26 PM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions


Getting to his feet, Needy could not hide the large grin across his face. He felt like an old fashioned hero - similar to the ones he grew up reading about and had watched in movies. This was the life.

A shot rang out whilst he felt a slight thud as something hit his back.
The gunman behind him had wasted no time in attempting to take out any potential threat. Only this time he had failed.

Needy reached his arm behind his back and felt the hole the bullet had left, whilst the blood that covered his finger told him that, yes, he had indeed been shot.

Turning around he faced the gunman who, after some hesitation, fired another shot at the companion, this time hitting his stomach.

Needy looks down and watches the blood seep down his leg. Then he looks back up and smiles.

His smile is due to a number of reasons.
The fact that the doctor was right, bullet's cannot affect him.
The fact that last time this happened to him, he was brought close to death, but not this time. But mostly the smile was due to the fact that for once, Needy had the upper hand. And nothing could stop him.

The gunman gets to his feet, and in a state of panic, begins firing off shots one after the other at the bulletproof man that stands before him. Only one more bullet actually hits him, the others missing completely due to the shooter's shaking hand.

"Wh... wh... what the hell are you?" The gunman stutters as he staggers back, his gun now out of ammo.

Needy continues to smile as he thinks about a reply. Should he just shoot him there and then with the weapon Safe had given him, or do something far more... fun.

"That's kinda itchy. That bullet. Really..." Needy digs his fingers into his shoulder where the third bullet hit and prizes it out. "...itchy."
Needy starts to move closer and closer to the would-be-assassin as he discards waht was left of the bullet on the ground.
"It's impossible!" the man gasps

"No, what's impossible is that you had... what? Six shots? And only half of them actually hit me. I mean c'mon, you couldn't hit a space cruiser two feet away."
Needy now stands above the cowering gunman.
"You should be dead!" he whispers in fear.

The companion grins slightly before bending down to see eye to eye with the man. "I already am"

The gunman's pulse races as all colour is drained from his face.

There is only one thing left for Needy to do.

"BOO!"

The gunman jumps back and flees in terror.

Needy rises, an accomplished smile on his face. "Fantastic!"


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First Boy Whore of Destiny
Incredibly Confused Companion of SereniTree
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:27 PM

CALLMESERENITY


Huh? What?

No, I'm okay, just...that's a lot of blood.

*Takes a sip of whatever Seryn handed her to drink. Hands it back.*

We have to get out of here, Seryn. Heinz was saying something about Blue Sun, and that's NEVER good. Also, he said that GPS tracking wouldn't work in here, so they probably have no idea where we are.

Are there any swords on that table? Or long metal rods even? I don't like the guns so much.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.



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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:01 PM

THEREALME


On Sereni-Tree:

Quote:

Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
*comm* I got a cruiser coming in for Commerce. Jake7’s got her in sights, but that’s just one gun. I need some help here...my sky’s gonna get crowded again....I don’t like that!

Shadow, hon? Can you press that green button over there. It’s a buzzer for Tre...she’ll know what it means.

Ah bugger, I left the comm on...sorry. *comm off*



Trey steps onto the Bridge.

“Hi, Weirdgirl. Did you call me?” She consults a dataslate. “Here is a list of everybody still on board the Sereni-Tree, as far as I can tell:

“There’s you and the two little girls Shadow and Ghost.

“Of the Brides there’s me here on the Bridge, Jet down in Engineering, Bobbi is still recovering from her injuries on Boros, and Bride7 is slinking around somewhere.

“Of the old crew, there is Ebonezer still sleeping in her nest under the pool table, Jake7 in a gun turret, Montanagirl was last seen in the jacuzzi, Doctor SimonWho in the Infirmary, and Xander / Ash somewhere. The Ebo Golem is sort of working, but it’s quirky since it got damaged. I wouldn’t trust it with a delicate job.

“Of the newer folk there is Washie the counsellor, Witchy the medic, BeautifulDisaster, and RiverClone (unless those last two turn out to really be the same person).

“Then there are some folk we haven’t seen in a long while (at least five threads) who MIGHT still be on board: Bluefishie, Elwoodmom, Lissa, Malicious, Monkeytail, Needleseye, Piffle101, Rat, Static, and TheGreyJedi.”

She looks up from the dataslate. “Everybody else is either kidnapped or else off rescuing someone who is kidnapped.

“So, got orders?”


Trey, Bride3

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:05 PM

THEREALME


Over Garrison City:

Still in her slinky red party dress, Quincey pilots the helicopter back to the hanger where the Ocean Cloud was parked. She keeps an eye out the window for hazards and pays close attention to the instruments and controls as she speaks. “Wisp, glad to meet you. You can call me Quincey, or Quin, or Bride5, or Mei-ling, or Miss Kuin. Actually, Sereni-Tree has a pretty big crew, and there are a bunch of unattached females. I mean, there are six of us Brides left, and none of us has a Groom. Not anymore.”

“Not anymore,” Deuce agrees sadly. “But of all of us, Jet might have had something going with TheGreyJedi.”

Quincey continues. “Right. Jet, she’s Bride4, was pretty devoted to Grey, but Grey and Needleseye seem to have run off together. I doubt she’ll carry a torch for long. There are Ebonezer, Piffle, and Bluefishie, but they’re pretty young. I think ThatWeirdGirl is between boyfriends right now, but she has her eye on our Doctor, SimonWho. They recently found out that they’re going to have a baby together some time in the future who will grow up into our crewmate PsychicRiver. There’s Jake7 and Montanagirl. BeautifulDisaster and Witchy are new. River-clone has a body again. She’s really smart, but she’s not right in the head. Then there’s Ash. Ash is nice.”

“But Ash has two heads,” Deuce adds pointedly.

“So? She’s also the Shindig Goddess. Good with parties. Ummm… yeah, I think that all OTHER females on Sereni-Tree are attached, one way or another. Not sure about Seryn.”


Quincey, Bride5

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:08 PM

THEREALME



Over Garrison City:

Deuce looks worried. “Hey, Jadehand is still bleeding pretty bad. Any of you a medic?”

Quincey drops the helicopter on the tarmac. It is not a gentle landing. She looks around the cabin. “Okay, you guys said that Jadehand finished building that shuttle of his. Check his pockets for keys.”

While Wisp goes through Jadehand’s pockets, N0Skillz takes another look at his wounds. “It’s this belly wound I’m most worried about,” he says. “He must be bleeding internally. We gotta get him to a hospital.”

“Or to the Sereni-Tree’s Infirmary,” suggests Deuce.

Wisp holds up an object dandling on a chain. “Is this thing a key?”

Quincey grabs it. “Let’s find out!” She walks ahead while Deuce and N0Skillz carry Jadehand to the hanger door, followed by Wisp lugging the weapons and Shadow padding silently behind. Quincey and Wisp drag the door open.

The hanger is empty.

“Gorram it!” Deuce curses. “Here I thought we were home free! Who stole our gorram shuttle?”

Quincey studies the key, then she presses a button on the it, deactivating the SEP field. The Ocean Cloud appears before the group.

“Oh, right!” Deuce says, sheepishly. “I forgot about that.”

“Get him on board. Make him comfortable.” Quincey rushes up to the cockpit and starts bringing systems online. She activates the com. “Sereni-Tree, this is Ocean Cloud. We have a medical emergency. Prepare to receive a patient in, uh, ten minutes. Multiple gunshot wounds.”

The voice of ThatWeirdGirl comes over the com. “Understood, Ocean Cloud. Also, we have an Alliance cruiser in system.”

“Wonderful!” Quincey takes a quick look behind her to make sure that everyone is aboard and the hatch is sealed. She takes a deep breath, turns the SEP field back on, and takes off.


Quincey, Bride5

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:17 PM

THEREALME


OOC: After some failed attempts, TheRealMe realizes, sadly, that he lacks the skill to properly respond to Washie's affectionate and passionate posts, other than to say that if he's forgotten anything regarding her, it must be due to part of his brain being surgically removed!


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