Yeah, it's been a few months since I added to this series (I was doing robotics competitions). If you haven't read Liberty (6 parts) and/or Aquaphobe (5 parts), I'd suggest you find them and read them (they can be found in the fanfic section here) as it explains some of the things in this story. Disclaimer: anything recognizable is property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, etc. The story, however, is mine. Also, I had to take some creative liberties, but only on stuff not explained in the series. I also used my own translator for the Mandarin, so it may be off (although it's still comical). On to the story:

Yeah, I don’t sleep much. The Alliance made me pretty well. A regular human needs eight hours of sleep to operate efficiently. I only need four, and can still operate well on as little as two. This morning, I awoke to the sound of Libby running startup procedures on the bridge. It wasn’t quite sunrise, but you could see some light coming from the horizon.

“I see you got some sleep.” Libby continued her task.

“Did you?”

“I don’t sleep.” Libby moved to the other side of the bridge.

“You know what I mean.” I got up off the chair.

“No.” Now Libby started pressing buttons where she was. “Bill and I were prepping the engine for a couple hours-”

“It took that long?” I started helping her with the procedures.

“Yeah. Right fluid coupler was jammed. Took us forever to unjam it.” She went down to navigation. “Anyhow, afterwards, while everybody was asleep, I made sure we were set everywhere else. Ship says she’s fine. Then I came in here and found you asleep, and decided I should run startup procedures and-”

“Okay, I gotcha. We lift in five.” I followed Libby down to navigation. “Is everyone else awake?”

“Yep. They’re all in the cargo bay waiting for you.” Libby exited navigation.

“Go figure,” I said following her out. “The perfect weapon is the last one up.”

I went down the stairs to the catwalk overlooking the cargo bay with Libby at my side. Already assembl