“Ru!” Wash called on the com.

Smeared in grease, she ran over and hit the button to communicate. “What’s wrong?”

“I just caught the tail end of a conversation off of the com Mal was carrying. Girl we’ve had trouble with in a past is out for vengeance and has everyone. She’s coming back here.”

“Ai-ya. Wo-men wan-le." She swore.

“Tigress.” River breathed as she lay curled up in a ball in the hammock. She was barely conscious, in a trance as she was living the event from ever crewmember’s perspective. It was extremely overwhelming as her brain was absorbed to the point where the only other task it was performing was breathing. Her eyes shut, and she drew in a sharp gasp as she felt Kaylee’s pain, River touched her neck while everyone else’s feelings of too tight handcuffs and Simon’s monstrous headache from being knocked out attacked her nerves. She curled up tighter, as if it would shield her from all of the anger, fear, and pain coming from six people. “Blackness… takes over Serenity… Serenity no more…”

“We gotta do somethin’.” The auburn haired gunhand told the pilot firmly.

“But what?”

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Mal’s blue eyes scanned the faces of his crew.

They were all handcuffed and seated on benches in the back of a cargo truck. There were two men along with Saffron riding with them, and all of their kidnappers had guns of a sort. As the captain paid attention, it was clear Zoe and Jayne would fight, but Gambit was heavily bound and tranquilized while Simon was barely coming to as Kaylee sat next to him fearful as well as wounded with the small slice on the side of her neck. Letting out a deep breath, he vowed vengeance in mandarin under his exhale and he looked up at their sensuous captor.

“So who the gorram hell didja wed this time?” He asked tersely.

She looked down at him, eyes studying his worn yet slow boiling anger. “There were a few actually.”

“Well I’d love ta hear ya gloat. Considerin’ you had ta do a might bit of thinkin’ ta pull all this off.” He shifted his weight