The Sereni-Tree, More Shopping, and Some Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 02:08
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*KellyofLuthien smiles to herself as Ghost snuggles into her arms. She walks quickly towards the Pifflepony ranch, but before she gets there, her comlink beeps.
"Kelly? We-"
"It's okay Safe, I have Ghost with me and am bringing her back to the ranch. Is Shadow with you?"
"Yes."
"Okay, see you there." Kelly squeezes Ghost a little tighter. "See? We found Shadow. But next time please tell an adult if you want to go somewhere, okay? We want to keep you safe."
Ghost says nothing, as usual, but Kelly can see she understands. She opens the door to the cargo bay and sees a streak of color as Shadow rushes to take Ghost from her arms. With a firm look, Kelly is able to get Shadow to understand that no scolding is necessary. Kelly looks to Safe.
"Thanks. Can you watch them for 5 more minutes? I really need to get this chocolate out of my hair!"
Kelly runs to her mallorn and takes a quick shower, changing into a slim, dark green gown with flowy sleeves. As she braids her hair, she hears a frantic message from Mai.
Quote:
Originally posted by mai:
*gets on com
Attention Soul, Ath and all SereniTREE crew Serenity has gone missing with the help of some very disreputable man.She not been gone but a few minutes but its not looking good. PLEASE GET DOWN HERE NOW! Looks like we're going to need all the help we can get!
Kelly grabs her sword Nardol and fingers her ring Narya around her neck. She rushes out of the mallorn. Safe is already gone, so Kelly runs quickly to the bridge. She finds Ath, TWG, Safe and the girls huddled together.
"Okay, what's the plan? Do we have a plan?"
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*As Citizen watches the guards push Seryn down through the alleyways, it suddenly occurs to him what she comlpetely forgot to tell him before she ran off to act like a lunatic.
"Wherever they take her it will probably be very close to where Serenity is. I means we can follow them, whereever they are going.
That girls not quite as stupid as she looks"
(ooc - sorry, you probably got that, but in the interests of clarification)
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Commerce spaceport:
SR Sends out a general comm-link message,
"Talk to me TRM, Seryn, Mai, Citizen, somebody, I can be a team player on this one, but it only works if you talk to me."
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Citizen raised his Com-link to his mouth.
"Everyone locate this beacon and group on me. I have a track for Seryn and Serenity." Citizen said. "And move quiet and mind the Security Drones."
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TheRealMe keys his com for broadcast to all Sereni-Tree-ers.
"I currently have the Napoleon in shrunken mode hovering over the Leighton Docks spaceport, the nearest to where Serenity was abducted. I'm trying to match the ships there to the sketchy data that ThatWeirdGirl picked up when the mystery ship jumped in system. About a dozen candidates so far. It's also possible that they didn't park here, but then their journey back would be longer. I'll stay here as a backup, to try to intercept them if they try to make for orbit."
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"Well, there's already a fair amount of people down there. Do we really need to add to the crowd?"
Safe looks at the faces assembled and gets the answer he was hoping for, put to voice by Soul.
"Time for action. I'm not sitting here while my wife and child are in danger, and not one of you can stop me." Soul says glaring at them, daring anyone to argue.
"You'll not get an argument out of us." Safe says and the others nod in agreement. "It just needed to be said is all. It's not like we were going to sit idly by. The ISSCV is here, we can take that, but you have to let the rest of us help."
Jake7, Jazaf and Needy run in. Soul takes a deep breath and looks at the faces around him. With the exception of the strangers Safe and Needy, these were his friends and more importantly, Serenity's friends. The worry was evident on their faces too. His eyes settle on Ath. Seeing his own grim faced determination mirrored on his future brother-in-law's face made up his mind.
"Ok, but we have to move fast. I don't want the trail to get cold."
OOC: Sorry if I missed anyone left on the Tree. I'm rapidly losing track of where everyone is and what new people may be around.
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*Shadow and NOSkillz lead the group down the hallway. Shadow has Quincey's scent and leads them to the top of a spiral staircase. The sounds of rattling chains and shuffling feet can be heard coming up the staircase. Shadow, NOSkills, and Deuce take cover behind a pillar on the right side of the hallway, JadeHand and Wisp behind the mirrored pillar on the left. Two men carrying a bound Quincey reach the top of the stairs, followed by a man in fine robes who is bent over slightly and limping behind them. The guards escort Quincey past the pillars. Just as the robed man is passing the pillars, there is a small beep as the battery on the pack attached to JadeHands belt gives out. As the Guards begin to turn, Jade curses under his breath, and slips out into the hall behind the robed man. His left hand snakes quickly over the mans left shoulder and takes him around the neck. His right hand levels a gun to the man's head.*
"Let her go!"
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On Commerce:
Scar man leads the crew of the Dagger up a set of enclosed stairs to the second floor of a warehouse. Pausing at the landing, he produces a passcard and swipes it through the scanner. The door clicks several times then swings inward.
Inside is a large dark room with a single chair set in the middle of the room, and a small glassed in control room to the right of the door.
Scarman gestures to the chair. "Tie her to that." then turns and enters the control room.
Bear, Grunt and Jennings look around. "I don't like this one bit guys." Bear says under his breath, as they carry Serenity to the chair.
"I hear ya Bear." Grunt whispers back "Jennings, did you make sure we weren't followed?"
"Ya, I traded the uniform coat to a carpet vender. Plus the drag marks he was making toting the carpets around would throw anyone tracking us off" Jennings whispers.
"Hey!" Bear starts indignantly "I'm no weakling. Hell my arm is heavier than she is."
"Ya, but anyone following us won't know that. Not many people can lift what you can."
Bear sets Serenity gently in the chair with Grunt ties her in place. "He never said anything about her being pregnant...and this woman is no whore…"
Standing Grunt turns to scar man. “Heinz, the deal’s changed. This ain’t no cheating whore that you said she be.”
Bear stands and pulls a pair of fingerless gloves from his pocket. “Deals off little man. You can keep your money.”
Heinz laughs as he closes the door to the control room and hits a button. “Did I give you the impression I was actually going to give you the money?” The door to the room slams shut.
Grunt pulls an antique Winchester .44-40 Lever-Action Repeating Rifle from a holster on his back and two daggers appear in Jennings hands seemingly out of thin air.
“In fact, I’ve had about enough of you hulking imbeciles. I don’t need you anymore.” Heinz hits another button and electricity courses through the metal floor. The smell of ozone fills the air as Grunt and Jennings fall twitching to the floor. Bear takes four steps towards the control room. Heinz’s eyes widen in amazement and fear.
Bear slowly makes it to the control room. He reaches back and punches the window. The reinforced bullet proof safety glass cracks around the imprint of his fist but holds. The electricity finally gets the better of Bear and he slumps heavily to the floor.
Heinz keys his com. “Get up here. I’ve got some garbage for you to get rid of. Oh and bring extra men, it won’t be light work. Take them to their ship and torch it.”
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*Serenity slowly comes to. Before she even opens her eyes, she's aware of a strange smell and a pounding in her head. She can't move her arms.*
*She slowly opens one eye enough to peer around. She's in a large room. There doesn't seem to be anyone around.*
*Opening both eyes and painfully lifting her head, she sees that she was wrong. There are two...no, three men lying on the floor. One looks like the security guard that was with her when she was taken. One man lay on the floor near a glass-panelled control room. And inside the room...*
Heinz.
*She lets a stream of curses filter across her brain as she starts to think. She can't move, she has no weapon, she's pretty sure no one knows where she is. She tries to feel her wrist to see if her comm link is still there, but then remembers that she took it off and put it in her pocket earlier. She also notices that her wrists aren't tied nearly as tight as they could be.*
Well, that's not nothing. *She thinks to herself. While Heinz has his back to her, she starts trying to loosen the knots.*
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While Jade interrogates the man with the limp the guards are dumbstruck at what to do. The one to the right of Quincy makes a slight hand movment for his gun but it is quickly removed from its holster by Wisp as Deuce does the same to the guard on the left.
"You dont want to do that" whispers Wisp on the guards ear "and you know why? Because that tiger there isn't enjoying this trip. There was a clown at the zoo today and he was really looking forward to it and then we dragged him here and youre friends started shooting and needless to say he's staring at your crotch likes it's dinner time so i suggest you unhand the lady and let us go our separate ways."
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