"Jayne!"

The merc turned and saw a shotgun and box of ammunition slide over from the door. "CHECK ZOE'S ROOM!" He turned to shoot with both semi automatics.

Simon scrambled into Zoe's room for guns and ammunition. He found a mahogany box with two pistols and the magazines to go with them. There was also a rifle for long range with a box of shells. Setting them on the bed he heard noise and looked up to see someone standing at her window getting ready to pull back their trigger.

His heart stopped.

In a split second an arrow went through his throat.

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Inara pulled another arrow out of the quiver and knocked it into place. At the bunk window, the screen pulled out for her firing, she set her sights on someone hiding behind the landing gear of The Rising Sun.

She took perfect aim, then pulled her bow up to let it fly high and true.

When the arrows were done, the bolt thrower would be out next.

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"Sorry Mal." Virgil coughed, unable to see properly as one eye was swollen shut and the other had blood in it.

"Nin kending zuo baoliu mimi yige hao gongzuo." The other Captain growled ironically.

"With all do respect ya tu ailian de jibai." Roxy growled out from a post, the lash across her cheek fresh as she sank at the weight of her own body. "It was yer bloody wanker of a brother 'ew squealed, nonea us."

Zoe furrowed her brows. "Sir?"

"Sterling would normally say something uplifting about loyalty." Wren groaned, face pressed against the grate of the cage she was held in. "But he's unconscious right now, missing his cybernetics as well as a very fleshy leg. Pike's also missing a hand, by the way.... I don't know if Genevieve and Jovie are even with us."

"Jov's a fighter." Roxy declared, her voice sounding more worrisome that before. "She won't die on me."

Mal was still focused on the other news. The chain they were suspended on, was twisting, rotating with the ball socket of the wench it was attached to. Mal rotated to the left, and h