In the confusion following Shang's presentation, the crew almost lost Serenity on the ground, before she had even had the chance to get to the sky. The crew was amongst the last to get to their ship. The ground traffic was horrible, and more than one ship in the motley crew ran into each other. Wash kept a low hover immediately after getting everyone on board. He was kind of incredulous after Mal's last order.

"What do you mean, take us out of the world?"

"Well, not all the way out. I want a low orbit. We have some investigation to be done."

He keyed the mic on the bridge and called for Jayne to join them.

"Whatever you say captain. Might take a while. Don't want to hurt the lookeeloos."

In the gaggle of ships that were running about without direction, several had taken to hovering as Wash was, but, it was obvious that they had done it out of confusion. Mal seemed like he had a plan. Then again, he always seemed like he had a plan. Wash was just worried what it would have to do with Jayne.

In the distance, the Contessa was hovering as well, facing Serenity head on. Wash grinned and toggled his mic once, and hung it back up. He engage the throttle almost fully and charged at the green Firefly.

"You might want to hold on to something."

"Wash, we do not have time for any stunts." Mal warned.

"Oh Captain, this is a quick one."

The Contessa was charging at Serenity full on as well. Jayne got to the bridge in time to see something that looked like a miracle. Not that he saw that much of it. He closed his eyes as soon as it looked like the Fireflys were going to collide.

But, they didn't. At the last moment, Wash said "Now!", and Mal and Jayne heard the voice of Fiona Raydor say the same thing. The pilots pulled their respective ships up into a twirling, revolving dirvish of motion that looked as spectacular as it made the respective crews ill.

The two ships spiralled around each other, heading up all the time. It was someth