based on the world of Firefly by Joss Whedon

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Falcon's creatures moved quickly, but not the way Reavers moved. These were more like the lumbering of Zombies, creatures Jayne had seen on the Cortex time and time again when he stayed up too late. Werzbowski fired the first shot, the big shotgun at his side barking loudly as the buckshot severed an arm, but it did little to stop the creature.

"Aim for the head." He cried over his shoulder, and then pumped the gun again to finish the job with the one armed creature by removing its brain. Big combat boot drove into another, the deep tire like pattern shown on the critter's face.

Kitty bent down running her hand over Cat and then screamed when a monster went to grab her, but River caught a long bowie knife Mal threw at her and sliced the creature's head almost off. The little girl clung to the wounded Cat burying her head on her bloody chest. Batha, the large cat rushed to her side, long canines showing in the lights as she issued a challenge in a roar.

"Kitty, you need to heal Cat." Mal yelled, not trying sound demanding, but instead making sure he was heard over the noise. He fired his pistol toward where Jayne was letting Vera have her fun, catching one of the mob that had tried to sneak up on the big merc.

"I can't." She cried back as 'Ski's gun fired again barely missing Mal and hitting the creature that had its claws poised to kill him. Looking at the little one, Cat's husband felt sorry for her. She had been thrust into a situation that even with her highly intelligent mind was hard for her to handle. Now, the only one she knew could protect her and love her lay dying and she was too scared to do anything about it.

"Leave her be, Reynolds. If we got to do this without Babe, then we will." He used the big gun's hard butt to drive it hard into the face of one of the critters as Zoe blew off the head of one on his left. He nodded a thank you before grabbing some more bullets from his pocket