Battle Scars - Chapter 1
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Howdy browncoats!
For some reason I just can’t keep away from writing fan-fic when I get a chance. It’s just a phase….I’m sure I will move on to something else later. In the mean time I’ve started a new verse fic-esode……The title “Battle Scars”………Chapter 1 is down below. Just a light hearted little fun thing that I wrote up in a couple hours between chores around the house. Hope it is received well…… Had to do a little thinking on this to remember certain events from different FF episodes…..I do have an ending in mind. Something I don’t think has been used before….but the middle part will be the challenge and the most fun for me because I haven’t even thought of it yet. Still, here’s the beginning…..BP
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Battle Scars
Chapter 1: Show me yours & I’ll show you mine
The Setup
The crew of Serenity usually find themselves at the beginning of a crisis, or at the end, or smack dab in the middle…..and most times it is usually life threatening. This, at least for now, is not one of those times.
“Battle Scars” begins at a time when Malcolm Reynolds and his crew find themselves with nothing to do. Nothing to do but ferry a cargo of stolen goods by another one of Badger’s contract heavy hitters to it‘s final destination. He (Badger) has several contractors at his disposal and the crew of Serenity just happens to be one of them.
This cargo, being sought by the Alliance, and also other pirates (of the deadly persuasion) has become too hot for the ones who have actually preformed the robbery. Mal was contacted and persuaded, with payment, to see that it gets to where it‘s supposed to go.
Now……. just because there is no crisis at the moment, doesn’t mean that one won’t develop later on, or, that this little trip is not an adventure. Every breath in the Joss verse is an adventure, why? Because it could always be your last! Read on to start a new adventure……
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Battle Scars: Chapter 1- show me yours and I’ll show you mine
Mal Reynolds and his crew were all up in the galley save for Simon and River who were in their bunks. It was 20:00 hours ( 8pm) and still a little early for those of Serenity to be headed to bed. At least those who didn’t have the night watch.
We enter the galley during the middle of the current conversation,
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“No..No..No Jayne, that doesn’t count as a battle scar!” Mal Reynolds was telling the big mercenary.
“ Sure as gorram does!” Jayne defended his argument.
“ No! It’s got to be something that has been delivered by an opposing force!” Mal defined the rules for the little battle scar competition that they was conducting currently in the ships gal
Jayne’s voice and Wash’s voice……yes, I have never seen it put that way, but I think you hit on the very thing I concentrate on when writing fan-fiction……and that is- “How would a crew member of Serenity say this?”
“Scars show where we have been, but do not dictate where we are going!” So very true!
There may be some added scars come the end of this fan-fic. How deep they penetrate is yet to be determined……
Again thanks for your post, now it’s on to “Bouncing Ball 5”. You and Jane0904’s latest story arc…..
See ya..BPZ
"You can't take the sky from me!"
Maybe I’m just a dreamer that one day there will be family and family like groups in space that become so bore they will actually resort to showing off old, headed over marks in the skin to provide entertainment for one moment of time in the blankness of space.
Actually part of the idea for this one particular segment came from the movie “Jaws” where Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are comparing scars that they’ve acquired over a lifetime of mishaps.
A lifetime out on the open seas imo made mimic what space travelers may somewhat experience out in the void of the black. Loneliness and boredom.
Anything to keep one’s self from becoming insane RIGHT? Mayhaps I would even resort to juggling geese and playing with plastic dinosaurs….in-between bouts of killing ppl……lol.
Thanks for your post….ZBP
And I say "almost" because we all know Mal is quite a bit more reckless than Zoe is.
You used this phrase, "and again made the motion that she were about to puck." I'm not sure what it means?
Yes, Zoe likely has an equal number of old war wounds as Mal, and of course there are likely things, at this time in the verse, that can be used to reduce their appearance. The emotional scars of war though, run a little deeper and are harder to hide…..Mal and Zoe will never be able to cover those up.
As far as the questionable word “puck” goes…..that is a regrettable mistake on my part. It should have read “puke” ….. so that Kaylee’s finger pointed to the mouth represented that she were going to gag at Wash’s remarks. My bad….
My fan-fic, although fun for me, is often posted with many spelling and grammar faults. I tend to get in a hurry and have several things going on at the same time so that I often make the same mistakes over and again in one story alone. Thanks for catching that and thanks for the feedback. I hope to get better. In the meantime Chapter 2 is up and I hope I did a better job with that one.
Thanks again, see ya….BPZ
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