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When I was at Creation this year, the California Browncoats were totally awesome and I got to talk with some of them and they were giving out these cute little one inch tall buddahs. Well, I brought mine into my exams every single time this year. I would furiously rub its head for luck before hand and set it up so that it would watch my paper. It worked! I got really really high marks on all my exams!! All A, A- and A+!!! So I want to say thank you for giving me the bestest good luck charm ever! Also, my computer programming teacher saw it and picked it up and then told me he had one too! SQUEE!

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Teacher: Earth-That-Was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths. The Central Planets formed the Alliance. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament, the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. The war was devastating, but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured a safer universe. And now everyone can enjoy the comfort and enlightenment of our civilization. Young River: People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome. [Simon has infiltrated the facility where River is being held, and questions a doctor on her condition] Simon: [impersonating an Alliance official] How is she physically? Dr. Mathias: Like nothing we've seen. All our subjects are conditioned for combat, but River…she's a creature of extraordinary grace. Simon: Yes…she always did love to dance. [Simon activates a device, the pulse of which renders all present scientists unconscious] Dr. Mathias: [on recording] Key members of Parliament have personally observed this subject. I thought-- [recording pauses] The Operative: Key…members…of Parliament. Key. The minds behind every military, diplomatic, and covert operation in the galaxy…and you put them…in a room…with a psychic. The Operative: Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is. The Operative: You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords. Dr. Mathias: Well, unfortunately, I forgot to bring a sword. [The Operative unsheathes his sword] Dr. Mathias: I would put that down right now if I were you— The Operative: Would you be killed in your sleep, like an ailing pet? [After Dr. Mathias falls onto the Operative's sword] The Operative: This is a good death. There's no shame in this, in a man's death. A man who has done fine works. We're making a better world. All of them better worlds. [As Serenity begins a fiery dive into atmo, a panel on the bow breaks off, flying over the cockpit's viewport] Mal: What was that? Wash: Did you see that? Mal: Was that the primary buffer panel? Wash: It did seem to resemble— Mal: Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason? [Serenity shudders.] Wash: Looks like. Mal: I thought Kaylee just checked the entry couplings. I have a very clear memory of it! Wash: Yeah well, if she doesn't give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burn-through, this landing is going to get pretty interesting. Mal: Define interesting! Wash: [deadpan] "Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die"? Mal: [on the ship intercom] This is the captain, we have a lil' problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight…turbulence, and then…explode. [to Wash] Can you shave the vector? Wash: I'm doing it! It's not enough. Mal: Just get us on the ground! Wash: That part will happen pretty definitely. Jayne: We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode! Mal: Jayne, how many weapons you plan on taking? You only got the two arms. Jayne: Well, I just get excitable as to choice. Like to have my options open. Mal: I don't plan on any shooting taking place during this job. Jayne: Yeah, well what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar. Mal: …No grenades. Jayne: Huh? Aw… Mal: No grenades! Zoe: We crashing again? Mal: Talk to your husband. Mule prepped? Zoe: Good to go, sir. Just loading her up. [She turns to Jayne as Mal walks off.] Those grenades? Jayne: Yeah, Captain doesn't want them. Zoe: Jayne, we're robbing the place. We're not occupying it. Mal: Kaylee! Kaylee, what in the sphincter of hell are you playing at? We got the primary buffer panel coming right— Kaylee: Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret. Mal: You told me t

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Zoe: In the time of war, we never would've left a man stranded. Mal: Maybe that's why we lost. Jayne: I'll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight… If he bothers me, or if there's a woman… Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly only when I'm gettin' paid. Kaylee: Don't ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, they fall right out of the sky. Kaylee: We're [going] on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries. [Wash and Zoe glance at each other, embarrassed] Mal: Oh, God! I can't know that! Jayne: [Eyeing Kaylee] I could stand to hear a little more. [Mal greets Fanty and Mingo, identical twins.] Mal: Fanty, Mingo. Mingo: He's Mingo. Mal: He's Fanty, you're Mingo. Mingo: How is it you always know? Mal: Fanty's prettier. Fruity Oaty Bar Jingle: Fruity Oaty Bars! Make a man out of a mouse! Fruity Oaty Bars! Make you bust out of your blouse! Eat them all the time! Let them blow your mind, ohh! Fruity Oaty Bars! [River has just started a bar fight.] Jayne: Hey, tussle! Mal: [Realizing River is the one beating the bar patrons senseless] Jayne… [After River's swift incapacitation of a barful of patrons, the crew regroups on Serenity.] Mal: [to Simon] I believe you got some storytelling to do. What in the hell happened back there? Wash: Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl, 'cause…I don't think that's ever getting old. Mr Universe: [Watching the recording of the bar fight] You guys always bring me the very best violence. [They watch the rest of the fight, which ends with Simon shouting a safe word that causes River to lose consciousness] Mr Universe: ...And she falls asleep. Which, she would be sleepy. Mr. Universe: You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere. River: Show me off like a dog. Old men covered in blood; it never touched them but they're drowning in it. River: Put a bullet to me… Bullet in the brainpan, squish. Book: You got a plan? Mal: Hiding ain't a plan? . . . [Mal mentions that he could have left River behind.] Book: It's not your way, Mal. Mal: I have a way? That better than a plan? Mal: It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world. Book: I wasn't born a Shepherd, Mal. Mal: You have to tell me about that sometime. Book: [Pauses] No, I don't. [After the crew, eavesdropping on a 'wave between Mal and Inara, sees Inara invite the crew to join her at the companion training house] Wash: Inara. Nice to see her again. Zoe: So…trap? Mal: Trap. Zoe: Are we going in? Mal: Oh, it ain't but a few hours out. Wash: Yeah, but, remember the part where it's a trap? . . . Kaylee: But how can you be sure Inara don't just wanna see you? Sometimes people have feelings. And I'm referring here to…people. Mal: You all were watching, I take it? Kaylee: Yes. Mal: Did you see us fight? Kaylee: No. Mal: Trap. Mal: Zoe, the ship is yours. Remember, if anything happens to me; if you don't hear from me within the hour; you take this ship and you come and you rescue me! Zoe: What? And risk my ship? Mal: I mean it. It's cold out there, and I don't want to get left. [Mal, wearing a robe covered in tassels, kneels next to Inara in front of a Buddhist shrine.] Mal: Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony, and a plastic rocket, and one of those— Inara: Mal, what are you doing here? Mal: ...Well...you invited me... Inara: Yes, but I never thought in a million years that you'd be stupid enough to actually come! Mal: Well, that makes you sort of a tease, now, doesn't it? The Operative: I have to say, Captain, I'm impressed that you would come for her yourself. And that you would make it this far…in that outfit. Mal: I can be very graceful when I need to. The Operative: I've no doubt. Mal: She is a mite unpredictable. Mood swings, of a sort. The Operative: It's worse than you know. Mal: It usually is. The Operative: That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Mal: The way I remember it, albatross was a s

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Mal: [angrily] Do you want to run this ship? Jayne: Yes! Mal: Well…you can't! [After discussing the danger River poses to the crew.] Simon: We'll get off. River and I will get off at Haven. We'll find some— Kaylee: Nobody's saying that. Wash: Nobody besides Jayne is saying that. Mal: I got no answers for you Inara. I got no rudder. Wind blows northerly, I go north. That's who I am. Now maybe that ain't a man to lead but they got to follow. So you want to tear me down? Do it inside your own mind. Inara: I'm not trying to tear you down. Mal: But you fog things up. You always have. You spin me about. I wish like hell you were elsewhere. [Mal turns and stalks away] Inara: [Quietly] I was. [River has a gun trained on Mal as Mal tries to talk her down.] Mal: The government's man, he says you're a danger to us. Not worth helping. Is he right? Are you anything but a weapon? I staked my crew's life on the theory [that] you're a person, actual and whole. And if I'm wrong, you best shoot me now- [River cocks the gun.] Mal: Or, we could talk more. Mal: Half of writing history is hiding the truth. Book: I shot him down…Killed the ship that killed us. Not very Christian of me. Mal: You did what's right. Book: Coming from you, that means almost nothing. . . . Book: I'm long gone. Mal: No, Doc will bring you around. I look to be bored by many more sermons before you slip. Book: You can't order me around, boy. I'm not one of your crew. Mal: Yes you are. Mal: I don't murder children. The Operative: I do...If I have to. [After Mal orders the crew to modify Serenity] Zoe: Sir, do you really mean to turn our home into an abomination so that we can make a suicidal attempt at passing through Reaver space? Mal: I mean to live. I mean for us to live. The Alliance won't have that, so we go where they don't follow. [To a technician who has obviously just informed him that Serenity has given him the slip] The Operative: Define "disappeared." Wash: Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve killing anybody, or is this the wrong crowd? River: Run-tse duh shang-dee, ching dai-wuhtzo! Make them stop! They're everywhere! Every city, every… every house, every room—they're all inside me! I can hear them all and they're saying nothing! Get up! Please get up! Wuo-shang mayer, maysheen, byen shr-to… Please, God, make me a stone… Jayne: [upset] She is starting to damage my calm… Zoe: Jayne— Jayne: She's right! Everybody's dead. This whole world's dead for no reason! [Mal and the crew watch a holographic report on the Mirandans' fate.] Dr. Caron: There's 30 million people here, and they just let themselves die. [Everyone jumps at the sound of a brutal attack in the distance.] Dr. Caron: I have to be quick! About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax. Their aggressor response increased beyond madness. They have become… [A crash is heard in the background, now closer] Dr. Caron: [sobs] Well, they've killed most of us. And not just killed…they've done things… Wash: [A look of realization on his face] Reavers...They made them. Dr. Caron: I won't live to report this, but people have to know. We meant it for the best…to make people safer. Mal: This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there’s a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They’re gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave. . . . Jayne: [Taking a drink from a bottle of liquor] Shepherd Book always used to say, "If you can't do somethin' smart...do somethi

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The Operative: [as Serenity approaches a gathered Alliance fleet] Bastard isn't even changing course. [An enormous Reaver fleet appears in pursuit of Serenity. A look of horror crosses The Operative's face] Ensign: Uhh…sir? The Operative: Target the Reavers. Target the Reavers! Target everyone! Somebody fire! Mal: [leading the Reaver and Alliance fleets into combat, and stuck in the middle] The chicken's come home to roost. [Serenity comes to a stop after a crash landing on Mr. Universe's planet.] Wash: [relieved] I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I— [A Reaver harpoon impales Wash, killing him.] [As the Reavers batter the entrance to the crew's final stand, Simon turns to a shaking Kaylee.] Simon: My one regret in all of this... is never being with you. Kaylee: With me? You mean to say, as in.. sex? Simon: I mean to say. [Kaylee cocks her gun, with determination.] Kaylee: Hell with this. I'm gonna live! [River to a wounded Simon] River: You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn. [River dives through the opening in the blast door, throws Simon's med kit through, seals the door... and proceeds to kick SERIOUS Reaver ass.] Mal: The whole Universe is going to know about this, because they need to. The Operative: Do you really believe that? Mal: I do. The Operative: And are you ready to die for that belief? Mal: I am. [Mal draws his gun and shoots, forcing the Operative to take cover.] Mal: [Making a break for the auxiliary control complex] Course, that ain't exactly Plan A... [the Operative manages to stab Mal with his sword.] The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal? Mal: Aw, hell...I'm a fan of all seven. [Mal headbutts the Operative and pulls the sword out.] Mal: But right now...I'm gonna have to go with wrath. [The Operative has apparantly paralyzed Mal with a strike to his lower back. As the Operative retrieves his sword, we see Mal's fingers twitch and realization dawn on Mal's face. The Operative approaches with his sword, prepared to strike.] The Operative: You've done remarkable things, but you're fighting a war you've already lost. [As The Operative is about to run Mal through with the sword, Mal grabs The Operative's arm, dodges the sword, and elbows The Operative in the throat. The Operative gasps and drops the sword.] Mal: Yeah, well, I'm known for that. [Mal dislocates both of The Operative's shoulders. Mal: Piece of shrapnel tore up that nerve cluster'n my first tour. Had it moved. Sorry 'bout the throat. Expect you'd wanna say your famous last words now. Just one trouble. [Mal shoves The Operative's sword through his straps, pinning The Operative to a railing.] Mal: I ain't gonna kill ya. [Mal pulls out the recording that he and the crew of Serenity saw on Miranda and preps the console.] Mal: Hell, I'm gonna grant your greatest wish. I'm gonna show you a world without sin. [Mal is loading up the last of the repair equipment.] The Operative: It's not over, you know. [Mal instinctively goes to his holster, but doesn't draw. He turns to face the Operative.] The Operative: I can't guarantee they won't come after you-the Parliament. Your broadwave about Miranda has weakened their regime, but they are not gone, and they are not…forgiving. Mal: Well, that don't bode especially well for you—giving the order to let us go, patching up our hurt— The Operative: I told them the Tams were no longer a threat. Damage done. They might listen, but I think they know I'm no longer their man. Mal: They take you down, I don't expect to grieve over much. Like to kill you myself, I see you again. The Operative: You won't…There is nothing left to see. [In the deleted scenes] The Operative: [looking at the name on the ship's hull] Serenity. You lost everything in that battle. Everything you believed in, everything you fought for…how did you go on? Mal: If you're still standing there when those engines start goin', you'll never find out. [The Operative blinks, looks down and walks away.] Mal: [muttered] What a whiner. Zoe: Sir, we have a green light.

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Good morning Firefly fans After putting up my latest attempt at FF fan-fic on the forum here I decided to venture back and see how much Firefly fiction that I’ve written. HOLY SMOKES!! I didn’t realize that I had so much crap in the BlueSunRoom. Sorry about that Haken. I promise to get a shrink wrap machine and keep it all together, or how about this, I’ll knock out that west wall ( that’s right, the one with aunt Niska on it) add a door and build an addition to my BSR, that Ok? Anyhoo, here’s some of what I have in there right now. Fan-Fic: 1) The Happy Budda 1-5; A new Companion joins the crew of Serenity. Only for a short time, but it’s long enough…….if you get my point. 2) Life after death 1 & 2; A look at what might have been had Firefly been renewed for new future episodes until we finally became sick of them ( not that that would ever happen) 3) Law of the West 1-5; Mal with a noose around his neck. Tell me it could never happen. 4) The Promise 1-4; River looks for a friend that was left behind at the asylum/school for the gifted, after her rescue by brother Simon. 5) Seeking the Truth 1-3; A family member searches for the truth after the crew of Serenity brings the body of a brother home upon his last request. 6)Three Strikes 1-4; What if Badger’s business was taken over by someone else? Someone with a history and revenge in their heart for Serenity? 7) Smartest Man on the Planet 1-5; Jayne becomes a doctor? What the heck, yeah like that’s gonna happen! 8) Have I Got A Deal for You 1(only); A member of Serenity finds themselves with a proposition they cannot refuse, or can they. These are some of the Fan-Fic in Z’s BSR fiction box. There are some others and a couple of OT that have nothing to do with FF. I’ve enjoyed writing them and I hope readers have enjoyed taking a look. Anyway, take care and peace out. Z

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I went looking for an actress who I could use as a basis for my readers to Imagine Maxine in my new Storyline, New Blood. Needing a tall, busty redhead led me to only one choice, Laura Prepon from 'That 70's Show.' Anyone else who might fit the bill? Brian