The Sereni-Tree, More Shopping, and Some Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 02:08
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Originally posted by McQ:
McQ stops and rests his blaster against a nearby wall. He bring up his right forearm before him and a little satellite dish rises out and opens from within his arm and a visual screen also reveals itself from within his forearm. The mini satellite dish rotates a few times as McQ tries to scan the surrounding area.
"I'm picking up a reading," McQ starts. "A big structure on the other side of town ... things seem a little heated ... in another area I detect some sort of scuffle - seems to be a small group." McQ lets SR get a look at what his mini satellite is picking up. "Seems for one thing, we're on the wrong side of town." He closes the visual screen and mini satellite back into his right forearm and picks up his blaster. "If we're going to be of any use, we better get moving."
SR agrees as the two head off in the direction of the large structure.
"Wait," McQ starts. "I can get us there faster with my jetpack - that is, if you're willing to go for a quick ride."
SR ponders the possibility of hanging on to the cyborg whilst in flight.
"Too much attention, besides we're back up remember. So relay all the information you just accumulated to TRM in PDF or whatever format these com-links favor and we make our way towards the center of attention like every body else." SR steps one foot off the curb and raises a arm holding a small wad of cashy money. "TAXI!"
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For a moment, Deuce stands there confused and weaponless. Then she does a backflip down the stairs to get out of easy reach of the martial arts master, who is now using her own sword. She takes a deep breath and charges back up the stairs toward him, leaps up to get a boost off the hand rail, and vaults high over his head. The master swings the blade at Deuce as she is doing somersaults in mid-air above him. The sword slices into the chainmail armor that Deuce put on earlier, and some links are cut loose to fall on the stairs, but Deuce lands several steps up from the old man. She is bleeding from a light cut, but is mostly okay.
“Heh, I bet I'm faster!” she says with a smile, and starts to run up the stairs after Quincey.
The master gets an annoyed look on his face.
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"I dont have time for this" says Wisp looking at the unconsious Jade and Deuce in combat with the wierd old man.
He looks down the hall and see's the two guards bundling quincey down the hall. he jumps over the banister and uses the curtain rail to control his fall. He runs down the corridor but then suddenly stumbles in tremendous pain. He looks down at his leg and see's one of deuces Katana securely skewered in his thigh and the robed man looking very smug down the hall.
"You gorram crazy!" yells Wisp "Bite this!!" as he removes a strange green grenade from his back and throws towards the master.
It lands at least 6feet short and only explodes with a very small bang. but a large cloud of light green smoke.
"Poisons?" says the robed man "you really think that will work against me?" as he walks through the green cloud
"no but this should" he presses a button on the pin and the entire cloud explodes incinerating everything within it.
As the smoke clears the robed man lays badly burnt on the floor but not dead.
"Some kind of crazy power?"
As the robed man begins to stand up Deuce removes a smaller dagger from her back and plunges it through the mans heart.
"Dodge that" she says before rushing tojade hands aid"
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Soul stands just inside the hatch to the ISSCV, waiting impatiently. He is fully armed with his bow and arrows, his bandolier of arrowheads, and his scorpion-tailed dagger. The only thing he is waiting for now is for those going with him to board the ship, and for someone to fly it down to the surface.
His hands are clenched into fists, his patience wearing thin, when suddenly a memory bursts into his head, a memory he had tried to suppress, and one that his dark side had once used to thrive on.
* * *
The tombstone was new, the pile of dirt it sat at the head of fresh, and the flowers decorating the grave still maintaining their scent. A cold wind blew through the graveyard, carrying with it the scent of rain; but from the grey clouds overhead, one didn’t need the scent to know that a downpour was imminent. One last car, the one that held the Priest was making it’s way down the long drive, heading for the exit, and maybe for a cup of wine before dinner. The silence left behind was ominous, but for the figure standing next to the grave, it was the loudest thing he had ever heard.
“I failed you. I was too weak to save you, and for that, you were taken from me. It’s my fault. It’s all my fault.”
The last tear he would cry for a long time snaked it’s way down his cheek, and he let it run its course.
“Never again. No one else will die because I was too weak to stop it. I’ll make sure of that.”
He turned to leave, but before he did, he placed one hand on the gravestone.
“I’ll always love you.”
* * *
Soul shook his head, the memory only serving to further strengthen his resolve.
“Let’s go!”
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Deuce wrenches her dagger free out of the back of the martial arts master. She appears sad. “I had to come back to help you guys. Hmmph! I so gorram hate a sneak attack against a guy like that. He was a true master. But there’s no way to beat him in a fair fight, and Quin is at stake. She's like my sister!”
Deuce comes down the steps to recover one of her katanas. She swats Jadehand with the flat of the blade a couple times to try to wake him. Then she walks further down the stairs to Wisp. She frowns at her other katana, still embedded in Wisp’s leg. “I’m no medic, and I don’t know if it would bleed more to take this out, so I won’t try. Maybe you can tie it off. Keep the blood from flowing.”
The top of Deuce’s sweats are in tatters from when the old man tried to cut her. She rips strips off of the garment. Underneath can be seen damaged chainmail over a t-shirt. “You can use these strips if you want, but I can’t stay. I’m still strong and fast and can beat any gorram thing between me and Quin. Unless maybe this old guy had a twin. Anyway, I gotta go before the goons who took Quin get too much of a head start. Who’s still in the game with me?”
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*JadeHand Stirs at Deuce's touch, he looks up and takes in the scene. He clenches his hand, realizing the paralysis was temporary. He looks at Deuce.*
"Catch up to Quin, I'm right behind you."
*A quick nod, and Deuce is gone trailing after Quincey and the guards. JadeHand stands and quickly as he can in his still dazed state, collects his weapons from the ground. As the others chase after Quincey, JadeHand trails behind. Running past the body of Mr. Chin, he's tripped and stumbles to the wall as Chin's hand clutches at his ankle. Chin begins to stand*
Chin: "I'm not so easily removed, you and yours will pay for your interferance."
"Yes, we tend to do that a lot.... The interferring I mean. Not so much with the paying. But have some parting gifts."
*JadeHand reaches into his bag, pulls a grenade and removes the pin in his teeth. Tossing the grenade at Chin's feet, Smoke fills the area around him, obscuring his vision. JadeHand grabs two more grenades, and removes the pins as he runs up the stairs behind Deuce, Wisp, NOSkillz, and Shadow who are hot on the trail of Quincey, being lead to the roof. Reaching the top of the stairs he drops a grenade on the handrail on each side, they begin to roll back down the stairwell, exploding halfway down, closing the corridor behind him. Chin's curses permeate the rubble. JadeHand breathes deep, and chases after the others, raising his forearm to his head to wipe away the blood.*
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*Serenity can't believe that Heinz is making her wait this long. She knows him to be a very impatient man. A few minutes after she woke up, several large men came into the room and dragged the bodies on the floor away. Heinz barked a few orders at them from the control room and then went back to whatever he was doing. He seemed to be on the cortex, talking to someone. But Serenity wasn't complaining. Instead, she was slowly continuing to work at the knot at her wrists and trying to calculate how much time it would take for Soul to launch a shuttle to Commerce and come rescue her so she could figure out how long she needed to stall.*
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Quote:
Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
Soul stands just inside the hatch to the ISSCV, waiting impatiently. He is fully armed with his bow and arrows, his bandolier of arrowheads, and his scorpion-tailed dagger. The only thing he is waiting for now is for those going with him to board the ship, and for someone to fly it down to the surface.
His hands are clenched into fists, his patience wearing thin, when suddenly a memory bursts into his head, a memory he had tried to suppress, and one that his dark side had once used to thrive on.
* * *
The tombstone was new, the pile of dirt it sat at the head of fresh, and the flowers decorating the grave still maintaining their scent. A cold wind blew through the graveyard, carrying with it the scent of rain; but from the grey clouds overhead, one didn’t need the scent to know that a downpour was imminent. One last car, the one that held the Priest was making it’s way down the long drive, heading for the exit, and maybe for a cup of wine before dinner. The silence left behind was ominous, but for the figure standing next to the grave, it was the loudest thing he had ever heard.
“I failed you. I was too weak to save you, and for that, you were taken from me. It’s my fault. It’s all my fault.”
The last tear he would cry for a long time snaked it’s way down his cheek, and he let it run its course.
“Never again. No one else will die because I was too weak to stop it. I’ll make sure of that.”
He turned to leave, but before he did, he placed one hand on the gravestone.
“I’ll always love you.”
* * *
Soul shook his head, the memory only serving to further strengthen his resolve.
“Let’s go!”
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"I'm ready" Needy calls to the man standing alone.
He had felt uneasy about approaching Soul - a man he hardly knew, but one nevertheless that was experiencing something Needy could empathise with to an extent.
Soul nodded to him, acknowledging his presence, though presumably the high emotions he was feeling made it difficult for him to speak except when really necessary.
Needy wanted to ask about weapons - although he had clearly shown on Boros that they weren't his speciality, he'd feel a lot safer going on a potentially dangerous rescue operation with some. However, he didn't want to bother Soul with such a request.
I'll wait till the others get here. Perhaps Safe has some on board.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SoulOfSerenity:
Soul stands just inside the hatch to the ISSCV, waiting impatiently. He is fully armed with his bow and arrows, his bandolier of arrowheads, and his scorpion-tailed dagger. The only thing he is waiting for now is for those going with him to board the ship, and for someone to fly it down to the surface.
*Ath arrives at the ISSCV, armed to the teeth and gasping for air. Without taking a moment to catch his breath, he slips into the pilot's chair and begins the start-up sequence.*
He turns to Soul and asks, "Is this everyone? Once the sequence is done, we're leaving."
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Originally posted by CallMeAth:
He turns to Soul and asks, "Is this everyone? Once the sequence is done, we're leaving."
Soul looks around at the group. Jazaf. Jake7. Safe. Ath. And the newest one, Needy. The show of help actually brings a smile to Soul's face.
"I think this is everyone, Ath. Let's go get Serenity."
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Soul, Security Chief of the Sereni-Tree, Captain of Destiny.
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Soul (after a long pause): "Yeah. Because I have one."
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