Special Branch: Secrets and Lies
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UPDATED: Friday, August 3, 2007 14:54
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Here is the latest thread for the "Special Branch" story.
Previous Threads:
1.Special Branch: Unbound
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=20504
2.Special Branch: The Chasing Of Wild Geese
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=21730
3. Special Branch and the HUGE Hospital Bills
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=23302
4. Special Branch: The Living Dead
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=24558
5. Special Branch: Motherhood For Heroes
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=11&t=26599
Here's a different kind of recap - a brief summary interspliced with new bits of story.
Character profiles will follow shortly.
Everything was going swimmingly for our crew: Seryn gave birth to her baby and named him Fin; Milton had started to fit in with the crewmembers, especially the delightful Amy; and Needy and Kyra seemed to have put their past history behind them.
Then Wisp picks up a distress signal broadcasting on an independent frequency.
They track the signal to a dead ship floating in space - a ship named "The Dwarf" - and set out to lend them a helping hand.
The two crews meet and everything seems to be going fine, but nevertheless something seems "off".
Kyra confesses to Needy that she recognises the ship's code as belonging to a presidential vessel, and its not long before Safe assigns his crew to ascertain whether their visitors are who they say they are.
Strangest of all though, is Ciaran, wife of The Dwarf's captain. Over fifty years ago, Soul lost the love of his life. Her name was Ciaran. And now this visitor not only shares the same name and characteristics of that lover, but looks exactly like her too.
Soon, Soul discovers that she is not who she seems, but is in fact a woman that possesses the remarkable ability to appear as whoever she wants. For Soul, she appeared as the woman he lost so many years before.
Whilst reeling from that bombshell, she tells him that The Expendables - a group he once belonged to - are coming to kill him.
Meanwhile, our other crewmembers aren't doing so well either.
Wisp is knocked unconscious by a mystery assailant; and Seryn, whilst snooping arond The Dwarf, is confronted with a figure from the past.
In Wisp's dreamstate, he is once again visited by a mysterious being that instructs him of the task he must complete. A powerful entity will soon arrive, and can only be stopped if Wisp aids Soul.
Elsewhere, on Boros in fact, Clayton continues to investigate the mysterious abilities Needy manifested earlier.
His search leads him to a story which mirrored Needy's - a young woman who died and returned to life with remarkable powers. Her joy,though, was short lived when she appeared to go "off the rails", murdering her friends and family before she was killed.
He's not the only one uncovering information about the former male companion.
A bounty hunter known only as Kurren gathers all he can from a warden at the Helo Facility, as well as the Carson couple.
His motives? Unclear.
Back on the ship(s), Safe orders everyone to the bridge. Even though Wisp has awoken, these new visitors are not to be trusted. Their ship, it is learned, was actually the result of sabotage, and the person responsible for this and the attack on Wisp needs to be caught.
If things weren't tense enough though, the relationship between the crewmembers begins to strain, and Needy in particular struggles to trust even Safe.
...
Moments earlier:
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
“Safe, Jack here. Soul’s with me. We’re trying to round up Ciran. We should be up there shortly.”
“What do you want with my wife?” Liam almost shouted. “Surely you can’t think she did this?” Liam took a step forward.
“Right now, I don’t know what to think.” Safe turned to face Liam. “None of you have been overly ‘chatty’. Something else is going on here and I intend to find out what.”
“If you ... pirates lay so much as a hand on my wife, so help me I’ll…”
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OOC: welcome Jazaf, I've been wondering if anyone would choose to play the villian.
Scorpion Regent
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OOC: heh, well we can't all be good guys. 'sides everyone knows the bad guys always gets the ladies 
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
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Ooc - hello, sorry, safe had a post concerning me i believe he was going to put up when ready, so this is basically an 'i'm still alive!' post.
If anyone has any time to do it an update would be EXTREMELY handy, and congrats to your sister Needy!
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Originally posted by Seryn:
“Her blood ran cold. She'd seen it before, an insignia, a small scratch on a metal ring. She remembered it very well; it was the first time anyone had dared strike her. She'd been furious at that, and remembered how she'd noticed the ring, close to the angry bite mark she'd left on the guy’s hand.
Two hours later her uncle had packed up and left forever, she'd hear from him two or three times, enough to know that he was 'safe' somewhere, but they'd scared him bad, bad enough to leave his wife and children, his mistresses and his business, even his highly lucrative scams and run and hide.
Deciding that whatever was going on, better working minds than hers needed to see it, she turned back to leave the room. Only to find her way blocked.”
Seryn looked up startled, only to find herself looking into familiar eyes. Seeing the insignia had brought back a flood of memories and not trusting her eyes to see through visions from the past, Seryn blinked hers eyes, but her dead husband still stood before her.
“How??” Tears welled up in her eyes and the raw emotion threatened not only to choke her but rob her of her tenuous mental stability.
“S’ok darlin’. I am here and that’s all that matters.” He drew her in, hugging her tight.
On the verge of an emotional and mental break down, something intruded on Seryn’s conscious, like the morning alarm heard from the distance of deep sleep. Something didn’t feel right. Seryn finally realized that the little tingles of warning were in fact loud alarm bells ringing in her head.
Seryn’s eyes snap open just as she feels a sharp pin prick at the base of her neck. Pushing away, she searches those familiar eyes only to find they weren’t as familiar anymore.
A sneer curled the corner of those familiar lips, that shouldn’t aughta be there. Seryn gasped in shock “You’re not….” Her words trailed off as the figure in front of her blurred out of focus and was replaced by a woman.
“Nope, that I ain’t darlin’. Now be a good girl and go to sleep.”
Seryn reached instinctively for her gun, only to find her hands unwilling to move. She looked down at them accusingly, which was entirely the wrong thing to do as the floor yawned open and she fell headlong into the blackness of unconsciousness.
The figure pushed Seryns unconcious form under the bunk and was straightening up, back to the door, just as SR walked in.
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Originally posted by Scorpionregent:
"Hey tag-a-long, Safe wants me to round everybody up and bring them to the bridge. It will be nice to have someone I can, (sort of) trust to watch my back and make me look less threatening when I say things like: 'Everybody keep their hands where I can see them and form a single file line towards the bridge.' Where's the homunculus of power?"
'Seryn' turns and smiles at SR, "Well we best get going then? After you, kind sir."
OOC: Let me know if that sounds ok Seryn.
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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nope, thats great! i'll get my thinking cap on and come up with something when its time... its all very exciting...
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:Quote:
Originally posted by Scorpionregent:
"Hey tag-a-long, Safe wants me to round everybody up and bring them to the bridge. It will be nice to have someone I can, (sort of) trust to watch my back and make me look less threatening when I say things like: 'Everybody keep their hands where I can see them and form a single file line towards the bridge.' Where's the homunculus of power?"
'Seryn' turns and smiles at SR, "Well we best get going then? After you, kind sir."
"Not so fast missy," SR says. There was a long pause, "You and I have still got to have our little chat and you've been avoiding me for a while. Now I'm not one to take advantage, but this is a oppurtunity too good to pass up. So what have you got to say for yourself?" SR knew that there was something definitely wrong with the situation. He could not put his finger on it as he tried to think over the situation in his mind 'Seryn' crossed her right arm arm across her body and used it to rest her left elbow as she cradled her chin in her left hand. He remember that 'Seryn's' eyes had tighten up and her head turned slightly to the right so that she was looking at SR with her left eye as dominant. when he had said "Not so fast missy," Her body language was all wrong.
"Seryn doesn't do that, who is this?" he thought to himself.
"Hey what's all this about a meeting on the bridge?" a womans voice asked behind him. SR turned and the was Mary, or was it Marina, or Melody? The party girl who had tried to ply him with talk of drink and set upon him with her wiles.
"Yeah every has to go to,..." SR was saying when his eyes lost focus and the floor suddenly came rushing up and then there was nothing but a soft hazy sensation of floating in a world of peace.
Scorpion Regent
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OOC: Bullseye!! Nicely written!!
Heads up Wisp, fastball headed your way. I'll post in a bit.
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
"Hey what's all this about a meeting on the bridge?" a woman’s voice asked behind him. SR turned and there was Mary, or was it Marina, or Melody?, the party girl who had tried to ply him with talk of drink and set upon him with her wiles.
"Yeah everyone has to go to..." SR was saying when his eyes lost focus and the floor suddenly came rushing up and then there was nothing but a soft hazy sensation of floating in a world of peace.
Maxine watched as Scorpion’s eyes rolled back in his head and he pitched forward towards her. She reached out to catch him but, as this had caught her off guard, Scorpions weight carried her to the floor as well, his body pinning her to the floor.
Maxine looked up as a form filled the doorway previously occupied by Scorpion. “You…” she whispered as Ciaran glared down at her.
Maxine struggled to push Scorpion off her. “No, no, no! Not now! You weren’t supposed to act until we got planetside and I had a chance to get the others out of harms way.” She struggled to hold back tears of frustration and futility.
Ciaran peered down at Maxine intently, as she put a foot on Scorpions back, impeding Maxine’s attempts to free herself. “You know??”
“Ya, I figured most of it out back before we left, during pre-flight checks. Actually I suspected something the day Liam introduced you to me, But I didn’t have the heart to say anything to him. He was sooo in love.” Maxine looked up at Ciaran imploringly, “You don’t have to do this. You’re going to crush Liam, not to mention all the work he did to get us to this point.”
Ciaran, continued to look down at Maxine, unaffected by her plea.
“Think of the children for god’s sake!!” Maxine near screamed at her, sensing she was running out of options.
Ciaran ignored Maxine’s last comment. “You people have served my purposes, and I hold no grudge for that. But, your usefulness has come to an end. I now have the means to complete my missions, no thanks to this rust bucket…” Ciaran pauses and looks at Maxine as a realization dawned on her. “You did it. You caused this ship to break down… You were trying to stop me.”
Ciaran smiled at the fear in Maxine’s eyes. “No matter. You can’t stop me now. All you can do is wallow in the guilt that you failed.” She barked out a laugh. “Kill ya later, tater, I got a ship to steal.” Ciaran pushed down once more with her foot and stalked off.
Once Ciaran disappeared around the corner towards the Epsilon, Maxine pushed herself clear of Scorpion. Why oh why didn’t she have her comm. with her??
Maxine ran towards the bridge of the Dwarf. I’ve got to warn the others… Head down she collided with Wisp and Vixen sending them all sprawling.
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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Wisp was caught entirley off-guard and ended up in a crumpled heap for a few seconds, Vixen however was a little faster with her reflexes and on the way down managed to pull of a hand-stand-mini-kick catching Maxine in the Jaw. Going in for a follow-up Maxine cowered backward.
"NO NO!! Im sorry!!" Wisp was up by this team and grabbed Vixens arm before she put in a roundhouse kick that would have comatosed the poor woman.
"Your ok Darling but right now were in a rush"
"Shes headed for your ship! She wants to steal it so she can continue"
"Continue what??" Vixen but in
"I dont know but shes dangerous!"
"Great then we cant waste any more time, Thanks for your help now go and tell them" Wisp pulled Vixen by the arm to the air lock.
"Ok its teamwork time. Remember piggyback?"
"Come on Wisp it may have been a few years back but I can enter an occupied structure before breakfast"
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Comedy and That
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