A Mighty Thorn In a Might Paw - Ch. 48
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Echoes of the past...
CATEGORY: FICTION TIMES READ: 2935 RATING: 9.0 (PG) SERIES: FIREFLY
INT. PALADIN – BRIDGE
Madsen is storming down one of the ramps toward a tech station.
MADSEN (furious): What do you mean, out of contact?
TECH: All troops sent to inspect the ship are out of contact. I don’t know why yet.
MADSEN (ice cold): The very near future of your career depends greatly on your ability to change that fact.
The tech nods and works furiously on his panel.
TECH: Sir, I have visual of the hangar coming up now.
Madsen turns his attention to the center view screen. The hangar fades into view from a high angle. The tech works his console and the view shifts, focusing on Serenity. The unconscious soldiers can be seen lying around the ship.
MADSEN (enraged): Son of a bitch! (slams his hand on a nearby console) All available combat personell, converge immediately on the hangar. Threat Level Alpha. (abruptly switches off the intercom) I knew that man could’t be trusted, no matter how gorram good the mind games.
River slips into view of the camera for an instant, disappearing into Serenity’s cargo bay.
MADSEN: Why haven’t we heard a damn thing from Hangar Observation?
TECH: I tried raising them first thing, sir. No answer.
Madsen slams his hand down on a console.
MADSEN: The one true icon of power in this ‘verse, and we’re slowly being eviscerated!
The Bridge door slides open and Captain Gibson enters, looking most unhappy.
GIBSON: Report.
MADSEN (partially under control): We’ve lost contact with Paul as well as the other troops sent to re-check the ship. Some of them appear to have been over-taken. I’ve ordered our forces to converge on the hangar.
GIBSON (eyeing the view screen): I want Echo Team in there first. Paul is not to be harmed. I've no doubt he’s doing everything he can to apprehend the Tam girl.
Madsen nods, hits the console intercom.
INT. PALADIN – HALLWAY
Paul is sprinting full-out, eyes darting as he rounds corners.
CU Paul’s eyes.
RIVER (VO mind): Echo Team. Doesn’t sound good.
PAUL (VO mind): It’s not. They’re
Love seeing Purplebelly ass getting royally kicked. Seafood is a badass of epic proportions that maybe only Bruce Lee can touch.
You describe the action vividly, and that makes it so much easier (and thus cooler) to follow.
Can't wait for Echo Team to meet up with River....tell me there's carnage.
There's carnage, right?
Awesome stuff.
Definitely can't wait for part 48 and River's decimination of Echo Team. Cuz nothing stops River Tam when's she's in the zone:D
BEB
You can't take the sky from me
It appears that the number of comments correlates in some way to the amount of pwnage in each chapter. Sometimes. I wonder if the Paladin is big enough to have trash compacter chutes in the detention area, because I don't see how the crew and Paul will get by two teams if they're hemmed in. Unless Paul starts rapid-fire chucking his stingers. Which would be awesome, too.
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