Defending Sereni-Tree and Lift-off from Boros
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 04:50
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This is Thread 41!
For “The Guide to the Clubhouse / Treehouse / Sereni-Tree Threads”, see:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=11877
Near the beginning of the following thread is “TheRealMe’s Guide to the Sereni-Tree, V4”:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=16740
Previous thread (summarized below) at:
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=18193
(Interim Summary. Wow, as the stories get more detailed and complex, they get harder to summarize!)
Oh the Sereni-Tree:
Just as the starship Sereni-Tree is nearing Boros to pick up its misplaced crew, it is intercepted by a threatening Alliance Cruiser. Ath is piloting, and ThatWeirdGirl and TheRealMe are called to the bridge. TheRealMe has a plan to secretly recover the Boros folk, even with Alliance scrutiny, but it requires him to be present on site to make dimensional portals. He puts TWG in command of the Sereni-Tree and calls for the quick launch of the Ocean Cloud, because he thinks that the SEP field on that craft will let them slip away invisibly. TRM encourages TWG to use her Confusion power on the Alliance ship, then he departs for the hanger. A second Alliance ship appears. The sneering Alliance officer tells Ath and TWG that they know everything that is going on, because they have a mole aboard the Sereni-Tree! In particular, the SEP field will not be effective!
SoulOfSerenity and Jazaf make it to the Bridge. ThatWeirdGirl discovers that her Confusion power doesn’t work well at a distance. TWG’s nine Yeti friends make it to the Bridge to pledge their help. Deuce squeezes by the creatures to be at Jazaf’s side. Soul uses his desolidification power to phase through the Sereni-Tree, fly across space, and re-solidify inside the Alliance cruiser Tripoli. With him, Soul has brought TWG and Ervin the Yeti.
TWG left Ath in command of the Sereni-Tree. Ath calls for battle stations and gets the crew ready to repel borders. He sends the remaining Yeti down to protect the Common Room. He asks SimonWho to keep Bluefishie, Piffle, and some other non-combatants safe in his Blue Box. SimonWho agrees, and gets to working on a deus ex machina, just in case we need one. Jake7, Kelly, Jazaf, and Deuce crew the Sereni-Tree’s weapon turrets to defend the ship. Serenity, Mai, and LightMeDark hide in the Sereni-Tree’s animal park, protected by Kelly’s Elvish wards (though Mai and LMD soon wander off to investigate an out-of-the-way, private, and romantic spot for “danger” – a cave).
In the hanger, when they hear that the SEP field of the Ocean Cloud will not fool the Alliance ships, TRM makes a change of plan (after dumping the possibly bugged platinum into a cargo bay). Everything gets loaded into the Napoleon Bonaparte instead. TRM remote pilots the Ocean Cloud out of the hanger first, and Quincey pilots the Bonaparte after it, shrunk to a tiny size. When the Alliance blows up the Cloud, the tiny Bonaparte speeds away to Boros, pretending to be a piece of the Cloud’s wreckage. TheRealMe makes contact with the missing crew on Boros through one of his tiny dimensional portals, but he only gets partial information on their location. They re-enter and head toward the city of Boros Prime. On the Bonaparte are Jadehand, Quincey, TheRealMe, and Monkeytail.
Meanwhile, Seryn makes contact with the Alliance ship in order to surrender herself! She flies the stolen Alliance fighter Nandi out of the Sereni-Tree’s hanger and to the Alliance cruiser Tripoli. There is clearly some “history” here, and they act glad to get their hands on her. Seryn seems to be some kind of Alliance Operative on the run, but swears to Ath that she is not “the mole”. After some conversations, the Alliance types seem more friendly to the Sereni-Tree and one of the Alliance ships starts to back way… but it is a TRAP!
On Boros:
As a result of the firefight in the alley,
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Confusing! As a public service, here is where I think everyone is located:
Inside the hanger on Boros: SafeAt2nd, CastIronJack, Citizen, Bride6, Bride7, Needy, Flechette, Versa, Amylisai.
Outside the hanger on Boros: Quincey (flying around in the shrunken shuttle Bonaparte), Jadehand, TheRealMe, Monkeytail.
On the Alliance Cruiser Tripoli: Ervin the Yeti, Seryn (trying to find Ervin and get away in the fighter Nandi
On a stolen shuttle escaping from the Tripoli to the Sereni-Tree: ThatWeirdGirl, SoulOfSerenity, PsychicRiver.
In the Sereni-Tree’s turrets: Jake7 (returned from the luxury suite), Jazaf, Deuce.
In Sereni-Tree’s Engine Room: Jet and Cozen (and Schwartz the Llama?), attempting repairs.
On Sereni-Tree, hiding in SimonWho’s Blue Box: Bluefishie, Piffle101, SimonWho (who is also working on a deus ex machina).
In Sereni-Tree's “This Land” Park : CallMeSerenity (protected in an elvish magic circle), LightMeDark (gathering animals from the park), and Mai.
On Sereni-Tree, on their way to the Common Room: CallMeAth, ItsAWash, KellyOfLuthien.
On Sereni-Tree, ready in the Common Room to repel boarders: Trey, Frederick the Dinosaur, eight Yeti, Nugget the Meteor Troll, Sparky, Ebo Golem, ScorpionRegent (as a sniper up on a balcony).
Unknown: Ebonezer, Elwoodmom, Emma (lost previously on a trading mission), Lissa, Malicious, Montanagirl, Needleseye, NoSkillz and Shadow, Rat, Static, TheGreyJedi, XanderLHarris, MollyTheParrot, Wendel the shrunken Windmill Giant.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
Edited as per Serenity and ItsAWash
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Inside the Hanger on Boros:
Safe, Citizen, Jack, and Bride6 keep the BlueHands covered.
Bride7 smirks as she casually walks up and retrieves the grenades she threw. She resets them, replaces their pins, and sticks them back onto her belt. “I always like to carry a pair of duds with me. You never know when you might need them for a little psychological warfare.”
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Outside the Hanger on Boros:
Obi-Real Kenobi and his padawan Monkeytail vault high over the shipping container, doing matching somersaults, to land among a confused squad of Alliance soldiers. They instantly draw and activate their light sabers and the weapons flash about in luminous arcs, slicing every weapon in half, but leaving the soldiers untouched.
From behind Obi-Real, one of the soldiers draws a pistol. The experienced Jedi senses this, spins about, and uses his light saber to parry three rounds that are shot at him. Then Obi-Real lunges forward with his light saber and cleanly slices off the soldier’s weapon hand. “We were trying to be merciful,” Obi-Real chides him.
Sensing danger, Obi-Real ducks just before a laser beam would have impaled his head. Monkeytail reaches forth with his hand and the laser pistol leaps to him. The Bluehands scowls, and reaches into his vest pocket for a small pencil-like device. Obi-Real extends his hand, and with a smile, the sonic weapon flies into his grasp. The Bluehands responds by kneeling and smacking the end of his cane into the asphalt. Strange forces and a weird keening sound seem to radiate from the cane, engulfing the nearby area with a field that slows all motion, EXCEPT for the unaffected Bluehands.
“Sonic mine!” Obi-Real whispers. He can barely move, his advantages of speed and agility lost.
“Yes,” the Bluehands mentions casually as he strolls forward. He draws another pistol. “Fitting last words, don’t you think?”
Obi-Real Kenobi, Jedi Knight of the Sereni-Tree
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On the Tripoli -
Seryn runs back through grey corridors again, pausing often to try and work out her position. Oh god there is no way I'm going to find him!
Um, the intelligent way.. She thinks back on where they must have been, tracing their probable route on a map she calls up on a corridor screen.
so he's here, just a little way along from there, and I'm here, so I go, this way, down, then that way... ok...argh!
She starts the running again, and thank her lucky star when all the twist and turns she is expecting turn up on time. At last she finds herself surrounded by familiar debris. Ahead of her a man flys backwards and hits the wall. She grins. Rounding the corner she lifts her arms, waving slightly to make sure the Yeti sees her - before he throws her away -
'Ervin! Ervin its me, come on!
He drops the man he was shaking about and says something, but she can't tell what it is for all the fur covering his lips. She frown and points at her ears, shaking her head, he seems to get the message, that or he thinks she gone crazy, he pats her delicately on the head, and they start running.
Checking a map, she works out the route for the bay where the Nandi is, but then thinks of something else. Instead of the bay, she runs for the small secondary command room, the emergency control deck, and starts pulling up screens as the Yeti dispatches of the sentries.
On the screen in front of them they both watch in horror as the two cruiser narrow in on the Tree
Oh crappit. What do we do? Ervine looks at her, and makes a motion for her to lower her voice.
*whispers* well, it wont help much with the other cruiser, but I suppose there's always the original Plan B. Blow this tub out of the water.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. O.W.
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On the Tripoli:
Ervin the Yeti surveys the auxillary control room that Seryn has led him to. He smiles, takes a seat, and starts tapping away at a console.
He turns to Seryn. "Lady, Ervin try to hack security of bad ones. Make friends with computer. Make ship go boom!"
Ervin's attention returns to the screen before him, his typing blindingly fast.
"Ervin talk to computer right now. Not friends yet."
Seryn is surpised. "Ervin, where did you learn how to do this?"
"Lady, Ervin not dumb. Ervin want to learn computer. Asked man in TV for free learning disks. Disks good."
Ervin the Yeti
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*Serenity would like it known that she is still in the This Land Animal Park with LMD and Mai. She's not stupid enough to leave her magic elvin hidey circle when there's danger to he and her baby afoot. Still, her katanas are sharpened and ready if needed.*
"I think so, Brain, but wouldn't the wings get in the way?"
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
This is Thread 41!
Back on the Sereni-Tree:
...An enemy shuttle docks with the Sereni-Tree, with orders to capture a woman with wings, but anything else can be shot on sight. Ath calls for anyone who can still fight to gather in the Common Room to repel boarders. Trey has fortified her bar, Sparky and the Ebo Golem stack obstacles in front of the main airlock, and eight yeti, Nugget the Meteor Troll, and Frederick the dinosaur await the invasion. Scorpion Regent has taken up position on the upper balcony opposite the airlock and near the Bridge entrance, to act as a sniper.
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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*Heeding Ath's call for able-bodied fighters to gather in the common room, Washie girds her loins and the rest of her with protective gear and sprints there with winged feet.
When she arrives the collective energy of the gathered crew prickles all along her skin. Her four and a half feet of blonde-brown hair ripples and flows around her shoulders, down her back as she begins to feel a powerful aura slamming down onto and into her, shades of a shade she had seen not two days prior in her quarters. As she stands slightly apart from the other fighters, she does not feel alone. She wears River Clone like a cloak.
As Ath looks over the assembly with a tight-lipped smile that's almost a grimace, his gaze lands on Washie whose eyes are glowing peculiarly cobalt blue. Her own mouth is curved into a satisfied smile reminiscent of amazonian confidence in power absolute. 'That one's ready for anything,' he mutters as he continues taking inventory of the ship's humanware defenses all around him.
With Ath distracted, Wash deems it time to move to a relatively quiet corner to test out what she has just discovered are her newly born abilities. Whether they came to her because the need is great just now or perhaps she'll have them for aye, she doesn't know nor care. The sleeper has awakened, today is what counts, here is the place and pretty gorram soon will be the true exercising of whatever she's got. Purple Bellies will be marauding on her new friends and family; they will all be fighting tooth and claw and powers-incarnate for everything they've got.
Wash removes the robot doll's remote control from her bodice where it's been concealed inside every gown she's worn since she first found it tucked inside the planter in the bar. Holding it in her open palm, she tilts her head down, eyes locked on the object and is not surprised to see it levitate a few inches straight up. She slowly drops her eyelids and feels the small black box drop back into her hand. While impatiently tucking the remote back between her breasts, she fastens her gaze on a large-ish box in the corner, channels power from herself and from River Clone and tugs it up by one corner, then another, then the third. It wobbles on the last corner, shifting back and forth. No huge effort so far. Another small tug of her gaze and the thing rises off the floor, her spread gown behind her masking most of the movement as she takes the crate three feet up before slowly lowering her gaze along with the box gently back onto the floor.
Smiling, Wash steps away from her small success and faces the massed fighters. She can almost see the excitement wafting off of them, excess energy they don't need sloughing off them, stretching up and away toward the high ceiling. She breathes deeply, taking as much power as she can, her body feeling more alive than ever before.
"Come and get it, Alliance Boys," she says in a melodious deep yet quiet voice, "We've got some naughty for ya."Pic courtesy of KellyofLuthien
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*Jade Colossus lands near several troops and grabs a weapon from one and breaks it half. A second soldier levels a sonic rifle and fires. The blast that would normally knock a man down, shoves Jade Colossus back a few feet near the corner of the hanger. Obi-Real and MonkeyTail land and begin disarming the soldiers, in some cases, literally. Jade Colossus spots a barrel beside the hanger that would make a nice missile weapon and steps towards it as he hears a weird keening sound. He turns back to see all but the Bluehands drastically slowed, and his comrades in danger.*
*Jade Colossus flings the barrel at the Bluehands. It speeds forward with tremendous force, but comes to nearly a complete stop several feet from him. It slowly continues forward. Jade Colossus Snatches a soldier off the ground and heaves him at the Bluehands as well. The soldier also becomes lodged in the field. The Bluehands takes notice, and turns his attention from Obi-Real to Jade Colossus.*
Bluehands: "Ahh, a new player. You should have stayed home, boy."
*Bluehands stalks forward slightly and touches the barrel stuck in the field, and drops it to the ground. He does the same with the recently flailing soldier. then levels his pistol at Jade Colossus*
Jade Colossus: "So, (he thinks aloud in whispered tone) things he touches can move freely too eh?"
*He finishes the thought just as the first laser blast singes his metal chest. Jade Colossus dives behind some debris and pulls another tag and slaps it on. The metal body fades and is replaced with blue fur and a prehensial tail. A cloud of smoke that smells of sulfur replaces the spot where JadeHand once kneeled, just as several laser blast filll the area.*
Inside the forcebubble of the Sonic Mine:
*A second cloud of smoke appears behind the Bluehands and a tail wraps around his leg.
*BAMF!*
The Bluehands, the sonic mine, and Jade Nightcrawler are gone. Leaving Obi-Real and MonkeyTail free to move amongst the disoriented soldiers*
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He's losing it. And he knows.
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*KellyofLuthien rushes toward the common room, bow in one hand, Narya sparkling on the other. She gets on the com-link and hails Sparky.*
"Sparky, did you change the code on the door to This Land?"
"No Miss Kelly, I was delayed, but--"
"Do it now, please." Kelly gives Sparky a code. "They'll be here any minute."
"It will be done, Miss Kelly."
*Kelly reaches the common room and looks around. A haphazard assembly of creatures and humans are gathered there, each gripping weapons with grim determination on their faces. Wearing her Ring of Fire, Kelly can feel other powers present, strong forces not easily meddled with. She shakes her head, clearing her mind, and looks over at Ath. His eyes are still a bit dim, as if the blow to his head had knocked the light out of them. Kelly places her hand on his forehead and murmurs a few words.*
"Nai Varda varya le."
She feels the heat flow from her fingers into his skull and watches as the pain leaves his eyes.
"Thanks," he mutters.
"You're welcome. Let's hope it's the only healing I have to do for you today."
Ath smiles and looks up at her. "What's your plan?"
"I will stay here until it seems they'll get through, and then I will head to This Land to protect your sister."
Ath nods and Kelly nocks an arrow.
"How good are you at warfare?" she asks. "Let's position our fighters."
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