Note: Sorry in advance for any spelling mistakes that I may have passed on my proofreading. Also, I made up the "TK-19"... So don't hurt me.. Please.

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Serenity: The Last Firefly

Chapter Two: Alliance TK-19

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Mal stared at the sight before him, “Well, that’s something new…” A massive super-structure was passing before their eyes. From the looks of it, from what they could actually pick out of the rubble, it looked like one of the alliance ships that hunted them from three years ago. The way the ship was torn asunder gave belief to the idea that it erupted from the inside. Speared on wires, metal and whatever other sharp object was available was the ship’s crew. Burned and in pieces they hung there in weightless space. Not all of them, but a great deal of them. Sparks flew meaning the generator was still trying to work. It would take a few years before the massive power structure would fully burn out…

“It’s one of the Alliance TK-19s from the look of the generator and the hull. What’s left of it anyway…” Kaylee noted. The TK-19s were Alliance warships, they were commonly used for destroying outposts occupied by groups against the Alliance. The ships became more popular five years previously. But when the Alliance fell to the darkness, the ships disappeared as well. “What happened to it?” Simon wrapped his arm around Kaylee’s shoulders in a protective manner.

Jayne raised an eyebrow as If he had an answer to the hideous situation before them. “Reavers?” In his classic way to comfort himself, Jayne squeezed his fingers around one of his guns.

“No,” Zoe cut in, “They have never done something like this. Not on this scale. We have seen them in action before, but reavers have no sense of strategy, they just do. ” She pointed at the outward jutting metal in the hull. “That is all very strategic. It looks like it was all well planned out even to the point of… impaling the bodies.”

The captain squinted; his eyes trying to see perfectly clear. It wasn’t that hard to miss for what