One To Many- chap 6

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The spacecraft took off into the daytime sky. It attracted every eye, from every guard, posted in every tower along the Fay Everett Mountain Ridge at Fort Oliver. Why? Because none of them had ever seen anything like it before.

Fort Oliver may have been an Alliance outpost out in the middle of nowhere, on a no-account moon that even Reavers may consider a waste of time. Yet the outpost was still a functioning fortification. It still received supplies bi-monthly, and was able to acquire the newest and most advanced tech weaponry the Unified military could offer. However, what the guards were witnessing in the skies above the mountain fortress was much more advanced than anything they’d set eyes on before.

What they were seeing wasn’t Serenity, no, that spacecraft had left hours before, also there were forty thousand Firefly transports still flying around the verse, more or less. This was something strange and different, as rare as seeing a pink canary. This ship was beautiful, all sleek and trim-lined, and maybe a little larger than your average shuttlecraft. It’s design announced higher technology , and it’s frame spoke stealth, and an almost impossible speed and maneuverability. The troops at FO only saw it for a few seconds, then it disappeared over the horizon and was out of sight.

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River Tam, her brother Simon, and Serenity’s mechanic and pilot, Kaylee and Wash, were all aboard this vessel. They were being contained (confined within a back room) all together this time.

“ I wonder where we’re headed?” Wash asked out loud, not particular to anyone.

“ Can’t be someplace good,” Kaylee, for the first time let down her guard of cheerfulness, “ If purplebellies are involved, ain’t nothing nice can come of it. Beside they stole Serenity! When the captain finds out he won’t be a happy camper,” she finished.

“ Camping may be the least of his worries Kaylee, “ Wash offered