USS SereniTREE: A Tale of Two Trees
POSTED BY: TheGreyJedi
UPDATED: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:55
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*The men are engaged in their various fights while the women try very hard to stay out of the way and not get dead. The kissies swirl around everyone, filling the girls with warm and fuzzy feelings. Serenity, however, notices that Mai does not seem too pleased with being bombarded with kissies. She thinks about this and what Mai said about taking all the men to the brig...herself. And it all clicks...she grabs a kissie in one hand and a katana in the other and corners Mai.*
What have you done with the real Mai?
Speak up quick, or I will be forced to hurt you. Alot.
"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." ~Jerry Garcia
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*Calmly force-grabs his lightsaber and sits back down at the bar, reclaiming his pint.*
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Rats! YOU blasted kids and you're infestation of disgustingly cute kissies!!!! Katanas I can deal with warm and fuzzies not so much.
*EviMai crouches down trying to avoid the icky kissy thing and prepares to pounce on Serenity. Suddenly she feels very weak and light-headed. As though somehow every bit of energy is being slowly drained out her body.*
In her small hidey hole, Mai has managed to produce a light bright enough to see the entire walls and floor. Not quite as small as she first thought... Hmmm maybe theres another way out here. Begins examining the ceiling and finds a strange red button directly in the middle of the tiles...
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Still shaking from absorbing his darker half Jazaf tries to take a slow look around.
'OK. So According to my map I should be five floors above the common room. If I take..'
Security Doors slam shut all around him.
'damn......'
Jazaf paces the small space he has and gets and idea.
'Hope this works.'
Jazaf grabs one of the katanas his darker half had and focuses his energy into it. The katana grows several inches and the blade shines white. Jazaf plunges the weapon downward, smoke rises as the blade burns and melts through the floor. He cuts a circle around himself then pulls the katana free.
Nothing happens.'Gorramit!' Jazaf stomps his foot on the floor and hears groaning metal.
'Uh Oh.'
The floor gives way and Jazaf falls to the floor below.
'whoa....That was awesome!!!!' encouraged by the success Jazaf begins to cut his way to the common room.
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Newest Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
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The roach swarm: 400,000 or so become victims of mechanical failure or are destroyed by tiny meteorite strikes. Another 200,000 are wiped out by dimensional portal and other phasing activity. Thus about a million insects land upon the hull of the darkTree. Here, they are trumped by the ship's various electrical failures, therefore unable to over-ride entry systems.
These events were anticipated.
Most of the roaches begin patiently eating away at the metal around the entryways. The remainder use the metal to replicate more of themselves, replenishing their numbers. The new units automatically join in with the entry effort. This army will not need to create very large holes.
The roaches progress rapidly. Soon, soon, the insect army will gain entry to the darkTree.
Stage One nearly complete.
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I got them resolution blues....
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*Mai pushes the red button warily. There is no sound, but the faux metal tiles of the ceiling begin to retract. FINALLY! A Way Out! As the tiles disappear a wooden second ceiling is revealed. Mai begins to push and pull at every board hoping there is a escape latch somewhere. After nearly 20 minutes of searching every nook and cranny she finds...nothing. DAMN! Very frustrated Mai sits down to think some more. As she forces her self to relax and focus the light begins to shine from her fingers once again. Suddenly she feels a surge of energy pulse through her entire body. Her thinking becomes crystal clear and the answer appears as though written on a map before her. IT IS a map. She takes out the holo-flexi map thingy and activates the program.
Position : Pseudo TREE Cargo Bay: Super Secret Hidey Hole
Surroundings: 5.23 feet above the Extremely WELL HIDDEN GRATE COVERED TUNNEL that leads to upper decks.
Exits: Location: Panel slide directly underneath Green House. Also See Trap door located behind BROOM CLOSET.
*Mai turns up the power on her light (How cool is that?!) and searches the floor. She finds yet a Green button and pushes it. The floor opens leaving only a few inches of ledge to stand on. Squatting down, she gets on her stomach and begins to wiggle her way through the crawl space.
Well, here goes nothing lets hope that map was right.
*Just as she pulls her feet through the hole the floor snaps back into place above her. Guiding her self with her inner flashlight she makes it nearly 35 feet through the tunnel. Ahead of her she spots some smallish round yellow things bouncing up and down. Its a kissie! The kissie rushes toward Mai and plants a kiss on her forhead. It doesn't speak, but makes strange beeping sounds indicating she should follow it around the next turn.*
I hope you know where you're going little kissie thingy. I'm startin' to feel a might claustraphobic.
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* Bride5 and Bride6 stand on the lower balcony overlooking the False Sereni-Tree’s common room. Their hands are cupped to their mouths, and they are making cooing and kissing noises, thereby directing the numerous trained kissies below. The kissies chase after and swarm the remaining evil twins, one by one, though the battle is far from over. Mostly they are a distraction, and by this time many have been slain by the cruel evil twins. Bride6 turns to Bride5. *
Bride6: You know, I’m pretty enough to have done the distraction thing instead of you!
Bride5: Pretty enough? Maybe. But it took smarts, too!
* Bride6 sticks out her tongue at Bride5. *
* After seeing the effectiveness of the Spam Blockers of the Insidious Doctor Rat, the River-clone is attempting a quick redesign of the Spam-slinging guns. But she is not TheGreyJedi, and so needs more than a hairpin and a wad of chewing gum to accomplish this task in a timely manner. *
* Nugget the meteor troll dashes madly down stairs to try to get to the last known location of his friend, TheRealMe. *
* Needleseye stares down into the common room, white-knuckled hands gripping the railing. The pupils of her eyes become slitted. Her skin acquires scales. *
* All but forgotten, the Ebo Golem stands, hand still on the cage door controls, awaiting a new command in the still-shrunken Admiral Nelson parked on the upper balcony. *
* Bluefishie and Ash/XanderLHarris can, of course, take any action that seems reasonable to them amidst this madness. *
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Meanwhile, Bride2 (Deuce), Bride3 (Trey), and Bride4 (Jet) are outside the hatch to Main Engineering. Jet is working on the locking mechanism.
Deuce: Hey, where are the others who came with on the General Grant? Weren’t they right behind us?
Jet: Oh, I sent them off to secure the other levels of the ship and to help in the common room. I didn’t think we’d need’em. This is a straightforward job.
Deuce: Are you nuts? We’re supposed to secure Main Engineering!
Jet: Well, I said it was a straightforward job, not an easy one.
Deuce: Humph!
* Trey stands at the ready with a Spam-slinger. Deuce tightens her grip on her pair of katanas, and glances left and right. *
Deuce: Sheesh! Can you hurry up? We’re all in the open out here!
Jet: Hey, YOU want to try this? The ship access system is gone to hell. Been sabotaged some how.
Trey: Still, it might be worth considering…
* At that moment, with a triumphant smile, Jet keys a button and the hatch grinds open, allowing the women access to Main Engineering. Trey and Deuce jump inside, weapons at the ready. *
Trey: Looks deserted.
Deuce: Crap! I wanted to get a little fighting action in!
Trey: What’s next, Jet?
* Jet enters Main Engineering behind her companions. *
Jet: Next, I work just as hard from THIS side to CLOSE it.
* Deuce and Trey sigh. Deuce looks around Main Engineering while Jet is focused on the door mechanism. *
Deuce:Uh, Jet?
Jet: Mmmmm?
Deuce:Jet, should all those red lights be flashing like that on the big thing.
Jet: What big thing?
* Frustrated, Deuce moves over to Jet and turns her head so that she faces the impressive scene. Jet’s eyes widen and she turns even paler than normal. She drops her tools. *
Jet: Oh, the “big thing” is the main fusion plant…
Trey: Which is important BECAUSE…????
Jet: Because it’s about to explode!
* The three women are frozen in place for a moment. *
Trey: Don’t bother locking the door again, Jet.
* The three women bolt and run from Main Engineering. *
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Quote:
Originally posted by mai:
*Mai pushes the red button warily. There is no sound, but the faux metal tiles of the ceiling begin to retract. FINALLY! A Way Out!
* An unexpected breakthrough. 2.4 million (and counting) metallic cockroaches immediately cease gnawing on the hull, and stream INto the darkTreeship*
Hieing down walls, they amass in the boiler room.*
The herding begins from here.
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Icky is as Icky does.
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Bluefishie watches the sea of kisses with some reserve, waiting for another chance to get in on the action.
w00t xander
"Need any help with that River-clone, any assistance is offered from here."
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