The Sereni-Tree and the Next Big Thing
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Saturday, April 7, 2007 04:47
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Later, in the Sereni-Tree’s briefing room:
TheRealMe paces back and forth, obviously uneasy. Images thrown up on a viewscreen behind him show an attractive young woman demonstrating remarkable speed, agility, and strength as she effortlessly takes down multiple opponents in close combat, including SimonWho and TheRealMe. This sequence ends with a knife imbedded in TheRealMe’s thigh, and the woman performing multiple somersaults as she launches herself through the air to enter the door of SimonWho’s Blue Box. The Blue Box then phases out of existence.
TheRealMe pauses the image. He winces as he looks at this scene, remembering the event. “With the possible exception of the Dark Soul, this is the most dangerous single foe that we’ve ever had to face. The FemaleReaver is fast, athletic, and strong, a master of close combat.
“She is also a master of disguise.” He flips another switch on his com-link. “Here you see her all furry as Rat, during the First Gala Pageant. And here is an image of the actual Rat. See, virtually indistinguishable, aside from wearing the feather boa. That was her only mistake.
“She has a keen criminal mind with an intellect far surpassing that of most people. Her understanding of human psychology is such that by simply talking to her guard, Bride1, she was able to completely Reaverize her and turn Bride1 against us. With the supposedly safe compounds we allowed her in her containment area, she was able to fashion an explosive device that severely injured Bride2 and Bride3. Her knowledge of magic is sufficient that she knew exactly how to deactivate the Ebo Golem. Also, as you saw in this image, she stole SimonWho’s dimension-hopping Blue Box, but got off of it somehow before it arrived at its destination. I assure you that this is quite impossible, but somehow she managed it.
“Rat, Jake7, Needleseye, and myself chased her halfway across the planet of Black Diamond, where we found her in the far north, addressing the local Yeti population, convincing them to rise up to kill all the humans on the planet.”
At this comment, a huge, furry, white shape rises up in the audience. “Assan sorry. Assan sorry for army thing. But seemed like good idea, then!” Assan sits.
TheRealMe nods at the Yeti, then continues. “So, she has the speed and combat ability to be in a Jet Li martial arts action movie, the endurance and durability to be some Jason-like character in a psycho-killer slash flick, and the brilliant but twisted mind of Hannibal Lector. All of this in the body of a supermodel. Any questions?”
Trey, Bride3, raises her hand. “What does she want?”
TheRealMe sighs. “Me. She wants to kill me most of all, and make me suffer. It is what she was created for. But getting anyone else along the way would be fine for her.”
Bobbie Sue, Bride6, stands and pouts. “I don’t remember anything about her!”
Sitting next to her, Bride7 scowls. “That’s because you’re stupid, and have the attention span of a hummingbird!”
TheRealMe answers, “These events occurred on Black Diamond, around Thread 20, back when Cozen was still a star cluster. It’s been a while.”
Bobbie Sue asks, “How did you stop her back then?”
TheRealMe nods. “Right. FemaleReaver had distracted us with a diversion, and then she ran off to menace ThatWeirdGirl. ThatWeirdGirl had at that time befriended some Yeti and returned with them to the Black Diamond Ski Resort.” He fiddles with his com-link some more and a different image is displayed on the viewscreen. “Static and I followed them up into the hills.”
The next scene shows TheRealMe on the ground, thoroughly beat up, with FemaleReaver standing above him. ThatWeirdGirl is nearby. From the other side of the image, Static aims his matching pistols and shoots off both the FemaleReaver’s earrings. Then he covers her with the weapons, warning her to not move. She turns to face him, evil glare in her eyes. Her body tenses, and she seems about to spring forward….
When suddenly, a gigantic hand comes down fr
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Sereni-Tree's Main Engineering:
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Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
BC'07 pokes at the foam rubber, blakented "genious" then looks around, pulls a permanent marker out of his bag and gets to work...
Jet smiles slyly at BC07. "Say, what are you doing with that marker?"
Jet, Bride4
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Yes, ScorpionRegent, of course you may borrow a shuttle. I think that the Napoleon Bonaparte is fueled and ready to go.
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
"Coool! I'm planetbound! Jet can I get you anything dirtside?"
SR turns to Snarky, "Snarky can you please watch over the lady Seryn and her child. She is quite capable of defending herself, but she has a child now and that might throw her off her game so you could please help her I would truly appreciate it." Snarky makes his way toward "This Land"
SR suddenly realises there's a stranger standing in engineering talking to Jet. He ducks back in to his quarters and activates his comm-link, "SR to TRM and or Soul, we have a stranger in engineering, well not much stranger than most, but he is armed to the teeth. He's talking to Jet at the moment, and seems calm enough. Has he been properly vetted yet or should I escort him up to the brig at gun point? If the later then please send McQ on down, I might need back up. If the former I suppose some one should give the guy the guided tour."
Scorpion Regent
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*wakes up, deciding to leave the fishies behind today, and gathers the pillow and blanket left behind by BC'07*
"What am I gonna do with these?"
*gathers the bedding under her arm, pulls her marker out of her pocket and uncaps it with her mouth, walking out of the room drawing a line on the wall so she can find her way back later*
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TheRealMe answers his com-link call. "ScorpionRegent, yes, I've seen the fellow. I wouldn't worry too much about him, though you might want to introduce yourself. And don't be concerned about Jet. She can handle herself. By now, she's probably programmed half a dozen of her DRDs to come to her aid, if necessary."
TheRealMe, Captain of the Sereni-Tree
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Jet smiles slyly at BC07. "Say, what are you doing with that marker?"
Jet, Bride4
blinks and swiftly hides the marker, trying to keep himself between Mai and Jet, he is also trying to supress a smirk
"Nothing... uh... yeah... nothing, just be going now..."
Winks and walks away from Mai, leaving her face open for view, he had drawn a gotee and a fu manchu 'stach on Mai's face while she was asleep
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"Coool! I'm planetbound! Jet can I get you anything dirtside?"
SR turns to Snarky, "Snarky can you please watch over the lady Seryn and her child. She is quite capable of defending herself, but she has a child now and that might throw her off her game so you could please help her I would truly appreciate it." Snarky makes his way toward "This Land"
SR suddenly realises there's a stranger standing in engineering talking to Jet. He ducks back in to his quarters and activates his comm-link, "SR to TRM and or Soul, we have a stranger in engineering, well not much stranger than most, but he is armed to the teeth. He's talking to Jet at the moment, and seems calm enough. Has he been properly vetted yet or should I escort him up to the brig at gun point? If the later then please send McQ on down, I might need back up. If the former I suppose some one should give the guy the guided tour."
Scorpion Regent
Walks up to Scorpion Regent and holds out his hand
"Hello there, I'm BrownCoat2007, you can call me BC, 2007 or BC'07, how ya doing? Oh, yeah, one quick question for you, what in the 'verse was with that alarm this morning? Woke me up and no-one's really told me whats going on yet..."
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TheRealMe answers his com-link call. "ScorpionRegent, yes, I've seen the fellow. I wouldn't worry too much about him, though you might want to introduce yourself. And don't be concerned about Jet. She can handle herself. By now, she's probably programmed half a dozen of her DRDs to come to her aid, if necessary."
"I wasn't so much worried about Jet, more the "I'm a sharp young buck, full of juice and I wanna play with my guns in the middle of engineering syndrome." Well you say he's okay then I'll take your word for it." SR signs off and steps back out of his quarters.
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Walks up to Scorpion Regent and holds out his hand
"Hello there, I'm BrownCoat2007, you can call me BC, 2007 or BC'07, how ya doing? "
SR takes the proffered hand and squeezes down as he looks BrownCoat2007 straight in the eye. He holds the shake a heartbeat longer that usual.
"Scorpion Regent,"
The man is not so much tall as large, he might be 6' but he's stocky and he has the muscles of a man who has worked hard for living. He's got sharp eyes and a face that might be handsome if he shaved off his full beard and smiled.
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Oh, yeah, one quick question for you, what in the 'verse was with that alarm this morning? Woke me up and no-one's really told me whats going on yet..."
"Alarm, I didn't hear any alarm." SR turns to Jet. "Did you hear alarm?"
Jet shakes her head no.
SR turns back to BrownCoat2007, "Not a good sign for your first day on the tree to be hearing things. You're not on any medications we should be aware of?"
BrownCoat2007 is taken aback "No,"
"Would you like to be?" SR face suddenly cracks into a huge grin and he lets out roar of laugh.
Jet covers her face with her to hide her smile though her body shakes with stifled laughter.
SR settles down and adopts a more relaxed posture, "Seriously, we didn't hear any alarm, but this is a strange ship, not haunted per se, but odd things happen here, so if you say you heard a alarm then maybe you did. If it was anything serious though they would have anounced it on the ship-wide PA."
(Out of Character: a person to person message is not a alarm. The devil is is the details, ignore them at your peril.)
Scorpion Regent
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"huh... musta been the empathy kicking in... so, Jet said something about... a Reaver?! Shouldn't we be, well, looking for it? I heard a kid crying last night, so I do know there may be a few children on board, and even if it IS just one Reaver, in a ship this, well, massive, there are WAY to many places for it to hide..."
*ponders*
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"Actually Warren, Femalereaver is loose on the ship." Jet says indicating the sealed bulkhead.
"Well then I guess we had better be double careful. Seven if you are going to stick around best stay alert. Now no shooting in here, to many things in here don't react well to bullets. I am heading down dirtside, but it looks like you have things well in hand. I'm just going back into my cave to change then I'll be on my way. If things were really bad TRM would have asked me to stick around."
SR goes back into his quarters and changes from his work clothes to loose pants, calf boots, a peasants shirt, a leather jerkin and a cloak. He straps his cutlass to his waist along with several belt pouches. He then emerges out into main engineering and has Jet open the vault door just long enough for him to leave. He makes his way uneventfully to the shuttle bay where he preflights the Napoleon. The board is all green when he opens up a channel on his com-link to the bridge,
"Bridge this is SR in the Napoleon B requesting permission to depart."
Scorpion Regent
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