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Chapter 4

Cast of Players & Places:

Iron Eagle or Eagle Eye- Ira Eggers

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Mal Reynolds

Jayne Cobb

River Tam

Simon Tam

Zoë Washburn

Wash- Washburn

Kaylee

Shepherd Book

Inara

The Battle of Xian Xue

Sergeant Eggers readied his troops to make the assault on Mount Xian Xue. He looked around…….in the darkness of the twilight hours it would be difficult for either side to determine or asses the strength of the opposing force. He decided he should command an order that Ira Eggers hated to make with every fiber of his being, but it was one that needed to be made.

“ Fix Bayonets!”

A bayonet charge? His men looked around! Was he crazy?

Well, he wasn’t crazy! Sergeant Eggers was looking to give his unit every advantage possible in what could turn out to be very close-quarters combat. It wasn’t like in the heat of battle, if you were out of bullets, and your foe were out of bullets you could call for a treaty while you each fixed a blade to the end of your weapon…..how silly would that be?

Lucky for the browncoats under this command, there had been an Alliance weapons cache captured the day before and there were bayonets aplenty…….and not the shiny kind that would reflect light in the darkness, but the new carbon steel kind with a dark, dull finish, as hard as a diamond tip and sharp enough to pierce flesh under the ribcage in a mere fraction of a breath.

The order went down the line, then it came back that everyone had completed the task. The troops then made ready for the upcoming attack to be made by commander Reynolds on FOX hill, then it would be their turn.

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Malcolm Reynolds launched his assault on FOX hill after calling in a mortar barrage on the whole Alliance front line. The shells would keep the enemies heads down until their advance could be made close enough to bring their AR-19s into play.

The sounds of the rockets and the expl