The Sereni-Tree, More Shopping, and Some Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 02:08
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"Serenity?" Soul whispers in disbelief into the comm.
"Soul?" She replies, her words drenched in love and tender feeling. "Where the hell are you?!!" She then cries impatiently.
"We're... hang on a minute" Soul switches off the comm. "What just happened?" He addresses Needy.
"Why you looking at me for?" the companion asks as he finds all eyes are on him.
"You just shot into the portal. Don't you know what that can do to one?"
"I got a bad feeling" He mumbles, not mentioning the fact that he had seen the figure of an old man, a figure that when he looked again had disappeared.
"A bad..?" Soul stops, speaking once more into his comm "Serenity, is Seryn still there with you?"
"Well we're not going anywhere anytime soon are we? You want me to jump?!!" An annoyed Seryn replies back.
"And I've got another feeling." Needy starts.
"And what's that?"
"That we need to be less concerned with why I just did what I did, and more on what the hell it was that just escaped out of there. And where it came from"
The crew fall silent once more, before Serenity calls on the comm.
"So I presume you want me to give birth and raise the child up here?"
Soul turns from Needy and looks at the others.
"Right, how do we get them down now?"
OOC: Well I tried to elaborate a bit, whilst leading into a tie in with my own subplot. Hope I'm not stepping on everybody's toes by redirceting slightly. Ignore the "escaping spirit" for now if you want, that's something that'll come up later. Focus should be on an explosive rescue attempt IMHO
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First Boy Whore of Destiny
Incredibly Confused Companion of SereniTree
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Two shuttles and four escort fighters launch from the Blue Sun cruiser, headed for Commerce.
Over Commerce, the co-pilot of one of the shuttles turns to a well tailored passenger. “There is no response from "Mr." Heinz.”
“Interesting... Lock down the facility.”
“Sir, a shuttle has launched from the vicinity of the Lab.”
“Send two of the escort to follow and disable that shuttle. Take care not to destroy it. It may contain...valuable cargo. Also, send a wave to the cruiser to inspect all traffic in Commerce space. Do not engage until advised.”
Turning to his companion, an equally well tailored man, “I feel we should have experimented on better stock when cloning, I fear our “Mr.” Heinz has failed us again.”
The companion steeples his blue gloved hands thoughtfully. "This one may have succeeded where the others have failed and we may soon be in possession of the "better stock.""
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The roof of the warehouse rumbles, and a hum fills the air.
Serenity looks at Seryn. “I knew this didn’t feel right. Can you use those wings?” She launches herself into the air. Rods rise from the corners of the roof and Serenity is caught in and electrical charge, robbing her of not only flight but consciousness. She drops limply to the roof.
The source of the rumbling becomes evident as curved walls rise out of the roof, enclosing the landing pad in a dome of metal.
In the alley, the others look on in shock “Can this day possibly get any worse?” Mai yells in frustration.
OOC: Is that a good enough wrinkle? Sorry I haven't been able to contribute much, this headache is now on it's fifth day.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
The roof of the warehouse rumbles, and a hum fills the air.
Serenity looks at Seryn. “I knew this didn’t feel right. Can you use those wings?” She launches herself into the air. Rods rise from the corners of the roof and Serenity is caught in and electrical charge, robbing her of not only flight but consciousness. She drops limply to the roof.
The source of the rumbling becomes evident as curved walls rise out of the roof, enclosing the landing pad in a dome of metal.
In the alley, the others look on in shock “Can this day possibly get any worse?” Mai yells in frustration.
OOC: Is that a good enough wrinkle? Sorry I haven't been able to contribute much, this headache is now on it's fifth day.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
OOC: Sounds good to me. And it had only just occurred to me that surely Serenity could use her wings and fly off the building. And now you've dealt with that.
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The roof of the warehouse rumbles, and a hum fills the air.
Serenity looks at Seryn. “I knew this didn’t feel right. Can you use those wings?” She launches herself into the air. Rods rise from the corners of the roof and Serenity is caught in and electrical charge, robbing her of not only flight but consciousness. She drops limply to the roof.
The source of the rumbling becomes evident as curved walls rise out of the roof, enclosing the landing pad in a dome of metal.
In the alley, the others look on in shock “Can this day possibly get any worse?” Mai yells in frustration.
McQ's electronic sensors become temporarily disrupted by the hum filling the air. He shakes his head to get them back on track.
"What in the blazes was that?" he asks, sounding very human for once. "My sensors were tempoarily distorted by that humming noise." As the building rumbles, so does the ground around them as they struggle to remain standing. McQ launches his jetpack and flies to the top of the building only to find a giant metal dome. He tries his infrared vision to determine what's in it, but the metal is too thick. McQ attempts to punch the dome, but causes no damage. "Hmm.." he says to himself, then flies back down to the surface. McQ informs the others of what he found. "So now what do we do?" he asks impatiently.
OOC: After trying to catch up on here I hope this post is in line with the current events taking place. The portal thing threw me off so if Seryn and Serenity weren't actually on the roof, then let's disregard what I posted here.
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(ooc - yup, we were still on the roof)
Seryn test the wings apprehensively, flexes to take off, then srcreams, running instead of flying to intercept Serenity's fall.
She just about catches her, scraped skin and knocked limbs alround, but she manages to chushion her head and flip her to fall mainly on her back. She'd known mild curries to start labours too early and she wasn't about to become a midwife. Carefully she checked that the other girl was still breathing, her pulse was strong, but she had no way of judging other damage. She untwisted wings, rearrranging arms and legs for comfort, and placed her coat under her head.
Then she stared at the new shield separating them form the outside world. Briefly she considered shooting it, the idea seemed a goot one, a realse of frustration at any rate, then she thought about the ricochet, and abandoned that plan.
She thought of hauling Serenity down stairs, but the lockdown would extend there, it would be for nothing, it was to risky.
Gorrammit!
The metal showed no flaws, no weak spots, a faint humm dissuaded her from touching it, they were trapped, truly trapped, what the hell could she do?
(ooc-nows the time for all the heroic swooping guys!)
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Gorrammit!... heroic swooping!)
*Nursing the mother, the grandmother, hell, the infinite level of matrilineal progression hangovers, cozen strides, well, stumbles, okay, crawls out of whichever shuttle he was on into the bleary atmosphere of whatever planet/asteroid/cosmic unit he’s been transported to. Barely focussing his bloodshot eyes, he notices a grimy sign posted on a crumbling, delapitated wall, sez, “Welcome to Commerce! You can spend, we can Provide!”*
*cozen leans against the wall, gathering his energy, gathering his spirit, his muse. He espies a beacony thing in the distance, but without his glasses (and whadda hell happended to them, eh?) is unable to discern it’s significance. Still, relying on his accidental nature, he kinda hopes it’s a restaurant. But… it’s so far away....*
*Necessity being the grandma of convenience, cozen happens to notice the taxi parked nearby. He summons the will to place his sad ass into the back of the cab. Collecting the last of his cashy money from his wallet, he gives it all to the driver, and in the hopes they share a common language requests to be taken to “where the action is.” Whereupon cozen promptly settles in for a nap…
… and is awoken by gunfire.*
*A large, heavily armed militia type, judging by the uniform worn over heavy protective armour, hauls cozen from the cab. Without further ado, militia guy drags cozen to the nearest building and unceremonioulsy tosses him into the lobby, where a firefight of sorts appears to be reaching armageddon status. cozen immediately reacts in the stupidest way possible, to wit, screaming at the top of his lungs, he runs pell mell in random directions. He’s clearly the easiest target to hit, but the bullets fired by whoever is shooting at whomever else manage, for no particular reason, to miss him.*
*Amid the cacophony of gunfire and ricochetting bullets, cozen hears a soft “ding”. Puzzled, he risks a glance above his head and notices the floor indicator lights for the elevator he happens to be cowering by. He takes a stab at the “Up” button, but misses. Fortunately, a stray bullet impacts said button square in the centre. Shortly, the elevator door opens. cozen executes what he thinks is a spiffin’ military roll into the car, but, in reality he just kinda falls through the rapidly closing doors. Gaining his feet, he pushes the button labelled “Top Floor”, mindful of pulling a lengthy stretch of rope from his suddenly handy haversack.*
*By the time the elevator door opens to the top floor, cozen has fashioned a spiffin’ lariat, just in case he needs one. And when he finally gets around to taking a peek out the skylight, where he sees the imperilled winged Treestressi, he suddenly comes to an understanding with his life’s purpose. Standing on his toes, he weilds a convenient metal chair, using it to smash through the skylight. He then closes his eyes to help summon the Farce, whirling the lasso until the momentum feels just so, and heaves it up onto the roof. Luckily, Seryn and Serenity are just dumbfounded enough at exactly the right moment to facilitate being ensnared by the noose, which cozen opportunistically draws tight about their imperriled selves. He tugs hard on the rope, kinda awkwardly heaving the ladies through the skylight. There will be cuts, oh yes, there will be bleeding. Fortuitously, the ladies land one atop of the other atop cozen, who later will swear he didn’t mind the broken ribs, no not one bit.*
*Just then, a Sikorsky thwops it’s shuddering mass alongside the building, at roof level. Somewhat embarrassed, cozen manages to wheeze something marginally intelligible.*
Huh: mighta been better I came up to you, rather dragged y’all down here with me?
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finding himself alone, elemdee shrugs and finds another bottle of alcohol to consume
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*Swears he can see LMD slumped in the whirlybird's copilot's seat, chugging on the business end of a bottle....*
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(Taking it back a bit)
*The instant Safe brought the ISSCV down, Ath jumped out, ready for anything. But instead of finding himself on the tarmac, he insteads lands on a forest floor. He looks around and sees Kelly land beside him.*
"What the hell?", he says.
"I don't know," says Kelly, "but these woods are old. And they feel warm. They're welcoming us."
"Um...Ok."
*Ath turns on his communicator watch and attempts to contact TRM, the Tree, anyone, but he gets no answer. Ath and Kelly explore for awhile, but find no signs of civilization. They do come across a pond however, the kind of pond that screams to be swam in. And that, of course, is what they do.*
(OOC-Kindly DO NOT send out a rescue mission. We just need a vacation.
Also, welcome back Fishie! Wanna join us in the Pool of Non-convolution?
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*JadeHand pulls the headset over his head as he sits in the turrent. He lines up a shot at the cruiser as the plays at the radio trying to pick up transmissions from them or from the Tree crew below.*
"Where are you guys?"
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