The Sereni-Tree and the Neverending Peril
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 03:53
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(oh, you see, that the fun kind of peril. This on the other hand...)
"oh, no, no you don't, come on baby, play nice, s*** s*** s***, no, you don't want to be doing that, please just be nice, its my first time... aawwwwww hell. *Sorry!*
She grasped the controls once again, palms sweaty with panic. The transport wasn't nearly so sensitive as a fighter, nor wass it so responsive. All the extra forces threw out her judgement, the huge difference in size made steering the B****** a job and a half. Normally, thanks to a furious lack of ability to-think-about-the-consequences, she could turn a fighter on the head of a pin, she'd made one do back flips once... but the sheer bulk, plus the dreary likes of atmo and gravity meant steering the thing was like attempting to hop with bricks in her knickers.
Behind her a huge tearing noise suddenly ripped the relative quiet apart, she turned her head in time to see Soul and McQ dive away from the hatch, grabbing weapons, building cover. A loud crunch and the patter of falling debris sounded, followed by breif silence, then the truly unwelcome noise of shouting and gunfire.
She looked to Needy, glad to see he was mostly back with them, and indicated to him to grab the sleeping Serenity and get her somewhere safer than where she is. He got her wild waving immedietly, grinning at her surprise, and lifted Serenity up, grabbing a weapon and retreating to the corner they were least likely to get killed in. Cozen slinked, no other word for it, into the seat next to her, ready and waiting to start pressing buttons, deterred only by a slapped hand for his every effort. The others gathered near the hatch, and the furious fire fight began.
Her frantic gesturing however upset the precarious control she had over the transport, it lifted, then dipped, spurted forwards and one of its corners gouged a deep furrow in the packed dirt ground below them.
GORRAMIT!
"ok, Zen calm... never tried it before, might be worth a go... leaf, wind, pan pipes and rain drops, whatever.
Breathe... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... ok"
Having acheived what she hoped was focus, she eased the controls forward, tilting the ship back into balance, lifting up to above head height and swinging round behind Safe and his 'captor', remembering from somewhere that it was damn hard to fire upwards accuratly.
She looked around the dash, an idea occuring to her "this is a transport... therefore it must have a cargo ramp or something"
A ha! She spoted a likely control, and with fingers crossed in hope she pressed it.
Below the ship, catches released, valves kicked into action and a platform lowered on its pneumatic leg things.
"oh, i'm good, I am so good..."
(ooc - is that ok? The thing i'm trying to describe is that thing that Monty had on his ship in Trash, or that they escaped on at the start of the movie, anyone know the real terms, please tell...)
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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/me continues dozing
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OOC: This takes place just prior to Seryn's excellent post
McQ’s missiles impact on one of the Blue Sun fighters. The resulting explosion catches the soldiers off guard and flattening those closest to it.
Safe opens fire. His bullets catching one of the Blue Sun execs square in the chest knocking him backwards. The rest of the Dagger’s crew reacts instinctively. Bear grabs the closest soldier and throws him at another soldier. Grunt reaches over his shoulder, drawing the antique rifle, dropping to one knee and opens fire. Jennings, knives flashing, steps into the guard closest to him.
Using the confusion as cover, the remaining Blue Hand steps back and produces a 3 foot rod. Holding the middle of the rod, the Blue Hand strikes the end on the ground. The top of the rod launches up into the air where four blades fold up and start spinning causing it to hover 25feet off the ground.
“Sonic mine!” Souls hisses in astonishment. Drawing his bow, Soul pulls an arrow from his quiver. The arrows head is a small canister. Taking careful aim, Soul lets the arrow fly.
The arrow strikes the mine, the magnet on the end of the canister holding it in place. Electricity courses through mine short circuiting it and as a result, it drops from the sky, it’s still slowly spinning blades decapitating the startled Blue Hand.
Some of the soldiers shift thier attention to the ISSCV, opening fire on the wavering transport.
Insert Seryn's post here 
Needy watches this unfold through the turrets scope. Still feeling torn between two realities and not in full control, he still feels the need to help his friends. Grabbing the controls, Needy pulls the trigger. The buck of the gun and the erratic motion of the transport result in his shots spraying a wild path across the tarmac, taking out a few soldiers and causing the rest to scramble for cover.
Using this distraction, Safe, Bear, Grunt and Jennings run for the Dagger.
On the platform lowering from the ISSCV, Citizen stands, his open case beside him. Seemingly oblivious to the action around him, Citizen starts lobbing small vials filled with a garish neon green fluid.
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Gah. Replica me's wandering around. Enough to scare anyone.
*tends to twg further*
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TheRealMe is wearing a vac suit in Sereni-Tree’s main airlock, holding a metal grating from a backyard grill. From the wall of the airlock, he grabs a couple emergency environment bubbles. Then he keys the shipwide com again:
“Attention! This is Me. The hanger is about to be opened to space! Take appropriate precautions!”
TheRealMe reaches out to create a dimensional portal from the airlock to the hanger. Flames erupt from the portal to rage around him. Surely, this would have destroyed the kitchen. He steps through into the inferno and closes the portal behind him.
In the hanger, TheRealMe has difficulty seeing what is going on through the flames, and he realizes that the suit will not protect him from the heat for long. He makes his way to a nearby wall and attaches his suit’s safety line to a metal strongpoint. He walks out to the end of the short line, and reaches out a bit farther with his hand to create another dimensional portal, a relatively small one, that has its other end in outer space.
Suddenly, a fiery tornado begins to blow through the huge hanger bay, rushing out of the portal. All of the hanger’s safety doors slam shut due to the drop in pressure. TheRealMe is sucked toward the hole, but is held back, suspended in mid-air by his safety line. Carefully, he aims and lets go of the metal grating from the grill. It slams into the portal into space and is held there securely by the wind.
Someone in a fire-fighting suit is slammed into the grating. Is it Wisp? TheRealMe grabs him, pulls him away from the portal, and stuffs him into an emergency environment bubble. The bubble inflates. If anyone else was trapped in the hanger bay, TheRealMe rescues them as well.
Before long, the wind dies down, the fires all go out, and both TheRealMe and the metal grating drop to the deck, no longer held suspended by air pressure. TheRealMe closes that portal and calls engineering.
”Bride4? This is Me. The fires in the hanger bay are out. Can you please repressurize it?"
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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When the hangar bay is repressurised Therealme takes off his helmet and pops wisp environment bubble alowing him to fall to the floor in a most uncerimonious manor.
"What were you doing still in here everyone else got their ass'es out of the way!!!!" Shouts therealme at Wisp.
"ok first thankyou and chill out" says wisp recovering himself off the floor "and second you said 40seconds you only gave me 38! If id have had the extra two seconds i would have been out of here!"
"Likely"
"anyway can we stop arguing long enough to save SR?" The two of them run over to the shuttle access hatch and Wisp presses the door release, Unfortunately the door is still Very hot burning the flesh on his hand. Wisp Screams (in a manly way) As the door opens revealing an unconsious but alive SR.
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*Serenity remains, conveniently, only occasionally conscious.*
Serenity,
First Officer of Destiny
President of The Juggled Gosling Chatroom
Bride8
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Quote:
Originally posted by WashsYoungerSexierBrother:
The two of them run over to the shuttle access hatch and Wisp presses the door release, Unfortunately the door is still Very hot burning the flesh on his hand. Wisp Screams (in a manly way) As the door opens revealing an unconsious but alive SR.
SR opens his eyes, yawns and stretches. He looks around and sees TRM and Wisp.
"Hi guys. When someone took remote control of the Shuttle I decided to take a nap. Have I missed much? Is that steak I smell?" SR notices Wisp's burned hand.
"Hey let see that." SR splashes a wisp's hand Regent's recipe hot sauce. Wisp screams again in an even more manly fashion and then suddenly the pain is fading that is replaced by a pleasant tingle. The reddness and swelling recede and all that is left behind is some very heavy callouses.
"Good as old, hey let's get a beer then shall we?"
Scorpion Regent
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TheRealMe removes his vac-suit's helmet.
"You two can go along. I'm going to evaluate our small craft. It looks like the Admiral Nelson and Nandi are trashed. The Ocean Cloud seems to have suffered some damage. The General Lee might be in the best shape. I want at least one shuttle available in case we have to go after somebody.
"Huh. I wonder where Sparky is with the Napoleon or Safe with his ISSCV dropship?"
He keys his com-link. "Bride4, this is Me. I'm in the hanger bay, looking at damaged shuttles. Please send me up some DRDs from Engineering, as many as you can spare."
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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[VERY BIG OOC POST]
Hello all! Remember back in February when yours truly was making Sereni-Tree tshirt designs for D*C, or just for any occasion? Well, the final design is up and ready to be ordered!
I was inspired by the Serenity logo, but made my design completely from scratch myself. Mai and Serenity checked on shirtmaking at a couple stores where they live, but the prices were going to be outrageous, so I ended up creating a store at Zazzle.
So without further ado, Sereni-Tree shirts!
http://www.zazzle.com/product/235238740010640631
As you can see on the right hand side, there are TONS of different shirts you can put my design on. Also, there are tons of different colors as well! I have the design on a women's tee, but there are all sorts of men's tees as well, and it looks just as good.
Pay special attention to the back of the tee as well. See in the lower right corner of the pic of the shirt where it says "Customize?" If you click on that, you can add your name or whatever you'd like, in a myriad of different fonts and colors, to the back of the shirt! Serenity and I have discovered that it looks nice if you want to add your name to the top of the shirt, to place it just under the "CREW" and just above the beginning of the "Tree" Chinese character (given to me by Mai, thank you!). (Serenity really likes the Demitassi Bold font, for example). Also, it's okay to write over the tree character as well, so if you wanted to put your name AND your rank on the Tree, you are more than welcome to. All I ask is that you NOT put any text on the front of the shirt. Go crazy with the back, but please leave the front as-is.
Sooooo, the shirts are up, and ready for purchase! If you have any problems with the site, please let me know. If you have any questions about the shirts, shirt design, or if you just would like some advice on what to personalize on the back, please email/IM/PM me!
Also, if you don't want to personalize your shirt, there is an option for discounts if multiple shirts are bought together. They don't have to be the same shirt or size either! So if any of you are interested in that route, just let me know and I'll try to organize something.
Thanks for reading, please check the shirt design out, and I hope you like them! Sereni-Tree Pride! 
P.S. Special thanks to Serenity and Mai for all their help with shirt pricing!
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I love my Captain 
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