MIA part 5

--------------- Clash of the Titans --------------

“ Holy Beylix!” Malcolm Reynolds and his second in command, Lieutenant Zoe, were transfix almost as if they were Jayne Cobb statues themselves.

There, not fifteen feet away stood a man that could be Jayne Cobb’s brother! No…….! He could be Jayne Cobb himself!

Had Cody Cobb asked Mal to tell him war stories about Serenity Valley, it woulda shocked the be-jeebs out of the Captain. Not because Mal knew Cody had been there and experienced such horror himself, but because all he could see was Jayne’s face. More likely he would have asked the doc to take a look at him and examine his brain. But this was Cody Cobb they were looking at, not Jayne. At the time Mal and Zoe couldn’t establish the difference.

Cody Cobb smiled at the two individuals that stood there like manikins. He KNEW what was going through their heads.

“ So! We ready to do this or what!!?” Jayne spoke, breaking the spell the two were under.

Mal and Zoe both recovered.

“Ok, so who was flying this crate?”

Cody raised his hand.

“Good! Put your Tyvek back on,” he looked over at Jeebs, “ Frizbie, you watch the others while we continue with the plan!”

Mal loved making up names during a heist. He would get them wrong sometimes, but who gave a “go tsao de?”(dog humping)….calling someone by a different name each time made it more fun!

After sixteen minutes of organizing things, Mal, Zoe, Jayne & Cody continued on route to the town of Absolution. Mal would still be the driver, but for the first couple hundred yards Cody was made to fly the hovercraft in order to keep any suspicion down of him being a co-conspirator. The contract security guards always made their pick-ups with four people. With the headgear and the goggles Jayne and Cody were wearing, none of his coworkers, nor the townsfolk would be able to see their mirror image. In seven minutes the hovercraft pulled into Absolution, and posted in front of the bank.

It was an average day, in the averag