Destiny: Mayhem, bugs, and foam...(Episode 7)
POSTED BY: CastIronJack
UPDATED: Thursday, November 10, 2005 17:55
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Hmm..anyone else got that ominous "something wicked this way comes" kind of feeling?
Or is it just me.
Sorry about the black eye, Safe. It's a reflex. Anytime someone calls me babe-pow!
You don't want to know what happens when someone calls me "cupcake".
Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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Don't sweat it cupca...
***POW***
Serenity stalks out of the infirmary walking over Safe in the process.
Headed back to her bunk she passes Safe in the hallway working on a control panel.
Safe pauses his work as Serenity stalks past. He watches her walk away, electricity dancing behind his eyes...
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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wait wait wait.
There are TWO Safes?
Am I going crazy, or are the 2 Safes?
Am I going crazy?
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Soul walks into the room pulling the paper off of one of Flechette's freskly baked goodies.
"Hey Safe, do you want a cupcake?"
Safe just glares at him from his two black eyes.
"What'd I say?" Soul asks.
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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."
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Destiny jolts in the night shift. Everyone that wasn't asleep get a rude awakening as the Firefly begins to execute a planet landing without a pilot.
The infirmary seals, locking both Safe and Soul in the midstep of leaving. Klaxons sound and warning lights flare as the ship shimmies and shakes.
Jazaf flies out of his room only to be struck behind by an unknown assailant. Serenity passes his body on the way to the bridge. The unseen shadow of Jazaf's assailant goes down into the bowels of the ship. From the hall, Destiny's exec can see the planet looming from below the ship.
She runs into the bridge only to have it seal behind her. Surprised, she pounds on the door. She sees Jack and Safe make their way down the hall.
Jack sees her and gestures to Safe. Safe smiles and does nothing as Jack begins to fiddle with the control panel.
Jack gestures again at Safe's indifference. The panel explodes, sending an unconscious and shocked Jack into the handyman.
Safe catches him and slings the crew member over his shoulder. He walks over to the porthole in the door and mouthes, "You'd better land the ship, cupcake."
Gas begins to stream in the hall, but not the infirmary or the bridge. Before the gas fogs the view completely, Serenity catches a confused Amy and Trebeck rounding the end of the hall. She pounds furiously, but they fall as the evil Safe crosses their path.
The same happens to TRM and Flechette as they tries to free Safe and Soul from the infirmary.
Jack, Captured of Destiny
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OH MY GOD YOU'RE LIKE SOOOO TREVOR MCDONALD.
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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Query: Who is TREVOR MCDONALD? The reference is lost on me.
Jack, Captured of Destiny
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Me too. Some crazy british guy?
Oh, P.S. for future reference: "cupcake" usually involved knee jerks, not punches. FYI.
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Serenity is in a panic. She's fine flying the ship in normal circumstances, but this is NOT normal. They're coming in way too fast. She slides into the pilot's seat, hits three switches, then grabs the steering wheel (what is the thing called, anyway?) and tries her best to keep them all from dying.
She grabs the comm: Anyone not unconscious, strap yourselves in. This is going to be bumpy!
She mutters prayers in Latin under her breath.
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Are your eyes really black, Safe?
Anywho:
Serenity struggles with the column to guide the ship down. A gauge catches her eye. In disbelief, she taps the gauge.
The fuel has been jettisoned. Destiny is going down on little more than fumes! The fuel tanks display on the screens in front of her, the auxiliary tanks flashing yellow, passing into the red, as they begin their own purge. In desperation, Serenity searches the board for the auxiliary tank controls.
Clouds break in front of Destiny and mountains loom ahead. A shuttle warning flashes as one of the shuttles peel from the crashing transport. Serenity finds the tank controls and hits the switch before the red goes into the final line.
Ragged ridges flash by as Serenity wrestles with the column control. Inexplicably the screens in front of her begin to text roll with some kind of malfunction. One by one, the screens fill with data, only to blacken with inactivity as the error consumes the computer memory.
With computer guidance and power failing, Serenity grunts as the steering begins to become impossible.
Ahead, a flat icy plain appears just within Serenity's sight. The navigation panels begin to shut off. Destiny clips a ridge, pulverizing it with her speed, jolting Serenity and throwing Soul and Safe around in the infirmary. Serenity grits her teeth and burns out the remainder of the fuel through the altitude thrusters, fusing them with such a desperate maneuver.
But it pays off and Destiny sheds all her excess speed and contacts the plain, which explodes in snowy impact.
Silence. Serenity watches the snow fall in front of her in disbelief. The last of the panels goes dark and the lights flicker and die.
She grabs the com and starts to talk into it before realizing it too, is dead.
"Dammit," Serenity throws the mike away, "What else could go wrong?"
At that moment, Destiny lurches to port. Serenity is thrown to out of the pilot's chair. The silence of the ship is interrupted by a series of cracks and pops from the outside.
"What the..."
And then Serenity realizes that she didn't crashland on a frozen plain at all, but a frozen mountain lake. She gasps, "Oh my God."
More cracks and pops: Destiny skews to back to starboard. From her vantage point she watches the snow start to liquify in the new cracks in the ice. Puffs of snow escape from newer crevices across the vastness. The stern of Destiny dips, throwing Serenity into the door behind her as the bow of the ship pitches high. The clouds are overcast, Serenity notices in shocked doomed silence.
The cracking of the ice subsides as the ship begins its backwards journey into the cold unforgiving depths. Serenity is the last person to see the sky as the Firefly slips below the ice.
Throughout the ship, the crew is still unconscious due to the chemical haze that permeates the ship. Safe and Soul pound on the infirmary to no avail. So deep is the crews sleep that even with the chill water begins to trinkle in from the breach in the hull, it fails to wake them.
You know, if someone else would write some peril, you guys wouldn't find yourselves in these situations so often. 'Course, I'd get bored, too. 
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Hey Jack, you know, you could spread some of this peril over at the Sereni-Tree...
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Ok..lets see, where were we...ah yes here we are, Soul and Safe stuck in the infirmary, Serenity in the bridge, the rest unconcious, the ship sinking in the water...
Safe: "I don't know what was in that tea, but my face hurts sumptin' fierce." "Lets see, there's a manual release for this door...right.." *prys back a panel beside the door to reveal a lever* "Here!!"
Safe pulls the lever down. There is a ratcheting noise and the door opens a little.
Soul hands Safe a surgical mask and puts on one of his own. "Don't know if this will help, but it's better than nothing."
Each ratchet of the lever gets more difficult and the door opens less each time.
Soul: "The angle the ship is on must be binding the door" Soul grunts as he tries to pry the door open further.
Soul & Safe manage to pry the door open enough for them to squeeze out. By this time the water is running past their feet and with the angle, it makes thier footing treacherous.
Soul: "Safe, you have any tricks up your sleeve to get us some power or get us outta here, now's the time. I'll try to get to the bridge to get our bearings." Tosses Safe a hand comm.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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