Cowboys & Alliance : part 2

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Post Serenity the BDM:

Malcolm Reynolds, what can I say? The captain finds himself running low on rations and fuel. Something’s gotta be done. Against his better judgment he puts a call in to Badger.

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Mal Reynolds lay in his bunk waiting for Serenity to make her landing on Ezra. He was going over every imaginable scenario, and some not so imaginable, to come up with a plan for evading the attention of the Alliance. He’d always felt a need to protect his crew and his ship Serenity, after all she was his home, his CASTLE. Taking all options under consideration the best one he found was to be dead. Stone cold, in the ground, worm supper.…Reaver corpseified. That would certainly stop the Alliance from trying to hunt them down.

Of course being dead was certainly not something he wanted to experience anytime soon.

There came a buzz over his room communicator.

“ Captain we are ten minutes from setting down on Ezra…..any plan changes?” Zoe voiced over the ship’s com.

“ Negative Zoe, proceed on schedule!” the capt’s voice was clear and distinct, “ we’ll figure out what we need to do once we’ve landed.”

Unknown to the crew, Mal had already been communicating with Badger. The small time crime boss had several jobs that he was interested in farming out. With Malcolm haven taken Serenity off the job market for a while Badgers backlist had grown very long. With Serenity being out of the loop the Persephone gangster was feeling an ache in his pocketbook. Not many crews could take on the kinds of jobs Malcolm Reynolds’s bunch could. Badger would never admit it to the Firefly captain though.

Anyway, Badger had arranged for one of his associates to meet up with Mal on Ezra. The Firefly captain continued to be a bit gun-shy when it came to committing crime and Badger understood why. With the Alliance applying pressure it would make anyone thi