Damaged Goods- part 7; Crappy Town Where Im a Hero

Prologue :

Mal Reynolds and his crew again find high adventure on the surface of a little moon. Maybe more adventure than they bargained for…….but isn’t that usually the case.

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The heist team of Serenity found themselves in a big pile of datiao. They had become imprisoned inside the Velxar Magistrate’s treasure vault, and there was no treasure.

Malcolm Reynolds had been in worse situations, along with his trusted first mate Zoe. This one had to rank up there in the top ten though. The idea was to stay cool, not panic, and to figure a way out.

“ WE’RE GORRAM DEAD!” Jayne’s voice sounded, echoing off the vault walls.

“ Jayne, collect yourself,” the captain responded, he couldn’t let things get out of hand, “ We aren’t dead…. yet.”

He looked around at his crew. They could fight, but he couldn’t ask them to sacrifice themselves. Better to lay down arms and maybe look for a chance to escape later,” that’s what he decided.

“Alright we’ll give up,” the words from the captain’s mouth startled the team. They all looked at him.

WHAT? Was he crazy? that was totally against the big mercenary’s nature.

“ Not me and Vera, we go out blasting!” the big mercenary said.

“ Jayne, listen to what I said, we give up, but we don’t give in. We start a war and all they need do is toss in a grenade, or even keep the vault door sealed tight so that we run out of air. Ain’t much grace in going out like that. Even the most brainless creatures in the verse know when to give ground as to fight another day.”

The light came on in Jayne’s eyes, he understood.

“No, we lay down arms. They’ll be looking for answers, they’ll wanna know how we got in without using force. They’ll also want to know who assisted us, the inside guy‘s name.”

It made perfect sense and was likely why the captain and Zoe had survived Serenity Valley. Jayne could see the reasonable logic in the captain’s decision.

“ Besides we