Piloted

A Firefly Series

Episode 1

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By Stuart Broughton

The crew of Serenity had already gone through four pilots since the loss of Wash, a noble and great man. No one could replace him not even Zoe’s brother could fit the job, he was the first guy Malcolm Reynolds tried. Mal didn’t even know Zoe had a brother until the day he showed up to apologise for the tragic death of his sister’s husband. Mal recognising that Terry (Zoe’s brother) had a licence as a pilot and unemployed, so he snapped him up the job thinking Zoe would want someone close to her to fill wash’s boots. But it didn’t work out well. Jayne hating having one Zoe aboard detested the fact that there was going to have another one. And if Jayne didn’t like you then you were in trouble as Simon and River already knew they took it well but terry on the other hand went the opposite way. Resigned the next day to the joy of Jayne and to the upset of Zoe.

A month later and one of the most experienced pilots the crew had ever seen named Mr Owens turned up wanting a job. Mal Accepted without a doubt in his mind though Simon the only one of them with common sense noted that why would someone with those sort of qualifications would for them. Though Mal shrugged it off as Owens pulled some great getaway flying. But Simon was right when one night they found him trying to sneak river off board to get the reward from the alliance. That’s when he discovered her super natural skills ending in his neck, legs and back broken in several places. She did this keeping him conscious before eventually slitting his throat which the crew where helpless to stop.

With Simon’s trust in Mal at it’s all time lowest they picked up a new female pilot named Samantha who had looks that could tempt men to the limits. And of course Jayne spent as much time as he could around her much to Mal’s dislike. On one of the jobs he made the unfortunate discovery of the pilot sleeping with Jayne on the day of one of their biggest jobs yet. Which jeopardised the whole team b