Blue Sun Room FICTION - GENERAL

A New War

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Firefly-Seaason 2. A group of browncoats contact Mal, hoping to use the momentum from the Miranda Incident to restart the war. Meanwhile, Serenity attempts a simple smuggling run disguised as an Alliance warship. Simple, of course, never works out for Mal.

CATEGORY: FICTION    TIMES READ: 1008    RATING: 9.0 (PG)    SERIES: FIREFLY

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Author's Note: This is my first fic, so apologies in advance if the formatting is off. Obviously, none of the characters or places legally belong to me, and the dialogue from Dr. Caron and the Wash flashback isn't mine either. Hope you enjoy.

INT - GREENLEAF - PIG'S HEAD BAR

A number of people are gathered at the bar, all in various states of disrepair. A fair few are wearing brown jackets. A vidscreen is showing some sort of sporting event, and random shouts from the watchers make it clear that money is riding on the outcome.

The screen cuts to static for a second (to a chorus of jeers) and then resolves into the picture of Dr. Caron (from Serenity). It's the broadwave. As Caron starts talking, the background noise immediately ceases.

CARON (O.S.)

These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see...

BROWNCOAT

What in the planets?

CARON (O.S)

There's been no war here, and no terraforming event. The environment is stable.

EXT - BEAUMONDE

Dr. Caron's visage, accompanied with the pictures of corpses and reavers, stares out from gigantic vidscreens. Traffic has halted as people stare up at it.

CARON (O.S.)

It's the Pax. The G-Paxilon-Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggresion. Well, it works.

INT - PERSEPHONE - BADGER'S PLACE

Again, Dr. Caron has commendeered a vidscreen, a smaller, personal one this time. Badger watches, but his stare is calculating.

CARON (O.S)

The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's a million people here and they all just let themselves die.

INT - GREENLEAF - PIG'S HEAD BAR

CARON (O.S.)

About a tenth of the population had the opposite reaction to the PAX. Their aggressor response increased beyong madness. They have become... Well, they've killed most of us. And not just killed, they've do

Comments
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 12:41
Oh Zoe, have you ever sided with the 'not right in the head' guys. I can't believe those morons are hoping to use the Pax in the new war they are starting. I understand Zoe's grief over Wash and her desire to lose herself in vengeance but am also troubled by it. She isn't thinking straight and it was sad to see her simply leave Mal. While he wouldn't stop or stand in her way it felt very wrong that he didn't at least have a proper conversation with her, make sure that what she was doing was something that she had to do. As for Badger, I am wondering whether he is behind the pirates that tried to rob Mal of his cargo. Handy that, how they came out of nowhere just after he and the crew picked up their cargo. This was an excellent start and I can't wait to see where you go with it. Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me
Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:12
Aw Hell! You can't end there! Please update soon. Poor Zoe, she's in for it now. *sniffles I miss Wash
Saturday, 16 June 2007 23:55
Some mighty excellent work here, CaptainBeregond! Definitely was all kinds of intrigued by how you have set things up:D

Really cocnerened for Zoe though...when she finds out they got a assload of PAX? Go se is gonna hit the fan:(

BEB

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