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Chapter 1

Cast of Players & Places:

Iron Eagle or Eagle Eye- Ira Eggers

WWDC15- Warden Wartowski Detainment Center 15.

Mal Reynolds

Jayne Cobb

River Tam

Simon Tam

Zoë Washburn

Wash- Washburn

Kaylee

Shepherd Book

Inara

Prologue:

“Gat! Hey Gat you awake?” The guy across the corridor stood at his cell bars trying to get subject #612-8357 to talk to him. Ira Eggers knew the man across the way laying in his bunk wasn’t sleeping, only ignoring him.

“ Come on Gat I know you’re awake! Want to play a game of “spotter” before morning breakfast gets here? There was no answer from the other cell. Subject # 693-2154, Iron Eagle, or Eagle Eye as he was known, had been in this lock-down section of WW-DC15 level E6 for six months now. There weren’t any real names used down here, only nicknames, abbreviations, or names pinned on you by other inmates or guards.

Iron Eagle was the name given to Ira Eggers because of the claims he’d made of his past his lineage linking him to peoples that used to be native Americans back on the home world of “Earth That Was”. In the history books they’d been known as “Indians”, a proud ancestry, brave, and skilled in the art of war and legend to be known as great fighters against overwhelming odds.

This had been true of Iron Eagle. He had enlisted in the Independent army after the outbreak of war and had joined the rush of his fellow browncoats as many of the rim worlds and border planets united in the common cause for their freedoms. He had hailed from his adopted planet “Shadow”, where he had once worked as a ranch hand and was treated more as a family member than an employee.

Iron Eagle was a veteran of the battle of Serenity Valley and had been among the browncoat faction that had raised the Independent colors over the hilltop of Mount Xian Xue. He was also one of the few survivors of that battle and that flag raising.

Iron Eagle had always kept two feathers with him. Feathers known to be from a great bird, a bird that had once soared in large numbe