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Firefly: "War Bonds"

Saturday, March 25, 2006

Not a true episode of my second season of Firefly, but more like an addendum to my episode eight, "Out From Shadows." The war stories and first meetings of Mal and Kyo, and Mal and Zoe. No real plot here, and it's shorter than the others. Just something fun

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Firefly: "War Bonds"

Disclaimer: If I weren't just a poor college student and could finance the series myself, I would, but I can't. So all I can do is just play around in Joss Whedon's 'verse. Also, I don't know a lick of Chinese so I haven't bothered to put the translations because they're probably horribly wrong. If it were Japanese or Latin, well, that'd be another story...

Not a true episode of my second season of Firefly, but more like a coda to my episode eight, "Out From Shadows." The war stories and first meetings of Mal and Kyo, and Mal and Zoe. No real plot here, and it's shorter than the others. Just something fun.

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"A fight?" gasped Kaylee Tam. The young engineer poked her head into the gutted co-pilot's console of Serenity to stare down at Kyo Nagiama, the pilot. Through the massive tangles of multi-colored wires, and the occassional protruding mechanism, Kyo gave a slight smirk.

"Yup," nodded Kyo as he connected wires to a box. "A fight."

"Wow," exclaimed an awed Kaylee, pausing from her own work to lean against the edge of the console. "You and the Cap'n get along so well, I never would've figured a tussle to be how y'all met."

Kyo just laughed as he began to attach a reg monitor to the interior of the console. It wasn't easy to explain to people how a brawl could be the greatest icebreaker in the world to some folk. There didn't have to be any malice involved between people, in fact, Kyo often found it to be rather cathartic in a way--some people cried, others fought like hell. He and Mal were like those, and he suspected Jayne would be right along up with them.

"So," Kaylee asked mischievously, leaning closer in a conspiratorial fashion, "who won?"

*****

Long before Mal was known through the 'verse as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, or even before he was inspiring his fellow troops as Sergeant Malcolm Reynolds, he was first known as Private Malcolm Reynolds--a young volunteer straight from Shadow. Long before Kyo Nagiama wa

Comments
ANA
Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:27
*squee!*

I've never "squee"-ed before, but these are extenuating circumstances.

The Hell with an overarching plot. This didn't need one. Besides, the flashback stories had more than enough plot their own selves.

Not sure I agree with that Seinfeld bit, but hey, what do I know?

The part where Mal and Zoe are arguing over which one of them gets to shoot her was perfect. Abso-friggin'-lutely perfect. They're both so...so gorram noble ! It also figures that they'd accidentally end up in the middle of a battle while they're trying to get themselves rescued. Their luck never has been particularly good, has it?

Loved how Mal and Kyo met, too. How like them to spend the night bashing each other's brains in and the morning consoling each other for said bashings. Sheesh. Men. ;)

Thanks again for updating so frequently. These are the fanfic highlights of my week. :)

Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:35
What a great story! I love it that boys fight and then become friends, it just baffles me! I also love the dynamic that you show between Mal and Zoe in the flashbacks. It's nice to get a glimpse of who they were before the series. I always look forward to your posts and can't wait to read your next episode.
Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:43
Oh wow, I adored this and the whole reminiscing back story of the war really worked a charm. I could so see the bond forming that way between Kyo and Mal, and then with Zoe. Absolutely brilliant! Shinyness personified. Ali D :~)
You can't take the sky from me
Sunday, 26 March 2006 04:20
"I thought I had something with using Saffron and Monty from their married period, but then I remembered that Monty had apparently never mentioned Mal. That really would've been perfect to set up episode nine, but oh well."

Does that count as a spoiler?
Sunday, 26 March 2006 06:44
Not quite a spoiler, Heroine. More like a teaser. So you can guess which one of them will be making an appearance.
ANONYMOUS
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 02:01
I love it . also I would like to sav that zoe's gun isn't a sawn off rifle it is infact an 1892 mares leg why this design exists 500 years from now I can't say
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:05
Yeah, I know it's a Mare's Leg. Oddly enough the only pistol not to have futuristic modifications on it. That's why I still write it as a sawn-off. Easier to think she converted it from a rifle to a pistol for whatever reason than to actually imagine someone 500 years in the future manufacturing them. I mean if I had a pistol converted to a rifle I'd still call it a pistol...just for simplicity's sake.
ANONYMOUS
Friday, 21 April 2006 19:01
ohhhh...so sweet. Gotta love the stories of this and the how they met and the fight and the...*squee* this was great.

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