Sereni-tree: Back in Black
POSTED BY: thatweirdgirl
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 04:20
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(Grant crew, trapped in cells.)
"I'm here!" River-clone sounds off at Serenity's command.
Then River-clone sits cross-legged on the floor of her cell, head cocked to one side, listening. She is listening for whispers. She doesn't always listen, but they are always there.
"Hello?"
A flood of whispers come to her, the worries and concerns of her friends and companions:
Serenity
Ath
Lissa
Mai
PsychicRiver (he's SO photogenic!)
Safeat2nd
CastIronJack
GreekToomey
PyreFX
Everyone was nearby, most were frightened, or at least worried.
But there were other thoughts out there, too... Bad thoughts.
River-clone screams and faints.
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They walk through the black fields, and as it always happens, their travels take them to the edge of a black forest.
"We ain't gonna go in there, is we?" Jayne-clone2 asks.
"Aw, is the baby scared," Jazaf says, laughing.
Jayne-clone2 brings up his rifle. "I'll show you scared--"
"Quiet!" Static whispers loudly.
Jayne-clone2 opens his mouth to say something back, but his jaw snaps shut as an eerie wailing emerges from the forest. It sounds almost like the crying of a child, but it's way too loud for a child, and much too piercing. It rises and falls for a moment, and is echoed across the forest by another deeper wail. They are quickly joined by a third, a fourth, a fifth, until the entire forest seems to be joined in one mournful symphony. Then , just as abruptly as it began, every wail cuts out, leaving everything in an unnatural silence.
Static takes a deep breath. "Let's go"
Soul nods in reply and raised his bow. Jazaf falls into step behind him and Jayne-clone2 takes the rear. Together, they enter the black forest.
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
Mantichorus: "So is there a reason they call you 'Soul'?"
Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
http://havenofsouls.blogspot.com/
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*Hears River-clone scream*
River? Are you okay mei-mei?
mai: I think she fainted.
Greek: Well, she sure picked a sweet bun of a time to go all helpless!
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Sorry, it had to be said
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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River-clone's scream triggers a number of responses, one is gunfire...
Safe jumps to the door "Jack!"
Boom boom boom.
Safe, "JACK!! PUT IT DOWN, save your ammo!!"
The gunfire subsides and silent contemplation sets in. The crew then notices the light in the main room changing. They look out to see a scene flickering like a mirage. A black forest and in the distance, a black tower. A familiar group of people prepare to enter the forest. The image flickers and disappears.
Safe mutters to himself "seems everthing is connected somehow..."
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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*River continues to walk through the night, until he hits a wall.*
Oh! *He falls down and then sits up rubbing his head*
Some psychic...
Quote:Um, uh...sure. Yeah. I can do that. I mean...I haven't used my powers in a while, but...everything should be fine.
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
PR-any way you can unlock our cells with your mental powers?
I can do it. No sweat.
*PR whispers to himself* Come on PR...get in the zone...
Quote:(
Then River-clone sits cross-legged on the floor of her cell, head cocked to one side, listening. She is listening for whispers. She doesn't always listen, but they are always there.
"Hello?"
A flood of whispers come to her, the worries and concerns of her friends and companions:
Serenity
Ath
Lissa
Mai
PsychicRiver (he's SO photogenic!)
Safeat2nd
CastIronJack
GreekToomey
PyreFX
Everyone was nearby, most were frightened, or at least worried.
But there were other thoughts out there, too... Bad thoughts.
River-clone screams and faints.
Photogenic!)River? Okay...she's out cold. Don't worry. Everybody stay calm.
*PR concentrates and goes into that place. Although now distant from reality, he heres gunfire... His mind runs through the locks on their small holds...*
Hmm.
*They don't seem like regular locks...they seem...oddly controlled.*
*Still, by going at it from a different route...he gets it done.*
*Theres a resounding click! heard, as the doors unlock. PR evens does the courteous act of making all the doors swing open, just for effect.*
*Everyone looks to the doors, and PR's open and he can see Jack in the hold opposite him.*
Aloha friends.
PsychicRiver
"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We'll take care of each other. I'll knit!"
"I swallowed a bug."
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Great job PR!
*Serenity runs up to him, hugs him, and rubs his nose.*
Well, now that we're out, what do we do?
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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*Continues to do whatever he is doing!*
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Acquisitions Officer - SereniTREE & Destiny.
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(Grant’s crew in now-opened cells:)
River-clone stirs, awakens from her mental anguish, gags, and throws up in the corner of her cell.
“I’m all right,” she says to the others. “I’m ALL RIGHT!”
"But where is the Wash Malcolmette?"
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(Lee’s crew at Ambush Valley on Whitefall.)
TheRealMe shades his eyes with his hand as he looks down into the valley. “Is that Monkeytail they’re all chasing? What is HE doing here?”
Rat: “About to get eaten?”
Jake7: “Maybe the same as us? Sent here at random?”
Needleseye: “Or by someone’s plan?”
TheRealMe: “Okay, speaking of plans, here’s how it is. We have the high ground, but those things in that valley below us are FAR more numerous, and they are heading this way at a good clip. There is also one civilian that we want to keep whole and uneaten. Zoes?”
Zoe-clones, in chorus: “Sir?”
TheRealMe, pointing: “Take up position there by that boulder overlooking the south wall of the canyon. Concentrate fire on the lead elements of this army. Make them stumble over each other as they try to climb the steep slope. Rat and I will be along the north wall, to try to catch them in the crossfire between our groups. I don’t see anything shouting orders and the like, so I don’t think that horde is being led, per say. Concentrate on the big ones. Or the ones with more tentacles. Or the scaly ones.”
As one, the Zoe-clones nod and run off.
TheRealMe: “Rat, you heard that? You and I will be on the north side, shooting down on the things, coordinating fire with the Zoes.”
Rat, checking his weapon: “Yep!”
TheRealMe: “Jake7? You are the key to this plan. You see that narrow place on the way up on the steep path? Wide enough for maybe two or three people walking side by side? It’s a good hold point. We can block them there from climbing up to us. When they get close, I want you to put up one of your force fields to block them. Hold it up as long as you can, to give the rest of us a chance to thin out their ranks, or maybe cause enough casualties to break their will to fight.”
TheRealMe: “Needleseye? Nugget? You two are by far our best hand-to-hand fighters. I’d like you to take position near Jake7. How you fight is up to you. You know your own capabilities better than I. You can wait to run in if Jake7’s force field breaks, or you can jump in among the enemy and fight them on their side of the forcefield. Your call.”
TheRealMe: “If they break through, we retreat to Rat’s position, he pulls the General Lee out of his pocket, enlarges it, and we get in and fly off. Any questions or comments? Okay, get ready to get into position. I’m going to go rescue Monkeytail. I’ll be back momentarily. Nugget, while I’m down there, don’t let anything but me and Monkeytail come back through this portal.”
Nugget the Meteor Troll howls.
TheRealMe, smiling: “Nugget, don’t worry. It’s what I do.”
TheRealMe reaches out his right hand, and a point of light appears. Simultaneously, another point of light appears down in the valley, in the path of the horde. Each expands to become a ring of fire surrounding a dark void, perhaps the height of a tall person. TheRealMe leaps into the near dimensional portal and out of its twin in the valley below, directly in the path of danger.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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(Lee’s crew at Ambush Valley on Whitefall.)
As TheRealMe jumps out of his dimensional portal down in the valley, an image flickers across his vision like a ghost. He sees what appears to be a handful of people entering a dark forest in some distant land. And in the distance beyond the forest, a dark tower.
“Huh. What in blazes was that? I hope we’re not in some bad ‘malfunctioning holodeck’ episode from Star Trek…”
As TheRealMe recovers his bearings, a frantic cabana boy speeds near.
“Hello, Monkeytail, good to see you again! Pardon me.”
TheRealMe sticks his boot out to trip Monkeytail, grabs the cabana boy’s arm, and tosses him into the nearby dimensional portal. High up on the ridge, Monkeytail falls out of the other portal, into the waiting arms of Nugget, the Meteor Troll. Monkeytail yelps loudly.
TheRealMe tosses himself back through his connected pair of portals, but something grabs his legs and pulls him back, dragging his face in the dirt. TheRealMe twists around to see what has him.
“Huh. Wonder if that was ever a human being…”
The thing has a huge bulky torso but a pair of thin spindly spider-like legs. On its right side is a huge brawny arm, from its left sprout a dozen long scaly tentacles, some of which are wrapped around TheRealMe’s legs. Its face looks half melted, with three eyes, tusks, and pox marks. It has one horn erupting from the center of its forehead, and another from where its left ear should be. In addition to its regular tusked mouth, it has a second mouth somehow positioned on the right side of its neck. This mouth is drooling a kind of brownish slime down its shoulder.
“Whew! Chaos mutants are so gross!”
It opens its tusked mouth in an attempt to feed, as its fellow mutants arrive on the scene.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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