Disclaimer – Everything either does belong to Joss or it should. I’m just borrowing his shiny ‘verse for a while.

The 21st Lancers belong to the British Army so I’m borrowing them too. I hope they don’t mind

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Transport Serenity - Lynx Orbit – 2520AD

‘I’d feel a lot happier with Wash doing this’ Mal stated. The concentration on his face was intense.

‘Better him on that thing than one of us trying to fly it’ Zoe replied ‘It must have five times our mass and only twice the manoeuvring thrust’

‘Which means if something goes wrong it’s me that’s got to get us out of the way’ Mal said.

The big Trance Class Transport edged closer and closer to the docking port. Up close it dwarfed Serenity but you had to give it to Wash he made flying the lumbering vessel look like a precision undertaking as he gently bought the two ships into dock nose to nose.

With an audible “clunk” that echoed through the hulls the two ships eventually docked and Kaylee in the Trance Class opened the airlock after matching pressure between the two vessels. She knocked on the Serenity airlock and Simon opened the lock on the Serenity side.

‘It actually works then?’ he asked.

Kaylee looked slightly peeved at this slight to her ship-fixing abilities ‘Of course it works’ she said ‘It needs a lot of work though their mechanic must have been terrible’

Wash appeared behind her ‘I’ll just have a word with the Captain then we’ll be on our way’

Steven dropped in ‘Are you sure about this? I mean using that thing to push Serenity’

Wash smiled ‘She’s designed to carry a lot more mass than a Firefly and her docking collar is strong enough to hold the two ships rigidly together even if I use the manoeuvring thrusters at maximum. It doesn’t matter that the load is internal or external it’s just mass that needs to be got moving and her drive is more than up to it’

‘Well at least our living space has gone up a great deal’

‘Yep’ Wash said and headed for Serenity’s bridge.

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Transport